My 10mm Kings of War project

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[Techno]

Excellent !!

Cheers - Phil

[toxicpixie]

They do look very tasty - nice colour palette!

[fred.]

They look good. Boots, I'd just go with brown - at this scale they tend to get lost in the basing quite easily.

Scabbards either blue or the same as the shields. Too many small areas of different colours can end up a bit jarring. 

[lowlylowlycook]

They look good. Boots, I'd just go with brown - at this scale they tend to get lost in the basing quite easily.

Scabbards either blue or the same as the shields. Too many small areas of different colours can end up a bit jarring.  

This seemed like good advice, so I took it.



Originally I was thinking of adding some gold trim to the shields and helmets but I'm thinking I'll save that for the command models.

[edit] Forgot to mention that I can't take credit for the color scheme.  It's basically stolen from something I saw on TMP.

Oh, and here are some orcish experiments.

[Steve J]

Lovely work and I agree that boots tend to disappear into the base when flocked.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Yup, look great!

[paulr]

 

Orcish experiments successful

[lowlylowlycook]

Right when the orcs were halfway through painting their Thanksgiving decorations on their shields, they were rudely interrupted by a band of Dwarves. 



These guys turned out all right but I'll have to think a bit about how to best do them and since I'll be mixing in a lot of Pendraken goblins I'll wait until those arrive.  Probably should have experimented on one stand at a time.



One thing that I'm noticing now that I'm working on these Copplestone sculpts is that I'm not convinced that, outside of some things like leather boots, they would be improved by a dip. 

Maybe that means I need to paint with brighter colors.

[Luddite]

Maybe that means I need to paint with brighter colors.

In 10mm paint two shades brighter than 28mm

[lowlylowlycook]

Woooot!  Got a Pendraken Package.   Now the experiments to integrate them with what I already had can begin.   

Mostly the goblins are a bit taller but quite a bit chunkier than the Copplestone orcs.   I'm working on splitting them into guys that can join in as largish orcs (mostly the spear goblins for some reason) and those that I'm thinking might make good half trolls or something (everyone with a club). 

Here are some prepped CS orcs (still on strips) and PD goblins (in between and on some ends) prepped:


I've decided to keep the actual standard bearers for command bases so I've converted a few spear goblins using just bits of paper clip that I'll have to hang something on later.  I think I'll need 3 bases of these "regular orcs" and maybe 2 bases of the half trolls.

Then instead of painting the above I messed around with integrating the Copplestone half-orcs with the PD stuff.  This time I did it on the unit bases that I was using to get an idea of the scale 10mm Kings of War.   One oddity that comes from KoW attempting to stay compatible with Warhammer is that the orcs are on bigger bases than the dwarves or most other troops.


The standard bearer is a PD spear goblin with a bit of paperclip pinned into his hand.  The guy pointing is from the PD ballista crew. 


The champion in front is PD and the guy shoving the paperclip into the lens is the other PD spear goblin pose.



Also took a quick look at some dwarves.  The bows on the crossbows didn't look so impressive.  I'm thinking that if I can make some slightly bigger bows for them then I could those both on the crossbow dwarves and to convert the musket dwarves to crossbows which you be more Tolkienesqe. 

Everything else looked good.

Meanwhile I was thinking that I could use one of the armored dwarves as the dwarven general but I think I better keep these guys in their own unit.  They could easily be a specialist dragon fighting crew. 

[lowlylowlycook]

More mucking about

A few crossbow dwarves made from the musket dwarves:


A wedge of dwarf cavalry


The PD wolves are quite tiny.  It turns out that the PD riders fit on the wargs from Copplestone.  Luckily I ordered a pack of extra wargs on a whim.

The four riders on the right are alternating PD,CS,PD,CS

[d_Guy]

Like your crossbow conversions - " The world is what you make of it, friend.  If it doesn't fit, you make alterations."

[fred.]

Those crossbows look good. How have you made the bow part?

[lowlylowlycook]

Those crossbows look good. How have you made the bow part?

Long ago, I was trying to make some metal movement trays for WHFB and bought a large sheet of steel.  Turns out it was far better to leave that to people with appropriate skills and tools, i.e. Shogun Miniatures.   All I did is cut a the thinnest strip I thought I could (Like I said, I'm no metal worker) off with some metal sheers.  I just cut that into pieces and then bent them a bit.  I was originally going to try boiling some plasticard strips but I couldn't remember where I put my plasticard supply. 

[fred.]

Cunning. I wondered if they were brass rod, but they are the wrong colour, and looked fairly flat. I'll remember this if I ever get the thought to convert some figures.

[Techno]

Definitely a DAMN fine job on those crossbows.
Most impressive !! 

Cheers - Phil

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

With conversions, might I recommend aluminium flashing similar to this:-



I bought an 8 metre roll for about 4 quid to work on some ship conversions and I now have a lifetime supply .

Importantly the aluminium cuts with normal scissors.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[lowlylowlycook]

A test of some Half-Troll warriors, aka Pendraken Goblins of the larger sort.  Also pictured is the GW LOTR Troll drummer that I used for inspiration as far as color scheme.



They still need a dip, I think.

[d_Guy]

Looking good, LLC. Like the color scheme and the bronze blades make a nice change.