On the Flexibility of Fantasy Wargaming

OK, I am admittedly on a path continuing to diverge from the official GW canon. I don't care. I'm enjoying taking some creative liberties with what is a make-believe game in the first place. I'm running my first "take fantasy back" game this weekend and it's going to involve a whole lot of unofficial stuff. I admit, not only am I really getting into the barbarian invasion of the Empire idea, I think I'm going to start indulging in some heretical inter-Empire conflicts as well.

(OK, so strictly speaking Marienburg is outside the Empire. And my plan is to build a second Empire army, that of Nordland, and battle them against each other. And also the other armies some of my friends have.)

So back to my new fantasy figures...

I painted & converted a lesser air elemental/air spirit/djinn. The top half is an old Rackham Confrontation Kelt Fianna, the bottom half is wire and putty. A simple conversion, but I'm happy with the results! May her winds blow long in Marienburg sails!

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Air Elemental/Spirit Conversion

I wanted to make a humanoid air elemental/spirit/djinn. So I thought I'd try converting an old Rackham figure by cutting off the legs & replacing them with a swirling cloud of air. I'll paint it soon.

I really want to extend her ponytail to a much greater/larger size, but the smallest brass rod I've got is too large to fit in the little bit that's binding it. I may still cut the whole thing off and replace it. Or maybe no ponytail and just a voluminous (ridiculously so) mass of whispy hair instead?

Stone Building

 Finished the next Armorcast building...

Angry Trees Done

I don't have my camera with me, so these are just crappy phone pics...

I almost forgot to put another figure in for scale. Sadly I didn't have the same handgunner as in the rest of the photos. But here's  a slightly blurry pic with a converted pikeman.

I'm wondering if I should leave them as-is, or try putting some foliage on them. Opinions?


Also... anyone else having problems with blogger's new post editor? It's buggy as all hell, at least in Firefox. Moving text and photos around is nearly impossible. It actually makes laying out posts MORE difficult. I swear they are TRYING to drive people away.

Second Tree

Finished sculpting & primed the second angry tree.

Both are half painted. Photos when they are done.

PSA - Ogre Trade?

Blogger Image Formatting (Lightbox) - Disabling

For those who dislike the new "Lightbox" image display for Blogger, you have the option to turn it off on your blog (as I have).


Go to Settings --->  Formatting ---> Open images in Lightbox ---> and then select "no" and save your settings.


My problem with it is that it is very slow, especially on my lousy internet connection, and it often just hangs on image heavy blogs. So I end up not bothering with looking at peoples pictures. Lightbox really is a case of "bloggers answer to a question nobody was asking."

Wooden Buildings and Angry Trees

Shots of the interior of the house & barn, plus post-assembly shots. The roofs are removable, so you can see the inside after assembly. The chimney looks more crooked in the photos than in real life. Still, I should have fit it a little better.

Also, (finally!) finished the first angry tree and started painting it. The second one was just finished at the end of the night, after the batteries in the camera died. I'm hoping to prime it tonight.

Instant Mold

After watching some demo videos and hearing people talk about how well it works, I just ordered a pack of Instant Mold.

A few more barbarian heroes (forgive the blurry photo.)

And I've painted the components for the first two Armorcast buildings -- a small wood house, and a wood barn.

Now I just need to assemble them! I've prepped & primed two more, a blacksmith shop and a medium stone house.