Showcase: 28mm terrain for Saga

Whew, finally got a chance to do some blogging. So I am posting the finished project of making some hobby terrain to make my boards look nice. Again these are from Worldsmith Industries and are made from resin. The trees I ended up using I picked up from a flea market. I tore the trees off the old bases, which basically meant snapping them off at ground level because of glue used. I used a pin vise to drill out the bottom of the trees and then used plastic rod to glue in hole to use as pins for placing on Worldsmith's bases. Did a little dry brushing on bases, little static grass, polyurethane for protection, and then a mat coat to take off the shine. Presto change-o it looks pretty good in the end I think.

 

As always thanks for looking
Cheers
Kevin

WIP: 28mm terrain for Saga

Got a chance to sneak in a few paint strokes on my terrain pieces today. The browns are done, and I have picked out the rocks in black that I will now paint grey and then do some dry brushing on them to make them pop. Then it's the static grass placed in a few spots and I will be done with bases. I've gotten out my trees I am going to use and figured out how to separate them from the bases they are on now without destroying them to place them on these new bases. More pics later.

Cheers
Kevin

28mm Terrian for Saga (or other systems)

Howdy folks,

Been cleaning up and reorganizing hobby room to a standard of chaotic order, instead of Chaos rules and things are disappearing into the warp. Well I'm still deciding what I want to paint or what I have to paint, and then a thought hit me. Why don't I have any nice terrian pieces? Well what it comes down to for me is that it's boring and takes up my time painting figures. So I ask myself if I am going to take the time to paint decent miniatures wouldn't I want them to look nicer next to a nice painted piece of terrian instead of felt? Of course I would.

Well a friend of mine (Skip) showed up to CincyCon with some really nice terrain pieces he had picked up from Worldsmith Industries and I just loved them. Now I know my friend probably told me beforehand about them, but it must have went in one ear and out the other. Seeing them in person though got my attention.

I picked up three different size forest bases along with some tree inserts, and whats really cool inserts if you want trees out of the way. This makes them multi usable in Saga for Woods or rocky ground. We all know permanant terrain pieces are lovely but sometimes you want to move a tree out of the way and these nicely made resin pieces from Worldsmith Industries fit the bill for me.

I ordered through this gentleman and was able to pay for it using Pay Pal and three days later, bang they show up on my doorstep! Can't beat that service. Having them in hand and looking them over you have your typical air bubble here or there, and some resin that needs to be cut or sanded from the mold, but I have to say I really didn't have to work that hard to overcome this. I am really pleased with the product. I especially like the textured terrain as I can use dry brushing techique to make them  look really nice with little effort.

As Worldsmith says you need to wash them with mild detergent to get the mold release oils off before you prime them. Here are a few photos of what I have done so far.

[Washed and primed]

 [with painted black coat and burnt umber coat]

As I go and finish them up I'll post some more pictures of them up close so you can see the detail of the resin piece better.

Cheers
Kevin

Dux Britanniarum: Elite's (or Hearthguard for Saga) for my Romano-Brits

As I mentioned in an early post, here are the pictures for my Elite unit I promised. I realized, only just now, that I am one figure shy. I am getting old. But I would have to paint up two more for Saga to have two points worth of Hearthguard so what's one more figure. So I present my almost complete Elite unit.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Dux Britanniarum: Leaders for my Romano-Brits

I posted earlier some pics of the figures I chose for Arthur and his Champion for Dux Britanniarum, (or hopefully Saga if rumors are true that Gripping Beast is working on them), and so I have added my leaders I've chosen for your viewing pleasure today.

Shields are transfers from Little Big Men, with the second leader's shield below slightly modified as I had wrong sizes so had to improvise with some paint matching to make it look right.

...and the second leader

As always thanks for looking. Later I'll post up my Elite unit for my Romano-Brits.

Cheers
Kevin

My Dux Britanniarum collection begins!

I've had Dux Britanniarum from Too Fat Lardies (you just have to love that name) for just over a year now, and have been eyeing it to play for quite a while now. Small armies (skirmish style or like Saga a warband's worth of troops), simply die 6 battle resolution, with some role playing aspects, and of course the real reason I was attracted to it, a Campaign system. This gives your battles, or at least mine, more meaning as you'll tend to play them a little less to the death and more like an army lives today, lives to fight another day. 

My problem in not playing is I don't have really anyone around that is motivated enough to paint opposing forces. You would think living in a major metropolitan area this would be no problem. Apparently I need to move to the United Kingdom, of course it could be just perception on my part, but it seems they have there collective acts together when it comes to clubs and hobbies etc. 

But I digress, what this post is really all about is my first figures completed. Yeah! I actually have begun painting them and have resolved to paint up not one army but two! Dammit if I can't get help in painting stuff up, I'll just paint them up myself and solo game if I have too! The Arthur period has been one of my favorites for awhile now (don't think the romanticized gobble-ly goop medieval bla bla bla version) and I can't wait to finish up my Romano-Brits, which by the way is what I started on. I've heard rumor that Gripping Beast is working on a Saga supplement for this period as well, so I based my Commander (Arthur of course, and on foot) as a Warlord. Can't see how it will hurt in the Dux system so I went for it. Here is some pictures of Arthur, and some of his Champion. 

I didn't get to fancy and basically painted these close to the photos that Gripping Beast has on their website. Arthur's shield is a transfer from Little Big Men.

My champion was supposed to have a Little Big Men shield transfer but I completely botched it up and had to do this one by hand, which is copied from the one I destroyed. I don't think it turned out to badly. I am not the greatest at painting fiddly designs, but happy with the outcome.

I will be posting my other commanders, and the elite unit I completed later.

Cheers

Kevin