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 Post subject: Wolfy's "Shadow of the Dog Lord" miniature convers
PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:13 pm 
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Hello all!

With my first playtest campaign of my Shadow of the Dog Lord Roleplaying Game coming quickly to its close and players almost begging me to run a second after that, I got to thinking about how combat worked in the game. Oh the system was great and all, but some players had a nasty habit of metagame thinking, trying to shoot enemies that were beyond their range or not in their line of sight. So I started using miniatures to help, a mix of Lord of the Rings and D&D models to be exact.

Anyway, I decided that while the LotR models are great, I'd prefer to have miniatures able to represent the actual character from The Shadow of the Dog Lord. So today I began playing around with some bitz I had laying around and made this (please pardon him, he's still just undercoated):

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He has, for you perceptive gamers, a base from a plastic LotR Army of the Dead, with his tail from a Warhammer 40K Space Wolf set. He also has part of a 40K wolf skull glued to the front of his helmet over a small green stuff snout. This is because this lad, representing one of Fenrir's soldiers in the country of Dar-Koldor, wears a helmet with a face mask depicting their Lord (the concept art is below):

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Now I have 9 more plastic Army of the Dead, all of whom will be converted into soldiers of Dar-Koldor, then I plan on buying another box (or two) and doing the same for them, maybe even a banner bearer or two.

After I have those guys done, I have my eyes set on some models from the Assault Group as soldiers from the western nation of Tar-Koldor, who have a Spanish design to their armor.

Let me know what y'all think. I'll be posting more WIP shots when I get them :-D

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Andrew, he looks great and I cannot wait to see more!!
Get crackin' Wolfy!! :D

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Thanks mate! I have a trip to the game store to get more wolf skull bits (I only have a couple more left), but once I get those I'll have amassed a legion (in SBG terms at least :wink: ) of these lads.

On a related note, I also have this nice mini I recently procured:

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I'll be wanting to get a cast of him in resin so I can use his head and copy that in resin to have 25mm sized anthro wolf heads to put on figures.

He's named Mansur, a model for the Ironclaw roleplaying game, sculpted by a company called Excelsior Entertainment. If anyone has one or more of him (or any anthropomorphic canine miniature in 25-28mm scale) I'd be very interested in trading for them :)

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You might also try looking up Reaper Gnolls.

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Wow, he's looking good!! :yay:

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Got a bit further in my converting and painting.

Now I have three Soldiers of Dar-Koldor converted. They're a bt dark, but that's the way they should be, so:

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Then I have the finished Mansur model:

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And a picture showing them all together with some nice new bits of terrain I've been working on:

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Now that those are done, I've got to finish my Tale of 9 Gamers quota for the month.

Cheers all,
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Very nice miniatures and terrain - great project. :yay:

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Outstanding!! :yay:

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