A Lady A Day for June (pg 8 Day 30- She Walks Alone)

[Jevenkah]

Great work! I keep meaning to get the Gripping Beast lass w arms crossed in front of her to play the part of Helen for my Troy project. Nice to see her painted so well!

You're not going to believe this, but in our monthly sword & sorcery game that figure plays the role of the King's Betrothed, Inga, who is our "Helen of Gautria". She's daughter of one of two most powerful jarls, Storolf, in the kingdom, who himself is the strongest ally of our PC, Jarl Kvig. Inga has another PC, the champion Bleddyn, chasing her skirts, and almost got him caught *ehhem* in the mead hall. While Kvig is trying to keep Storolf's daughter away from Bleddyn, we highly suspect Kvig of wanting to present his own case for Inga's hand.

Great minds and all that!
Jevenkah

[Garanhir]

These GB ladies were in the first bunch of figures I bought when I started collecting again. Still haven't finished 'em all.

[Jevenkah]

Day 10 of A Lady a Day is a day to celebrate! The LAF has brought Teshub and me loads of inspiration.   Last week, it brought a gift of lead from a new friend! Today we present one of a beautiful set of Bronze Age Viking Women. They're 32mm, but in our 28+mm world, they look like strapping lasses, the kind of women one would want to fight next to.








The detail on these figures blows me away. I'm practicing on livestock before I start on my warrior.  
Jevenkah
http://swordandsorceryrpg.com/a-lady-a-day/

[Jevenkah]

I just love those blues you guys are using. Absolutely great.
And I love this a miniature a day Approach...

Thank you Doomhippie! I have been informed that "Melgar Blue" will be undergoing a name change this summer, to reflect the whole clan, rather than just the Melgarsons. I'm game.

The mini-a-day I pretty much ripped from the Ancients painting club idea. It sounded like a great way to get some of our ladies off the tray and onto the table. It's been brilliant too! We have, maybe not a lot, but several, women that have spent too long unpainted. Now they are seeing the light.

We have two more Gripping Beast viking women for A Lady a Day , and that will complete the set! After all this time.

Thanks everyone for the encouragement and critiques!
Jevenkah

[DeafNala]

David does make some lovely miniatures; AND, like yourself, each new creation is better than the ones before. VERY WELL DONE!

From the differences in attire, I'd say the Barbarian Babes I got from Bronze Age a couple of years ago must inhabit a warmer clime.

[Jevenkah]

Wow, I'm barely keeping the blogging up with the painting! DAY 11 of A Lady a Day is another of the Gripping Beast Viking women, as promised. One of the things we loved about this set was the variation in body types in the women. Compare today's woman with DAY 9 on pg 2 for example. Great diversity, eh?




Jevenkah

[Mason]

I admire the 'one a day' approach, which is coming along really well.
Some nice sculpts getting some good paintwork.
 

Please do something with the bases, though.
Even if you wait until you have finished, as a nice base will really bring these Ladies to the next level.
 

[Jevenkah]

I admire the 'one a day' approach, which is coming along really well.
Some nice sculpts getting some good paintwork.
 

Please do something with the bases, though.
Even if you wait until you have finished, as a nice base will really bring these Ladies to the next level.
 

Thanks, Mason! We have a group of 13-yr-old girls that play, they are incredibly excited to see all these Ladies getting painted.

Speaking of 13-yr-olds and basing...we have a hard enough time keeping shields on guys. Grass would never hold up. The minis get moved by many different hands, some underage and unawares, some of age and slightly tipsy, and some with really big thumbs. (I'm not making that up; we had to limit him to only moving the outside minis to mark his forces and then Teshub and I filled in the rest of the units when we played Fantasty Warriors .)

I completely agree with you re: basing if I were using these exclusively as display pieces, but they are played with quite a lot and need to be flexible in their use. In various adventures that same figure could be outside on a grassy field, or on a battlement, or in a longboat. So the small, relatively uniform bases can have landscape pieces designed for them with just the right flat spots for a single scout, or a small group. Same goes for the size of our stone castle walls, towers and staircases. Our game is very free-flowing and the scenery is modular to accommodate it. The players control the story, so Teshub has to be ready for anything. It's a game that stretches the potential of models and minis and when we come to a situation we can't model, we figure out a new way to do it.

I see your point about leveling up the figures, but it's just not what we need for our tabletop.

I do thank you for the tip!
Jevenkah

[DeafNala]

I have noticed that each new Girl on the block becomes my favorite in the Group. Either I'm developing a fondness for your painting style or you are improving on a daily basis...both is another possibility. Yet again, VERY WELL DONE!

While I'm a bit of a fanatic on bases, what you do with them is dictated by how arduous an existence they are destined to lead. Under the best of conditions, gamers tend to be ham fisted oafs; younger gamers are enthusiastic to boot. If you ever decide to go fancy, I'm sure you can get lots of useful advice from most of us here...myself included.

[Mason]

Fair point on the bases, Jevenhah, I just thought that such lovely figures deserved them, that's all.

I can fully sypathise with the reasoning, as there is one particular member of out group who induces much holding of breath every time that he extends his hand towards the table.
He regularly impales parts of his anatomy on scenery too.

In fact, he is one of the reasons why I tend not to put anything too pointy sticking out of my scenery, after he once decided that his eye would benefit from having a 'ruined' roof joist stuck into it whilst attempting to see what could be seen by one of his miniatures!
 

[Jevenkah]

I have noticed that each new Girl on the block becomes my favorite in the Group. Either I'm developing a fondness for your painting style or you are improving on a daily basis...both is another possibility. Yet again, VERY WELL DONE!

While I'm a bit of a fanatic on bases, what you do with them is dictated by how arduous an existence they are destined to lead. Under the best of conditions, gamers tend to be ham fisted oafs; younger gamers are enthusiastic to boot. If you ever decide to go fancy, I'm sure you can get lots of useful advice from most of us here...myself included.

Thanks DeafNala! I just discovered the gallery feature of this site, so I'll be putting all the Ladies together there soon. Our style is distinctive, perhaps a bit cartoon-ish, but it seems to fit our world, terrain, and photos so well that I wouldn't have it any other way. Of course, there is always room to take that style to another level and Teshub has really stepped it up since joining the LAF a few years ago. This latest challenge has him trying new things I haven't seen him do before (especially eyes ). I have not painted nearly as often as he in this time; I am finding my own skills rusty. I'm painting pigs to get ready to paint a male viking so I can be ready to paint one of the Bronze Age Viking Women for this thread. I've never done a $7 mini before and I don't want to screw it up!

Fair point on the bases, Jevenhah, I just thought that such lovely figures deserved them, that's all.

I can fully sypathise with the reasoning, as there is one particular member of out group who induces much holding of breath every time that he extends his hand towards the table.
He regularly impales parts of his anatomy on scenery too.

In fact, he is one of the reasons why I tend not to put anything too pointy sticking out of my scenery, after he once decided that his eye would benefit from having a 'ruined' roof joist stuck into it whilst attempting to see what could be seen by one of his miniatures!
 

One of our players got a spear under the fingernail one time and lifted the whole figure off the table like that! It's good to know we're not the only group that happened to.

If I do ever work on display pieces I will definitely be asking around here for help/advice/inspiration on the bases. You all are a creative lot and the basing work I've seen is brilliant. It does add oomph.

Thanks again all!
Jevenkah

[Jevenkah]

Day 12 brings many wonderful things. First, another of the Viking women gifted to us by LeadAsbestos.





Next, is the announcement: I'm moving the blog from wordpress.com to our own domain. The new site is http://swordandsorceryrpg.com.

(I'm still figuring out how to forward traffic from one to the other, though the content transfer was easy enough.)

Third, the final installment of Made With Minis Comics "Lords of Timlin #3" will be out in a few hours! On the new site! With better viewing!

As always, comments and critiques welcome!
Jevenkah

[Ramirez Noname]

What a great collection of figures, looking forward to see the progress. Thanks for posting.

Have to check out the new site, too.

RMZ

[Jevenkah]

Day 13 of A Lady A Day we think is an old Ral Partha. She has been in the lead mountain for a long time.

Now she has a role in our world as a warrior in the Grunevaldian army.





We use Crusader Minis Byzantines for the male soldiers; she sizes up quite well!



Jevenkah

[FramFramson]

Oooh, I quite like that one. Very nice!