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happy-chappy-miniatures · 1 year

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Irish Kern with Bows

Hi again! I've got another update and once again, we know 'em, we love 'em, it's more Kern!

This time I've put together block of skirmishers with bows to act in support of the gallowglass and bonnachts, or independently to harass opponents in hit-and-run attacks!

The kern themselves are the usual mix of Perry and Antediluvian figures. I've included a few more drab léine compared to the bonnachts, given that these would be poorer soldiers, and unlikely to afford the fanciest saffron dye all the time

And here's the block of skirmishers screening an advance for the charging Bonnachts

I hope they've come out ok! For a while I was debating whether to have them blocked in a more dense formation, to mirror the bows-and-bills of the other War of the Roses forces, but eventually decided against it in favor of the skirmishers

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zilentis · 5 months

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While I much prefer to make brighter minis, I’ve always wanted a go at trying todo a Turnip28 mini. While it’s still brighter than most lol, I’m really happy with it’s style and basing.

Turnip28 is a grimdark setting where root-vegetable people fight each other in muddy lands, he’s a carrot man!

#miniatures #table top gaming #tabletop miniatures #mini painting #miniature painting #kitbash #diorama #fantasy miniatures #fantasy #turnip28 #28community #28mag #mag28 #28mm scale #28mmminiatures #Turnip28kitbashing #inq28 #frostgrave #miniature wargaming

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daves-miniature-adventures · 3 months

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It’s time to break open this relic and get stuck into building an army for Warhammer: The Old World!

I’ve had this Warhammer Fantasy 6th Edition starter set for years, and was waiting for the right time to open it, that time has come as I’ve been really enjoying seeing all TOW armies springing up everywhere. This was the set that got me into Warhammer almost 25 years ago, and the two armies inside (The Empire and Orcs & Goblins) have always been my favourite factions for that reason.

I do have a large Orcs & Goblins army, but never managed to paint an Empire army fully, so now is the time to achieve that hobby goal!

I’ll be painting the army in the classic colour scheme of Talabheim, as that was what drew me all those years ago. The Orcs will be painted in the classic scheme too, but Empire will be the main focus for the next while.

Can’t wait to get the army started!

Happy Hobbying,

Dave

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doolallymagpie · 5 days

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Third Doctor painted and ready to throw crabs at you

#doctor who #third doctor #28mm scale #tabletop wargaming #7TV #crooked dice

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canopiancatboy · 10 months

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I backed the Dark Souls board game on kickstarter back in the day and have just been sitting on them after seeing how crappy the plastic quality and rules were. I've very slowly been painting them for other rpgs, here's Solaire

#art #painting #canopiancatboyart #miniature #tabletop #wargaming #tabletop miniatures #board games #dark souls #soulsborne #miniature painting #28mm

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grinnock · 9 months

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The Temple of Swellings is a Turnip28 cult. It’s conceit is at any time you can choose to toss of The Swelling, a hideous root that bursts out of any weak unit on the table and then proceeds to grow and grow and grow. Any unit nearby runs the risk of getting swallowed up by the thing.

This is my conception of the Swelling. A sort of biblically-accurate angel turnip from hell. WIPs below the fold.

#art #tabletop #mini painting #turnip28 #miniatures #fantasy #wargames #28mm #wargame #kitbashing #kitbash #clay sculpting #sculpture

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enkinaru · 6 months

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Finished the spellcaster for my merfolk warband

Probably the most fun miniature I've worked on lately. Gonna praise Titan Forge sculptors again, they *really* strike that fine point between details and readability

#miniature painting #fantasy #wargaming #dnd #merfolk #28mm #miniatures

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wolf-woflie · 10 months

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Ok so update for the turnip28 pike and shotte project I need to get better pics at some point total force is 15 units of foot(456) , 3 units of cav (around 30) and one lonely cannon

Taking a small break to do other projects though I’ve already started on a 20 lancer cav unit for the second cav Battalion

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#miniature wargaming #28mm miniatures #table top gaming #wargaming #warlord games #perry miniatures #black powder #fantasy #sludge #turpin 28 #turnip28 #corrupting war games

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addictedtoludus · 4 months

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Night Brother.

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#28mm #dungeons&dragons #elmore #Fantasy #fantasyminiatures.#frostgrave #gw #miniatures #paintingminiatures #tabletop #tabletopminiatures #wargaming #warhammer

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oddballstiger · 3 months

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Recent completion, playing with the photo booth, but not sure about backgrounds or lighting yet. Need to play with the booth more

#hand painted #miniature #mini #figure #miniature wargaming #28mm #painted miniatures #frog king #fantasy

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dimestorehobby · 9 months

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Mini-Adjacent Pt. 1 - AKA Dollar Tree

Apologies in advance for the hasty photography.

TLDR: The Final Faction action figures at Dollar Tree have some cool designs that cross over well into 28mm sci-fi tabletop.

I've had my eye on some of these for a while. Their "real" scale is wrong for standard 28mm heroic, because the action figures themselves are GI Joe-ish in scale. But the accessories are a different story.

The human faction has some cool bits for $1.25 apiece that make for excellent mechanized units, e.g. the walking turret on top left, or the Battletech-reminiscent walker on bottom left (scale-wise, that could plausibly be an exo-suit of some kind). The alien faction has similarly sized biological units with a chitinous, insectoid, Zerg-y vibe.

You could totally play these as actual units/creatures in a minis-agnostic game like Stargrave or Starfinder. The other possibility, however, is playing them as really cool objectives. Secret bioweapons to be destroyed; a raid on the enemy's rear to destroy his artillery or a mech depot.

#28mm #tabletop #miniatures #science fiction #scifi #rpg #dollar store #final faction #starfinder #stargrave #tabletopgames #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop wargaming

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happy-chappy-miniatures · 1 year

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Mounted Irish Earl

Hi again!

Another Irish update! This time I wanted to attempt some figures to represent some Irish commanders on horseback, particularly with Never Mind the Billhooks' Deluxe edition giving rules for Irish cavalry!

Unfortunately finding miniatures to represent late-medieval/renaissance Irish cavalry and having them scale properly with the Perry Irish range is pretty difficult! Which meant going in to this would need some thought about converting existing figures to look the part of an Irish Earl and a mailed standard bearer to accompany him Choosing figures as bases to start the conversions was a bit of a task! I'm not hugely confident in my sculpting abilities, so I wanted to try to focus on a few key points to have the figures at least be visually recognisable without necessarily needing me to sculpt on large areas of mail or detailed clothes.

For the Earl, I visually based his appearance on the "Irish Chieftain" depicted in a few of the woodcuts in The Image of Irelande. It is worth pointing out that the book is very much a piece of Tudor English propaganda, intending to demonise the Irish and promote the English forces in Ireland, so it should be taken with a grain of salt! But in the absence of many other sources, it made for a good start

In the woodcuts, the noble ( has an interesting segmented helmet (with a plume), so that was something I definitely wanted to include. He's also wearing an interesting outfit, initially I thought it was some sort of brigandine or studded jack, but it seems to be more consistent with civilian doublets in other 16th century portraits rather than any kind of armour. Finally, as shown in the first image, the chief has a very impressive cloak (or brat), with a thick fur-like fringe, which was another definite requirement for me to include!

For the Brat, the Gaelic Attire Website (http://gaelicattire.com/brat.htm) provides a very useful explanation of its construction, and some great reproductions (which have made great reference images!). The fringes themselves appear to have been made of wool (occasionally styled to look like fur), and for the wealthy this would have been dyed in a variety of colours

With that in mind as a design direction, I decided to use one of the Perry Sudanese commanders as a base figure, given his pose, and his excellent cloak to make a base for the brat:

And from there, I gave him a head-swap for one of the Gallowglass figures to try and match the interesting helmet shown in the woodcuts, and added a plume to it. Then, with some filing down of the body and legs, I sculpted on a Tudor doublet and boots, and then added a fringe to the cloak to convert it into an Irish Brat

In terms of colours, I went with a copy of the Brat in Dürer's depiction of Gallowglass in the early 16th century, with the cloak itself being a deep red/maroon/pink, and the fringe being a bright yellow

The standard bearer was a bit of a simpler conversion, seeing as my design philosophy for him was more straightforward. I wanted him to essentially look like a mounted Gallowglass, so the rider was based on a Victrix Norman, with his head swapped for one of the Perry Gallowglass, and a The Assault Group targe added in place of the Norman shield.

The horse was a little more involved, seeing as the Irish cavalry of the 16th century notably did not use stirrups or saddles, instead opting for what appears to be more of a cushion strapped to the horse. Given that information, I trimmed the saddle off of the horse, and used green stuff to sculpt on the quilted cushion (which helped mask the width difference between the Victrix legs and the Perry horse too!)

And finally to round off the whole base, I added an Irish wolfhound from Footsore Miniatures

Currently I only have flags for Kildare and Desmond put together, but the standard bearer's flags are detachable, so they can be easily swapped out for any other Gaelic or Anglo-Irish lords (once I get the flags made!)

And here's the Earl of Kildare riding alongside a band of kern