#Wargames Foundry

[oldschoolfrp]

Bryan Ansell has passed away at age 68 (11 October 1955 -- 30th December 2023).

Bryan Ansell founded Citadel Miniatures in 1978 in partnership with Games Workshop, and co-wrote the original 1983 Warhammer Fantasy Battles first edition rules with Richard Halliwell and Rick Priestley. He became managing director of Games Workshop in the mid-1980s, and was primary owner of GW until selling his shares in 1991. He also founded Wargames Foundry / Foundry Miniatures, which continues to produce many older Citadel figures among many other ranges.

(Top: Bryan Ansell from Warhammer Armies, 1988; Bottom: Bryan Ansell (Left) with artist Tony Ackland at the 2017 Bring Out Your Lead oldhammer event at Wargames Foundry)

#Bryan Ansell #gaming history #oldhammer #Warhammer #Citadel Miniatures #Games Workshop #Wargames Foundry #Foundry Miniatures #GW #wargaming #in memoriam #RIP

[jakestabletop]

More progress on the Early Imperial Romans -- All base colors blocked out, ready for some shade & highlight then attaching shields and finishing the bases.

Vallejo Game Color Gunmetal on all iron armor and weapon parts, Reaper Oiled Leather on shoulder strap and sandals, Vallejo German Grey (a dark charcoal off-black) on the painted wooden sword & dagger scabbards, Reaper Antique Gold on all polished bronze/brass contrasting metal bits (belt, cingulum, “eyebrow” swoosh shapes on helmet, latches on front of shoulder armor, scabbard trim, and sword & dagger hilt & pommel), Reaper Shield Brown on pilum shaft and on back side of shield painted separately, Citadel Mephiston Red for the focale (neck scarf; I chose to have it match the tunic instead of being a contrasting color).  Also slapped some Reaper Earth Brown on the bases as a first layer.

#wargaming #historical miniatures #Infamy Infamy #Early Imperial Romans #Wargames Foundry #WIP

[kirbyddd]

why does wikipedia have the review from Games Workshop's own magazine about its own game as critical reception

#“hey if you need motivation to buy minis check out this new ruleset Warhammer that's got everyone talkin” wink wink #super vindicated to see all the reviews from back then saying how inane so many of the rules were #Warhammer was always that way right from the beginning huh #i always dreamed of painting those medieval minis though. i wish they still made them and not this new generic Age of Sigmar thing #ah-- looks like i may have spoken too soon. wargames foundry has the rights to some of the old scuplts and still produces them to order?? #ive just always wanted to paint some stout lil dudes with shields and banners. seems most the medieval minis today are much more realistic

[minisgamer]

Holiday painting day has this Cossack unit almost done. Started a couple weeks ago. From the Wargames Foundry 28mm Seven Years War line.

#paintingminiatures #paintingminis #historical minis #wargaming

[spaceshiphorror]

🫵 HEY WARHAMMER FAN! 🫵

The Old World is coming out, but you don't have to pay premium prices for it! Companies have literally built their business around just copying them for years! Buy the occasional character or unit to support GW, but let the rich ppl have their GW-sanctioned army!

I personally recommend Avatars of War, Kings of War, Proxywars, Wargames Atlantic, Wargames Foundry, The Assault Group, Oathmark, Reaper Miniatures, and, of course, 3D printing!

Always remember to shop and play at your local game store! They'll appreciate you buying third party minis that have been sitting in stock unsold for ages!

NOW GO, ARMCHAIR GENERAL! BUY THEM MINIS! 🏃🏃🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦽

#warhammer #warhammercommunity #warhammer age of sigmar #warhammer fantasy #age of sigmar #warhammer fantasy battle #warhammer the old world #the old world #warhammer the end times #the end times #EEFL

[jims-gaming-obsession]

Started splashing some paint on the next batch of Academics - the faculty advisors - and they look great. Bob M. does an excellent job with everything he puts his sculpting tools to. Someday I will do a count of all of the Pulp Figures minis that I have and probably scare myself. I would guess that I’m getting close to equaling the count of Wargames Foundry figs - which I collected for years and bought a zillion Colonial and Darkest Africa figs! Maybe I better not - my heart might not survive the shock! ;)

Also knocked out the last of the first traunch of refinery bitz - that will probably do it for the near term as I have way too many figs in the queue and they are giving me awfully dirty looks!

[yr-hen-ogledd]

When you place an order with Foundry miniatures, they often include a random single miniature from one of their other ranges (presumably so you buy a bunch more to keep it company). That’s how I came to own a single Roman auxillary. Fortunately there’s not a huge amount of difference between some Roman & Celtic equipment, so I made myself a Gallic mercenary to throw in with my Thracians.

#celts #gauls #historical wargames #ancients #hail caesar #impetus #mortal gods #wip #wargames foundry

[gameoftravel]

Giant Troll by Foundry Wargames

https://www.warmongerminiatures.com/collections/gigantic-trolls/

#warhammer #troll #oldhammer #foundry #wargames #wargaming #warmongers #whfb #warhammer fantasy

[nekrosmagos]

Now some on outdoor environment.

#terrain #scenery #diorama #scrathcbuild #dungeon and dragons #miniature #scalemodeling #diy #crafts #graveyard #gothic #undead #wargames #tabletop #crippled god foundry

[9c-paints]

Some Foundry Vikings 7.18.20

#wargaming #miniature wargaming #vikings #painting #modelling #terrain #wargames #foundry #warhammer

[oldschoolfrp]

If you are in the Nottingham area in early December, here’s one more reason to visit Wargames Foundry in East Stoke -- a show of original fantasy art by John Blanche, Ian Miller, and others, originally appearing in Games Workshop and Citadel products dating back to the 1980s

#Harry the Hammer #John Blanche #Wargames Foundry #fantasy art #Oldhammer #Warhammer #gaming history #Harry the Hammer and Friends #Bryan Ansell #Foundry #skeleton #undead #1980s

[jakestabletop]

Next in the queue for my Early Imperial Romans: the optios, literally “chosen” men, second to a centurion in rank.  These are from Warlord Games and 2 of the 3 in the pack needed to be converted to fix their hastiles (the staff used as a symbol of authority as well as probably to shove or wack any soldier that needed encouragement).

The first in lorica segmentata had a thin staff cast in soft bendy metal that could barely be straightened, sticking out at an angle that made it impossible to handle the figure without mashing it out of shape.  I cut the entire lower part away, drilled out the underside of the fist, and glued a steel replacement cut from a paperclip.

The second in lorica hamata (mail) actually lacked a hastile as well as the two plumes beside the crest that should mark his rank, and simply looked like any other soldier in a fighting pose with his shield forward.  I left off the rectangular scutum and drilled completely through his left fist for a steel wire, then added greenstuff details to both ends.  Maybe he’ll be in trouble for losing his shield, but now he looks like he’s shoving a reluctant rear rank forward.  His mail armor will fit with an auxilia unit, without needing to sculpt an oval shield to match theirs.  I decided against adding greenstuff plumes to the helmet -- perhaps he was only recently raised to the position.

The third also was supposed to be in a fighting pose, ready to thrust his gladius from behind a rectangular shield while holding the hastile behind the shield with his thumb.  I simply left off the shield so his hastile is more visible, though it results in an awkward-looking sword arm pose.  He also wears lorica hamata so he will lead another unit of auxilia with oval shields or with bows.

#Early Imperial Romans #historical miniatures #Wargames Foundry #Infamy Infamy #WIP #wargaming #miniature wargaming

[dmsden]

Campaign Sorcery - Custom miniatures

Hullo, Gentle Readers. Welcome to another Campaign Sorcery article, where we talk about little ways to boost your campaign from merely great to glorious. This week, we’re talking about something with its roots in the game’s origins - miniatures.

When D&D started, it grew out of the hobby of miniatures wargaming. Even though the game evolved past the 100% need for minis, a lot of us still love them. And it can be oddly helpful to have miniatures that specifically look like the characters that you’re playing with. I think it may be that I’m a very visually informed person, but being able to look at the table and know at a glance who is who, where they are, how they’re interacting with other people involved in a situation, etc can be extremely useful.

I’ve said repeatedly that you don’t need minis that specifically look like the characters or monsters involved, as long as you can all agree and understand which is which. Heck, you can use Monopoly pieces for the different PCs and different colored poker chips as monsters, as long as you’re all able to identify what’s going on. But having said that, there’s something viscerally satisfying about looking at a bunch of minis and not having to try and remember which ones are the bugbears because they look like bugbears. And it’s super fun when a player asks, “How big are these things, relative to us?” and you can just nod at the mini on the board.

I have a fairly extensive collection of pre-painted miniatures for various monsters, having invested in cases of the D&D minis as they were coming out back when they weren’t so prohibitively expensive. I still buy them from sources like eBay and Miniature Market, but it tends to be in small groups and just to grab what I need for a specific encounter. Monsters, after all, come and go, and I think most players will forgive you if you use kobolds for goblins, orcs for bugbears, and so on. Budgets only stretch so far, after all. One thing that can add a ton to a game, however, is having good miniatures for the player characters. 

Let me put my old school hat on and say, “You kids don’t know how good you have it...back in my day...”

Seriously, though, when I started, you really had to fight to find any minis that weren’t of extremely stock nature. Maybe that’s because D&D was originally very limiting as to what races could be which classes, but, if you wanted to play something even a bit off the beaten track, you were probably going to be kit-bashing several miniatures into a Frankenstein of a piece.

Nowadays, there are so many races to choose from, and they can all be any class in the game. Luckily, the makers of minis have realized that people like the unusual choices, and there’s been a surge in high quality pre-painted minis that include a lot of unique choices. Sometimes, I’ve found a mini and considered playing a character based on that mini. But what if you want to play a firbolg barbarian, and there just isn’t a mini that matches you? You can kitbash something together, of course, cutting apart several minis, and then re-gluing and even repainting them. But there also now exist the wonders of custom minis.

There are several companies that offer this possibility now, including HeroForge, ANVL, Eldritch Foundry, Furry and the Beast, and, I’m sure, others. Some of them will take an order based on a sketch and start from the ground up. Others offer a mix and match system where you choose options from a menu, adding features, equipment, and, for some companies, even colors. You can then order a unique miniature which is specifically built as your own character.

My husband is super-big into 3-D modeling and printing, so I’ve sometimes asked him to make me custom miniatures. Sometimes this involves going to one of the companies mentioned above, creating a model online, and then buying the file for home printing. Sometimes, it’s involved him browsing through various files online, finding something close, tweaking it some, and then printing and painting it. It really is amazing to see.

If you’re running a game, I do recommend working with your players to get each one of them outfitted with a mini that represents their character. Whether that involves browsing eBay or a local game store to find the best option, or building a custom piece from the group up, it can really be rewarding and helpful for everyone to be able to look at the table and say, “That is definitely Hobb,” when they see the barbarian towering over the rest of the party.

[dndeed]

Crit Role Miniature Rollout: C2E141

With Andrew Harshman

An archive and review of the minis used on CR.

We made it folks, 141 episodes and 141 posts (approximately, I think I grouped a few posts together early on). Lemme tell ya, I was fairly confident there would be no more Campaign 2 minis to archive and review. But then I heard the finale was 7 hours and I started to consider the possibility. And sure enough, we got one final, terrific battle and battle map.

If you ask me, no campaign finale is complete without a finale tabletop mat. Whether you’re starting a campaign or ending a campaign, Mats by Mars has got your mat needs covered. Go to matsbymars.com and use my code DNDEED0621 for 10% off your entire MBM order.

Blooming Grove? More like Blazing Grove. -it’s time for Crit Role Miniature Rollout Campaign 2 Episode 141!

The List

Mats by Mars: Green Hills Tabletop Wargaming Play Mat

Monster Fight Club Verdent Forest Double-sided Neoprene Area Template

Monster Fight Club Village Well

Chest and Trove 5E Condition Rings

Hagglethorn Hollow The Tavern 

Dwarven Forge Dreadhollow Forest Set

Dwarven Forge Tudor Ruins Add-On Pack Roof Fire

D&D Spell Effects: Wall of Fire & Wall of Ice

Axe N Shield Single Flyer Risers - Clear Mithril

Steamforged Mighty Nein Miniatures

Resin Printed Veth Model (not publicly available)

Eldritch Foundry Essek Painted by Iron Tusk Painting

HeroForge Astrid

HeroForge Eadwulf

HeroForge Trent

Axe N Shield Single Flyer Risers - Clear Mithril

D&D Spell Effects: Arcane Fury & Divine Might Arcane Gate

The Terrain

The Blooming Grove looks quite lovely. I had forgotten that it is also known as the Bone Orchard. Gee, can’t imagine why they rebranded. Great map for sure, but I didn’t at all imagine the Grove being situated on a hill. Bit of a safety risk I should say, just look at the precarious placement of the front door:  

Building code violations aside, the Blooming Grove temple itself is a most impressive model from Tabletop Troubadour Games. An impressively whimsical and stylized design. These resin terrain pieces are reportedly quite durable, so a bit of magic fire damage should be no big deal. 

The Nonplayer Characters

More quality painting from Iron Tusk Painting on some well designed HeroForges. Eadwulf is a properly antagonistic looking multiclassed wizard-hunk. Neat spell effect to boot. Rather intimidating. Definitely don’t wanna get zapped by that.

Cool mini, cool paint, cool collar! What’s the enhancement bonus on that thing? A powerful collar indeed. And ya love to see a good asymmetrical haircut. Do you think Astrid cuts it herself? Like maybe she casts scrying on herself and uses mage hand.

Closing Thoughts

This blog series proved to be quite the undertaking. But it was enjoyable and rewarding throughout. Here’s to future campaigns and what miniatures they may bring, cheers! See ya next sesh!

#critroleminiaturerollout

#critroleminiaturerollout #criticalroleminiaturerollout #criticalrole #critrole #cr #mightynein #criticcal role #dnd #crspoilers #irontuskpainting

[enkisstories]

A peek into the Foundry Cove calendar

Things to keep in mind:

- Foundry Cove is a First Order Colony and the shedule reflects their worldview. As the colony progresses towards independence, some traditions or even complete holidays will change.

- Most notably the First Order is stingy with days off work and there is only a single Grand Feast per year.

- I may yet switch to longer Seasons or to not using the calendar at all (like I do in the Detroit save).

- Some of the holidays were set up with the idea to fulfill the objectives at Batuu. Now that I’ve played through the first two, I realized that the holiday goals do not appear there. That put a wrench in my plans a little.

Now for the individual holidays and the reasoning behind each of the traditions:

(spoilered for length)

New Year’s Eve is on the 2nd day of winter.

- Grand Meal: Use up whatever cannot get preserved for winter - Spooky ambience & Hold Seance: Some settlers just read their horoscope for next year, others fully embrace the transitive nature of this day - Make resolutions & Countdown to midnight: Some customs are universal, because some experiences are simply universal

Carnival is in winter. The settlers brought this holiday with them from Coruscant where first the empire and now the First Order have politicized it.

- Disguise: This is just what this day is about. Why? Nobody remembers. It’s simply fun. - Drink: The punch bowl is as traditional as the jelly filled donut - Trick or Treat: In the first hard winter following a bad harvest, settlers were forced to beg or steal. - Polar Bear Plunge: In Star Wars canon Carnival is the day of public executions. I’ll make sure to play a household that has a likely candidate for getting tossed into ice cold water. Or I may think up some sort of skill/luck based game that gives the victim a chance, that remains to be seen. - Remembrance: The settlers won’t forget their killed comrades.

Unlife Day is the day to apprecciate your droid. I took this non-canon holiday from the Darths & Droids webcomic.

Fast & Clean: To better apprecciate your droid’s cooking/doing the chores next time. Streak: Droids are always naked, and droid activists try to bring to mind this injustice to the public. The public in turn readily took to this custom (I wonder why...). Apprecciate object: A droid, if the household has one, otherwise any electronic household appliance will do. Can’t hurt to give your servo a hug today either. Woodworking: The closest I could find to “Repair” or “Robotics”. At least it builds handyness.

First Order Day is when you are patriotic! It used to be Empire Day and before that Republic Day.

Decorate: Using the flags from the Batuu pack, so you better do a First Order quest or two. Attend holiday celebration: Attending the military parade at Black Spire is mandatory. It’s a rabbit hole activity, so I can imagine the parade as grand as I want. Fireworks: Both for the Ohs and Ahs and to demonstrate power. Games: Tactical and wargames. Go Bowling: Train your aim, reservist! And that of your family.

The Festival of Light is a midsummer celebration.

- Give gifts & Open presents: Very convenient, since far as I know Life Day doesn’t include the exchange of gifts. - Party mood: Dancing through the summer nights - Holiday gnomes: Even MOAR presents!

All Species Day was a festival on Coruscant that celebrated the galaxy’s diversity. The First Order has warped this to a Human Supremacy show.

Gratitude: People used to thank individuals of other species for making the world a colorful tapestry. Today you are supposed to find a human and admire their greatness. Invite guests: Parties where you share food and drink recipes. Tell stories: Exchanging lore from nursery rhymes to religion. In resistance circles tales from the Old Republic and today’s real meaning are exchanged. Romantic mood: This used to be an “open for all, interspecies sex is always safe” thing for adults. Under First Order rule it has become a nudge for humans to make more humans. Air Grievances: Not surprisingly tensions are high today in the alien population. But humans also use this holiday as an excuse to be at their rudest.

The Festival of the Stars is the day to celebrate space faring!

In Foundry Cove this holiday is especially beloved. Since every colonist has come from elswhere to Batuu everyone has at least this singular experience in space travel and they are proud of that shared memory of a great adventure.

Visit space: The colony’s only rocketship is in shambles, and I’m not sure of using the Batuu spacecrafts count. Telescope: Learn more about the local constellations, maybe spot a space craft. Stargaze: The low tech alternative. But also the more romantic one! Travel: I mean to take my sims to Black Spire today and take selfies with the spacecrafts there. The First Order district’s space port is open to visitors today and under the guise of expanding people’s knowledge about space travel the officers look for potential recruits. Splashy fun: Labeled “Atmospheric re-entry & zero gravity movement practise” the settlers don space suits or sufficently space looking costumes today and jump into the nearest swimming pool. This is a tradition unique to Foundry Cove.

And finally Life Day is in late fall. This festival originates on Kashyyk from where it quickly spread across the Galaxy. The Empire couldn’t stop people from celebrating it and the First Order doesn’t even try anymore.

Decorate & Festive lights: A tree to represent the Tree of Life is decoarated and lit. Festive ambience & Music: From a family gathering to sing to a big show anything is possible. Flower Wookie: The simple, but amiable Wookie has come from Kashyyk to bring flowers today - at least if you believe First Order propaganda. This often ends badly for the actor, but tbh whoever agrees to play the Flower Wookie hasn’t deserved any better.

#sims4BatuuBACC #sims4 #sims 4 #thesims4 #the sims 4 #simblr #sims 4 jtb #sims 4 journey to batuu

[happychappy439]

28mm A Song of Ice and Fire: King Joffrey Baratheon

Hi again!

This one’s a new post rather than me putting up some older work I’ve done! I’ve taken a bit of a detour from some other projects I’ve been working on to paint up everyone’s favourite, most legitimate and not at all completely monstrous monarch, King Joffrey Baratheon!

Sansa describes him as wearing red enameled plate, with gilded mail before the Battle of the Blackwater, and at one point his crown is described as being encrusted with rubies and black diamonds, so I wanted to go for that sort of look!

Though, you’d think for someone who’s supposed to think they’re a Baratheon, and has that regularly brought into question, they’d make their wardrobe look a little less...Lannister! 

The model itself is based off the Wargames Foundry “Knight Arming” vignette figure: 

Originally I was going to use him as a figure for Imry Florent, but when he arrived, it turned out he was about a head shorter than the Perry Miniatures sculpts! Not so good for a tall knight, but ideal for a Boy-King! 

So I sculpted on some lion-shaped rondels, a belt and a crown, and painted him up as King Joffrey

For a size comparison, here he is with a couple of Gold Cloaks:

I like the miniature sculpt itself, so I can use it for when he wanders off to go command the trebuchets during Blackwater, or just generally bossing people around

Hopefully he’s turned out ok! 

#joffrey baratheon #joffrey #house baratheon #house lannister #a clash of kings #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #28mm asoiaf #a game of thrones #a storm of swords