Monday, 8 February 2016

They clash at last!



So, after a bit of a gap, here’s another long-overdue post. Following on from painting the Gripping Beast Vikings I was working on, I managed to finish them off and eventually paint up an opposing force of Anglo-Saxons. The two sides share a drawer in GHQ, and eventually an argument spilled over into violence (likely over whether to fry their fish like good Aenglishmen or have them in warm milk like crazy Norsemen…). The results were seen on the field of tabletop.



After a bit of too-ing and fro-ing the two sides eventually approached each other

 



 
A ravens-eye view of the final approach








 








The Anglo-Saxon warlord with his eorldermen, on the right, prepares to tear up the side of the hill into the body of the milky-fish eating invaders









 
We know action’s really happening when the SAGA dice come out. Not just cheesy insults now!


The Eorldermen and their boss take matters into their own hands and take the fight to the Vikings




The bruising contest just before its sudden conclusion. The Vikings didn’t carry this day, but after conceding that fish taste better with chips when they’re fried, they vowed to have it out with those pesky aenglishemen again at some point.

Thursday, 14 November 2013

The Vikings are Coming

The first of my Vikings have been mostly done - I just have to do the bases to finish them off. The next four hirdmen are on the way, and as you can see below I've painted up a Beowulf figure from Eureka Miniatures as the initial warband leader.


Saturday, 9 November 2013

Wargs On the Way

After being away again, I thought I'd better pop something up here. I'd recently completed some Wargs from the Hobbit that we were coming up against in our The One Ring RPG campaign. I've done six of them, but here's three just to get an idea.
I have to confess to not spending a great deal of time working on them, but they're so well made that they paint up beautifully really easily. The only issues were puttying up the joins. The lines down the middle of their backs were the most annoying part - not just a seam there but with vertebrae sticking up so that if would take a lot of work fill the joins completely. However, they came out okay and they look particularly nasty against any 25/28mm figure; the size of large tigers.