20 mm Witch Hunter

I have this Witch Hunter printed for my 1/72 skirmishes.  I am going to use it for Rangers of the Shallow Deep as it is quite similar to the one in the cover of the rulebook. I also have a Witch Hunter's mastiff printed to walk with my hero on his adventures.

 I will also have printed all creatures I'll need for RotSD that I won't be able get on soft plastic 1/72 miniature ranges.

I love this model since it is got released long ago as it is such a classic one.

Here you have a comparative shot with one Ranger from Dark Alliance and you can see how out of proportion is the Witch Hunter, especially in head and hands, but this is something you can only notice when you put a proportionated 1/72 figure next to it.

 

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Cave Squiggs for Mordheim

We are starting a new campaign in Mordheim so I painted these cave squiggs (3d printed) to finally finished my Orc warband.

There is nothing like the old Orc miniatures with that funny evil look!

And here is the full warband but damn! I forgot to include the Troll.

DBA II/11 Gallic army

It's painted for DBA 2.2 and 3.0, but I have to paint one more base of cavalry (waiting for their shields).

As Essex did not send me any command miniatures, I had them printed. These are from Cromarty. Sadly the primer spoiled the miniatures as it left their surface like sand.

These are the chariots. The horses are a bit small but I quite like them overall.

This is the full army including a camp that I also had printed.

And here you can see face to face the Gallic vs the Republican Roman army, also with a printed camp.

For somebody from the 70-80s like me, 3D printing is like magic!

Someone may be interested in comparing old metal figures with new resin printed ones. I'd say they mix rather well.

The resin ones have more proportinate heads but I think the bigger ones get better effect from distance.

Here's another comparative picture with foot units.

Now let's see if I can lure somebody to play a few games with them. Cheers.

Chaos Sorcerer on horse

I needed a fast moving spell casting platform for TOW so I painted this guy. It is a 3d print from an old GW's Chaos Sorcerer and I hope he will bring me joy on the battlefield.

 

African huts

I made three huts for my 1/72 skirmshes in Africa. I used three small can of Pringles, a brown paper folder that I "borrowed" from my job, some palm tree branches from the garden where I work and some toilet paper to give texture to the walls of the huts.

I made the roofs and doors with the folder and start glueing little branches from the palm tree.

Then I realised I should have painted the roofs first :(

This is how they turned out. I could have painted some white symbols on the walls and maybe add green, red or blue on the doors as well, but I went for the easiest and fastest way and I think they are OK. After all they are just huts.

 

DBA II/11 Gallic Warbands from Essex

This is the first half of the II/11 Gallic army for either DBA 2.2 or 3.0. Shields look better from distance and I had a good time paintinng them. Next will be chariots, cavalry, psiloi and a warband general.

Figures and bases from Essex. I really like Essex figures but their bases are awful as they are made of a poor plastic quality conglomerate that crumbles on the corners and makes the borders rather coarse. I filled their holes with a thick cover of white glue, but they still are crumpy and do not slide smoothly when you try to move one unit touching others. I do not recommend them to anyone.

Dragon Ogre

Well, the quality of this figure is not as good as the previous Marauders on horse, and this is reflected somehow on the painting result. However, the figure is painted and today had its blood bath and it did it quite good, successfully facing a unit of three Kroxigors.

The miniature is quite big and now I think I should have taken a picture of it next to an infantryman to show it.