Goblin netters (WQ)

Having devoted all my wargaming attentions to Force on Force recently, it's been a couple of months since I painted a 28mm scale figure.  Two years back I GMed a short Warhammer Quest campaign with my best mates out of nostalgia .  Unfortunately it petered-out due to time constraints & the difficulties of getting everyone together regularly, but for a long while I've fancied putting together a 3D dungeon for this gem of a game.  Before I get too involved with that I thought I should paint up some figures to test my resolve...

So I've been painting up some Night Goblins from the Warhammer sprues that had been stored in the attic.  First up, here are 3 Goblin netters:

The black-&-purple colour scheme looks more interesting on the Gobs with spears (coming soon).  I decided to go with a gloss finish on the cloaks as it gives that nice rich black tone:

Middle East buildings 6 (FoF)

I've completed a second semi-detached house.  This will probably be the last 15mm-scale building with interior detail that I do for a while.  Due to the extra time it takes to construct & paint internal stuff, & the fact that it's not really needed in the Force on Force rules (& flat Middle Eastern roofs are handy for miniature placement!), I'll be bulking-up my collection with some simpler single-piece buildings.

Below are views of the 1st floor & ground floor:

Middle East buildings 5 (FoF)

I finished this grubby semi-detached house today.  It's intended for arid urban settings.  I'm not entirely happy with the shed roof - Ideally I'd like to finish it off as corrugated metal if I can find some cardboard with small enough internal grooves.  Otherwise I might do a tile effect like on my 'Lebanese' garage.

The 1st floor & ground floor are shown below:

Middle East buildings 4 (FoF)

I've just finished painting another desert-themed building.  This one represents a community hall or perhaps a venue for a covered bazaar.

Below you can see the 1st floor & ground floor. Nothing too exciting - this one is open-plan:

 

Middle East buildings 3 (FoF)

Another Force on Force desert building finally completed!  I've started using cocktail stick 'pins' to make these foamboard buildings extra-sturdy.  These were particularly important on the support sections that protrude at the front of the building.  I'm trying not to make my buildings too specific, especially given the small scale, but I see this one as a restaurant, or perhaps shop, with two apartments above.

 

 Here's the 1st floor & ground floor of the building:

Temperate walls (FoF)

Following on from the outcrops & fences, here are some temperate-themed walls that I've made for Dom.  They're nice & simple - foamboard sections glued to lolly sticks, textured with filler & highlighted up to have a weathered look.  For variety I made one ruined section & one with a metal gate, & attempted some generic graffiti on one, though it is quite tricky at 15mm scale:

Middle East buildings 2 (FoF)

I'm painting my foamboard desert-themed buildings this weekend.  Now that I'm intending to put together a small Ranger/Delta Force & Somali militia collection for some Day of the Rangers games, I've got one eye on making the buildings suitable for a Lebanon or Mogadishu setting...  Below is a small house I made.  It was very plain as a simple adobe hovel, so I added some painted doors & some shutters:

This was the 1st 15mm scale building I ever built using foamboard - the removable roof sits on sections of cocktail sticks in each corner of the room.  Buildings I've made since have each floor slotting flush with the ceiling level below instead.

Middle East Buildings 1 (FoF)

Where I've found spare time over the past few weeks I've been constructing foamboard Middle East buildings.  However, I haven't finished many of them yet.  I recently bought the Road to Baghdad & Day of the Rangers Force on Force supplements.  I will almost certainly be adding some 1993 US & Somali militia to my 15mm collection for some missions in Mogadishu - so all these Middle East buildings will be doubling for that too.

Meanwhile my friends Dom & Tim are planning an alternate Lebanon 1982 campaign where escalation may involve direct clashes between the US/Britain & Russia, perhaps with each of us playing a regular force & an insurgent force.

Below are two garages I've finished, one in a traditional Lebanese style, the other more 'generic Middle Eastern':

..& here they are with the roofs removed.  I used cocktail sticks for piping, & stuck some crates in one of them. They have raised roller-shutters made of strips of card, but they're not visible from this angle:

Middle East bunker (FoF)

Here is my bunker for the Arab/Israeli wars Force on Force setting, finally finished.  I constructed the bunker itself first, followed by layers of embankment around the sides, all using foamboard coated in tinted all-purpose filler.  Sand to texture the upper surfaces as usual, & flecks of flock & tufts of static grass as the finishing touch:

I'm planning to do removable roofs/internal details on all my FoF buildings- It's more fun than always placing miniatures on the roof:

I'm considering adding an armoured door to the right of the entrance defence slit in the photo above, for extra security :-)