Sunday, June 13, 2010

Songs of Blades and Heroes: Barbarians VS Nasty Orcses.

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Flu has put aside any hobby aspirations this weekend, but I do have something to post for you.
Tonight my wife Kathryn soundly destroyed my orc warband at Songs of Blades and Heroes.  Again.
  Its the first game we played in a long while, and it was nice to get to use some of the scenery I made a while ago.   I remembered to take a few snaps on my iphone during the match as you guys would probably like the retro citadel lead.
1980s Barbarians, vs. Orcs.  The Partially painted Perry demon is on the barbarians side.

Boxed set orcs attack!  Monster starter box set orc, Nick Lunds Chronicle Mighty Ugezod Shaman

Felled Forrest:  I finally got to use one of my scenic peices in a game
This piece is made from branches mounted on mdf and blended in using woodflex poly filla.  The root systems are made by soaking twine it it pva glue.  One tip I picked up here- shave the edge of your MDF down to a thin edge- the small 3mm lip is enough to tip a mini over- if you match flocks to your battlemat then the sharper edge means it blends in nicely.

Kat's Reaper Chicks do a victory dance before heading off for mead.
Left to right (Viking Girl, Lorna Huntress, Cavegirl, a converted succubus, Female Pit Fighter and another cave girl- all from modern line available now!)

Monster starter set Orc hangs with One of Golgfags second(?) generation Ogres.

Another closeup showing the nice roots you can get with pva and string.

What I wanted to do with my game board is capture the feeling of the environment I grew up in - dank, mossy, peaty, muddy forrests of oak and chestnut trees.  I have to source some fallen leaf scatter to complete the look.  At some stage I hope to make me some riverbed modules (complete with ducks, swans and perhaps a submerged monster), derelict, overgrown cottages and rotten, creeper covered bridges.

And finally we have a new look here at Kingsminis- based on the old retro ads from 1980s white dwarf- complete with blue faded photo images.  Hope you like!



Later.

3 comments:

  1. MabdenJune 14, 2010 at 2:53 AM

    I think you have achieved this old style from white dwarf magazine. Maybe you can change the black background to a more 'Eavy Metal way using blue or turquoise.

    Well if this balrog was in the barbarian side I can understand you was defeated.
    Great scenery and great battle. Just to say you need a bit more of troups.

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  2. UnknownJune 14, 2010 at 4:04 PM

    Beautiful stuff - real blast from the past!

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  3. Delaney KingJune 15, 2010 at 7:31 PM

    Heh, yeah- I was thinking of doing that Mabden- in fact I was going to call my site 'eavy Dave.

    But I lost weight.

    Now that the Blog site can do fancy background properly I may investigate doing just that.

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