Saturday, May 12, 2012

Kobold War Party


 Well...there's only three of them, and three Kobolds don't amount to much...unless, of course, they happen to be Tucker's Kobolds...so maybe it's more of a Kobold get-together, or a Kobold dinner party or something...rather than a War Party.  This is all I have and/or can find of this wonderful old Grenadier set...I have the axeman somewhere...and will paint him up as soon as I can find him, but he's hiding for now...the fifth and hardest to come by is the fellow with the spaghetti-strainer helmet and the warhammer...I been looking for him for ages, as well...but packs from this beautiful old Official D&D line seem to have not been made in particularly great numbers...and show up on ebay only rarely...




This swordsman has always been my favorite, I think...always figured he was probably the leader of the pack...
 The clubber...
 The other swordsman...


 The old monster card from many a moon ago...there were wide differences of opinion amoung the various D&D illustrators as to what Kobolds looked like.  The resemblance between these figures and the old depiction of the monster in the MONSTER CARD is unmistakable, though.  They're obviously related.


I can remember being a little kid, playing with this set, when Reagan was President....
Ah...Nostalgia!

Monday, May 7, 2012

Mayor Broadbelly's Volunteers

 I've always intended that my Warhammer Fantasy human collection would be ambiguously Bretonnian/Imperial.  I like both army lists, and want to be able to hop back and forth betwixt 'em....
Both Army lists in WARHAMMER ARMIES include peasant levy infantry, and the Bretonnian Army list makes at least 20 Peasant levies mandatory, so I thought they'd be a good place to start.  Armed and imperiled home owners lend themselves to all sorts of 'Magnificent Seven/Sven' and 'Bloodbath at Orc's Drift' scenarios, so that was also a motivator...

 ...another was the fact that my painting still sucks, but nobody expects a mob of impromptu militia to look all that great, anyway....These were the first figures I painted with my REAPER paint set, although the red used on the banner and the leader's shirt are GW blood red...the REAPER reds are curiously muted and sorta brown...but I like to paint in earthy, muddy colors, so I'm actually really liking the paints...Just needed to pick up a few bright reds and yellows from GW to round things out...
Captain of Volunteers Brom Broadbelly in his famous red 'battle shirt'...The troopers in the unit and the converted standard bearer are all OLD GLORY figures from their REVOLTING PEASANTS line...not super-splendidly characterful or detailed, but I like them well enough and at $30 for a bag of 30 figures, there's no cheaper, faster way to build massed metal armies that I know of.  On the bagpiper and on Mayor Broadbelly, I went ahead and spent a few bucks on old 80's figures by Citadel on ebay...

 This unit totals out at 36 figures...plenty to fill out the Bretonnian army list requirement...but there's more coming...I've got another unit of 42 figures waiting in the wings...and about twenty peasant archers coming...
 Garn!  Snotlings in the grain silo again!  Best clear 'em out before dinner!
 Hey! You Goblins get off my lawn!


 The peasant militia entry for Bretonnian militia from WARHAMMER ARMIES

...and the Empire entry