Arya and The Hound

Hi, As I was fearing, I could not resist to deviate a little from  big Project of Tolkien stuff..


Here I bring two new characters from JRR Martin "Song of Ice and Fire" (or TV Show "Game of Thrones" as it is more popular)


This time I took Sandor Clegane "The Hound", the tall- burnt face- rough warrior, (brother of Gregor Clegane The Mountain),  who has however some human hidden inner heart;  along with stark´s littlest girl, Arya, more attracted to swords and adventures than to princess tales and beautiful dresses..


This pair have a nice story of initial hate-untrust, converted  (after convivence and hard experiences together) into protection, respect  and even maybe some small kind of father-daugtere-affect relationship..


Here some inspiration images from Tv and the Net..

The figures I toke look in my taste quite close to the charachter, but it is you to judge..


-Hound: Original metal figure from rare Cesar set "Game of  Thrones" (just the same as other Stark and Lannsiter which i posted time ago).. I was not sure about his identity at the begining, but after making a god "defrmaiton  effect"on one side of is face and good painting work,  I think he can be recongnised...


-Arya: i took a plastic 1/72 body (where is he from :)) and a metal head from  a 15mm Demonworld again (i love that range for fantasy conversiosn...)

slowly growing armies: Undead and Greenskins as starter

Hello, not su much to post this time but I wanted to keep this a little alive :))
I show you how big is at the moment my undead army:




Around 60 infantry (I made three melee units, archers at the moment i have so little..) , some vampire and necromancer leaders, some creatures and a single rider..




Plastic figures from:


Good old Caesar set (skeletons and so on)
Dark Alliance "Army of the dead.."
Game pieces form "Battlelore" and "Defenders of the realm" (too big, near 25mm scale, not so bad when mixed)
Some prevously living for several sets-- I found "Mars" teutonic stuff as very useful as undead (becaise of the horrible poses and sculpting...)




Monsters form boardgame "Battlelore" again and "Descent"-- Here yoy find a giant evil bat (some kinf of "Vargheist" or "Varghulf"¿?),  as well as some zombie dogs and wolves Barghests¿?




Metal figs from:


"Blood dawn"- 18mm range which I converted to 1/72 with great fun




Vlad Tepes the Impaler; converted actual Vlad from Lucky Toys, but better equipped with Zvezda armoured body and barded metal warhorse from "Tumbling Dice" miniatures
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Important was trying to get oxided and damaged armours.. I mixed metal paint with brown and added little orange spots.. it worked more or less :)




General overview:

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View of several foot units. I mixed skeleotns and zombies with no criteria.. (I always found a little idiot  the Warhammer concept of having them as separate.. My inspiration is in this case "game of thrones" army of the dead...any corpse is useful for an undead horde) many conversions with previously "living" plastic bodies together with skulls

 

 

4 Lonesome archers (more to come) with the runinng dead monsters on the background

Here the leaders; a sexy vampiress, the undead Lord Vlad the Impaler, and the giant bat or Varghulf in the background.. My single dead cavalry trooper also here (more to come...)

 

 

 .. And for more fun, I stafted also the greenskin hordes wich must fight againsdt my elf eagle rider and troops...

First some goblins..  I mixed one GW Snotlings with some nice 15mm orcs I bought formn Mirliton (Italy) the do look OK as goblins, next to the 1/72 Conan characer and his dwarf ally!


Caesar goblin also for comparison (size is compatible)

Those Goblins were not  match at all for the mighty cimmerian, so that  some orc brutes are also joining the battle as reinforcement!




Figs form Cesar sets I and II,  Blood Dawn (shadiw corp.) 15mm ogres (quite good for 1/72 orcs again),  the chieftain is a metal grenadier half-orc,  and  in the lot also even another metal  mithril venerable figure... 


A pair of smaller "snaga" are there, form Dark Alliance set I (snaga are a lower rank in orc society, the word means "slave", so I will considerate every smaller orc form Alliance and even GW Moria orcs as these.. not so small as goblins but no much dignity either)

At the moment I have around 70 undead, 40 elves, 40 dwarves and these small 15 troop orc contingent.. Humand I must reorganize

My plan before my live ends, is to get following armies, of around 300-400 troop each (big challenge!) probably my elder son (or grandson ?)will go on this...

FANTASY

-Orc and goblin

-Uruk-hai-Isengard

-Elf (wood+high elf together)

-Dwarf

-Chaos (chaos warriors+barbarians+demons+beastmen all together)

-Undead--also suitable for white Wlakers if I find those walkers..

-Gondor/Human--

-Haradrim/hUman and oliphants

-Rohan (smaller: 100-200)

-Some kind of skaven -ratmen(i have funny figures here, metal from Splintered loght, in adition to Cesar plastic..)

-Treemen/Ents- ALMOST READY (ARPUND 20-30 MODELS TO ATTACK iSENGARD :)

-Warhammer empire: RENACENTIST EUROPEAN+CREATURES AND WEAPONS

-bretonia: knights

-Nordheim/Jotunheim: ice giants+scandinavian mythology creatures-small

-House Stark -or northern(smaller army-100-200)

-House  Lannister or southern (smaller army-100-200)

-House targaryen (smaller army-100-200, mercenary+unsullied+nomadic+Dragons)

-Wildlings north of the wall.. still to define

-Cimmerian small army

-Thulsa Doom raiding force-still to define- much to take from Chaos proposals

-Amazons

HISTORIC-

-Egyptian

-Hittite

-Classical greek

-Persian (600 big)

-Republican roman

-Carthaginian

-Gallic

-Hispanic/Iberian

-Parthian/Sassanian (90% horse-around 100-200)-Inlcudes amazons

-Scythian. very much in common with the parthian

-Imperial roman

-Dacian

-Early Germanic

-Late roman

-Late germanic

-Pictish-celtic

-Arthurian (borrowing from other armies)

medieval..

-NORMANS

-VIKINGS

-SAXONS

-TEUTONIC

-RUSSIAN

-MIDDLE EAST CRUSADERS

-MUSLIM/MOORS

Then we jump to Hundred years war, Renaissnce, TYW, Siege if Vienna.. it never ends

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MOTHER OF DRAGONS (i)

Hello again comrades, a long time without posting..

After watching VII Season of Game of Thrones I made a little effort to go on with my forgotten Project about "song of ice and Fire" universe

First of all, you can see some of my inspiration pictures for the Khaleesi , the Unburnt etc...  

I focused first in one of the most epic scens of the show, when releasing slave soldiers in Astapor along with her still three young dragons

Which figures to use? it was easy for me chooSing some dragon hatchlings form Reaper Bones.

They are supposed to be babies in 28mm scale, but they match quite good for 1/72 young dragons

Here is what I get from there:  you have young Drogon (black-red) , Rhaegal (green) and Viserion (yellow-gold)

 For the Queen herself was not easy at all. I finnally decided for a Demonworld 15mm elf mounted sorcerer (these 15mm demonworld are really a good source for special figures!
Daenerys is supposed to be a teenager; the little size of the figure in 1/72 scale gets a decent size match in my opinion! )

I am quite happy wirh te result, even after getting some difficulties  for finding a good hair pale blond colour tone

I mounted her on a Zvezda horse, i must still finish the figure

I will show  when possible, the complete scene with Queen, dragons and maybe additional figures

Evil Guys (ii) little chaos

Hello again, here some more adquisitions and ideas

Firts: another 15mm Demonworld figure, this tiem and evil "rogue knight", he comes form "Icelords of Isthak" faction.

He is quite big for a 15mm fig, so i mounted him on an 1/72 warhorse.. and the result is quirte good. Compare him to the undead alliance horseman

My chaos horde will grow with this and some alliance cimmerians

A chaos army need powerful sorcerers and dmeons... here a converted Caesar figure 8a lich converted into a human evil wizard) and the dmeon, who is a gamepiece from "Defenders of the realm" he es a dragonman but for me he suits better as Warrior Red Demon

Here again the same twi figures together with a troll from "Age of Mythology" and two former revell normans dead long ago who were renimated as undead warriors.. The easy effect of damaging a little the faces (making bigger holes by the eyes and cutting nose, it is simple)  and a decent  paintjob allows to make very easy conversiosn in order to make a bigger and mor variated undead army 

15 mm in 1/72

Helllo everybody, not time at all during last months for the hobby..


I wanted to show you some discovery i made. Some figures which are not new at all, are very valuable in our favourite scale

Many 15mm production work fine for small humanoids--specially halflings/hobbits or dwarves.

Plastic General blog (http://plasticgeneral.blogspot.com.es/2017/01/the-adventurers.html; http://plasticgeneral.blogspot.com.es/2016/12/halflings.html)   shows some Demonwrodl humans as halflings, but I was able to recruit more fierce-looking bearded dwarf berserkers!, I spent some money in internet last weeks and here are my new warriors:

Here I show you some barbarians from Demonworld (actuallt produced by Ral PArtha) and copplesotone castings (Barbarica) Copplesotne 15mm barbarica has also dwarves  available, but they are in my taste too small (see also Plastic general blog) ..

However the human barbarians from same range (18 mm-20mm, quite high for 15mm humans ) are sooo nice for 1/72 wild dwarves!!

The Demonworld 15mm range brings also some wonderful barbarian humans.. Faboulous  furry bearded fighters. even a patched-eye old veteran!!

First comparison: a Light Alliance plastic dwarf together eith 2 demonwolrd (with the patched-eye) t, then 2 copplestone, one Cesar plastic and another demonworld

Second comparison: 

Begining top left  with Light alliance dwarf drummer, Then 4 copplestone.  

Then CAesar dwarf , one pastic form Battlelore firast edition, and two Demonworld.

In the second line, one Demonworld elf (looks as a cute female shield maiden, dont you think?) , 

Some converted.1/72, and demomworld barbarians pluis another elven-dwarven fighting girl and the caesar standard bearer

At last, some closeups of my last painted dwarves (converted or not).. streltsi with beard and shortened leg were pressed into service as dwarf 1/72 arquebuisers !(too few of them in the market)

The kilted guy comes from BAttellore boardgame, with a head swop from a small metal Denizen 25mm dwarf.. for me he looks quite nice! Last final  picture shows him with some 1/72 humans and another dwarf

I will come later with something more and some evil guys...