High Elf Reinforcements, 3 mm

As I promised last post here are the new companies I have added to the High Elf army in 3 mm, along with a couple of extra towers all painted up from the 3 mm castle I built a month or two ago. 

On the hill are some Heavy cavalry and some light cavalry companies. Generally the Heavy Cav always have 8 models on a base and the Light Cav have 5. Its easier to tell them apart. Also you have the General mounted on a Dragon...had to happen didn't it? More pictures of her/him later.

At the foot of the hill we have 4 companies of chariots, which were fiddly but fun to make and paint.

Two bolt throwers sit atop the towers, guarding the flanks.

To go with the company of White Lionesque models I built in my tutorial, I added another for symmetry and fun. 

I now have 4 companies of Heavy Cav to field.

Also I have these two companies of Light Cav as well.

The General in all her/his splendour atop a tower.

Finally the complete group to be added to the ranks of the High Elf Army

There are two areas that I am very much aware need my attention. First is a report of a game in 3mm, I have been so wrapped up in making stuff forgot to play and.... the exact same goes for the 10 mm Frostgrave campaign I have invested time in and promised to launch into several times.

Both these items need to be rectified urgently.

 

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.

 

Woodland Fey Settlement in 10 mm

I started making this Fey settlement a while back for two reasons. Firstly because I'm in the midst of playing a Daggerheart Rpg game with some friends and we decided to play it GM less for a bit of fun. The idea being that all the PCs came from the same settlement and this way we could visualise what that looked like. Also I thought it would be fun to use in my 10 mm games of Frostgrave if I felt that a Fey village or something might appear in the narrative.

I built 7 "tree" blocks, a smaller central hub, which became a pub in our game and a load of forest walkways to join the  blocks together.

The little pond and the trees I had already made ages ago.

All the blocks were made from, cling film tubes, cereal box card, wooden tapers, cat food box card, sand and glue.

Obviously various shades of paint as well.

I really enjoyed making these and the other players in the group enjoyed using them as reference, although we only used about 4 of the blocks as we decided we lived in a small village.

I had bought a couple of pairs of specialist scissors that really came in handy for this project, they were dead cheap at Morrisons 99p a pair.

Look forward to using them in Frostgrave also, should be fun.

 

Goblin Reinforcements: 3 mm

I added 10 new companies to the 3 mm Goblins this week. I'd had a look through the miniatures I had made and realised I was a bit lite in certain areas.

I added a couple of companies of Axemen taking me to 4 companies in total.

Similarly with  the Gobo spears, taking them to 4 companies in all.

I added 4 companies of wolf riders, which I managed to make a tad too large, but I will live with the look. Now I can field 6 wolf rider companies in a game.

Next a completely new company, these I imagined would be giant squig types, one of my favourite Gobo units when I used to play Warhammer many years ago.

I have to create a new company card before these can be used.

The other half of the wolf riders.

The complete 10 companies which add some speed and hitting power as well as some novelty.

Next month the Dwarves are getting a similar series of additions, so watch out for that.

Cheers all.

 

Dead Trees for 10 mm Play

 

It recently occurred to me that some dead looking trees would go very nicely with all the ruins I had built. Since I had none I set about rectifying the situation.

My first attempts made form a basic card shape and smothered in PVAcrete looked absolutely awful and even after several tries at saving them I could see no future for them other than the bin, which is where they ended their days.

I had seen a couple of You Tube videos using gardening string to create bushes so decided to give it a try. Luckily Mrs Daxio has plenty of course string just right for the purpose, so I set too. 

I immediately preferred where these skinny, gaunt trees were taking me and so persisted.

They look suitably cobwebby and the original colour of the string meant I had little painting to do to get them to a playable state.

Disaster had been avoided and there would be dead trees in the city tonight....I was happy.