2018 Pogre's Miniatures and Models - A BIG finish to the year with The Wizard's Tower!

[pogre]

A Couple of Old Chaos Trolls and some Archers

First up are a pair of old Games Workshop metal chaos trolls. I got the miniatures in an auction lot years ago. I'm old enough to know better, but I painted over an old paint job. Sadly, I think it shows and they are a bit goopy in places.

Next up are a pair of plastic old Brettonian Archers.

The next miniature is a bit of a mystery. It is a metal citadel figure from the early nineties. It may have been made by Marauder, which was a sub-company of Citadel run by a couple of their sculptors Aly and Trish Morrison - bit of a guess on my part.

The next had the label huntsman on the tab. It is certainly a Citadel model, but I don't know much about it.

Finally, an old plastic elf I had in the bits box. I think it was supposed to be a wood elf - anyway, that's the way I painted it up.

2018 model count: 20

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Excellent. Love those classic Citadel models.

 

[pogre]

The Ratmen Cometh

Five skaven I cranked out this week:

The models do not have uniform dress or colors, because I will use them for roleplaying and skirmish games. Models that are too similar are hard to use for those games.

Miniatures done in 2018: 25

 

[dogoftheunderworld]

Nice!

 

[pogre]

A Bunch of Silly Demons

I'm finally getting around to painting some more of the minis that came with the Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower game. These are demons of Tzeentch - Pink Horrors, when killed split into two Blue Horrors. Also a bunch of little flame demonlings. When the guys at Games Workshop were trying to come up with the names for the Chaos powers they were stumped on the Lord of Change - the working title was 'it's a cinch", which evolved into Tzeentch. A silly chaos god with some silly demons!

Miniatures done in 2018: 35

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

awesome work!

 

[pogre]

A Pair of Evil Cultists

Thanks Flexor et al

This week I did not get as many figures painted, because of the time it took all of the flesh areas on this pair of evil cultists. They are from the Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower boxed set.

Right now I have nothing but D&D monsters at my painting table. So there will be a break from all of this GW/Citadel stuff. Next up, a bunch of Reaper Bones, then some Wizkids deep cuts monsters, and finally some Reaper metal figures.

Models painted in 2018: 37

 

[dogoftheunderworld]

Really nice work. I like the muscle definition you were able to get.

 

[pogre]

Bones Hellhound, Stone Golem, & Kobolds

Some more Bones monsters from the painting desk this week:







Models completed in 2018: 51

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I've got that Stone Golem. Sweet work!

 

[Coralirahd]

This is great work Pogre! Thanks for the links to the instructional videos as well. *bow*

 

[pogre]

This is great work Pogre! Thanks for the links to the instructional videos as well. *bow*

Thank you for the compliment and thanks for checking out the thread!

Painting has been very frustrating this week. I may only have one figure finished by Sunday. I'm working on some gnolls and I cannot believe I am going to say this, but I wish they were multi-part models. I'm really sick of painting around shields and weapons.

The amount of prep I had to do on these figures (Bones and Wizkids) was ridiculous.

I may become a metal/hard GW plastic only guy...

 

[Kris]

Nice work as always!

I just went back and checked on my old miniatures thread ...and yeah, most of the links are broken now too

Anyway, I think you've just inspired me to start up a new thread of my own for 2018

 

[pogre]

Gnolls and Hyenas

First up is a Reaper Bones Figure:



The next three gnolls are from Wizkids' lines:





Finally, some Hyenas from the Conan game that I speed painted. Still like 'em:


2018 Models completed: 60

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Pretty sweet.

 

[pogre]

More Gnolls

First up, the last of the Wizkids Gnolls:


Next, a Reaper Bones:


Finally, the same Reaper figure in pewter:



Models done in 2018: 63

 

[pogre]

A Tour of My Game Room

Greetings!
I have been doing some sculpting this week and a little painting. I also have been working on my D&D campaign as the party is about to catch up with my prep. I'm a prep heavy DM for better or worse.

I decided to do something I have been thinking about for a while and do an update to my gaming space tour that I did on my old thread back in 2004-05.

Our gaming space is decently large, approximately twenty feet by twenty-two feet and is surrounded by windows. The windows are a blessing and a curse. We have lots of natural light, but it limits the amount of storage cabinets and shelves I can put up.

First up is a pair of cabinets with glass doors that I bought at IKEA a couple of years ago. On top of the cabinets is a few different ship models I have made over the years.


In the first cabinet I mostly have terrain I have made using Hirst Arts molds and a few DF pieces.


The second cabinet holds a bunch of DF pieces.


The next display cabinet I bought from IKEA too. It houses some Miniature Building Authority pieces and a few larger Hirst Arts projects.


Next, is my main miniatures cabinet. It houses almost entirely fantasy figures. I have moved my historicals and limited 40K stuff to other storage to make room. As you can see it is pretty well stuffed and I need to add another space!


Another IKEA display cabinet follows. This one is home to some larger miniatures on the top and mostly DF city pieces. I leave the DF built so I can yank it out quickly on game day. I have lots more stored if I need to create something more specific or elaborate.


The following is the favorite thing I have purchased from IKEA. It is a cheap set of large drawers on wheels. It holds a lot of old school DF pieces and I can just wheel the whole thing next to me during a game. The only bad thing is I overloaded a couple of the drawers and broke one last year. So I pulled a bunch out and now it works fine.


The first drawer has floor pieces and an assortment of doors. The other drawers have wall pieces, corridors, and other mundane pieces I need for dungeon building.





Not a fancy piece of furniture, but you can see it holds tons!

Under my gaming table I have a three drawer unit that holds a bunch of DF Dwarvenite pieces.
The first drawer houses my sewer pieces.

The second drawer houses cavern pieces and a box of the new style cavern lakes.

The third drawer holds more cavern pieces and specialty pieces.


This is my leaning tower of cheap drawers as my wife calls it. It is about 8-feet tall and contains everything from unpainted minis, model trees, different felt covers and mats for the gaming table, dice, tokens, measuring tapes, etc.


Next is a place where I spend a lot of time in the off-season (I'm an American Football HS Coach). The painting and modeling desk in all of its ill-kept glory!


Finally, the place where all the MAGIC happens - the gaming table.


I have one of those nicer game tables that the top comes off and we use it for a kitchen table, but it is tough to beat a good old 4' x 8' covered plywood sheet for us! The kitchen table usually is our spot to play board and card games. It's nice because we can leave games up in there and not worry about our dogs or the cat messing with them.

Now then, where in the heck am I going to put the huge amount of Dwarven Forge I have coming in from the latest Kickstarter in May?

 

[Imaculata]

I happen to own the exact same Ikea cabinets, which I use to display my Star Wars collection. But I felt there was a lot of unused space in the cabinet. So what I did was create a couple of additional shelves from transparent plastic, that I can place on top of the existing glass shelves. This doubles the amount of stuff I can display in them.

 

[Kris]

I'm also a prep heavy GM (largely 'cause I'm not great at improvising stuff ...so I've usually got a bunch of back-up plans and side-quests for when the players go off plot).

But yeah, loving your gaming/storage space (most of my stuff resides under the bed, or on top of the wardrobe, or in similar cheap/leaning towers ).

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Dang! that is a lot of great stuff.