Finally reached the end of the Wargames Atlantic Villagers sprues that come with The Guards of Traitor’s Toll game.  There are a lot of items for them to carry to match up with the way the game is played, leading to a lot of fun making up the exact figures I needed to fill in the gaps given all the Midlam Miniatures stuff I got for the playtesting.  So some of these might look odd if you didn’t know what they are for. It should be noted now I look at the photo again that the bowman and guy with flaming torch used the Guards sprue, which is also where the arms with the grappling hook came from.  The se below though are all from the Villagers, including the owl! After doing the owl I remembered I had some Otherworld metal ‘familiars’, kicking about so created the last two figures just for them.

  It has been a very eclectic weekend although the eight more citizens of Traitor’s Toll are the only physical thing I have to show for it.   I am now working on scenario specific figures and the last few gaps on the Identify card, as the plan is to get my campaign started in May.   No spoilers though, you’ll have to wait for the game write-ups to find out where some of these fit, like that lady with the blood on her hand. However, because it was such lovely weather (in Berkshire, UK anyway, sorry if not so where you are) I spent most of my time on various rules sets for Nordic Weasel, enjoying the sunshine. I started with the basic bones of Chapter 3 of Five Klicks from the Zone.  Ivan is currently working his way through the new Second Edition of Chapter 1, and it’s been awhile since I finished drafting Chapter 2, so the ideas rolling around in my head for Chapter 3 were demanding to be written down. Then Ivan pinged me about his latest revisions to Rogue Hammer an...

  Four days off work!  Time for some fun! Loads of plastic kit fun with the Townsfolk for GOTT, see the relevant page for what some of these represent, but in terms of just building and painting lots of fun figures, these kits are thoroughly enjoyable. I also got two more turns played of my 5 Klicks campaign, as per photos at top and bottom of this post, see the relevant page for details of those too.

  So I got all excited by the Guards of Traitor’s Toll sets turning up and forgot to post anything last weekend.  Anyway, just finished the required number of guards (details on the GoTT page) and here they are. I now officially have a backlog though as I bumped a bunch of stuff - post apocalypse bugs, goblin wolf riders, and a few stray Drow - to the back of the queue and built 40 or so townsfolk, as well as these guards.  Can’t see any of this finishing this weekend though, so here’s a post to cover last weekend and this. I didn’t allow myself to forget this Norse Giant for someone else though.  

  So while I was painting up another Copplestone guy for 5 Klicks, I went through my box of odds and ends  and dug out some stuff.   This included a better miniature for the giant snarler, a metal Otherworld big cat that I bought for my Narnia army but turned out to be too big.  Now it is perfect.  Painted as a Jaguar. I also had a couple of 3D printed giant snakes left over from making my Reptile army, and a random figure from when I was looking for a Yeti for my Norse army.  I think he looks better as a Sasquatch, what do you think? That makes 5 giant snakes in total, I reckon that’s probably enough for any occasion! At some point I had also been looking for eight different gargoyles for one of the 5LB enemy lists, but had only collected three so far.  I also got around to finishing my pile of big crates, barrels, and sacks as table scatter predominately for GoTT.  Speaking of which, it’s with Royal Mail to be delivered today, so that’s 37 new f...

  I finally got around to putting in more work on my town buildings.  They now all have their roof tiles and I added some stick on mirrors for some windows. I should add some frames to the windows and need a few more doors, but I’m unlikely to return to these soon.