Oathmark Odyssey part seven: North Star Gorgon

 So, while I summon up the enthusiasm to begin to undercoat the Hoplites, I bought some figures to provide some more mythical flavour to the armies.

This is a North Star Ghost Archipelago Gorgon.

Based on a Renedra 25mm round base.

The body is Humbrol acrylic 30 Dark Green. The belly and the face are Citadel Death Guard Green and Citadel Nurgling Green. Highlights were added to the body with a similar mix to the face and belly The bow is Vallejo Old Wood and the quiver Citadel Mournfang Brown.

The fletching is Army Painter Stone Golem, the arrow shafts Vallejo Old Wood.

The body and head were washed with Citadel Coelia Greenshade.

Now to work out some stats for Oathmark.

Oathmark Odyssey part six: More work In progress

 Small amount of progress on the army front.

The Elite Warriors are at full strength.

Okay, not quite full strength, I only have eight Muscle Cuirass bodies, there are two with Linen Cuirass and different helmets.

I also built two ranks of Hoplites with various headgear.

Oathmark Odyssey part five: Work In progress

So here are some work in progress shots of the Ancient Greeks and Spartans (which will be two of the  factions in my Oathmark Odyssey).

Faction One

Human Warriors 

Heavy Armour, hand weapon and shield. Bonus points if you spot the odd one out.

Human Spearmen

Light armour, spear and shield. there are a couple of interlopers.

Faction Two

Elite Spearmen

Light armour, spear and shield

Elite Warriors

Heavy armour, hand weapon and shield.

Oathmark Odyssey part three: Classical Greek Hoplites

 The Classical Greek Hoplites box from Immortal Miniatures

Now the box says it contains 24 figures, but there appears to be a lot more bodies (I think the 24 does not include the Bell Cuirass figures on the three Ancient Greeks sprues) and there are just 24 shields.

There are four Classical Greek Hoplites sprues and three Ancient Greek Hoplites sprues.

There is a decal set.

The booklet is different to the Ancient Greek booklet.

Oathmark Odyssey part one

So there I was, watching the snow falling in lockdown 3.1, and I looked at the Oathmark/Frostgrave figures I had assembled (and occasionally painted) and thought “I need to get away from all this snow and cold”.

Prompted by a blog post by Joe McCullogh (Spoiler) I borrowed a time machine and went back to… 2010.

Immortal Miniatures introduced a range of injection moulded plastic Greek Hoplites at Salute 2010. At the time there were three boxes:

Ancient Greek Hoplites

Classical Greek Hoplites

Spartan Hoplites

I love the price on those old boxes.

At the time, injection moulded 28mm figures for wargaming (beyond Games Workshop) was very new (that is my only excuse for the Perry's SOTR boxes I bought). So I bought all three (possibly over a couple of Salutes). And then they languished in my plastic figures pile for ten years.

Warlord Games purchased the range and they are still available. Wargames Illustrated number 398 (February 2021) had an Ancient Greek Hoplite sprue on the cover.

Next - Ancient Greek Hoplites.