Anglo Saxons in 10 mm

Back in April I posted some pictures of the 10 mm card Vikings I had been making and it seemed only fair that the Anglo Saxons get the same treatment, so here they are.

This is the whole army and I can't see myself making any more as I'm concentrating on Later Romans at the moment and then Ancient Greeks will be getting the same. Plenty to get on with. 

Skirmishers at the front here.

The Great Fyrd with hand weapons.

Thegns with spears.

Cavalry, not very often used by the Saxons and not brilliant.

A smattering of archers.

Close up of the Great Fyrd.

The Commander.

Lastly, the Huscarls with double handed axes.

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.

 

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.

 

Orcs and Goblins: 30 mm Drawings

If I am going to be honest, which I am, these were drawn some time ago. Definitely in the last two months but had forgotten to post them.

These are very much inspired by the LOTR figures created by GW and apart from using them in D&D games I'm not that sure if they will come in handy anywhere else. 

I could definitely print them at 33% and use them to make 10 mm miniatures, however I'm not that keen to do that. 

Most of my 10 mm stuff has been focussed on historical miniatures.

Saxons, Vikings, Romans and the newest sheet I've been drawing, Ancient Greeks, which still need colouring so will be a while yet.

I enjoyed making these Goblinoid troops, but as soon as I had I realised I had nothing much to use them for.

Still they were fun to do and kept my eye in. Perhaps a use for them will present itself for them in the future.

Presently I'm very much in the process of reorganising my miniature collection. I have sold all my GW dark elves to Mirfield Miniatures along with my epic collection and various board games. Its been difficult to let them go, but I can't justify keeping boxes of models I haven't looked at for over 10 years.

I have been revisiting all my 3 mm fantasy armies to compensate for the loss of the larger stuff.

I intend selling off more later in the year.

Anyway hope you find this post vaguely interesting, thanks for visiting the Blog.