Assorted Miniature Projects

Here are a few more miniatures from the Copplestone Castings collection for their Fellowship. We start with Boromir (Bakshi) but also could well be Beorn in the future – I just need a 15mm bear!

I will be painting up the Jackson version of Boromir in the future so I will be able to swap him out. I just wanted to paint something a bit different first time around.

And, here are some Hobbits! Frodo & Sam are ready for an adventure.

These are SO tiny and I really can’t wait to get stuck into Merry & Pippin and then go beyond this and perhaps pick up some foes to stick them against in Moria.

Having a lot of fun. Just did this fellow in-between lunch and work stuff. The beards certainly help these models pop a bit more.

Breaking it down, the process is pretty simple…

1. Undercoat (I use Wraithbone or White)
2. Base Colours
3. Wash with Nuln Oil
4. Highlight back up using the original colour or something lighter

Doesn’t take any time at all, maybe about 30 minutes in total (a bit longer depending on the model). I think the main thing is going to be finding the sand (thanks for the help) to start working on the bases.

I think I’ll also be transferring them onto 1p instead of these GW rounds.

In addition to yesterday’s work, here is Legolas who I painted up yesterday from the group.

Again, really liking how these have come together and they take no time at all to paint. I am very tempted to pick up a pack of the Copplestone Castings Orcs as well so I can have this band of heroes fighting through Moria!

After wanting to dive into the likes of Warmaster over the past few weeks, I was tempted to pick up some 10mm Copplestone Casting miniatures; an alternative Fellowship Of The Ring.

This was going to be quite a challenge as I’ve never done anything in anything smaller than 20mm before but I’ve finished off both Gandalf and Aragorn this week and I’m pretty happy with them!

First up, we have Gandalf…

He was my first test miniature and I think that he worked really well. The work that goes into these miniatures seems similar to 28mm although it takes about a tenth of the time. Gandalf was finished in about 30 minutes…

Next was Aragorn and he uses a very different colour palette to Gandalf. This was a lot of browns and greens to give the look of Strider the Ranger from Fellowship. I think, once again, it turned out ok!

These miniatures were at an odd angle and didn’t really show off Aragorn in the best light (at least in my opinion), so I took another shot like the one above for Gandalf which gives you a better look at his features and such from the front.

Considering these were my first 10mm figures, I am pretty pleased with how they turned out. I have Legolas, Boromir, Gimli and the four Hobbits to work on after this and they all look a bit more challenging!

The Hobbits, in particular, are going to be very interesting indeed since they are even smaller and are packed with detail regardless.

One question I do want to ask is, what is the best basing material for 10mm figures and where do you get it from? I have been told very, very fine sand is a good idea and just paint it green?

Another test of some skills this week as I took on the challenge of painting the exceptionally poppy and bright coloured Stuff Fables characters from Plaid Hat Games board game. Here are the first four miniatures from the set of six…

These miniatures were very much an exercise in patience. It took a lot to paint them up and get them finished, especially once you work through the shading element. It takes a lot of repainting and being very, very careful around the edges of different elements to retain that comic book look.

Also – I could very easily have painted these without the shading and I think they would still have been fine haha.

I finally got around to starting work on Vax, the first of the Critical Role miniatures by Steamforged Games. He is a bugger to paint but I think the model has started to come together nicely…

Alas you will notice that he is missing one of his daggers. Unfortunatly it got snapped off in the casing which is a shame but I have still worked to try and make him look good.

I need to touch up a few bits of the miniature but otherwise I think he has come out really nicely. I would love to be confident enough to paint him entirely black like the character in question but I think the blues and greys help.

I am looking forward to getting the other miniatures from the Kickstarter (at some point) and having fun painting up the other characters, especially Grog.

Another of the new characters for the Dunkeldorf range has now been finished for use in some Oldhammer adventures. Meet Gunther…

Happy with how this fellow turned out, a lot of fun doing the stripes and getting that ginger facial hair rocking on his noggin.

Looking forward to finishing things off with Bertha soon!

I also finally got round to finishing off the DOOM Guy from Klukva Miniatures last night. He took an age to paint between other projects as he was mostly painted with washes of orange and green on a white basecoat.

I’m happy with how he turned out and whilst I could have worked a lot more detail into the armour and the gun I think it has worked as a little vignette piece.

I need to work on some basing for him now, probably going with Astrogranite as a good darker scheme against the bright green. It’s not Martian dust but it’ll work.

I might then throw a bit of Blood For The Blood God onto the base in splashes and on the claws of the demon.