Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (Frostgrave undead and construct)

[Bloggard]

beautifully done - lucky kids.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all! Many more peg warriors are well underway.

We played quite a bit of The Men Who Would Be Kings over the holidays. The 'colonials' were these guys, of whom I now have several dozen done:



The 'natives' were my pallid old cave orcs. But as we've enjoyed the game so much, I wanted to put some more interesting troops on the table. As a tribal force in TMWWBK can easily stretch to over 100 troops, I decided against investing in new models for alien tribesmen (thoughts of using either Frostgrave snakemen or masked tribals hastily dismissed). Instead, I'm going to dust off and paint some of the many Slann and lizardmen, etc., that I've got lying around. First on the table are these creatures, from an out-of-production boardgame called Carnage. I have enough, I think, to form a 16-strong unit, or two 'Skirmish Kings' units: one each of archers and swordsmen. And there are some cavalry too. They could also mix in with other reptile types; I like the idea of having the Slann fairly regular-looking and their reptilian auxiliaries widely varied.

These were absurdly quick to paint: black gesso, Vallejo silver-grey everywhere, white drybrush and then contrast paints. The only other work was to highlight the eyes, teeth and horns.

[Hobby Services]

Boy, haven't seen those Carnage figs in ages.  Looking around, Holistic Design is still afloat and updating their site regularly (December 2019) and expect the German company that's been working on 4th ed Fading Suns to release early this year.  Their online store still shows the Carnage figs as existing, but the whole store is down for "reconfiguration" or somesuch.  So I guess they're in a state of quantum indeterminacy as far as production status goes?

Should've picked up more of them back in the day, they were pretty nifty.  And cheap.

[Bloggard]

lizardmen look great.

[Ockman]

Those chameleons are awesome! Great work on great models!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, chaps!

Here's a quick orc (or perhaps a primitive ork - I have Pulp Alley in mind for him) that I painted the other night. I tried to get him done within an hour from an initial black gesso undercoat; I think I went a little over, but only because of the drying time of an Agrax wash in the early stages.

He's sort of a test piece for my HotT 40K project.

[LazyStudent]

Wow! Amazing work! I really like the effect you're getting with the contrast paints. Have you tried the black-gray-white method with 15mm yet? I'd be interested to know as I have a load of 15mm half finished figures that I should one day get sorted! 😃

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

Not yet; my experience so far is that the contrast paints work pretty well over the new spray undercoat for 15mm:



But I might dabble with black/grey/white in that scale at some point.

I should probably note that the orc and lizardmen weren't done like the Mantic ones, with black drybrushed grey then white, but instead were painted entirely in Vallejo silver-grey (which is a very light shade - the same as Citadel Wych Elf Flesh). The orc got an Agrax wash before a white drybrush; the lizards, whose detail is less fine, just got a drybrush.

[Hobgoblin]

Some peg warriors I painted up for my daughter last night. I sometimes think that if I'd discovered this sort of miniature a few years back, we'd now have thousands-strong peg armies and very little lead or plastic. They're just such fun to paint - and so quick.

[Jagannath]

They look grand! I really like very ‘stylised’ gaming and often look at peg armies.

I’m suprised you said they were quick though - they look like they’d take ages!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

They take much less time than ordinary miniatures - I was surprised too! One thing is that paint dries very quickly on them. I undercoat the wood in black gesso, which dries much faster than on metal or plastic. And then it's just blocking in base colours a bit of outlining and a few impressionistic highlights. A big help, too, is there are no details besides what you choose to add!

[von Lucky]

Loving them - that bear is fantastic. Unbearably so.

[Hummster]

The peg figures are great.

[Hobgoblin]

Many thanks, all!

Here's the start of a quick chaos army for "MicroHotT" (Hordes of the Things played with individually based miniatures). The green thing will also do as a Poul Anderson-style troll for 1/72 RPGs.

[Hobgoblin]

A couple more beastmen join the throng: