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Offline Bloggard

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (peg giants & Merry Christmas!)
« Reply #1995 on: December 27, 2019, 09:33:31 AM »
beautifully done - lucky kids.

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (peg giants & Merry Christmas!)
« Reply #1996 on: January 06, 2020, 02:15:47 PM »
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.

Offline Hobby Services

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (now with chameleon-men)
« Reply #1997 on: January 06, 2020, 03:24:51 PM »
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.

Offline Bloggard

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (now with chameleon-men)
« Reply #1998 on: January 06, 2020, 03:41:05 PM »
lizardmen look great.

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (now with chameleon-men)
« Reply #1999 on: January 07, 2020, 02:22:28 PM »
Those chameleons are awesome! Great work on great models!

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (now with chameleon-men)
« Reply #2000 on: January 15, 2020, 06:18:04 PM »
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.

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (a quick orc - or ork?)
« Reply #2001 on: January 15, 2020, 07:11:33 PM »
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! 😃
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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (a quick orc - or ork?)
« Reply #2002 on: January 15, 2020, 08:52:01 PM »
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.

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (a quick orc - or ork?)
« Reply #2003 on: January 22, 2020, 10:50:08 PM »
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.


Offline Jagannath

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (peg warriors!)
« Reply #2004 on: January 23, 2020, 08:37:30 AM »
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!

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (peg warriors!)
« Reply #2005 on: January 23, 2020, 09:45:20 AM »
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!

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (peg warriors!)
« Reply #2006 on: January 23, 2020, 10:02:46 AM »
Loving them - that bear is fantastic. Unbearably so.
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Offline Hummster

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (peg warriors!)
« Reply #2007 on: January 26, 2020, 02:24:05 PM »
The peg figures are great.

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (peg warriors!)
« Reply #2008 on: February 19, 2020, 02:15:20 PM »
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.







« Last Edit: February 19, 2020, 02:18:05 PM by Hobgoblin »

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Re: Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (chaos creatures for MicroHotT)
« Reply #2009 on: February 23, 2020, 06:50:49 PM »
A couple more beastmen join the throng:

 

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