Tales of a hobby butterfly

The boyz are ready to do some looting.

The heads and arms are from spellcrow and give them a ragged freebootery look

Huzzah the trench crusade rule book arrived in the post, thought it would be rude not to make a warband for the game.

Built these chaps from my bits box mainly using parts from anvil industrys from the cheap bags of miscasts they sell at salute.

I wanted to make the metal look more rusty and worn, usually I would use a rust effect like rhyza rust but was trying to use the pens as mutch as I could, so tried using the pen to gently draw on small dots of fire giant orange then smudged it with my finger, once dry I did the same again with hardened leather.

The edges of the weapons then got a line of polished silver on the edges.

I’m pleased with how quickly they were finished and ready for some dungeon shenanigans. Using the pens was quite different to a brush you can kind of relax a bit as the paint won’t run the pen like a  brush if you sit back and watch a bit of something before going back to colouring in.

The nibs are a bit chunky so some parts were a bit difficult to get to which is the main reason I used the strong tone was to cover up the gaps.

It’s cool not having to worry about getting clean water as there are no brushes to look after.

It was a shame the bases had to be painted with a brush, I suppose if I had used more layers it may have covered properly but that would not be speedy and would probably use a lot more paint so I’m happy to get the brush out for that.

All in all I enjoyed the pens a lot, it’s kind of cool to find new ways of doing things.

Got some funky cloaks in the post today, so thought I would have a go at making some Vikings I have for saga and other games like pillage a look a little bit more dapper before they leave on a raid.

The cloaks are fiddly to attach mainly due to my oaf fingers, I’m sure as I get more practice it will get easier.

To start with some modgepodge was added to the cloak and left to go tacky, some was also applied around the neck and back of the figure.

Once they were both tacky I used a needle to move the cloak to where I wanted it on the figure.

• Viking dude before he gets his funky new threads

Bam 💥 looking cool and ready to rampage

The tiles have loads of detail which washes and a good dry brush pick out nicely

At some point I will build the walls to go with it.

The termite was cool but a little small so decided they needed a land train or Squat part bus to cruise around in.

I had an old storm lord that was not doing anything so decided to pull it apart and see what I could come up with.

After wedging a cider can in the back to hold the turret up i then built around it in card and plasticatd.

I’m pretty pleased with the result so far

Hopefully in the future I can build some carriages to follow it into battle but an feeling the draw of another more dungeon crawly project at the moment so the land train may go on hold for a bit.