7TV Day Crooked Dice Black Goat/Wendigo

This is my Black Goat model from Crooked Dice its made of resin and comes in four pieces comprising of the body/legs, left and right arms then the skull/horns. Its intended use is in the Children of  the fields Winterley Cast as an adversary to Lady Winterley and the Strawman. But its physical characteristics also fit into the profile both size wise and physical description of the supernatural creature known as a Wendingo from the Pulp expansion Menagarie of Terror. (It has a goat skull rather than stag but happy to overlook that).

I went for fleshy tones on with grey fur and I am quite pleased with it. 

I need to varnish it still once I have it reapplied and then I can add some tufts etc to match my Children of the Fields models.

Crooked Dice Children of the Fields Mister Mangel

Been having a frustrating few weeks with photos not backing up and this has sort of caused a back log with my blog posting. It all seems to be working now but I have tons of posts to catch up on so will be brief with the next few blog posts.

Painting has been pretty slow lately I have been assembling lots of minis and basing but not really had much painting time. I did however get another Children of the Fields miniature finished off for my cast. I had started painting him last year and had primed him and basecoated his clothing a brown colour and there he has sat until now. So a getting some more bits finished and drowning him in strong tone and lots of drybrushing here and there calling him done. All I have left from the kickstarter is a bunch of villagers and the Black Goat. I need more figures to bolster the Black Goats forces as I only have a few cultists that fit the profiles so far.

Crooked Dice Children of the Fields Strawman

I was pleasantly surprised at how fast and fun this guy was to paint as I only got him primed on like Tuesday afternoon. I primed him with Humbrol Sea Grey Acryllic spray. I then basecoated him all over with Steel Legion Drab. A heavy wash of Army Painter Strong tone then followed. The base was painted Gorthor Brown and again a wash of Strong tone.

Once dry several layers of drybrushing was done. First the original Steel Legion Drab, Then Tau Ochre, Then a little bit of bronzed flesh on the upper parts. Various runes were then picked out in Ushabati bone and then I picked out varios logs in Oak Brown and applied a few select dark tone and strong tone washes to other wood sections.

The base was given a drybrush of baneblade brown and then the paved areas a wash of dark tone

Whats been on my mind a lot was whether to do eyes or not and in the end I decided to have a stab at glowing green eyes which adds a spot more colour and also ties him in with my cultists and other characters.

Thats it currently I will have to come back to the villagers after the event. Next week is going to be crazy busy with open evenings, meetings at work and all the usual hubbub of life. Looking forward to next Saturday though :)

Crooked Dice Cultists and Sinister Mystic

A few early and late night painting sessions at the start of the week has enabled me to get all the cultists done for my Children of the Fields Cast. The four hooded types are Crooked Dice as is the Sinister Mystic in the centre who comes from Villains 1 pack.

The four bearded fellows with various vintage firearms are by Westwind in their Empire of the Dead Brotherhood range. I had these left over after selling on most of my collection lurking in a box I found. Seeing the variety of older weapons I thought the would fit in with the background for Winterly being isolated and behind the times.

The Villagers sadly are going to have to wait I think now as one nights this  week and two next week are being taken up with High School open evenings that we need to go to. My eldest Daughter Carmen has got to decide which one she will goto  next year when she finishes Year 6. Crikey that has gone way to quick!!

 I am glad to get these done but am fed up of painting green for a bit!

 
The sinister mystic

 Brotherhood with guns. Love the Blunderbuss and Volleygun armed ones.

The faces on these where really nice to paint. the hair surrounding the faces on some are a nice touch if a little bit tricky to paint.

The Whole cast so far. Up next I am going to try and tackle the Strawman he as been primed, basecoated and just been drowned in AP Strong tone once thoroughly dried lots of drybrushing is to be done.

Crooked Dice Lady Winterly, Corndolls and Murder of Crows

Well this week has been quite a productive one hobby wise. I have continued with getting up early and doing a bit of hobby before the household awakens. A few evenings of painting has let me get a considerable chunk done.

 The four corndolls that came as part of my Kickstarter pledge. With the Classic Lady Winterly which is now over at Beast in the Broch.

 I do plan to pick up the new Crooked Dice version especially the mounted version of Lady Winterly. Then I will demote this model to either a Goodewife, Cultist Leader or similar character.

 The Crows (Murder of Crows in the game) were rather speedy to paint to be honest. Black base, Drybrush ultramarine blue, then two dark tone washes and then just pick put claws, beaks and dotted in red eyes. They accompany the Crow king nicely as he comes with one for free as part of his cost.

The next group of WIP figures are the cultists and the Sinister Mystic model who will most likely be used as a Cultist leader in this cast.

Crooked Dice Crow King and Mast Beasts

Apologies for no posts for a few weeks had a lovely time down Devon last week on our jollies. Didn't get chance to post these before the Bank Holiday weekend with going away as last minute packing and a busy week of work meant I ran out of time. As you recall in my last post I went to The Other Partizan in Newark and collected my Children of the Fields Kickstarter from Crooked Dice whilst I was there.

Having hada good read of the book and having a 7TV Day coming up on 22nd September at Board in Brum in Walsall. I decided what better time than to get cracking on some of the Kickstarter figures.

One of my favourite miniatures of the new range is the Crow King and the mast beasts and having similar schemes painted up quite quickly together.

Mister Mangel and the Corndolls primed and ready to go.

All assembled I pinned my Strawman together and he awaiting a resin base to arrive.

Raiding my Wargames Factory sprues a left handed pistol and bible swap things around with two of these villagers.

Hand swap for revolver equipped appendage

I added a rifle to this one. I quite like the look and may get a third pack of Villagers to add weapons to and use as my Children of the Field Cultists.

I already had these in the leadpile. Though I want to add the female cultists from Crooked Dice later on. I found some Brotherhood minis I had left over from Empire of the Dead and they will make great cultists with a unifying paint scheme.

All based the crows have carefully removed from there sprues and holes and wore added. Once the bases are dry I will drill and glue the crows in place.