Ducks of War - sculpting a 28mm duck army

[Matakakea]

I have zero use for thes. So, of course, I will be keeping an eye out for your Kickstarters 

[lilljonas]

My caster has some delays that means I need to wait longer than expected to release the first ducks. So I've been working more on future sets!

I am planning to have various kinds of cavalry, and I made some medium cavalry before. Next up I'm working on heavy cavalry (based on early 16th century Gendarmes) and mounted crossbowmen. Both sets are still WIP, and I'm going to add a musician to the Gendarmes too. Not sure if I'll make an additional set of crossbowmen or if three is enough. I'm also planning on making barded ponies for the Gendarmes.






Future cavalry sets I'm planning are based on Stradioti (mercenary mounted archers with spears/swords originating in the Balkans, who saw extensive deployments in Italy) and Jinetes (Spanish light cavalry with javelins). Not sure if I need more cavalry than that, though pistol armed cavalry started to be used towards the end of the period...

I also started to lay down the armatures for two sets of archers. I'm thinking of making them strongly influenced by French ordonnance archers.

[Inkpaduta]

Love the mounted crossbows.

[lilljonas]

Love the mounted crossbows.

Thanks! I might end up doing three more, not sure if three is enough for my needs.

Work on ranged troops continue, this time archers. First four archers done, will add two more and then a three figure command to lead them. Not sure what is next, either I'll make a cannon or I might start making more milita troops, both with improvised weapons like farming tools and arquebuses/crossbows.

[lilljonas]

WIP on a unit of light cavalry. I tried making pennons using green stuff instead of paper this time, I see pros and cons with it. It feels quite resilent, will probably survive a long time.

[pixelgeek]

Great looking minis

[lilljonas]

Work has been killing me lately, but I've managed to squeeze in time to paint up some more pike and halberd ducks. I'm aiming for two units first, probably will do one of 6x5 and one of 6x4. The pike unit will, obviously, need a huge placeholder in front, as to not completely skewer any minis facing them in combat! Those pointy sticks are long!

After that I'll paint up some more missile troops, as a club mate wants to meet them using Saga: Age of Chivalry. So these ducks might pretend to be Swiss or something quite soon!

[Frugalmax]

Really impressive work on this army! Congrats!

[pixelgeek]

After that I'll paint up some more missile troops, as a club mate wants to meet them using Saga: Age of Chivalry.

As I mentioned to you some time ago, I would be using these for Sage: Age of Magic and perhaps as a "Human" mercenary troop in Oathmark

[lilljonas]

Really impressive work on this army! Congrats!

Thank you!

As I mentioned to you some time ago, I would be using these for Sage: Age of Magic and perhaps as a "Human" mercenary troop in Oathmark

That should work pretty well. I ran a halfing-based Great Kingdom list for Age of Magic, and I have much of the army list covered already. What I don't have anything for are single monsters, winged mounts or creatures. I've made war machine crews, so those should be able to be used for converting up something cool.

I've never played Oathmark, so I have no experience of the army lists for that game unfortunately.

[ced1106]

> I've never played Oathmark, so I have no experience of the army lists for that game unfortunately.

No excuses! (: Well, unless you're doing this for fun and aren't up for this marketing nonsense. Now that you have painted pics, I'd post them on various game system forums and ask for feedback, particularly what units are "missing" and what armies you can build. Sell "starter" bundles for various miniature wargames or suggest warbands in your updates for engagement. For games you're already familiar, maybe contact their author and ask them for feedback as well. Nothing worse than a potential customer who doesn't buy your mini's because you're missing a unit you could have sculpted!

One Page Rules
Song of Blades and Heroes and expansions
Dragon Rampant
Five Leagues from the Bordelands (ducks as halflings or that furry race...)

[lilljonas]

> I've never played Oathmark, so I have no experience of the army lists for that game unfortunately.

No excuses! (: Well, unless you're doing this for fun and aren't up for this marketing nonsense. Now that you have painted pics, I'd post them on various game system forums and ask for feedback, particularly what units are "missing" and what armies you can build. Sell "starter" bundles for various miniature wargames or suggest warbands in your updates for engagement. For games you're already familiar, maybe contact their author and ask them for feedback as well. Nothing worse than a potential customer who doesn't buy your mini's because you're missing a unit you could have sculpted!

One Page Rules
Song of Blades and Heroes and expansions
Dragon Rampant
Five Leagues from the Bordelands (ducks as halflings or that furry race...)

That's a really good idea. I could give some examples of what you can proxy with them. For example, they pretty easily work as a Dogs of War or Empire army for Old World, and a clubmate is going to paint up the first kickstarter for a Frostgrave campaign whenever we get back into that game. I'd be very happy to hear what gaps there are in the range that would help people out if they are doing some game that I'm less familiar with. I've been mulling over setting up a website with my own, generic, background that I've been working on, and then I can add how to slot these in into other games.

[zemjw]

can I throw Burrows & Badgers into the mix as well - https://burrowsandbadgers.com/

I'm painting up some Reaper Mouselings at the moment, but a duck warband would be a useful group to add