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  • giorgis 8:10 pm on May 11, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Miniatures pt98 – War Vixen Rider 

    Here is the War Vixen rider from the Ral Partha Europe Blighthaven warband that I hadn’t painted in my last post. Used the same set of colours, and painted the horse with a black colour using Paynes Gray.

    War Vixen Rider
     
  • giorgis 9:28 pm on May 8, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Miniatures pt97 – War Vixens and Ice Witches 

    Here are the War Vixens from the Demonworld range of Ral Partha Europe. Actually it’s the foot War Vixens from Blighthaven warbands supplemented by a few Ice Witches from Demonworld. The Blighthaven warbands are skirmish packs from select Demonworld miniatures so they all fit well together. Since I like to dedicate more of my focus when painting mounted miniatures, I didn’t paint the mounted War Vixen from this set in this go.

    I went mostly with red and blue purple colours for the clothing, and also tried out some new colours I got – copper and paynes gray for some details.

    I really like paynes gray for black applications over poor man’s zenithal aka nowadays slapchop. Paynes gray is a semi-opaque cool dark gray colour so the underlying details still come through.

    War Vixen
    War Vixen
    War Vixen
    War Vixen
    War Vixen
    War Vixen
    War Vixen
    Ice Witch
    Ice Witch
    Ice Witch
     
  • giorgis 1:44 pm on May 4, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Miniatures pt96 – Ratbeasts and Great Cat 

    Painting further my miniatures from Splintered Light, here are 9 Ratbeasts (without their handlers) and a great cat (from the non-human adventurers pack). I went with earth tones for them.

    The flesh of the Ratbeasts was Naples Yellow Red, with Neutral Gray on the little fur they had, while the Cat was painted with Raw Sienna on the short fur and Burnt Sienna on the longer fur.

    Ratbeasts
    Ratbeast
    Ratbeast
    Ratbeast
    Great Cat
     
  • giorgis 1:05 am on April 1, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Miniatures pt95 – Giant Rats 

    In my fantasy games I found myself often lacking miniatures for giant rats, which is a very common trope for fantasy. After carefully considering my options I decided to go ahead with the ones from DSA range of Ral Partha Europe, which is not a 15mm range, but a 28mm range. That’s not a problem since who’s to say how big a giant rat should be? I loved the sculpts and I wasn’t disappointed.

    As for the paint scheme I wanted to give some variety since between the rats, so there’s many different coats, with darker colours being the norm.

    Giant rat
    Giant rat
    Giant rat
    Giant rat
    Giant rat
    Giant rat
    Giant rat
    Giant rat
     
  • giorgis 11:37 pm on March 17, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Miniatures pt94 – Non-human adventurers (1/2) 

    Despite knowing that Splintered Light is on the smaller end of 15mm, I could not pass by the opportunity to grab some Preen-suitable miniatures. Two Ravenfolk are in the latest pack, sculpted by none other, one of my favourite sculptors – Ben Siens.

    Being well aware of the scale disproportions, I was happy to see that the non-human nature of the figurines mixes well with my larger 18mm minis. After all ravenfolk, badgerfolk, catfolk and foxfolk can be similar sized to halflings – its fantasy! The dragon folk will be on the smaller side, the goliath won’t live up to his name, and the turtlefolk will be just fine.

    I chose to paint the smaller animalfolk first. I intend to complete the entire pack, but on a later date.

    I absolutely loved painting them, and they each have a unique character. From the badgerfolk warrior-monk, to the catfolk rat-catcher and the foxfolk harquebusier. Just adorable.

    Animalfolk
    Ravenfolk
    Ravenfolk
    Badgerfolk
    Badgerfolk
    Catfolk
    Catfolk
    Foxfolk
     
  • giorgis 9:18 pm on February 23, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Miniatures pt93 – Orc Horde Expanded 

    A while ago I had gotten the Orc Horde from the Hordes of Things range of Alternative Armies. I loved these miniatures, which I had painted in a different scheme than my usual deep green orcs. Later on Alternative Armies released some more orcs, in resin sprue sets, further expanding the range. I had my eyes on them and their archers, and eventually got them and, after a (long) paint queue, I eventually painted them. Tried to remember the paint scheme I had used back then, and thankfully I had some notes in my previous blog post. I love how they turned out, and as you can see in the group shot, they fit with the metal miniatures perfectly.

    Group shot of metal and resin orcs
    Orc horde
    Orc horde
    Orc horde
    Orc horde
    Orc archer
    Orc archer
    Orc archer
    Orc archer
     
  • giorgis 3:24 pm on January 25, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Miniatures pt91 – Knights 

    Finishing my only-games pile is the Knights with Spears. These have clear inspiration from Renaissance era full plate armour with Greek Hoplite parts (Hoplon shield, Helmet). Lovely sculpts, my only gripe is that they’re big! Much bigger than my already big Demonworld 18mm miniatures. So I think their only use on my table will be as Armour Golems of sorts.

    Knight with Spear
    Knight with Spear
    Knight with spear
    Knight with Spear
    Knight with Spear
    Size comparison
     
  • giorgis 4:20 pm on January 22, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Miniatures pt90 – Plague Knights 

    Continuing on my Duncan Shadow sculpts printed by only-games.co, here are some not-chaos warriors, aka Plague Knights.

    For the paint scheme I went with a reddish purple cloths, flesh with a yellowish tint, and metallic silver colour for the armour. Loved the concept, loved the sculpts, loved the end result. Only slight gripe is the print could have been a tad bit cleaner, as some print lines are visible.

    Plague Knight
    Plague Knight
    Plague Knight
    Plague Knight
    Plague Knight
     
  • giorgis 12:16 pm on January 18, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Miniatures pt89 – Cultists 

    I’ve gotten some resin 3d printed miniatures from only-games.co. Loved the sculpts and they had some fantasy ranges in 15mm that I wanted, so I decided to try them out. Duncan makes some great designs and it was really fun to paint these cultists with flails. They’re quite chonky so they’re on the high end of heroic 15mm (18mm), quite on par with my Battle Valor miniatures.

    I went with a red cloak and ochre rope belts. Simple paint scheme but striking result.

    Cultist with Flail
    Cultist with Flail
    Cultist with Flail
    Cultist with Flail
    Cultist with Flail
     
  • giorgis 12:56 pm on January 13, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Miniatures pt 88 – Savage Lizardmen 

    Took me a while to paint this Savage Lizardmen warband using Sampler Packs (1 of each pose) from each type of Savage Lizardmen infantry from the Hordes of Things range of Alternative Armies.

    I wasn’t sure about the paint scheme, but since I’ve already painted some blue Lizardmen from Blighthaven, I went with a classic green colour scheme and earth tones altogether. Sandy base with brown sand and brown grass.

    These took a while to be painted because I batch painted the entire score of them to ensure that I use the same colours and they look uniform. There are warriors, blades, pole arms, spears, with shields and archers, four of each type.

    Ps. Now that I look them all together I can see that there is a double pose of a spearman and I’m missing one pose from the sampler pack. I realised it too late though, maybe I’ll have to order a new pack in my next order.

    Savage Lizardmen
    Savage Lizardmen Warriors
    Savage Lizardmen Warriors
    Savage Lizardmen Warriors
    Savage Lizardmen Warriors
    Savage Lizardmen Polearms
    Savage Lizardmen Polearms
    Savage Lizardmen Polearms
    Savage Lizardmen Polearms
    Savage Lizardmen Blades
    Savage Lizardmen Blades
    Savage Lizardmen Blades
    Savage Lizardmen Blades
    Savage Lizardmen Spears
    Savage Lizardmen Spears
    Savage Lizardmen Spears
    Savage Lizardmen Spears
    Savage Lizardmen Archers
    Savage Lizardmen Archers
    Savage Lizardmen Archers
    Savage Lizardmen Archers
     
    • Jeffrey Boyd Garrison 5:25 pm on January 13, 2023 Permalink | Reply

      Nice individual shots, a group photo to start would also be good.

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      • giorgis 5:28 pm on January 13, 2023 Permalink | Reply

        Thanks!
        Had the group photo as a “Featured Image” of the post but you’re right! I’ll also add it in the post as it can be missed otherwise

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