Trees and Elven Rune Stones

I've had this lot sitting about for a while now, so I decided it was time to get them finished.

The trees are from 4ground.  I mixed up a texture paint for the soil then flocked them with Geek Gaming's foam flocks.  I'll go into more detail at the end.

The oak tree

The mature oak is a really big tree.

Silver Birches

The birches are tall, but also really spindly.  I'm not sure I like them as much as the oak.

I've deliberately not glued the bases that the trees are attached to into their larger bases.  This means I can change up what's on the bases and remove the trees if a unit moves into the woods.

Elf Rune Stones

I made this as a primitive totem for my wife's Lord's of the Wild SAGA! army.  The stones are from Ainsty Castings.  The base is an old warhammer movement tray that I carved up. 

Time for the flocking tutorial.

1. Mix up a basing material for your earth.  I made mine from polyfiller, brown paint and sand.  Apply it and leave it do dry.

2. Cover the entire base in PVA glue.

3. Sprinkle your dark tone foam flock where you want your shading.

4. Cover the rest in mid tone foam flock.  By cover I mean heavily sprinkle it.

5. While stages 3 and 4 are still wet apply a light drizzling of Isopropanol (IPA).  This acts as a flow improver for the next step.

6. Drizzle (or mist on if you have a spray bottle) a mix of PVA and water.  Mix it so that it's quite viscus. 

7. While that is still wet, sprinkle your light tone foam flock where you want it.

8. Add more PVA/water mix over the highlight.

9. Sprinkle on some mixed herbs to act as leaf litter.  This also makes it smell nice.

10. Wait for the whole thing to dry.  If your house is anything like mine, then it can take a day or two.  Once it's dry it will be hard, the foam absorbs the glue.

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.
 

SAGA - Age of Magic Undead

I've been repainting and rebasing  a bunch of undead for use in SAGA - Age of Magic.   I've got 10 points worth here, which is what's considered enough for a big game.  In my warband I have a warlord, a sorcerer, a black knight, two points of hearthguard with heavy weapons, four points of warriors, two points of mindless and a scourge.

The Mindless

Instead of normal levies units, the undead have mindless.  They're big tar pit units and the only unit in the game that can exceed 12 men, as far as I know anyway.  They're mindless, what better miniatures to represent them than zombies.    They're a mix of Games Workshop and Mantic Zombies.  These got a brand new paint job.



Warriors

For my warriors I've used skeletons.  These are the workhorse of my warband.  These were painted, all I've done is weather the metals, repaint the cloth to make them less uniform and gave them a brown wash to tone them down.  I've actually painted the cloth and shields in the colours of various Dawnish houses from Empire.

 Hearthguard

These are grave guard.  I've pretty much painted these guys up.  I wanted these guys to be uniform, they're elite troops, and they've probably been raised from the same grave site.  I also didn't rust them up, I like to think their tombs have suitably protected them from the elements.

Black Knight

This is a really old GW vampire.  I've completely stripped him and repainted him. 


Sorcerer

Another old GW vampire.  I was going to go with a necromancer, then thought this a vampire would be a different approach.


 Warlord

This is a collection of minis from different companies.  The warlord himself is from Darksword miniatures.   The two skeletons are from GW, from the mid 90's. 

 The Scourge

 Scourges are one of the three monster types.  Titans are the tough slow ones, behemoths are the fast angry ones and scourges are the flying, fire breathing ones.  This is a terrorgheist from GW.  I've had this for years, and I glued it up wrong.  But I don't care it looks like it's screaming.

Moving forward I want to add cavalry, archers and creatures.  I'd quite like to add other hero and monster variants. 

I've also got two more SAGA projects in the works.  I'm working on a Lords of the Wild warband for my other half and a Great Kingdoms warband based on my military unit from Empire.