Warpigs

I've been painting some boars for my Boarboys to ride for my Warhammer Orcs and Goblins
What follows is by way of a Step by Step guide to how I did it:

First assemble your boars. They're big models for the size of base and will be a bugger to rank up, so the first ones I have positioned as far forward on the base as possible so they overlap the rear rank as little as possible. The second rank will be positioned as far to the reverse of the base as possible. I find three ranks to be unlikely.

Then spray them brown - I used Plastikote Chocolate Brown:

Then overbrush with Calthan Brown

Then cover with Devlan Mud

Next drybrush with Bestial Brown

 And then Snakebite Leather

After that give the skin bits a good coat of Tallarn Flesh and then a wash of Ogryn Flesh wash
The tusks and teeth were picked out with Bestial and then Bubonic brown and finished with Bleached Bone and the hooves painted Chaos Black with a thin edge highlight of Shadow grey.

Pretty happy with them.

Now I just need to do the riders...

Seasonal Scenery

With Hallowe'en just around the corner the supermarkets have started to fill up with cheap orange and purple plastic and nylon tat. So last week, whilst stocking up on cat food, mung beans and South American Merlot I found myself adding just such an item to my shopping cart with a view to a quick and dirty terrain project.

So here's what  started with:

A one pence piece, an old CD and a plastic skull from ASDA. This little lot set me back the mighty total of £1.01.
Before starting I gave the skull a wash in warm soapy water, then rubbed it all over with a piece of sandpaper to try and reduce mold lines and give the paint and glue to follow a bit of a "key".

Then, taking my usual pleasure in smearing her majesty's fizzog with glue, I used the penny to plug the gap in the centre of the CD.

With a hot glue gun I attached the skull to the CD. I used hot glue as I'm never sure how well superglue will work with this type of plastic and I was too impatient to wait for PVA to dry.

Some spots of superglue were used to attach a few stones and some cat litter (unused. I think).

After that was all dry I used PVA to cover the CD with sand.
I then covered the whole skull with a mix of water, PVA, filler and some very fine sand. I wanted the scenery piece to look like carved stone and the bare plastic was too smooth. Obviously if you were intending to make an obsidian or marble skull you could skip this stage (though I might still cover with thinned PVA to help stop the paint peeling).

I also put a slightly thicker mix of filler and PVA into some of the more obvious mold lines.

Once this was all dry I sprayed it black. I know it looks brown in the pictures, but I used black primer.

As you'll see from the second picture I clearly hadn't been as diligent at filing and filling mold lines as I'd thought, so I added some more filler at this point to the worst of the joins.

Then it was painting time.
The stones were drybrushed up from Charadon Granite via Adeptus Battle Grey and Astronomican Grey to a final dusting of white whilst the base was painted in my usual mix of Wilko tester pots to match the rest of my scenery. Then static grass was added.

I'm pretty pleased with the end result. Not bad for a quid plus a couple of hours toil.
Should work for both Warhammer:

And any H Rider Haggard inspired Darkest African shenanigans:

Another game of Dux Britanniarum

And so we returned the fields of Elmet and this time my mission was to attack a farm. My British chum had just finished basing up some rather splendid trees he'd ordered from e-bay, so it was a heavily wooded battlefield that greeted me.

 Dawn breaks and Saxons sneak into the woods

 This peaceful bucolic scene is about to be shattered

 Alerted by the alarmed mooing the British forces arrive

 Undeterred the S axons start to smash their way in

 Before making off through the woods with booty

 The Saxon rearguard holds firm

The Saxons flee the vengeful Britons

Again my Saxon raiders scored a victory, albeit with their leaders cut down as they made off with their ill-gotten gains.

This game also saw the arrival of movement trays from Warbases