Miniatures pt102 – Droids
Here are a few Droids (and a Cyborg) from the Hordes of the Future range by Alternative Armies. Simple paint jobs, easy colour schemes.
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Miniatures pt101 – Aliens
A collection of Hordes of the Future Aliens from Alternative Armies. 3 Aquafins, a Calamite, a Felite and a Corpulati.
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Felite 
Aquafin 
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Miniatures pt100 – Ikwen Militia
Here is a pack of Ikwen Militia from the Loud Ninja Games range of Alternative Armies. They scale nicely with the rest of my 15mm minis, as they’re on the larger end of the scale.
For the skin tone I used turquoise blue undercoat glazed with lemon yellow and ultramarine blue for the spikes.
Ikwen Militia Pack 
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Ikwen Militia 
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Miniatures pt99 – Free Trader Crew and Ravagers
I recently got my shipment from Ground Zero Games. I was curious as to how they scaled in 15mm and it seems that they are in the larger end of 15mm, aka heroic 15mm, 1:100 or 18mm. Which is great, as they’ll fit right in with my Alternative Armies Ion Age and HOF range miniatures. The sculpts are nice and crisp. So to start with, I painted a pack of Free Trader Crew and half a pack (only one pose of each) of Ravagers (Generic Space Pirates/Ravagers/Bad Guys).
I went with an earth and cool colour palette. Black or Brown coats and boots, blue jeans and overalls and green trousers. I desaturated the blue and greens by mixing some warm gray. I also painted some white shirts but the soft tone wash muddied them up a lot.
I also went a bit overboard on the bases. Big brown sand spots, rocks and fine sand overall with spots of brown grass. It was more work than usual but I like how they look.
Captain 
Captain 
First Mate 
First Mate 
Security Specialist 
Security Specialist 
Ravager 
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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.
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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
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