Medball - a Kickstarter in peril!

 Edit - thankfully funded!

Well, I've got 14 wonderful backers but still not hitting the target... I really thought this would be reasonably popular! When I think about the ranges now that I have planned, I wonder if it's worth me investing the little funds I have into them. The Little Soldier Company has never shown a profit and isn't looking like it will last long term. Very sad as it has been a labour of love and I've worked with some wonderful people. I looked into advertising with a wargaming website but this was the answer I got back;

Thanks for reaching out to us. As our minimum campaign spend is £5,000, we're not going to be the partner to help you with this.

If you fancy helping out and getting some wonderful Martin Buck sculpts cast up and released, the Kickstarter is below;

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1896378744/medball-football-players-for-medieval-gaming

It currently has 54 hours to go and is £231 away from target.

Noggin the Nog, Nogbad the Bad and Knut

These were the concept drawings from Martin for additional sculpts...

One of the hoped for upcoming new ranges... 

Any thoughts please leave a comment below or email me over at enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk

Medball! Medieval footballers for tabletop gaming.

 

Well, I've just launched the Kickstarter for Martin Buck's wonderful sculpts. If you can back it please do, if not please share! 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1896378744/medball-football-players-for-medieval-gaming

The figures are fully compatible with the Noggin range, although not licenced, for those that love Noggin.

As always enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk

Lord of the Rings - Heritage / Der Kriegspielers style

As per previous posts, the joy of painting old school minis is something that never leaves me for long... this time it was a few of the Heritage Orcs, back from when they had the licence for the 1978 Ralph Bakshi cartoon version of Lord of the Rings. Max Carr sculpts and they really capture the feel of the movie.

1811 Saruman's Urak-Hai Orcs of the White Hand Clubs

I've since tidied up the helmets a little as I noticed the red at the metal edge looked wrong.

Besides a myriad of blisters for the range (including Cliff Sanderson sculpted 75mm ones), they also did a couple of boxed games... no exclusive minis unfortunately.

Edit - apparently the balrog only came with this set. The blistered variant was much larger.

The full range (and more) is on the Lost Minis WIKI;

http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Heritage

A few years earlier Duke Seifried (amongst other sculptors) at Der Kriegspielers sculpted a large 'not' Lord of the Rings range including this Fellowship set. Games Workshop imported them back in the day but they were too expensive for my hobby budget at the time. I've named the Hobbits as I think they should be... Frodo is the only obvious one...

1057 The Companions

The four Hobbits

Gandalf

Strider

Boromir

Legolas

Gimli

Frodo

Sam

Merry

Pippin

The full range can be seen on the Lost Minis Wiki;

http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Der_Kriegspielers_Fantastiques_%281000%29

Michael over at Classic Miniatures has most of these old ranges available nowadays;

https://classicminiatures.net/

Finally, a couple of minis I am completely at a loss to identify... a wizard and a monk. Early 80's or late 70's I assume. Help!

As always enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk

John Carter of Mars - Hinchliffe Models - Part 3 - Most of the range done.

 

Belated Merry Xmas to everyone... my chest bug has kept me busy coughing and spluttering throughout the holiday season and shows no sign of abating (such is the life of the ex smoker asthmatic). I did, at least, 'design' a Christmas card on the Midjourney AI app but wasn't up to getting it out there so it's posted below... Happy New Year in advance and I will try better next year!

Onto the miniatures! The final 2 are SF4 Red Martian Maiden with pistol and SF9 Green Martian Warrior... both basic paint jobs as with the rest of the range (or my excuse for poor painting!). I'm only missing SF6 White Martian Chief as I gave my copy to Mike at Broadsword Miniatures for the upcoming remolding. He was missing his sword which hopefully will be taken care of once the project gets full steam ahead. If anyone has a spare then please let me know so I can finish the range. I do need to paint another SF5 Black Martian, radium rifle as a Black Martian - the one I've finished I did as a Red Martian for some reason.

SF4 Red Martian Maiden with pistol (same sculpting dolly as SF11 Red Martian Princess)

I think I'll go back to my older style of painting...

SF9 Green Martian Warrior

Size comparison between the two...

The White Ape, Martian Lion and Treeman in all their ferocious splendour!

The Green Martian Horde!

All the humanoid Martian types...

The full range barring the aforementioned SF6 and the unreleased SF15 Martian Dog...

There are quite a few John Carter articles on the blog if you're interested;

 http://www.deartonyblair.co.uk/search/label/John%20Carter

Broadsword Miniatures link;

http://broadswordsandbeasts.blogspot.com/p/broadsword-miniatures.html

If you like the blog, please follow it and become a Politico (top left) - it makes me feel like I'm appreciated as does leaving a comment below!

Also, if you are feel slightly flush, buying me a coffee is always appreciated...blogging can be thirsty work... https://ko-fi.com/davidwood

As always; enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk

John Carter of Mars - Part 2 - More Hinchliffe Models

 

I've quite caught the bug with these... Broadsword Miniatures are due to be re-releasing them at some point in the not too distant future. As before, I'm doing basic paint jobs to try and suit the sculpting style.

SF17 Green Martian mounted on large Thoat

Here pictured with his adversary SF16 Red Martian mounted on Thoat

SF13 Plant Man... I did give him a pupil before reading that they don't have one!

Here we have a hapless SF3 Red Martian Warrior, sword and dagger about to be tail wamped...

Next in line... I've actually just started the ferocious SF12 White Ape. In truth I'm not sure which is more 'ferocious', this White Ape or the old Minifigs ME range Balrog.

There are quite a few John Carter articles on the blog if you're interested;

 http://www.deartonyblair.co.uk/search/label/John%20Carter

More later!

enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk

Broadsword Miniatures link;

http://broadswordsandbeasts.blogspot.com/p/broadsword-miniatures.html