The Free Folk

I made some progresses in my Wildling army.. enough battles between knights and men at arms, time for something savage... Here my first units for a Free Folk-Mance Rayder- The Kind Beyond the Wall- army! Including two giants from the cold!

Do you recognize the origin of my "wildlings"?

The leader Rattleshirt in the front attack position

They are attacking some "Crows" from the night Watch..

Some characters/Leaders: Rattleshirt"Lord of Bones", Tormund Giantsbane and Ygritte the archer

I am mostly inspired by TV series, but art from the game cards themselves are quite beautiful and inspiring

The first assembled army, ready to be tested in an upcoming Battle test: 2 units of raiders, one of trappers, one of "cave dwellers" (I found finally a good use for the strange fur barbarians from Esci!!)

Charachters chosen: Tormund as general and Ygritte as support in the trappers unit

Giants still there..

Non Combat Units: Styr Magnar of the Thenn, and Mance Raider himself

Some scary power is approaching from the woods.. This raiding party must go for it to take direct knowledge of this threat

The army of the Dead!!!

What will happen?? Battle " Dead snow" narrated in my next post!

Undead Viserion

Although my last game brought Luck for all Daenerys Dragons, we fans of the TV Series still remember the Fate of Viserion there, when the Night King hit him with an icy Spear and converted him into a terrorific., blue eyed -undead Dragon,  which helped then  to go through the Wall!!

This is my own versin of that Undead dragon ,

 I searched fot a good model which could ressemble good the appearence in the Show , looking powerful as a dragon but also decadent as a cropse.. I decided for a very nice D&D model of "Silver Dragon"  which I bought not very expensive at about 17 eur.. Te original was totally silver coloured, i had to make some "weathering" on him ans still tryimng to conserve some "golden looking as alive,.,.

see how the Ngjt King looks sited on him!

The Army of the dead....

I  show you here the both versions: "Alive" (dragon from reaper Bones, also relative cheap, good models) and "Dead",

I would like that they would have looked more similar as they are supposed to be the same Dragon, but it is ok like that...

Finally also the three children of Danerys : drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion all together (and alive!)  i am happy with this, since I had this project for a long time.. Now I need to make more Unsullied and dothrakis for more battles!  Battle in Winterfell in scope now!!

Game of Thrones- Attack of the White Walkers

In the moment when I should push forward to Tolkien, I went however stronger to Game of Thrones Unverse and a did a pretty effort last days. I will make several  and different posts, but first of all let me show you my own WHITE WALKERS / THE OTHERS BEYOND THE WALL

These fellows are some kind of mysterious sobrenatural beings, which belong at the begining of the History just to old tales for children and Legends of wars against the first Men, but actually they show themselves as a cruel reality and threat  with some magical Aura and  magical ice-weapons...

 and most important of all, their leader , the Night king, is able to bring dead back to life to form a really growing dreadly and effective undead army!!

First some inspirational pic I used for the first grapich research;

To find the first candidates was much easier than expecred..

The not very popular  1/72 Light Alliance Elves set are  usually dismissed because the figures are too tall, too thin, a little ugly. for  being elves. ...
They have however  long hair, ellaborate suits  partially armoured suits and strange refinated weapons... so:

THEY ARE ACTUALLY WHITE WALKERS AS THEY COME FROM THE BOX!!

I took some of the poses armed with swords, daggers and short spears.. Actually that is what ressemble smost of the TV recreation of these creatures...
Then  just removing pointy ears and  added some beard from green stuff  and made an effort in the painting ( easy for face and clothes, difficult to het the brught scary blue eyes..)...

Then: There is the first apparition on the series, where the Walkers seem half-naked, but always scary and riding a horse, ready to launh the first mass attack against the Night Watch expedition beyond the Wall ( more or less the same time when Jon Snow "deserts" the Watch to the wildlings..).. I loved this scene a lot








I  needed some different candidates for this version, And they were also available!
Some tall, thin mummy egyptian warriors form very valuable miniatures game ARCANE LEGIONS! See picture below (grey figures on the left)

So here is this scene representation:

And the other fellow on foot was also included:





Finally: the walkers have a powerful leader.. The Night King.. Then I needed all my skills to get the very specific look with that face, small ice horns, characterisitc suit... It took really a long while...

Parts selection and first assembly.. the little horns were a nightmare to achieve

Figures from Orion byzantines (funny pose guy who were for me useless till last week), Strelets norman archers (too many of these useful spare guys around!) ,

and for the head.. I needed some bald , pointy nose evil looking character.. It was long too but i realized I had some goblin pieces from "Battlelore 1st edition" Boardgame.. It worked after severe cutting work,,

Results:

For givng a nice goodbye, some pictures After made som play with light and colour  in the photo, we  can feel really into the further north bveoynd the Wall...

(By the way, playing with taking photos, light and colour can also be a part of this hobby.. I started realizing not long ago..)

Hope you like it!! More Game of Thrones Works coming soon!!