Brivoli's Great Company, 2026.

This mercenary army is officially "too big to photograph" easily, or nicely...but here is the final form of Brivoli's Great Company.  This doesn't exclude me painting new stuff later if I find some cool models, but this is the entire model collection I had on hand and planned for the army.

 

 

The struggle bus pulls into the station...(Empire Cavalry)

I normally crush out painting projects in about 3-4 sittings over maybe two days.  I despise spending a lot of time on painting...anything.  Hate it.  These Empire cavalry nearly broke me.  I dislike painting cavalry, had a lot of issues, etc.  However, they're done now...and that marks the end of the painting for Brivoli's Great Company (army pictures to come later this week).

 

 

Another big FSF game day.

We did another "bring and battle" day of Famine, Sword, & Fire yesterday.  Got in 4(?) mini games, and then a 2v2 game to end the day.

 

Most of the pics were stolen from my buddy since I only took a handful (as usual). 

 

 

Some more Night Goblins...

Trying hard to finish up some FSF armies.  I am sooo close to being done with Night Goblins.  I did my first (and maybe only?) box of squig riders/hoppers, etc.  I also took an old failed 3D print that my buddy sent of the Hobgoblin bolt thrower...fixed it up a little bit, and then gave it a Night Goblin crew.

 

 

Troll King by Fabelzel.

 A long time ago, I picked up this Troll King miniature, sculpted by Fabelzel (the sculptor of all of my Chaos Dwarf stuff).  Didn't have a goal in mind, but he'll simply become a character.  Maybe he'll work with some Night Goblins or just appear from time to time.

 

 

State of the Armies: Famine, Sword, & Fire

Just posting these 'progress' pictures for my armies so I can link them to a forum discussion.  I keep track of my armies with this kind of quick visual layout.

 

 

An Araby wizard and his bodyguard...

Going against my normal wizarding convention (using singular heroes), I decided to make my final mercenary infantry unit into a kind of wizard's bodyguard.  This will give the wizard a bit more security before dying, but when fighting in combat a spellcasting unit can't cast spells...so we'll see how this works out.

 

 

A long underwhelming project...finally complete.

Many moons ago I started collecting bits of a Renedra 'castle'.  Castle is less accurate, as they never finished a bunch of other components (you can tell from the instructions and boxes that they had plans for more than "two" pieces).  It makes more of a city wall than a castle, though you can put them together to make a small castle if desired.

I finally acquired enough to tackle it.  I took three of the four towers and removed the third story (it makes them unwieldy and unnecessarily large in my opinion).  I made one of the towers into a gatehouse and used the last tower as a simple keep.

The kits are mediocre - the destroyed wall section (not pictured) is so bad, I may not fix it and bother adding it to the collection.

For Renedra, a popular plastics company - the quality is shockingly poor.  Loads of flash, and the walls are so thin in places that there are holes you need to patch with sprue-goo or something similar.  Many of the edges are thin and need reinforcing as they're likely to snap if hit, etc.

All of the components require immense cleaning, tons of flash, some erupted gates that spilled onto the sprues, and even some blown out sections of the molds where "drops" of plastic are present and need removing.  The arrow slits are mostly in need of cleaning.

The kits are not very modular --- and they could have been.  A little work and you could have really built all kinds of stuff out of them.  I have a bunch of spare walls from the removed tower floors that I'll use to build another building or something.

As a set of kits, I'd rate it ...6/10 at best.  However, there are only two big plastic castles on the market and I think the texture of these is superior to the Tabletop Workshop kits --- though those have more variety and seem better designed.