The Drums of War are beating for Warmaster!

 

I've been planning this battle for some time now, painting and compiling together miniatures and scenery. Getting near now to being ready to play this one. Given the pandemic lockdowns, its going to have to be a solo bash. Still some work to be done, such as painting the rest of the castle. But I will eventually post a Warmaster battle report on this one. For now, this is eye candy. So enjoy!

Chaos vs Medieval (Bretonnian maybe? Still need to decide). Castle walls are by Kallistra. Most figures are GW Warmaster, Pendraken or Kallistra. Roads and river are from eBay. Bridge is from Kallistra. Hill is the old GW Battleboard. Fields are from Hotz mats.

Dwarven Runic Golem from Alternative Armies

 

The latest addition to the D&D bestiary, a Dwarven Runic Golem. This miniature comes from Alternative Armies and is for their 15mm range. However, taking a chance, I decided to get one for our Old School D&D group. Turns out that it works at the 28mm/32mm scale.

The golem is pictured next to a Scibor Miniatures 28mm Dwarf who is standing on a rune stone (and therefor is taller that usual). So you can see that the scale works also for 28mm.

So if you are looking for a Rune Golem I would definitely suggest this one.

Four-armed Gargoyle repaint

From this...

...to this.

This miniature is a WizKids four-armed Gargoyle. I wasn't too impressed with the paint job out of the box and so decided to paint it for myself.

A Gloam for D&D

 What is a Gloam, you ask?

Gloam's are undead entities formed from the corpses of a multitude of crows, ravens, or magpies. 

According to the Dolmenwood setting (Wormskin No.3), a Gloam has two forms, at times appearing as a flock of ragged, cawing birds and at other times in the guise of a tall, gaunt man, constructed from the agglomerated feathers, bones, and beaks of the flock. Both manifestations are wreathed in shadow and accompanied by a creeping sensation of dread. So I thought I would make one!

I used a Reaper Miniatures Shadowgaunt along with carefully removed crows from the Zombicide Murder of Crows expansion to create both Gloam miniatures.

The larger crow only miniature I glued to form a roughly humanoid shape of legs, arms, body and head. The Shadowgaunt Gloam miniature saw me cut up a bunch of crows and gluing them to various parts of the Shadowguant.

As its a swarm-like creature, one should prove a challenge to the players as they try to deal with it as it keeps swarming, attacking and dispersing. It can even disperse and get away if it suffers too much damage. Such a creature in the wilds, hunting the players, should prove fun.

Looking forward to this thing appearing on the table when the PC's are wondering through the wilds of  Dolmenwood!