15mm Trolls

This week, I knocked off some 15mm trolls. These are figures from the LotR Risk game and, for the pennes they cost, are a great deal.

There were nine in the bag I opened and I went went with a blue colour scheme. For plastic game pieces, I think they have a lot of character and detail.

Size-wise, they also fit with the Battlelore trolls I have.

And they are a good match for the Battlelore figures that make up most off my 15mm medieval/fantasy armies.

Up next: some 15mm cavalry.

More 15mm Elven archers

Another big batch of 15mm archers is finally dry. These are again LotR Risk figures intended to form the core of an Eleven army.

I painted these in a more of a High Elf style, thinking that they would represent massed archers.

Overall, they fit in alright with the Battlelore figures I have and I think I fixed the overly minty highlights on the bases.

They also fit in with the 15mm metals that I have from Splintered Light Miniatures. The rest of the figures for the army will be coming from there so that's good!

 Up next: More 15mm plastics.

Terrain and random figures

A mixed set of figures this week. First up are some more stairs for the Mageknight Dungeon tiles.

The shallower stairs are playable and the steeper stairs are not. I also finished off three random figures: A guy in a trench coat (nefarious union organizer?), Lucifer for BSG, and some dude with a sword (likely an old heroclix).

I also painted up one of the buildings I got at a model railway swap meet. A bit of highlighting and varying the brick tones, and a wash were all that were needed.

Up next: More 15m archers.

15mm Eleven Archers

I've been thinking about expanding some 15mm fantasy/medieval armies that I have.  Most of my figures are from the old Battlelore game, which includes humans, dwarves, and goblins. I was thinking about adding elves. There are truly lovely metal elves about, but I notices that the LotR Risk game from a few years ago has some pretty good 15/18mm figures so I bought up a bag of pieces on fleabay.

There are more than 100 in the game so I painted up 30 in a foresty theme. These could be light archers, skirmishers, or rangers. For cheap, mass-produced plastics, these are pretty nice. I have another 30 underway in a more High Elf colour scheme.

Below, I've compared them to the Battlelore archer (left) and the Battlelore Westeros archer (right). Not a bad match. I see the drybrush on the elf base is a bit too sage and could use some yellow.

Below are the LotR compared to some (I think) Splintered Light heroes and magic users. Again, pretty close in stature and hardly noticeable in play. I had thought to source additional troop types from Splintered Light, once I get these fellows painted up. They have some lovely elven cavalry riding moose (or perhaps elk).

Up next: Some HO-scale Gotham buildings, some 15mm elves, some 28mm dungeon tiles, and some 15mm foes and creatures.

Stairs

A few weeks back, I posted my first effort at adding some stairs to my Mageknight dungeon tiles. I decided I could likely do better than these spirals so I pulled out some extra trap tiles to form the basis of stair case. I cut and layered on some floor tile and then did a quick paint job to approximate the pattern on the tiles.

Overall, this is okay. The stairs are playable (Dr Doom was MIA for about 10 years and recently discovered cowering in a box of PolyPocket dolls so also got some paint this week) and they match well enough. A bit more attention to the painting likely would have improved matters.

Here you can see the stairs snapped on with some other tiles. I think the other tiles could stand a wash to make them less chalky. And below I have clipped in the less success stair tiles (both an up and a down set).

Since I have lots of trap tiles, I might well do three more sets of stairs over the next bit. As builds go, this was dead simple.

Some 28mm terrain

I noticed I was a bit short on interior terrain when I laid out the Joker's lair awhile back. Specifically, I had no beds and few tables. After looking online and humming and hawing, I ordered a tavern pack of 3-D printed terrain.

It came with a pretty decent selection of beds, tables, chairs, and fireplaces. Being mostly wood, it was also very quick to paint up.

For $35, I though it was a pretty good deal. The only real defect is the horizontal seam on the end of the foot boards. While these have a real D&D vibe, I think they could work pretty much for any time period. The wrinkles on the bed look a bit less terraced in person than they do in these pictures.

The non-bed items were pretty good, with six pub-style tables, three end tables, and a bunch of other furniture.

There were no assembly instructions and I ended up gluing the shelves from the writing hutch to the top of the fireplaces before I figured out where they were supposed to go. Oh well.

These three end-tables with books on them also turned out well given how little effort they took.

 

Overall, a fun project that only took a couple of hours and really helped round out my indoor terrain.

Last of the Crimean!

And I've finally reached the end of the 28mm Crimean armies. Whew!

There were five command figures for the Russian dragoons plus four more troopers.

So many horses.... But the command figures were quite nice.

Up next: Who knows? Maybe some 28mm furniture?