Red Box Games Sorcerer Painted...

I don't know how long I have had this model, partially painted on my desk.  Seems like forever.

I decided to do a little light sourcing on the energy ball in his hands.  Had been thinking about doing that forever as well.

Here you see the back.  I really like how the skintones and robes turned out.

Killer profile.

The energy ball is fairly cool.

There you have it, I think the experiment turned out okay.....we'll be back with some more soon.
 

Sverreulf the Red-Handed Version 2!!! Painted!!!

Not sure why I bought two of these miniatures.  I think it may have been a mis-package thing with Red Box Games.  But anyways, much the same with this miniature in a slightly different set of colors.

 I think this mini is like his version of a half-orc or something, hence the pointy ear and fangs.

Hopefully more to follow.....

Sverreulf the Red-Handed!!! Painted!!

 This is another Red Box Games miniature from Tre Manor.  Nice sculpt, but a little small, something between 25 and 32 mm.

 Simply love the musculature on the miniature.  Really had fun with that, its like superhero like.

Much more to follow...

The Mad Angus Painted!

This is definitely one of my all time favorite Red Box Miniatures, Mad Angus.  A very cool sculpt and pose.  I really enjoyed painting this miniature.  I just wish his proportions fit better with my current Saxon and Viking armies.

 Unfortunately it does not and looks kind of funny put next to them.

Fun miniature that I plan to put for auction on eBay.

Finished Painting Red Box Games Dwarf

This is another cool miniature.  I like the looks of the sculpt.  Its one the older Tre Manor/Red Box sculpts which were generally around a 25 mm scale.

Really a lot of fun painting this miniature.  I painted it the same time I was painting the Reaper one.  The differences in them are quite huge, but both have a lot of fine detail in them.

 Same scheme with my reds on the cape.

Like the Reaper Miniature, I don't plan to keep this miniature either.  It is for sale, if you are interested click the link: 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331794748908?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Red Box Games Kick Starter ....Barbarians

Well, with everything I had going on this year health wise, I forgot that I pledged the Red Box Games Kick starter for the "Barbarian Horde".  Typically I'm a Red Box - Tre Manor fan, but I'm not really sure how I feel about the Kickstarter Campaign and the product. 

I pledged the Jotunn, Hordesman Hero, and the Chosen Theme set.  First thing I pulled out of the package was the Jotunn, a massive figure, very cool looking, awesome detail, great looking pose, nicely done on the way the model holds the weapon.  Excellent piece.

Then as I sorted through the rest of the package, no Hordesman Hero.  Okay.  In its place was a sword wielding Helsvakt Berserker.  Which I will keep, as by the looks of it, its nicer looking anyways.  Again awesome detail, good pose, sword is a bit chunky.  I'll take it instead, and not complain.

Then I came to the Chosen Theme set.  Yea....not his best work.  Don't get me wrong the detail is still there, there is still the good poses, everything is sharp, and musculature is what we have come to expect, it's just the conceptual aspect that is lacking.  Where the join of the weapon hand on the Jotunn was brilliant the join on the Chosen weapon hands will even make someone like myself cringe.  Definitely a pin vise nightmare.  On top of that, all of the weapon hands holding something other than a sword, the weapon's haft is broken, way too thin and flimsy, even the extra weapon hands that were bagged loose, which I'm assuming were supposed to be replacements for the broken ones on the figure tabs are all broken.  Remember my moto though, plastic is your friend, and in this case it will have to be. Definitely going to require surgery. 

At some point, I will have pictures and size comparisons, as I continue painting my Marauders of Mayhem army that I have no game to play just yet.  And I say just yet as I just received my copy of Lion Rampant in the mail, read through it, seems very cool, seems playable, so I'm looking forward to possibly Dragon Rampant.

Well onward.....I have about 150 miniatures looking to be primed today, in addition to another 100 or so that have already been primed prior to my surgery back in February.  Building of historicals is done for awhile. Onto paint and the building station will be cleared and will have drawings and Space Marines on it.   

More Marauders...Tre Manor types...

The last batch of the Red Box Games Helsvakt for now.  These like the other Tre Manor sculpts, practically paint themselves. 

I've enjoyed just painting every one of the models, did not even bother converting them.  Very unusual for me.

The blue effect on the shield turned out pretty cool looking.  This one I did flames on the tabard. 

One of the few with a different weapon.  Not really into the style of the hammer.  I did drop it and knocked the hammer up a bit, need to fix the chipped paint on the handle.

This shield is pretty cool.  The skulls and bones off the fur and belt are so cool looking.

And I do like the head on this one.

A bit better on the shield on this one.  I need to remember to reverse the Hot Rod flames on the blue tabards sometime.

More Chaos...Marauders with great weapons

I've worked with Matt Gubser quite a few years ago, helping him out of a jam.  It was good experinece.  Matt's been sculpting miniatures for years and has done work for Reaper Miniatures. 

The mini to the left is one of his sculpts.  I thought about converting the miniature and giving it some hair, but in the end left it alone. 

This model wll be part of my marauder great weapon unit.  Its a large model somewhere around 30-32 mm tall, bigger than a GW Marauder, but that is okay in my book.




This a cool miniature.  I like the armor even though its basic and not ornate.  I also think it works well with Tre Manor's miniatures. 

It also has very good musculature.  Matt did a very nice job with that.

As you can see, I've kept the Hot Rod Flames scheme.  And continuing the burnt orange and blue paint colors.  This unit will be marked with Khorne. 

 And to the left is another of the Tre Manor Helsvakt miniatures.  This one will also be in the great weapons unit.

Like the others, this one screams at you.

I do like everyone of these.  The sword is a sort of wicked piece of steel.  Not overly flashy but I do like it.

There is that power looking back and the great detail of the bones and skulls hanging with the fur.

That's it for now.  More marauders are still coming.

Next Chaos Marauder....Tre Manor's Helvaskt

This is another of Tre Manor's Red Box Games Miniatures.  And its quickly become another favorite of mine.  I think it has a rather cool pose, I can see the awesome downward swing of that cleever like sword.

I'm continuing my paint scheme throughout everything, so the panels on the shield just had to be that glowing like blue.

The musculature of the back practically paints itself.  There it is again giving me that Bart Sears comic book art feeling.  Bart recently did two issues of Conan, absolutely stunning artwork in those books.

Decided the backs of these shields need a fake painted wood grain.

So another of the barbarians in my growing collection of Tre Manor miniatures.

Conradt the Crazed...the newest Marauder

There are some miniatures that are aptly named, and "the Crazed" is very fitting for this Red Box Games, Tre Manor miniature.  Just look at that face.

This along with the previous two are perhaps my favorites of Tre's sculpts.  You cannot help but have an evil smile on your face while painting this miniatures melon.

Like the rest of the Helsvakt line and some of his Reaper sculpts, I really love this armor and its what I would envision Chaos Marauders wearing to battle, spiky and gladiatorial like.

 The basing is typical of my Chaos Warriors army.  HO Scale RR ballast, the rocks are fake, and just broken pieces of cured Apoxie Sculp.  The base painting is five different dry brushed/stippled colors. 

A fall like burned out static grass from Woodland Scenics and a likewise burned out arid Grass tufts from Joefix.

There your are Conradt the Crazed!

A pair of New Chaos Marauders Painted...Tre Manor miniatures

Since I've decided to expand my Warriors of Chaos army with lots of new and different models and away slightly from just Games Workshop models, I have had absolutely no regrets.  I rarely...let me repeat that...I RARELY just paint models out of the package that that I have not converted in some shape or form.   The models below are two that I have not done any converting too, and I absolute love the looks and the detail to them.

This model is one of Tre Manor's Red Box Games, Helsvakt, miniatures and it is absolutely stunning in detail and a blast to paint.  There is so much detail on it.  The skulls on the cape in the back is really cool looking.  I'm really loving all of the stuff Tre is doing for his own company and for Reaper Miniatures.

The shield below had a bunch of scars in the surface sculpted into it.  So, I thought I would accentuate that in my color scheme and make the shield sort of glow a little.

The musculature is awesome, I'm a huge Bart Sears fan and his drawing style and this sort of reminds me of this style but in 3 dimensions.

Next up is another of Tre Manor's sculpts, this time from Reaper Miniatures.  This model is huge.  The Helsvakt is about 25 mm, this model is probably around 32 mm.  Which is fine by me, humans are not all the same size, and I'm already mixing GW Gors, Ungors, both new and old with both new and old GW Marauders.

I believe the name of this miniature is Kord the Destroyer.  The face detail just screams at me, I love it.  The model itself is very reminiscent of his Helsvakt models. 

I'll be using both of these models on the extreme flanks of the units.  I'm very much looking forward to assembling the units in whole.

The Blue and Burnt Orange paint schemes are getting carried all the way through the army.

Both of these models are really going to influence me in my conversion and sculpting work in the future.  Tre's technique for doing fur is definitely making me rethink how I have been doing it. The detail is top notch in my book.  I'm putting final touches on a whole slew more of the marauders, so much more to follow on my Warriors of Chaos.