Whimsical Fantasy Miniatures

I’ve had this excellent set of seventeen miniatures for over two years and they were indeed the first miniatures I ever bought from Northumbrian Tin Soldier so it was high time that I started to paint them.

As you can see I’ve started with the evil ones first.

…and of course now for the Lloyd shots.

I spent time trying to get the shading and highlights of the reds to work as some of the furrows in Evil’s cloak are quite shallow. After some experimenting I found adding brown to my red seemed to work quite well for shading.
Also one of the minions (Benson) has a plastic wrap over his head but painting this on the model would be quite tricky so I opted for a thinned down white wash of sorts with some of his flesh colour showing through.

A 6-soul Sluagh, a large resin piece on a 60mm base. I’ve been after a larger treeman style model for a while and this is just the piece. With rocks mixed in it’s as if nature has come alive.

I had a lot of fun adding tufts and foliage to the model once painted and I think it really brought the model alive.

I got another orc model simply because I like the miniature. Oakbound calls it a Stallu Redcap. I can imagine using him as an enemy leader model or unique individual for Five Leagues From the Borderlands.

Here are some naughty imps from Northumbrian Tin Soldier that they released a couple of weeks ago, along with a few other miniatures for Halloween.

I recently ordered these two models from Oakbound Studio, and I thought I’d paint them straight away, my first from this company. I really like how magical they both feel and I think they’ll fit in well with this project.

I’ve ordered a few more miniatures and hope to paint them up soon.

4 Soul Sluagh

Stallu Noaidi

I got these two Northumbrian Tin Soldier models about a year ago but I never got around to painting them, although they were assembled and primed for most of that time. With halloween fast approaching I though it was high time I painted them.

I thought I’d try a black background for these as it seems more fitting. I’m very rusty using black and it shows off the slightest marks, something that grey hides quite well.

Here are the final eight goblins, all armed with polearms.

…and of course the Lloyd shots.

Here’s another eight more goblins, the archers and the knights. The blue shield came with the miniature but I wanted some of the other knight to carry shields. After a quick look through I found a few spare shields from the Frostgrave plastic cultists box set by North Star.

Now for the Lloyd shots.

I’ve tried to add some brighter colours than I normally use with these miniatures to reflect their whimsical nature such as really pushing the blues.