From BruceR: Vampire Lord to lead and Chaos additions to Warmaster Madness (77 points)

I have continued down my road of Warmaster and 10mm figures.  I have commented previously, I do not have a 3d printer, even though I have been tempted in the past.  I found myself without figures to paint for this project, yet I knew there were a few packs in the post. While waiting I did sit down and put brush to this little Vampire Lord on a Winged Nightmare.

I used a black primer with a dry brush of white before using speed paints to lay down the first coats of color.  I then highlighted with acrylic reds, bone, German grey, and some silver.  I added some pale blue and purple to the Lord for contrast.   I enjoyed how he turned out at this scale.  This is one of my Forest Dragon sculpts.  He is quite large for the 10mm scene so I thought points wise it would be equivalent to a vehicle at 5 points.  Sylvain can adjust if I over shot.  

Some ribs can be seen poking out

View of Skull on back of saddle for skull counting

For this next submission I'll blame GregB as he suggested Mini Rat figures and to find them, I had to go to a UK printer.  Now shipping and tariffs can make this prohibitive, but when I compared the discounts offered by MGSMiniatures Etsy the higher shipping was equal to what I pay for prints from manufacturers in the States.  Production and shipping took no longer than in country purchases.  

So, bulking up my Dogs of War force are Beorg Bearstruck  and the Bearmen of  Urslo.   Once again amazed at the detail on these printed miniatures.

Here are the WHFB details of this unit from the DOW book if interested and I used as reference.

I went to work with my tried and true method of black primed and blotch painting.  This is done inside out from skin to final details.

1st Warrior Flesh.  2nd Chain mail.  3rd Fur Brown. 4th Flat Earth. 5th Orange Brown. 6th Dark Sand. 7th Dark Vermilion. 8th Legendary Red. 9th Gold. Paints are Army Painter, Vallejo, P3.

The paw on the shield is embossed so I found not too bad to paint, just a steady hand needed.  I did highlight the red paw and plume.

Some grey needed to set out the werebear leader

Close up shows the skin blotch painting leaving
 the black to define features. 
Also, the tiny skull on the warrior's helmet on the left end.
Counted 21 of the little buggers. 

These will give me two units of medium infantry in my DOW force for Adepticon.  

I'm off to sunny California for 10 days so when you read this I should be in warmer weather.  Having said this, we experienced global warming these past few days in the North with temps in the 50's F in February.  Unusual.  

Loki enjoyed the weather for our walk.  Some runner passed me in shorts and T-shirt.  Crazy.

A couple of action shots of my crew's game this past Sunday, with my forces of DOW and Empire vs Vampire Counts and Greenskins.  Always nice to get the figures out.

On to the points.

One of the strips lost a man in the "chaos" so 71 10mm @1                 71 pts

Lord @ 5 6                                                                                                    5 pts

Total                                                                                                         76 77 pts

22 skulls (21 on the marauder helmets and one on the Lord saddle)

More in a couple of weeks.  Be safe and sane.

Bruce

 

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Sylvain: I said this before, but it still amazes me how your 10mm figurines are so detailed that they look like 28mm models. I agree with your calculation except that a 10mm vehicle is worth 6 points, not 5. So a total of 77 points for you. Génial!

 

From GregB: Warmaster Dogs of War Artillery (16 points)

10mm "Galloper Guns" for Warmaster. 

Challenge participant BruceR has been inspiring me with his Warmaster-scaled Dogs of War entries during this edition of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. I too love playing GW's "Warmaster", and I also love the "Dogs of War". Now, the "Dogs of War" were done by GW in 28mm, never in their old 10mm version of the Fantasty game. But thanks to the efforts of genius 3D designers and printers, there are now some really awesome "Dogs of War" suited just perfectly for the scale - and this submission is a prime example. This is a battery of Mercenary "galloper guns", modeled on "Bronzino's Galloper Guns" from the original "Dogs of War" collection. I believe these were designed by "MiniRat". 

Bronzino directs his crew as the gun is laid for action...

The match is lowered...

Of course, the original 28mm version of Bronzino had lost a leg, poor chap. The battery commander here still has both - so one might assume this is simply a younger, less-veteran version of the famous mercenary commander (or perhaps the more famed commander is available as a separate hero sculpt, something I need to investigate). These figures have been gathering dust in my pile for years...after all I painted a 10mm version of Braganza's Besiegers back in 2022, and I would have picked these up at the same time... 

On this base, we have a limbered version of the gun - move lads!

These "MiniRat" designs are just brilliant. The proportions have a slight amount of exaggeration, done just right, to enhance the look of the 10mm sized figure. I tried to catch every detail I could manage. 

These sculpts are just tremendous! They are really fun to paint.

Maybe the only issue I encountered is that they did not size very well on the bases...in hindsight I should have shaved off the sharp edges, as they are all sculpted/printed together on the single base...oh well...

Points-wise, we have two horses, two guns, and four foot figures, all in 10mm, which makes for 16 points, I believe. 

Contract firepower to support the highest bidder is now available for my Warmaster collection! That's all for this week - hope to be back with more next Wednesday.

 

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Sylvain: Wow, just wow! You picked up so much details in these tiny miniatures, even at a distance it's possible to distinguish the parts of the harness on the horse. Obviously, this is a labor of love and you do love your miniatures and the story behind them. I can't wait to read the next episode of you projects. Excellent travail!