Bob & Drew's Epic Heroes Fantasy Project - New Pics Jan 6th 2015 Pg 12

[Faust23]

Welcome to Bob & Drew's Excellent Fantasy Adventure thread!  I'm Bob Faust author of Brink of Battle: Skirmish Gaming through the Ages.  My brother in arms and 'First Prime' is Drew Davies.  We are currently in process of play testing the Fantasy supplement to my rules called Epic Heroes: Skirmish Gaming in the Realms of Fantasy.  We are also working on new demo tables and battle forces to play with these rules.  We are going to use this thread to chronicle all of our progress on the miniatures and scenery as we ramp up to the release date next year.

In addition to pics of our minis and terrain, we will be listing out our forces in BoB terms so you can get a feel for the scope of the supplement.  So, without further ado let us begin!  

Drew & I spent the day at Fausthaus scraping plastic and metal to prep our newest skirmish bands.  Drew has a guh-shitload of Wargames Factory Vikings, and I just bought a truck load of old Tom Meier Ral Partha figs off of ebay.  We threw on the Fellowship of the Ring and prepped figs and watched the LOTR series all day.  We saw the Hobbit last night and we are amped!  

I'm building a group of adventurers who will be exploring the Ruins of Vanis-Trymno.  Drew is working on some marauders from the Skaarsgard Mountains who will start out as normal warriors who disturb a crypt while raiding and become cursed.  Later he'll have these same figures painted as a horde of Ghost Warriors who have come back from the dead to fulfill the terms of their curse!  

Here are some snaps from my phone on our projects thus far:

Drew hard at work scraping plastic


Fiddly bits and a gob of Vikings


Arms men! We need arms!


That's more like it!


Comin' right for ya


Gustav Two-swords!


Grenadier dwarf fighter that I used to own as a kid, and finally acquired again


Tom Meier 3 stage fighter stage 1 I think


And the figure I wanted to own again the most from Tom Meier's Ral Partha work


Here's the group shot of what I scraped and prepped today


That's it for now. Comments and such are most welcome!

Noch Weiter!

Bob

[Faust23]

A few more shots.

[HerbyF]

Nice collection of figures. I'm looking forward to seeing some of them painted up.

[Limaike]

And the figure I wanted to own again the most from Tom Meier's Ral Partha work

Looks awesome! What is he called?

[Faust23]

Looks awesome! What is he called?

I think when I bought him back in '85 he was labled as an Anti-Paladin.  He strikes me as some kind of Sword Mystic.  For D&D he'd make a great Avenger.

For Epic Heroes I'll probably use him as some kind of a Sword Mystic badass. 

[dijit]

Looks a similar concept to many other (and my own) fantasy projects here on LAF - grab what you have, paint and have fun. It's interesting that though the concept is similar they all turn out very different and have some fantastic styles amongst them (Mason, Deafnala, I'm looking at you two), so it'll be really interesting to see how this progresses.
Lovely stuff and a nice collection of minis to get started with.
Love this guy particularly:

What's his name?
Duncan

[Limaike]

Thanks! I will definitely keep an eye out for him. Yes, much more Sword Mystic than Anti-paladin (not enough bat wings and skulls for that). The sculpting is ahead of its time.

[Mister Rab]

With his head so deep inside that helmet and bevor he looks very Froudian and therefore cool!

[DeafNala]

An EXCELLENT Project! It's will be a pleasure following your progress. Keep up the GOOD WORK!

The Fellow with the BIG sword & deep helmet is A Ral Partha Crusader now available from Iron Wind Metals:



http://ironwindmetals.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=263_276&products_id=7302

[Faust23]

Glad y'all dig the project.  It's all your fault anyway! 

I can't hop on this forum without seeing some stonking good stuff and it does the inspirational trick!  So I thank all of you for blazing the trail!

Tom Meier sculpted most of the ones I'm working on and he was indeed well ahead of his time.  As I was just telling Drew the other day, Meier almost single handedly defined what D&D looked like on the tabletop.  Between his work, and the art work of Willingham, Otus, Dee, Trampier, and Roslof, the 'fantasy' gaming genre was off to a great start.

I got them all primed yesterday and will start some painting tonight.

Stay tuned!

[dijit]

Good stuff and thanks Deafnala for the link. That mini really oozes character.
Duncan

[phreedh]

Very nice selection there, Bob! =) Looking forward to see some lovely painting in this thread.

[Faust23]

Thanks Phreed!  You are one of the 'responsible parties' that inspired me to get this started! 

[Damien]

I cannot wait to see how you paint up all those Ral Partha gems, I am a huge Partha geek and have most of those minis; they are mostly from their '3 stage player character series'.   

These guys are from the 3 stage Rangers pack (01-316):




This guy is from the Fighter pack (01-315):


This guy is from the Paladin pack (01-320):


And finally this guy was from Partha's 'Player Characters' series and is a Wizard (02-355):


A wizard with a really big sword. Can't wait to see these guys painted up, I really like your painting style.

Cheers,
 Damien

[Faust23]

Thanks Damien!  I was going to embark upon them tonight, but a migraine derailed my plans.  Tomorrow night we're gaming the fantasy rules at our local shop The Launchpad.

So maybe friday I'll get some paint on them.  I'll post WIP photos as I go.

I am so glad I plumped for these.  They take me back 30 years.