Some Badies for Dungeons and Dragons

I'm looking to run a D&D campaign soon with some of my friends, so I thought I'd paint up some more unusual critters for the campaign.  After all fighting goblins and skeletons all the time gets boring.

Gricks

Creepy underground tentacle worm things.  These don't look exactly like the gricks in the book but they'll do the job.  These are from Reaper's Bones range.

Hobgoblins

I like these, they have a nice Eastern look to them.  These are also Reaper Bones.

Owlbear

This is my first miniature from Wizkids unpainted range.  It came pre-primed which was nice.  I managed to crank this guy out in under 15 minutes.  It painted up really well, I'll definitely be getting more from this range.  I'll flock the base at a later date.

The Critters for Warcry

I'm still working my way through the Warcry box.  I've now finished all the beasties that can turn up in your games.

Furies

Furies, the chaos daemons everyone forgets about.  These plastics are a massive improvement on the old metal ones that came out ages ago.   Furies by their nature are quite weak, however they are predatory.  I wanted to reflect this in their paint job.  How does an opportunistic predator get ahead in life?  Camouflage.
I've done the furies deliberately dull and muted so they blend into their surroundings.  The best way to hide in the shadows is not to wear black, but to wear uted greens and browns, or in this case canvas from Vallejo's panzer aces paint range.  Imagine them pouncing from a shaded ledge in the ruins, intent on pinning you to the floor and slitting your throat.  They suddenly go from being a bit of a joke to being scary.  Admittedly this has no effect in game, but creates a cool visual... although I've noticed through years of gaming experience that muted models get ignored, so maybe it does work.

Raptoryx

Murder birds.  These are viscous killers, so murder bird is an apt term.  I've tried to paint them to look like gothic cassowaries.  The green actually makes them look a bit venomous.  I absolutely love these things.

  

Hunt the Hunter - The Untamed Beasts for Warcry

That's the second chaos warband from the Warcry box set finished.  These are the Untamed Beasts.

I tried to keep the tribal look with these.  I've varied up the skin tones a bit to make them look less samey.  They're all wearing skins and furs and are carrying weapons made from bone.

Plains-runners

These are the basic guys in the warband.  They're pretty cheap, but that's because they're pretty squishy.  They have plenty of attacks and they do decent damage making them glass cannons.

Preytakers

One with a fanged axe and one with a sawtooth blade.  Axe hits harder, sword has more attacks.  These are more elite versions of the plains-runners.  They're tougher, hit harder but are a bit slower.

Beastspeaker

One of the better elites.  She's got a decent ranged weapon and can hit pretty hard, she's also decently tough.  She can also make nearby beasts have an extra attack action, which makes her fantastic when combined with...

The Rocktusk Prowler

Evil goat lion.  This thing is nasty, it's really fast, tough and hits hard.  Imma call it "Fluffy"

First Fang

The other tough elite guy in the warband.  This guy is slow, but has great range, and can really bring the pain.  He also can drag enemies towards him, or pull them off ledges. 

Heart-eater

The boss man.  he looks like he's walked straight tout of Conan.  He is a melee beast.  His stats are really similar to the Dominar are from the Iron Golems, making them very well matched.  You want this guy up front doing the damage.


Once the rain stops I'll go outside and prime the critters.  Or once it eases off, i live in Scotland, it's almost always raining.

Great Kingdoms warband for SAGA! Age of Magic

This is what I've been painting up for the past month. 

This is my great Kingdoms force for SAGA!.  I've based this warband on my military unit resource from Empire lrp.  Yes I based this on the LARP I go to.  Given that it is Empire lrp based I deliberately gimped myself.  Horses are extinct in Empire so no cavalry for me.  These are the House de Loup colour scheme, which is this

My freehand is shit, so I didn't bother painting the house heraldry on it.  You may notice that some of the dudes have different coloured skin.  That's because they are lineaged.  The pale guys are draughir, the greeny dudes are merrow and the guys with the green bits on their cheeks.  Note that I can't sculpt for shit, and I'd be buggered if I was going to sculpt dozens of tiny horns, so no cambions.  You can find more about lineages here.

Let's go n to the close ups.

First I have 2 points worth of levies with crossbows.  These are my ranged yeofolk.

Next I have I have 3 points worth of warriors.  These are my fighty yeofolk.

Next I have 2 points of hearth guard.  These are my anvil knights.

Also I have 2 points of hearth guard with heavy weapons.  These are my hammer knights.

I also have a couple of paladins that I converted.  One has a heavy weapon and one doesn't.  These guys don't cost any points, but to use one them I have to sacrifice 2 hearth guard, 4 warriors or six levies. 

My warlord a.k.a tiny me.  Earl Bertrand de Loup and his retainer and spear holder; Guy.

My tenth point is a behemoth in the form of Paul the war bear.  She's a delicate feminine flower.

If I expand this force I'd like to add a unit of quadruped creatures in the form of hunting dogs.  I'd also like to add the Conclave unique unit, because a unit of wizards is peak Dawn.

The plastic footmen and knights are from Fireforge Games.  The warlord is from Footsore Miniatures, he was their model of the month for May.  The model of the month is given away free with every order over £20,  they're usually released 6 months afterwards for general release, so you can probably get this guy from Novemberish.  The bear is from Atlantis Miniatures.
 

Pacific Rim Extinction - Kickstarter Unboxing

So this unexpectedly turned up at my door today.

I backed this kickstarter because it is A. Pacific Rim (those movies are awesome). B. pre painted, so i can just get stuck in and C. had a pretty cheap base pledge.  The above is the base pledge.

Let's get stuck in.

Very nice box.  Visually appealing.  Me likey.

The miniatures and dice.  I liked the stepped insert for the cards.

There's 4 sizes of card.  All with different functions.  I've not read the rules yet, so I've no idea what everything does.

Rulebook.  It's not too thick, so I'm assuming this game is pretty simple.

The dashboards for the minis.

A double sided paper game mat.  I would have preferred card, but you can't have everything.  I do like that one side is a city and the other is the ocean floor.

Tokens, buildings and whatnot.

Shrikethorn.  Pretty cool looking.

Gypsy Avenger.  FUCK YEAH!

Scrapper.  A kickstarter exclusive.  Imma have to paint this one.

Now on to Hakuja, one of the wave one expansions

You get it's dashboard

Hakuja looks pretty cool.


Now to the next wave one expansion

Gypsy Danger.  FUCK YEAH!

Gypsy's dashboard.

I wanna use this one.

And the final wave one expansion that came with my pledge.

Saber Athena.

Dashboard.

Saber Athena has laser blades.

All the expansions come with pilot cards and upgrades.  I forgot to take pictures of them.

I really want to get a few games of this.  Pacific Rim is awesome.  The prepaints aren't anything to write home about, but their better than most prepaints on the market.  Repainting them is an option, but I'm going to leave mine as is.  I've got enough to paint as is.