Dwarf Project for Dragon Rampant

I had so much fun playing my first game of Dragon Rampant with my friend Mike at Historicon that after returning home I started thinking about painting a second army to go with my Dark Elves. While I have plenty of humans from various eras that I could use, I wanted another straight fantasy army.

Who doesn't like dwarves?  After looking around a bit, I settled on using the plastic Dwarf infantry sets that North Star makes for their Oathmark rules. They have three different infantry sets with varying amounts of armor. I bought the Heavy & Light Infantry boxes from Griffons Lair via Ebay.

After experimenting with assembling a unit of heavy foot, I bought the Infantry box from Badger Games. I also got some shield transfers, flags, a pack of 3 North Star metal dwarves (king, wizard, & musician), and a wizard and burglar set by Gripping Beast. How could I resist having Gandalf in my army? I am pretty disappointed that the top part of Gandalf's staff was already broken off. It looks too thin to pin back together, so there may not be a Gandalf after all.

So far I have:

Painted 10 of the heavy dwarves, they are waiting for their bases to be finished.

Assembled and 50% painted 12 archers.

Assembled 12 infantry and have painted the armor.

I like to have multiple groups at different stages so that there is always something to do. I haven't forgotten about the dark elves, I've finished touching up 8 of them and am doing the basing today.  I want to make sure I like how the bases look before doing any more.

Robin Hood Project: Jester & Musicians

These are all late additions to my Robin Hood project.  I was ordering some things for other projects from Badger Games at the beginning of June and stumbled across these Grenadier miniatures, now made by Mirliton SG.  They are very old sculpts, as you will be able to tell from the photos, but they have a lot of character and will add some atmosphere to my games.  I wasn't sure if I would have time to paint them but they arrived quickly and the simplicity of the sculpts worked to my advantage.

The first pack consists of a Jester (center) and Buffoons. My 13-year-old really liked these so I let him pick the colors and designs. They were fun to paint.

This is the XIII Century Lords pack, though it came with 2 lords and 1 lady.  I will use them as courtiers or wealthier citizens of Nottingham.

The Medieval Orchestra pack.  The trumpeters came with separate arms, as did the violinist's bow arm.  The seated trumpeter was also split at the waist and the stool was a seat and 3 separate legs. Talk about overkill! At least they were designed with sockets for the arms.  I had to drill a couple of them deeper with a pin vise but everything superglued together securely.

Two cooks. They both came with separate arms and for some reason the one on the left was split at the waist.

The assembled denizens of Nottingham.