Seb Games - Battle Havoc - Dwarves and Orcs - Games Workshop - Black Tree Designs - Northumbrian Tin Soldier

 A game that caught my attention on 4chan's /TG board was Battle Havoc from Seb Games. It's a very light miniature agnostic fantasy army game. It gave me pause, largely because of the lovely Black Tree Design miniatures that accompanied it. BTD are renowned for their hilariously awful customer service, so this was a great way to gather some top-drawer minis without dealing with them directly. Turns out the ruleset is fun though I've yet to give it the time it deserves...

Northumbrian Tin Soldier Goblingtons based up ready to use as lightly armoured warriors. Seriously, NTS are my favourite new sculpts on the market.

The "savage orc" type orcs that came in the starter set.

The dwarves, again via B.T.D, that came in the starter.

Some cannons, from GW's Warhammer starter to help fill out the army lists - pretty casually slapped together, check out those mold lines. OOF.

Nick Lund Orcs - Steppes orc band - Leviathan

One of those many "pity purchases" I'm prone to, thanks to ebay. These sculpts cost very little in the auction. Once they were in my hands they looked clumsy and unattractive and have stayed unpainted for more years than I care to recall. 

Lumped in alongside all of these other fantasy figures from my pile of shame I think they look great once completed - like a lot of old-school minis they were a joy to paint.

afaik, these are still on sale via Scotia Grendel. 

 

Basing a mini, without removed pre-slotta base.

Rather than destroying the original mini's base - in this case an Alternative Armies Orc character - I use a mould to sculpt a base and squoosh the mini into that. I hate removing them.

The 'mould' in question is a base from the failed(commercially) Fantasy Flight miniatures game "Runewars"

I've not seen anyone else do this and it forms a perfectly useable stable base, that isn't too thick and can be sculpted upon easily enough.

five little Orcs baked in a pie.