Sunday 19 January 2020

From BenitoM: Obelix Favourite Dish (10 points?)

This is a small diversion in my two main projects this year (the emerging Early Imperial Roman and enemies unit + the core planned early II World War Germans platoon),  having a lot of fun painting it yesterday.


A wild boar family! Despite what you may think, it is not unrelated to the first project. In fact in Infamy! Infamy (the incoming Ancient period rules by Too Fat Lardies), there is a table that triggers unexpected events and one of this is a unit overrun by wild boar hog in the forest.

The models make a nice piece of scenery, a jump off point and of course a funny addition when this unexpected event triggers in the game.



These wild boar family is from Warbases. I just happened to detect it when perusing the website looking for appropriate bases and movement trays for my armies and decided to give them a try.

I strongly recommend taking a look to the Warbases' Animals section, they have a wide and very nice range of models that may go unnoticed to many as we tend to associate the company with the basing stuff.


I'm not sure how to treat them in terms of scoring points for the Challenge. May be 10 points like a mounted figure? I leave it to wisely judge decision of the minion-in-charge today... I'm in your hands.

From MilesR:  MMMMM Bacon.... but I digress.  Love the boars - especially the piglets!

16 comments:

  1. This is brilliant, Benito, a wonderful bit of wildlife!

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  2. Super looking wild boars!
    Best Iain

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  3. I agree with Miles - delicious!
    Also, fantastic painting, what a great character piece for the tabletop.

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  4. Walking rations! Very well painted and useful for quite a lot of scenarios I might imagine.

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  5. I bet they’d go well with a dab of whole grain mustard...but nice work Benito.

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  6. What a fabulous scenic base for the tabletop, Benito. Well done!

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  7. You've got the marking on the boars down to a 'T'.

    Very well executed brush strokes!

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  8. These'll look great on the table, excellent work.

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    1. I agree, especially in the dining table once roasted and with a good red Rioja ;-)

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    2. EVERYTHING is great with a good red Rioja... :)

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  9. Very nice, particularly the markings on the boarlets. Piglets? Baby boar?

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  10. Great work Benito. I agree, Warbases do some great animals in their range and I have quite the collection of them now.

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  11. Many tahnks for your commennts. It's been a fun divrsion from y projects

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