12. Powder Mage, HeroForge Design

My son designed this model over on HeroForge. He is a fan of the Powder Mage Trilogy by Brian McClenllan. I've always enjoyed blackpowder in fantasy, like Warhammer and Warmachine. He sent me the file to print and I made two. I don't think he has painted his yet but here is mine.

11. She-Orc Mistress

My son asked me for a model to run as a chaser. An NPC that is horrendous and pursues his adventure party so they are always on the lookout and moving about. I found this She-Orc and thought she would make a fun model to paint and terrorize his players with.

The pictures don't do her justice. She looks much better in the hand. However I am pleased.

10. Nordic Militia

Here is the first army I have built for an upcoming wargame campaign of my own creation. This force represents one of the levy armies from the Kingdom of Vordland. The models are a mix of Reaper Bones and 3D prints. All bases but the Mammoth's are 3D printed. I made the Mammoth base from hobby store craft wood.

9. Welcome

Welcome to the Blood Skull...

I realized today that I never set an opening welcome post describing my wargames intention with this blog. So here goes. As mentioned in the blog description this is a fantasy blog, so don't let the tank on the cover of One Hour Wargames fool you. Also as shown by some of the 3d printed plastic items and miniatures below I am a 3D Print Maker and am slowly working on becoming a designer as well.

I have enjoyed several fantasy scales over the years ranging from 6mm to 42mm. However as time goes by I have narrowed my focus down to 15mm and 28mm at present. The former scale for grand tactical battles with my own home rules and for solo-battles using larger bases with One Hour Wargames.

I am also a fan of all things Warhammer. Whether it's the Old World, Age of Sigmar or 40K (which I have my own blog for that, see link at left.) I intend to fight battles using the Warcry skirmish rules or a variant of AoS. I also want to dabble with the darker setting of AoS28.

Now, not all my models fit in the Warhammer spectrum of games. I have built my own campaign worlds which collectively I refer to as F28 (Fantasy28mm). I will use Frostgrave as well as the AoS/Warcry rules and Kings of War for battles of my own invention.

I hope my blog is entertaining and perhaps informative to the fantasy wargame community and that it grows with each year. However it is for me a tool to record my hobby and campaigns.

8. The Ogre King

I present the Ogre King designed by Rocket Pig Games. He was a 10+ hour print.

7. Recent Figure Prints

Here are some of my recent figure prints. These are from various designers such as Duncan Louca, Heroforge, Artisan Guild, Reptilian Overlord and Rocket Pig Games.

6. 3D Remix Guild Necromancer

There was a contest over on Thingiverse earlier this year for best remix of a Guild Mage designed by Dutch Mogul of Ill Gotten Games. I won by default. I designed four different models. You can download them here.

I used Blender for the remix.

5. Confrontation Griffon Models

My son gifted me three boxes of Rackham Griffon models and a starter box set. This was a big surprise for me. I really like the liturgical look of the models. My mind immediately began to think of a home grown faction for fantasy gaming. The models don't quite stack up next to an Age of Sigmar human model but so I won't be able to parse them into the realms. That is OK as I've had my own home grown campaign brewing in my mind for a while now.

I intend to use them in skirmish and big battle games so in keeping with that I've printed some movement trays so I won't have to re-base them.

4. Earth Elemental

3D Printed Earth Elemental from Rocket Pig Games. This bad boy took about 9 hours to print. I haven't drawn up a painting plan yet but I see lots of greens, grays and browns.

3. Witches Den

I present the Witches Den by Vae Victis Miniatures. This model represents 65 hours of printing. I haven't decided upon a paint scheme just yet however greens and browns will feature well. I can hardly wait to play some skirmish games with this terrain set.

2. The Awoken Re-Awakened.......

Here is the new paint scheme for the monstrous Awoken model by Dutch Mogul. The theme was Dwarf Golem, Stone, Iron, Runes, Nordic. I'm done painting though I might add some spackle as snow....

1. The Awoken.... Ice Titan

My son asked me to print this model for his D&D campaign. It stands at 10" tall. The model can be found here: The Awoken by Dutch Mogul of Ill Gotten Games. So his words to me were Ice & Titan. So that's the theme I painted it. However when shown the finished model he loved it but wanted it stone and steel. So a repaint was needed but I wanted to capture this style first and so I setup a simple scene so the painting would not be for naught.

The 28mm tall town guard figure shows just how 
massive the model is.

The Ice Titan marches through the North.

A lone warrior tries to hold his nerve as the Ice Titan approaches.

A celestial knight thinks he can challenge the might of the Ice Titan.

I printed this model using Hatchbox PLA Orange plastic and another brand in green. It came out well and I had all the parts printed and ready to assemble in about three or four days. I painted it using some GW contrast paint and some craft store hobby paint for dry brushing.