Painting Progress and Scratchbuilding Terrain from scrap

A picture of my scratch-built terrain finished, made from scrap cardboard, builder's foam, grape stems and scouring pads.

Some papercraft buildings and containers from David Graffam Models on Wargames Vault

And my painting workbench is full of so many things that are close to completion but just not making it over the line in September.

All 22 of these should hopefully be complete by the end of the first week of October - 12 wall sections and 3 spiders from Alternative Armies, 4 Stargrave and 2 Frostrgrave figures from North Star and a marker for Silver Bayonet using an old Minifigs vase.

Painting Progress - slow but hopefully improving soon.

 Some more finished minis. Actually from back in May, with more Alternative Armies, Northstar, Copplestone (Grenadier) and Ral Partha.All a bit overexposed but hopefully some time I'll get to do some photography with better light.

Grenadier Future Warriors Scavengers sculpted by the brilliant Mark Copplestone. Now available from EM4 Miniatures.

Alternative Armies Giant Spiders, L, 2R and R. Ral Partha Sabre Tooth Tiger, Northstar Ice Toad.

Song of Arthur and Merlin - a historical and fantasy project

 Finally resurrecting an old project that I wanted to do from quite a while ago.

Song of Arthur and Merlin is an adaptation of the fantasy skirmish game Song of Blades and Heroes for Arthurian legend and historical post-Roman Britain. The fantasy side of the rules can either be made its primary focus or played down for a gritty game of Dark Age battle.

My project

I'm doing it in 28mm as I have plenty of fantasy miniatures in this scale already for the monstrous side with a mixture of metal and plastic figures from Gripping Beast and other manufacturers as I progress with it.. 

The new Gripping Beast Welsh plastics did actually help make me really keen to progress this as I had picked up some of their generic Dark Age Warriors quite a while ago, but the new figures are much more animated and interesting, though to be fair the original set is mainly aimed at building units of Saxon or similiar shieldwall where dramatic posing is not actually helpful.

The majority of the historical personalities will be metal figures from GB's Welsh, Sub-Roman British and Early Saxon ranges, with fantasy ranges from a variety of sources used to provide wizards, witches and monsters. It will include Reaper bones, North Star, Wargames Atlantic, Alternative Armies and Ral Partha. 

I'll expand on that in a later post.

Another Scarlet Heroes example character

I decided to create a new example character to run a solo campaign with using the numerous tables in the back of the Scarlet Heroes rulebook.

This one is less randomly generated as I had a rough concept that I wanted to use. This will be a halfling thief with a motivation of 'exploring ruins for profit'.

Buckle Lao 

Class: Thief                                                Race: Halfling

Level: 1                                                       Experience Points: 0

Hit Points: 5                                                AC:5

Attack Bonus: +1                                        Fray Die: 1d6

Attacks: 

Ranged Bow 1d8 AB+3, range 210            Melee:  Short Sword 1d6 AB+3

Ranged Lt weapon 1d4 AB+3 range          Melee: Lt weapon 1d4 AB+3

Buckle's village is in the protectorate of Xian, and he has made his way towards the village of , which has been established near the ruins of the ancient city of Tsukaba, rumoured to have tombs containing fabulous wealth.

Characteristics

I rolled 6 4d6 rolls drop lowest and assigning to the characteristics as I wished getting 9, 10, 11, 12, 12, and 15, with the rules allowing me to switch one to 16 as I didn't have any rolls with that value or greater. 

Strength 12

Intelligence 11

Dexterity 16 to succeed he's got to be stealthy +2 bonus

Wisdom 12

Constitution 15 for solo games he needs to be robust +1 bonus

Charisma 10 

 

Racial Characteristics

Immune to panic or terror

 

Background, Innate Qualities, Relationships

Background: Information Seller

Innate Qualities: Natural Linguist

Relationships: Helped a foriegn spy

 

Traits

Bargaining - 1 point

Exploring ruins - 3 points  Class Archetype

Halfling Stealth - 1 point

Information Gatherer - 2 points

Sense Danger - 1 point

Equipment

Started with 130 gp and spent 87gp 6sp so will start exploring with plenty of cash.

 

Cash gp: 42 sp: 4

Light Weapon (short sword)

2 Small Weapon (dagger) 

Bow

Quiver and 20 arrows

Leather Armour

Backpack

Locksmith's tools

Camp gear 1 person

2 days preserved rations