Reaper Miniatures Half-Orc Fighter, Anval

 

The latest addition to my protagonists facing off against my D&D groups adventurers. This one is the Anval Half-orc fighter from Reaper Miniatures.

I primed this guy in Chaos Black, before giving it a zenith highlight in Wraithbone. The skin was painted in Karak Stone, if I remember correctly, and armour painted in Gunbolt Metal and the cloth in Gore-Grunta Fur contrast paint. The axe had a gold highlight. I then washed the whole model in Agrax Earthshade before using Blood for the Bloodgod on the axe. Very simple and works, in my humble opinion.

T'roll in the New Year, here is a Mantic Troll

 See what I did there...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This lad is a Mantic Games (Kings of War) Troll. He's been sitting around, half painted, for over a year now and it was high time that I finished him. The Christmas holiday break has given me the much needed time to catch up on the outstanding painting jobs that needed doing. He was one of them!

His tiny legs are too small to hold his bulk. But who cares. Its a fantastic fantasy miniature and I just had to have one.

I imagine that this fella moves much like a chimpanzee or gorilla. Swinging his body on his huge muscular arms along the ground. As such, that's how I will present his movements to the player characters when they encounter him in a future role playing adventure.

Anyway, may you have a safe and wonderful New Year, and here's to 2021!

2021! Where's my jetpack they promised us all back in the 1950's?

Reaper miniatures Orcs

These lads are all from Reaper Miniatures. The one on the right I have shown off in a previous post. However after leaving them half painted for nearly a year now I finally decided to finish off the rest. So here they are.

Being from the Reaper Bones line, I varied the standard sword orc model by carefully cutting the hands off the mini's, then positioning them so that the weapons were at different angles. I varied the battleaxe models by positioning the ax heads. This provided enough variety to the models to make them distinct enough from each other on the table.

I still need to do some tidying up with them, painting the eyes and applying blood stains to the weapons. But, after a year, they can finally hit the table. These guys will predominantly be used for role playing, but will also make a nice berserker unit for Dragon Rampant or Kings of War.