Orctober work in progress

I wasn't able to finish these in time, but they are almost there. Some areas still lacking paint, some only lacking the final extreme highlight while some are finished.

Orctober golins

Well, these aren't orcs but Kev Adams goblins. At least it's what I got finished for Orctober. There are some more goblins and an old citadel orc in different stages of completion that hopefully will be finished sometime in November. As always I struggle with the photos, these turned out really dark so tried to fix them in Gimp.

I experimented a bit with some liquitex inks which are _really_ good. Will have to get more of those soon.

Song of Blades and Heroes

I finally gave in and bought Song of Blades and Heroes. I was a bit sceptical the first times I heard about it, as it's so streamlined and uses just two stats. Coming from a GW background where you have a ton of stats, combat means rolling a bucket of dice etc I wasn't really ready. Until now. I wanted to try more lightweight rules which would give me freedom to use any models I want and this was it.

I bought the pdf version and printed it on A3 paper, folded it into a book, trimmed the edges and bound it with two staples.

I was really suprised after reading this, instead of being a 'dumb' game, Song of Blades and Heroes seems really tactical and fun. Activation instead of IGOUGO, a dice-off using just one die (to which the combat attribute and modifiers are added) per combattant for combat and simple rules for routing.

We had a test game with my brother that went really well. Using just 300 points each I went with an 'undead' themed force, while he went with a generic 'human'. Eventhough the game uses only 2 stats per model the special rules where all that was needed to give each force its flavor. This isn't an in-depth review, so if you'd like to learn more just check out the reviews on boardgamegeek instead. But really, its a fun game, easy to learn, quick to play and will only set you back $8, try it out! 

http://www.ganeshagames.net/product_info.php?products_id=7

Fresh lead from the goblin master

This week my order from crooked claw miniatures showed up in the mail. Some goblins sculpted by the goblin master himself. I think they look awesome and hope I can get them painted soon.

Lotr Uruk-Hai

I painted these uruk-hai in February I think, but just now got around to posting them. I haven't had much time for painting these last months but hope to get some painting done this weekend.

 I tried speed-painting on these, using a limited palette: metals, skin and just grey highlights on black for the leather. They turned out quite ok , but for the next ones I'll have to try some other color than black for the leather to make them pop.

February and March

 This is what I painted in February and March. Unfortunately I didn't really have much time for painting but here they are: an Otherworld assasin, citadel orc and my metal magic necromancer conversion. I'm really happy with how the shield on the orc turned out, much better than my previous attempt. Just need to get hold of more of these plastic old school shields!

The necromancer mini is quite crude, so I just did a quick tinting, wash and highlight on that one. The Otherworld assasin got quite a bit of attention, and I added some stubble as stonecoldlead did on his. The orc was painted using spooktalkers orc skin recipe, that P3 Necrotite Green fits like a charm.

 Next up on the workbench are these three, lets hope I can finish them before the end of April.

Bruegelburg Thugs

Finished these Bruegelburg Thugs from Lead Adventure Miniatures this week. Fun to paint, so I will probably be getting more stuff from that range in the future. They'll be used as mordheim dregs but could be used as henchmen in most human warbands.

Sam, running

A quick phone snap of this lotr mini I had in my lead pile. I think I got it with some other bits when pre-ordering Warhammer 7th edition. I stopped playing that same year, but not before buying a box of warriors of Minas Tirith and some uruk-hai.

I'm a bit tempted to start some warbands up for Saga Lotr gaming after seeing some brilliant stuff over at LAF. We'll see about that.

Edit: Updated dwith a decent photo while shooting my thugs.

What I painted in 2013

I'm a terribly slow painter. But somehow I still managed to paint some lead last year. Hopefully I'll get some more painted this year, but painting slow and taking my time has really improved my painting. My two warbands are nearly finished now, the shadow warrior still need a decent mage (should have gotten the Mordheim elf mage before GW pulled the plug on Specialist Games) and the Undead could use some more zombies and ghould. The dregs are in the painting queue, they should be finished in 2014 at least!

The group shot.

The Shadow Warriors

Metal 6th ed Shadow Warriors from GW

Aenur will be used as a Shadow Walker

Undead

Dire Wolves from Otherworld

Armored Skeletons, also from Otherworld

Vampire from Reaper