Halloween 2022

If I do have a Halloween themed game this year it will be a post Halloween game in mid November as other activities prevented a game this past weekend.   In the meantime here are some Work in Progress pictures of possible figures for a Fantastic Battles Halloween themed game.

Tomb King's Army

 

Happy New Year 2022 and Fantastic Battles Project

 Happy New Year 2022

A project I was working on to create Resolution tracker counters for Fantastic Battles (FB).   These are 20mm MDF bases spray painted green with self adhesive 5/8" Roman numerals designed for clocks.  Sadly not a lot else to do on New Years Eve thanks to Covid-19, so watched TV movies and made counters.

 New Roman number counters

SAGA Age of Magic September 17, 2021 Undead versus Tomb Kings

 SAGA Age of Magic September 2021

 This was one of the first post-pandemic lock-down SAGA Age of Magic games that featured my Gothic Undead versus Jeff's Tomb Kings or Egyptian Undead held at the Ottawa Miniatures Games Club on September 17, 2021. It featured Jeff's 3-D printed Camels and Egyptian  scenery.

 I will let the pictures tell the story.

Contrast Paints on Skeletons

This is my first attempt at using the GW Contrast Paints. I tried them on a Reaper metal skeleton with two crossbows. I spray primed it months ago with Army painter Bone primer then tonight I painted with Contrast Skeleton Horde. After that dried (very fast) I block painted the crossbows Reaper Master Series Acrylic Drift Wood (light brown) and Army Painter Gun Metal as appropriate plus GW Bubonic brown (Ocher) for the shaft and a dot of red for the feathers. Next the gun metal was over-painted with Contrast Basilicanum Grey, and the wood with Contrast Snake Bite Leather. I was surprised at how much darker the Snake Bite Leather made the wood, plus a bit blotchy, probably as there was no grain detail. It is probably a good thing the wood is dark as it provides contrast with the bone. The only highlights done so far are on the arrow shafts. 

Left traditional paint job, right Contrast paints

The Four / Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Reaper Miniatures as used in SAGA Age of Magic.

 These are the Four  Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Reaper miniatures, which are actually five figures as I added in the Reaper Harbinger figure.

 

Above Reaper: 1) Plague, 2) Harbinger, 3) Pestilence, 4) Famine and 5) War

I have recently used these figures when I was playing SAGA Age of Magic (AoM) with the special Undead options for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In SAGA AoM the four horsemen are: Death, Conquest, Famine and War.   As you can see the Reaper designations shown above and SAGA AoM designations don't match exactly. Nor do they match to the Biblical descriptions (see later on).

 I picked riders number 2,3,4 and 5 pictured above to use as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as designated by SAGA AoM: Death, Conquest, Famine and War.  I use figure number 1 on at the far left on the wolf as an alternate SAGA AoM Four Horsemen figure as: Conquest or War. 

 

Unidentified Undead Command figure

I bought these 3 Citadel Undead command figures off eBay in January 2020, I know the two on the right (skeleton standard bearer and musician with horn) are Citadel 4th Edition Undeaded figures from the early 1990s but I can't find any information on the one on the left.   He looks to be a skeleton command figure in armour, possibly 3rd or 4th edition (1985-1993?). Even looking on the Stuff of Legends webpage that has a very good listing of Citadel / Marauder figures did not help.

Wish to identify the figure on the left.  
They have all been stripped of paint and are ready to be repainted

It would be helpful to see a picture of it painted from the time period as it is not clear to me if the hands are bone or rotting flesh.  In the above picture the painter has opted for rotting flesh.

More pictures below.

Looking for a leader figure for my Skeleton scythe warriors

I think one of these three Citadel C17 figures will work as a leader for my Grim Reapers company.

C17 (CO-05)  Hooded Leader

The not so Friendly Giants (updated with more giants added)

Giants for SAGA Age of Magic

I have been collecting some giants for my various SAGA Age of Magic factions.  I have always had a soft spot for Giants, maybe from all those years as a child watching the Friendly Giant or Land of the Giants:

The Friendly Giant

Classic TV drama involving Giants

Unknown 28mm Skeleton cavalry and Mammoths

Finding the identity of this Shelton Rider lead to much more.

I was trying to identify this Unknown 28mm meal skeleton cavalry horn blower rider with spear, the  mount is an old plastic Citadel skeletal horse

Unknown Rider, in the process of being painted