Terrain, Huns, and Fireforge markers

In anticipation of Saga Invasions, I've started a Hun/generic Steppe army.  So far, I've largely used a box of GB Arab Heavy Cavalry and FF Mongol cavalry.  The heavy cav is a mix of both sets, mostly from the GB arab set, and the light cav is mostly made from the FF mongol set, with some warlord celt heads and torsos thrown in.  Also in the background of the first picture is Fireforge's new Black Hood command set.

Elite Cav

Light cav

I started to paint the loot and burn tokens from Fireforge, I wonder if they'll be sending the rules with my next/final portion of the Russian kickstarter sets. The kickstarter didnt seem like it earned much funding, and Fireforge has really mishandled this kickstarter... I coudlve purchased the Russian plastic set a month ago from other retailers with free shipping, yet I still dont have mine.  The fireforge site offers free shipping on certain order amounts yet for the kickstarter this didnt apply.... So it seems like it was a largely pointless endeavor to participate in their kickstarter. If I hadnt I woudlve saved money on shipping as well as had the Russian plastic set by now... Bizzarre

And Finally some forrest terrain.  I really enjoy creating and building terrain for miniatures. It might even be the portion of the hobby in which I find the most satisfaction and creative vigor.  These pieces were quite easy. The smaller trees are fallen tree branches hot glued to cardboard, with sand and a large rock added to weigh down the base.  The large tree is made from the cardboard from a paper towel roll, crumpled slightly to give an irregular shape, covered with one layer of PVA and paper towels, roots created from rolled up wet toilet paper covered in PVA, the branches were created by puncturing kebab skewers into trunk and gluing foliage to the ends, the whole model was then textured/reinforced with a hot glue gun, which creates the bark texture on the tree.  I will definitely be making more of the paper towel roll trees, sadly I have to go through a lot more paper towels before I can make more. 

Arthurians and Celtic Northerners

Here's the nearly complete Arthurian/Late Roman armored Infantry. The Figures are a mix of West Wind and Gripping Beast.  The dragon windsock banner needs some details painted, and the bannerman in front of the door needs a banner. 

The Celts. L to R: Javelinmen, Hearthguard, Warriors.

I purchased a sprue of conquest archers, I might've posted them before, but here they are now

I repainted the cultist hoods from brown to light grey. Gives them more of a wintery feel.

Long Overdue Update

These pictures are months old and ive been lazy about blogging them.  The Figures werent 100% done and I guess I was waiting for their completion and to set them up on the gaming table before I actually posted them. Oh well.

Here we have some Celtic/Pictish/Scottish reinforcements for Saga or Lion Rapmant.  The armored figures to the right are hearthguard made with Warlord Celt bodies and GB Saxon Thegn heads.  As I delve into the migration/invasion era research it really is apparent that most osprey depictions and figures on the market wear similar equipment no matter the region they hail from.  The GB Saxon Thegn helmets are representations of a helmet from the 600s and reflects post roman/late roman design features. These helmets are totally appropriate for any use from the 400s to 800s. The unit to the left are levy javelinmen made from perry sudanese tribesmen and wargames factory celtic and germanic heads.  The sudanese outfits looked like togas/kilts so I figured it would work.

This is a unit of 8 warriors for my celtic/pictish/scottish forces using some warlord celtic bodies and GB dark age bodies with mostly GB saxon thegn heads.

These are GB late Roman/Arthurian metal figures, and West Wind arthurians.  The GB non Saga metal ranges are rare to come by in the States so I jumped on the purchase from ebay when  I saw them, probably a year ago. Saga Invasions, Saga in the late Roman Era, will hopefully be coming out within a year. So I've fully invested in creating some forces to play upon its release.  

Set up some terrain for a frostgrave table

These Figures are the perry HYW French infantry plastics.  The set is awesome and has a vast array of armaments and armor types.  I built these figures to possibly split purposes as both GOT Stark infantry as well as 1300-1400s Lithuanians, but I think I am gonna fully go into the Stark Infantry look and scrap the Lithuanian uses.

Reaper Bones loot and Scale Comparison

Got a shipment from Reaper, so for the benefit of all here's some height comparisons. (I didn't bother looking up the names, so bare with me)

L to R: Reaper Warg, GB Saxon (with fireforge head), reaper evil knight, reaper soldier, frostgrave soldier, reaper horned satyr, reaper oswald the overladen, reaper evil knight, gripping beast late roman, fireforge mongol, reaper tyrant, reaper werewolf.

L to R: reaper spectral wolf, reaper warg, reaper werewolf, reaper soldier, reaper throne, fireforge mongol, gb saxon, reaper ice troll, reaper minotaur, reaper mountain giant, frostgrave soldier, reaper ogre, reaper oswald, reaper cave troll, gb late roman, reaper cthullu thing

Frostgravery

The Draugr have been awoken! The LOTR army of the dead now have some reinforcements. The non LOTR minis are warlord celts with mantic ghoul and GW skeleton heads. These guys feel a little like the Game of Thrones white walkers and zombies.

I wish I took a WIP picture of this rubble pile.  It's made from a cardboard base, one folded up piece of paper towel covered in a little water then PVA, irregularly cut cork tile pieces, and wooden coffee stirrers.  

This model's helmet was bugging the crap out of me.  The aventail was suffering from serious wind flow, and this slowly advancing model did not seem like he would incur that type of wind.  So my novice green stuff skills were put to the test. After a little knife work the green stuff was applied.  One tip I utilized was the use of water to avoid finger prints.  Im quite pleased with the result

Previously the model looked like this: (center)

Now thats more like it.

Here's a scratch built table from wooden coffee stirrers.  The beer barrel is a GW bit and was not glued on. Which was not done to ensure the tables variety of uses.  

This is the largely completed dollar store baby cart now turned awesome wagon.  The carriage is quite roomy and can fit 2 25mm bases no problem.  Here's the pre painted look: http://rogvaldmwb.blogspot.com/2016/04/cork-terrain-update-and-horse-cart.html

Cork terrain update and Horse Cart

Here's the newest picture of the cork terrain arch section. I added a railing with beads and coffee stirrers from starbucks. The cobble archway stones were made with hot glue by smearing the glue and then melting lines.

this is a dollar store baby carriage that comes with three of them in a pack.  popsickle sticks, coffee stirrers and thin cardoard were added to create the horse harness and drivers platform. The model is quite large and can fit 2 20mm basses in the cart, and has room for another model on the driver's platform.  Here's the instructional video from DM Scotty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY5_zA3LWJA

Frostgrave Terrain Update

I completed a few pieces of terrain over the past two weeks. All the pieces were based on cardboard reinforced/textured with hot glue.

 The WIP picture of this piece before paint was applied can be found in my last post

This is a Warhammer Age of Sigmar terrain piece. I quit like it, it reminds me of Skyrim's High Hrothgar and the Blades Sanctuary.  It is also mount on a piece of cardboard.

These were made from cork tile, which is very easy to work with. These are also mounted on cardboard.

I slapped some paint on this one real quick. I am quite pleased with it, and also pleased with how easy it was!

Ruined Rock Walls

I built these ruined walls from aquarium rocks and scrap mdf pieces. They're not the tallest ruined walls, but with the added height of the mdf they do the job.  

Here are the rocks used

The unpictured steps are my standard basing/painting techniques; add sand, prime black, drybrush the rock walls in a medium grey followed by a lighter grey drybrush, paint the sand/dirt dark brown, and drybrush a grey/tam. Flock and foliage were then added.

This piece uses a flatter aquarium rock, so they resemble slate.  The base is cardboard, covered with hot glue to give texture as well as strength. Some sand was added in various spots because the hot glue texture looks a little off by itself. Hopefully this will look like some cool ruined ground.

I've been painting random miniatures

My painting seems to be at its most aimless point. But despite my aimlessness, I am still painting figures, possibly even more then when I have an army or project to finish

three out of the five free frostgrave soldiers from the lichlord kickstarter.  Im pleased with their look, but I cant help but paint in Greens and browns.... oh well

These are nearly all black tree design (one GB dark age warrior and one GB unarmoured arthurian) figures mounted on pennies and nickels.  The models are from their celtic and medieval peasant ranges.  I especially like the celtic peasants.

The past month I've been playing Skyrim during the majority of my "me" time.  After replaying every major questline the game has to offer, and ending the Civil war in Skyrim, I realized how much I liked having Roman looking town Guards in a fantasy setting. As some Elder Scrolls fans know, Morrowind featured Roman/Imperial looking guards as well.  Romans ooze the look of Imperial power might and centralization.  I purchased the Roman starter Army on Ebay for a nicely discounted price around a year ago.  So the work on the first batch of these plastics has begun! As Im sure most of the wargaming community knows, the Warlord Romans are startlingly short. I created a slight remedy to their height by putting them on decently tall bases.  

As I mentioned previously I've been playing Skyrim. No foe is more notorious than the Draugr.  These Lord of the Rings army of the Dead figs are my attempt at Skyrim Draugr.  The leader's horns are from GW skeletons, and gives the model a further connection to the tougher horned Draugr Death Lords of Skyrim.

Northern Crusades Picture Extravaganza

The amassed Armies of my Northern Crusades Project

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