A throwback post : Fantasy battles in 25mm

 Having moved recently an inventory is ongoing, while this inventory was happening I had a request about doing some fantasy battles.  It was initially about Warmaster (another post coming soon on that), while I have used the Warmaster minis, it was not in the game rules system, I used Hordes of the Things (HotT).

a second-place painting competition finisher of mine
one that I still have

Back before I began blogging there were games set up using HotT and anyone's 25mm minis (the Warmaster ones are 10mm), to make use of these other minis I made up a set of 'sabot' bases using thin plywood, stir stix, glue and paint.

I had a lot of 25mm fantasy minis back then (including a whole Warhammer Fantasy boxed set), so we did do a number of bigger tabletop battles, by the time I started this blog in 2006, most of the fantasy stuff had been sold off.

there are about 60-80 total of these

some have the 'I.D.' tags on the back

 So after being asked about these bases again, I decided to do up this posting, as I still have the bases and multiple copies of the HotT rules. (clik link for free rules!)

I still had some minis that were fantasy, and my new house-mate has plenty of fantasy stuff!

Orc Heroes

Owlbear Behemoth

Troll Behemoth

fantasy shooters

ECW Shooters

ECW Spears

a Lurker

Hero or Command Stand

My Wizard with all the lighting going!

I even have a 'toad' for when you screw up your magic roll and your magician turns into a toad.

Any 25mm minis will work on these stands (indeed we used a bigger scale Samwise Gamgee as a behmoth in a game).

Not been used for at least a decade (having been stored away and fantasy dropping off my radar during the 200th anniversary of the Napoleonic battles), these may now get some more use?

More of the Frost Haven commission.

 More than a year ago, I had a commission to paint up the Frost Haven miniatures.

I was asked to put the 'extended' characters back into their storage boxes (so that the players could not see them) and the game players could play out the game and see these minis as they came out during the course of play.

I agreed not to share my brush works here until a year had passed.

since I find a good little opening here to share these images now, so you get to see them

the whole group

started with the ending of the first grouping
(left of the image)

unpainted

zenithal base coat

zenithal system attempts to get the
highlight process started with the base layer

main colors now present

I based my painting on some images I
found online about the game and
a general impression of the miniature

none of the data I had about these
minis was detailed about color schemes

Here they are with the final coating
having been applied

the group finished

single shots of the minis:

fire or ice seemed to be a common theme

some were just amazing pieces that drew my attention
and I wanted to do them up well

I did up some of the flocking a bit more fantasy also

with this one I ground up some white crystal
material I had to make the ice more dynamic in the flocking

a behemoth miniature that I wanted to bring life to
with the mixed hair and scales presentation

Continuing with First Responder training, final stages have been done.  Now the government exams get to be dealt with.

Meaning that I still will not likely have much tabletop action to report about for a while.