Big brick buildings

Here are a couple of brick buildings for Silver Bayonet Italy, and hopefully the upcoming Venice book as well. They are made from foamcore, with laser cut windows and plastic roof tiles and walls from Green Stuff World. I'm happy with the painting and the brick colour. The bricked up window is just painted, but i think it works really well. 

Here is a few finished figures for Silver Bayonet as well, a vrykolakas, a forest witch and a voltigeur. The first two are from the Conan game, an almost endless source of various monsters.

 

 

Silver Bayonet solo scenario: Sandstorm

 I wrote a solo scenario for Silver Bayonet Egypt called Sandstorm. If you are a member of the Facebook SB group you should be able to download it HERE. The unit has to seek shelter from a sandstorm, while battling skeletons and sand demons.

Here are a few pictures from my test game. I'm glad I got to use my tower for the first time, and also got a new use for my Rangers of Shadow Deep Sandblades (the sand demons).

 

Almost Brits and zombies

 Three Brits walk into a bar... and say "oh heck, there's undead here!"

Well, actually that's a lie. These are not Brits, they are just clever Austrians dressed in red. In other words, I didn't want to spend any money on three figures for a British patrol, so I just built three Austrians with shakos, and painted them appropriately. The pompoms and curly bits are not right, but they pass the ½-meter test just fine. And after all, a redcoat is a redcoat, right?

On the Silver Bayonet Facebook group I traded a sprue of Austrians for one of the new Wargames Atlantic zombie sprues with a fellow Swede, and now I've built some actual zombies. These are three British line infantry (using the Austrian body double trick again), one poor rifleman and two Ottomans/Balkans/Egyptians. The latter two use modern heads, which I think is supposed to look like knitted hats.

And lastly we have a monstrous guy who can fill the role of possessed, hobgoblin and/or changeling. He's using one of my old beastmen heads on a WW2 German body. There are also two coffins for one of the Italy scenarios. They are built from lollipop sticks (raspberry flavour, IIRC) over a foamcore core.

 

Austrians, snakes, dead and undead

 My FLGS had a sale recently, and I bought some Victrix Austrian Landwehr (56 of them) for less than a packet of 8 official North Star Austrians cost. So for no really good reason (I already have two warbands) I made an Austrian Silver Bayonet unit. 

These are all made from that Landwehr box (well, giant ziplock bag), with just a few bits from Frostgrave boxes and Warlord's Pike & Shotte cavalry. From left to right here we have a Jäger (light infantry), a dhamphir (with an unhealthy complexion, and a nasty looking ancient bronze knife), my officer, a grenadier and an occultist. The dhamphir was made from the standard bearer body, and the occultist from the drummer. The top hat on the occultist is a converted corsehut, the funny looking hat half the unit wears. 

These last four are all provincial soldiers from the Vienna Volunteers. There's only three in the warband, but I happened to build an extra, so he got painted up as well. 

I traded one of the landwehr sprues for a sprue of Wargames Atlantic's new zombies, and I used the tricorn hats to build spectral soldiers. These sorta look a bit like what I think Austrians looked like in the 1780's, but don't quote me on that. This way I saved the actual Napoleonic heads for revenants, if I ever get around to replacing my generic fantasy zombies.

The spectral soldiers are for the Italy campaign, and in that you also need some dead bodies. Most of them are home cast zombies from a Prince August mould, I just removed their integral bases and weapons, and bent some limbs so they'd lie more flat. One of them has a plastic arm as well. The clothed guy use another landwehr body, treated the same way, but with a metal zombie head. He reminds me of The Scream. I decided not to base them, since they'll just lie around and can't fall over. This way they are stackable as well.

Last we have some snakes for Egypt, these are from a Dead Mans Hand blister. The colours are all imaginary, and just used left overs.

 

More NPCs for The Silver Bayonet

 This time I've finished more models for The Silver Bayonet.

 

First we have the mounted version of my Bedouin for the Egyptian unit. It's made with the torso of a GB Dark Age warrior, the legs of a Perry knight (well, Mounted Men at Arms), a rifle arm from a Perry zouave, and the same head as on the foot version. The horse is from a Prince August 25mm mould.

 

 

 

Next we have a couple of vampires. They're Noble Vampires from the Frostgrave range, and look like they've been hanging out in Transylvania somewhere. The poor peasant on the ground is a Norman casualty figure, with a new head to make it more generic.

 

Here are three Frenchmen, they'll be used for the roving patrols in the Italy campaign. They'll obviously fit as Frenchmen and deserters, and since they have greatcoats on, which my other French doesn't, they're clearly different enough, so they will probably moonlight as English patrolmen as well.

Last we have some bandits or briganti. If they look like old Warhammer militia models, well, that's because they are. I wouldn't get around to build more models for Mordheim, so this was a use for the old sprues. I tried to make them as non-fantasy and modern as possible, so no helmets and armour. Yes, these doesn't look like briganti should, but they look generic enough I think. 

Walk like an egyptian

 An Egyptian warband for Silver Bayonet, gnolls werejackals and more black dogs. The Egyptians are all plastic, and converted from various bits from various manufacturers. 

First we have a sapper, my officer, a junior officer and a bedouin. The sapper has a Perry zouave body, and arms and head from Warlord's Desert Rats. The musket is a zouave one though, and not the original Enfield. The Officer has a Frostgrave sorcerer body, Frostgrave knight arms, and a head from the Desert Rats. The Junior Officer has a Frostgrave cultist body, arms from Warlord's Pike & Shotte storming party, and the head and the end of the blunderbuss (it's a trumpet) from Gripping Beast's Arab Spearmen & Archers. The bedouin has a body and head from that Arab box, and arms from the P&S storming party.

Next we have two Janissaries, with bodies and heads from Perry's zouaves, and arms from the P&S storming party. The third guy is an Egyptian conscript, just built from Perry's Ansar box. The last guy could also work as a conscript, but he is in fact a Champion of the Faith. I see him as a poor village priest or something. He's made from a GB Arab body and arm, with a head from the WG Desert Rats.

These gnolls will work as werejackals. Simple and easy build and paint job.

Last we have two more black dogs, since you need more than one for the Italy campaign. 3D prints from Greenstuff World, so very cheap, but the tail broke on the standing dog when I tried to remove it from the support, I'm not totally sold on printed resin.

Ghosts, witches and terrain

 This time it's mainly old Mansions of Madness figures, which I've painted up for The Silver Bayonet, so a double whammy.

First we have a quartet of scantily clad females. I'll use these as Nightmare Witches in Silver Bayonet Italy The Shades of Calabria. Yes, I know the bob cut is too short for the 1800s, but that's just part of their scandalous sexiness. Or something.

Nexe we have some ghosts and skeletons. I might not need more skeletons, but these had more modern clothing, so should fit better than my medieval/fantasy ones.

And a guy from Mansions of Madness which I'll use as one of the marks in Stargrave Dead or Alive. No, that's not a penisworm with arms. It has tentacles as well.

These are two swivel guns. They are extremely crude, but looks sort of right. They're made from two gun barrels (cast in a Prince August 25mm mould) mounted on plastic spacers from the packaging of a toy space ship.

And finally some terrain. These are from Mantic's terraincrate kickstarter. I had to resculpt some of the boxes on the end due to mould deformation, but never bothered to complain to Mantic about it.