Orc's Drift - The Grand Finale

[rob_alderman]

Awesome stuff!

I love the other orcs too, especially the one with the dwarf head. 

[Thantsants]

Yeah he's a favourite of mine! 

Think I mentioned it on my blog - I remember a brilliant Golden Demon diorama entry that featured in White Dwarf a long time ago. It featured this mini, the dwarf Goblobber catapult, a headless dwarf and some other old orc warmachine crewmen - entitled Revenge! 

[rob_alderman]

Hahaha!

I started reading The Trolltooth Wars last night! 

[phreedh]

Much better! =)

[Thantsants]

I started reading The Trolltooth Wars last night!

Cracking book - I think one of my first posts here was enquiring after suitable minis for rhinomen and eyeless archers to recreate the climactic battle - the ideas still mouldering somewhere in the back of my head and I have an old Dark Elf mage for Zarrhadan Marr's beastmaster...

Cheers Phreedh - stands out a bit more now!

[Thantsants]

Well another busy weekend (sorry wife, kids and dog!!  ) ends with the completion of another command for Orc's Drift...

The Dwarfs of Ashak Rise!

I won't blather on too much here - background information is on the blog -

http://teasgettingcold.blogspot.com/2010/06/dwarfs-of-ashak-rise.html

Anyways here's the pics -







Thanks to Phreedh by the way - these chaps rounded off Borinn's force quite nicely! 







... and if you remember I was muttering about gnomes a while back - one has finally sneaked onto my painting desk! He's standing in till his replacement arrives from ebay - a crossbowdwarf I've been after for a while...

He came as part of a job lot with one of the pack mules and a few other gnomes, including a gnome wizard!  They'll be painted up at some point as a small band of adventurers for SOBH if I should ever get round to a game!

... and yes I was very tempted to paint his hat red! 







Probably a good time to take stock as well.

The engineers of Osrim Chardz are all here now waiting to be painted.
The last of the Linden Way militia are wending their way through the post.
I have got hold of the original Brommedir mini and just need to paint up some more of my Skarloc's archers for both the Woodelves of Kachass Pass and Brommedir's Bows.
I have enough Orc archers for all three tribes and enough warriors to field the tribes separately - not that far off ffrom being ale to field the whole invasion force, although of course there will be casualties along the way...
Still need a mini for Hagar Sheol, chieftain of the Severed Hand tribe, and another 5 hobhounds for Grashak!
Oh and then there's the 10 villagers of Orc's Drift. I have a couple of carts for that scenario but need to get going with terrain - touch up a river and road I have acquired, some more trees, the rest of the card buildings, some barricades and grain sack walls, and I think that is about it!! 

[rob_alderman]

Go on, paint his hat red.
No problem with that imo, people might say 'he looks like a gnome!' and you can just say 'yeah, you're point?'. 

I must admit, I'm struggling with all the names and stuff in The Trolltooth Wars, been a while since I've read anything like it, but it's a nice change and does provoke some imagination.
I do want to sculpt some Rhinomen Guards... 

[phreedh]

Nice ones mate, the gnome is really cool! Agree with Rob - paint his hat red.

Glad to see the dwarfs painted up, they've been neglected for 15-20 years in my cupboards! =D

[Thantsants]

Cheers fellas!

I do want to sculpt some Rhinomen Guards... 

In the words of Arnie - Do it... Do it NOW!!! 

As for the red hat I might just do that - its becoming a habit going back and repainting things red... 

It'll have to be a weathered, leathery red so its a realistic gnome's hat though... 

Don't fancy the fish's chances with that crossbow!

[rob_alderman]

Come ooooon. Paint it red with a blue tunic. Come oooon.

I'll try a rhinoman, I'll see if AA will cast it. I know they are busy casting their old generic fantasy range which is lovely. You might want to check it out. 

[Thantsants]

One that looks like this please! 



and while you're at it could do with a legion of



Some of these big fellas



and maybe a hobgoblin or two! 



.. and then and only then will I consider painting my gnome as a garden gnome! 

[dinohunterpoa]

Greetings!

Nice dwarfs!

Are you going to use the original card buildings? At least is what seems to me in the pictures's backgound... If so, I think that you already know that all the Arcane Architeture buildings can be find to download in Rapidshare.

I remember playing Orc's Drif as a RPG/Skirmish game using a modified version of WFB 2nds ed rules, it was very funny and a pitched battle at the end! We used the original card buildings for most of the scenarios, but in the last one is nice to have a more detailed (and bigger) model of the Orcs' Drif outpost, with interior and so. 

Please, keep going and keep us informed, it's a very nice project of yours! :O)

[Thantsants]

Thanks Dinohunter - I have the card buildings ready (cheers for the tip though) and waiting plus a few ideas for some makeshift barricades and mealie bag walls at Orc's Drift - would be nice to have some more substantial buildings with interiors (to recreate the invasion of the hospital possibly!). I'll just have to see how the budget is going by then!

Currently painting up the archers for the Linden Way militia as I'm waiting for the last few levies to wend their way through the post...

Looking at getting hold of the 2nd ed rules - can you remember how you modified them?!

[Erny]

One that looks like this please! 



and while you're at it could do with a legion of



Some of these big fellas



and maybe a hobgoblin or two! 



.. and then and only then will I consider painting my gnome as a garden gnome! 

So that would be citadel of chaos
Island of the lizard king
one I don't know
And I believe island of the lizard king again (though could be battle blade warrior or portal of evil).

I think I'm going to have to complete my collection of FF books though I never owned the Troll Tooth wars perhaps I need to pick that up too.

Nice looking dwarfs Thants.

[rob_alderman]

I have a stack of them at home...

Perhaps I can convince AA it would be a good idea to release them. The problem is, there wouldn't be huge sales potential. Flintloque is remarkably popular, but very few people bother posting online.