Let Slip the Robo Dogs of War

One of the Wargaming magazines was giving away a sprue of robot war dogs. I decided to do paint them as rusted, decaying and long abandoned having presumably been too successful in killing humans!

Flying Arrows

These Strelets archers really are lost in the land of the giants

The dread words...

The dread words...I hoovered up some of your soldiers and a bottle of something.

Folderol

War Trolls Set 3 from Dark Alliance. Still have one to paint up. For this I used mostly Model Color paints which gave a more nuanced effect than Citadel. I did use Citadel for the metals although I experimented with mixing with some colours which seem to work quite well. For the base I used astrogranite texture from Citadel with MIG weathering pigments (city dust and black smoke).

In Khazad-dûm, in Moria

In the days of Durin the Great, the Dwarves crossed Middle Earth and founded their great kingdom the Dwarrodelf, Khazad-dûm, Moria.

Dark Alliance Dwarves Set 2

A Balrog of Morgoth

 'The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane.' (Gandalf)

Dark Alliance Dwarves set 2.

Dark Alliance Fire Demon

Take No Chances

A quick blow to the head to make sure.

Orc from Dark Alliance. Knight from Valdemar.

The Bruce

This is King Robert the Bruce, during the Scottish Wars of Independence - specifically the Battle of Bannockburn of 1314.

Figures are from the 'Scotland Forever' set by Valdemar Miniatures.

Background image is not Scotland, as residents of Stirling and Falkirk will attest, but rather Sebastiao Salgado's image of Alaska.

Sons of the Desert

The Lawrence of Arabia set from Strelets sat on the shelf for a while. But then I rewatched the amazing David Lean movie and it could languish no longer.

Men of the Lakelands

From the Strelets set English Men-at-arms XIII-XIV Century

Bronze Troll of the Mountains

A streltsi gunman faces a horror in the mountains.

The Amazon and the White Stag

In a distant forest the wandering Amazon encounters a white stag, who leads her to a lost temple. Both from Dark Alliance Mounted Amazons. Background image from Bernie and the Demon by Hari.

Ghâsh Olog

The Dark Lord also bred specialist trolls. Here we see an example of the Ghâsh-Olog, the fire troll. I played around a lot with this model, using some MiG pigments and effects, it was fun and I learned some useful techniques! Figures are Dark Alliance 1/72 War Trolls. Credit for the backdrop - the sculpture 'striking likeness' by David Mach.

The Tudors meet Vincent

The last of the Tudors below. These 1/72 Linear-b figures paint up really well. As you can see I have borrowed a backdrop from Vincent Van Gogh - The old church tower at Nuenen. I also employed a fair bit of Photoshop, in particular using the healing brush tool to change the bases into shadows for the latter few images. The jury is out on that effect, let me know what you think.