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15mm, Demonworld, Fantasy, Fantasy Big Battles, Fantasy Skirmish, Hobby Help, Painting, Ral Partha, Song of Blades and Heroes, Splintered Light

More 15mm Dwarfs (or Dwarves) and Transfers (or Decals) on Banners (and Shields)

November 17, 2016 Jimboba 10 Comments

Who doesn’t like dwarfs?
Who doesn’t like a lot of dwarfs?

Okay, maybe plenty of orcs and elves now that I come to think about it. That aside, I’m posting these vertically challenged fellows to show off, once again, the superb dwarfs that can be had from Ral Partha Europe and their Demonworld range. (I note that they are pluralising Dwarf in to Dwarves rather than Dwarfs. I believe the former is Tolken’s doing and the latter is ‘correct’ if you asked the Queen. I’ll flip and flop between them because you’ll all know what I’m talking about anyway.)

Another reason for this post was to show some rather promising results from home-made, home-printed, decals (transfers in the Queen’s language). This particular batch of dwar-ves-fs contained no less than 4 banners so I thought it worth the effort (which was much and nowhere near what it would of taken to freehand these – if I could!).

Results below.

15mm Ral Partha Demonworld Fantasy Dwarfs — The four banners – the one on the left is mostly freehand apart from the hammers, the rest are decals. I think the difference shows and the homemade ones work for me.

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10mm, 15mm, 28mm, Alternative Armies, Armies of Arcana, Blood Dawn, Copplestone Castings, Demonworld, Essex Miniatures, Fantasy, Fantasy Big Battles, Fantasy Skirmish, Frostgrave, Hobby Help, Khurasan Miniatures, Ral Partha, Song of Blades and Heroes, Splintered Light, Xyston Miniatures

Scale Comparison: 10mm Ogres from Black Gate as 15mm Brutes

October 23, 2016 Jimboba 5 Comments

I’m sure everyone likes it when a hunch, a calculated guess or even a gut reaction, turns out to be what you had thought. Such is the case from the new 10mm Ogres from Black Gate Miniatures currently running on Kickstarter with only a few days left.

Anyone who have seen the 10mm Ogres from Games Workshop for Warmaster will see how these fellas would make for an excellent addition to such a force. However, that’s not my main interest. Mine is from the 15mm perspective. I’ve even posted regards said miniatures before and their suitability as ‘uglies’ or thug types in a 15mm environment (though at the time I did not make any scale comparison shots to prove the point, duh).

My gut told me these were the same. After sending a couple of question to Black Gate regards scale Barry offered to send me a few early test casts to prove/illustrate the usefulness of these particular models with other 15mm miniatures on the market today. They have arrived, and I can happily say that I WAS RIGHT! (That feels quite good).

As a small return for a few free minis, I thought I’d post a few comparative scale shots with other manufactures in the market so that you lot can see for yourself.

First off, the casts sent to me, by themselves, tacked to washers that I normally use on 15s so that their height is adjusted accordingly when next to others.

Black Gate 10mm Ogres 15mm scale comparison – the Bare Naked 10mm Ogres

Secondly, next to a GW Warmaster ogre and troll for the 10mm gallery so you can see how they tie in with those miniatures. Continue reading Scale Comparison: 10mm Ogres from Black Gate as 15mm Brutes →

15mm, 28mm, Fantasy, Fantasy Skirmish, Frostgrave, Mordheim, Painting, Song of Blades and Heroes, Splintered Light

Mini Update: Amphibian Multi-tasker from Splintered Light

September 14, 2016 Jimboba 3 Comments

Just a quick post to show this “20mm” frog warrior from Splintered Light Miniatures Woodland range. (Normal caveat applies regards “20mm” for these fellows as they work well as large creatures in 15mm and almost ‘life-size’ in 28mm).

He’s one of those ‘in-betweener’ paint jobs offering a break from large batch-painting. Plenty more Woodland goodness in the pipeline…

15mm, 28mm, Fantasy, Fantasy Big Battles, Fantasy Skirmish, Frostgrave, Legends & Myths, Splintered Light

Mini Update: 20mm Splintered Light Woodland Warrior – First of the Baddies

July 11, 2016 Jimboba 1 Comment

Another “in-between” paint up of one of the less-good forces that feature in Splintered Light’s wonderful range of Woodland Warriors. I’ve painted many already but they have all been ‘goodies’. This is one of the rat leaders which I painted up while working on a larger ‘batch’ of other miniatures (a good way for me to ‘make a start’ on the next painting project).

As per a previous post, David at Splintered Light was only too helpful in collating a large order for me that contained one copy of each sculpt available in the range. This means I have quite a lot of these critters to paint up. Certainly won’t be a chore as they are fun to paint and there is a wide range of creatures making for lots of variety.

Although sold as ’20mm’, these guys being what they are can work equally well with 15mm through to 28mm scale depending upon how flexible your ‘perspective’ is on how large these animals should/could/might be. Magic + fantasy = whatever you want after all…

15mm, Historical, Painting, SAGA, Splintered Light, Two Dragons Productions

Drawn to the Dark: 15mm Two Dragons and SLM Dark Age

June 16, 2016 Jimboba Leave a comment

Not sure what it is that keeps drawing me back to painting and buying Dark Age miniatures – I’ve plenty – enough for several armies. But I keep coming back for more…

Amongst a recent Splintered Light Miniatures order were a pack of Late Anglo Saxon characters. Some were ‘Norman’ enough that I assembled them alongside some loose Normans to make a unit (which included some Two Dragons’ Normans). This led to me digging out some further Two Dragons Normans I’d painted years ago but never properly finished off. So now I did.

Roll on the Dark Ages.

10mm, 15mm, 28mm, Eureka Miniatures, Fantasy, Fantasy Big Battles, Fantasy Skirmish, Legends & Myths, Painting, Song of Blades and Heroes, Splintered Light

Mini Update: Flexi-scale Fanticide mounted brownies

June 15, 2016 Jimboba Leave a comment

If I had planned ahead I’d have taken some scale comparison shots of these 2 next to 15mm and 28mm brethren. As it is you’ll need to take my word for it that the brownies themselves are scale-wise the same as Splintered Light Miniatures sprites and fawns (which is really quite small) so these scale perfectly well with 10mm upwards in my opinion.

I bought these as a pack from Northstar during a sale though they come from Oz in the first place – Eureka Miniatures – as 10mm woodland creatures.

Root around in the Warchest