Men In Boxes

While waiting for the paint to dry on the Rohirrim, I took out the warg riders and snapped some pictures.

Here's my first warband for the upcoming Song of Blades and Heroes game. The author of the rules helped me out with statting these babies up and there's a nifty little warband builder by Raymond Forsythe that seems to be updated often with new data. You can find the link here .

My Rohirrim army is taking shape. The horses are all done now with the riders waiting for the brush. Here are the first finished riders. These are all 28mm figures from Games Workshop. " Riders of Rohan! Oaths you have taken, now to fulfill them all. To lord and land! "

I just got the revised edition of A Song of Blades And Heroes from Ganesha Games. Reviews at TMP all gave positive opinions regarding this fantasy skirmish set amd I'm eager to try them out, hopefully this week. posted from Bloggeroid

The Hat Industries figs with the GW figs. My army of Harad is getting bigger. Hoping to use them for Battlesystem. Published with Blogger-droid v2.0.9

28mm from Hat Industries' El Cid line. Published with Blogger-droid v2.0.9

A tableful of 1/72 orcs I'm working on. These are orc models from Caesar Miniatures, Orion Models as well as Hat Industries Sea Peoples drafted for this army. I'm raising me a horde or two! I prefer Orion Models' orcs over Caesar's but the difference in design means I could develop different themed armies of orcs. The Hat Industries figures were from the biblical Sea Peoples box set but their ugliness make them perfect orc models too. Here's an older post I wrote about these models . As an aside, I can't seem to find any of the Caesar Miniatures fantasy line sets for sale. Does this mean that Caesar's pulled the plug on these figures?

For AD&D Battlesystem 2nd Edition. Forth, Eorlingas!

In 1988, TSR released the second edition of Battlesystem designed by Douglas Niles. Although it was written to be used with 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, the game itself doesn't really use the mechanisms of Ad&D. The unit-based combat system uses different sided dice and I think that speeds the game up as well as adds nuances to the fantastical aspects of playing with exotic soldiery. Recently, a new board for the discussion of things Battlesystem was launched at The Miniatures Page. It seems that the rules still have a sufficient enough following. Personally, I really liked this game and we've mounted a lot of silly and sometimes serious campaigns using old Citadel, TSR, Grenadier and Ral Partha figures. Here are my Dwarf and Elf armies made for Battlesystem use. These were fairly new, circa 90's I think. I couldn't find pictures of the older minis. Those were still taken using 35mm film and I wasn't conscientious enough to take care of the ne...

Just want to share some models. I got these bagged in sets of 50 figures. Maybe cuz Halloween's near.

Slitherblade Tidehunter is another figure from the World of Warcraft miniatures game. The figure consists of a naga-like creasture preparing to strike with a trident. The sculpting is crisp and the details good enough but the spear/trident thingie is all bent and wobbly. Maybe I'll clip it off and attach a kris or some similarly exotic Asian-looking sword. Detail is quite good, this being a hefty miniature but the scales on the mini's skin surface seem a bit too juvenile in design. It's just basically a cross hatch job. It would have looked better if the sculptor payed more attention to the shape and arrangement of the scales rather than the quick cross hatch. The paint job seems decent enough with the majority of the body block-painted with no highlighting and blending -- just as expected from a CMG figure. But unlike the previous CMGs from games like Mageknight, this figure seems to have been carefully painted -- no splotches nor stray brushwor...

I picked up another assortment of loose World of Warcraft miniatures for use in our AD&D Battlesystem game. These could be the nucleus of either a Tauren or beastman army. Since I got these secondhand at the 4th TAGCOM ( a Philippine toy and hobby convention), each figure came at around $1 each. I only went thru the monster figures and passed over the elves, dwarves and humans since they towered over most of my 28mm figures. Click the pictures below for bigger views. The figures are well sculpted in terms of detail and the painting is way above the style I've seen commonly used in prepainted minis -- yes, I'm referring to the barely tolerable paintjobs on Mageknight, Starwars ( have you seen the Han Solo in Stormtrooper armor? UGLY!) Heroclix and D&D minis. And what is it with huge weapons and shields?  The guy's already a freakin' minotaur with huge muscles and horns! And he needs a boss-heavy shield?!!! Not in my fantasy world he won't. I...