Fantasy figs and terrain for SobH, KOW etc - 2nd cottage Finished!

[6mmfan]

Hi guys

I've been chipping away at my large collection of Reaper Bones figures and also some GW Skaven. I have about 150 Reaper Bones figures, and about the same number of Skaven so this thread will go on for a while.

Reaper Bones Bugbears
Very cool figures with lots of character, and I converted one of the guys to have a spear instead of a club. Some of the detail was a bit soft and I cut off most of the studs on the armour as they were poorly defined and too hard to paint. Apart from that they were good to paint, but every time I looked at the I saw something else that needed painting! Eventually I got there and I'm happy with how they came out. I intend to use these as a Songs of Blades and Heroes warband but they might get used in my KOW skaven army

Completed SoBH warband




The Boss






Tony






Jim






Johnny






Eric





More soon

Cheers
Kieran

[majorsmith]

Very cool!

[tancrede]

Nice painting here !
And I like the "mushroom touch" on the bases. Very funny !

[PhilB]

Great painting! Love the shading, the traditional color schemes, and hey, I just love bugbears, the heros of goblindom.

Show us more!    --- Phil from France

[6mmfan]

Thanks guys

Next is a sample Skaven figure from the Island of Blood boxed set. A lovely figure and more in the style/pose of the older Skaven figures. I tried out some colours and techniques like rusty armour/weapons to see if it would work for an entire army and a quicker way to paint. I like the finished result but the picture doesn't show it well.






Reaper Bones Wizard
This was from the first KS I believe and I swapped it for some Bones2 KS figures. Its a great figure with well defined sculpting but a BIG figure. I had just received some new paint colours and decided to try them out on the figure.  :grin: 





The basing on both these figures need some finishing as I cant decide to go with a basing scheme for down in a dungeon or on the tabletop.

[DeafNala]

OUTSTANDING! The minis are BEAUTIFULLY painted AND the background scenery is GORGEOUS. GREAT WORK!

[Chico]

Very cool bits and bobs, keep as updated

[Braxandur]

Looking good so far. Coincidentaly I also just painted a set of bugbears to use as Ogre Berserkers in KoW. How do you plan to use them?

[6mmfan]

I'll use them as stand-ins for Rat Ogres in a Ratkin army. Maybe in the future I will do a Orc army so they will be good for that I think.

[Elbows]

Awesome, and I too, like the Tre Manor Bugbears (have some sitting on my table half-painted right now).  The best bugbears Reaper has.  I may pick up one or two more.  Also, they're big fellas, so I think they make the most of Bones material (which suffers as figures get smaller).  A quick dip in boiling then cold and they're solid.

[6mmfan]

Thanks guys, I will try to update this regularly.

I started on some terrain as I enjoy making terrain (more than painting figures) and although I have lots of ambitious plans, I thought I'd start with some simple walls. I also wanted to try making stone walls brick by brick, which is something I have seen here at the LA site.

Stone Walls

For the walls I used some foam from a model airplane shop as getting pink/blue foam is hard here in NZ. Plasticard was used for the bases.

First I cut up some strips and lots of individual bricks





Next I put them into an ice-cream container along with some scoria rocks (volcanic) which are quite sharp, and shook it hard. This dented the "stones" and rounded the corners a bit.




Next I glued them on using PVA one layer at a time. I sprinkled a bit of fine sand over the walls while the PVA was still wet,  so it went into the cracks in places.





Then I painted them a classic grey colour and followed that with lots of drybrushing. i also added some brown ad green washes but you can barely see them.Finally I covered the base with caulk and flock and some bushes I made. Also I added some patches of moss using some green flock to the stone work

Finished walls









Thanks
Kieran

[tyrionhalfman]

Nice walls.thanks for the step by step

[affun]

Looks great! Definitely going to try that out.

[verd]

What a great simple idea!
I love it! 

[Schrumpfkopf]

Lovely stuff :--)