Oathmark: Goblin Archers and Wolf Rider Scouts

Orc or goblin archers 

First little regiment of archers have been added to my army. Goblin archers are really terrible, so as long as it's only a 10 man unit I think it'll be orcs. As with all regiments in this army it's a mix of whatever various models I had around and have bought for cheap. So mostly LotR and North Star models for this one here.

I'm unsure of the best size for archer regiments. I've build 30 archer models, for 3 regiements of 10 or 2 regiments of 15. 

As with all the monoposers I've made sure to mix up the colors. Different skin tones, hair colors. Using grey, brown and red in different locations. 

Anoterh example of trying to add variation through color. Also made sure to use different tufts on the bases. 

A couple of North Star goblins as well. 

For the banner I've gone with the regular theme. Skull, orange and symbols. I've added mountains as it's a theme throughout the army. Because this is an archer regiment, I've paid a small bow and arrows on the banner. 

Wolf rider scouts

I really like the wolf rider models. Only iffy thing about them is the design of the wolves. The wolfs are two sides and don't mix. Three wolf models on each sprues. I would have liked a design, that hide the seam better. Especially the one on the head. 

Unlike most regiments in the army, this is pure North Star miniatures. But I've upgraded with some 'better' bits from the box. Quivers from other miniature lines have much more detail. The banner is from the old Empire GW flagellants kit. Perfect for cavalry, as the scout can still fire his bow. 

1000+ pts army

The first little real army of just over 1000 points. Lovely to have an army done, wanting it to grow even more over time. 

Oathmark: Goblin warriors and troll

 New units for my slowly growing Oathmark orc and goblin army. This is one of the units I decided to make for getting to a 1000 pts playable list. 

Orc warriors 

Plain, simple orc warriors with hand weapons and shields. This is the first 10 models done for the unit, I have another 10 models lined up for painting. As with all the regiments in this army, it's a nice mix of miniatures from all other the place. 

As with the other units I've switched between different brown, grey and reds - for a varied look. I've picked out as different shields as possible, for variation in the look as well. 

A metal LotR hero and a plastic orc. I've added a shield to the hero model. 

The unit officer (the standardbearter) and another orc. The banner is from A games workshop skaven banner. I've gone for a Tower of Sauron look on this. Huge tower with a burning eye. The other orc has a beastmen shield, I like those more than the northstar ones. 

Here's an example of getting different looks at the same monopose models. There's a lot of cheap LotR plastics in my army. So I've made sure to use different hair colors, shield designs, green skins tones, warpaint. The clothing colors red, brown and grey have been mixed as well. Also make sure that the tuft on the bases are different. 

I've spend no time converting, cutting of weapons or heads. This works well enough. 

Orcs, orcs - more orcs. Some of these are converted, as they came second hand with broken weapons. So I've added some from the North Star goblin kit.

A better look of the the Tower of Sauron banner design for this unit. Using these symbols across units and always adding orange to the banners. 

Cave Troll

You need trolls in a evil overlord army. I've taken a troll from my Dungeon Saga: Warlord of Galahir expansion. I have two of these, so I'm gonna do a bit of conversion work on the second one. 

He's rather big and I like the model. But I need to find a good third troll for the unit. But in the 1000 pts army, this monster is running solo. 

1000+ points

Here's a photo of the first army. 1000 pts and just a bit over that. I didn't think I would ever make a mass battle army again, but I'm really happy with the look of the project. The army looks good and It'll be fun to expand it even further with even more models. 

And a quick attempt at shooting a small video of the army. 

TNT: Slaver and Peace Keeper Reinforcements pt 2

 One of the joys of campaign skirmish gaming is getting new models into the team. I rarely reuse models that have died in a game as well. It's such a good reason to paint up new models for warbands, when models die in game. 

These models are made for two different TNT warbands. First is some heavy support for The Khans - slaver gang. 

This is an up-armed soldier using the peace keeper list. She's armed with an smg and a rocket launcher. The model is all Warlord Games bits from the zombie line of survivors and bikers. 

Second new model is for my peace keeper warband 'Common Order'. This team has had a rought start, lots of wounds, banged-up characters and few caps found for new troopers. This old veteran is a regular Officer. He's made from the Terminator resistance soldiers with extra bits from Warlord Games modern soliders and zombie survivors. The head is from a WW2 Russian soldier. 

Terrain: Armory

 After finishing some of my dungeon tiles, I had to get ready for some Rangers of Shadow Deep. For that I needed an armory. And Perilous Dark from Frostgrave takes part in a weapons factory.

I you want to check out all the dungeon build videos and articles, jump over to the dungeon hub. 

The armory

Again jumping into the box of fantasy terrain crate, heroquest and dungeon saga. 

The terrain crate weapons racks are really annoying bits. They are all warped all over the place. And even using hot water and adding bases to them, the pole arms are all over the place. I much prefer the old HeroQuest weapon rack. 

But there is three weapon racks from the kickstarter, that's a nice amount. I've made sure to paint of the shields in different colors, to add some difference to them. There's also a weapon cache, I think that one is from Kow: Vanguard. 

For the armory I've also painted up a barrel of explosives and a grinding stone. Looking forward to doing some black smith stuff. I have a furnace and such around somewhere. 

The pile of armor and weapons are from the treasure room terrain crate. The other piles are made from different pieces from the collection. The crates and barrels are from renedra, hobby stores and some resin pieces I don't know where I got from. I've just added weapon bits from the bit box to make them into armory bits. 

Terrain: Storage Room

 After finishing some of my dungeon tiles, I had to get ready for some Rangers of Shadow Deep. For that I needed a storage room. 

I you want to check out all the dungeon build videos and articles, jump over to the dungeon hub. 

Storage room

For the storage room I've pulled out a lot of different terrain crate pieces. All manner of different boxes, crate, chests and food stuff. Some of these pieces I've made earlier for Frostgrave. It's cheap Renedra barrels, ebay wooden barrelse and other bits glued together. 

The cool barrel of sausages is from Dunkeldorf kickstarter. Some of these pieces will also be turned into a kitchen room at some point. 

Terrain: Wizard Study

 After finishing some of my dungeon tiles, I had to get ready for some Rangers of Shadow Deep. For that I needed a wizards study. In the RoSD scenario it's actually a shamans workshop, but potato-tomato. 

I you want to check out all the dungeon build videos and articles, jump over to the dungeon hub. 

There's a ton of different pieces from the Terrain Crate kickstarter. I've painted a fireplace, the astronomy thing and candle lights. The lectern is from Dungeon Saga and the book is from an old GW dwarf banner. 

The mirror was kind of hard to paint up, I don't know to paint a flat surface like that. But it works okay. This is a small metal lectern from an unknown place and the tablet is from Admiralty Miniatures. 

I've glued a lot of scatter pieces to the desk. Feather pen and lamp are from Admiralty Miniatures, the other stuff is Terrain Crate. 

The book cases are terrain crate as well. I've just added som small scatter pieces to the top. I want to add scatter on top of all pieces like this. All my cabinets at home look like that, and it makes for a better look 'top-down', from where we play.

The small scatter pieces are made to be added and removed depending on need. I've just glued them in place.

Terrain: Classic fantasy board

Once in awhile it's nice to take out everything with a certain theme and set i up. So I tried setting up a classic fantasy board, just to see where I'm at with terrain for that. And it turns out I'm pretty well set with different pieces. With my little village, farms and woods. The board below is a 2,5' x 6' board. So plenty of terrain already done for the game sizes play (often 3'x3').

You can check out step-by-steps and build posts for all the different terrain pieces in this hub.

Plans to expand

I still have plenty of pieces to expand this board. 

• I have four more small renedra huts in the garage. Different types than then ones I've already painted. 
• Fences. I have a lot more Renedra fences, that I need to paint. 
• There's a small stone church from Wargames Tournament. 
• Stone walls from Tiny Wargames. 
• Castle and lots of houses from TTCombat
• Also want to upgrade my fabric roads and glue to cardboard and add flock and sand. 

Joy to the fantasy world

I really don't play a lot fantasy games fitting for something like this, I just really like to build it and look at it. And that's what I want from my hobby. A big sprawling fantasy city filling an entire 4'x6' board, that would be so super duper awesome and good looking.