Fighting Fantasy Trolls WIP

 I picked these 2 large plastic trolls up a few years ago at Lincombe Barn tabletop sale, for a couple of quid, which was quite a bargain ( although I didn't realise it at the time). They are Citadel Fighting Fantasy figures released about 1984.

I've finally started work on them for the up BOYL game. Firstly by stripping off the flaky poster paint with which they were painted. A head swap ensued and I added a brass nail to the club one of them is holding.

Copious amounts of milliput later, the addition of some underarm hair, and a coat of the very useful Citadel technical Typhus Corrosion , they are primed black and ready for painting.

The one on the right should be bright orange to match the troll in the 3rd edition rulebook, but I'm not sure I want an orange troll in my collection. One orange troll in the world is quite enough.

Witch Hunters

Some more figures finished in the last year. Some witch Hunters to tag onto my TYW army. These guys are a tad medieval in appearance, but I suppose hanging about in torture chambers or the Bamberg Hexenhaus ( look it up, it's terrifying), they don't get to see up to date fashions.

The figures are from Gripping Beast and were great fun to paint. 

I've got a couple of 17c Solomon Kane looking figures to go with them, to help purge the Palatinate of the devil's minions.
 

Skeleton Painting Commission

A few months ago, a returning client sent me these 1980s Citadel skeletons to paint, which I thoroughly enjoyed doing. The brief was red garb and to highlight the lettering on the bases for nostalgias sake.

The glowing rune on the shield is copied from the one sculpted on the commanders chest below.

The Witch King is clad in more traditional undead robes.

I'm hoping these will appear in the new edition of Dragon Rampant ( the client was Daniel Mersey), but we'll have to wait and see..I've got a box of these sculpts myself so it was good to see how they turned out, and hopefully I'll be able to do my own figures in a similar manner.

 

My Oldest Lad

 I'm obviously very proud of all 3 of my sons. Here's the oldest keeping an eye on those pesky Ruskies (he's on exercise in a country adjacent to Russia). Returning home soon, thank goodness. 

Empire Archers

 Some more figures done for Geoff's game at Bring out your Lead in August. A mix of historical archers from the 13-15c. 

I wasn't that happy when the yellow, but it sort of matches the colour in the 3rd edition Warhammer rulebook where these chaos are shown deployed in front of the village WC (in case they are subject to a FEAR roll perhaps). 

Only 5 are visibility, but we are assuming they are part of a larger unit. I need to source the chap in the spangenhelm as I've just realised I haven't got him.

I picked these figures up at Devizes Attack show last year, and I think they might be recasts, or rejects from Foundry as some are quite small and there are some very pronounced mould lines , but they scrubbed up ok. 

The flag is based on a Burgundian example showing arrows forming a St. Andrew's cross. 

Hopefully they'll be able to defend the village thunderbox against the evil horde.

The unit will be for sale at £150 after the game.

What I've been doing.pt1

Just to prove I haven't been completely bone idle over the last couple of years I'll put up a few pics of what painting I've been doing ( and remembered to take pictures at the time.

I've been focussing mainly on a Thirty Years War army, that if the combined forces of Ernst Von Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick. I've found these really easy to paint while feeling frazzled ( and I have been feeling absolutely knackered most of the time). 

The army keeps on growing so I'm up to about 300 infantry and 100 cavalry so far. It's gradually morphing into an Eighty Years War project too, and I'm waiting for a delivery of 3d printed Low Country buildings of the period .

Here's a couple of pictures to whet the appetite. More to follow once I've done some flocking.

Christian of Brunswick. A mash up of Redoubt, Captain General and Steel Fist parts. 

Four 60 man regiments. A real mix of manufacturers, and I keep on buying more!

I haven't taken any pics of the cuirassiers, or artillery yet, but will do so soon I hope.

 

Treebeard at BOYL

I've just finished painting this 80s Citadel Treebeard figure. Not my favourite ent model by any stretch of the imagination, but accurate to the text I think.... clothing of bark and the appearance of not being very 'bendable'.

I'm not sure who sculpted him
(Trish Carden I expect), but the 3 sections of head legs and torso don't fit together brilliantly, leaving a definite straight line rather than following the bark line of the clothing ( if it is clothing). This makes him look more like an automaton than an ent imo, but was no doubt necessary for casting purposes.

Either way he'll join my moot of ents for future games. His first appearance will be at BOYL taking part in a recreation of the 3rd edition Warhammer rulebook battlefield picture where he is visible lurking under some Britains trees.

For the same game, which is being put on by Geoff of Oakbound Studios, I've got a unit of 20 archers, a flock of 5 balrogs and 2 large trolls to paint. Better get cracking!