Orcs Away!

Good evening,

Back to work next week, but I have managed to finish the touch ups and rebasing of these two Orc Kings of War Ax Regiments, which are now sitting back in their boxes awaiting for another drubbing!

Spot the slacker!

I actually picked up the fellow lying down like that. With an axe in his forehead. So, with a little bending of his knee and upper arm, I laid him down, like.

Spot the Orclings!

I also managed to name up a Dave Graffam Model's Ruined Longhouse. They were having a $1 sale and I thought, well, I could do with some 28mm fantasy buildings for KOW...

It's actually pretty jolly cool - well worth the money!

Nick

I Am Sparaticus!!

Good evening,

Here I present to you...my Sparaticus semi-historical Roman Slave Revolt HOTT army.

• 1 Hero General element @ 4AP
• 4 Gladiator elements (Bd) @ 2AP ea.
• 1 Elephant element (Bh) @ 4AP
• 1 Cavalry element (Cv) @ 2 AP
• 1 element of Hunting Dogs (Bs) @ 2AP
• 4 elements of Revolting Peasants (Hd) @ 1 AP ea.

Some close ups. My Hero General...

...backed up by the Ghosts of subjected slaves past. Atlantic figures. (These I rebased from my first Gladiator's element.)

Then Gladiators...

...who have freed themselves from the Circus. Atlantic.

Speaking of Circus'...

...an Elephant. A toy elephant, as it happens. Painted for me by Mark O, roughly fifteen years ago. I simply replaced the Revel Pretorian rider with this Atlantic Roman.

I've already posted these cav.

Model train dogs.

And four Horde elements. Esci figs, with some head and conversions of HaT Triarii...

...to represent the gear picked up the the plebs from the battlefield. I know HaT's Alexander's Lights would have been more appropriate, but, well...I didn't have any spare!

And so, another army done, and in record time - 24 days from the first completed element to the last!

Who'dathunkit?

Nick

Beware Those Stubborn Dwarves...

...and their Brock Riders!

Good afternoon,

After spending many hours getting my 28mm Kings Of War Orcs and Goblins ready for a game...last night I went over to Robin's for a game.

And got completely done!

My one completed Orc Ax regiment...

...by Robin's Organ Gun, Cannon and Shooters...

...while my mounted...

...got taken apart piece meal by his Brock Riders (he was using those horrid spiders as a proxy).

The rest of the lads...

...got slowly chewed up by his Steam Tank (the helicopter proxy) and some old fashioned Dwarven steel!

Well played Robin, well played!

Nick

Parthians Put Away...and Goblins

Good morning,

Finally, after two years, my 20mm HaT Warmaster Ancients is complete! I present to you my five WMA command elements that round the army out to about 1000 points.

I should really do another unit of Light Horse, but that's another six figures, which would require another box...doable at some point, but not right now!

Speaking of getting things done, I have also managed to rebase two Kings of War regiments of Goblins, all ready for a game with Robin tonight.

Please note, these were already painted when I bought them.

I decided to keep them all bunched up like this because that's the way I think they'd fight. All huddled together. Not like their big Orc cousins, who want a bit of room to swing their axes.

Right, now, to finally start on those Macedonians.

Nick

Works In Progress

More Orcs...and a Sparatican. Sparatacii?

Anyway,

Good evening,

Here is my first Orc KoW regiment.

As you can see, there's quite an eclectic selection in there.

• Second hand GW, 
• Second hand wayyy, wayyy out of production GW, 
• Milton Bradley Heroquest figures and even...
• One Mantic Great Ax...

...since, as I'm basing them 16 to a regiment instead of the suggested 20, I had four leftover thereof. Which then spun out my total number of Orcsess to fill out three whole regiments. Sweet!

Apart from these two...

...which were already finished to a very high standard (you should see the Standard Bearer), the bulk of these figures were purchased undercoated and roughly block painted (apart from my Heroquest figs from way, way back...), so haven't taken very long to touch up. These dudes were so much easier than my Parthians!

Speaking of 20mm, here is my next element for my Spraticus army. Sparaticus hisself, this time dismounted.

Upon further reflection, he should be on a Hero base...so...he's actually just a Blade with stolen gear!

Nick

And Now For Something Completely Different...

...28mm Orcs!

A while back I decided to try my hand at Kings of War in 28mm through the medium of second hand GW figs. (And then I got a bit carried away with new Mantic Skellies...but that's another story...), and I've finally got around to fixing up the basing.

(These blokes were already painted, I just dipped and dulled them.)

They are 'sposed to be ranked shoulder to shoulder, five wide per row, but, well...I didn't have enough figures for that, and...some of these blokes just won't! What with arms and blades everywhere, many can't fit side by side. So I've based them four abreast, and filled the gap with air drying clay. Thusly...

I'm currently working through a regiment of Ax, based likewise.

These were especially awkward, as many are leaning forward with their weapons reaching further forward again. I had to move them around so their weapons would fit in between the gaps of the rank in front of them.

Final gaps to be filled over the weekend.

Nick