This week I have mostly been painting.....

[Karak Norn Clansman]

Every collection needs its share of animals (and civilians). Fine paintjobs.

[Harry]

Wonderfull job as always Harry, that's quite the menagerie you got there !

I have a soft spot for cats of all size, so those are my favourites ... but the bears a very nice too !

Do you mind telling me where you got those Frogs ... I'm searching for some to use for the "frog scroll" in WFB, Forge World does nice ones, but only two variants, and quite typed (a "normal" and a "Tzeentch" one), and I would love some natural frogs to stick on 20mm and 25mm base for my games ...

Thanks very much.

The frogs are Citadel miniatures believ it or not. They are quite old scilpts .... back in the first Citadel compendium days ... they are C22 creatures I think. (off the top of my head without checking) Not sure where you would get hold of any these days other than ebay.

I fell like GW did re-release one more recently though as well ... maybe with a Bretonnian release???
With Morganna??

This plog never fails to amaze... Great collection of nicely painted animals! The frogs are my favorite by far, those eyes are great!

No eyes on the scorpions? Shame

What the hell colour eyes does a scopion have?

... and thanks.

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Shame for the mold line.

Bloomin' mould lines. Grrrrrr.

Not to steal Harry's thunder, but you can look at Reaper, there a small toad in a familiar pack (here, plus you can buy only the toad). The Reaper's one is very small though, it take about a quarter of a 20mm base.

But I'm also intrigued by Harry's frogs, they are better suited for that use, bigger (and kinda cute!) so you can actually see them on the bases!

Realy nice animals otherwise Harry, I particularily like the stripped cat, and the bears tatoos are a nice touch too.

And you probably answered this a dozen of time already, but what's the base colors for your bases? I'm looking for some transition bases between my TK and VC for all the random monsters and units I'm buying recently (for collection and/or use for SoM). I was thinking making some Badland-esque bases to have them fit better with everyting, and I quite like how you do yours, light brown soil, some gray rock and touches of green.

Thanks. Glad you like the tats. I was pleased with them.

Beastial brown drybrushed with snakebite leather and bleached bone mixes and then paint the little stones after.
Exactly the same reason i went for these my Chaos and VC are on scorched brown bases and my TK on sand bases ... I wanted something inbetween for my 'standard bases'.

Swarms and critters - I definitely need to get hold of more of those for Warhammer Quest.

What do you need?

The war paint on those bears is really cool. Well done, Harry.

Thanks very much. I am considering doing something similar to the others ... can't decide.

It's always a lot of fun to check in and see what' you've been up to. Love the bears, cats, dogs and especially the frogs! Who makes the frogs?

Thanks. ... and see first reply.

They're a few pages back now , I hope you're not going to make me go searching! There was a Pegasus, amongst other things, that I'm still hoping will reappear with reinforcements.

I like your critters, the frogs are cute, and the warpaint works really well on the bears. Speaking of which, I'm looking for some big cats (and/or bears) that would be big enough to use as cavalry mounts. Any ideas?

Ohhhh those. Yes I will return to those when GW returns to DE .... I still had scouts and witch elves to do from the old marauder stuff and I have some of the more recent stuff to pait as well as another seperate army based a round the corsairs, scouts and and dark riders ... as a raidng force.

Well these bears are certainly big enough. (but sell for silly money on ebay) The only big cats i have seen that are big enough for mounts and they are great sculpts are the old grenadier sabre tooths with barbarians on their backs ..... they are still available from Mirliton (sp?)

I fourth this.. where did the frogs come from? They would be perfect for a theme I have in mind!

See first reply.

All these animal figures are great, especially the lizards and frogs. Such fun and lively little models.

Thanks. Yes they are cute little characters.

Awesome updates on the last 3 pages! So are there any rules for frogs?

Thanks very much.
No I was going to make something up for my Warhammer Quest games ... just to vary the swarms a bit. (instead of more rats, bats or spiders)

It's very odd seeing all those old citadel animals ranked up, it's like Warhammer Armies: Altdorf Zoo.

They look great though, very naturalistic colour schemes.

Thanks ... natuarlistic is what I aim for .... so thanks very much.

Those animals look fantastic

They are used to replace wizards turned into frogs (some kind of dispell scrol) by some people.

I shall use them for that too.

Hi Harry,
Since I have moved to the outsirts of my home city I have to rely on smartphone internet access. I am reading your thread at least once a week. Do not have time to post, though. I think that everyone would agree with me this is one of the nicest (if not the nicest) logs here.
PS. Make sure to check you hotmail TODAY.
M

Thanks very much. I am glad you are still enjoying it.
.... and thanks for the birthday wishes.

Needless to say, I also like the animals very much. Great work! As usual I admire thy speed and quality, Sir!

Thanks very much.

Every collection needs its share of animals (and civilians). Fine paintjobs.

ohhhh civilians.

and thanks.

[Harry]

It was my 46th birthday this weekend .... breath deep boys .... its gone in a wink.

However it meant I got some time off for good behaviour and got some painting done:

I painted a couple more animals:



If anyone has some of these and wants to give me a late birthday present.
(Or trade for something equally obscure. )
I would love three more of these as these two are all I have.
(and I would like to make a group of 5 the same as the other animals).

[Harry]

I also painted up a little something else for my Blood Bowl team.

I have been playing a few games with my halfling team .... and not winning very much.
My team really needs a second treeman ... and so I drafted in a new star player ....

He has been converted slightly.
It amused me the idea of a treeman stepping back into the pocket to launch the long pass .... obviously all done in slow motion.





Here he is with his less converted buddy:



and here is the now complete (and hopefully more successful ) team:





These done I can get stuck into a new team .... Mmmmmm.

[EmperorNorton]

Playing Blood Bowl with a Halfling team is less about winning and more about surviving. The only victories you can really hope for are moral victories.
Still, some of the best and most entertaining matches I have played were with my Halflings, the Southfarthing Suicide Squad. I fondly remember a game against the Goblins played by my FLGS's proprietor where we both only had three guys left standing at the end. And we both had a blast.

I am not a fan of that Treeman model as such (I use the older Fantasy models myself rather than this one), but I like the conversion. And the paintjob is very nice, it makes the face stand out without it looking unnatural.

As the things you are painting occasionally foreshadow future releases, is there still hope for a new edition of Blood Bowl this year?

[Solun Decius]

The converted long-pass treeman looks excellent! Could you convert it just be bending the metal, or did you have to cut it?

The boars, are they the an old GW boar-boyz boar? Which kit are they from?

[Daniel36]

Seriously, you just don't stop, do you? And you even manage to squeeze in models most of us have never seen before on an almost daily basis to boot... Tsk...

You know what would be super duper awesome? If you gave us a battle report of two of your armies squaring it off... If I am not mistaken you have a really cool Chaos army already, and I am sure that you can squeeze out an equal amount of points for your High Elves.

Go for it!

[mrtn]

Nice, I like those piggywiggies!

The company that make the Grenadier sabre tooth tiger riding barbarians is indeed Mirliton.

Oh, and since it was your birthday: Grattis på födelsedagen!

[Harry]

Playing Blood Bowl with a Halfling team is less about winning and more about surviving. The only victories you can really hope for are moral victories.
Still, some of the best and most entertaining matches I have played were with my Halflings, the Southfarthing Suicide Squad. I fondly remember a game against the Goblins played by my FLGS's proprietor where we both only had three guys left standing at the end. And we both had a blast.

I am not a fan of that Treeman model as such (I use the older Fantasy models myself rather than this one), but I like the conversion. And the paintjob is very nice, it makes the face stand out without it looking unnatural.

As the things you are painting occasionally foreshadow future releases, is there still hope for a new edition of Blood Bowl this year?

LOL Yes ... I honestly don't expect to win any more than I do now.

Older than this one? This one was in the red catalogue .... you mean the version of this guy without the helmet that came before this guy? Or do you mean the pre slotta treeman?

We can only hope. This time last year I was certain it was coming but following a couple of things I ahve heard i am not so sure.
But it is best to be prepared just in case .. right?

The converted long-pass treeman looks excellent! Could you convert it just be bending the metal, or did you have to cut it?

The boars, are they the an old GW boar-boyz boar? Which kit are they from?

Thanks. No cuts I just bent it. unfirtunately because I couldn't decide exactly where I wanted the hand it went back and forth to many times and came off so had to be pinned back on again.

The boars are Jes Godwins from the Elven beastmasters back in the red catalogue.

What is this "kit" of which you speak? Is that something made by Airfix?

Seriously, you just don't stop, do you? And you even manage to squeeze in models most of us have never seen before on an almost daily basis to boot... Tsk...

You know what would be super duper awesome? If you gave us a battle report of two of your armies squaring it off... If I am not mistaken you have a really cool Chaos army already, and I am sure that you can squeeze out an equal amount of points for your High Elves.

Go for it!

I do try not to stop .... but life keeps getting in the way.
I do have some stuff that wasn't on the ark with Noah .... I will try and paint something up that you youngsters wiill recognise.

Mmmm ... battle reports not really my thing. Maybe one day. I take a fe wshots the next time I get a game in.

By the way .... I have not forgotton you ... I have a nice little pile of things set to one side for you and every time I come across something interesting or some old dungeon delver you won't have seen before I add them to your pile.

[Harry]

Nice, I like those piggywiggies!

The company that make the Grenadier sabre tooth tiger riding barbarians is indeed Mirliton.

Oh, and since it was your birthday: Grattis på födelsedagen!

Thanks.

Thanks for the confirmation .... and the spelling correction.

and ... presuming that isn't something rude like 'Get stuffed Grandpa' .... then thanks very much.

[EmperorNorton]

Older than this one? This one was in the red catalogue .... you mean the version of this guy without the helmet that came before this guy? Or do you mean the pre slotta treeman?

No, I mean the regular WHFB Treemen before the current one, this one and the other one corresponding to this one (which I currently can't find a picture of).
I just gave them some very crude shoulder pads made out of green stuff to put their player numbers on.

[Eyrenthaal]

and ... presuming that isn't something rude like 'Get stuffed Grandpa' .... then thanks very much.

Not quite, he was trying to be nice.. But I like the way you think.. ;-)

[Baggers]

As always Harry your models amaze me. I'm sitting at work wanting to really get painting - sigh. I do have to ask. Do you have much of the earlier Lord of the Rings models from the late eighties and I seem to remember that you did the Balrog as a bloodthirster, a while back.

Also I think, in answer to your question about recent GW frog releases, is they came with Morgeana Le Fay, or however its spelt.

[Harry]

No, I mean the regular WHFB Treemen before the current one, this one and the other one corresponding to this one (which I currently can't find a picture of).
I just gave them some very crude shoulder pads made out of green stuff to put their player numbers on.

Ohhh that one.
Love those ... I have some amongst my woodies I need to paint and one in my wood elf Blood Bowl Team ... I need to paint.

Not quite, he was trying to be nice.. But I like the way you think.. ;-)

Phew. Thats OK then.

As always Harry your models amaze me. I'm sitting at work wanting to really get painting - sigh. I do have to ask. Do you have much of the earlier Lord of the Rings models from the late eighties and I seem to remember that you did the Balrog as a bloodthirster, a while back.

Also I think, in answer to your question about recent GW frog releases, is they came with Morgeana Le Fay, or however its spelt.

Thanks ... and sorry you are stuck in work.
Yes I do. I have the fellowship and a selection of the others.
I might give them a bash when the hobbit is released.

I think your right it was with the 5th edition Morgeana. I will change the earlier reply to include that. Thanks.

[Thitanium Prince]

I love those boars and the halfling team is outstanding, the yellow is a striking color for them

[Harry]

I love those boars and the halfling team is outstanding, the yellow is a striking color for them

Thanks very much. In fairness the scheme is adapted from the one that appeared in WD when these minis first came out. The green and yellow seemed to work so i stuck with it.

[Harry]

Sticking with specialist games ....

I have painted up a Norse fleet for my Man-O-War games:

[Eyrenthaal]

This is some wonderful minis.. Do you have à LOT of MoW? I bought the game with the expansions a couple of years back but never managed to get a game in, how does it play?

Sticking with specialist games ....

I have painted up a Norse fleet for my Man-O-War games:

[Harry]

This is some wonderful minis.. Do you have à LOT of MoW? I bought the game with the expansions a couple of years back but never managed to get a game in, how does it play?

Yes ... I collected all of it. I was lucky enough to be around when they were selling it off cheap when they took the specialist games out of the stores. so I completed most of my fleets when I had the chance ... thinking it might be gone forever.

It plays great ... it is one of my favorite games. it is a bit counter heavy to keep track ... especially when you have a big game. you need a table nearly as big as the game table for all the templates and counters .... but aside from that it is great fun. (Like most of the specialist games).

[Baggers]

Thanks ... and sorry you are stuck in work.
Yes I do. I have the fellowship and a selection of the others.
I might give them a bash when the hobbit is released.
.

I would say go for it. I'm going to (re)start a plog when the Hobbit comes out. I've got a load of the current GW LOTR range (which in my humble opinion has some of the fineist model GW have ever made) to paint up and I keep getting tempted by the old stuff.

Good work on the Man O War stuff as well. A game I know little about.