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 ...

( R ed  items were completed this month,  purple  items completed in previous months) ←   March                                                                                                   May → At the start of April, I was still lacking a bit of hobby focus, so I continued to paint my Aeronautica Imperialis aircraft. I had two Grot Bommers, which I bought during March. When I finished these two miniatures, I had finally finished painting all the plastic Ork aircraft. The grot bombs were fun to paint (I did not include them as individual models for my model count). How I paint Aeronautica Imperialis - Orks - Blood Axes . While I was finishing my Ork aircraft, I also painted up a couple of  MCP (Marvel Crisis Protocol...

As a kid, I would spend hours planning army lists for Warhammer Fantasy Battle. I particularly loved the Warhammer Armies, 3rd edition book because it contained the lists for all the races in the game. I would never have the money to make most of lists but that was not the point. I loved making army lists. When I picked up the Oathmark book, I turned straight to the army section and started looking at the troops that could be taken and how to build an army. I am hoping this can be my new Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( Oathmark - is this my new fantasy Battle game? ) In the game there are effectively two ways to build an army: choose troops from a single terrain list, or build a kingdom , which allows certain troops to be taken. In theory, you could ignore these rules and just take which ever troops you like to a certain points limit and just have at it. For this article, I am going to look at the two main options.  The single terrain list  In many ways, the Oathmark game has been ...

The Tau Empire was released in the second box set for Aeronautica Imperialis, Skies of Fire. Since their release in 2020, the Tau have not received any additional rules for new aircraft. That was the case until the release of the Aeronautica Imperialis Companion. In the Companion, the Tau can now take human auxiliary aircraft. There is a small range of auxiliary aircraft that can be selected to operate with the Tau.  The Tau can take one auxiliary aircraft for every five Tau aircraft. Even if they take five Remora Drones, the Tau must spend at least 70pts before adding the cost of the auxiliary aircraft. It is unlikely that any Tau player would just take Remora Drones. Realistically, the Tau player will be taking five Barracudas at a cost of at least 125pts. So, the auxiliary aircraft are only going to be used in larger games.  Before I go on to consider which of the auxiliary aircraft are worth taking, I want to identify some of the weaknesses in the standard Tau aircraft. Th...

  When I first started playing miniature games way back in 1989, I started with Warhammer Fantasy Battle: 3rd Edition. I initially tried to make a dwarf army, but the cost of the metal miniatures was more than the young teenage me could manage. I then settled on the Undead because I could get a whole plastic army in a single box! So, for the next six editions of the game I used the Undead. Along the way I also tried lots of other armies most notably the Empire and the Ogre Kingdoms. Eventually, the Old World gave way to the Age of Sigmar. I have collected armies for the Age of Sigmar (AOS), but I miss the blocks of infantry and cavalry that Warhammer Fantasy Battle (WFB) had. Additionally, I have my old armies sitting in their cases in the loft, and at present unlikely to see the light of day again.  Then, the other day I stumbled across Oathmark, a mass-battle fantasy wargame, published by Osprey Games. This game uses the classic fantasy races of Orcs and Goblins, Elves, Dwar...