And Now For Something Completely Pantry

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Having recently finished my Fleglers I reached the stage of only having a single unit left to paint.

But… It is the largest unit of my force, daunted by the hours it will take to do (approx 120 hours, 8 hours a figure and 15 figures) I looked for a distraction.

Warm Ale and Mud is my long term project and will chronicle the various events that happen to the good folk of Heiligsheld, culminating in a might battle for survival against the undead hordes of neighbouring Sylvania.

However that is not all the games will be, there has already been the Orc raid led by Scrotter Brokenstaff and soon there will be Trolls at the Door, when a wandering troll comes to pay a visit.

Here is the self named Felsbloch the interloping sheep stealing troll.

 






Being a player of WFB 3rd edition in days before River trolls, Swamp trolls, Stone trolls and even internet trolls, trolls was just trolls.
Normally brown or green in colour; and as we all know, proper trolls are green, so yes, whilst a later edition model and officially blue I went for green, cos it pleased me to do so.

 

It has been about 30 years or more since I painted a figure this large and the blending between the scales and skin is ok, in some areas it is a bit iffy but in other areas I feel it is quite nice.
Overall it was a nice change of pace but I guess I need to start on that big unit now.

Or maybe…

Comments

  1. Fimm Mc Cool21 June 2025 at 16:35

    He painted up nicely, and much quicker than if he'd stayed in my pile!

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    1. Mike21 June 2025 at 16:40

      Thanks, I am quite pleased with him. But nothing that big again for a while.
      Though there is an old Imperial Ogre I like....


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  2. fanskaven21 June 2025 at 20:43

    I love him Mike. I also face difficulties when a bigger than human sized mini appears in my projects.

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