Silver Bayonet bestiary

Parallel with painting my French warband I started work on the bestiary, the human and non-human foes you may end up fighting. We'll start with a totally normal soldier in napoleonic garb, there's nothing fishy about this guy at all, is there?

Oh no, it's a vampire!

This vampire is made from a German WWII body and arms, hands from some Mantic ghouls, backpack from napoleonic French, and the head of Zacharias the Everliving. You might think this is sacrilege, but he was lying literally armless in my bits box, and without his dragon, so I didn't really have a better use for him.

Next we have a black dog, a 3D print from Greenstuff World. I'm a bit worried about how fragile the resin is, but 10 dogs were cheaper than buying most metal single dogs, so...

Here are some bandits I cobbled together from plastic I had. First we have four Russian WWII bodies, three of them with medieval phrygian caps (which were in vogue in revolutionary France), and one head from a British Zulu War guy. They guy to the left is a TYW guy. Most of them have muskets from a box of ACW zouaves.

The last four bandits are three Prussian landwehr from the old Warlord set, and one Gripping Beast Dark Age warrior with a new musket.

Last we have a cute doggo I got free in an order of 3D printed stuff. Might get a use?

 

Starting The Silver Bayonet

When Osprey had a sale before Christmas I bought a few books, and one of those was The Silver Bayonet by Joseph A McCullough. I mainly bought it to check it out, I do enjoy his other games, after all, but of course I got inspired and started checking out what figures I had. I've never played any Napoleonic games before, but surprisingly enough I did have a few figures available. I had Baron Larrey's ambulance (got it free from Warlord ten years ago), a free sprue of French line infantry, and one of the old sprues of Prussians. So, ok, French it is! My idea was to do this on the cheap, so I'll try to work with what I have.

 

First here is Baron Larrey, who'll be my officer, and a doctor. We also have two infantrymen.

Next up we have a sailor, a grenadier, a junior officer and an occultist.

These have been more or less converted. The sailor is made from a Pike&Shotte flintlock, with pistolhand from a cavalryman, and the other arm from a Frostgrave cultist. The junior officer has a pistol and sword from P&S, and I sculpted a furlined hussar's (?) jacket over his shoulder so he looks a bit special, and to cover where the musket used to be. The occultist has Frostgrave magician arms, a body from a ACW zouave officer, and the head from the line infantry. The bicorne is made from greenstuff.

Next we have some wolves. I cast these in a Prince August mould more than 30 years ago, but they'll do.

 

 Here are some gravestones which are needed for a scenario. They're made from sprues and a few bits.

I also finished an Aragorn, from Mithril Miniatures. This is the fourth Aragorn sculpt I paint. :) 

Stargrave Dead or Alive

Here are some figures I've made for different Marks in Stargrave, Dead or Alive. I now have models fitting almost all of the marks, and I also made a couple of extra baddies for the gangs, as well as a Marshal.

 First up is Amalan "The Phoenix" Driss, and one of the few for which I tried to follow the official artwork. Yeah, that white hand is my version of OSL for the burning hand. Next up we have Path Ageric (though shorter, and with hairier feet ;) ), Deatheye, and Beylix Monolian the pirate captain.

Here is Jaybor Jaradine the biomorph, Hopkirk Vanderfine with his shiny combat armour, and Entenden who shoots lightning.

Here is my marshal, he is somewhere in between the white clothed police with fezes I posted a while ago , and storm troopers, which I have a bunch of from Imperial Assault. So, we can have a whole police department in white. 

Last we have a Grenadier and a Gunner for the mark's gang.

Is it a house? Is it a box? Is it in space?

 The answer to these questions are all yes!

This is box from a scented candle, or something, which I liberated and spruced up with a Mantic door and some other Mantic space bits. The big heavy door, the cash machine, and the absence of windows make me suspect that this might actually be a branch of the 1st Galactic Bank. Maybe a heist is coming?

As you can see the roof lifts off, and you can use it for storage, I'll put some of my space scatter terrain in it.

This recycle bin (or is it a recycle bot) is new, as is the vending machine. Nice bits of scatter for my space town. I also finished a bunch of space doors, about half of the box I bought from Mantic.

 

New spaceship for Stargrave

 I've painted up another of the Buzz Lightyear ships, this one is bigger and for the big bads, if I understand correctly (I haven't seen the film). The original plastic is very purple, so I kept some purple accents in the painted one, if nothing else any scratches will hopefully be less visible. A 28 mm Greedo works as my beautiful assistant.

Here come the space police

 For some reason I got into my head that I wanted some fezzed space police for my Stargrave games. These will probably work as unwanted attention, or for some special scenarios. The bodies are Wargames Atlantic cannon fodder, while the heads are from Warlord Games' handschar: Bosniak SS troops. I cut off the offensive eagle. The guy in the red hood is a bounty hunter I made from the SG Scavengers plastics.

 

Next we have some characters from Star Wars: Imperial Assault. They'll probably end up in Stargrave as well.

 

Here we have a monster (dark demon?) from Conan, and two old Reaper metals I bought for my chaos warrior army decades ago, but now will end up as Shadow Knights in Rangers of Shadow Deep. They're much more muted than my usual chaos warrior style.

I painted up an old heroquest rack, after replacing the cardboard legs with something of wood. Here are also to experimental haystacks, made from some cardboard tube stopper thingies (we bought a new vacuum machine recently) covered in static grass.

Across the Wastes

 

I've failed the last scenario (The Hole) in the Across the Wastes mission for Rangers of Shadow Deep a number of times, and the fourth time Joseph A McCullough (the author of the game) commented this:

Hmmm.... okay, suggestion. You've created quite a commotion with your attacks on the hole, which has caught the attention of some of the nomads who live in the Waste. Three of them approach you in the night and offer to help your fight against the Shadow Deep. If you've got a Gathering of Heroes, one of these will be a Firesword. If not, it's a tracker instead. One of the others is a swordsman and the last is an archer.

Since I'm silly I didn't just proxy those models, I built them, and here they are:

The statues in one of the pictures are chess pieces I cast from a Prince August mould I found cheep.

I haven't updated the blog in a while, here are some pieces that's been finished for a time. Here's some desert rocks. I also converted these skeleton archers with Prince August ghoul and skeleton bodies, since I had the old Wargames Factory arms, but dislike the flimsy bodies (mainly the legs). Oh, and a pile of corpses (yes, two is a pile!).

The pile is also made from the PA ghouls, a very flexible mould, I've used it for all sorts of projects. As soon as I need some dead/undead/diseased/tattered bodies I take a look at these. 

Here are some gaming pictures from Across the Wastes, now I just hope that those nomads can help me finally descend the hole into the Shadow Deep!