Boglanders 3

 We were away visiting family over Christmas, but I managed to get a little bit of painting in between packing and unpacking!

First up, the Boglander's Royal Colour Party! 

The cyclopean Chief Smelter eyes up his lunch, bog rat pie (a speciality of Boglander cuisine).  But he had better watch out for that mutated toad or it'll have his pie, maybe his leg as well! Exposure to noxious marsh gas has caused some of the bog toads to mutate into ferocious monsters. The Chief Smelter was obviously inspired by the paintings of  Hieronymus Bosch......

....as was this bizarre pair, the Onion Knight and his companion! 

I'm loving these little Boglanders!

More Boglanders

 No gaming until the end of the week, so I have had a go at painting some more of the little Boglanders from Ramshackle Games!

Uzric Kobwart, Supervisor of the royal copper smelting workshops, inspects one of his furnaces.

Uzric in a sacred grove of the Unnamed Gods. Uzric is also a toad-summoner, a rare skill possessed by a few Boglanders. It is a  skill more useful than strangers might expect, an adult bog toad is the size of a pit-bull, with a temperament to match. 

 The Supervisor of the royal copper smelting workshops with his escort of King's Bodyguards, the rust of their armour denotes their veteran status.

I having a lot of fun painting these, Curtis has created some characterful minis.

A First Look at Boglanders!

I finally got around to unpacking my latest Kickstarter, Boglanders from Ramshackle Games. I have quite a few odds and ends of Ramshackle products in my collection, I love the quirkiness that Curtis puts into his designs. When I saw the ad for Boglanders I was hooked, but what would I use them for? Fantasy, Gothic Horror, VSF or Post Apocalyptic? Well it turned out my dilemma was easily solved, because Curtis was providing separate arms with medieval, black powder and futuristic weaponry!

These photos show the figures in their bare resin, as they come out of the box. They need washing and trimming before painting.

 The whole kit and caboodle, 45 individual figures, over a hundred arms and 36 tokens (plus a few other odds and ends).

The Boglanders are certainly a trifle bizarre, such as the Royal party shown here, with the Royal Pulmentumancer and his augury-reading stew!

Most of the figures are armless, which lends them to various uses....

...futuristic sci-fi or post apocalyptic...

...black powder/VSF...

...or fantasy!

This is a trial run at painting one of these models. The chap was a bonus model, I can see him in a VSF/Steampunk game.

Or maybe something post-apocalyptic?

Some of the brilliant collection of little critters which come with the set, I can see multiple uses as assorted gribblies in different genres!

I'll post more of these as I get them tidied up and painted, I can see them giving me a lot of fun!