Painted Infantry

The talented Bruenor Odinson painted a set of mastercastings (mainly because I wanted to see what a good painter could do with them) and they are lovely:

Pike, crossbow, handgun and sword greens

I got these (among other things) from John Pickford yesterday. They are based on mastercastings of the original 4 bodies and the head with the sallet helmet:


There are two variant arms for each weapon type, so you can do matching sleeves with the bodies. Currently, the weapon options include pikes/spears, crossbows, handguns and swords. After moulding, the pike-arms will be converted to halberd-arms for another option. The swords have been slightly lengthened since these pictures were taken.

Of course, the heads are fully interchangeable with those from the previous set, for maximum individuality. With hindsight, the crossbow variants are going to be a bit tricky to rank up. As it is, this set should allow for 128 different combinations. 256 if you throw in the heads from the first set. More if you mix sleevetypes (though that might require some gapfilling, I haven't tried).

Unobstructed view of the bodies, front and back:

Halfling Civilians Comparison

I remembered my old "Village of Fear" boardgame came with some plastic halflings (oddly called "trolls" in my French edition of the game) that were sadly convered in thick oil paint. After stripping them managed to get rid of *most* of that paint, they scale up pretty well and will make some nice civilians (mayor and miller):

Renaissance Elves Comparison

There are actually a few Renaissance themed elves out there, which fit rather well to my vision of the Sea Elves with a base in the main coastal towns in human lands. (Well, except for some gratuitous nudity in the case of the Foundry females perhaps).

Dwarf Scale Comparisons

This image was made before I had my own range of dwarfs to add to the line-up:

Hafling Size Comparison

A comparison between some halfling figures. I only had converted BTD ones, but it doesn't affect the overall size:

Goblins, Cherubs and Ramage Comparison

A comparison of the relative size of Foundry goblins, orclings, cherubs and assorted ramage to an average human figure:

Painted Scale Comparison

John's dwarfs compared to some painted Marauder dwarfs:

(Marauder - WK - Marauder - WK - Marauder )

Dwarf Halberdiers - First painted pics of WK dwarfs

I couldn't resist the temptation to slap some paint on a couple mastercastings of the dwarfs I commissioned. Bit miffed that the camera ignored the extra care I put in the highlighting and shading, but what are you going to do... Quite happy with the sallet helmet though as my metals usually suck.

First castings

I got some mastercastings back from Pete at http://www.themouldmaker.com/ and he did a fantastic job on them, with no shrinkage issues. A scale comparison of some of the mastercastings next to some marauder dwarfs: