Viking Hearthguard 1

Despite the lure of a growing pile of contemporary GW plastic miniatures, the urge to add a few more points worth of troops to my viking warband was irresistible.

This time, the first half of eight hearthguard for another point’s worth of troops. The remaining four to follow shortly!

Fairly quick painting neatly hidden behind the excellent shields and transfers from Victrix and Little Big Men Studios, respectively.

Viking Hearthguard (Foundry)

Viking Hearthguard (Foundry)

Viking Hearthguard (Foundry)

Viking Hearthguard (Foundry)

Viking Hearthguard (Foundry)

Ulfenwatch 1

Upon its release, Warhammer Quest Cursed City was of immediate appeal, being a self-contained box game packed with an awesome number of wonderful miniatures.

“What a fantastic project…,” I thought.

A couple of years later, having sourced a copy of Cursed City via Ebay and missed out on the first expansion pack, I’ve got around to a test piece before diving into the set-proper (luckily I managed to get hold of some more Ulfenwatch via Ebay, too).

An excellent miniature (the empty spaces and pose really elevate the undead feel) that was fun to paint, if somewhat of a challange for my aged eyes… Painting contemporary GW plastic miniatures involves re-calibrating ones approach to painting to an extent, and only now am I starting to understand how and why.

Looking forward to completing some more miniatures and eventually playing the games itself!

Rather than the basing shown here, the set-proper will use the lovely ‘battle ready’ temple bases from Gamers Grass.

Ulfenwatch (Games Workshop)

Ulfenwatch (Games Workshop)

Medieval Halberdiers and Archers

Another blast from the past appeared in my Instagram feed courtesy of Wargames Foundry; some medieval halberdiers I painted back in around 2000/ 2001.

These reminded me of a Foundry post some time ago, featuring some medieval archers I painted around the same time.

Classic Perry twins sculpts, with Middle-Hammer era painting.

Medieval Halberdiers (Foundry)

Medieval Archers (Foundry)

Ultramarine Primaris Intercessor

Finally got around to trying my hand on a contemporary GW plastic miniature and although it was fun to paint it was more challenging than expected.

Marines are all about smooth, clean blends and sharp edge highlights, so my deficiency in both shows… I also kept too close to the base colour (Macragge Blue) resulting in a darker tone than is usual for Ultramarines.

A lot learnt and will be practising on a few more before trying something a little more special.

Ultramarine Primaris Intercessor (Games Workshop)

Wounded Viking Vignette

Although I’ve been slowly working away at a fantasy miniature recently, the Viking call proved too strong to resist, resulting in a quick but fun paint job on this rather cute wounded Viking vignette.

With no point value under the Saga rules, this miniature is purely cosmetic and intended to add a little character to my warband.

Wounded Viking Vignette (Foundry)