More Cheap Dungeon Minions

 

I painted up a few more 1/72 plastics for my dungeon gaming, as well as the Anubis Army pack I now have some Caesar Orcs to use as goblin-type foes. 

First up- 3 more Anubis warriors.

Then the Caesar orcs, which were also very quick to paint up with contrast paints.

A couple of in-game shots.

And a size comparison shot, L-R Oathmark Elf, Caesar Orc, Dark Alliance Anubis Warrior.

VSF Ottomans on land and sea!

 I picked up a couple more of the PMC VSF resin kits on Ebay, another tracked steam tractor and a steam landing craft. Sadly all the VSF kits in the range are still OOP, but I keep my fingers crossed that Minifigs might get around to restoring them to production at some point.

Of course, I needed some crew (and I still had an Ironclad electric cannon that required manning), so when my sister-in-law asked what I wanted for Christmas, I gave her a small list from the Tiger Miniatures Balkans Ware ranges!

Taking a break from fantasy I decided to to get my new Ottoman kit table-ready!

First up the PMC steam landing craft. I couldn't see me having a lot of use for a landing craft, so decided to make it an armed barge instead. I'd got a deck gun in my Christmas gift package, but unfortunately the gun's barrel came just below the top of the barge's side. I made a gun platform from a couple of circular mdf bases I had to hand and now the gun can be fired without fear a blowing a hole in the barge's side!!!

I can always take the gun and platform out if I need a troop transporter at any time for a game.

Now the crew for the two steam tractors and the electric cannon.

A useful bunch of additions to my VSF forces for the Balkans. I'm looking forward to getting them on the table now!

Cheap Dungeon Minions - 1/72 plastics

 I have been playing a lot more Sellswords dungeon-type scenarios recently, so I have been painting up my Blacklist Games Fantasy kickstarter with grey bases to use in these games. The problem is that for these sort of games you need a lot of low-level minion types (orcs/goblins sort of thing). I literally have hundreds of orcs and goblins in my Tolkien armies, but they are all based for outside terrain. It doesn't look right to me for minis in a dungeon to have grass and tufts in earth bases. So I need a bunch of low-level monsters that will be quick to paint and cheap. I thought about getting a box or two of the various multi-part critters for Oathmark or similar, but I don't like sticking all the bit together. 

 

Browsing the net, I came across a review of these on the Plastic Soldier Review site. I have already got some of the 1/72 monsters from this manufacturer in my 28mm collection, the War Trolls and Cyclops sets, so I knew that the quality should be acceptable.

The review stated the height as 29mm, so I thought they might be worth a look. Shopping around I found a box for a tenner including postage (40 figures at 25p each!).

In the box you get 4 identical sprues, so 10 poses.

Here are the first minis with a quick paint job and some in-game shots with a Blacklist Games human and an Oathmark elf.

I am quite happy with the results, so I'll get a bunch painted up for my next dungeon games. I may also have a look at some more of the 1/72 plastics now.

Boglanders 5 - Post Apocalyptic and Fantasy

 I've had fun putting some more of the Ramshackle Games Boglanders together, starting with some mutants for our next Mutants and Death Ray Guns game.

These three are looking for trouble! I have just attached the heavy weapon with some tacky wax so that I have the option of swapping it out for a sniper rifle if the scenario requires it.

More conventional (?) fantasy Boglanders, three of the skull-taker cult.

I wasn't sure what to do with this mini, so I gave him a variety of arms.

A wandering wise sage to assist a party of heroic adventurers?

A reliable guide through the darkness?

Or a bad-tempered old git with attitude, "Do you feel lucky, punk?"

And after my last game of Sellswords in a dungeon, I painted up a couple more of the Blacklist Games fantasy KS minis, to fill in some gaps in my selection of characters. 

Tenfold Dungeon - The Castle

 Well after leaving it sitting on my shelves for over 6 months (!!!!) I finally got around to opening up my other Tenfold Dungeon set, The Castle.

Utterly brilliant! I'll let the pictures do most of the talking....

So, what's in the box?

As with the other Tenfold Dungeons products, the terrain is designed to store away inside itself to save space on the shelf.

The Castle give you 8 rooms of varying sizes and 4 corridors.

And again everything is double-sided, so that smaller rooms could be utilised as platforms inside larger ones.

It also contains 3 sheets of double-sided terrain. Walls, a trapdoor and ladder, various staircases and 22 doors, in open and closed formats. Plus a load of plastic clips to hold everything together.

The castle also has a D&

D adventure module. I haven't played D&D since the Seventies, but I will look at this with a view to converting it for Sellswords and Spellslingers.

All in all this is a great set, better than the Dungeons and Sewers set in my opinion, I feel it offers more options. However I think combining the two will give endless possibilities.

The plastic clips make it very robust in use, just the doorway clips held 6 rooms together, allowing me to slide the whole set-up across the table to make room to fit the next room in.

Like the Dugeons and Sewers set this has so much potential beyond just Fantasy, it has uses for VSF, Gothic Horror, Pulp and more.

Here are some pictures of the set in use for it's first game.

Open the door a crack and tell me what you can see.....

.....shut the door! SHUT THE DOOR!!!

Boglanders 4 plus some footpads

 I have managed to get a load more bits and pieces from the Boglanders painted.

Here's a group photo of the latest bunch!

With 63 different arms in the set, I wanted to be able to keep my options open for some of the minis. I like the idea of being able to swap arms around as required for different scenarios or genres.

So I am experimenting with this stuff, Tacky Wax. It's used a lot by railway modelers to place items in static displays, so that they can be re-positioned as needed. I thought I would give it a try and see if it holds arms firmly enough for use in gaming.

And here is the result.

This one is a really weird mutant that seems to be a bonus mini, it certainly did not appear in the original listing on Kickstarter. I felt he/it? has a post-apocalyptic vibe so I've chosen appropriate arms for that. I can see him appearing in a Mutants and Death Ray Guns scenario sometime soon.

Back to fantasy, these are the Wicker Wearers, a cult of warrior poets. (Boglanders are renowned for their bad poetry). Their armour is fairly effective, made from the roots of Bog Willows which as almost as hard as iron.

A collection of Bog Toads (a "Knot" apparently). 

Some of the food tokens, I am sure I will find a use for these.

A fine assortment of treasure chests, eagerly sort by adventurers of all kinds....

....of course they need to watch out for mimic monsters!

Just for something different, I painted up a few Eureka cut-purses and footpads that had been sitting in my painting pile since I undercoated them last summer!