Sunday, 10 April 2022

Pseudo Peninsular Property - the full village

Finished the vaguely peninsular styled buildings. Three buildings, with accessible interiors, a ruin and a variety of garden inserts designed to allow the various buildings to be arranged in different ways around a village ‘square’ rather than just the grass of the terrain board.






I think a chapel or something will be needed down the line. 

The fountain (from Fenris Games, with a cherub from Reaper Miniatures, as the original fountain was very eldritch) is not permanent of course, allowing the addition of other centre pieces - a guillotine or a market (which is still WIP) for now…


Friday, 11 March 2022

Pseudo Peninsular Property

 New project means new scenery. A lot of my existing stuff will work, including the timber frame houses as necessary, but having watched far too much Sharpe lately, I wanted something a little more Iberian. First two of four all but finished…



Theoretically, these can do duty should I get into pirates or western games, but will do me for the Peninsular for now. These are the finished scratch builds, made using existing materials whenever possible, 5mm insulation foam and thick card, pantiles from Wills were the only specific purchase. The fountain is from Fenris Games, stagnate bubbles removed and  sans freaky fish sculpture - it needs something a bit in keeping… I also picked up a guillotine which seemed apt.

Saturday, 19 February 2022

Hobgoblin and Pixie for the Silver Bayonet

More creatures for the Silver Bayonet. 

In TSB, hobgoblins are humans warped and corrupted by the fairy world. This fella was a joy to paint. A 3D printed Hill Giant, in a small scale, so not so giant. Turns out I need two, so will need to get another one.



Base still to do as I wait for decent spraying weather.

And a 10mm Wood Elf Sorceress for my Pixie. Another 3D print from Etsy.  I removed the excessive flower/nature spell effect though. Amazing detail on something so small.

Size comparison…



Friday, 28 January 2022

French Revenants

Revenants for The Silver Bayonet - undead resurrected from numerous battlefields and a handy use for all the marching with muskets shouldered figures you seem to inevitably get on every sprue. Skulls and zombie heads from Mantic.


I’ve seen folks go really damaged with these, but I couldn’t be bothered, head swaps will do and a quick paint job with an Agrax Earthshade wash dirties them up. Good enough.

Sunday, 23 January 2022

Various Silver Bayonet WIP


The supernatural investigator is converted from the Perry Royal Navy Landing Party (getting good use out of those). The Navy rosette was removed from his top hat and with his tasseled military boots cut back and turned into riding boots with greenstuff, with the right paint again, he’s something of a dandy adventurer. 

The final clue marker is almost done, still quite pleased with these.

And a Living Armour, an animated  suit of armour as per the random encounter table. It’s a Perry War of the Roses knight with his face carved out. Still some work to do on that one.


And goblins WIP, in this case Reaper Gremlins that I think fit the job quite nicely. I want my fairy foes to be quite slight, and they are bloody tiny.
 

Saturday, 22 January 2022

Clue markers



A key component of the Silver Bayonet is searching for clues,  which requires markers. Various bits and bobs contributed, bits from the Perry French sprues, Victrix sprues, Wargames Atlantic skeleton sprue, Fenris Games gravestones, some MaxMini candles, a random GW bit and the Renedra graveyard sprue. All on pennies for weight.

I later realised that the drum on the Perry sprues were much crisper than the Victrix one, so that got redone and was behind on the painting for the group shot.