Saturday 21 November 2020

Essex goblins and Reaper beasties

Here are a few more miniatures based up for D&D and 'square-base' wargames like Oathmark, Chaos Wars and Chainmail. First up are some antiquated Essex goblins, which I rather like. They remind me of The Princess and the Goblin - from which Tolkien derived his orcs (minus the toeless and sensitive feet). This range clearly owes a debt to Down in the Dungeon.








Next are a couple of Reaper Bones beasties: a werewolf and a yeti. These will serve as a wulver and buggane in Oathmark, and I fancy that our RPG sessions may eventually feature lycanthropes and giant subterranean apes. 





7 comments:

  1. That yeti is awesome, cannot believe it's not made of metal!

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    1. Cheers! The Bones range is great for that sort of medium-sized monster. And cheap too, which always helps!

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  2. Really nice, I especially love the werewolf.

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  3. Love the beardy Essex goblin. Can I just ask about your basing? Is that just painted sand and do you build up round the figure base with milliput or similar? Many thanks

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    1. Thanks! It's Golden Coarse Pumice Gel. I just slather it on in sufficient quantities to cover the base without an obvious 'step' to the integral base. Then I pop it on a radiator to dry (in winter) or a sunlit window ledge (in summer) or just leave it for a couple of hours. It's great stuff, not least because it leaves figures very easy to rebase (you just slide a knife under the integral base and superglue down the dried pumice gel onto the new base and repaint as required.

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    2. Sounds like the answer to my dreams. I'll get some. Many thanks.

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