Burrows and Badgers Catch Up

Burrows and Badgers, the ones I picked up at Vapnartak York this year, had to get them done before the next Kickstarter gets delivered. (expected July)

Tiny featherd lunatic at the front to join the Hillfolk, a couple of amphibians for the old ones, and the Mole and Marmot Mercenaries. 

Fantasy Catch up

Trying to catch up on some of the stuff I've done but not posted. 

First up some 28mm Fantasy models, Owlbears from IronGate Scenery I got from Carronade 23.

A figure from an old Werewolf Kickstarter, (can't remember the name of it, but remember the bad way it went for the creators, a first time for them.) 

He's being used as a pit fighter in our current Mordheim campaign.

Baron Grimjaws City Guard

The last of the models from the last kickstarter (the City Guard) were finished earlier this month and here they are, Baron Grimjaws esteemed/feared/laughable red capes. 

I officially have no more B&B models to paint, so the next kickstarter is allowed to happen now, or I go about starting to fill in the gaps from the 30% of the range that I'm missing.

Extra Burrows and Badgers miniatures

So the extra models I got when I ordered the Dillendorf agreement are now finished, I always hate how the flaws really pop out when you get a picture, but you can't see them on the tabletop.

Just got the city watch to do now.  I was checking against the catalogue and I'm only missing about a 3rd of the entire catalogue, I have a feeling that may get rectified eventually, not all at once as it's still about  60 models. 

Did run out of white paint though, Carronade is close enough though that I can probably last until then and pick up more express colours on pre order and see what else is missing to find on the day. Might just have to get those Midlam wizards finished off (Finally!).

Magglet Squats

So finally I got round to trying out the Vallejo express colours I picked up in York. I only picked up 3 red, yellow and green specifically for painting my Magglet squats in that ancient colour scheme.

So I've made up a Killteam of Veteran Guardsmen, or thereabouts, weapon choices were limited for special weapons so I've used one of the heavy weapons, and the two plasma guns done in different styles to use for gunners. Sniper, Sergeant with plasma pistol and power weapon (fist), Bruiser with the chainsword, Medic, demolitions and Comms just have backpacks attached, bolter, cyber arm for a second, and some pistols and a straight up lasgun to make up the rest of the numbers.

I did a  grey undercoat and then drybrushed up to white instead of the recommended zenithol spray painting/airbrushing that was in the video I watched. everything else was base colour and inks/washes. 

Then the obligatory comparison shot of some of my other squats, originals, Hasslefree Grymm and the newer magglets.

Then a couple with some Imperial guard and old school marines. I never realised how big Chenkov was in comparison to the original Marines.

Next up, the last unit to finish off the 2nd army for Pikemans Lament, which will leave just spare units to switch in and out and the last of my current batch of Burrows and Badgers, City Watch and some extra's I picked up.

Squeaky Blinders

The next batch of the last kickstarter, the street gang. 

Just got some additional and the Town Guard to get done now.

Sisters of Eternal Mercy

From Raging Heroes, the sisters of battle like option, a Full squad of Examplars and a half squad of Davidians which is enough for a bit of variety in a kill team force.

All resin, but so very flimsy feeling with a lot of flex still. The detail is fantastic but well beyond my painting skills to do justice so I'm not sure if I'd actually get any more in the future.

Burrows and Badgers, Townsfolk

Onto the last kickstarter finally, these are the townsfolk of the New Castle. Looks like I forgot to put the Marmot butcher into the picture, but the rest are there, with the Town Guard, and the Squeaky Blinders still to be done.

I've still got those Midlam wizards to finish off (How many months/years is that now?) But I've got some Sisters of Battle from Raging Heroes on the desk just now alongside more of the 10mm Pikemans Lament, (onto the second army now)

Ragnarok Dwarves

Quite a departure I've not done any medieval/viking age type stuff for a while. So these Dwarves from Ragnarök (Colin Patton) were quite good for that, I picked up one of the skirmish sets alongside a character pack.

Burrows and Badgers

This batch is the last of the models from the 2nd to last kickstarter, Dark, Devout and Heroic as well as the couple of additional miniatures I got about the same time.

Puffin Pirate, Beaver Deacon, and a Badger Ranger.

I think I may have had Von Wodr in a previous grouping, but here is alongside the Fox and Hare Knights.

Grub handlers to join the devout witch hunters.

The remainder, mouseketeer, and knights, Mole warrior, Rabbit Guard, and cat piper for the highland clans.

Witchhunters

More B&B it's taken a while to get these done. Long Covid really sucks, energy and focus levels just haven't been there to keep concentration long enough. Either way from the last kickstarter, here are some Witchhunters. 

I have no idea what will get done next, I've still got a bunch of Midlam wizards on the desk that have been there for months, same as the next Pikemans Lament unit, but I have some 6mm Epic vehicles to do as well and they're fairly easy so it might be them.

More Burrows and Badgers

The latest batch, some of the extra's I got the last time. Still got the rest of the last kickstarter to go so cracking on with that and some more 10mm Pikemans Lament.

Amberian Hussars

So a while ago I backed a kickstarter from Heresylabs, they were doing warband deals and I picked up the Amberian Dawn, basically Kislevites for Mordheim in any other name. It took a bit to get round to doing them but here they are. 

The full warband.

The Hussars, like most of their warbands, there's realistically too many heroes for something like Mordheim, (and in way too heavy armour for Mordheim)

One of the lighter armed heroes and a youngblood.

The other lighter armed hero and a blurry youngblood behind and left.

Streltsi, armed with handgun and halbard or combinations of.

Archers.

Bear tamer and Wojtek the bear. If you don't know about Wojtek the soldier bear, google it.  He was adopted by the poles during WW2, he took part at Mount cassino in Italy I think and retired to Edinburgh Zoo when the Polish he was with came back to Scotland.

The Deathly Darkly Necromancer

The mantra, I will get them finished and photographed by the end of the year! 

 

So Presenting the Dark from the last kickstarter, (The Dark, The Devout and the Heroic) These were the easiest to paint, though just took a while due to all of the waiting on all of the full miniature bits drying.

This lovely little band of mist ghasts and revenants is led by the dastardly albino ratnomancer and his dark assistant. We've not tried the rules out for them yet in our games of Burrows and Badgers as we've started onto the Warren Percy Affair so it'll be a while before that happens.

Next on the desk is the start of my Amberian Hussars, otherwise known as a Kislevite Warband for Mordheim from Heresylabs. Once I've got a bit of space cleared I'll probably add a couple of random mini's from the pile in for some variety.
 

SLA Industries Shivers

Anyone else remember SLA industries when it first came out as an RPG? Found out that they made a miniature game to go alongside it. Unfortunately found out about it round about the time they decided to  discontinue miniature manufacture. 

So I ended up getting some Shivers and Carrion from their end of line sale. Here are the Shivers, they took an age to get done but they're finished now.  I've got a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff waiting to be finished, 15mm recce tanks and electric fences. Some 10mm Command Stands for BKC and a bunch of Burrows and Badgers and TYW started.

More Stargrave/Rogue Stars

I said before I had more Stargrave, Rogue Stars type aliens/captains/first mates etc to finish off. I got there eventually, they've been sat unfinished on the table for ages because I just couldn't get up the motivation to get them all finished off but got there eventually mostly because there was other stuff pushing that I actual want to get started on. 

So the cultists from the Stargrave Nickstarter mixed in with some of the arms and guns from Stargrave sets. These will fill out the space cultists I did for Rogue Stars to a full crew for Stargrave.

Force users from Ganesha games, took the longest time to get done but will make great mystics, psionics.

First batch of CP Models for captains etc. more below with one Hasslefree. I need to make a decision at some point about finishing off the basing whether I stick them onto the resin bases, but that will require cutting them off tabs and hoping I can get enough contact for the glue to stick.

A couple more smaller models and even some scenery finished off for the next post, then decision making time for what to start on next. SLA Industries, Burrows and Badgers, Ragnarock, or Epic Dark Angels.

Stargrave Crewfolk

So the reason this has taken so long is because I got about 40 resin bases which are all done, and here's the first 10 fitted up with models added, it's a mixture of Crew and Mercenaries which I got with 2 sprues of each after swaps.  I've gone for a grubby look with them as it's supposed to be an empire in ruins after a war. So muted colours and a dirty wash will do for now.  Once I've done some more to choose from including mainly a couple of Captain and first mate combinations I'll maybe come back and pick out some details to match.

I have a bunch of CP Models, some Psi knights from Ganesha games (via Alternative Armies) and a Hasslefree model that I need to do as well as the other 2 sprues at some point (some of which have been sitting around for a very long time).  I need to make a decision for the CP stuff whether to cut the slotta tabs off and glue them to the resin bases, I'll see how brave I'm feeling when I get there.

Achtung Cthulhu

So forgot about these ones, Achtung Cthulhu Black Suns, changed the armbands and epaulettes to a mustardy yellow colour to match my army of cultists (and because the normal red feels wrong) 

Got some Brits to do, Badgers Commandos and a couple of beasties as well which I'll get to eventually so I can use them in things like Stargrave or a more modern IHMN game.

Werewolves and Stargrave

So I backed a Kickstarter a long time ago for some werewolves, probably the worst experience I've had with a kickstarter but at the same time still better than some because they did actually arrive.  So it was really late arriving due to a variety of issues one of the main ones being that due to some of these issues delaying delivery and rising postal rates within the period of the delays meant that the creators hadn't gained enough money off the kickstarter to actually post everything. Something that some companies would be able to absorb, but not something for such a small company.

From 3d sculpting to miniature casting isn't the easiest and I think something I hope they'll learn from as even some of the more experienced sculptors I know have had to go back and adjust models because they wouldn't cast.  The assembly for some of the models was horrific mostly because the bits just didn't fit together correctly or there was huge gaps.  Anyways Here's the first 4 painted up. 

And finally here's a little bit of what else I've been working on. I have painted about 40 bases so far for Stargrave and made a start on some of the models (6 just need based, 10 assembled and undercoated, and 4 just undercoated) alongside a bunch of crates from 4Ground which are assembled but need the labels cut out and glued on. So there's lots almost there, but not close enough to photograph.

Some SciFi Adventurers

More Hasslefree, SciFi GID Alpha team for Rogue Stars and it's ilk.

And a more modern Bourne type spyfy from the last sale, hopefully I can pick up a few of the others at some point.

I'm almost thinking that I should go back to crappy lighting for my pictures so I can't see all the mistakes.