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| Saga: Age of Magic - some figures finally get to the tabletop |
6. End of Week 15
I can't believe it
is already September, and how little progress I have made on this project since
the last blog post on this theme. Travel for work, holidays and actually
playing games and stuff like that have really got in the way.
So this post will
summarise the very little that I have actually done and briefly report in very bad photographs the first Saga: Age of Magic battle played with these
figures.
I've only worked on
two of the factions during this time, and only the few figures I needed to be
able to field both armies.
Great Kingdoms
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| Fireforge Pegasus Knight |
The pegasus from
Fireforge proved a delight to paint. I inserted a magnet into the underside of
the mount so that it could be easily attached and removed from any
suitable flight stand - the one I have used is actually designed for a Flames of War aircraft.
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| Sacred monument |
Not a lot to do here. I just added flock and
grass tufts to compete this model.
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| Sorcerer with 70s moustache in dramatic spellcasting pose |
Nice to see this
chap back on the gaming table; he has an uncanny resemblance to one of my old English teachers from school, and I have fond memories of using this figure for
D&D years ago! No idea what the manufacturer is. He's benefited from a little touching up of paint damage and
some highlights, and a couple of coats of matt varnish, as well as a nice new base.
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| There's lovely |
Without doubt my favourite model
for this army is this dragon which really did come up a treat when painted.
It's a beautiful figure and works well with an extremely simple paint scheme
mainly consisting of progressively lighter highlights of red. It's also going
to work very nicely with a Saga Welsh
army played using Age of Magic.
Lords of the Wild
The lizardmen are
still waiting patiently in their box. For the time being, the main troops of
this army will be my Skraelings, which actually suit it very nicely. I'll get
round to the lizardmen eventually.
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| Rarrr! |
The T-Rex just
needed his base finishing. This is a toy bought from Wilko for a couple of quid
some months ago, and painted. About the right size for 28mm. Just a shame I didn't sort out that obvious joint line above his waist, but too late now.
This model also has enormous potential for use with 7TV2 at some point as well. Yes, I do have a plan.
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| Primitive totem |
With the tree
painted and highlighted the snake (which may or may not be an actual creature
or just a carving - you decide) the primitive totem was finished off nicely.
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| It's green |
A simple lizardy
green paint scheme here. In the photo it looks even more green than in real life, probably not helped by the green background. Anyway, I think it works.
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| Rise of the Spirits |
I'm particularly
pleased with the terrain feature titan for use with the Rise of the Spirits ability. I think he looks surprisingly effective
bursting out through the ground like this. And the cheapest figure of the lot as well.
To Battle!
And so with two
armies ready (Great Kingdoms largely build from Russ Princes and Franks and Lords of the Wild from Skraelings) Pete was gently coerced into playing. He took the Great Kingdom, and battle duly commenced. Here are some pictures (apologies for the quality - the room we played in was very poorly lit). Thanks Pete for taking some of these too!
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| The generals face each other across the table |
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| Lords of the Wild: dinosaurs on the left flank |
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| And on the right flank, more dinosaurs |
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| The Spirits Rise and hold the enemy back on the right |
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| The dragon advances |
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| And on the right flank, attacks |
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