25 February 2024

Vikings: Berserkers

More info about the game and this project in his hub: Viking Mega Game 

A bunch of beserkers for my Viking Mega Game run at school. The berserkers are supposed to be some elite and rare troops. In the game the student teams had to build a huge temple before they could train berserkers.


The also needed the ressources:  Simple Weapons, Fur and Mead. 

Ressources are awarded by teachers, when students finish tasks, do good team work or similar. So it's instant motivation and rewards. They can also claim ressources from controling areas on the game board. Changes ressources into something else, if they have workshops, thralls, workers and farmers. 

I printed out and laminated a ton of ressource tokens, so there's much different for the teams to work for. It also encourages trading between the teams. 

  


In the victrix box there's some good bits to make beserkers, but not enough for all 6 teams. So I split up the various bits and then used greenstuff to maximize the bear pelts. Beserkers ought to have been nude, but I didn't have correct bodies. Also I gave them all two axes, to make them distinct from the huscarls with dane axes. Not going for full historical accuracy hear. 

Happy with the result.  I might consider, for berserkes in a future re-run, to invest in a bunch of Wargames Atlan




Here's the painted berserkers. 




Here's the finished green hird. I had a lot of different green paints in the collection, so there's many different tones of green on this team. As with all hirds, all the shield designs are different as well. Free variety in the army.




More info about the game and this project in his hub: Viking Mega Game


13 February 2024

Guilders: A couple of civilians

 When putting together my new guild for Guilders 1.6, I also put together two other miniatures (before settling on which to use). These are from Dungeons and Lasers III: Woodhaven. Excellent miniatures once again, I'm very impressed with the sculpting. The connection points / mold lines) are so well hidden through design - it's really good. 

I've painted these with speed paint. Base coat brown from below, white from the top. A bit of wash here and there, then speed paint. 

A beggar missing a leg, for use as a potential scum, prisoner for The Hanged Man's Friend or just a civilian.



This civilian woman is really nice, I should have some chickens somewhere - so I might add some to her base at one point. I think this model has a nice pose and dynamic. It's a great civillian to add to the board. 




Guilders: A Life in Shadows is a 28mm skirmish campaign game. There's large TTRPG elements to the campaign part of the game. You play as thief guilds trying to make it in a big city. There's rules for civillians and guards, that the game controls based on player actions. 

You can find the beta rules (and a Lite version), starting warbands and similar stuff right here: Google Drive.

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18 November 2023

Shadow Dragon - Onyx

 On the Discord we have quarterly hobby challenges. These are good fun hobby projects and a friednly competition. Themes are decided by members and so is the voting on entries. For this challenge we went for miniatures that are big compared to their scale. 

I've painted up a Dungeons and Lasers dragon - fairly big for the 28mm scale. 

This dragon miniature is painted like Onyx, the main character in a LitRPG book series by Lars Machmüller. I really enjoy the audiobooks, so I painted this up as a surprise gift for him. I also send along a ghost, that's a secondary character in the series. 

It's all painted with speed paints. 

Lars has been kind enough to read through Guilders a couple of times, picking up a ton of different errors in the manuscript. Check him out on Audible











24 October 2023

This Is Not A Test: Super Mutant

 This Super Mutant is from the boardgame The Others - part of Wrath. Never played the game, I just got it for all the kicksass miniatures. After some auctioning off part of the game, I have a ton of free miniatures left. This guy had goat claw originally, so I made him some simple greenstuff military boots. 

This guy is painted with Speed Paint 1.0 and I did a bunch of pre-wash in the recessed areas. 

Since this guy will go into my Zona Alfa and This Is Not A Test game I used The Institute colors on one of his armor plates. The Institute is a faction in many of the the worlds I play. And that force is slowly growing over time. 

The miniature was painted as part of a big guy community challenge, we run those regularly over on the Discord community. You should come check it out. 

I really like how this guy turned out, it shows what speed paint can do pretty well (it's excellent for skin). And it's really nice to have a reason to use some of all those free minis just hanging out in the garage. 







3 October 2023

Fantasy - Dire and Were Animals

 Were and dire animals are coo. These two were painted quickly with base coat, drybrush and wash primarely. Just to get something done. But they'll work in all manner of different games, so they are good to have. 


The were bear is from Blacklist Miniatures Fantasy Series 1. A big, havey piece of plastic. I do like his bulk, painted in a very miniatures. 



This guy is a dire wolf from Ramshackle Games. One piece of resin. Ramshackle sell a lot of crazy miniatures and very cheaply. I'm sad that brexit has made it a bad deal to shop from there (because Danish import rules add a ton of cost outside EU). 

This is a good wolf leader to have among all the other wolves, which I've painted a lot of during the years for all manner of games. 



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26 September 2023

Terrain: Mead sellers wagon

 This wagon was part of the Dungeons and Lasers: Encounters kickstarter, as a stretch goal. It's a nice kick and goes together well. There's a lot of honey and barrels on it, so it's a mead seller. Though the sign says 'Honey Ale'. 

This was a really quick speed paint session. After giving it all spray varnish, it got a complete Vallejo Dark Sand drybrush, that does good to any miniature.

Besides being just an awesome piece of scatter terrain, it also serves as an objective in a Guilders: A Life In Shadows heist named The Carriage. 


I've painted a lot of scatter terrain pieces over the years and I've really come to enjoy lots of colors on it. It just makes everything look so much more lively when playing, than all wood areas just being brown. 




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20 September 2023

Warhammer 40k: Imperial Knight

 This is the first Imperial Knight I've painted up. It's my son's miniature, he got it for christmas. I got it in an auction and it was just under half price for a new kit. It was new in box, so I also got to build it together with my son. 

He also chose the colors for it. I base coated the entire thing red - which was a mistake. Because it was really bad to paint up the all the metal areas. When I did the Titan later on, I base coated it all in metal instead and painted the colored areas up. 

The shield and should details are made with a thin marker, it works pretty neatly for something like this, where there's no decals with the miniature (i didn't get any). 

This was an amazing miniature to build, a really well done model kit. 







And here's the knight next to his 3d printed titan big brother. 


I'm currently building all manner of 40k themed stuff. really into some inq28 looking types, it's nice kitbashing and will be entered into a community challenge on the Discord - why not come join it?