Adventures In D&D

Hello, todays post is a bit of a photo dump of 40+ miniatures I have painted for use in D&D and other rpgs during our Tuesday night sessions over the last couple of years, lots of the miniatures are classic Oldhammer while others are from the classic licensed ranges, some are 3d prints that have been given to me as gifts, Mantic games and those marmite D&D Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures (hate them!!!).

First up a 1985 Citadel Miniatures AD&D (TSR) medium level ADD3 Cleric with Mace (human male), this miniature is a perfect fit for my D&D Human Cleric character ‘Allutt, Cleric of Malavos, hero of Phandalin, speaker of the truth’. I put the description of my cleric’s appearance out on twitter (when it was good) and ask my followers to recommend a miniature and this one came up, the miniature wasn’t the easiest to source and in the end, I got one minus the mace, a bit of fixing was involved where I sourced more AD&D clerics and hacked the mace off the higher level cleric and pinned it on. 

ADD3 Cleric with Mace - front

ADD3 Cleric with Mace - back

Cleric chop shop

Following on we have a 1985 Citadel Miniatures AD&D (TSR) high level ADD6 Paladin (human male), this is a really crazy miniature to paint, glamorous full plate, a very detailed cloak maybe depicting his deity’s  religious symbol. (I think he is proficient in quilting 😃)

 

ADD6 Paladin - front

ADD6 Paladin - back

I also painted a selection of miniatures as gifts to give my friends to use as their characters.

‘Grungi’ , a Dwarf Artisan, the miniature is 3d print,  I ordered off eBay, it was a tough miniature to source when the requirements were a fully enclosed plate armoured dwarf with an ‘Ironman’ vibe.

Dwarf Artisan

‘Four’, a D&D Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures Warforged Rogue Assassin (some sort of warbot), I cut up a d4 to add to this miniatures base to represent is name which was kinda funny when he died and come back as ‘three’.

Warforged Rogue Assassin (waiting for Mordant Earth on base)

‘Solbek’, a Tortle Mage, a lovely miniature from Iron Gate scenery (https://irongatescenery.co.uk/product-category/miniatures/) the quality of this print or mould is first class and the price point is superb.

Tortle Magic User - front

Tortle Magic User - back

A Fairy Barbarian!!, this is a ‘Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures’ halflings conversion where I swapped the head of the hammer from one miniature for the battle axe head from the other and then cut up a blister pack to make fairy wings, stuck it on a flying base and jobs was a good ‘un.

Fairy Barbarian Conversion

A few more ‘Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures’ which in general are a pretty bad experience but they are cheap and quick (when tasked by the DM to painted presupplied miniatures)

D&D Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures Mindflayer’s.

D&D Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures Mindflayer’s

D&D Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures Drider. This a a dark Elf (Drow) crossed with a giant spider.

D&D Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures Drider

D&D Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures Giant Spiders

D&D Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures Giant Spiders

D&D Nolzur's Haregon (these were a gift for painting the Mindflayer’s, I had to abandon the 4th miniature as it was so badly moulded.

D&D Nolzur's Marvelous miniatures Haregon

3d printed Bulette baby (land shark)

3d printed Bulette baby - front

3d printed Bulette baby - side

3d printed Kobolds, these are more lizardmen than the little dogmen I remember.

3d printed Kobolds

3d printed fighter, my mate offered me a few of these, one was enough.

3d printed fighter

3d printed Gnoll, I enjoyed this miniatures so much, I tried to give it this Hyena-man an African safari feel. 

3d printed Gnoll - front

3d printed Gnoll - side

3d printed Gnoll - side

3d printed Bugbear, every warband needs some muscle.

 

3d printed Bugbear - front

3d printed Bugbear - back

Some really classic Oldhammer:

1985 C Series C15 Orcs (http://www.solegends.com/citc/c015orcs2/index.htm)

C15 Orcs

Left to Right:

Cyclops (Fangor Gripe - Bloodbath at Orcs Drift scenario miniature)
Warlord (Grashak Kra - Bloodbath at Orcs Drift scenario miniature)
Dwarfsmiter
Maniac (Magar Ironfist - Bloodbath at Orcs Drift scenario miniature)
Holg Stunty-Sticker (Archer)

Lesser Goblin (http://www.solegends.com/citboxes/bc1adventurersbc2monsters/index.htm)

BC1 Lesser Goblin

Chronicles N12 Hobgoblin – Thruster  (these guys will tie in with my slow burner Nippon warband project)

N12 Hobgoblin 'Thruster'

DL2 Hobgoblin Warriors 1984 - Shaman

Hobgoblin Shaman - front

Hobgoblin Shaman - side

1985 Citadel Miniatures AD&D (TSR) ADD 56 Bugbears, one was a repair job and I had to source missing weapons for one of them.

Citadel Miniatures AD&D Bugbears

ADD56 Bugbears

The next miniatures were chance discoveries that were punted at me by the Amazon algorithm, at £15 or less these were a no brainer, the quality is pretty decent and the plastic is quite durable.  The boxsets make excellent filler miniatures for encounters.

Mantic Games – The Green Rage – a superb box of 10 plastic Goblinoids miniatures, it contains: 2 x Goblin Warrior Miniatures, 1 x Goblin Spitter Miniature, 1 x Orc Morax Miniature, 1 x Orc Greatax Miniature, 1 x Orc Archer Miniature, 1 x Armoured Troll Miniature, 1 x Mawbeast Miniature (a big wolf or Warg type dog) and 1 x Orcling Swarm Miniature (lesser goblins or snotlings). All pre mounted on size appropriate grey plastic dungeon tiled bases.

Mantic Games 'The Green Rage'

Mantic Games – Evil Dead – another superb box of 10 plastic Undead miniatures, it contains: 2 x Skeleton Miniatures, 2 x Zombies Miniatures, 1 x Skeleton Archer Miniature, 1 x Armoured Zombie Miniature, 1 x Ghost Miniature, 1 x Dwarf Revenant Miniature and 1 x Zombie Troll Miniature. All pre mounted on size appropriate grey plastic dungeon tiled bases.

Mantic Games 'Evil Dead'

3d printed Dungeon accessories

Matchstick shelving with bottles

other 3d printed accessories

Here's my homemade floor plans which I was tasked by the DM to draw, all squares are 25x25mm. 

Orcish Fort

Sewers 1

Sewers 2

Graveyard

Nobles House - downstairs

Nobles House - upstairs

All the rooms needed hiding and numbering

I hope you enjoyed this post and something here gives you inspiration for your D&D games.

J

LE11 Giant Orc Chieftain and Bodyguard

Hello, today's classic miniature post features a lovely Oldhammer pair from the 1980's Citadel Miniatures 'not so' limited edition range the LE11 Giant Orc Chieftain and Bodyguard.  The pair were released in 1987 and I believe sculpted by Kevin 'Goblinmaster' Adams.

I hold these miniatures close to my heart my first Warhammer Fantasy Battle Army was Orcs way back in about 1983-84 during the transition from 1st edition to the more exciting 2nd edition so large were our armies and that we tended to field everything we had, it would take about 2 hours to put your army out on the field, play all day and then 2 hours to pack it all back up, these guy's were some of the few miniatures remaining from that army so I had to get them out and strip them for a revisit here.

These are really nice sculpts and demanded some extra attention both prepping and painting, I attempted to go for those classic goblinoid skin tone colours that appeared in the White Dwarf 'Eavy Metal pages of the time, working up the greens to a yellow highlight, dirty dull metallic armour, I painted all the studs on the jerkin and spear staff first post undercoat as I find it a lot easier to paint around the studs rather than clumsily painting them all in at the end plus a dark wash blends them in nicely and I put some extra time in on yellow and black checked shields as it brings the pair together and it one of my favourite shield patterns, I would hope it dazzles their opponents during a fight.

LE11 Giant Orc Chieftain and Bodyguard

LE11 Giant Orc Chieftain - front

LE11 Giant Orc Chieftain - back

LE11 Giant Orc Bodyguard - front

LE11 Giant Orc Bodyguard - back

I should of probably saved these for Orctober but couldn't wait, I hope you enjoyed them.

Come back soon!

J

Orctober Fest

Hi Folks,
Now I don't usually get involved in these themed occasions due to time limitations on my hobby but when I was over at Erny's Place (the foremost place to visit for Oldhammer Orc miniatures) it had me thinking back to my youth, back in the early 1980's I was a lean green fighting machine, nothing else mattered it was Orcs or nothing. We were playing Warhammer 2nd Edition and whatever you could carry down to my late mates house you could field as you can imagine we had some massive games, it usually took a 2-3 hours to setup, 4-5 hours to play and then 2-3 hours to pack away, our 6 week summer holidays were ace.

I fell out of love with the Orcs in the late 80's when they were starting to turn generic and green, Harboth and the black mountain boys, Eeza Ugezod's Mother Crusher's and Mighty Ugezod's Death Commandos, the C Series and Chronicles miniatures I owned just did not sit right with all the new stuff that came out, the were noticeably smaller and severely lacked character or uniqueness.

Anyway most my citadel Orcs went on eBay over 10 years ago but I kept lots of favourites for D&D so I dug a few Orcs and Goblinoids out today and thought I would share them with you :)

Here we have from left to right:

C14 Snotling (1987), C36 Hobgoblin (1985), C15 Orc (1985), N16 Cave Goblin (1985), C12 Goblin (1985)

and here we have from left to right:

2 C10 Half-Orc's (1985), 3 ME43 Half Orc's of Saruman (1985)

A paltry contribution to Orctober Fest I know but I hope you enjoy my trip down memory lane

One last word there was only one colour to paint your Orcs back in my day... Citadel Colour Orc Brown! :D

cheers

J

A sad day indeed - Maggie Orc Banner

Maggie R.I.P - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22067670

Photo of Orc Warbanner immortalising the late Margaret Thatcher taken a minute ago from my Heroes for Wargames book. (link here)

Probably Britain's second greatest ever politician and a force for womankind everywhere.

Painted by Colin Dixon

And here in White Dwarf 81

Please no derogatory remarks or political debates, it's too soon and as a sign of respect for the dead too.

***UPDATE (20:25)*** someone has just PM'ed me pointing out that Zhu done a wonderful article on this banner so here is the link
thanks
J