Bloodbath. Terrain.P2 The Ruined Cottage

One of the most complex components of the Bloodbath project will be the terrain as I intend to use the cards to build full buildings and the other pieces.

The original scenario contained the card buildings needed to play each battle. The sheets were also released as part of the iconic Townscape book. I decided to start with the ruined cottage

The full set of buildings and elements from the boxed set.

The Ruined Cottage 

Foam Card measured and drawn to match the original dimensions

The damaged sections were dug out...

...and replaced with Green Stuff with the exposed stonework sculpted in

the assembled framework. 

Small modifications from the original were the inside detail which was absent, wooden door frame and some additional height which meant the outside steps were a necessity but allowed the floor boards and hole to be more realistic 

Coffees stirrers provided the planking

Holes in the floorboards

Ruined second floor was assembled with more stirrers

Second floor and roof frame with plasticard for roof tiles

Roof tiles laid and extras scattered around the base to add more realism

Sand and stone added

Assembled and undercoated

Initial paints. I decided in the end not to try and match the original colours too closely and to leave the roof tiles a dark grey rather than red which matches up better with the Projects overall more subdued palette.

Moss added with a PVA and Flock mix which will be ink washed afterwards

Featured Grafitti as on the originals

The Completed Ruined Cottage

Bloodbath.The Linden Way Militia.P1

With the completion of the Osrim Chardz and only the unit banner to do I moved on to my next Command Sheet and decided to tackle the big human unit, the Linden Way Militia.
This is quite a large sheet with 36 units split between 25 militia and 10 villagers plus the command figure, Mayor Leofwine.

Assembling the figures for this was one of the longest due to the number of villagers and Mayor Leofwine. The 25 strong Militia I picked up from Wargames Foundry and were originally released by citadel as Feudal Levy for their Bretonnia range plus a couple of their medieval archers.

 The villagers are from the citadel C46 villagers range and were a slow find from eBay over several years

The first six done. From left to right, The Stable Boy, The baker, The Miller, The Storekeepers Wife, The Store keeper and The Libertine.

The Store Keeper is not the figure used in the set as this one seems to be particularly rare and still eludes me, the Baker and the Libertine are not part of the  BB@OD set but I picked them up as part of a larger group 

 I have gone for quite an earthly colour scheme which will give them a unified feel despite the individuality. the figures have loads of character and i have really enjoyed painting them and can see why they are a collectable set.

the remaining six 

Bloodbath.The Engineers of Osrim Chardz. P2

Continuing with my BloodBath challenge I have finished off Osrim Chardz

I was a bit daunted to paint him initially as he is one of my rarest/most expensive figures and one of the principle characters in the scenario.

Based on Lieutenant John Chards the Royal Engineer who commanded the Defence of Rorkes Drift, the figure graces the box cover and is a highly detailed sculpt.

As with all my characters, I have raised him up a bit and decided on sticking with his cover paint scheme. Purely by chance (or subliminally with the box art on my painting table) the blue i had chosen for the other dwarf units as the League colours (GW Thunderhawk Blue) works perfectly for his cloak and ties him in with the rest of the units.

The sculpt itself matches up with the Gary Chalk artwork (but reversed when used on the box)

Red jacket and white belt and pouch are a nice nod to the British Redcoat uniform

Osrim and his Engineers.

Only the standard left to go and another Command sheet completed!

Tzeentch. The Church of Transmogrification renewed

I last aded to my Tzeentchian Warband in 2017 ( shameful face!) and is another project I hope to see progress in 2020 and to help remind me I have peppered my painting lists with a warband figure between other projects.
The first figure for 2020 is from Knightmare Miniatures Pantheon Of Chaos Range. Knightmare Miniature are creating amazing figures full of character and a classic Oldhammer vibe perfect for this project and I would recommend checking them out if you don't already know them.


'Phuu (klick) watches the waters and is mesmerised by the light and colours that dance with it, its movements stirring him to the core as they once stirred his body and gave him new form. The hands of Tzeentch upon him that he might better serves the Great Changer. Phuu (klick) stands at the heart of the Church of Transmogrification, the Sacred lake from which the Church draws its great Change.
Phuu (klick) does not remember his life before and the Cerulean ledger records only that he had been here before their arrival, for Abbey had once belonged to a Bretonnian Order dedicated to the Lady of the Lake. The Abbott had fallen to lust and greed, secrets he could not hold, and now its walls and the  waters beneath, this sacred Lake, were made anew and Phuu (Klick) would stand guard and see them bless all as he had been blessed.

Brother York of the Outer Church

Brother York had known a lifetime of secrets. As a child he had been one of twins but as they had grown differences had begun to emerge in his brother Lor. At first it was just in personality, he became more more morose and isolated, with random outbursts of violence and almost animal like rage. He would disappear for days as a teenager, despite the tears of their mother and the beating of their father on his return. Then the changes became physical as puberty brought not a move into manhood but something else. Hair sprouted from all of his body, muscles thickened along with his skin. Fearful of being reported and condemned, the family hid him and chained him to the wall as he descended further. When even this became too much the family took him to the woods and watched him flee into the darkness on hooves. Yorks mother died soon after of a broken heart and his father took to drink and beating York. When he could take no more York fled and was found by missionaries of the Church who were preaching in the town and taken in. The guilt and loss of his brother and mother, his rage towards his father and desperate desire for change a rich offering to Tzeentch.

Brother York and Brother Saul 

Warband of Tzeentch, servants of the Church of Transmogrification  

knightmare miniatures

Bloodbath.The Engineers of Osrim Chardz. P1

Still full of New Years vigour which has been incentivised by joining a painting challenge on the Oldhammer Community Facebook Group I have made a start on the next Bloodbath at Orcs' Drift Command Sheet.

Several of the dwarves had been partly been painted from the last time and were rebased and all given the new livery.

Repainted dwarves. The third in is an old Imperial dwarf and had lost his hammer so it was replaced with a plastic one from an Empire sprue.

the second five are a Middlehammer set of miners which fitted in with the Engineering theme of the unit.

I added two more dwarves to the table as they were both in desperate need of paint and meant pretty much all of the dwarves I own will be painted the same 

Full unit and only Osrim himself left to do...

Bloodbath. The Dwarfs of Ashak Rise. P2

Looking back over the blog and it was Oct 2018 that I last posted on my Bloodbath at Orcs Drift Project and unfortunatly I had done little else since then. 

Distracted by numerous other projects, the figures did little more than move around my painting list and sit accusingly on the back of my desk. But as the end of this year approached I had a burst of guilt fuelled inspiration to try and get at least these finished and complete my second Command Sheet

This was the state of play late December, with ten still to paint and six done, although I was no longer happy with them which I think contributed to my avoidance. 

I started reworking the initial six and gave them a new livery which I was much happier with and inspired me to work on the rest.

The crossbow dwarves were painted up in the new livery. The crossbows were modified Empire crossbows

The first of my Bloodbath character figures. Borinn Fimbul and his son Snorinn Fimbul.

Both figures are packed with extra details and a joy to paint

This took me up to the end of the year and only the pack mules left to do frustratingly!

All painted and my second Command Sheet completed!

Still on a dwarf high, I have started the next Command Sheet which will be The Engineers of Osrim Chardz. This is also small unit and will be another repaint and paint. It also contains Osrim Chardz himself which was a limited Scenario release and is quite a rare/expensive figure.