Goblins 'Fousands of 'em!

I've been busy, paining the 60 goblin infantry from BFSP, here's a few poor photos of them. I've gone for a fairly generic night goblin look, with dark robes mostly blacks and browns; with a few blue hoods thrown in. You notice the white moons on the shields, they were going to be yellow, but once I finished the base coat of white I decided I quite liked the white on black look; so have kept with it. When I start the Orcs I will stay with the black, brown and blue colour scheme to make the army look somewhat unified. These goblins aren't fully finished, the flesh still needs shading as do the dwarfs, but at least there now an acceptable gaming standard.

Next up on the painting desk is the spider riders...

Axes of the Dwarves!

WELL the other week I bought the battle for skull pass set, as I can see it going OOP, with the new edition of warhammer this summer.
The plan being: the goblins will help expand my small orc force (from the previous edition stater set, y'know the one with empire and orcs) to 1000pts.

Also, the dwarfes from bfsp will be the nucleus of a 1000pts dwarf army, which hopefully won't be a too expensive project with their 'high' points per dwarf (joke). My idea is to bulk up the warriors and miners to units of about 20, and then add a unit of crossbows and a runesmith and then take stock. I'll post a predicted army list soon.

Anyhoo, here are some pictures of the mostly painted dwarf army, (not the best pics, I know).

Few LOTRs Pics

I know there haven't been post for ages. It's mainly 'cus at uni, I don't really do much on the wargames front.
Anyway, here is a couple of pics of my mordor army (all painted now) fighting my grey company army both about 500pts i think, and a boat I built in a flight of fancy. You can see it has room to trasport the orcs and room for the cross-bow to shoot at the goodies. Also theres a couple of pics of my brothers Harad army too.

A New Direction

Ahh, a brand new year! And a change in what my hobby is about. I'm going to try and focus on one thing for this year. My made-up world. I have yet to name it, but i have a map, drawn by yours truly, I then coloured it in photoshop. In terms of back ground all I have worked out so far is that, Primus will be the main focus of my games, and will no doubt over time develop a in depth story.

Cer-Dyn was once a powerful empire years ago, but now it is diminished, perhaps like Roman or British empires, and is the main enemy of Primus. Years ago they fought the 1st and 2nd Empire Wars, which led to Cer-Dyns loss of power, though there has been a uneasy peace for many years. Nither can afford another big war, just yet.

Secundus, is an off shoot of Primus, It was realised after the 2nd Empire War, that Primus was too large to be administrated. So it was split in two, both are essentially independent, but the government of Secundus is very close to Primus and follows it's lead in all foreign policy, and most home-land policy.

The level of technology is a little advanced of present day Earth, by maybe 50-100 years.
The present Day is the year 601 by the Cer-Dyn calender. About 100 years after the fall of the Cer-Dyn empire.

Thats about it, so far.

Americans!

After several days painting I've finished 12 Americans. Roughly in the 1812 uniform, notice different coloured trousers due to supply shortages. The Sergeant has a head wound, as does a man in the front rank. These are of course the victrix British plastics painted as American infantry for the war of 1812. I've mounted them all on GW 25mm round bases, mainly 'cus i have loads lying around, and i think they work well for skirmishes.
I know its a bad pic. But look you can see my star wars curtains in the background!!

Reinforcements for Mordor.

Some reinforcements for my Mordor Army; Taskmaster and Drummer, The mouth of Sauron, and the siege bow. With these final orcs (and man) my Barad-Dur army reaches 500 points, and so is now complete. Minus some painting of course.  The second shot is of the compleat force. 

• The mouth of sauron
• Taskmaster
• Drummer
• 20 Morannon orcs
• 13 Orcs
• 7 Orcs with bow
• Mordor siege bow

Tactics wise, Hopefully the orcs will out number most good forces, and have the advantage of speed thanks to the drummer. The mouth will use his magic to transfix good heroes, so they can be mobbed and cut down. The taskmaster will run around calling heroic moves where needed. And the bow-orcs and siege bow will try and counteract good bow fire.TBH, I just wanted the siege bow 'cus its cool.

Laters....

more victrix pics

Right, some painted men! first are the British line companies. I've done 3 privates, a sergant and an officer.

In the background you can see all the unpainted men, stood on top of my dvd player.

thats all for now...