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.

 

Village Building Models in 10 mm

I have been working on these 10 mm buildings for some while now, they are built along the same lines as the 10 mm ruined buildings I made a few months back.

I was quite pleased with how the ruins had come out so decided to create enough complete buildings so that I may be able to represent hamlets, villages and towns.

I decided that they would have two uses also. Firstly to go along with my 10 mm Frostgrave campaign, some of which I have shown previously. Secondly to be used in D&D to allow me to represent the above in a controllable scale.

I already had 3 buildings that I had made many years ago for Warmaster, but never got to use as all my friends that played, either stopped playing or sold their models.

With these 16 buildings I should be able to create all sorts of villages etc and they will be dead easy to store, being so small.

In development is another larger set of buildings, still in 10 mm, that I can use to create cities, I might create an interim post when the construction is complete.

Next  post will be concentrating on reinforcements for High Elves in 3 mm.

Thanks for visiting.

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.