The everything miniatures wargaming thread

[The Brain]

Painted some LOTR trolls, one Olog-hai and two normal trolls. They are from Ragnarok miniatures, which has a good LOTR (not offically LOTR) range, that is growing. Very nice minis I think. Also did some Woses, same manufacturer.

[The Brain]

And some orcs, (Ragnarok Goblins). They form a Minas Morgul battle company, together with the two Black Númenóreans I painted earlier (see upthread). The archers appear to be heavily influenced by GW Night Goblins, but they'll do.

[Sophie Scholl]

Very cool! 

[The Brain]

A new LOTR Dwarven battle company. I made one earlier (see upthread), but I couldn't say no to these Ragnarok minis.

[crazy canuck]

That looks great!

[Sophie Scholl]

Those are fantastic for Tolkien Dwarves. I love the look of the Games Workshop/Armies of Middle Earth Iron Hills Dwarves, but they're silly expensive, out of print, and resin. 

[The Brain]

Thanks!

The bases are Geek Gaming Scenics' Base Ready Mountain Pass, which isn't their most inspiring but works for stony guys like Dwarves I think. I can always add more details later if I want.

I cannot recommend the basing material from Geek Gaming Scenics enough. I really like the result of my earlier way of basing, but it was a multi-step process that took significant time. With the GGS stuff it takes seconds, and the result is great (like the skeletons, trolls and orcs above with their Wasteland Soil). A painted and based figure always looks better than a figure that remains unpainted because it's too much effort to paint and base it...

Basing material of this kind has existed for some time of course, but I think the GSS stuff brings much better quality, and they have a great range.

[The Brain]

I've started on Guards of Traitor's Toll, the semi-cooperative town guard game. These are my guards, The Nightwatchmen. Led by Black Angus, with his trusted sergeant Geezer Ward. Bases are Renedra cobblestone bases, to fit the urban setting. They did mean I had to remove the small built-in bases of the figures, but this was easily done.

[Sophie Scholl]

The base work you've been doing is fantastic. Nice to know it is relatively easy to do!

[The Brain]

And the 7th member of The Nightwatchmen, Lt Woof. By Reconquer Designs, bought him through Studio Historia along with some other stuff, very nice figures.

[The Brain]

Some civilians for Guards of Traitor's Toll. In the rules there are six broad categories of civilians (Scholar/Wizard, Worker, etc), and these 12 are two of each.

I have given them simple paintjobs, without bothering with highlights after washes, for a couple of reasons: the sprues are designed for maximum flexibility and not for getting awesome poses, the sculpting is of the normal Wargames Atlantic quality i.e. fine but unspectacular, and these civilians are the extras of the game, not the heroes.

My favorite is probably The Nerd.  

The first pic is a bit out of focus but I can't be bothered to take another.

[Sophie Scholl]

Excellent work as per usual! 

[Jacob]

Love to see it.

These days my current minis projects are:

1) Working on my GW High Elf army to maybe just maybe get it into fighting trim. I discovered there's a club nearby that has semi regular Warhammer the Old World nights, and I'd rather like to go play some time.

2) I'm scheming to do a solo-campaign using the Privateer rules from Yaktribe. It's an adaption of the Necromunda rules for running a small group of ne'er-do-wells with their own spaceship in the 40K universe(sort of in the Han Solo / Firefly conceptual space).

The reality is that I'm not nearly as productive as the Brain, what with children and all the other projects that catch my fancy and so on... but I do get great joy out of thinking about working on those projects as well, so I'm pretty content.

[Jacob]

How does the Wargames Atlantic stuff line up with GW minis?