Half-things and beasty elves

 

Here are the last of my palate-cleanser between-project paint jobs. A little unit of halfling militia archers to go with my Stanclud contingent and some elf beastmasters. The halflings are from Macrocosm, but again I can't find them on the website so not sure if they're still available. They scale well with the Wargames Atlantic plastic halflings and are just a bit taller and skinnier than Old Shcool Miniatures. They're a bit larger but spot-on aesthetically with the former-Westfalia armoured halflings,

The beastmasters I was very happy GW had rereleased for Old World... until I saw the price tag! I was kindly given a voucher for GW for my birthday last year and ACTUALLY HAD SOMETHING I WANTED TO SPEND IT ON! so picked them up at a much more reasonable price with that discount. :D I wanted to go fairly colourful and patterned with the animals whilst staying in the 'natural' realm so went for Eurasian lynxes (the metal feeds on the ends of the ears stayed on to make them look tufted), Irish wolfhounds (not so very colourful), patterned wild boar and a spectacled bear.

Either these have been very popular or GW are using old moulds for them as there was quite a lot of flashing and some detail missing due to mould tears. I don't mind too much, but if I'd paid the full whack I'd have been put out by the quality. Whilst on elves I also painted up a wardancer to take my unit up to a nice round 20.

Half-things and beasty elves

Kev White beauties

At Reveille last year there was a chap with a big box of old Celtos blisters. You may know that Celtos is my absolute favourite ever fantasy range and, whilst they're still available from Brigade models and I have most of them, I'm always keen to pick up more. A good rummage even revealed a couple that Brigade don't currently sell. These got painted up to fill out a few units in my barbarian horde and as another palate-cleanser whilst I decide what big project to move on to next.

 I took the opportunity to get all my barbarians off the shelf and reconfigure them a bit. I decided since I have a lot of champion and shaman type models I could shrink the units right down to 8 figures and have a character and shaman accompany each, the close retinues of powerful champions no doubt. I tried to 'theme' each unit either by the manufacturer, style of dress, weapon or wider theme such as the veteran (oldies!) unit. Here's the current breakdown of units, I may have to get some more Celtos to fill a few gaps, oh dear!

Kev White beauties

Refueling the tank, refilling the ranks!

 

Hi everyone. It's been a while. I've been beavering at Oakbound stuff for ages getting a load of new releases ready. Now it's time to take a break and do another project. I haven't chosen what it will be yet, so as a palate-cleanser I dug out some models I wanted to add to my existing armies (told you, nothing is ever finished!). Some Marauder dwarf pikes, the elf beastmasters I bought new from GW recently (with a voucher, I'm not insane!), some Celtos models I found at a tabletop sale last year (some of which not available from Brigade... score!) and some halfling bowmen. I couldn't decide which to paint so I asked on the Oldhammer Community FB group and the response was resoundingly 'dwarves', so that's what I did. I did actually paint everything in the end, more posts to come in the near future! Worth noting I did NOT buy these Marauder spears direct from GW. The new price on them seems pretty ludicrous to me, especially compared to the fairly-reasonable slayers which can't be that much easier to cast. Especially nuts given you want a decent block of these guys!

There are a few ex-White Knight (I think) now The Assault Group dwarves in there, pic for scale reference. The two on the left are from my other spear unit, from Macrocosm/Theoc- though I can't see them on the website at present. A bit less hunched, but similar in physique.

Speaking of slayers (as I was), here are three more to round out my unit. I didn't have a dragon head, so substituted a troll. That will get painted when I get round to doing the rest of my stone trolls so it matches. The fourth guy here is a newbie from Foundry at BOYL last year. There were two variants released. I believe he's a Pickford sculpt from the same time the very-similar-but-different Harrig the Wise was sculpted and not released. We think they were all variants from the same base, a possible range of dwarf wizards to choose from before dwarves and magic parted company? If so, why are they all so similar? So many mysteries...

Refueling the tank, refilling the ranks!

Blood on the Snow- a tribute (part 2)

 

Continuing the Blood on the Snow project in honour of Matthew Street, we have dwarves. Now, anyone who knew Matthew will know that his dwarf army was staggering. The painting, shields, banners, just beautiful. As part of the (now seemingly defunct) 'A Middlehammer Tale' project, Matthew was adding some particular Citadel Norse dwarves to the army with a view to them being the core troops for Blood on the Snow. 

Sadly, these particular dwarves seem to have vanished. Nobody knows what happened to them, but they don't appear to have been in the boxes of toys under his bed with the rest of the collection. They may yet appear, but in case they don't I took it upon myself to take a selection of Matthew's unpainted Norse dwarves and try to get as close as I could to his own masterpieces.

You gotta have a drunken dwarf, right? Or this may be a dazed dwarf having been rolled down the hill in a giant snowball as written in the scenario.

As always, Perry dwarves are a delight to paint.

Blood on the Snow- a tribute (part 2)