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

[Bloggard]

love the old chronicle / lund orcs etc too. wish they were available again - got rid of mine long ago.

they look amazingly good with your paint-jobs.

[Hawkeye]

Lovely orcs, these - if an orc can be described as "lovely"!

Finished reading The Hobbit to my son at the end of the summer, and we started The Lord of the Rings. Have just reached the end of The Fellowship  of the Ring, and he loves it. We got some dwarf miniatures to put together Thorin's Company (and a hobbit and a wizard), and now the Wizard will do double duty for the inevitable collection of the Fellowship, which my son is very taken with. He particularly likes Frodo and Gimli.

Slightly off-topic, I realize, but it's clear to me that having these books read aloud to him is having a very formative effect on my son (who is eight). I should also add that Bill the Pony was such a particular favorite that we made sure to get the Reaper Bones pack donkey to complete the Fellowship!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all!

Slightly off-topic, I realize, but it's clear to me that having these books read aloud to him is having a very formative effect on my son (who is eight). I should also add that Bill the Pony was such a particular favorite that we made sure to get the Reaper Bones pack donkey to complete the Fellowship!

It's definitely worth doing! My son more or less learned to read through The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. At the start, he'd struggle through one sentence, and I'd read the rest. By the end, he was reading five or six pages before I took over. And it's an unsurpassed exercise in nostalgia for parents!

Here's another big orc. A very big one ...

[Hobgoblin]

And here's Ushtug the Gut from the GW/Chronicle Death Commandos box.

I've got two of him, and I was going to add the other - and the rest of my Chronicle giant black orcs - to the ranks of my blue-skinned 'winter orcs' (just one is painted so far).

But I'm increasingly inclined to strip the blue chap and just base and paint all of the black orcs in this scheme. It's much quicker than doing them blue, and the addition of the black orcs will give me plenty of 'officers/characters/elites' alongside the EM4 plastics and the cruder Grenadier types.

The red orcs that I painted early on in this thread are definitely destined for the biostrip; the question is whether they end up blue or in this Europeanish skin tone. Any opinions gratefully received!

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Once again, brilliant painting.  I would love to see you also paint (apart from the elves) Mirliton's figure called Duncan the Legend, or better still, the Goblin War Giant.

[Hobgoblin]

Once again, brilliant painting.  I would love to see you also paint (apart from the elves) Mirliton's figure called Duncan the Legend, or better still, the Goblin War Giant.

Thanks!

No plans for either of those in the near future (lots of orcs to go first!), but the Duncan miniature is a very nice giant. So one day, maybe!

[Hobgoblin]

A half-orc witch:

[peleset]

Lovely painting; that and the style of the sculpt remind me a lot of the Talisman figures and Gary Chalk artwork.

[Cubs]

Is it just me or does she look like Lady Gaga?

[beefcake]

She's pretty...




ugly.
Nice job

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all! I'm sure she'd be happy wearing a dress made of meat.

Here's a Grenadier Elf. I used the same minimalist two-tone approach as on the orcs - so most areas have no shading and just a single highlight. The exceptions are the flesh and the leather.

[Daeothar]

He's looking great; sort of a green Drow?

And when reading the updated thread title, the first image that went through my mind, was an elf in fatigues pulling a grenade pin with his teeth!

It's nearly midday, but apparently I'm as alert as if I only just woke up...

[Hobgoblin]

He's looking great; sort of a green Drow?

Thanks! He's really more of an attempt to make elves sinister. One thing that I don't really like in generic "fantasy" settings is the idea that dwarfs are little Vikings or Scotsmen and elves are either simply superhumans or twee woodland dwellers. I think both should be sinister, dangerous and often downright villainous - as they are so often in folklore. So my dwarfs are blue-skinned (echoing their "corpse-like" description in Norse myth) and glowing-eyed (because they're subterranean creatures). And my elves, I think, will be green, because they're creatures of the woods and not human at all.

And when reading the updated thread title, the first image that went through my mind, was an elf in fatigues pulling a grenade pin with his teeth!

Well, that would certainly be one way to make elves more dangerous!

[Hobgoblin]

Here's a Grenadier wolfrider. I've got a big batch of Chronicle wolfriders (which I prefer, though they all mix in well enough) to follow.

[beefcake]

2 more great additions.