Adventures in Burrows & Badgers

Sooty is the other mouse in my wife’s warband. She’s part of the ranged support and stuck the boot in with poor Fenton when nobody was looking.

She’s a dormouse so went for the fairer fur colour which was quite nice to do.

Her red tunic is intentionally darker than previous models; I liked the contrast between the fur and the tunic, plus somebody told me to do that.

I realised I don’t have a proper photo for a couple of finished mice (Sooty and Bernard) so I will add those in the style of the previous entries.

Now we’re up to date though I’ll try to remember to take some photos as I paint up my next mini and hopefully show my process.

I’ve also got the wonderful Stoatbart set to finish, but since each character in that set has two minis (one pulling or riding the cart and one on foot) I’ll tackle those in pairs, so I’ll want a good run of sessions to ensure they are all to the same standard.

Since Fenton got himself killed by a dormouse last game I’ll be on the lookout for a new member of the warband. It’ll either be Fenton’s long-lost identical twin brother or a model I’m looking forward to painting: the hedgehog alchemist.

I like hedgehogs and inexplicably I didn’t get one the first time around, so I snuck one in originally to replace the useless Brother Weylon (I take it back!) but looks like I could use a bit more magic support for Montgomery.

Her model shows a few layers of clothing and a number of pouches for alchemy components so I think she’ll turn out to be quite a colourful model.

Horatio is a nightmare. He always beats up my warband and causes endless trouble wherever he goes. Therefore he’s a perfect leader for my wife’s warband (mistake…)

Still early on when I painted him so the cloak isn’t perfect. It’s got a lot of flatter areas so it’s harder to fake it with the layering. Turned out good in the end though.

The fur was surprisingly tricky. I tried to give him a good wildcat pattern (tabby!) but it ended up being a bit more abstract. The picture doesn’t show it but he actually has proper green cat eyes compared to all the other black eyes with white highlight on.

For these two (Sweep on the left and Agatha on the right) I focused on getting nice effects on their cloaks and shields. I’d been struggling a bit when models had larger flatter areas so a shield, while small, provided a good practice for that.

The mouse shieldmaiden is one of my favourites in the range so I especially wanted to paint her up well for my warband.

Shamelessly named after our own pet rabbit, Pickle is the second for my Wife’s warband.

Another go at nice bright blues on the clothes and establishing my style for B&B. On the tabletop she looks great! Visible from anywhere but not over the top.

My wife, being new to tabletop wargaming and also not as nerdy as me, took too long to name her animals. I did it for her.

So presenting Nutkin, the squirrel witch.

I decided I was fed up with never having successfully painted yellow before so that was the challenge this time around. I’m happy with the results, it only took a few coats to get the base yellow on nicely (Yriel yellow I think?) and then highlighted up with a few shades and layers on top.

I went all the way to a white edge highlight to really bring it up nice and bright, it’s worked a treat!

Gromley is a freebie if you buy the rules directly from Oathsworn (and comes with a scenario of his own!) so he doesn’t feature in either warband.

I decided to try making him an albino mouse to practice my whites. Not convinced (I’ve accidentally made him look simultaneously dirty and unfinished) but I was pleased with how his tunic and hood turned out. Sticking with the bright and summery theme means I can go quite bright on the layers without feeling like it looks daft.

Brother Waylon, the short-sighted spellcaster.

Over the span of two games he went from most useless to MVP. Most recently tunneled in to hold an objective on turn one and survived wound-free for the entire game, holding off a ferocious mouse.

As an aside; I’m loving the summer meadows grass and flowers basing (and terrain) scheme. The Kingdom of Northymbria has plenty of turmoil but that doesn’t stop it being (basically) the british countryside!