Ducks of War - sculpting a 28mm duck army

[Basementboy]

This is fantastic! Love the painted examples

[Cat]

Ducks bellorum, those look great!

[Peithetairos]

Wow! Just, wow. You must really love ducks. The painted examples are great, too. So, is this just a personal project or will you release those to the market? Either way, very inspirational project.

[mikedemana]

Ducks bellorum

    

Mike Demana

[lilljonas]

This is fantastic! Love the painted examples

Thanks! Slow progress due to work and family, but I want to try to smash out a "starter set" in a month at least, so I can get started with the kickstarter campaign.

Ducks bellorum, those look great!

OMG I've heard tons of puns since I started this, but this is too great to let it slide. I think I'll stick with Ducks of War for this range, but would be an awesome name for a future Roman/Medieval themed range. :O

Wow! Just, wow. You must really love ducks. The painted examples are great, too. So, is this just a personal project or will you release those to the market? Either way, very inspirational project.

Thanks! I will make the minis available through a set of kickstarters, and they will be available for sale after that through my caster. The long term plan is to make a comprehensive range that will be both useful for smaller skirmish games and for larger, rank-and-flank, games.

[lilljonas]

Working on painting up some more minis for pics for the kickstarter. Rodeleros (shields painted separately) and crossbowducks.





With these done I have five minis left to paint for what I think will be the "starter pack".

[adamsfantasticminiatures]

The whole idea and execution are just great, very good luck with it!

[lilljonas]

I finally got around to paint the entire starter warband, six sets of three minis each.




The paymaster with bodyguard and personal bard.


Shortswords and bucklers (rodeleros)


Examples of spear/pike/halberd, as the weapons are not sculpted on.


Greatswords


Crossbows


Command group

[Ozreth]

3 pages (and lots of awesome figures) later and still no mention of Glorantha or Runequest. Surprising.

[lilljonas]

3 pages (and lots of awesome figures) later and still no mention of Glorantha or Runequest. Surprising.

Honestly, as a Swede, the TTRPG ”drakar och demoner” is a bigger thing for me. Long story short, it has the same DNA as Runequest but was the blockbuster RPG here, as D&D never got big. So I grew up playing it in the 90’s, and ducks were very much a big part of it! That said, the glorious duck illustrations of King of Dragon Pass were some of the big inspirations when I started sculpting these.

That said, I posted my earlier ducks in the Glorantha miniatures facebook group and got roasted pretty much for not being ”bronze age enough” so…

[Ozreth]

That said, I posted my earlier ducks in the Glorantha miniatures facebook group and got roasted pretty much for not being ”bronze age enough” so…

Hilarious and unsurprising. Anyways, great work here.

[mikedemana]

That said, I posted my earlier ducks in the Glorantha miniatures facebook group and got roasted pretty much for not being ”bronze age enough” so…

Which is why I love the Lead Adventure Forum. Such a positive place... 

Mike Demana

[Coenus Scaldingus]

Those look great! 

[lilljonas]

Thanks guys.

Next up I want to make some cannon and mounted gendarmes, will be a fun Summer sculpting project.

[Neldoreth]

These are super awesome, so exciting to see them going from greens all the way to painted examples! Strong work!