Halfling Mounted Archer Greens

Coming soon to a The Assault Group Kickstarter near your home, the second Halfling Light Cavalry Rider option (to go with the roosters): mounted archers, sculpted by Juan Montaño.

Right wing archers:

Left wing archers:

Halfling Light Cavalry - The Mounts

Not so long ago, I've shown the rider models for the halfling light cavalry with spears. These will normally fit on the dwarven ponies for a traditional mount, but if you like something a bit more quirky and fluffy, here are the sculpts for the proper halfling mounts. The prototype model was sculpted by Brad Shier, with some conversions for the other poses by John Pickford:

 

For an idea of relative size of rider to rooster, here's an example of the original prototype sculpted by Brad Shier, painted by him, with an unreleased rider that is now also in The Assault Group's hands;

Halfling Cavalry Greens (greys)

After the more comical halfling piggyback riders, it was time to get some proper halfling cavalry that, if it won't strike fear in the hearts of the enemy, at least won't make them wet their pants laughing either.

This is the first set of them, light cavalry with spears. Mounted archers will follow, as well as heavy cavalry. While some halfling specific mounts are also being worked on, these rider figures will be fully compatible with the existing ponies from the dwarf range.

As with the rest of the plump halflings, these are sculpted by Juan Montaño. They still need some cleaning and tidying up, before we can call them 100% done, but I wanted to go ahead and share them.

There are 8 figures in all. 4 rank and file cavalry troopers and a full command set (4 figures): standardbearer with sword an onion standard, champion with sword and fork of command, musician with horn and tankard and a sergeant with spear.

The command will be single part figures, the rank and file will have interchangeable heads.

A couple more shots of the command figures:

Halfling Piggyback Rider Greens

Juan Montaño completed work on the halfling special troops: the piggyback riders with mancatchers! I'm not making this up (well, technically, I did, but I'm sure you'll agree the concept just had to be done).

Full command group, with captain, standardbearer and musician:

 

A closer look at the command figures. The lower halflings generally tend to look a bit grumpy, guess they feel like they're carrying all the load here.

There are five unique trooper variants, each with separate head for the top halflings, allowing for more customization.  The heads from the infantry sets should provide some more opportunity for individual looks:

A few closer looks at some of the variants and a size comparison with an old plastic elf:

Renaissance Zombie Halfling Greens

A band of halflings died in cursed lands under the most horrible torture possible for a halfling, so terrible it animated their soulless husks and brought them back from the dead. These halflings died HUNGRY...

Sculpted by Mick Darpa, these zombie halflings are always hungry and will form a shambling horde that stops at nothing to snack on your limbs or brains. The ultimate goal is to have, over time, a set of zombie versions of each race in my private project, including dwarfs, goblins, humans, sea elves and maybe more.

The Choker:

The Reacher:

The Split Personality:

The Snacker:

The Dancer (This is Thriiiiillllleeeeer):

Halfling Archer And Command Greens

Some updates with the last of the Halfling core infantry sets, sculpted by Juan Montano.

First, the finished singlepart archers:

Secondly, the command set. A mix of singlepart and multipart figures.

Halfling Captain with warhammer:

Halfling Captain with greatsword and interchangeable head option:

Standard bearer with interchangeable hand (open or beermug), head and standard top (rooster or pig):

Musician n° 1 (singlepart), fifer:

Musician n° 2 (singlepart), drummer:

The separate bits:
- 3 heads that fit on the captain with greatsword and standard bearer bodies
- an alternate standardpole hand that can turn any of the initial multipart rank and file set into an alternate standardbearer
- 2 top icons for the standard poles (rooster and pig)
- a bottle, open hand, and beermug hand for the standard bearer body

Once these are with me, I will have them mastermoulded and then we can start cranking out the productionmoulds from the mastercastings for all the sets.

Drunken Halfling Bard Green

Still on holiday hiatus, but that doesn't mean I can't show you a small preview of another model to be added to the project in the upcoming halfling reboot.

A drunken halfling bard, sculpted by MickDarpa, that will go well with the rank and file sculpted by Juan Montaño.

WIP Halfling Archers

A little preview of the WIP halfling archers Juan is working on at the moment. The set will be comprised of 5 figures like the other ones.

Easily my favourite of this batch, this one is taunting the enemy showing he's still got his fingers and can shoot (in reaction to the practice of cutting off fingers of captured archers so they can never shoot again). Just because he's small doesn't mean the dude doesn't have attitude.

A scale comparison with a classic citadel halfling as those are going to be the size standard people will judge them by. I'm tempted to call this one Robin Hoodling...

Halfling Reboot Greens: Halfling Spears and Halfling Swords

 Two more sets for the upcoming reboot of the halfling range, these are singlepart figures in the vein of the classic figures of the past. Sculpted by Juan Montaño. These are character sets to add some variation to the units by introducing some different poses.

Halfling spears. As a special touch, one of these is eating, while another (5th) is falling asleep against his spear.

Halfling swords. Noteworthy features are the drinker (1st) and the buttscratcher (2nd):

Halfling Core Infantry Reboot - First greens

These are the greens for the first two sets in the all-new halfling subrange. Unlike Kev's earlier goblin-to-halfling conversion sets, these are sculpted by Juan Montaño in a more old-school "short and stumpy" style. You will now be able to choose between fit, slim halflings (Kev Adams) or stumpy, fatter halflings (Juan Montaño).  In theory, weapons and heads should be interchangeable between the two, though I'll have to put that to the test after moulding.

The whole of the first two core infantry sets. The weapons to the left are intended for the top row of bodies (set 1), the ones to the right are intended for the bottom row of bodies. (except for the bow).

The heads for the first two core infantry sets.

The bodies for the first two sets:

The weapons for the second set of bodies: halberd+shield, spear+shield, sword+shield, twohanded spear, twohanded halberd. The bow and quiver are for set 1.

A better look at the shields: radishes, carrots, tomato...

Hands to go with the bow option on set 1 or for combining the set 1 weapons with set 2 bodies: sandwich, arrows, arrow with skewered apple and a pint.

Your army can't march on an empty stomach. Or on one that hasn't been filled for over an hour. These "extra" rations can be added to figures for more customisation: