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

[Severian]

Fantastic! Happy Halloween indeed.

[swiftnick]

Love them! Great stuff.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks! Cthulhu sprouted wings in time for the school's belated Halloween party:

[fred]

Great stuff - can't believe you have dry brushed the halloween masks!!

[Hobgoblin]

Great stuff - can't believe you have dry brushed the halloween masks!!

Thanks! But of course ...

Here's a unit of Irregular 15mm sci-fi Reptilians. They're going to feature in Dragon Rampant this weekend as Elite Foot with Spellcaster - or possibly, bending the rules, as an 11-point unit of Elite Foot with Missiles and Venomous. They'll also crop up in Whitehack as Dagonites and will form two sabotted elements in Alien Squad Leader.

They're of the quickest groups I've painted recently. I'm now quite intrigued by Irregular Miniatures, as the range seems to have at least a few hidden gems.

[jambo1]

Nice work!! Irregular ar a company I am looking at more and more, they do indeed have some hidden gems and at a very decent price.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

Yes, I've been looking at the 15mm orcs and goblins with fresh eyes; I'm going to order some and see how they scrub up.

[Severian]

Those are very nicely done. The colours work very well.

Curious how you get on with Irregular. I've looked at them off and on over the past couple of years, but haven't got past the rather uninspiring pictures on their site. But I should know from e.g. the Essex website that this is rarely the whole story. Watching with interest!

The Cthulhu costume in all its glory is marvellous, btw. Excellent work!

[swiftnick]

I don't really know their fantasy figures but find irregular in general run from basic to little gems. They also literally do everything. Ian is a really nice guy as well. He once tolerated me turning up on his doorstep to buy WW1 figures. Admittedly he knew I was coming just didn't know when.

[Jagannath]

These look great matey - really nicely done. I must admit, I totally ignore Irregular when I probably shouldn't. The Star Marines look like they might be pretty good...

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all!

One interesting thing about Irregular is the number of variants. The range looks, at first glance, to have relatively few models of each type. But each number seems, in many or most cases, to have numerous variants - as with the club-wielding types above.

I certainly found these Irregular miniatures very easy and "sympathetic" to paint. They made me want to get more (and so I shall, alas ...).

Jaganath, I did the Dagonites using your suggesting of an initial Coeliac Greenshade (or whatever it's called) wash. I was pleased with how it turned out, so it might well be a solution for your snake-people.

[Jagannath]

Ah cool - so your usual method but green ink instead of brown? I still haven't got round to the snakemen yet, must pick that up...

[Hobgoblin]

Ah cool - so your usual method but green ink instead of brown?

Yes, indeed. The clothing and armour sections are just white, green ink, white drybrush, whereas the equipment got either a blue or a purple wash. I used a glaze of Biel Tan Green on the flesh/scales. And that, pretty much, was that.

[Hobgoblin]

Here's the first sabot base for my 15mm stuff. The idea is to keep the individual miniatures neutrally based for RPGs, but to allow them to look reasonably natural in wargames. The bases are the right size for Alien Squad Leader, which I'm keen to try, and they also lift the models to the same height as my slottabased 28mm stuff. As I've got a lot of "liminal" figures that I'm using in 15mm - 20mm Caesar stuff, 25mm orcs used as ogres, and 25mm kobolds used as gnolls, etc, they can be used both as big creatures in 15mm and small ones in 28mm.

I'm quite pleased with how the sabot base disguise the fact that the figures themselves have deliberately dull, simple bases.

[Schrumpfkopf]

Lovely lovely bases. Who made the frogs?