Back to Fantasy ~ Some New Orcs and Elves

[Melnibonean]

Looking good! 👍

Like the tree-kin.
whole woodland army looks lovely.

Hawkmoon sculpt is great- paintjob too.

Thanks Guys.

[Melnibonean]

I made a new Elf Queen using the Footsore AEthelfaed figure. I already have an elfish queen but this little lady looks far more fierce (as a Faerie Queen should).

Blog Link here: https://this28mmlife.blogspot.com/2023/04/thelfld-lady-of-mercia-or-elf-queen.html

[Old Hob]

Beautifully done.

And I heartily approve of faeries getting back to their roots of being terrifying, cruel so-and-sos. She's just the ticket.

[Melnibonean]

The Army of the Black Crag ~ I decided to muster my army of evil doers to see what I had and get an ide of how big the army is. It mostly sits in boxes so I've had no idea of how it looks on the table. So her eit is.

More photos and writing on my blog at: https://this28mmlife.blogspot.com/2023/04/evil-on-march-army-of-black-crag.html

[Pattus Magnus]

Excellent job on those! The Army of the Black Crag looks ready to spread havoc! I like the colour palette you chose and the basing complements the figures well.

[Old Hob]

Hell yeah!

I had a more detailed look at the horde on your blog. I'm really rather taken with those banner designs - they're very cleverly done. The scorpion riders have come out brilliantly. And it's always a joy to behold a full battle line of orcish infantry. I was also interested to see that those old Copplestone half-orcs scale fairly well with the OM goblins. Hmmm...

The Cracked Rock boys were going to have a pop at them lot from the Black Crag until Captain Shagbag did a quick head count.
"One, two... ummm... some, errr... loads! I think we're going to need more lads..."

[Elk101]

That's a great force.

[Melnibonean]

Excellent job on those! The Army of the Black Crag looks ready to spread havoc! I like the colour palette you chose and the basing complements the figures well.

I've never been sure about the basing. Thank you for you reassurance.

I had a more detailed look at the horde on your blog. I'm really rather taken with those banner designs - they're very cleverly done. The scorpion riders have come out brilliantly. And it's always a joy to behold a full battle line of orcish infantry. I was also interested to see that those old Copplestone half-orcs scale fairly well with the OM goblins. Hmmm...

The Cracked Rock boys were going to have a pop at them lot from the Black Crag until Captain Shagbag did a quick head count.
"One, two... ummm... some, errr... loads! I think we're going to need more lads..."

Thanks. The Coplestone half orcs work well. There are a few mixed in and they pretty much undetectable. There are 10 banners. I devised a crude orcish counting system so each cohort is numbered 1 to 10.

That's a great force.

Thank you.

[Grumpy Gnome]

Quite an impressive horde. Brilliant work!

[Melnibonean]

I painted up a bunch of Norther Riders (or as I like to call them "Not the Riders of Rohan) a while back and this week I decided to finish them. I initially bought two boxes of Gripping Beast Goth Noble Cavalry and painted up one box. The second box had been sitting in my cupboard for about 18 months and I finally took it out, assembled the figures and painted them. And here they are: 24 riders in various unit configurations:

[Grumpy Gnome]

Great work!

[Melnibonean]

Quite an impressive horde. Brilliant work!

Great work!

Thank you and Thank you!

[Melnibonean]

When I recently poste my orcish army I noted on my blog that the the army was missing a large centre piece monster. So I decided to do something about that situation and found them a suitably nasty beast to help them in battle. This is The Wyrm Gormagundr and he is here to oppress all that is good and to take the riches of those that he destroys. Because that's what dragons do!

He's a Reaper Bones model that I did some modification on.

More pics and stuff on my blog. Here: http://this28mmlife.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-wyrm-gormagundr.html

[Hobgoblin]

Amazing!

The armies are spectacular too - tremendous work!

[beefcake]

Cool. Reaper bones, so good for chopping. Brilliant job.