History of the Runestaff.

Mulling over how I'm going to paint these guys and present on a 4cm square base, perhaps, for Fantastic Battles. A couple of painted samples to get me going.

Order of the Bull.

Order of the Boar converted to pikeman.

Finished my first batch to go with my test figure, I approve. Now I need to simplify and speed up the painting process because it took way too long.

I'll have a bit of a struggle to get the pack content poses to rank up on a base in a reasonable way so I don't have too much wasteage and also be able to have each unit make base to base contact with other units as painlessly as possible.

The first of the Granbretan mounted I've gotten hold of.

300MMH014 - All single piece castings.

300MMH015 - Seperate rider and mount.

300MMH016 - Centre left figure is a single casting while the others are seperate horse and rider.

Some Boar pikemen based for Fantastic Battles.

13-05-26

Good news, it seems that this range is a goer again!

I don't have any inside information but I had heard on the Lead Adventure Forum that there was a problem with this being or having "rights" to be called Hawkmoon and things seemed to stall and I had thought this dead, but then just randomly someone on LAF asked whatever happened to these and the sculptor, Maceface, mentioned that this project was continuing.

Apparently adjustments are being made to make them less distinctly "Hawkmoon", so I'm hoping that this long process may bear fruit soonish and we have a very suitable range of high quality fantasy figures in my prefered scale.

Til then, here are a batch of what were to be Kamarg spearmen (six poses) I painted at the end of April.

I would assume there will be no changes to the Kamarg spearmen other than the name, from the old samples I have there are six variants.

Similar to the spearmen the Halberdiers, from what I have, also come with six variants.

Painted versions.

Kamarg swordsmen in six variants; they almost look good to go other than one figure has a bandolier of spheres (Flamelance refills/ recharges?) which may need some alteration, musketeer type apostles maybe.

The painted versions in a different colour scheme to previous examples.

I start with a white undercoat and use mostly thinned down Coat d'arms and Citadel paints; inside out, first flesh, then armour (because it's messy if I dry brush), then cloth followed by the leather bits and bobs.

Generally there is an unnecessary and inefficent amount of shading and highlighting going on for the effect I get but am a creature of habit that dislikes change and cling to my quirks and faults like a Limpet.

Skin - I began with thinned down Suntanned Flesh (Cd'a), thinned down enough so it covers the area but you still get a bit of contrast between more concentrated pigment in the creases and less on the raised areas. An initial shade with a light red brown, Verminlord Hide (Citadel Dry), first highlight Suntanned Flesh + White, followed by a wash of Gulliman Flesh (Citadel Contrast).

Lastly, when the whole figure is finished and I'm touching things up I'll add a final highlight with Suntanned Flesh + a bit more White.

Armour part 1 - The chainmail, for the Kamarg figures, was base Black drybrushed with Chaimail (Cd'a), the a wash of the infamous Agrax Earthshade (Citadel Wash) followed by a light drybrush of the original Chainmail. I'll also at the end give a slight highlight of silver if I remember.

Armour part 2 - Cuirass and helmet, base thinned down Chaimail (Cd'a), wash with Agrax Earthshade followed light drybrush of the original Chainmail. Again I'll highlight silver at the end after the figure is finished.

Having said that I don't think I used Agrax Earthshade on the last batch of swordsmen.

Kamarg with Flamelance, six variants.

Not sure what the future of these will be but I do recall Nic mentioning handguns so I suppose this may be their future if that's even worth the effort. This isn't Star Wars, other than changing the names, I still don't see any reason to change anything for a novel but I suppose he knows what he can and can't get away with.

The painted versions.

And that is the last of my Kamarg samples so it's back to Granbretan from here til these finally get released.

A quick comparison of the Kamarg and Granbretan Flamelance.

I don't think the World of Hawkmoon is making Flamelances anymore so in my imagination they are all ancient relics pulled from the ruins of another world long gone and cannabalized for parts and refurbished to get some working models. That's what I think the Kamarg version looks like with the wooden stock, which I like, while the Granbretan version looks more like a pristine weapon pulled from an armoury untouched by the Tragic Millenium.