Warhammer 40k: Da Green Baron Fighta Bomma

In our ever broadening attempts to find the odd and wonderful miniatures for wargaming, we bring you Da Green Baron, Fighta Ace of First Ragna-Ork War, Fighta Bomma!

Some intrepid Mek came up with a doozy here.

Da Green Baron is armed with four big shootas...

.. and up to your choice of four grot bombs or suparockits, mix and match if you like.

The finely detailed miniature is resin cast, with metal elements.

As usual, the model is sold unassembled and unpainted.

You can probably score one of these beauties on eBay, we haven't found them anywhere else.

Have a Great Battle,
The Old Crow

New Release: Dark Age Warriors from Gripping Beast Plastics

Gripping Beast has put out another Dark Age plastic box set of warriors perfect for your SAGA warband. These Dark Age Warriors may be used to represent almost any unarmored European warrior from the Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval period. This will be a splendid addition to the Saxon Thegns and Viking Hirdmen already available.

They might be found in the Auxillary of Justinian's Byzantines, in the Goth hordes that fought across Europe in the twilight years of the Roman Empire, lining the Shieldwall at The Battle Of Hastings, supporting the Thegns of Alfred The Great or the Hirdmen of his Viking enemies, or even raiding unsuspecting villages and monasteries throughout this period.

In this Gripping Beast Plastics box set you'll find parts to assemble 40, that's right, 40 finely-detailed Dark Age Warriors. Each Warrior can be armed with a spear but for extra flexibility, the set also contains additional parts for you to make up to 8 of these warriors with swords and 8 with hand axes. If  you prefer pelting your enemies from afar, up to 32 can be outfitted with slings or up to 16 with javelins.

The figures are flexible enough to add to most any SAGA warband. There are also parts to create horn-blowers and as always, plastic bases for all the figures.

With all these figures, we're sure you'll have a great battle!

The Old Crow

The Wright Pirates for In Her Majesty's Name Steampunk Adventure Game

All righty then, today we finally get to post the Wright Pirates! Our next company of adventurers for "In Her Majesty's Name" Steampunk miniatures game. These air raiders reside in the Northeast of the United States and have quite a history of adventuring for Country or King. You could call them mercenaries, as long as you do it behind their back.

We started once again with packs of miniatures from Artizan designs and primed them with black Rustoleum automotive primer. Being airmen, we wanted leathers so decided to stick with earth tones. Here the lieutenant has his overcoat painted in Raw Umber and his inner tunic Chocolate Brown.

The regular troops all have shorter jackets so just received the Raw Umber.

Khakis seemed to fit the best so a base of Mink Tan was used.

The skull caps were painted with the same Chocolate Brown as the Lt's tunic.

Side arm holsters and ammo bags were all painted a Burnt Umber except for the riflemen who received Olive ammo pouches. Straps, gun stocks and accents were mainly painted with Coffee Bean.

The fur collars were based with the same Mink Tan

Then were accented with Warm White

Scarves received an extra highlight of Titanium White. Goggles and buckles were painted with Metallic Brass. The lenses were painted Midnight Blue. Originally they were to have bare hands but it was decided that the air being so cold at high altitudes would require gloves.

Weapons were painted with Metallic Gunmetal and highlighted with Aluminium. Extra parts were treated with a mixture of Bronze and Copper

So after a few final touches, they were immediately assigned a guard duty rotation.

Or sent on a clandestine mission for the US Secret Service to investigate a hidden Prussian Installation

And at any time they could be called upon by their wealthy industrialist benefactor to explore far off South American jungle ruins for ancient artifacts.

Watch out for the natives boys!

OK, there's guard duty there too.

We hope you enjoy the Wright Pirates and stay tuned as we frantically try to prepare their company leaders!

Have a Great Battle,
The Old Crow

Trouble At T'Mill - A Wargaming Blog: 100K Prize Draw Day 3

Here's another great blog giving things away! Trouble At T'Mill - a wargaming blog: 100K Prize Draw day 3

5 days of prizes, check it out! Gather up some Normans for your SAGA Warband!

Have a Great Battle,
The Old Crow

In Her Majesty's Name: Starting a Second Adventuring Company

Well we are on our way to playing In Her Majesty's Name! We have acquired the rulebook and like it very much. So with our Bucharest Brigade well on it's way we decided we'll need an opposing company of agents. We rustled up these guys for a very interesting and themed unit of pirates. They are also from Artizan Designs.

The painting was just recently started, earlier today, but we only have shots of them primed right now.

Here's two options for our team captain. We'll need to think this one through and customize whoever we pick to be more steampunk.

Here's another pirate with a grappling gun for making quick ascents on buildings or passing airships. The background story for these lads is still brewing and the Bucharest Brigade stats is also forthcoming.

Have a Great Battle,
The Old Crow

How to Paint The Baron for "In Her Majesty's Name"

Last post we showed you how we painted the core of our company of adventurers "The Bucharest Brigade" for In Her Majesty's Name. Today we'll show you how we put together and painted their fearless captain, The Baron.

Using some of the circuitry components shown in the previous post, we built a "Tesla-Phelps Generator" for his lightning gun.

We then attached a cable to the gun and ran it around to the generator. The barrel needed to be something unique and after trying several options none of them seemed to work. Finally, a tiny screw from another piece of electronics fit the bill.

Here you see the screw attached to the barrel of the Baron's lightning gun. It makes a great coil for the lightning! OK, he was primed with black and his trousers were painted the same "Soldier Blue" as the rest of the company.

Using a warm brown, we painted his gloves, belt and skull cap.

His goggles, buttons and part of the gun were painted with "Pure Bronze". The inner lenses of the goggles were painted "Clover Green".

The goggles were given highlights of "Kiwi Green". The gun received a coat of "Gunmetal" and then "Copper" accents

The wire coils and tubing on his generator were painted "Copper" too.

Next the Baron's collar was painted "Brick Red". Accents on his gloves and belt also received some red.

Final highlights of "Tomato Red" were added to the edges of the gloves, belt and collar.

For flesh we used "Mink Tan" and a dark grey for the mustache and eyebrows. Dark Grey accents were painted on the seams of his coat and on highlight areas.

His belt buckle was finished off in "Antique Gold" and his gun barrel coils received a light touch of  "Winter Blue". The mustache was highlighted in "Light Grey".

The backpack generator received a "Gunmetal Grey" base-coat and the top and bottom of the coil were then painted with "Metallic Aluminium". The energy tank was given a "Pure Bronze" top ad bottom and the center was painted in shades of blue to simulate a glowing center.

Final touches included "Flesh" highlights on his face, trouser shading and a wash to tone down the grey highlights on the coat.

And there you have Baron, AKA "the Dark One" Of Moldavian descent Baron Măcelar Intuneric hails from the Romanian Kingdom and is Captain of the Bucharest Brigade, otherwise known as the Baron's Brigade. Their opponents call them as the "Immortals" due to their fearless and resilient nature. The Baron is feared as a ruthless leader bent on completing any mission for the glory of the Kingdom! 

Here is a parting shot of the Baron's secret headquarters somewhere in Romania.

Have a Great Battle,
The Old Crow

"In Her Majesty's Name" Steampunk Adventuring Party Continues

A couple weeks ago we showed you the figures for a Steampunk Adventuring party we were starting for "In Her Majesty's Name". Well as you can see we have progressed a bit since then. Let's start off with the minions for our Baron's Brigade. As we mentioned, we used The Immortal Battalion packs one and two for our troops. So let's show you some of the steps to painting them.

Here we have the base blue on their coats and bronze on the armor and goggles.

Packs, holsters and belt pouches were all based in a medium brown.

Rifle stocks were also based in a medium brown.

Their helmets, boots, gloves and masks were all painted with a dark grey but allowing the black undercoating to show through in areas. The heavy weapons guy was given a yellow ocher touch for his drum magazine bags. Touches of copper were added to some of the weapons too.

The rifle stocks were given a coat of chocolate brown to add richness in color. All remaining straps were given the same warm brown color.

Gun barrels, canteens and buckles all received a coat of gunmetal.

Final touches and washes of burnt umber and black gave them a battle hardened feel.

Now onto modifying our second in command. We settled on these bits from the circuit boards we had dug up along with some old guitar string and a piece of plastic tube.

On the "lieutenant" we added the plastic tube for a larger barrel and drilled a hole for the guitar string.

A piece from our electronics went onto his back, hole drilled in the bottom and guitar string inserted to complete the mod.

Let's move on to painting. He was given the same blue on his coat as the troops. The warm brown was used for his leather skullcap and gloves. Brass and bronze were used for his goggles, buttons and weapon.

His tank and touches of his "eckto canon" were painted with copper.

Lastly his turtleneck was painted with a tan, then warm white and lastly a wash of burnt umber. Flesh was based with "mink tan", highlighted with "Skintone" and also given a brown wash. The wash gave him a nice five-o-clock shadow.

Shading was added to his coat, green in the goggle lenses and the "Ecxto" gauge was painted on the tank.

Their bases still need to be finished and given a theme which is yet to be determined.

So here we have the start of our "In Her Majesty's Name" adventuring party. Moving stealthily through some ruins in Bucharest.

Next post we'll show you the Captain of our team, The Baron! Til then, Have a Great Battle!
The Old Crow