Quarentine Dump take II

 

My Quarentine productivity has persisted. As always I have been painting figures constantly, and not making enough terrain. Here I have somewhat remedied that with some smaller creations.  

A boat built with the help of a proxxon.  

Perry War of the Roses Halberdiers painted as Lannisters or Swiss or Warhammer Empire Talabheim. 

This is a fun little terrain piece, a fairy circle It is hot glue beaded onto wax paper, removed and then toothpicks shoved into the mushroom tops.  

This is a meant to be a woodsy barricade 

Here we have sacks and bags made from tissue paper dipped in 50/50 water:glue and shaped/folded. 

These are supposed to be tanning racks and haystack frames. Made from twigs and hotglue, with some thread for roping.  

This firewood was made by cutting matchsticks and a brown wash. I think it looks very cool.

A group shot of the new scatter.

Another fun piece out of twigs, hotglued twigs to a popsicle stick and sanded grout for basing.  

This is a grass mat from Aliexpress.  I really love the look of it and will likely tart it up in the future.  

For those proxxon owners not willing to pay for the shifting sands equipment, here is your answer; build one from legos. Even if you dont own any legos this is likely a cheaper option. Shifting Sands stuff costs $30 dollars for shipping to the USA alone. 

Some more pink foam creations.  I put flock and tufts on these later. 

I started adding bowstrings to all my favorite Archer models.  This is done by using sewing thread and supergluing it to a bow. It really is quite easy and I am surprised it is not a near universal in the hobby community. My process was creating a simple knot without tightening the knot and then looping it on the bow and tightening. Then glue is applied to the knot/bow.  After that glue has dried I pull the thread downward and place a drop of glue at the opposite end of the bow. Simple. 

This was slightly more complicated but you get the picture.  

And now for something completely different, WORLD CREATION!

Behold TERRA SAULIS. My fantasy world, in case I ever play in a game starting from scratch. 

I've gone about making my own fantasy world using inkarnate.com the free version. Took me a solid 10 to 20 minutes to figure out what I was doing but it worked out from there. The map itself took many hours probably around 10. Enjoy the map and I hope it inspires you to do something similar.  The map is largely inspired by the real world, Warhammer Oldworld, and Tolkien's world. 

The Great Quarentine Dump - Mid March to MId July

Hello all and welcome to my first Quarantine Picture Dump post. Hope you enjoy, and I hope you have had a productive hobby quarantine

Here, we start with the Northstar Oathmark Goblin Wolf riders. The riders are wonderful, the wolves on the other hand have a very large seem that bothers me.

These are Gripping Beast Carolingian Warrior Cavalry. I have painted them up in a scheme that I believe is fitting for both Carolingians and a Gondorian type scheme

These are GB Carolingian Hearthguard, painted in the same Carolingian/Gondorian Scheme. 

These were made from individual bricks cut using a proxxon table.  They fit together and can make modular walls/buildings. 

These tables and book cases were also made with the proxxon.  The proxxon solves my problem of impercise cutting, making simple builds much easier.  

These are metal oathmark goblins with a metal GB Pagan Rus

Here we have a mounted pagan priest, along with the Carolingian Hearthguard.

This is a Ragnarok Spider model without the Goblin Howdah. I am quite happy with the forest basing, mostly using my own tufts and rocks. 

I purchased the Welsh at 50% off from Noble Knight Games. I have always loved this range but could never justify buying a Dark Age Welsh army because I already have Late Romans. The sale provided sufficient justification, and I am thrilled how they turned out.

This was an attempt at some tall wild grass using my cheapo applicator. 

Here we have my newest love, unit basing made from vinyl tile and pre-mixed grout.  I press my bases into the grout to create each slot. 

Here is the base stamper and bases prior to tarting up.  

Black Adder and Percy, using Perry war of the roses bodies and heads and old WHFB empire arms

Oathmark Dwarves with crossbow arms from fireforge sergeants. The padded clothing on the crossbowarms actually passes quite well for mail.  

Straightforward Victrix Greeks, with one small archer conversion.

These are Oathmark Elves, with a west wind saxon head on the leader, and Victrix Greek shields.  I printed the shield image (Silmarillion Heraldry), and varnished the paper onto the Greek Shields. 

These are Aventine Imperial Romans. Quite fun and heavily armored. 

Here is a vinyl tile covered with old wargames factory bits. The wargames factory figures (now sold by Warlord Games) are horrible figures and should only be used by Master painters and for dead soldiers for us average joes.  I applied grass later. 

Picture Dump Fall 2019 to Winter 2020

Here we have another picture dump because I am a terrible blogger and have the need to make sure my miniatures can be found on my blog.

V&V Crusaders, lovely models that make me go against my dislike of resin. Well worth it

Besides the two victrix plastic greeks the rest are Wizkids models, the details painted up well enough. No problems with the wizkids ones I purchased. They are definitley better than the original bones material, but reaper seems to have moved away from that anyway.

Kitbashes of Northstay cultist heads, Bretonnian bodies, and  WFB Orc shields

Purchased some 3d printed accessories for relatively cheap and built a lovely cabin out of XPS.

Here we have some simple trees, BBQ skewer with clump foliage

I wanted something more substantial here and I am overall ok with the result. Air dry clay mixed with PVA, bark was scraped in with something sharp and real twigs were shoved into the top of the clay. The roots were each added separately and then blended in with water.

Armorum and Aquilia miniatures, as much as I love Third Century Romans (I really do), these sculpts are probably below standards...but they are Third Century Romans so still worth it!

Lotr Eomer

Victrix Republican Legions in Chainmail

Victrix with a head swap to make some street fighter types

Victrix Germans with an unknown model/manufacturer I picked up from ebay.

Victrix vikings

GB Salian Franks painted in a Rohan type scheme

Some Victrix Germans again

Victrix vikings again

Aventine Steppe Tribes, Sassanids, and Avars, all to be used as Steppe Horsemen from the 5th/6th Century until 1200s. They will also be perfect mounted Easterlings in any LOTR setting

Aventine Early Byzantines painted up as Numenoreans. These guys will be used as Late Roman Palatina, Numenoreans, and maybe even Noldor as only one model has facial hair.

Northstar ROSD official miniatures

Aventine Imperial Romans, nice enough sculpts beyond the mono pose. The mono pose is fine by me as drilled units should look monopose.