Otherworld Goblins and Crooked Dice Ettin

Apologies life has been just super busy of late so the blog has gone the back burner a bit. I went to the 7TV Fantasy event back in July over at Wargames Foundry and it was fantastic as usual! So good to see so many friends and play some casual games of 7TV. I managed to find enough time between things to get my goblin warband cast all finished off along with an Ettin (Ogre in the game). I'll try and get a write up on the blog with some of the pics. There were some amazing casts and boards all done to a fantastic standard.

Otherworld Miniatures Chieftain.

Otherworld Miniatures Shaman

Otherworld Miniatures Goblin Archers

Otherworld Miniatures Goblin Sub Chief

Crooked Dice Ettin (Resin)

The Complete Warband I took on the day. There were another 7 Goblins at one point but I change my mind and chose another co star instead as I didn't fancy moving around that many figures. Overall they did quite well. I'll do a more thorough write up in the coming weeks.

The 40 Rating Cast was below.

Wolfish Warlord
Vicious Henchman

Tormented Seer

Goblin King
6x Goblin Warriors

2x Goblin Sneaks (archers)

Shaman

There are quite a few 7TV events coming up.

7TV Pulp at Board in Brum (Walsall) in September 
Everything is Better with Monkeys 17th September (Tabletop Republic in High Wycombe)
Doctor Who Day 2022 26th November (Lenton, Nottingham)
Bears Army 7TV Toy Drive (Charity Event in Stoke on Trent) 3rd December

 

Otherworld Dwarf Fighter

Another Dwarf Fighter finished off the paint pile. He has sat half done for ages. I painted this guy a good few years back but after a few months noticed the varnish clouding a lot of the paint job on him and the fully armoured dwarf fighter below. Its really hard to paint the same figure twice. Its very similar in scheme again.

 

All of my Dwarf ,Gnome and Halfling adventurers. 

All my Otherworld Dwarves the fighter on the left also ended up with issues from the varnish

Otherworld Goblins Part 1 and Dad-Daughter project update.

I've finally gotten around to finishing off some goblins for my Fantasy gaming I think I bit off more than I could chew trying to do them all at once and so have split it in half. I am gong to do a few other figures from other ranges before painting the second half.

What you can see here is Goblin Warriors 2 pack and Half of the Goblins command pack (Bodyguard and Sub Chief or Champion as I like to think of him probably Oldhammer thinking ...) I have the Chieftain and Shaman left to do and a the goblin missile troops pack (2 bow and 2 slings). Once these 12 are finished I hope to reward myself with the other two goblin warrior packs bringing the total of goblins upto 20.

They are all cracking sculpts

I've tried a different method with the below mainly zooming in and then cropping using the s/w on my phone. Undecided still.

You'll notice the Dad- daughter project tag has been added and is in the title again. My Daughter Carmen is painting her other Young Fire elementalist (yay) We plan to do some Fantasy gaming together using some of my Otherworld adventurers as a sort of ad hoc town militia to back up the two mages. I am looking at various rulesets at the moment for it. With possibly using Frostgrave as the D20 takes out some of the predictability it seems.

WIP but we hope to finish her soon.

The First Fire Elementalist (called Elsa :P)

Anyway hope your all enjoying the lovely weather were having in the UK at the moment and talking of which this will be my last past for a couple of weeks whilst we go away on our Jollies to the seaside for a bit of R&R and family time.

Tobias Filch Gnome Thief/Illusionist.

Finished off another Otherworld miniature this week. The Last of the Gnomes that I have this time the Thief/Illusionist character. I'll probably use him more as a thief rather than a mage. I like this character a lot especially his leather cap that lined with fur. Armed with a trusty short sword a dagger sheathed at his ankle and holding a Finding Stone (I think its kind of a glowing gem). The model has tons of pouches and pockets.

Tobias Filch is a master thief, tinkerer and dabbler in the arts of magic (Which he uses to help find traps, unlock doors and chests, identify items of magical value and of course dispel the odd illusion hiding treasure). Tobias wanders from adventuring company to company often at there detriment to there members personal inventories and purses. Currently Tobias has joined up with some of his own kind Petril and Kat Shortcloak of the Fists of Iron Adventuring Company who are preparing for an expedition into the Dimwood on the hunt for a band of goblins who are raiding nearby 

homesteads and villages.

Kat Shortcloak Mercenery Fighter

Finally got around to picking up Petril's lady wife in the summer but only recently got around to painting her up.

Kat Shortcloak is the wife of Petril a pair of fighters in the Fist's of Iron adventuring company. While her husband Petril gets up close and personal with his halberd. Kat hangs back bringing down enemies with her trusty crossbow. Kats not adverse to a bit of hand to hand and is quite deft with a shortsword Kat's rucksack is made from the skin from an unusual fat goblin that tried to sneak up behind her exploring a cave once. The Goblins green hue which is an unusual colour for a goblin skin inspired her to have him skinned, cured and turned into a bag that serves to remind her to always watch her back.

Nice characterful sculpt lots of little details but not to many. Quite like the studded leather armour and gauntlets. Layered armour. Backpack (it comes in greenskin). The female Gnome fighter comes in 3 pieces crossbow, body and backpack.

Snorri Stoneheart Version 2

Yep thats right version 2!!! Another varnish mishap with Snorri Stoneheart and Tharzon Hammerfist (click the names to see the previous posts/versions) has mean me stripping them both to be repainted. There not exactly the same paint schemes as before some bits have been tweaked. Its took me along time to get around to re-painting this chap I'm not sure which is better but he is finished.

Snorri's background again.

Snorri  is a mercenary fighter of the Fist of Iron Adventuring Company. Since listening to his Uncle Tharzon's tales of ancient treasures, daring battles against Orcs, Goblins and other strange creatures when visiting the family hold. All Snorri has ever wanted to do was become an adventurer. Snorri has spent many years training with his two handed axe and wandering around the family hold hunting goblins he is now old enough and has decided to leave the family home and seek his own path. His proud father Grommel Stoneheart understanding his son's wishes and thirst for adventure has gifted him with his old suit of heavy plate armour to protect him whilst his mother has gifted him with an an ornate warhammer that belonged to her grandfather nick named 'Crusher' Snorri now joins his Uncle and the Fists of Iron on there latest adventures

I've had a play with colour washes over the finished metal. I though I'd do it over the hammer as if its magical or special in some way. Not sure to be honest painting up some other Fantasy themed figures at the moment so might have a play further on those.

Otherworld Adventurer's Rebasing Completed

The post title says it all really. Stripped them all off of there chunky mismatched thickness bases and went back to basics with them all with a simple coating of putty roughed up and give a few dry brushes of different shades of grey. I think they are far easier on the eyes now.

I've got the Dwarf Fighters Snorri Stonefist and Tharzon Hammerfist are both stripped and and ready for painting as well as a few other characters a female Gnome fighter and Gnome mage/thief and finally a Half Orc Assassin.

 Human Cleric, Fighter and Ranger

 The Halfling Thief and Fighter

Gnome Fighter, Dwarf Fighter (Hasslefree), Dwarf Thief and 2 War hounds. The advantage of the hounds on these bases is I can use them in my other games if required such as ATDE :D

The Previous bases.

Otto Graven Fighter for Hire

Been in the mood for painting some Fantasy figures after finally watching the first part of the Hobbit. Also i'm on the lookout for some Labyrinth or 'Froud' style goblins and stuff for fighting against these adventurers in SOBH.

Otto Graven is a mercenary for hire after being the sole survivor of a party that ventured into a goblin lair in order to clear it out. Not realising the goblins had a pet troll most of the party was kiled whilst the struggled to take down this regenerating menace. Eventually Otto managed to hack it down with his battle axe and then cover it with oil from his lamp and burning the remains. Otto unable to revive any of his comrades he returned a hero with his pockets full of treasure from the goblins stash. Otto has  now equipped himself with the best suit of armour and gear money can buy. With a deep hatred for trolls Otto never goes anywhere without a few flasks of oil and plenty of torches just in case.

Play by Forum Fantasy game

Over at Board of the Living Lead we are having a fantasy/RPG game where you post orders weekly they get acted out etc. Its a lot of fun a bit of role play will be involved as well. So if you got a bit of time and fancy joining in sign up over at the board and create yourself a character we will help!

We're going to be using Songs of rules sets to create characters

The first adventure is here 'Big Trouble in Foxbury' for the requirements etc check it out.


Not related to this post really but I have to include pics in my posts if possible this is the cover artwork for the Otherworld Miniatures Fantasy rulebook. Which will be using the Action Engine (Crooked Dice, 7TV, 7th Voyage etc). Pretty neat! Not out yet but has finished play testing and photo's are being taken for the rulebook. Getting Excited!