A light in the darkness

This light is shining brightly from the Ladies of Dark Sword Miniatures, one of my favorite miniature lines.

These are a few images featuring figures from their recent kickstarter.  You will find many of them on the Dark Sword website soon!

http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/shop/index.php/

Each of the sculpts has great composition, detail, and so on.  They will be very fun to paint... as were these:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/02/uncovering-some-dark-sword-minis.html

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2013/03/stepping-away-from-terrain-for-moment.html

There is also a great variety in the types of characters you will find there... just about anything you might need for your RPG character.

Oh... and you will find lots of critters too!

The robes are always impeccably sculpted, which makes them excellent candidates for freehand.

A small collection...

Some of the original blisters...

Lots of fun.  Perhaps even a diorama or two like this:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2014/07/from-2d-to-3danother-dimension.html

Dashing through the snow

And snow it has here in the Windy City.  Up at 6 am to shovel out the vehicle.  I believe tonight's additional snowfall should equal what we normally get all month.

Still, it's half of what we got last year in the Polar Vortex groin kick, so that's a plus!

Lots of pointy sticks here...

Guardians of Pseusennes

Of all the items from the Tomb Kings army, this is the one that I most eagerly wanted to see with the new backdrops!

This one really compliments the colors...

If you look through all the blog posts on the constructs like this NecroSphinx, you will see that all of them were painted in this color of blue.

That was to indicate the 'taint' from the new 'god' which appeared to Pseusennes.

I mixed in Vallejo Cyan Fluorescent paint with regular paint colors to enhance the blue.

I also had to get as much variety in the metal colors, as the idea was that all of the armor became quicksilver once the taint had taken hold.

All the colors would morph and change... just like any good Tzeentch tainted thing should!

I barely ever got the chance to use him in an actual battle, which was a bit of a bummer.

He stands ready to make sure all those who enter the Tomb Cities of Pseusennes shall suffer a fate worse than death!

See you in the Funny papers...

Hobart's Funnies, that is.  A rather ingenious set of adapted British Churchill tanks that were created in 1944 to facilitate many tasks involved with the reopening of the second front in the West.

As you can see by this Memoir '44 reference card, they performed a wide variety of functions.  I still have not painted the Petard Mortar version yet.

These next few shots are more about the AVRE 6's themselves...

Just the tanks...

And some of the options.

I really look forward to trying out these equipment load outs in our Memoir games!!!

This will present some serious new thought to our usual approaches, in which most of the tank units have either been elite, Tigers, or flamethrowers.

Bridging the gap, so to speak.

When I saw this image, I got the hankering to paint one of these much larger scale versions!

For now, I must settle for these tiny versions.  Perhaps some slightly larger one might end up in Flames of War games during 2015. :-)  

I have been surprised at the increasing interest I have in the historical figures.  While I obviously enjoy the fantasy figures, etc., this merging of my love of history with my love of miniature painting begs further exploration, to say the least!

The charge continues...

Onward!  More sabre rattling!

I don't know if I have any terrain to use in the final group shots, outside of some trees... I think my buildings are from every other era besides this one!

Still, 24 horses together should be very impressive!

Casket of Skulls... and souls.

It's hard to believe there are still Tomb Kings items that I have not yet photographed on the nifty Hangar 18 backdrops!  How did I miss the very first thing that I painted for the Tomb Kings.... The Casket!

Here's the story of the army:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/06/tainted-pharaoh-pseusenes-fate.html

Some pictures of the Casket in the individual parts:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/06/sneek-peek-introducing-legions-of.html

Sketches of the army board, which I am hoping to reshoot with the new lights:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/06/i-love-it-when-plan-comes-together.html

I couldn't resist trying out some of the other backdrop colors with this!

Foot and hoof...

Together at last!  The dismounted version of the banner bearer united with his alter ego on horseback!

It is fun to see the completed banner at last... although I don't seem to recall that he ever had the horse shot out from under him.

He was usually obscured by all the other knights around him, or moving too rapidly!

The 13 inches of movement every turn, coupled with the 4 chariots in the way of any bowmen meant that he was rarely targeted.

It certainly was fun watching all the dwarf archers in the tournament shooting like mad on those chariots, which are nowhere near as fragile as WFB Tomb Kings chariots!

The next post on the Easterlings will show some more of the lower grade Easterling pikemen in this color scheme.

It made it far easier to distinguish the Dragon Knights from the regular recruits, that's for sure!  Stay tuned...