Chaos Wars Mounted Ogre Conversions

Iron Wind Metals/Ral Partha's Ogre Cavalry on Elephants

Iron Wind Metals recently mailed me some minis and among the figures in the box were these Ogres!  I love these figures but I felt they needed a bit of converting just to give them each their own look.

First I started with cutting off one of the ogres arms.  It took a bit of sawing and applying a lot of pressure with the exacto knife but it finally came off.

Then I drilled a hole in the arm and the shoulder with my pin-vise and added a small piece of metal rod in the shoulder hole and glued it.  

Then I inserted the rod into the arm hole and glued that.

I took a bit too much off of the shoulder so I had to sculpt a new shoulder using ProCreate Professional Sculptors Putty.

I decided to give this guy a "Lemmy Kilmister" mustache so I also sculpted some hair.  I may go back and add some layering later on but for now this is what I finished with.

On the second figure I decided to cut his arm off at the elbow.  I cut along the line of his arm guard this way it's easier to disguise where the cut was made.

This is after pinning and gluing the arm.  I had a bit more difficulty with just gluing this one so I added a little ball of the ProCreate on the pin and it held together better.

I decided to sculpt some long hair on this fella.

Back View

And here is the final results.  I like the way they came out and I think the conversions just gave them a little more personality.  I'm no sculpting virtuoso but I'm satisfied with it.

Dwarves Exploring

More of my artwork for Ral Partha.

Dwarf Werewolf Art

A friend of mine suggested calling it a Dwerewolf.  Anyway it's a new illustration I did for the second wave of miniatures being released by Ral Partha.

3 Elves From The Ral Partha Kickstarter

First blog post of the year!  I just wanted to show off a few minis I painted from the new/old Ral Partha line!

Elf Swordsman with bow and quiver

I decided on a Macedonian style shield emblem.  I've always liked that design.

Elf Mage

Elf Champion with spear and shield

Horned Society Plar Rostal and Banner Bearer

Here's some progress I've made in my Greyhawk in 15mm.  Sorry for the blurry pictures but I just wanted to get some quick images.   By the way, the Bannerman is a Rebel Minis Barbarian Bannerman with a bit of procreate sculpted on to create the flag. 

Chaos Wars first edition box set

I bought a second hand copy of Ral Partha's Chaos Wars about twelve years ago.  Since then I had the opportunity to do some artwork for their re-release of the new Chaos Wars game.  I'm pretty excited for it's release!  Here are some pics of the original game minus the figures.  I have them but only one is painted, I'll post all four later when I finish them some day.



This is the front and back of the box.  It got a bit flattened but over all it's still in great shape!

This is the the front cover of the folder, and the inside of the folder.

This is the Chaos Wars Rule Book along with the Press Gang Scenario Booklet.

An Easy Reference Chart, the box actually includes two of these.  And an Army Roster which is easily photocopied.

An official Ral Partha Painting instruction book!  I find this really interesting and a fun addition!

And a Quartermaster Coupon!  I wonder if it's still valid?

Just a great box set and a simple set of rules for any wargamer or wargame novice!

Bring out your Lead! Ral Partha Knight and the Brothers Majere

Just some miniatures I've done.  The knight is from Ral Partha's Chaos Wars Press Gang which was a blister pack that came with the original Chaos Wars Game.  I have the other minis but don't have them painted up.  The knight was my favorite of the bunch.

Next we have Caramon from the Dragonlance Heroes box set.  I need to get the rest of the characters painted up.

And finally Raistlin also from the Dragonlance box.  Unfortunately I dropped him before I took the pic and didn't notice that he got scuffed.

Bring out your lead! Ral Partha Reaver Scout

 I've been doing some work for Ral Partha lately and I decided to dig in my old lead treasure chest and found this guy.  This is one of my favorites, he reminds me of the barbarian scout at the beginning of Conan the Barbarian.  He still has the same paintjob I gave him about 17 years ago.  I cleaned up a few dings here and there but it's still essential they original paint.

Goblin King

  
Here's a Goblin King I picked up while at Gary Con at the  Lesser Gnome games booth. I ended up getting all of their Goblin sculpts and I have to say they are just awesome!  Once I get them painted up I'll put them on the blog.

Pig Face Orc Christmas

My wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas and all I could think of was "Pig Faced Orcs", so I showed her the Fractured Dimensions website.  And on Christmas I found she ordered a few of their sets for me.

So far I've only painted the Sub Chieftain figure, but I've got some of the others primed and ready!