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Author Topic: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA  (Read 64633 times)

Offline Koyote

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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #105 on: February 09, 2020, 09:33:40 PM »
The Barbed Bracken comes in two basic shapes: 1) a multi-stemmed, multi-leafed cluster that looks like an entire fern plant, and 2) a single-stemmed, multi-leafed cluster that looks like a young plant or a single branch of an older plant.   The former are too big for models on 25mm bases and the latter, by itself, looks like a sad, Charlie Brown Christmas Tree fern. However, by drilling a hole in the base I can insert 2 or 3 of the 'branches' and the result looks like a complete, albeit small, fern.

The overall plan is to texture the bases with fine sand/ballast, and after painting, add Army Painter woodland grass tufts to the mix of ferns, mushrooms, stumps, and (of course) skulls. 



Below you see the giant spider removed from the base so you can get a better look at my work on the base. 

The little critter on the Sorcerer's base is an old, GW squig familiar from the early 1990s.



Offline Lost Egg

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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #106 on: February 10, 2020, 06:55:58 AM »
I am digging the mix of plants you have there and using the old squig is a nice touch.
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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #107 on: February 10, 2020, 08:37:44 AM »
Love the painting style, very very nice. Pity that wonderful air elemental is in the US, postage is a killer on Etsy. Oh well.

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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #108 on: February 10, 2020, 02:43:13 PM »
Nice progress, the blowpipes fit the models very well, and bases are looking promising.

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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #109 on: February 11, 2020, 08:03:24 AM »
Great stuff! I particularly like your forest goblin warband work.
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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #110 on: February 11, 2020, 08:19:34 AM »
Following this with interest!

Offline scatterbrains

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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #111 on: February 11, 2020, 11:29:32 AM »
Can't wait to see those trolls and goblins painted up!

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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #112 on: February 11, 2020, 11:01:49 PM »
Here's an idea that I have been toying around with (pardon the pun). From a perspective of creating a strong, competitive list, it isn't particularly good, but from a hobby aspect, it's quite fun.

I want to add a couple of Destruction Teams to my Forest Goblin Masters of the Underearth warband.  As with my counts-as crossbows, my technologically challenged goblin theme presents certain obstacles to creating proper models for the role; however, thanks to the foresight of author of AoM, the solution was quite simple.  In the description of Destruction Teams, the AoM rulebook describes their implements of destruction as "dangerous but light weapons such as small cannon, projectile throwers, and terrifying magical war-drums."

Reaper Miniatures' Bones collection includes a set called the Goblin Honor Guard.  This set is cheap and includes an impressively sized war drum being lugged about by a little greenskin lackey.  If I keep the lackey, I'll replace its head with a gnoblar's head to give it the properly pointed features shared by my other forest goblin models.



Even a goblin knows that you can't entrust a terrifying magical war-drum to just any knucklehead.  It must be played by a shaman, or at the very least, a goblin wearing a suitably impressive mask.  To fill this role, I'll use Spellcrow Miniatures' Goblin with Frog.  Neither a stone dagger or frog make a particularly good drum mallet, so both will need to be replaced large bone clubs from the plastic forest goblin kit.  The daggers and frogs are great bits, so they will go into my bitz box. 


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Offline scatterbrains

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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #113 on: February 12, 2020, 03:20:35 AM »
Sounds like a great plan!

Offline Grumpy Gnome

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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #114 on: February 12, 2020, 06:19:29 AM »
I like your thinking!

Offline Koyote

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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #115 on: February 14, 2020, 03:20:02 AM »
The Sacred Ground terrain for the the Masters of the Underearth is an Underground Network.  It is represented by two pieces of terrain (each max size 6" x 6").  Units belonging to the MotU player can use move between the two pieces of terrain, regardless of their distance from one another, by activating a unit for a Maneuver within 2" of one of the Network's two terrain pieces.

In keeping with my warband's theme, I want my Underground Network terrain to look like natural formations. I could make my own using insulation board and putty, but I have too much on my hobby plate already.

I bought 2 aquarium caves (see below) on eBay for $8 each plus free shipping. They check all the boxes, plus the price is hard to beat.

I’ll mount the caves on styrene bases, add forest/jungle foliage to match my goblins’ bases, and call it good.


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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #116 on: February 14, 2020, 03:27:02 AM »
That is a nice cheap price to buy you more time painting fun stuff.
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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #117 on: February 15, 2020, 07:00:22 PM »
I don't have many virtues, and of those I do possess, patience certainly isn't one of them... :)

I couldn't wait for my frog sacrificing goblins to arrive from Poland, so I made my own from the Shieldwolf forest goblin kit.  The masks are shields from the kit with eye holes drilled through them.

The trees are limbs from the Citadel Woods kit.  The spiders come from GW's Arachnarok Spider kit.  The Orc skull comes from the GW Orc Warriors Regiment box set (circa 1999).



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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #118 on: February 16, 2020, 12:29:22 AM »
You may not be patient but you are resourceful and inspired.   Those look great!

Offline Grumpy Gnome

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Re: Koyote's Age of Magic -SAGA
« Reply #119 on: February 16, 2020, 02:45:00 AM »
I concur with Syrinx0.

 

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