Werebears from WotC and Reaper

Here are two werebears for the collection.

The first one is Reaper Bones. Really nice mini with a slightly aloof stance. Few mould-lines and easy to prepare.

The second one is from WotC’s Chainmail game that lived for a year or so until it died some ten years ago. I traded this one, the Werebear Trooper, and an Ogre Penitent, for a bunch of other minis a while ago. A real find as I’ve been on lookout for both for a long time indeed.

There was a bit more cleaning on this as it is metal, but really not much.

Very satisfied with these.

Dwarf Scorcher from Chainmail/WotC

Another 28mm figure from the Chainmail skirmish game, long since gone. This one is a dwarf scorcher, a guy armed with a fire-bomb, sculpted by Roy Eastland.

Great little figure, full of character and unusual, to say the least. I really like the Chainmail figs, sad they are gone.

Paints used (Vallejo unless stated otherwise):

Skin – Citadel Dwarf Flesh, drybrushed with 004 Elf Skintone (what an insult to a proud dwarf!) and another drybrush with 955 Flat Flesh after the wash.

Lower Lip – Citadel Dark Flesh

Beard – Coat d’arms 235 Horse Tone – Brown

Leather coat – 843 Cork Brown

Leather – Formula P3 Bootstrap Leather and Gun Corps Brown, Humbrol 62 Leather.

Armband and clasp – 59 Hammered Copper

Bomb – 912 Tan Yellow

Everything got a wash of Army Painter Strong Tone.

28mm War Apes from Chainmail/WotC

This is one of the reasons I liked the Chainmail game from Wizards of the Coast – the unusual miniatures. Most of them were rather ordinary, but then you got some very special. Like these War Apes.

Great figures sculpted by Jason Wiebe, and made around 2001.

Paints used (Vallejo):

Fur – 871 Leather Brown

Face and feet: 822 German Camouflage Black Brown

Drybrushed 988 Khaki

Rump: 822 with a heavy drybrush of Citadel Red Gore

Metal: 865 Oily Steel with a wash of Army Painter Strong Tone wash.

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For Thomas, a comparison shot with an ordinary 28mm miniature

28mm Gray Elf Duelist

This is a Gray Elf Duelist, sculpted by Paul Muller, from the Ravilla faction of WoTC’s Dungeons & Dragons Chainmail miniatures game.

Another unusual sculpt, and it could be used as a monk or martial artist character. It’s an interesting two piece figure, but rather flat, as you can see.

Paints used (Vallejo unless otherwise noted)

Coat – 850 Medium Olive and edging 894 Camouflage Olive Green

Belt – Citadel Camo Green

Trousers – 967 Olive Green

Leather – Formula P3 Bootstrap Leather

Metal – Citadel Chainmail

Wood – Panzer Aces 310 Old Wood

Handles for the knives – Panzer Aces 306 Dark Rubber

Hair – Coat d’arms 223 Horse Tone Chestnut with Army Painter Dark Tone Wash

Everything but the hair washed with Citadel Devlan Mud

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28mm Gnome Infiltrator from Chainmail

A ‘28mm’ Gnome from the long since defunct Chainmail game. It’s one of many very nice figures from that range, and has gone from the tin-mountain to my painted ranks.

Paints used (Vallejo unless otherwise noted)

Pants – 880 Khaki Grey

Leather armour – 875 Beige Brown

Skin – 955 Flat Flesh

Metal – 865 Oily Steel

Stock – 843 Cork Brown

Scabbard and pouch – Citadel Founation Calthan Brown

Belt – 983 Flat Earth

Hair – 912 Tan Yellow

Everything washed with Citadel Devlan Mud

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28mm Gray Elf Wizard from Chainmail/WotC

A gray elf wizard from the Ravilla faction of the Chainmail game. A two-piece model sculpted by Paul Muller.

I like all the pouches everywhere. Gives the impression of a real wizard, with spell components and potions stuffed in every container.

Paints used (Vallejo unless otherwise noted)

Coat – 850 Medium Olive washed with Citadel Thraka Green, detailing in Citadel Scorpion Green

Pants – 821 German Camoflage Beige

Pouches – 843 Cork Brown

Wood – Vallejo Panzer Aces 310 Old Wood

Boots – 871 Leather Brown

Washed with Citadel Devlan Mud

Skin – 955 Flat Flesh

Hair – Coat d’Arms 235 Horse Tone – brown

Inside of coat – 971

Cloth – 881 Yellow Green

Jewellery – citadel Dwarf Bronze

washed of Army Painter Strong Tone ink.

28mm Slaughterpit Zombie Gnoll from Chainmail/WotC

I bought this fabulous figure, sculpted by Paul Muller, around ten years ago, and it has patiently waited in the tin-mountain. The main reason for the long wait was mainly because it was multi-part, 4 pieces, and it needed a lot of green-stuff to be presentable. Let’s say that I haven’t felt totally comfortable with green-stuff, so everything that needed green-stuffing usually sinks to the bottom of the mountain. Anyway, I’m learning, and it doesn’t feel like such an obstacle any more.

So, after a heavy dose of green-stuff, I really like this figure. Rather morbid with two heads and four arms. It really has character.

Paints used:

Armour – Citadel Chainmail

Flesh – Citadel Rotting Flesh washed with Citadel Baal Red in places

Fur – Vallejo 875 Beige Brown

Shield – Vallejo 975 Military Green and Vallejo Bone White

Leather – Vallejo 872 Chocolate Brown

Everything washed with Army Painter Strong Tone wash.

Braiiiins!

28mm Wood Elf Ranger from Chainmail/WotC

This figure, sculpted by Paul Muller, was two-part, with the second part obviously the left-hand hand-axe. That needed pinning, but it was easy. A good sculpt, if somewhat two-dimensional. The figure is used as a commander in the AD&D-based Chainmail skirmish game (RIP) from WotC.

I decided to paint him as a heavily armoured fighter instead of a ranger, that is, metal armour instead of leather.

Paints used (Vallejo unless otherwise noted)

Armour – Citadel Chainmail

Wood – Panzer Aces 310 Old Wood

Cloak, inside – 913 Yellow Ochre

Cloak, fur – 987 Medium Grey

Leather – 843 Cork Brown

Flesh – 955 Flat Flesh

Washed with Army Painter Strong Tone ink

Hair – Coat d’Arms 223 Horse Tone Chestnut with a wash of Army Painter Dark Tone ink.

28mm Abyssal Maw from WotC Chainmail

 

This ugly critter was one of the monsters in the now sadly discontinued skirmish game Chainmail.

It needed quite a bit of green stuff to fill the gaps between the body halves.

Paints used

Skin - Vallejo Game Color 35 Dead Flesh, washed with Citadel Baal red and finally drybrushed with Citadel Rotting Flesh.

Mouth - Citadel Scab Red

Claws and teeth - Vallejo Game Color Bone White with a wash of Devlan Mud.

Chainmail wood elves in 28mm

Wood Elf Skirmisher 

A couple of wood elves from WotC’s Chainmail game. They are OK as sculpts, but rather flat. They will serve in the Chainmail skirmish game and also in "Song of Blades and Heroes". 

Me and the kids did a trial-game of the latter this weekend, just to get a hang of the basic rules. We only used two figures a side and no special rules. Worked out OK and next time we will have maybe double the numbers and have a couple of archers.

Paints used: skin Vallejo Game Color 003 Pale Flesh, pants/cloth Vallejo 881 Yellow Green and 894 Camouflage Olive Green. Hair: Scout 856 Ochre Brown, Starstrike Archer and Skirmisher 818 Red Leather and second Starstrike Archer 981 Orange Brown. Coated (as always painted not dipped) with Army Painter Strong Tone and a final coat of matte varnish from Vallejo.

Wood Elf Scout

Wood Elf Starstrike Archers

Dwarf female fighter from WotC

I’m really enjoying fantasy figures now, as a break from WWII. I got a box of lovely figures from Otherworld the other day, and they will soon hit the painting table. But still some figures that I will have to finish before then.

Attack!

This 28mm figure is from the long-dead Chainmail skirmish-game from Wizards of the Coast. I really  like the pose.

Skin Vallejo 927 Dark Flesh, hair 981 Orange brown. A coating of Army painter Strong Tone and matte varnish.

Fantasy orcs from Rackham and Chainmail/WotC

Not so much to discuss.
They’ve been half finished on my painting table since December, and I’m making an effort to clean the desk prior the a 6mm invasion.

Two Jackal Warriors from Rackham (R.I.P.) and an Orc Berserker from Chainmail/WoTC.

Skeleton dwarves from Chainmail

These skeleton dwarves have lived in the tin-mountain for at least six or seven years. They come from Wizard of the Coast’s (WotC) short-lived miniature skirmish game Chainmail. A decent game, and some figures were really nice, whilst others were… well…
Anyway, Chainmail got me started painting figures again, so that game has a special place in my heart.
Nothing special with these, block painted, Devlan Mud and matte varnish.
Two figures less in the mountain, and strangely enough one can’t see the difference.