Oathmark Human Light Infantry

Putting my Hobbit hat back on, I made up a few of these light infantry humans from Oathmark. Looking at the pictures online, they struck me as being good for Bard and his Lake town crew. On receiving a couple of sprues from eBay, I was also very pleased to see they would make great Elven torsos too.

This torso is a good one, with the high boots and open jerkin, I think this must be the officer figure on the sprue. These are obviously meant to make up lightly armoured Ranger types too as well as a peasant levie. It all equals good Lake town goodness. The long sword is a nice touch too as the men of Lake town are noted as fighting with them.

Old folk too pick up weapons and join the fight.

A standard from the first Oathmark human box makes for a good Esgaroth banner bearer.

Two Elves... You can see the heads work well on the human bodies. I would say the newer human sprues are crisper than the older Elf ones. The Elven cloak detail seems much softer compared to these latest releases.

Cloaks already added, these will save some Green stuff sculpting time in the Elven ranks.

The hard heads.

A couple of shields from eBay finishes the Lake town look. I'm not saying the films were any good but the odd prop doesn't hurt.

Update: I always enjoy adding a little Green stuff to the figures to cover joins etc. It's nice to have the cowls go over the arms too.
 

The leader gets a nice leather cowl to keep him dry in bad weather.

The standard bearer gets a bear skin to keep him warm and to show he's not to be messed with.

The old retainer gets a fancy leather hood.

This warrior gets a nice cowl.

This warrior gets an old worn out cowl that has seen better days.

I tried to use a textured tool to give a fabric look to this cowl. This isn't leather but a coarse weave.

The same with this one, a tool was used to leave a fabric texture. The material look was helped by making ripped holes in the garment.

Fancy Elves...this is a strange leaf like cowl.

Dark age camouflage at its best, the Elves are so ahead of their time.

There is a slight problem with the sculpted on cloaks, it makes it quite hard to put quivers of arrow on the backs of warriors. I added a silk wrap around an arm to get around this problem.

You can see here though, the new human light Infantry torsos are perfect for Wood elf types.

He also sports a leather leaf to protect his vitals. Most of my Elven host have these, are they little pouches too I've never really got close enough to tell you.

Megatron Arrives

well here he is, the main man himself, Megatron. I had great luck with this figure, finding a keyring toy that was a perfect size match for my armies.

Here is my first attempt at painting him, I quite liked the dark gun metal colour...but later after doing more research, lightened him slightly.

Making his tank model took a little thought, after a tank from eBay arrived and looked way too big. I went back to the drawing board and dug out another toy. This one is actually meant to be Megatron, but I added some bits to beef him up. It also made him look a bit more formidable and dangerous.

The three leader types, I'm glad I used this Megatron toy to scale the Shockwave I put together, now they are all in scale.

These two hotheads scale really well together.

I also experimented with adding some glowing Energon vents on the tank. Hopefully these work okay, they are certainly a bit different.

"I am the weapon!" Megatron transforms into tank mode and obliterates the opposition.

Skyfire gets reawakened.

This is the new lighter Megatron, a more silvered version. I think this works well and does make him pop a bit more. Quite an easy model to paint as it's the same technique as doing armour

To keep the look with my other bots, I weathered him up with various brown washes. It's great to finally call up the big gun to crush the Autobots once and for all..." No one summons Megatron!" Fare enough, it's nice to have you anyway.

There's quite a lot of tension in the work top at the moment.

Civil War!

For some reason I've always been drawn to civil wars, be they Roman, English, American or Cybertronian.

Skyfire takes to the air!

well after a dry spell of losing my creative mojo, I finally got back in the seat and finished some bits. One of these was the Alt mode for Skyfire. This was a really lucky find, a Buzz Light-year toy that scaled perfectly. I had to add a bit of plasticard detail to bring it into character, but I'm really pleased with the results. Finding a scale robot mode of Skyfire was lucky, but finding a transformed mode for him was really lucky!

Here are Starscream and Skyfire, who's chasing who? They're so fast it's hard to tell.

 Ultra Magnus also got his vehicle mode tonight and wasted no time showing it off. A bit like Skyfire, when I found a good Magnus figure in scale, I didn't really think I'd ever have a vehicle mode for him.

 I'm going to try a find Alt modes for as many of my creations as possible now, after all they're not called Transformers for nothing.

I'm actually looking forward to painting up the various vehicles for the Autobots, I have quite a few in the painting qué. It will make a nice change painting something a bit different.