Monthly Archives: April 2016

15mm, Ground Zero Games, Painting, Pulp Adventures, Rogue Stars, Sci Fi, SF Skirmish

A Full Complement: Firefly crew finally completed

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UPDATE: Well it was annoying me. My attempt at at a shadowy goatee was rubbish so I’ve redone Jayne’s face and given him a shave.IMG_1676_28mm_painted_miniatures_warchest

Waaaay back in the mists of time I painted up one of the packs from GZG that (seemed to) depicted crew members from a rather popular sci fi TV series (and film) that I thoroughly enjoyed. The first pack contained 3 of the crew (the more ‘action’ orientated members) and they suited my desire to create some bounty hunter type crews at that time. There were 2 variants for each character so I painted one of each character ‘as per Firefly’ and took liberties with the other three.

The second pack are one pose each of the remaining crew. Probably more recognisable as their TV counterparts because of their more specific attire. Certainly en mass there is no mistaking who they resemble.

Here are the new additions. All 15mm.

15mm Firefly Crew from Ground Zero Games
My Verdict: Model okay. Could be a little more ‘action’ for this character. Painting not bad.

15mm Firefly Crew from Ground Zero Games

15mm Firefly Crew from Ground Zero Games
My Verdict: One of my favourite models from the set. Happy with the painting.

15mm Firefly Crew from Ground Zero Games

15mm Firefly Crew from Ground Zero Games
Verdict: Wash wasn’t quite that gormless looking and while the model is good it doesn’t look like the character. Quite happy with the paint.

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15mm, Demonworld, Fantasy, Fantasy Skirmish, Frostgrave, Mordheim, Painting, Song of Blades and Heroes, Splintered Light, TTG

The Dwargs arrive! or 20mm Splintered Light Dwarves

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Time for more dwarf-goodness. I love my dwarves, nearly as much as Tim loves his.

This is a bit of a scale comparison though that arose out of the desire to have a full 12-dwarf shooter contingent should I get round to playing Dragon Rampant at any point soon.

I’ve already got an ‘army’ but they are based around some old Pendraken 10mm dwarves which, if you’ve seen them, actually scale pretty well as normal size dwarves in true 15mm (they are about 10-12mm tall). Plenty of shooters there.

However, they do not scale so well with Demonworld or other more generously proportioned dwarves which meant I was short a few shooters. I thought I’d paint up a few of the 20mm dwarves I recently (a year ago) bought from Splintered Light. Terrific miniatures but obviously a bit larger than 15 or even 18mm.

Anyway, here is a rogues gallery and you can be your own judge as to if these fellas can stand alongside their other brethren or not.

20mm Splintered Light Miniatures Dwarf
2 chaps from the Demonworld Empire range.
20mm Splintered Light Miniatures Dwarf
LtoR: SLM 20mm, TTG 15mm, Demonworld 15mm, Peter Pig (? I think) 15mm.
20mm Splintered Light Miniatures Dwarf
The 3 ‘ranger’ shooter types from Splintered Light miniatures
20mm Splintered Light Miniatures Dwarf
The 3 ‘ranger’ shooter types from Splintered Light miniatures

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15mm, 28mm, Dave Graffam, Fantasy, Fantasy Skirmish, Frostgrave, Gaming/Battle Mats/Tiles, Historical, Mordheim, Pulp Adventures, Song of Blades and Heroes, Terrain

A City for All Scales: Fantasy Town follow-up

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Posting this for the sake of being a completest – I spent some more time ‘evolving’ the fantasy town that I was messing around with on the post I made on the vinyl map printing – so I thought I’d record the finished thing here (if there ever is such a thing in this hobby).

At first glance you won’t notice a huge difference. I’ve replaced some of the smaller ‘true 15mm’  resin buildings with more Graffam houses. These ones are a little less ’15mm’ and more HO/OO or even 25mm in a couple of cases. Here’s the logic – by mixing scales a bit you can;

  • get a certain sense of perspective and irregularity of scale variation across the whole town
  • create (or undermine) a sense of ‘true scale’ thus making the terrain feasible with multiple scales (you’ll see a couple of shots with 25/28mm minis in there)
  • using mostly Graffam and paper models, get a better sense of architectural style. Some of the previous building just ‘jarred’ with the dominating theme.

Anyway, enough blether. Pics.

Graffam paper model fantasy town 15mm
Vampires and Hunters battle it out.
Graffam paper model fantasy town 15mm
I’ve got a post in mind showing the use of some of the old Usborne cut-out-terrain books. These stalls are from a couple of them. HO/OO

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28mm, Fantasy, Fantasy Skirmish, Frostgrave, Hobby Help, Mordheim, Oathsworn Miniatures, Oathsworn Miniatures: Burrows and Badgers, Painting, Song of Blades and Heroes

The ‘Haggis’ is ready for devouring: Oathsworn pussycat completed

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As avid followers will know (chuckles to himself) I was struggling somewhat trying to get Non-metallic-metal to work for this great miniature from Oathsworn.

My first and second efforts were not happy – and I appealed to the wider community for some input which I received many a useful comment and link to online tutorials. I did have another run at the sword in particular (and I was sure I’d taken pictures but for the life of me cannot find them right now). It remained “okay” but I didn’t get that “finished!” feeling we all look for when painting something up.

I had Haggis propped in a prime eye-ball position and mulled over what to do for a good number of weeks. Try again or go metal? Well the other day I said enough is enough and went with the latter. I laugh at myself now but within a minute or two of applying the base coat a great sense of relief came over me – “that was more like it!” I thought to myself.

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