Showing posts with label Irregular Miniatures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irregular Miniatures. Show all posts

Monday, 12 January 2015

10mm Skeletons on Bare Bones Table versus 10mm Empire

I took up an opportunity to line up my 10mm Skeleton and Empire figures on a barebones table in a stylised set up, partly to see what I had, and for some photo's.

The figures are mainly on 40mm x 20mm bases, and I play either Warmaster or Hordes of the Things
( HOTT ) rulesets. I prefer HOTT for their greater troop variety and ease of play, whilst allowing the flavour of it all to come out. As a basic HOTT command  is 24 Army Points, and a basic skeleton foot unit is a
1 AP  'Horde" unit, it allows plenty of Hordes ie skeletons, in an army.   More regular foot units are usually 2 AP's each, with special type units 3-4 points each.   Oh, and you can have multiple commands of 24 A.P's' per side. ( Lets see now, 3 x 24 AP's = 72 Horde units @ 10 figures per base - 720 10mm skelton foot! ) Cool.

The figures are finished in Exterior grade PVA glue rather than varnished.  It gives a semi gloss finish, and also protects the weaker bits like spears etc a bit more.  I ' blob ' the glue on, rather than paint it on.  At first it's a white looking mess, but it dries clear and shrinks as it does so. Metallics can" run" if you paint it on, so blobbing is the way to go - thicker than paint but not too thick..

The manufacturers are GW Warmaster ( now OOP ), Kallistra skeletons, Pengraken Skeletons, Warmonger Miniatures Landsknechte pikemen and swordsmen. I intend to add some Irregular Miniature skeletons in the future. After all, too many skellies aren't enough.