Category Archives: Mini Update

28mm, Fantasy, Fantasy Skirmish, Frostgrave, Mini Update, Oathsworn Miniatures, Painting, Song of Blades and Heroes

Mini Update: A couple of female Oathsworn Dwarfs for Fostgrave (or similar)

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You may well know of my love of 15mm but I still love painting up 28mm too! Especially those from the superb Oathsworn. Recently this has been mostly in the form of their Burrows and Badgers range which is quite excellent. However some time back I managed to score what remained in stock (at the time) of their great Dwarven range (see how I’ve not mentioned the halflings and Sensible Shoes minis I’ve waiting patiently in the wings as well…). Sadly the dwarves are no longer available on their site.

The purchase included these two damsels who wouldn’t look out of place as part of a Frostgrave party. As with all Oathsworn minis, they are full of character and a pleasure to paint.

  • Oathsworn Miniatures Female Dwarves 28mm
  • Oathsworn Miniatures Female Dwarves 28mm
  • Oathsworn Miniatures Female Dwarves 28mm

15mm, Demonworld, Dragon Rampant, Fantasy, Fantasy Big Battles, Fantasy Skirmish, Mini Update, Of Gods and Mortals (OGAM), Painting, Ral Partha

Mini Update: Reinforcements for the Demonworld Barbarian Hordes

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In the back ground I’ve been slowly working through my large stash of the brilliant Demonworld barbarians – the Warlords of Thain – available from Ral Partha Europe.  Easily among the best 15mm fantasy available today.

This is the ‘Eagle Arrow’ Ballista which should add a few options to a Dragon Rampant or any other army list.

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15mm, Alternative Armies, Khurasan Miniatures, Mini Update, Painting, Post Apocalypse, Rogue Stars, Sci Fi, SF Skirmish

Mini Update: Trio of 15mm sci-fi or post-apocalyptic

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I gave up! I was trying to re-identify these miniatures, being sure they were from Khurasan Miniatures, but couldn’t find them on what can only be described as an archaic website. (Confirmed location and name thanks to 15mm Sci Fi Gaming group on Facebook – they are Khurasan, Brunt Herd Mercenaries found under the Cult of Andromeda.)

Anyway, these two Rhino ‘aliens/mutants’ would be great for any science fiction setting or a post-apocalyptic game. The accompanying human is a random chap I decided to paint up with the same colour palette at the same time. I think he is Alternative Armies/Laserburn… getting old. (Also confirmed, part of the Asgard range.)

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28mm, Citadel Miniatures, CMON Zombicide, Cool Mini or Not, Fantasy, Fantasy Skirmish, Frostgrave, Games Workshop, Hasslefree Miniatures, Mini Update, Mordheim, Painting, Zombicide Black Plague

Mini Update: A Dwarf Crossbowman for Frostgrave – old or new?

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Admittedly it was a while back that I was looking to take part in a Frostgrave tournament at my local club. Other things got in the way but I did begin the process of gathering a warband together for the purpose (half the fun really).

I decided I wanted a Crossbowman (Marksman) in the band. Whilst I had plenty of human types for this purpose I decided to make mine a dwarf – but which one? Rummage, rummage, rummage. I found a recent purchase from Hasslefree Miniatures which was perfect. But I also came across a couple of very old Citadel dwarfs from way back. The paint jobs were not terrible so I decided to touch them up a bit and give them a new opportunity to get on to the tabletop.

So, old or new? Citadel vs Hasslefree?

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15mm, Fantasy, Fantasy Big Battles, Fantasy Skirmish, Frostgrave, Horror, Mini Update, Painting, Song of Blades and Heroes, Splintered Light

Mini Update: A Cabal of Vampires from Splintered Light

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These rather sinister fellows are small in number and intended as the core of a skirmish force for the likes of Frostgrave, Song of Blades and Heroes or similar skirmish level games. Obviously they can do double-duty as a general and heroes in an undead army.

They come from Splintered Light Miniatures.

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15mm, Black Raven, Fantasy, Fantasy Big Battles, Fantasy Skirmish, Mini Update, Song of Blades and Heroes

15mm dwarves from Black Raven make a return 5 years on

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You know the drill. You painted up a group of minis and get them table-ready as it were but, at the time of completion, couldn’t decide on a suitable ‘detail’, the omission of which does not make the minis ‘incomplete’. Such was the case with these guys which I posted about back in August 2013. As you can see from the post images I had left the shields a plain white which was fine and suited their regimental type of colour theme. However last year I came across an image online of a bunch of dwarfs boasting what looked like (to me) Byzantine inspired shield designs and I though they looked amazing. Time to finish them off! a mere 5 years later…

Of course I cannot find the image again for reference so you’ll need to take my word for it. That aside, with a bit of simplification to the patterns (these are 15mm after all, gimme a break) but being true to the colour palettes, I think they turned out pretty well.

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