Dwarf Army

 Dwarfs, good old stout unchanging dwarfs! 

Back in the day (i.e. the 90s) I had a classic metal dwarf army which I painted and used a couple of times, but then sold on for reasons (i.e. being completely skint). 

Always fancied getting another one at some point, but held off each time for one reason or another - not too keen on the various plastics out there, not wanting to invest in an army I'd relatively recently sold off, or similar.

Another factor is that they needed to be the right models.

Idle browsing for some dark ages minis, on a whim, and come across the Conqueror Models dark ages Dwarf range and was taken with them - right look, right price and right time.

Right, mental purchase done...........so, how to set about it? By buying a couple of blocks, painting them fully, then getting the next one, but doing this quickly enough to strike whilst the iron is hot and keep it hot! I specifically didn't want this to end up as a zombie project, lingering away in a half life of not finished, yet not done enough to be presentable.

So, three week turnaround of dedicated sessions and here we are - The Dwarf Throng of Eirich Ravensoak

Spears and crossbows

Dane Axe Household Guard

Spears and artillery

Ravensoak and personal standard

Painting Tally - November 2020 - Lockdown Special

20 ACW Zouaves

40 ACW Union Line Infantry

1 ACW Union Commander, mounted

20 ACW Confederate Line Infantry

12 ACW Confederate Cavalry

1 ACW Confederate Commander, foot

99 Zulu

24 Napoleonic British Guard

Month Total - 177

Year Total - 1164

American Civil War - Confederacy Army

 Second part of my ACW project, now complete. The Confederates.

Again, all painted across a number of periods over the last 2 1/2 years and finally done.

Heres the pics!

American Civil War - Union Army

 ACW project is finished. Oddly, I'm not a big one for ACW, but friends bought in, I added some, then it kinda spiralled out from there really. 

Glad to say its all done now though, and heres the first part - the Union.

Essentially, its all Perry as that Battle in a Box was much in demand amongst my lot for when we prepped for a game a while back (Link) and I've kept working on stuff since then to get it all finished up.

I'd say this was painted across four main periods really - leading up to Christmas 17 for the first ACW game, then leading up to the big group game in Christmas 18, then another patch in Summer 19 when the Gettysburg games were fought. Finally, we set a lockdown 2 challenge and I bashed out another 94 minis in short order across the last ten days to finish everything.

Here we go with the pics then!

Up next - The Confederacy

Adeptus Titanicus - Full Legio

 Ordered and finished the last few bits I needed for my Adeptus Titanicus battlegroup. Lovely models, all of these and 95% done, as I have a pair of knights waiting for painting, but not massively interested in those. Knights - bit like a starter, really, aren't they? Nice, but not the main event!

So, here we go with all of the AT stuff. Some of these have been seen before on the blog, but not in the full legio.

Who knows when they'll see the table - we had planned on end of Oct for a first try at the rules (4 player game), but Thee Plague saw that off. Especially as we play in a pub!

Warlord Titans

Reaver Titans

Warhound Titans

Knight Household #1

Knight Household #2

Full Legio

Terrain - Dolmens and Rocks

 More terrain, again very quick and simple. Circles of foamboard, some bark from the park, paint and flock. Done! These'll go nicely with the new hills, I should think

Terrain - Reflocked Small Table

 FINALLY got onto the task of reflocking my smaller indoor table, which I use for a variety of things and clocks in a nice 3x4 size.

Originally, this was done with a dark green flock, many years ago, on a plain unpainted board and which showed gaps of lighter through the flock, but that didn't bother me too much. 

I also put patches of spare static flock, in a not very good fashion, but it was all workable as I had a feeling I'd come back to it.

SO, 6 1/2 years later, here we are - put new flock and static grass on top and textured accordingly. Didn't bother trying to get it to stand on end, other than with brute force by whacking the table to remove the spare.