Merry Christmas and Happy Dwarfcember

Hi, First I wish you all a Happy Christmas time diring these so unexpected situation..

I made celebraron ay home, only me with Mrs Sceava Domina and my three Sceavimini. Sushi, Pizza and Cartoons, and ready for waiting Mr Papá Noel .aka. S. Klaus. A different Christmas Eve, calm, simple and Happy anyway.

Now I show you some last results with resin 3d printed figures from Speira Miniatures : Dwarf slayer Grungnir Gotreksson and his Wild daughter Falya Grungnirsdotter.

Beautiful models with very good results even with an "amateur" painting as mine.

Then an old project which I could retake: beside the special figure from Alliance cimmerians, I took one increíble Warrior girl, again from Speira mins:

By Crom, let me introduce to you Conan the Barbarian, and Red Sonja she-Devil with a sword !!!

Pictures if them but also other mixed Pic with different 1/72 figs and the previous Dwarf family for comparison

Finnally: As an addition to my Dwarf forces , another Speira Dwarf, a good Runesmith, for whom I found a good mobile Anvil-platfom... (It is a plastic Dwarf miner vagon /grudge pony from GW Warhammer Fantasy Battles...Bought at second hand just Today..marches so good my 1/72 dwarves...My last Christmas present)

Just started the project, but I like It...Please imaginé It for now as an Alternative Santa- tribute on Mithril sleigh :)

Should we start a new year tradición for this month of Dwarfcember??

Time travelling

 Hi, ley me show you what I found in local 2nd hand shop..

Original loose unpainted Revell Normans, Gauls, HYW English and hyw French...

And extreme cheap!!

I Will go for more..It is my chance to repaint them all with my nowadays 2020 fortunately better skills than 1995 

Epic Sunday Experience

As it was cold, we have a funny family entertainment, my three little children leading the forces of the  Living against my army of the Dead

Of ourse, it is very educative for little boys and girls to command  wild warriors , men of the Night Watch and armored noble knights, in order behead  dad´s zombies and using Noble Maidens to throw magic spells to heal troops and weaken the enemy :)

My second boy had not Fear in thworing all warriors in a direct bloody berserker charge to my forces.

Total succes. 

Very recommendable  Experience :)

Big Buddies

 Hello, I painted these children some weeks ago but finnally I made some pics

The technique I used for the Trolls was really fast and effective (Necrotic yellow as priming-base and then soft shade with blue..it works!!)They Will join my Big orc Horde

Then I painted a Big Hills Giant...I liked his "scottish" look..:)

Hope you like that, including the Big unicorn...

Speira Miniatures

 Hello, I am dispersed again in many initiatives,and using very bad my few time and energíes..

Let me show nevertheless the very beautiful figures printed un high quality 3d resina by Speira Miniatures 

www.speira.net

Christian and Hellen deliver an excellent service and product. As customer I had to wait around 3 weeks for my figures to be manufactured and shipped but I was really worth of It...

Here just some samples of high quality 3d printed 1/72 fantasy dwarves, compared and mixed with many other dwarves in my collection and growing Army 

I was a little worried about the scale but O believe they match the 1/72 properly. Their proportions are maybe in the "heroic scale" being sturdier than other 1/72 dwarves, but the charachters or heroes fit so good as such (maybe Plain trooper types product no so good integration in a regiment with other Warriors, bit some examples as here look not bad..They might be used as captains however still)

female dwarves look so good.I had the chance to order them bearded butbthey looked too masculin then (maybe in a figure order..) Without beard they look good enough and give the chance to show visible dwarven women on Battle!

As you can see, I already thought even a project for a Dwasrven Runesmith carried to battlefiled on a slow buffalo Chariot....

A new Dwarf High King is on the Shield of Power, and some dwaven Warrior Maidens and Malé Berserkers Will find a Place ONG the Slayers... AMD take care! instead a New King maybe you find a new Queen!!

Hope to post painted figures Soon 

I also purchased some humans Who are also very beautiful, but I was first astonished by the dwarves...

More Unsullied and Héroes for Daenerys

Hi, I had no Big advances in any project last days...energy is low..  But I progressed a little with the Targaryen forces for Game of Thrones /Song of Ice and Fire

As I received last purchases including the Dark Alliance "eastern tribes" a.k.a Middle Earth easterlings, I gave them a Chance as reinforcements for the Unsullied eunuch Pikemen of Queen Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons, the Unburnt, etc etc

I took Two of them as sample and included them with the second Unit I am creating of these soldiers (mostly converted atlántic/Nexus greeks . Not disapointed with resuls I have. The Dark colour , round hoplite shields and Spears make all the visual job actually. 

More to be added Soon (the goal is to have four infantry Units of 12 men each)

I also have to finish a Mounted versión of Knight Ser Jorah Mormont (loyal and traitor to her loved Daenerys at same time) and old Knight Ser Barristan Selmy, former member of the Royal Guard , who later Joined the Cause of Daenerys)

Do you recognise original figures for these both charachters?

They join to other charachters I already have, as Greyworm, Missandei or the Queen herself.. Plus Dragons (adult and juvenil versions ready,)

Then also somenunits of dothraki horsemen Must be apso prepared...

Some more recruits receiving their "training" as Unsullied

Men Of Gondor

 

Hello, after investing some time in my prevois Work on a Imperial War griffon which turned to be quite succesful, I moved again to Middle Earth, trying to expand that area with a new important army.

This time is for the human Kingdom of Gondor and the warriors of Minas Tirith

I firstly want to declare: even as big fan of Peter Jackspn trilogy, I never really liked the look of the Gondor troops  there(in comparison with Rohan which I really loved). 

Too uniform looking, too plate, too shiny... It was not the hardened army of an old strong Kingdom in troubles, they were just dressed figurants running all time around and  simulating they were fighting an orc invasion....

I was searching from the beggining for a very different inspiration... According to Tolkien himself, this kingdom was more some kind of representation of Late Roman empire or even Byzantium... So more chainmail, quilt and scale was probably to find ..  And troops could not be very uniform...

Here several nice inspiration pictures I found (not esy to find.. Internet is firstly giving you hunderds of pictures from the Peter JAckson version, inlcuding of course the Games Wirkshop minuatures... I spent some time to get to these: 

The next one was the best inspiration (some converted 28mm normans!! In addition to all previous suggestion pictures,  believed then that long  feudal mail hauberk could also work fine for this faction....

(In the other hand, as extreme alternative I also found other more intrincate designs like classical roman-greek which inspired for example the old mithril miniatures range.. i did not like that version either.)

Then, after deciding the desired look, I had to look for adequate 1/72 recruits... Although some late romans were in my sight too, I decided myself for several orion byzantine troops  and also differentr Strelets Normans 8form which I have a lot rpeeated form Strelets big-sets!)

Here my first tetst company of Minas Tirith infantrymen... I think they match what I had imagined and I like their part.. Now I have to look for some archers and then Cavalry, Ithilien rangers... 

And if it goes good , I will add special troop types ( Knights of Dol Amrtoh, Lossarnach Axemen...)

Preparing to repele some nasty goblins:

Here in simulated ofrmation for game "War of the Ring":