Conan: Sabretooth Tiger

Two posts in two days and it looks like a third may even be coming tomorrow (though more likely Thursday)!  I've obviously hit my stride when it comes to the monsters in Conan as I've managed to knock out the Sabretooth Tiger now, again a decent table top standard done in around two hours all told.

I took the photo this morning so the lighting wasn't the best but again I tried to match the box as best I could within the restraints I've put on myself.
After I snapped this chap I started on the Dragon and pretty much got it finished within an hour (not sure what's in by breakfast cereal these days), I just need to give him a couple of sprays of matt varnish to finish.

Forces of Nature: Mushroom Cottage

Amy has been painting up more than me recently (more on the miniatures soon) and has just finished another great scenery piece from Hysterical Games, a Mushroom Cottage:

Once she has finished the three Shell Cottages and I've painted up the Engineer's Cottage from World Of Twilight we're going to have quite the village!

Conan: Crossbowmen and Demon of the Earth

Well it's been longer than I planned since my last post put Papa Nurgle deemed me worthy enough to receive his blessing on Christmas Eve and I've been out of action since then.  However from mid last week the wind was back in my sails so I cracked on with the Crossbowmen that had been sitting on my desk for far to long by that point.

Again these were just a "quick" table top job to get them ready to play, not exactly my best work but far better than bare plastic.

After the length of time those fellows had been on my desk I felt like getting through something quickly so I opted for the Demon of the Earth, a nice miniature we've not used yet but hopefully will do soon.  Again I wanted to stick as closely as possible to the art but I went slightly more brown on this one as the Swamp Demon is quite a lush green and I wanted them to stand apart.

For an hour's work I'm quite happy with how he turned out.

I've now moved on to the Sabre-tooth Tiger and managed to get most of the ground work done on it this morning so I'll hopefully have some finished images soon.

Forces of Nature: Tree Spirits

A quick update from Amy who has completed her Foundry Tree Spirits, they will be mixed in with various Dryads and other Woodland creatures to make up a KOW unit or will just be on their own for games of Dragon Rampant.

Next up for Amy is a Giant Owl from Otherworld Miniatures.

Conan: Black Dragons, Giant Wolves and The Black Ones

After the completion of my Ork army I decided that I wanted to get stuck into the Conan add-ons as we've now played through the box scenarios and are going through the campaign at the moment plus the Book Of Set is due early next year.

These miniatures will not only be used for the Monolith game (which we're really enjoying) but also the RPG from Modiphius, which is due later next, and of course Dragon Rampant which I'm personally really looking forward to.
There is nothing special with the paint jobs, just quick and easy table top standard so we can get them on the table sooner rather than later.

Next up on the painting table are the crossbowmen but I probably won't be able to make a proper start on them until next week due to festive preparations this week (and Star Wars on Sunday!).

Kickstarter Focus: Core Space by Battle Systems

Just a quick post today to draw your attention to another Kickstarter, this time from the great chaps at Battle Systems called Core Space.

Battle Systems are best known for their pre-printed card terrain (it's superb to use and you can see what you can expect from them in this earlier post of mine ) however this campaign is for a new sci-fi skirmish game.  It looks like its going to be a blast to play and uses their terrain, of which you'll be receiving a very nice amount, interactively for missons/looting etc.

Head over to Kickstarter and check them out, I've also put some key images and videos below for the game:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1621774283/core-space/description 

What you get in the core box (minus stretch goals)

Painted miniatures in the terrain (the game is also compatible with their other terrain)

Two 'Let's Play' videos form Beasts Of War

And lastly my favourite, the Titan Pledge

Forces of Nature: Mushimen, Earth Elemental and a Bakery

Two posts in one day!  However this one is to give an update on some of the things my other half Amy has been working on recently.  As some of you know she has quite a large and varied Forces of Nature army that she is working on for use in various different games (KOW and Dragon Rampant being the two major ones) and it's quite the eclectic mix of ranges.

First up we have the Mushimen from Toad Kings Castings which she picked up from their Kickstarter but are now available from their webstore.  She's planning on picking up some more of these to flesh them out into a full Dragon Rampant army as well as for potential use in KOW: Vanguard.

Next up we have a Harlequin Games Earth/Rock Elemental that was picked up from Wargames Foundry last year:

Lastly we have a Gnome Bakery from Hysterical Games, this was picked up from Salute last year along with some of the other great scenery from Hysterical which are currently in here painting queue:

I'll be posting more of Amy's progress on the blog as it comes.