Stirland: a rip-off of The Guide to the Empires East March

[Tiny]

I have a bunch of those Wargames Factory skeletons in my hordes and they were not nice to build at all. The Wargames Atlantic ones were quite a lot nicer to build, as were the Oathmark skeletons. The WGA ones benefitted from swapping the heads to fit the GW look as they come with massive melon skulls.

I heartily recommend Citadel Skeleton Horde contrast paint for rapid skeleton painting. I used it extensively and it makes painting bony boys a lot faster.

 

[Ben_S]

The gw skeletons from the early 90s are still my favourites.

I still have some of those. I'd buy them again if they were still available. Absent that, I'd probably go for the Oathmark ones these days.

 

[Stoof]

The old GW ones were definitely the best. I would also buy them again in an instant. Then they started moulding armour etc onto them which tied them to a fantasy/historical setting and they stopped being so useful for anywhere you needed a skeleton.

Wargames Factory are closest to that golden age... but why oh why with the separate feet and spines... so delicate...

 

[CaptainDangerous]

WIP: one of them couldn’t keep hold of his crossbow, and another has tilt his own head back in a maniacal skeleton laugh.

 

[CaptainDangerous]

Nearly there:

 

[CaptainDangerous]

Done!:

 

[Stoof]

They look very nice. Now, where are those Argonauts...

 

[MusingWarboss]

They look really good!!

Now do we get the opportunity to sing: “Them bones, them bones, them… dry (brushed) bones…”

 

[CaptainDangerous]

Jumping back to the empire for a second, I made a couple of frames to be able to house the leftover bits from the cannon kit! Got the wheels from a Tamiya kit. Iv mounted one to the front and one to the rear, but I’m not sure on either. Hopefully I’ll like them a bit better when they’ve got more gribblies and paint on?

 

[Stoof]

Trunnions behind the wheel axle is better imo (more realistic too).

 

[Biggle_Bear]

I agree with Stoof. It looks more stable somehow.

 

[spafe]

bah, who wants stability!

 

[CaptainDangerous]

Ummm, perhaps my miliput didn’t cure as much as I would have like…

…as in, didn’t cure at all!!!

I went to adjust it and it literally crumbled!
Hoist by my own petard!

 

[CaptainDangerous]

Iv been trying to explain to normies that I don’t play with toy soldiers, but that I am a wargames miniature hobbyist! And that I don’t merely paint little plastic men, but breath life and character into representations of fictional people living in extraordinary, fantastical and dangerous realities!…

…anyway, I took some pictures the other day…

9 out of 10 people looked, took it all in, and were like “I like the green light” …

 

[Ben_S]

I was going to say 'I like the green light' but instead perhaps I'll say 'are those WHQ floor tiles being used as floors?'

 

[CaptainDangerous]

…Oh, you like the little green light… the thing I just found five minutes ago in my box of junk?
…Not the piles of plastic iv spent hundreds of pounds and dozens of hours assembling and painting!?
…….thanks.


But yeah, I was playing a hybrid version of frostgrave/WHQ the day before with biggle and ardavion, and it was a ‘hmm, I wonder?’ moment!
I think they look pretty good tho!