Ogre Hut - Terrain - Finished

Painting the Ogre hut began as with most of my terrain projects with a primer of black spray, followed by a base colour of leather brown for the hides and a darker brown for the fur roof.

I then drybrushed the hides with a lighter brown, then a final drybrush of Bleached Bone.

The fur was drybrushed several shades of brown, with a sandy yellow to add highlights, some patches were done in shades of grey for variety, representing different animal furs.

Next was to apply some washes to the hides, mostly flesh wash and agrax earth shades.

Lastly I completed the base with my ground black pepper and herb technique and did some more shading with washes to blend everything in.

I am very happy with the way this piece turned out.

Vitor.

Ogre Hut - Terrain - WIP

I have been wanting to make this piece of terrain for a long time now but never seem to get around to it until now that is. It is based on the article from the fantastic book 'How to Make Wargames Terrain' from Games Workshop.

I used an empty plastic yogurt tub as the basic shape. I made the rounded roof with quick dry filler that you would use to fill cracks in your walls. Next to create the wooden structure I used toothpicks and greenstuff.

The leather hides were made from textured paper used for painting watercolour pictures cut out into hide like shapes. I added a small entrance into the hut for added detail. Next was to glue the 'hides' onto the sides of the hut and take note here, there is a correct way to do this otherwise you will end up with strange overlapping so take a minute to lay out your pattern before you glue them down. I made that mistake and am hoping the painting will not make it noticeable.

As I said earlier I was only using the article as a guide so I went for a facecloth for the roof covering which is meant to be bear or similar animal fur.

The piece was based on MDF board for strength and again I used the filler for the ground covering. I will be adding sand as well.

Next painting it all up.

Vitor

Kings of War - Mantic

 

I have been an avid watcher of Beasts of War over the last year or so and the current series on Kings of War has been very interesting. I originally got into this hobby through GW because I loved Fantasy Armies. However the changing rules of GW put me off Fantasy and lured me into 40k and the same has pretty much happened with that rule system as well. Now I just paint and collect models for my own enjoyment with a loose plan on finishing my 40k army, Minotaurs.

So with that background I watched the demo game of Kings of War and the accompanying videos about the background and army factions with great interest. I think the game rules look straight forward and uncomplicated so that's pretty good however it seems like a trade off between the hassle of removing individual models versus the addition of markers. The markers need to be moved around with the unit and in a bigger game with multiple units close together that could get a bit messy indeed. The background seems reasonably satisfying and should provide enough 'meat' for most gamers. The FREE rules are a godsend and I have downloaded them and will be trying to get a game under my belt if possible. Another PLUS for Kings of War is the possibility of coming up with your own themed army especially in Realms of Men lists as well as being able to use models other than Mantics if you want to.

When Kings of War first came out I was not that impressed with the miniature sculpts, however I think the miniatures are a more 'realistic' scale as opposed to GW 'heroic' scale.

I particularly like the Orcs.

I think the elves could be better.

I am not sure about some of the creatures either, maybe the colour scheme and paint jobs are not as good as they could be.

Like everything support and time will see kings of War improve in leaps and bounds, GW didn't have fantastic sculpts early on in their history and even today they have some shockers.

I for one am planning on acquiring some Kings of War Orcs to paint up!

Let me know what you guys think of the rules and models?

Vitor