Dwarf Reinforcements: 3 mm

I mentioned a while ago that there were some more 3 mm models I wanted to add to my Dwarf army and here they are.

Some were just to even out the units, like the Shieldwall company in the centre of the picture above.

Some were the other way round like the 3 companies of Outcasts/Berserkers, as previously I only had one company and that is plainly not enough!

I also had fun making a Gyrocopter. I will make at least 2 more of these. 

The aforementioned Shieldwall. 

Two companies of Bear riders, new to the army as well. There will have to be more of these.

Finally a Steam Tank, which was fun to create and paint. Can't have Dwarves without a Steam Tank of some sort. At least one more of these will make an appearance.

I tried to take a close up with Macro setting on my phone.... but could not get close enough for it to kick in, sorry.

I enjoyed making these, its a good way of adding to an existing army without too much struggle. Seven companies are quite doable.

Thanks for looking in, keep hydrated.

 

Modular Castle for 3mm sieges

It felt right that I should make some more 3 mm terrain and so set about building a simple castle.

I built it from the card packaging Amazon use to send books or flat ish items.

Its not bad quality I often use it for bases on 3 mm or 10 mm miniatures. It s good because it holds glue well, especially PVA and is good to cut with a knife.

The company of Dwarf warriors is for comparison, not because I see this as a Dwarf castle, in fact I intend creating some flags so it can be used by all the armies. 

I can also see myself making perhaps one extra building for each nation to make the structure more "their's".

Had fun making this over the last few days and will be getting down to paint it shortly.

One thing I had to do today was to slide some 1p pieces into the interior of the wall sections, to give them a little more weight. Helped towards making the sections more stable on the tabletop.

From above....obviously. (forgive my stupidity, its beyond my control).

All separated out into it constituent parts, wont be hard to store as its so small.

The next 3 mm project I'll be posting on will be the Free Men 3 mm army for Fantastic Battles that I am in the middle of making. Well at least the preliminary companies for the army anyway.

 

Dwarf Army 3 mm

 

This is my 3 mm Dwarf army, not easy I know to see the difference between the armies I've made at this scale, but there is usually one unifying colour which gives some clues and in the case of the Dwarves its Green, on shields, banners and anywhere else I can get it.

The largest block is the Dwarf Shieldwall, at 7 companies its the largest body of troops.

Here we have 4 companies of Dwarf Rangers, not in the official Fantastic Battles force list, and behind them the first unit of berserkers I've made only recently, three more will be made eventually.

The right flank of the army.

Left flank...who would have guessed.

Ballistae and Catapult companies, some on each flank.

Crossbows, 4 companies, in foreground probably one of the company types I'm least happy with how I modelled them but....

Behind more Ordnance companies.

Character miniature companies, Jarls, Rune Caster and Oath Breaker.

5 characters

4 Ballistae

4 Catapult

4 Crossbows

4 Huscarls

7 Shieldwall

1 Berserker

4 Rangers

Close up of the Huscarls with double handed axes.

Few close ups.

Dwarf King mounted on a giant bear.

Intending building another three units of these Berserkers, no Dwarf army is complete without them.

Basic Shieldwall company.

Sometime soon I'm hoping to start building bear riders, initially 4 companies and along with the Berserkers should give the Dwarves some bite. Also need to build one more company of Shieldwall to bring their number to 8. 

Folly Number Two: Solo Wargaming?

Another "Folly" that has been rumbling along in the background for the past few months has been my attempt to organise solo wargaming. Mr Don Featherstone has been scribbled in and drawn upon for the past few months on and off.

I've produced a range of materials to help me play solo, from cards to maps and have been researching information from a variety of sources. Mighty Empires-GW, Solo Wargaming-Featherstone, Oathmark series- McCollough and of course old ideas I had of my own and things gleaned from the internet. 

So I have produced a map using my D&D map making cards and laminated that. Then using the Mighty Empires markers I drew some tokens for villages, cities, fortresses, armies and direction arrows.

I drew the tokens much larger and then shrank them once coloured on my printer.

As I was going to use these with 10mm Romans/Celts I created some unit cards, as Don would have done, to enable secret deployment.

Then tactical cards to aid in play once the game has started. Now these are the most problematic part of the process, basically they might well give silly orders to the AI army that follows them. Only time will tell. 

The illustration gives movement instructions and underneath are further combat suggestions.

Finally I added something I made a very long time ago. It is a set of terrain cards that creates a very wide number of possibilities. I did not design these I found them here , so thanks very much to Avian.

These cards by Avian I have used loads of times and they work really well in my opinion.

Finally Don Featherstone talks about having a system of rewards and fines for units that do well or poorly and also weather related tables etc. Well the Oathmark books have a wealth of material about this and other ideas, most notably battles that are linked together through scenarios. So I will be using Joe's rules to help create a more interesting battlefield development.

There you go, my latest folly, but not the last.

More to come next month.