WarGods Minis Month 2020 - Nymphs and Scrolls

Some more Scroll Pile objectives (original batch HERE) and a couple of Nymphs...

These handy resin scrolls have become a bit of an obsession for me. They're just so fun to put together and paint.

They're useful for most genres too.

I recently ordered another set of them because I'm running out of the original order.

Above we've got a Dark Fable mage consulting the scrolls. Below, a couple of Sebeki Conventioneers look through the latest releases available at SandCon...

This use of the Bathtime for Bubbles chick from Crocodile Games has been ready to paint for several years now. She's meant to be a water nymph that can be used as an objective marker. She could also fit into a unit of Maenads for my Dionysus warband.

This Hasslefree Miniatures Titania was a must-have for the unit of Maenads.

Long had she sat unbased in a box until last years' preparations for GenCon and the WarGods event. She didn't get finished in time for that, but now she's ready. That leaves one less mini to worry about the next time I need to get a Warband together for a game of WarGods...

Above we've got the nymphs with the Demigod of Dionysus. Below the nymphs are with the beautiful Helen.

WMM '20 - More Spears (Part 2)

Some Children of Bes (Daneg), the dwarf god of ancient Egypt, and the first Amazon Raider as WarGods Minis Month 2020 rolls on. Again, the WarGods Minis Month is not based on a calendar month but is a more amorphous measurement of time fit for the gods...

The Children of Bes (Daneg) are Swamp Goblins from the old Chronopia line of miniatures from before the turn of the century. I decided to use some that I already had painted up as Asar stand-ins for a warband to be used in a WarGods World Campaign. The unit of spears was filled out nicely but there was a single spearman left unpainted at the time.

Then I decided to do up a unit of the Swamp Goblin Blowpipes to use as either archers or slingers (since there are no rules for blowpipes in WarGods and the options give some points flexibility). I only got a few of the missile unit painted up, this guy was lucky enough to be with the spearman when I started the WarGods Minis Month. He started out as a loading blowpipe pose- I added the top of a Crocodile Games Asar standard. It looks almost natural.

Finally, the drummer is from a Swamp Goblin heavy unit that I just thought would do well as a generic musician for either unit o the Children of Bes. The bone armor is from some unknown source.

These newest additions to the Daneg units needed to match the originals that were painted over 10 years ago. I think the drummer's look let's him easily fit into either of these units.

Below we've got a couple of the Crocodile Games Asar Spearmen to show just how tiny these Children of Bes are, but they're feisty.

From Crocodile Games, FINALLY one of the Amazon Raiders is done! She'll act as the unit captain. She's the only one that wasn't removed and given a magnet (she's on there really tight, I don't know how I got her to stay so well, but I'm glad).

I wanted a light grey for the captain's horse and the rest of the unit will have darker colored horses.

For the lance blade I used some color-shifting blue metallic paint because I've come to really like how it looks. The warpaint was a last minute decision because I kept messing up her eyes when I tried to fix them so I said "screw it!" and went with the red line.

The shield turned out okay, not quite what I was going for but it will do. Of course the rest of the unit will probably have totally different shield colors because I often cant'stick to a uniform color scheme.

Here we can see just how big that monster skullpig is from Forge of Ice. My money's on the Amazon.

WMM '20 - Spears (Part 1)

Lots of minis with spears (broadly defined to fit all the figures together with a theme) this time...

First up, some To-Tanem Spearmen conversions. This guy was the hammerer standard bearer. I took off the standard and added a plastic GW spear bit from skeletons, I think. His shield is one from Forge of Ice, because I got a bunch of them and wanted some variation for the spearman unit.

This next To-Tanem got another plastic spear bit added to the handle of his hammer. His shield is one of the blanks from Crocodile games. To make him look a little less like the hammer-wielding guy I've already got a couple of in the Hammer unit, I gave him a poorly sculpted hat. His chest strap thing blends into his skin too much in these pictures.

Below we've got a couple other To-Tanem spear conversions- these were all started roughly the same time (far too long ago!) and since have been joined by some actual To-Tanem spearmen sculpts from Crocodile Games.

Here we've got a Copplestone cavewoman who got a polearm and a shield from Crocodiel Games. She's been partially painted for far too long so I knew I had to finish her now or melt her down for scrap.

Above we have the Spearwoman with a Dark Fable mini and a converted Crocodile Games priestess. Below the Spearwoman is meeting with the Sleazy Merchant from Forge of Ice and his little Goblinoid friend from Dark Fable.

This guy is from West Wind's Lucifer's War range of minis. I liked the look of him to be used in my stalled out Babylonian Warband project.

Even though the wings for these figures from West Wind all seem to be the same piece, I like them.

Below we've got the latest Babylonian Sorcerer next to the first one for he Babylonian Warband.

Finally we've got the Battlescythe Asar Blade Dancer from Crocodile Games. Another great sculpt by Chris Fitzpatrick...

Below we've got the Battlescythe Blade Dancer with the Double-Sword Blade Dancer. I feel like the older painted one may need a touch up with some more color for the cloth- but maybe not.

WMM '20 - Some Pygmy Zombies!

One of the top 3 reasons I like various undead factions in various wargames is that they're usually quick and easy to paint and make look pretty good. These last few Pygmy Zombie Archers (now OOP) were some fun quick paints that complete a unit. And I think these guys turned out better than the ones that were painted over 10 years ago....

First up, above shows the quick touch-up I did for this guy. I noticed some slight damage when he was presented as part of the Eater of the Dead Archive series back in this blogpost and this seemed a good time to get him fixed up.

I did not write down the paint recipe I used on these guys so long ago (I don't often write down paint recipes nowadays either, except for larger projects where I know I'm going to want the colors to be pretty close for a unit) so I went at it to get hem close enough to the originals they'd be sharing a unit with...

The guy above is my favorite sculpt of the archers, though I do like all the sculpts. I think they were done by Ben Siens who also sculpted some of the WarGods miniatures for Crocodile Games. He's pretty good.

I should have gone more detailed on the mask for this shaman/musician character, but he came out pretty okay.

Above we've got a possible version of the archer unit. Despite the different base styles (the new guys were simply painted over the texture to build up the bases around their integral bases instead of flocked like the previous batch) they look good together.

Below we've got a more skirmish-style situation with these Pygmy Zombies protecting their Nekharu master....