Another odd assortment of items
rolling of the paint table – just to keep you on your toes and guessing at what
the hell I am up to!
(or perhaps you’ve all stopped
bothering with the guessing and have embraced the random and are ready for and
expect just about anything at this point!)
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version):
Halfling elements for Hordes of
the Things.
I know… you’re wondering “what
the hell? Is he suddenly back into Hordes of the Things!?” Not so much… Well…
Actually, I did pick up DBA 3.0 recently and that’s got me thinking about all
things DBA and HOTT-ish… but really the reason for painting these was of the
“low hanging fruit” variety. I had startlingly few Halflings to finish up to
say “These are all DONE!” and I like saying (or typing) “These are all DONE!”
(“These are all DONE!” – see!).
The figures above are from Games Workshop.
They are © and ™ Games Workshop and painted by myself and posted here entirely
without their permission.
The Last Two Halflings… now
these are all DONE! The figures are from Reaper
Miniatures. The one on the left is an odd one – he’s got a musket
over his shoulder and looks a little inbred-hick-ish…? And he stands nearly as
tall as some of the shorter human figures I have!
And now that all the Halflings
are DONE, I’ve updated the 28mm
Medieval and Medieval Fantasy Gallery
Troll painted with blue skin =
Ice Troll!
Figure from Ral Partha
Dismounted ECW Cavalryman from Dixon Miniatures
Dismounted Scots Cavalrymen from
Dixon Miniatures.
I don’t know what brought these
on… We’re heading into the rennaisance with our history readings, so I got
thinking about the English Civil War – which I have many figures for – and
Flashing Steel – which I have yet to try out…
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Planning a game of Frostgrave on Saturday. Hopefully have a
report up on Sunday.
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Those halflings look great: fun little fellows!
ReplyDeleteThanks Preacher! It was fun painting them!
DeleteImpressive, very impressive faces...beautiful job!
ReplyDeleteMerci Phil!
DeleteSuperb paint jobs!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Gordon!
DeleteLove it! Especially the halflings
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve! I'm especially happy with how they turned out as well.
DeleteI always liked those buck-toothed, pot bellied halfling figures. Very cartoonish which adds to their allure. Of course your painting just completes them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry. I know a lot of people didn't like the cartoon-ish direction some of the GW products took over time. I don't mind them though. I think they're fun.
DeleteNice brushwork all around as always, Tim. I do like the blue skin tone of the troll in particular.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean! I have a few more I thought I might try to do with the same skin tone...
DeleteYou found a good game in which to use your lovely ECW 28s? I have painted a ton but still can't find something I like, although DBA-RRR is close.
ReplyDeleteI am nominally planning to use a DBA variant I found some time back, but I'm not married to it.
DeleteI haven't really looked at Black Powder for ECW (or whatever the Pike and shot version of it is called...). I didn't hate Black Powder (when we tried ti with SYW stuff), but I didn't love it either - too many fiddley special rules.
If all else fails I can BS together something based on Neil Thomas' Two Hour Wargames....? Or I have Bruce McFarlane's God, King and Country in a box somewhere!?
I have a lot of painting to do before I play any bigger battles, though...
I plan to try out Flashing Steel for some skirmishing in the not-too-distant future!