Dwarves for Warhost

I've been looking around for a bit of inspiration to get my painting mojo back and I think I found it. I picked up the Warhost supplement for Baron's War. This is a fantasy supplement using the same mechanics which I find enjoyable. It will also allow me to use my extensive collection of orcs and elves. However I fancied putting together a Dwarf patrol using the Oathmark range. I picked up a few individual sprues and a couple of the metal blisters to make a start. The sprues are a mix of the light infantry, warriors and heavy infantry.

I have deliberately gone for a limited colour scheme to keep the patrol uniformed. I even tried to depict mountains on some of the shields. I even used some spear arms from the fireforge figures to add some spears to the light infantry instead of the two handed weapons.

The Patrol so far

Dwarf spears

Heavy infantry

Dwarf warriors

Dwarf rangers or scouts

Not a bad start with 20 figures completed this weekend. I have another 9 in various stages of painting. I now just need to read the rules and try and get a game in sometime.

The Lord, The Lady, The Lover and The Rogue

 

Just back from the Border Reiver show. The game seemed well received with plenty of visitors and lots of conversations being had. We were all set up for the show starting at 10am, we managed to get through nearly 2 games, though I only took photos of the first.

The Lady and her escort

Thom's magnificent Keep

The Lord emerges with part of his retinue

The Lover arrives

The Rogue emerges from the woods

Foot and mounted serjeants clash in the village

More outlaws start to engage the escort

The Lord's retinue rushing slowly to his Lady

Outlaws see off the mounted serjeants

The Lover's retinue move through the village

Outlaws ransack a building

And another one goes up in flames

More burning buildings

The escort meets up with troops from the Lord's retinue

The Lord and Lady united

The end

The smoke markers from Thom were superb for highlighting the burning buildings, those and his 3d printed keep were popular talking points.

I did mange to get around the show to pick up a small amount of loot.

Some second hand peasant spearman to expand the retinue. A Blacksmith and a dwarf warrior from Reaper Bones, some Franco Prussian War Landwher, enough for two small regiments. I also pick up some brushes for Mitch. Overall a good day

A few more Welshmen

So this weekend I managed to get some paint on the last of the prepped Welsh figures I have for the Barons war. I do have a few more figures left and even managed to get them prepped today and hopefully get some paint on them next week. These 5 figures are all from Footsore miniatures, a foot knight and 4 archers.

As I mentioned in the last post I had a pair of foxes from Warbases to finish off. I quickly got these done and then decided to make a den for them. A few stones from the garden, a bit of modelling putty and it was done. It didn't actually take very long to do and will look good hidden in the woods for the game at Border Reiver.

With just 2 weeks to Border Reiver, I am just about ready. Just need to sort some display bits and pieces out and we'll be ready to go.

Oh Deer

Still not much going on as I struggle to get any enthusiasm to get anything done. I've spent some time mulling over why I can seem to focus on anything and I think it boils down to simple fatigue. I've been on the same project for a while, Barons War and with a display game ready for Border Reiver and I think I really need a change. With nothing new on the horizon I ordered some chariots for the Trojan war, I may try and get back into this and give them a go using Midgard. I may also dig out the 15mm Punic Wars stuff I still need to get painted.

In the meantime I did manage to get a couple of things done, some wildlife for the Border Reiver game to be hidden in the woods. These are some deer and wild boar from Warbases.

These were quick and easy to do and will help bring the table to life. There are also a pair of foxes that I need to get finished. The only other figures I managed to paint were some extra Welsh warriors. 2 from Footsore, the other 3 are plastic Gripping beast dark age welsh with various head and shield swap. They look like they will mix in.

So nearly 2 months in and my output is well down, normally I'd have around 2-300 figures done by now. I'm currently at about 25%. I'm hoping things pick up soon.

A little progress

In preparation for our game at Border Reiver I needed a few more trees. These are a little different to the others as I was looking for a solution to hold the flock better. The last batch had shed quite a bit. These have slightly thicker flock, which was actually worse. I then decided to brush on some watered down paint like I did for the 15mm hedges I did for Marston Moor. It sort of worked a bit, but they were too bright. Finally I gave them a spray coat of grass green, which seems to be working. I think I'll always lose a little flock through usage.

I think I'll go back over the other 7 and give them a quick spray. The other item I did was another small field. This was my last base from Warbase and some left over coir mat and Renedra fencing. Took about 10 minutes to put together and only slightly longer to paint up.

I did actually manage to complete another 5 more figures, They are still taking too long to get anything done. Hopefully when the rain actually stops this year I may get some enthusiasm back. There are 3 more Welsh spearmen and a couple of extra archers.

On Thursday night at the club, we gave the scenario another run through, no pictures as Thom brought along the Keep that he had finished for the game. It is superb and it is modular. He even has the STLs to add extra walls and towers.

Additional scenery

While I still have no real enthusiasm for painting miniatures, I muster up a bit of energy for a few scenic bases. I decided on these just to give me a few options to change the layout of the table. First up was a pair of outbuildings from Renedra, the crates and barrels are from the plastic Wargames Atlantic sprue. Once again a simple paint scheme, just simple dry-brushing for a nice rustic effect.

I was also provided with a coir mat from Andy to allow me to make a couple of fields. I just used a couple of off cuts added to bases from Warbase. For one of them I added some spare pieces of wattle fencing and a piece of hedging.

I think I should have enough options now for creating villages. Robbo has picked up some various animals from Warbase to add some character to wooded areas, such as deer and wild boar. I hope to try and get them painted up.