The Red Book of the Elf King - miniatures - Treeman scratch build finished

 

Here's the painted up treeman. I think he likely needs more highlighting but the energy is low from work....

Finished these "The Red Book of the Elf King" sculpts too. They're absolute stunnas, really nice to paint even if those spears are way too delicate....

The basing is pretty shonky here, I'll need to sort that eventually....

I bought this "Lucid-eye" game a while ago and have never gotten around to playing it. It should be at least "good", as it is a Steve Priestly designed game. I'll get there. The elf lore is very old school, very old-magicky and weird which is an approach I really liked. 

These were my last Elves to paint for now and the last of my pressing backlog....

delirium treemens - Scratch-building a monster

 

Perhaps not the acute alcohol poisoning that my title suggests, but painting so many miniatures in one month is pretty tiring. So why not scratch-build monster on top of that?

Anyway I've never scratch-built a large figure, so I thought I'd do just that with a large character - a Tree monster.

A humble enough start - a foamboard torso mannequin to 'hang' the sculpted parts from.

Greenstuff more form to it...

After leaving it to dry at each stage, as handling it turns previous work to mush, start applying detail to each limb. I was working with a very specific form in mind so didn't need sketches to work to.

Work in the first suggestions of a face

Start building hands and filching parts from my GW stuff...

Bark is prettyy forgiving to simulate in greenstuff so the rather skronky detail to texture doesn't detract too badly imo. Prime the bugger.

Orc for scale ( he was to hand.)

I have actually painted it, but as of the time of writing i have no photos.

Classic Elves, GW and Grenadier

 

More powering through my pile of shame.

I've been bargain-ating some Elves from ebay for a while to replace an old much-missed army.

I really lucked out on a spectacular collection that had the worst photos I'd ever seen on ebay - thanks to whoever that was. I feel like the Elves themselves organised it. Normally this old stuff goes for eye-watering money on ebay.

There are mounted units too, but I didn't photograph them.

There is a mix of old Copplestone Grenadier sculpts, Warhammer units from three or four editions of Warhammer and also some units sold by Black Tree Design, literally the worst company with the best miniatures that exist. I didn't get those in time for when I built and primed that lot though.

That's probably a week or so's worth. You lose track really, don't you?

A couple of Wardancers and Copplestone hero character.

Only slightly modded Copplestone minis using GW bits and pieces.

I'd forgotten how much work cavalry and chariots actually are, but these old Warhammer casts are just beautiful.

Some Dryad units. 

I have no specific game in mind for this army, but as almost everyone has elf armies in their rulesets it'll be easy to field them. One hopes.

The only thing I'm missing is treeman - that, I've decided to scratch build.

Concord - Beyond the Gates of Antares

 The last of this round of BtGoA stuff... One of the few Warlord paint schemes that I like, so I kept them generic.

Oof, that face needs working on, but at least I can get them to the table now...

Nighty, Nighty Boromitey

 Last of these units...

Moulded with milliput some bases for the magnetised weaponry thatr came wwith the big point units, the Hauler and the Brood Mother. It's good to be able to swap weaponry and good to save money elsewhere too.

A ludicrously over-sized fractal cannon! 

Boromite close quarter fighters.

yer bog-standard Boromite grunt doing what his mum tells him to.

Big ticket units.

Beyond the Gates of Antares, Boromite force.

 This army has been hanging around for the best part of a year while I distracted myself with various other projects.

Lord alone knows when I'll get around to using them for BtGoA. Much as I like that game there isn't much of a scene for it at the moment. Still, I love the sculpts and rate the entire range pretty highly. These models were a joy to paint

There's so much here that will be useful for all the "miniature agnostic" games that I now have my eye on. I know that there's a scifi Frostgrave variant on the horizon, for instance.

Engineer Squad

A fabulous Matriarch unit, with gun drones. Chonky.

This faction have really imaginative cavalry units.

Gaming table finally looking playable

 Using existing kits and the DIY builds I've thrown myself at in recent months it turns out that I finally have enough terrain for a varied table. I definitely need more scatter terrain however.

There's some obvious scaling issues between various bits of scenery here, but the "Garden of Morr" stuff looks ok if you restrict it to a graveyard type corner.

A Northumbrian Tin Soldier "Goblington" takes the first treasure in this game - and keeps it from what I recall.

I call this terrain building phase of hobbying over for now. I have some Antares stuff that's been waiting forever, and an elf army....