25mm Rohan standard bearer

 This is a Heritage casting done for Elan Merch in 1980. It is listed as part of a diorama set "On to Helm's Deep" #1713-d for the Lord of the Rings miniatures line.

This came with the Nazgul set I got in an auction. The minis were not individually pictured and although I could identify the complete set of Nazgul ( which was what I really wanted), I really didnt care what the other four were. 

Once I got the order I was suprised to find the four extra minis were the full set of "On to Helm's Deep".

This is Guthlaf, Standard bearer to the King of Rohan. 

The other 3 mounted minis are Gandalf on Shadowfax, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli. I will be painting these at a later date.

25mm Tasmanian Devil

 

This is a 1977 Tasmanian Devil from Heritage's Der Kreigspielers Fantastiques 1100 line #1158 by Steve Bisset. This mini was purchased and painted by me around 1978 and had a few years on the gaming table with the White Box set before it was packed away when life changed.

Here he is from a couple of months ago in his original Humbrol paint job from '78.

I stripped off the Humbrol and painted him with Golden highflow acrylics. I've started making washes in small batches with flow aid, matte medium and acrylic that has been working well. 

15mm desert scene - Serpent priest with "congregation".

 A small scene on my desert terrain board. The serpent preach has waylaid some villagers with his hypnotic sermonizing. 

The serpent is from Splintered Light Son of Snakes series. Painted with Golden highflow acrylics and a pin wash.

The lady villagers are Egyptian townfolk from Blue Moon. Nicely sculpted and the whole set is done in a 1920's -'30s style. Painted with the Goldens, but just a broad sepia wash to finish them.

I have some old school minis to post next month!

Heritage 25mm mini in grey scale

 This was a grey scale painting exercise using only blacks, whites, and greys. I used vallejo grey black, off white, and white. This is a 1978 Heritage 1104-E Superhero from Der Kreigspeilers Fantastiques 1100 range. The set was "Flying Gargoyle chief abducting maidens from Superhero's harem".

The set also contains a gargoyle chief, base, and 2 maidens, but I think this was a set that was split up between friends, as I only have the one mini.

I had stripped this mini down earlier and his shield had cross lines scribed into it with what may have been an Xacto. I used a dremel to buff them out, luckily they weren't that deep. 

15 mm Owlbear- a twanax modification

 I set aside 2 of the Twanax to use to try to make Owlbears for the wilderness outside the Dungeon. 

Using sculpey, I made about 10 attempts at sculpting the head, trying different styles until I got pretty close to what I wanted and could repeat the steps needed to mold the head. I made the one for the actual Twanax modification out of Aves.

With the head done, I used a dremel to carve away the Twanax head and a little into the chest area. Attached the head and then blended the body fur with Aves.

on the painting mount.

in the wild.

Initially I had a nice feather pattern on the head, but after toying with it too much kind of lost the pattern and couldn't get it back as Aves was beginning to harden. Decided not to do a second round of sculpting on the head since I didn't want it to get to big. 

I have one more twanax, so I will be making either another one similar to this or I might try the head of a barn owl 

Grenadier Hireling 25mm

 This is from the Grenadier Hireling Crew box set circa 1980, #2004f - potion drinker.

He was preshaded with Vallejo black and white, then painted with Golden High flow acrylics. 

Nice rugged bases on the production of these minis.

A selection of witches

 These are from the Blue Moon  witches and hags collection in 15mm.

and the last one - 

These were all painted with Golden hi flow acrylics after preshading. Great character in these miniatures. 

A couple of months in a miniature painting challenge

 Haven't posted regularly as I have been posting on Analogue Hobbies miniature painting challenge. 

But I will catch up posting some pics and post progress at least every couple of weeks.

Some desert terrain for taking mini pics. Same size as the swamp terrain piece. Base is drywall, with plaster cast rocks and home made sculpt a mold. 

I made the rock castings from selected pieces of hardwood charcoal and used equinox silicone for the molds. Worked pretty good.