Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (ogre bodyguard for Mordheim)

[Gibby]

Those ratmen are great. I take it the Caesar 1/72 are soft plastic? Did you have any trouble getting the paint to stick or anything?

[Hobgoblin]

Cheers!

No trouble with the paint at all. I washed them in warm water and soap, and then undercoated them with a brush, using Citadel's Ceramite White. I did my usual Agrax Earthshade wash over that and then drybrushed them up in white again. They're very slightly tacky to the touch when it's warm, but not to the extent that anything would stick to them. They make really good 15mm RPG pieces - and as they're only a bit taller/bigger than large 15/18s, they're perfect as two- or three-hit-dice monsters (gnolls, bugbears, whatever). The lizardmen are good too - I'll be rebasing these guys on the left on 2ps shortly, and will probably base some others up as hordes for 28mm HotT. You get about £40 for six quid, so it's hard to go wrong.



I'm also wondering whether the Caesar goblins might work as some kind of pallid Morlock-type creature in 15mm.

[Hobgoblin]

One more black orc!

[Hobgoblin]

And here's a wee tip for soft-plastic miniatures. Because these Caesar ratmen are in bendy plastic, the detail on them is - inevitably - a bit rougher than it would be for metal or hard plastics. So, after doing my usual white undercoat, brown wash and white drybrush, I then do a little bit of black lining on them before the colour tinting. This adds a bit of definition where it's needed. It also means that the colour tints and washes will soften the black lining a bit.

I'll be using it a lot in the coming week or two, as I've decided that these gangling rat horrors will play a big part in the D&D campaign - not least because I've got loads of them!

[nic-e]

I did something with a ceaser fantasy fig recently too.

I found that giving the primer a solid day to dry helped alot with avoiding chipping and flaking compared to the same plastic after an hour or so..

[Hobgoblin]

What did you prime them with? I just painted on Ceramite White (years ago!) with these fellows. None of them have chipped over that time, but I'd be nervous about spraying the others rather than hand-painting them.

I notice that with today being cooler, there's no trace of tackiness in the painted and varnished ones.

[nic-e]

What did you prime them with? I just painted on Ceramite White (years ago!) with these fellows. None of them have chipped over that time, but I'd be nervous about spraying the others rather than hand-painting them.

I notice that with today being cooler, there's no trace of tackiness in the painted and varnished ones.

Just brush on vallejo white primer. IT goes on thin but it seems to stick very well ,well enough for them to be handled and painted.

[Hobgoblin]

Yes, the Caesar figures do seem to take paint well. I rebased these guys yesterday and finished them off today: not a hint of flaking paint, despite plenty of rough handling and dropping.

These guys aren't as nice as the ratmen, but they're big and threatening-looking in 15mm games.

[Hobgoblin]

It was time to rebase these chaps. I like them better as 15mm ogres than as 28mm orcs; like many of Nick Lund's sculpts - not least the kobolds - they're so brutal-looking that they work really well as big nasties at a small scale.

I also got a few more rat horrors finished.

[Ragnar]

More awesomeness.

[Dr DeAth]

Those Ratmen look the business

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

Here's some WIP for this weekend's D&D game with the kids: a massive purple worm. It's based for HotT too (as a behemoth or perhaps a god), and will probably see some tabletop time in Mighty Monsters, OGAM and sci-fi games too.

Heavily indebted to DM Scotty of the DM's Craft YouTube channel in this.

[Severian]

Crikey! That's a great worm!

Amongst many other uses, it would make a fine sandworm for 15mm Dune....

[jambo1]

Great work, those Kobolds are brutal looking nasties!

[beefcake]

Looks great. How do those ratmen scale up to 28mm things. Would they make good little tiny ratmen?