Mordheim ruins

 

These are some quick Mordheim ruins built from cardboard (ordinary box cardboard glued together for double thickness) with coffee stirrer planking. I covered the corrugations using wood filler. I took the templates from the marvellous Devs & Dice YouTube channel. 

Zorn orc

I've been intrigued by the Zorn palette for a while. As I'm going to be dabbling in a little Mordheim, I thought I'd try it out on an otherwise goofy GW orc for a bit of added grimdark. My only cheats were the base (burnt umber, grey and white, plus a green wash on the rocks), the metallics (Vallejo steel plus Agrax plus silver highlights) and the blood-effect paint (Citadel Blood for the Blood God). Otherwise, he was entirely painted with these colours:

I plan to do a whole warband in the same style, though I'll try to mix up what goes where. It's a lot of fun painting with such Dogme-style restrictions; I only wish the daylight had been a bit brighter here today, so that I could have taken a better photo of such a dark figure!

 

The Carol of Cthulhu!

 

This is the latest from my son - Fimo and tinfoil as usual, and handily based as any number of flying Titans in Kings of War. This is how he did it ....

Have a great Christmas!

A Hinchliffe/Broadsword goblin and some 25mm RPG miniatures

 

Here's a Hinchliffe goblin (now produced by Broadsword Miniatures). I really like these venerable orcs; were I to do the Battle of the Five Armies for Hordes of the Things or equivalent, these are the fellows I'd use for the goblin army. They might not be an exact match for JRRT's descriptions of orcs in The Lord of the Rings, but they contravene nothing in the text of The Hobbit. 

In our D&D games, these fellows will probably serve as hobgoblins, as they're fairly hefty next to the "true 25mm" figures that I'm painting up for RPGs. Below are a couple from Tin Soldier and a Julie Guthrie half-orc from Grenadier alongside the Hinchliffe goblin.

Happy Halloween!

 (Another of my son's efforts - real postings to resume shortly!)

A tribute to Bill Making Stuff

 If you don't know the Bill Making Stuff channel, you're missing out - it's a terrific mix of whimsy and creativity. And it's brimming with great ideas for gaming projects: imagine Rick Priestley's deodorant hover tank as Studio Ghibli would have done it.

It's also by far my son's favourite YouTube channel. He recently made this short and cheeky tribute:

Stranger Things!

 

My son has been busy over the school holidays building various beasties from Stranger Things.

The demogorgon and demodogs are based with Hordes of the Thing frontages so they can feature in that game as behemoths or gods. But they'll doubtless see plenty of action in our sci-fi games

You can see how these fiends were made here: