Jon Grant Miniatures

( Red  items were completed this month,  purple  items completed in previous months)   ←  April                                                                                                 June → As May came around, I was focused on painting up the Gloomspite Gitz and the Nighthaunts. In addition, I bought some Oathmark Goblin from North Star Miniatures. I started the month by painting a few more Moonclan Grots, in this case three goblins with nets. How I paint Moonclan Grots I then moved on to painting one of the Rockgut Troggoths. These are large, detailed miniatures, and it took me a little time to work out a colour scheme I wanted. I have started the next two troggoths, but they are taking a bit of time to finish. ...

A couple of weeks ago, I discovered Oathmark, a mass fantasy battle game . Liking the look of the game I bought a box of the Goblin Infantry . I made the first few miniatures up as Goblin Soldiers with hand weapons and shields. I also think these miniatures would work well for Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game from Games Workshops. Paints required: Chaos Black spray Leadbelcher Mournfang Brown Skrag Brown Skavenblight Dinge Stormvermin Fur Dryad Bark Khorne Red Evil Suns Scarlet Abaddon Black Steel Legion Drab Baneblade Brown Karak Stone Army Painter Strong Tone (Note Agrax Earthshade is not an equivalent!) Rhinox Hide Doombull Brown Balthasar Gold Zandri Dust Dawnstone Administratum Grey Xereus Purple The miniature was undercoated with Chaos Black spray . The metal on the miniature was then dry brushed with Leadbelcher . I was not careful with this dry brush, as the next stages will tidy the miniature up. Next, I applied all the various basecoats to the miniat...

One of the core ideas of Oathmark is the creation of a kingdom, from which to build an army. This army can then be used in one-off games or in conjunction with the kingdom in a campaign.  The Kingdom To create a kingdom, you need to use the kingdom chart, a circular diagram divided into 15 regions. These regions are arranged into 5 concentric circles. I have colour-coded the regions on the kingdom chart. The colours represent: Region 1 made up of 1 section - Red Region 2 made up of 2 sections - Yellow Region 3 made up of 3 sections - Green Region 4 made up of 4 sections - Blue Region 5 made up of 5 sections - Purple The first choice that is made is the city, that occupies Region 1 (the red region). This is the capital city for your race. The options are a: Dwarf City, Elf City, Human City, Orc City, Goblin City, Curse Burial Ground or Necropolis. By choosing one of these 'cities' you determine the race of the ruling royal family for your kingdom and the race terrain list from ...