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The BoFA elven cavalry are now listed for sale over at eBay. You can view the listing here.
Category Archives: 10mm fantasy
BoFA Elven Cavalry, now on sale
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Posted in 10mm fantasy, 10mm Middle-earth, Battle of Five Armies, Games Workshop, Middle-earth, Warmaster
Battle of Five Armies, elven cavalry
Blister box of GW's elven cavarly for the BoFA game system
Games Workshop upset a lot of people when they pulled the expansion packs of metal models from their Battle of Five Armies range. Here we are, five years out from their initial release, and in various corners of the net one can still read expressions of discontent about this decision. Among the metal models are Smaug, a giant, dwarven crossbowmen, spiders of Mirkwood, bats, trolls, and the ever evasive elven cavalry.
Yesterday, during my nostalgia tour of game stores in the SF Bay Area, I was shocked to discover on a rack a mint copy of the elven cavalry. On the off chance there are still people looking for these models, I’ve decided to make them available on eBay beginning sometime early next week. All proceeds from the sale will go towards a humble venture into the miniatures industry, but I’ll save that tale for another day.
(My apologies for the poor photo and image quality. I’m currently traveling as part of an international move back to the United States, and don’t have my regular camera with me.)
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Posted in 10mm fantasy, 10mm Middle-earth, Battle of Five Armies, Middle-earth, Warmaster
Warmuster, issue 2
The newest issue of Warmuster magazine is available, and can be downloaded free of charge from their Web site. This issue focuses on sieges, and includes a ton of new rules, scenarios, and some great hobby articles. Click on the image above for more information.
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Posted in 10mm fantasy, 10mm Middle-earth, magazines, Warmaster
Some Projects, early WIPs
I’ll post updates for these projects once they’re closer to completion.
10mm inn (fantasy)
10mm inn with textured faces and future windows
Parts for railroad tracks for my armored Soviet train and optional terrain piece for Blitzkrieg Commander (1/72 WWII)
Future hedge pieces for the modular terrain I'm building for Blitzkrieg Commander games
My solution for modular terrain basing, medium density fiberboard
Reaper’s New Dragonette = 10mm Fell Beast
Dragonette (front)
Dragonette (back)
Modifying Reaper’s forthcoming dragonette model to serve as a fell beast for 10mm Middle-earth gaming would be simple. Smooth out the scales with some green stuff, cut off the head and sculpt a longer one (or leave as-is), and add a rider. I’m getting nine.
Reaper Saprolings for Ents (also see here), and now this. I wonder if they’ll ever make something I can use for trolls.
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Posted in 10mm fantasy, 10mm Middle-earth, 28-32mm fantasy, Middle-earth, Reaper
Copplestone City Spearmen, more than half done
Copplestone City Spearmen (WIP)
Here’s my latest update on my progress with the Copplestone City Spearmen. I own four boxes of these, which comes to 12 stands (24 strips) total. The shields on three front-row strips aren’t done, but I’ll save that for tomorrow. I’m saving the bases and flags for last.
In the back row you can see some of the archers, 1.5 stands done. I have four boxes of these, so my total Gondor force is comprised of 24 stands or 48 strips.
Once these are done, I’ll get back to Rohan.
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Posted in 10mm fantasy, 10mm Middle-earth, Copplestone Castings
Copplestone City Guard, update
For those of you following this site for my 10mm Middle-earth project, I want to assure you that despite my interest in other things the project is not dead. Case in point, my Copplestone City Guard. I have one stand finished, and six more will follow very shortly. The only thing left to do on these six stands is the shield insignia. I’m doing these by hand, so the process is slow and tedious. But I prefer this method to transfers, and will press ahead. Once these are done, I’ll be halfway done with the City Guard spearmen. The others, fortunately, are half finished and shouldn’t take too long. I’m looking forward to having these out of my queue, as I’m eager to finish the Rohan Royal Guard cavalry.
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Posted in 10mm fantasy, 10mm Middle-earth, Copplestone Castings, painting
Kallistra 10mm Viking Huscarls
Copplestone Horse Tribe infantry (left) and Kallistra Huscarls
Kallistra Huscarls (lefft), Magister Militum greater orc, MM ashigaru, and more Kallistra Huscarls
Kallistra Huscarls (left) and Copplestone City Spearmen
Kallistra Huscarls (left) and GW Warmaster Swordmasters of Hoeth
Kallistra Huscarls (left), Eureka Anvil dwarf, Eureka Warspite elf, more Kallistra Huscarls
Old Glory Persian commmand (left) and Kallistra Huscarls
Kallistra 10mm Mongolian Light Cavalry
Kallistra's four different sculpts of Mongolian light cavalry
Kallistra Mongolian light cavalry (left), Copplestone Horse Tribe cavalry, Magister Militum Mongolian heavy cavalry, Kallistra Mongolian light cavalry
Be sure to click on the photographs to see larger images.
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Posted in 10mm fantasy, 10mm historical, comparisons, Copplestone Castings, Kallistra, Magister Militum
Magister Militum 10mm Greater Orcs w/ Armor
Magister Militum Mongol, orc, ashigaru
Magister Militum greater orc warriors with armour, all four variations
MM greater orc (macro)
Copplestone half-orcs, MM greater orc, Copplestone orcs
Copplestone half-orcs, MM greater orc, Copplestone orcs (macro)
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Magister Militum Mongol Heavy Cav, et al
Magister Militum Mongol, orc, ashigaru
Magister Militum Mongol heavy cavalry with lance and bow (command model, center)
MM Mongol heavy cavalry with lance and bow I (macro)
MM Mongol heavy cavalry with lance and bow II (macro)
MM Mongol heavy cavalry with lance and bow, command (macro)
MM Mongol heavy cavalry, Copplestone Horse Tribe cavalry (second from right)
MM Mongol heavy cavalry, Copplestone Horse Tribe cavalry (macro)
With respects to the size of the Mongol cavalry, Richard of Magister Militum wrote the following in a thread on TMP:
The Mongols and Samurai are the only Medieval figures on the smaller pony horse.
We used a pony for all of the ancient ranges, horse breeding did not really develop the large modern horses we see today until the 10th/11th century AD. There was a deal of variation in anicent horses and the Romans did breed some larger breeds but not in great numbers. Even cataphracts were mounted on stocky ponies, there are references in fact to their horses being particularly small and strong with riders legs almost reaching the ground.
For the medievals onwards we use 4 horses, the pony for stepp type armies, the Samurai who had major problems with horse breeding in sufficient numbers and used ponies and some of the earlier border/fringe horse units in Europe (Bretons etc.) Also Cossacks for the Napoleonics are on ponies. At the moment all of our Crimean cavalry are also on ponies to represent the fact that the British and Russians used local horses for remounts after the first month or so of the war. I am considering doing them on larger horses to represent the early war but the Napoleonics are getting priority right now. Also our early Normans are on the ponies, this could be debated but there is evidence that up to the Norman conquest their cavalry was still quite light, if you want Normans on destriers then the medieval early knights fit perfectly. We then have a standard or light horse which is used for anything that is not a knight. It is also used for light cavalry in the Napoleonic ranges. Finally there are two versions of a heavy horse, one is for knights and heavy cavalry. The other is a thoroughbred which we use for guard or elite cavalry units.
This may seem a bit complicated but we try to be as accurate as we can and this seemed to be the best way to achieve a historical look.
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Magister Militum Ashigaru, et al (100mm macro)
Magister Militum ashigaru
Copplestone Horse Tribe infantry, MM ashigaru, Copplestone City Guard
Old Glory Persian command, MM ashigaru, GFI/AIM Persian command
Eureka elf archer, MM ashigaru, Eureka halfling militia
Eureka Anvil dwarf, MM ashigaru, Eureka Warspite elf
GW Swordmasters of Hoeth, MM ashigaru, MM orc
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Magister Militum Ashigaru, et al
Magister Militum ashigaru with spears & command
Copplestone City Guard, MM ashigaru, GW Swordmasters of Hoeth
Copplestone Horse Tribe infantry, MM ashigaru, Old Glory Persian command
Eureka elf archer, halfling militia, MM ashigaru, AIM/GFI Persian command
Copplestone half-orcs, MM ashigaru, Copplestone orcs
Eureka Anvil dwarf, MM ashigaru, Eureka Warspite elf
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Posted in 10mm fantasy, 10mm historical, 10mm Middle-earth, AIM/GFI, Copplestone Castings, Eureka, Games Workshop, Magister Militum, Old Glory, Warmaster
Magister Militum Order, Preview II
Magister Militum Mongol, orc, and ashigaru
I took all the comparison pictures of my recent Magister Militum order with a variety of 10mm models in my collection, and will start uploading them today.
Click on the photo for a larger image.
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Magister Militum Order, Preview
I received my Magister Militum order this morning. I won’t have a chance to set up my light table until the weekend, but want to share a quick preview of some models from my order. In addition to a number of comparison photos against my grid backdrop, I will write a review of the product and my experience ordering from Magister Militum.
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Posted in 10mm fantasy, 10mm historical, 10mm Middle-earth, Magister Militum