God of Battles / Dragon Rampant Marauder Troops

I have painted some more miniatures for my ever ongoing God of Battles and Dragon Rampant project. This time I have finished a 16 dwarf strong unit and some more Landsknecht Ogres from the evergreen Marauder Miniatures Landsknecht Ogres and Dwarves series. 

Enjoy. 

New Year - Millennium Hammer - and other stuff

Happy New Year to everyone,


yes, a little late but all good things need their time.

Ok - 2016 was a let´s say difficult year for me. On the real life side as well as on the hobby front.
I did not manage to paint a lot, did not visit the shows I normally visit and started lots of different things unable to focus on a bigger project.

A few days ago I got together with "Künne" my regular gaming mate and my good friend in one person (lucky boy I am).

We talked about what we would like to do in 2017 in regards of hobby time. After some talking about good old times we remembered when we first met each other and where it all started. We played Warhammer against each other at that point when Warhammer has had it´s best times ever. I talk about the 6th Edition released in September 2000. From now on I call it Millennium-Hammer just to create another term for an older version of Warhammer :-)

Very soon we decided which army we will gather for our new project. I will go for the High Elves which I always loved for their style of playing and for the lovley miniatures designed over the last 25 years. Another reason is that I already have some painted miniatures for this army as well.

We will create our armies in little steps and play some battles while our armies will growing bigger. So hopefully you will see more of this project in the future.

For those of you that are not very interested in Warhammer I will also have some other things I will focus on. I have some ideas for ancient mythic wargaming, Frostgrave and some other things. More on this later...

To make a start showing painted miniatures I have some pictures of the Warhammer High Elves I have already painted.

My favorite HE miniatures - the Lothern Seaguard

I have painted 15 of them - the army will include 2 untits of 20 each. 

I love the detail on these miniatures, different armour and quivers

My other favorites - White Lions of Chrace

And their hero Korhil

This miniature is from a later edition - love him

Korhil and his White Lions

I used the Marauder sculpts of the White Lions

Again lot of character and great equipment detail

The Marauder versions have real huge lion pelts

The command miniatures

Notice the white lion fur of the inner cloak

The units that I plan to do are:

2x 20 Lothern Seaguard
2x 10 Archers
1x 18 Spear Elves
1x 16 Maiden Guard
1x 12 Shadow Warriors
2x Tiranoc Chariots
2x 6 Ellyrian Reaver Knights
2x Great Eagles
2x Bolt Thrower 
2x Mages
1x Battle Standard Bearer
3x other Heroes 

Puhh, that will take some time. Though the Dark Elves from my mate will keep me going.

See you later.

Alex

The Muscle Mania - a Barbarian Project

My dear followers and miniature maniacs,

it´s been a while since I´ve posted here some new painted miniatures. To be honest, there is nothing really new because job and family kept me away from painting.

For nearly one and a half weeks now I´m on sick leave as I´m just another victim of the flu that is raging over here. After staying in bed for the last days I just wanted to do something that makes staying at home a little more nicer. As the headache keeps me away from painting (damn), I just had a look on some old miniature projects.

And that´s where the story begins.

I was really surprised when I was surveying my old barbarian army how cool they still look. I have started to paint the army around 18 years ago for Warhammer. After that there were some minor additions to it the following years. As you can see the painting is much more unclean and not so crisp as today. I used to paint over white primer making use of washing effects and darker inks. But it still has its own charm.

I always wanted a Barbarian army very much inspired by the fantastic comic series "Slaine" by Simon Bisley. I think that Mark Copplestone had pretty much the same example when he sculpted the miniatures. 

So why I´m telling you all that?
I think it is time to get back to that project. I have dozens of unpainted miniatures for this army and many ideas as well. I will obviously don´t touch the already painted miniatures and if then just to repair the damages or parts that were never really painted.

The main job for the project will be to paint some new stuff and really think about the painting techniques I will use for it. I think I will give my "old style" a new try and will go with white primed miniatures and then use washes etc. I haven´t done that for the last 8 years or so. We will see.

That´s the army as it is today:

Barbarian warlord on war beast 
Converted Copplestone Grenadier barbarian on Hobby Products Demonworld beast

Barbarian Hero on war beast 
Converted Copplestone Grenadier barbarian on Hobby Products Demonworld beast

Barbarian Warlord 
Converted Chronopia miniature with Citadel helmet (Warhammer item `Helm of many Eyes!`) 

Barbarian Shamen
Converted Copplestone Grenadier and Citadel Chaos Sorcerer 

Barbarian Sorcerer with `Skull of Katam`
Citadel Chaos Sorcerer, the rod with the skull was never finished - maybe a good thing to start with... 

Army Banner bearer
Converted Chronopia miniature 

Barbarian warband - 25 men with full command 
Different companies (Grenadier, Harlequine, Ral Partha, Rackham, Chronicle) - some conversions

Favorites 
I really like these chaps. The running barbarian is one of my all time favorites of Copplestone. He has this "thief"-like character like the younger Conan. 

Berserkers - Come and get some!!

Ral Partha Cloud Giant by Tom Meier and Copplestone barbarian shaman.
I use this base as a unit filler. I´m not sure if I will re paint the giant. Or is there someone out there who has a second for me? ;-) 

Barbarian warband - 25 men with full command 
Different companies (Grenadier, Harlequine, Chronopia) - some conversions
The banner bearer needs to be finished

Some singles and closer view on details - looking at these pictures one can see that the army has fought often on the different battlefields. I need to repair the painting of these miniatures

Copplestone Half Giant - used as a unit filler 
He is also a long time favorite of mine.
I have a second one with a different bold head. The "bold" version was part of the old Grenadier Fantasy Warriors army deal. I´ve seen some speculation on the net who is responsible for the bold version of this miniature (EM4, Mirliton etc.) - the answer is Grenadier did both of them. 
I´m really looking forward to paint the miniature again (not him but the other version I have).  

Barbarian Cavalry unit 1
All Copplestone Grenadier with some conversions 

Barbarian Cavalry unit 2 
All Copplestone Grenadier with some conversions 

A flock of Harpies
Miniatures by Werner Klocke (Hobby Products DSA and Excalibur Miniatures) 

Barbarian War Beasts - used as chariots in Warhammer
Leviathan resign beasts converted with Copplestone Grenadier riders 

The following pictures will show some close ups from shield designs 

 

Hope you enjoyed the pictures of my old school barbarian army so far. I´m looking forward to paint new models for it in the near future and give this project some of my painting love. I think it deserves it.

Now it is time to recover and get back to painting.

Cheers
Dr. Moebius