Fireforge Living Dead Peasants.

One of the Enemy tables in Five Leagues from the Borderlands is Whispers from Beyond, with a lot of Undead types. Though I have a large number of Oathmark Skeletons, I needed  some more Zombie types. Looking at the ranges available, I decided that the Living Dead Peasants looked like a good match.

FireForge's Living Dead Peasants is part of their Forgotten World range.

Supplied in a standard sized box it makes 18 unarmoured zombie/undead figures.

The box contains three identical sprues. Each sprue makes six figures, four male and two female (not quite the result of an equal opportunities necromancer).

Each sprue can build three unarmed zombies plus three armed with two handed (mainly improvised) weapons or six armed with a hand weapon. There is a bit of a shortage of empty hands for the the hand weapons (I managed to get two with hand weapons in addition to the three unarmed ones - there is one additional empty hand, and one of the ones with a hand weapon has a lantern).

There are nine heads, two of which are female. One head has a corvid having a snack.

Here are the six assembled from one sprue.

Side views of the six figures.

As is normal for the FireForge fantasy figures, they are notably taller and bulkier than the Oathmark figures. However, they do not have "puddle" bases, so their head height is not that bad compared to Oathmark.

Oathmark Skeleton, Fireforge Living Dead Peasant, Oathmark Human Infantry and Oathmark Revenant infantry.

In Five Leagues from the Borderlands, the maximum number of zombie types is eleven, so there will be some conversions required so I do not need to buy an extra box.

Empress BMD-1 IFV

 After "One Thing and Another", and before the current unpleasantness, Empress released a range of Cold War Soviet Paratroopers as opposition to their BAOR British infantry. I have just got round to ordering them. So they do not have to walk very far, and to give them some punch, here is the Empress BMD-1.

This has been re-worked from the HLBSCo version, an example of the original HLBSCo BMD-2 has been featured here, and is still awaiting finishing.

The first thing you will note is that the track guards are now metal, a major improvement as at some point before assembly I managed to break the resin ones on the BMD-2.

This will not have as much stowage as the BMD-2 as it will be representing a vehicle early in the conflict and so will be regulation rather than many years in the field (and having been air-dropped).

It will need the periscope fitted to the rear hatch, some aerials and probably the bow mounted machine guns.

Some research is required on the equipment placing.

Gripping Beast Dark Age Welsh

 Gripping Beast released a box set of multi-part, multi-pose Dark Age Welsh in 2021.

The box contains five identical sprues, each of which builds five light infantry armed with spears with optional axes, sword or two handed spear.

Most of the heads are bare (mainly pudding basin haircuts), though there is one wearing a helmet.

They match nicely with the Oathmark Human Infantry. 

The bodies have built in necks with a matching socket in the base of the head, so are not compatible with Frostgrave, Oathmark, Fireforge or Anvil heads without surgery.

At least one of them is going to end up converted for Stargrave/Five Parsecs.

Scotia-Grendel Ruined Greek temple

Another item I bought at SELWG 2022. 

The kit comprised a circular base, five full height pillars, one half heigh pillar and three cap stones.

The pillars are plain.

Two of the pillars were pinned by drilling through from underneath, the other four were just glued in place. A circular infilled was cut to fit the inside.

Milliput was used to fair in the base of the pillars and to add some rocks and additional pieces of masonry. The ground was covered in a mixture of Woodland Scenics fine Cinder Ballast and some generic granite ballast.

The underside was sprayed with Citadel Mechanicum Standard Grey (I had run out of Halfors Grey Primer) The visible surface was sprayed with Citadel Zandri Dust, with a Zenithal spray of Humbrol Desert Tan.

It was then extensively dry brushed with Citadel Tyrant Skull followed by Citadel Terminatus Stone.

Once fully dry it was shaded with Citadel Agrax Earthshade. Another dry brush with Citadel Terminatus Stone brought up the detail.

Gamers Grass 6mm Dense Beige Tufts provided some plant life on the ground and a mixture of Woodland Scenics fine and coarse Burnt Grass turf created the greenery growing on the stones.

An Oathmark Human Infantry figure for scale.

The Infantr7yman retreats before the Living Statue

Overhead view.

Stone Axe Miniatures (Irongate Scenery) Woolly Rhinos painted

 These resin figures were bought at SELWG 2022 at the Irongate Scenery stand.

I thought they would make great Indrik for Oathmark.

Rocks were added using Milliput over a plastic rod anchor.

The bases then covered with a mixture of Woodland Scenics fine Cinder Ballast and some generic granite ballast. 

The whole thing was undercoated with Citadel Corax White spray. The bases were painted with Vallejo Black (slightly thinned).

The horns and toenails were painted with Army Painter Skeleton Bone. The root of the horns and the eyes were painted with Army Painter Oak Brown. A mixture of Skeleton Bone and Oak Brown was used to shade the horns and blend in the horn root. The inner ears, the nostrils and the lips were painted with a mix of Army painter Barbarian Flesh and Oak Brown.

The horns were then dry brushed with Citadel Terminatus Stone.

The underside, the feet and around the tail were shaded with Citadel Agrax Earthshade, as was the horns and the lips. The body was shaded with Citadel Nuln Oil shade.

Gamers Grass 5mm Winter Tufts were placed after the base had been dry brushed with Citadel Terminatus Stone.

Group shot.

Comparison with an Oathmark Human Infantry figure.

Stone Axe Miniatures (Irongate Scenery) Woolly Rhinos

At SELWG 2022 I bought two packs of Wooly Rhinos from the Irongate Scenery stand.

Each pack contains two adult rhinos and a calf.

There is almost no flash, though there are a few areas that could have done with some filling (I only noticed after they were painted). The feet and belly of the adults needed to be lightly filed with a large file to get them fully flat on the base.

Group shot.

Size comparison with a Fireforge Almughavar.