Blog Imrahil's Paint and WIP log

The models for my first ever commission have arrived:


MESBG Easterlings!
The commission is for my brother to wield his own force in our next Battle Companies campagn.

Of course it will be a non-payed commission with my brother supplying the models and paints

So more grey models to tackle

Grrr, Imrahil

 

First of many meneer! Make sure he promotes your paint jobs!

 

I am sure we will play and show the models only on game nights, so just the two of us. But nonetheless I will do my best painting them.

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First models are assembled. And of course the first conversion is made

Here are the pieces I used:


The body is an extra part in the sprue that can be used as a casualty from battle. Mostly used to Spice up bases of their enemies or battlefield terrain. The back of it is a little more flat than the normal boys.
With the cape I covered it up rather nicely.

He is given a shield which I glued a piece of paperclip to as a handle.
I also swapped his right hand(already done before this picture.

Now for the result:


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The warband for battle companies is assembled:



They even got sprayed today
I also started on the mounted versions:




Of course with the use of magnets:


And an other conversion:


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I finished yet another Rivendell Knight, just in time for the next instalment of Battle Companies upcoming monday.



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I also started on the Easterling Company:



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Awesome work here meneer!

I particularly admire your persistence (it's helping to get me going on mine).

 

Thank you!! Good to here it helps others with their hobby
My motivation recently is the, near, monthly game nights with my brother.
(which is Battle Companies of MESBG, so not much Lizards as of late )

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Yesterday was one again

A next instalment of Battle Companies, Rivendell Elves vs Men of Gondor.
Since last Game night my brother's forces of Gondor are reduced by a couple of models. My forces of Rivendell on the other hand got a warrior and a knight reinforcement. For the difference in power the Men of Gondor get a 7 re-roll count and a bonus 7 influence at the end of the scenario.

The scenario we settled on was 'Seize the Outpost'. In this scenario the goal is to overrun an outpost guarded by Mordor Orcs. To even it out we added a few more Orcs than set in the instructions (18 in stead of 12). The Orcs are moved by both players alternating and have the only two rules: They can not leave the outpost and they have to attack the closest model in the shortest way possible.
(In hindsight this alternate moving of 18 models was quite time consuming)




The criteria for the end of the game is to reduce the outpost defenders to 50% of their starting numbers. If this criteria is met at the end of that turn a roll of a D6 determents if the game ends (1 or 2) or not (3+).

In the third turn of the game we killed exactly 50% of the defenders and manage to roll a 1. At this point the winner is the Battle Company with the most models within the outpost wins the scenario. This ended up to be the forces of Gondor.



The aftermath resulted in no loss of models and my brother getting two warriors reinforcement and one warrior with bow upgrading to a Ranger of Gondor.

This ends our current campaign for now. As per our next Game night I hope to have finished my brothers warband of Easterlings to start a new adventure

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Glad you were able to get in some games, hope you can keep playing more!

 

Saw this on IG, loved it then and I love it now. Especially with the added Context! Looks like a lot of fun, and the work you've put into the board looks phenomenal

 

Thank you both very much. There will be more games for sure

Grrr, Imrahil

 

The Easterling warband is coming to completion the leader is done and the other 5 bases are getting their crack on



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Fine work on those bases

 

Thanks, that technical paint is very good stuff!

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Here is the starting warband completed:



Now for the reinforcements

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Which one did you use?

 

I based the bases with Rhinox hide and topped them with the Technical paint Agrellan Earth.

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Does Agrellan Earth naturally do the cracking effect? Or did you do that?

It would be ideal for the bases of my upcoming Chaos Dwarf painting project...