Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you've been well and had a great break over Christmas!
I've used my break to plough through a fair chunk of a new project - an Arab force for SAGA and Oathmark. These are primarily Fireforge Games Black Guard and Berber Infantry kits, with the ogres by Shieldwolf Miniatures. For SAGA I'll be fielding them as Mutatawii'a (minus the ogres) and for Oathmark as standard humans plus allies.
From a total of 60 human miniatures I have 2 x 10 man units of archers, 2 x 10 man units of swordsmen and 1 x 20 man unit of spearmen. For SAGA I'll drop a couple of men from each unit and use as warriors, or divide in two for hearth guards. For Oathmark they'll be fielded as is.
The Black Guard look is amazing and I've wanted a force of them for a long time (here's the lust angle). I've tried to keep the colour palette really tight and highlighted them hard to give them a bold look.
The ogres are resin miniatures are an absolute joy to assemble and paint. Really clean sculpts with loads of weapon options and the price is great to boot. Sheildwolf Miniatures are highly recommended! There's a definite "similar to but legally distinguishable from" Warhammer Ogor Martribes vibe but I'm fine with that.
Still haven't decided on the banners. I'm tempted to leave them blank to reinforce the starkness but they would look neat with some script on them. For now that's a Future Millsy problem.
And finally some glamour shots of the command stands...
Now do the math please Millsy...
60 x 28mm infantry = 300 points
3 x 40mm infantry = 21 points
Dante's Divine Comedy - Second Circle: Lust = 20 points
Total: 341 points
There are camel and horse cavalry coming later in the Challenge along with a pile of characters from Reaper Miniatures amongst others. For now this is a solid chunk of points to kick me off and I can switch to something else for a while. Thanks for looking!
Artist: Portishead
Album: Dummy, Roseland NYC Live
Artist: Schiller
Album: Illuminate
Artist: Faithless
Album: Forever Faithless (Greatest Hits)
Artist: Thievery Corporation
Album: Saudade
Cheers,
Millsy
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Hello Millsy!
Great musical selections. I think I'll listen to some Thievery Corp too!
Wow, thats quite the variety of minis .. and awesome work on the shields ... I'm sure such detail was frustrating but worth the results. I like the pops of colour .. turquoise, purples, blues and reds on the infantry - really effective!
341points for you!
- Sarah
Terrific work, Millsy! I admire your blacks with the very subtle and effective shading. The faces of those Ogres are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteGreat job! Love the color selection and the bases.
ReplyDeleteFantastic work Millsy! Great job on shading and highlighting the black. Also love the touches of colour to differentiate units.
ReplyDeleteWonderful painting work!
ReplyDeleteVery nice work really like the smooth tones!
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Points BOMB! Awesome work Millsy. I love 'em. Like Sarah, I especially like the rich accent colours you did for each unit. The shields may have been a swine, but the final result is aces. Well done mate!
ReplyDeleteBOOM goes the dynamite! Nice one mate - they look great! Shading across all them, with the splashes of colour, is really fabulous
ReplyDeleteYou had a very productive break! Lovely work on these figures from the shading to the accents.
ReplyDeleteGreat work and excellent demonstration of how to handle “double black” 😆
ReplyDeleteReally nice. Very dramatic and atmospheric figures.
ReplyDeleteWow they look awesome mate, when you said you were doing a stack of them I didn't realize how big of a stack they look so good love the black and the shields turned out so good
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful force!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone, I'm really happy with them and excited to continue working on the force now.
ReplyDeleteExcellent work, but the gem of the entry are those ogres.
ReplyDeleteThievery Corporation is pretty ace as well.
Oh wow, awesome points bombardment for the opener Millsy! These are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteSome great tunes too :)
Great stuff! Striking colours combined with solid black with neat highlights look awesome!
ReplyDeleteExcellent brushwork and a tremendous points bomb Millsy. The colors are great and love the ogres.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant Millsy, I've been looking forward to seeing these after chat talks. Lovely work and the basing really sets them off. The ogres are my favourite I think and I'm with you on the iconic bamboo - well done
ReplyDeleteOh gosh Millsy these are truly excellent, love them!
ReplyDeleteDamn fine work there matey
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