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!

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

Dwarves

One bunch of Dwarves just getting down to the finishing touches...

...And another just getting started.



After a few early disasters which are now soaking in Pine Sol, I think I'm finally getting comfortable with the REAPER paint set.  Even someone with my miserably limited painting ability can create a passable-looking figure, once you get used to the...subtlety, I guess, of a lot of the colors.

No chance of finishing these fellows before I'm off for a week with the National Guard, so they'll just be sitting here for a while.  When they're finally done, I'll have the meat  and bones of a Dwarf army...80 Dwarves in four regiments, plus wizard, Golem and Bolt Thrower.

The Green Gaunt

The Green Gaunt haunts riverbanks and reedy pools, from which he can snatch an unwary pet or child with his powerful arms and vanish without trace.
I've loved this figure since I was a kid, and recently picked it up in the old Grenadier Fantasy Monsters boxed set for a lousy ten bucks on ebay.  Woo Hoo!