Oathmark Odyssey - Living Statue 2

 This is the second Living Statue, using a Crooked Dice Titan from their Argonaut range. It is also using the Melee Weapons.

The scars on the shield need painting.

The two Living Statues.

Blotz River Barge

 Blotz do a River Barge, which is a suitable size to take one unit of Oathmark infantry, here shown with a 5x4 sabot stand of Human Archers.

As can be seen, the kit is made from MDF.

The kit contains two full size MDF panels and a smaller panel.

There are two dowels, one foe a mast, the other for a gaff, a boom or a crosspiece depending upon the period being modelled. There are fittings for a boom or a cross piece.

Assembly is simple, though it is worth checking the online instructions.

The MDF construction is very obvious with gaps between the panels.

Under Oathmark rules, this would be classified as a small ship, capable of carrying one full size (20 figure) unit. The foredeck is quite spacious and I would be tempted to add a light artillery piece (and crew) with the additional two ship crew to upgrade it to a large ship.

It will happily take a Renedra 5x4 rank sabot base.

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.

Blotz Jolly Boat

 The Blotz Jolly Boat is an laser cut MDF model of a Jolly Boat, a type of small boat often used to ferry crews and passengers between ships or to shore.

The kit comprises two small panels.

Three layers on top of a base plate comprise the hull, here stacked one on top of each other.

The boat will take nine figures based on 25mm diameter bases.

This is the assembled model.

The model was undercoated with Halfors grey spray primer. The visible surface was then sprayed with Army Painter Leather brown. The deck was painted with Vallejo Old Wood and the keel, inner frames, tiller and rudder with Army Painter Oak Brown.  

The rowlocks were painted with Vallejo Black. The whole boat was dry brushed with Citadel Terminatus Stone. The boat was washed with Citadel Seraphim Shade.

For Carlos

As is shown here, the boat will only take nine figures, which is a bit unfortunate as it will not officially take a two ranks for Oathmark.

Ghost Archipelago Tribals

 One of the plastic figure ranges produced for Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago was the Tribals. These are unarmoured and equipped with Stone Age weapons.

They will represent lower tech groups in SF games as well as for Oathmark in warmer climes.

Oathmark Odyssey - Living Statue

The town was about a dozen small houses clustered around a square with a shiny bronze statue on a plinth in the middle.

We had been spotted, as we could see figures rushing around. The women and children were being directed to the most impressive building while the menfolk were collecting weapons and shields.

The men began forming ranks, but we could see we outnumbered them at least five times.

Behind the ranks, I could just make out some priest or similar making offers to the statue. As I turned to the soldier next to me to say this should be easy, there was a sound like a god's sword sliding over another god's shield and his eyes turned wide.

Looking back, the statue began to step down from the plinth, its sword and shield at the ready.

I wanted some more fantastical elements for the Oathmark Odyssey armies, and the inspiration of Ray Harryhausen is hard to avoid.

Crooked Dice have two different Titans for their Argonauts range with optional Melee Weapons.

This is the first one completed. He is moving forward, his shield before him and the iron blade of his sword ready to strike.

The figure was undercoated with Citadel Chaos Black spray. It was then painted with Vallejo Brass. The "skirt" was painted with Army Painter Chaos red. 

The shield centre was first painted with Army Painter Stone Golem, followed by Humbrol 34 Acrylic matt White. The scars on the shield were painted Vallejo Brass then Vallejo Gold. 

The body was then extensively dry brushed with Vallejo Gold followed by a lighter dry brush of a mix of Citadel Mithril Silver and vallejo Gold.

It still has to receive a design on the shield (probably an Owl from the Ancient Greeks sets).