Chaos Mutants

Finally been getting around to painting some of the Chaos Army mutants from Eureka miniatures.
These are both really fun and really fast to do!

These guys are destined for a chaos warband for Open Combat, but will of course very likely see use elsewhere too.

Knight again

A Questing Knight and his two Footmen Hirelings. Knight is from Otherworld and Footmen from Front Rank Miniatures. 

Recently Painted Things

Double Dagger Assassin

Another quick post - This time an assassin:

Even necromancers need to watch their back.

The miniature is a female assassin from Ral Partha Europe. Their RPG-miniatures and DSA: The Dark Eye lines are well worth checking out. There's a lot of very characterful miniatures in there. 

This lady is another addition to the mercenary gang. What could they be up to?

In game terms, it's a nice mini that allows me to play around with some poison and stealth traits I don't usually get to use in ASOBH. 

These traits make her a very mobile, hard to pin down, assassin. Agile allows her to run circles around obstacles and enemies, while dashing means that she only need a single action to both move in on and attack someone. Coupled with the free disengage, this should make her very dangerous, able to exploit any crack in the enemy line to go for her target. 

Of course, as a C2 character, she crumbles quickly against any well equipped soldier. 

I also made her a Coward to represent her sellsword nature - I don't imagine any mercenary being willing to stick around too long if things start going wrong. Can't spend your money if you're missing a head after all. 

Mercenaries

Just a quick update, since its been quite a while. Im (of course) back to working on medieval fantasy again. These guys are meant for a scenario, posing as mercenaries/assassins.
More about that later

The miniatures are from Claymore Castings and a frostgrave cultist with a head from a frostgrave soldier.
I really like the Claymore Castings miniatures. Theire very expressive and characterful sculpts, with well-defined details. Makes them a joy to paint, really. It helps, of course, that I am a huge sucker for the look of the period covered.

Some artwork

We're having a campaign day locally, so I drew this piece to serve as a banner for the event.

Song of Gods and Glory - Part II: Plaguelings and Retinue tables.

Moving on, the next element of Pestifex' retinue. I managed to roll up a whopping 4 Plaguelings: Small and mischievous demon-children of the Plague-Father.

Song of Gods and Glory - Part I: Pestifex

During a campaign in the buzzing south, a young mercenary had suddenly fallen ill. At first, and for many weeks, it merely manifested as boils in the crevices of the body. Painful if touched but discrete enough to go unnoticed by his comrades. But then came the fever, and the young mercenary spent more and more of his time retired in the wagons or in his tent. Until there came a time when the company had been camping for a week and he had not shown his face but once.
At last, his fellow soldiers grew worried. What they found as they entered the tent was as repulsive as it was horrifying. Sitting, hunched over and draped in ragged cloth, was a pale wretch of the young mercenary, surrounded by the rot and filth of numerous dead beings.
And he turned his head and spread his arms wide:

“I welcome you, my brotherssss.”

From the filth crawled forth numerous demons, cackling and grimacing.

Scourge

Here's a quick only semi-miniature related post. Fished out my tablet again, and drew this:

'Scourge' - RH 2016

Orcs'n'Goblins

 Preparing for an experiment into a homebrew "big battle" SoBH in a couple of weeks, I've added to my greenskin forces, making this small warband.

They'll form one of 3 subdivisions in the overall force.

As 'ard as dey get, at least according to Torkborg himself. A claim he backs up with a bloody big mace.

Maraudin'

In a barren pass, a warband of chaos fights its way through an orc ambush.

I am slowly working away at a proper chaos retinue, inspired ye' olde Path of Glory. Its a theme I find myself returning to continously. Warbands of crazed followers of dark gods, mutated with barely understood eldritch magic running trough their veins and battling for a faint chance of eternal glory, their ultimate fate most likely being madness... that's some cool imagery, and quite fertile grounds for modelling projects. 

lil' bugger

A goblin with that big of a smile can only be up to mischief. 

Orc Chief

.... aaaaand I am back to painting fantasy. In preparation for a project I am working on, I've started painting up some more fantasy models. This orc is a cheap one from CP Models that I've had for a long while. Not a super impressive sculpt, but I like it. It has something of a simple charm about it.

I've been experimenting with under-painting using matt medium, very much inspired by the style of Delaney King (and a couple others). The orc took me an hour from black base coat to finish, which is a time I am very happy with, considering the result.

If in doubt, apply more knight!

So I've finally managed to snap some pics of something I've painted again. They are rather poor, as my camera is just that - The only way of taking pictures available to me right now is my busted up old iPhone 3g's camera.
Still, I thought I'd update the blog, especially since I am quite happy with how the minis turned out.

First up is the (now) alternate frostgrave Knight sculpt. I have it from back in the first Nickstarter where it was a freebie:

Sir Einar Fiskersøn

Landsknecht

Doppelsoldner from Artizan Designs

Albrecht "Nuclear Deterrent" Houser - My wizard

 Albrecht Houser is the Fire Wizard in my current warband. This guy:

An old Citadel Adventurer Wizard model, that I finished painting recently. Great model!
At any rate, he's become quite notorious for his fireball spell; It's only actually been cast twice, but the mere threat of it is enough to keep the other warbands at bay. Thus, I gave him the nickname.
Good fun.

I wanted to draw a portait of him, as he conjures a fireball.

All in all I am quite happy with how it turned out. He's got that mad gleam in his eyes.

More Fantasy-minis

Fightin' Fungi

So my kickstarter pledge finally arrived. Being a great fan of Song of Baldes and Heroes, I of course just had to back Ganesha Games kickstarter for Fightin' Fungi. And also because the miniatures were such nice oddities.

Anyways - I quickly set about painting them up, and this is what I have got so far:

Dwarf Squad

Tough nutters - The dwarves fill the role of shock infantry, often charging towards the largest and most dangerous group of enemies they can find.

Phew! That's one more unit finished. More Alternative Armies dwarves, with a single old Citadel dwarf thrown into the mix. ostly because I thought it was such a cool sculpt. 

Horve City Guard

A Cleric leads a patrol into the woods.

In the heavily wooded valley of Oakenshire lies the city Horve. In it both dwarves and humans live together, the men plowing the fields outside its walls, and the dwarves working the forges and mines underneath. The valley is ruled by the human count and the dwarven council, to ensure that the interests of both people are honoured.
Horve is protected by the staunch City Guard. A diverse fighting force tasked with keeping the valley safe. Thus, they patrol far and wide, being more of a small military force. There are small garrisons spread out across the valley, so the villages and hamlets can be aided, should they come under attack.