Gloranthan Trolls and Trollkin in 6mm (Saga age of Magic)

On 31/08/2021 By The OneIn 6mm, Fantasy, Saga5 Comments

I presented some Morokanth I had painted in the last blog (just published yesterday) for my diversion doing some Saga Age of Magic in Glorantha (although this will no doubt include other type of fantasy armies in the end). It has made me rather inspired.

The rules are a few years old and they have been sitting like a problem waiting for a solution and I am happy to have found one. I love Saga because it is different and we have played many Dark Age battles with rules – I have at least a 4 point army in 6mm for each faction. However this is fantasy and doing it with a Gloranthan twist will be great.

So at the moment, you can get the following from Rapier miniatures.

Morokanth, full range from skirmishers to heavily armoured and armed, also chariots (man-drawn) and herder with herd men (See the last blog post for a few of these codes, here)

Scorpion men, nice compliment to a chaos army, there are four codes, including command, spear/shied, spear and feral with claws.

I did use some Scorpion men in a crazy game we put up at Joy of Six using the Dragon Rampant rules a few years back (more here)

Bison Riders, enough to build some nice charging buffalos!, these are the sculpt in the range.

I did paint up a fair few some time ago in a previous blog update (more here). There are also some Greens for the Broos there worth checking out.

I talked to Paul at Rapier today who has a whole load of ranges in various stages of production, as I showed in the last blog, Trolls are one of these. When I ordered the Morokanth, Paul kindly provided me with some trolls. I got a few each of what will be released and made a small caravan set as well as some bases I will use for Skirmish – I will do an order to create the Saga Armies later when they are issued.

Here they are:

A caravan moves gently through the forest (yes I missed a few spots here and there!, but this is 6mm)

Suddenly a sound and everyone stands still (Ok that thing hanging on the spear will get a coat of a contrasting colour, promise)

Through the forest a raiding party charges forward (loud and clear)

Trollkin vs Trolls is not a fair fight, soon they will take flight!

Anyway the bases I did were:

A Caravan

Some Trollkin, using the 1-2-3 basing approach

/ Hope that was of some interest and if so go and have a look at Rapier’s stuff

Planet Pot soldiers and 6mm Gloranthan Saga Magic Project Starting

On 30/08/202130/08/2021 By The OneIn 6mm, Saga, Sci-Fi, Stargrave14 Comments

Bank holiday here in the UK coming to an end, hobby is slow at the moment due to work but a few fun things recently.

Planet Pot Troopers
Saga Magic – a 6mm Fantasy / Glorantha Project

Pot Troopers

Il Douchebag and his Security Forces and special advisors

Last blog post I presented the bad guys – the Il Douchebag and his gang and that I would get some additional soldiers as support (more here). So do do the Pot Troopers I have ordered a few Sprues of these from Wargames Atlantic (I only order two sprues on ebay to see if I like them in the “flesh” – I might buy more but that is enough for now.

I gave them a simple paintjob just like the rest of Il Douchebag’s soldiers (Dark Green with black more or less). But I really like the result and they fit in really nicely.

One of them equipped with a flamethrowers, the others with Automatic Shock Rifles

Mixing really well with the other stuff.

So these are for our Sci-Fi campaign and will be used for a game of Stargrave next week.

6mm Glorantha for Saga Age of Magic

You might recall I did a project for Saga in 6mm a few years ago (more here) and I bought Saga age of Magic some time ago but I am yet to try it out. Anyway I bought a bundle of Gloranthan Morokanth (the kind of Tapir like race of nomads that herd humans). Here is a picture of them from the latest Glorantha Beastiary.

Paul at Papier told me some time ago that he were doing some Moronkanth in 6mm (he already did Bison Riders and Scorpion men, more here) and I got myself a fair few of these, there are plenty of different packs from herders with human, man-drawn chariots, sword/club/spear armed with and without armour and a command set.

I intend to base them like I did my Dark Ages armies for Saga (example below) but have not yet done so, on 25mm square bases each representing a base in the normal game, i.e. a Levy is 12 bases with either 4 foot/2 mounted 6mm miniatures, a warrior is 8 bases with 8 foot/3 mounted 6mm miniatures and hearthguard 4 bases of 9 foot/4 mounted, with the warlord being 1 base with 10 foot/5 mounted.

Anyway so far I am in the middle of the painting and finished the first batch today.

I just wanted to show how nice the sculpts are – remember that they are very small.

Also Paul will shortly release some Gloranthan Trolls in 6mm, I have just put the first coats down on a few of these. They look interesting.

In other news I painted some old Terminators I had to be used the Mutant 1984 madness (they are from the first Space Hulk set). I like the look with the bronze and brass paint job. You do not immediately think Space Marine. They will serve as a kind of Security Bot.

I have also got some new stuff from Alternative Armies (https://www.alternative-armies.com/) and I am yet to paint the batch but here is one I painted this week.

/Hope that was of some interest, more on progress next time

Revolution on Planet Pot – first thoughts on a Stargrave / 5 parsecs Campaign

On 12/08/202114/09/2021 By The OneIn Sci-Fi, Stargrave14 Comments

I really love the old Copplestone Castings, currently sold by Forlorn Hope games, in the UK (link here).

My Star Grave/ 5 parsec heroes Spawn of Speed are from the Rocker range (see more here and here), these are the rebellious heroes of the Space Sagas.

The Little One and I talked about doing a small campaign and I remembered these miniatures from the Fornlorn Hope range.

It contains 4 cops with hats, a female cop (with the standard, no hat/helmet and big hair), a guy with a big gun and a guy looking like Mussolini (Il Duce) doing a gesture measuring something with his hand (or something like this). I thought this was a perfect basis for a small Dictator and his closest guard. I wanted to make them look dark a menancing and went for the Vallejo Black Green (70980) as a base colour with some small highlighting with Vallejo Gunship Green (70895). Most of the other details where painted black then some highlights with very dark grey in two rounds. The advisors had some details in the Green basic to blend in with the “unit”.

So here is the “Captain” – Il Douchebag and his First Mate – Vlasik Beria.

The Supreme Leader’s Guard – Henrietta Herler with 4 troopers

Special Advisors – Mr Andersen, Scarf face and Mr Pee (these are from the Rebel Range).

The setting is the Planet Pot, a mineral rich planet mainly mined for Tin. Il Douchebag has been ruling the planet with an Iron Hand for donkeys years and his regime is oppressive. The Spawn of Speed band has been sent to help the underground resistance movement with information and supplies to start a coup to take over control, so a series of small adventures – a small campaign is being planned.

The kind of scenarios in the “ladder campaign” would be something like this:

First contact – getting onto the planet fight against some security forces and try to escape and find the resistaince.
Stealing some important designs to allow access to the presidential palace
Attack on the presidential palace, a fight against Soldiers to gain access to the palace.
Chasing the Dictator – a “get him before he escapes” kind of scenario

I also want to do some Pot Troopers and have ordered some of these (they are Raumjagers from Wargames Atlantic), I think they will look brilliant in the colour scheme above (i.e. Dark Green and Black, basically painted the jacket and the trousers in green).

/ Hope that was of some interest

Judge Dredd Miniatures Stuff (Warlord Games) project – some pictures

On 25/07/202125/07/2021 By The OneIn Judge Dredd Miniatures Game5 Comments

One of my many lockdown projects that never made it to a blog posts was me working on the Judge Dredd miniatures game and they many fantastic miniatures from the Warlord Range and a few others, so here is a wrap up of that.

The first Judge Dredd magazine I read was this one that my Mum bought to me. It has long since been lost but I managed to get a mint copy a few years back. This is the first issue of the Eagle Comics Judge Dredd, in Swedish, from the magical year of 1984 (well you know my love for Mutant 1984).

It is an excellent cover, and I really hope that Warlord will make some Sov-Judges one day.

This one

I am Death and I have come to Judge you, in Swedish.

It blew mind away and I have been a fan since.

Anyway I got into the Warlord Games miniatures range and bough a lot of the sets over the various lock downs and painted away. Here are a fair few of the ones I did (not all of them being from the Warlord Range, but most of it).

The International Force in Holstein 1700 – Part 3 More Danish Cavalry

On 11/07/202111/07/2021 By The OneIn 6mm, Holstein 17005 Comments

In the previous post on this project I showed the Danish force sent to Holstein in 1700 (see here) the horse element of this army consisted of:

Uniform details can be found in the excellent source Tacitus.nu (well worth bookmarking for a lot of collected information on the Great Northern War, link here). For the Regiment that have missing information I went for Red facing colours (Bernstorffs regiment, but I will probably find that this is wrong when I dig deeper). Further information can be found in the translated version of Torstein Snorrason’s Danish Cavalry Uniforms 1699-1712 (it was available on Dan Schorr’s excellent Northern Wars page that is not longer available on the internet).

The base uniform is mainly a light grey colour with differing facings per regiment, I used the Vallejo Deck tan colour, the models have had Winsor Newton Nutbrown Ink applied to them. There are two bases (9 riders on each) for each of the regiments. As always they look a little bit dark at this stage before the basing as all bases are painted dark (shit) brown.

As you can see the standards are yet not painted but will be based the illustrations in “The Great Northern War 1700-1721 (Part 2), by Hoglund, Sallnas and Besplow” that contains all but 1 or 2 of the standards we need for these regiments. But that if for next time – it is always a little bit of an undertaking to paint a bath of 162 cavalry in one sitting and I need a little bit of recovery time.

So now I have done a significant part of this project, but there are some Swedish regiments and some of the allied forces left to do a well as Danish Dragoons, artillery and of course all the commanders. But that is for another time.

I also realised that I had the answer to the Holstein-Gottorp uniform details just in front of me in the eminent “Great Nothern War Compendium, Part 1” edited by Stephen L. Kling, Jr. and the “The Great Northern War 1700-1721” (mentioned above). Happy days.

And in other news I got myself a cutting mat, but instead of the traditional dark green I got a light blue (a2 size), it actually gives a lighter, i.e. more lit-up, working environment and it has positively affected my painting experience. Maybe it is just because it is new, but worth considering if you need to replace yours or are considering getting one.

/Anyway I hope that was of some interest

The 6mm Charity Project and Spawn of Speed’s Tour Bus – The Slaying Hawk – Part 1

On 09/07/202109/07/2021 By The OneIn Charity Project, Stargrave10 Comments

As I reported in an earlier post the Little One and I wanted to get another Space shuttle for the Stargrave/5 Parsec Stuff (see the earlier post here) so we got the 1/55 scale Moon Bus from the 2001: a Space Odyssey Movie from 1969. It really has a nice retro feel to it.

It is a nice model but I wanted to give it a little bit of character so I did not go for the clean look of the movie (and I doubt I would do it much justice anyway). So I went with a Silver base coat and then a Sepia Wash all over then some weathering with pledge floor polish and ink and some grime wash.

The set comes with some characterless pilots and astronauts that I threw away and replaced them with some of the Stargrave plastic miniatures from NorthStar for Pilots and some Rockers and Punks from Fornlorn Hope Games to represent the Spawn of Speed band. I have already have a set of these as shown in the link here.

I have ordered some LED light as I thought it could be cool and light up the model from the inside and then finally add the windows. I am also going to tried to make some decals for the beer cans.

I really like these kind of diversions going a little bit crazy when you can.

The Charity Project

On another note I think the presentation of the Charity Project last week was a success and we now have kindly been gifted a battle mat by Geek Villian (link here, check out their fantastic range of mats, I have 4 and can more than recommend them) that will be included in the project and I will contact some 6mm terrain producers and ask if they want to help by giving terrain and buildings so the winner of the two armies will get a set of rules, a mat and terrain so they can sit down and start enjoying them from day 1.

Here is a video of the presentation I gave, less my voice over, if you have not seen it and want to know more about this amazing project. 50 painters creating a truly unique set of two fine 6mm armies.

/ Hope that was of some interest

Joy of Six 2021 – Roll a One Links to Youtube

On 03/07/202101/10/2021 By The OneIn 6mm1 Comment

This is a blogpost with a link to my Youtube video for the Joy of Six 2021 Event, 4th July 2021, from 10AM – 4PM GMT+1, if you read this before this time you can go to Baccus 6mm nd just sign-up through the invite (link here https://www.baccus6mm.com/news/29-06-2021/TheJoyofVirtualSix-thisSunday/ ). I will be taking questions about the game from 11.30 to 12.30. If you like the video, please link or perhaps even subscribe to the channel. I might be inspired to do some more.

The link to the organisation dicussed in the video can be found on this blog post Lund 1676 – Ordre de Bataille (OdB) and Ratings for Twilight of the Sun King (WIP) at Virtual Joy of Six 2021.

I will also do a presentation of the Charity Project where more than 50 painters signed up and we ended up with two small armies, it will start at 10.15 (GMT+1) and will include a presentation of the idea, how it worked, the background to the armies we built, pictures of each unit and some action photos.

Below is a link to the presentation, however it will not be made public until after the presentation (at 11.00 GMT+1 on 4th July 2021), so if you miss the presentation you can get it here after the event.

/Hope this is of some interest

Lund 1676 and the Charity Project at Virtual Joy of Six 2021 on 4th July

On 02/07/2021 By The OneIn Uncategorized2 Comments

Follow this link to take you to the Baccus 6mm homepage with a link for signing you up on the discord server so that you can attend the Joy of Six event!

I will be presenting my Lund 1676 game at the Joy of Six through a Video that will be released shortly before the event, there will be an opportunity to engage and to ask me questions between 11.30 and 12.30.

But before then I will also do a presentation of the Charity Project where more than 50 painters signed up and we ended up with two small armies, it will start at 10.15 (GMT+1) and will include a presentation of the idea, how it worked, the background to the armies we built, pictures of each unit and some action photos.

Here is the high level programme of things going on,

Here are some of the videos already loaded up on the server, it is looking great.

Follow this link to take you to the Baccus 6mm homepage with a link for signing you up on the discord server so that you can attend the Joy of Six event!

Lund 1676 – Ordre de Bataille (OdB) and Ratings for Twilight of the Sun King (WIP) at Virtual Joy of Six 2021

On 28/06/202130/06/2021 By The OneIn 18th Century Rules, 6mm, Scanian War, Twilight of the Sun King Rules11 Comments

The following is a companion blog post for the Lund 1676 battle that will be presented at the Virtual Joy of Six 2021 on Sunday 4th July 2021 (starting 10am, UK time, more detail will follow on Baccus.com). It contains the Ordre de Bataille that is used to set up the table and play the game presented, also the unit types and qualities used for the battle. These a specifically for the Sun Kings rules, but I hope you could have some use of these for whatever rules you use. The idea is aggressive Swedish Units but not up to the quality we would expected in the Great Northern war – a lot of the galloping horse (i.e. shock cavalry) are using the tactics but are classed as raw due to lack of experience in the method (with a few exceptions). Similar the Danes used the Caracole and this have been classified as Poor Cavalry but trained (bad tactics but good soldiers). Similar for the infantry but we have assumed all units as trained. The extra morale factor for the Swedes often used in the Great Northern War is not present in this battle. Note that a large number of the Swedish units are classified as small due to the very small numbers of reported men in the battalion or the squadrons.

Note that we used a base width of 30mm and therefore most units where 60mm wide (battalion scale lite, as this does only one battalion and 2 squadrons per units, instead of the normal two battalions and 4 squadrons per base. We used some odd 30mm bases and used these are an additional base for the large units and this base, was taken away when the first morale loss was failed (simulating the additional resilience of the large unit). Also note that the Dutch Sailors have been given the inferior infantry classification, this means that they are always inferior to the normal infantry units in melee and in musketry. As for cavalry the Swedes had 12 guns and the Danes 56 guns, I have given the Swedes 2 gun bases and the Danes 6, perhaps the Swedes only deserve one?

_{The pride of the Swedish Army now and then, the Life Guard. With traditions dating from 1521, the regiment is one of the oldest military units in the world still in existence, and sees its start when 16 young men from my home county Dalarna were selected to become body guards for Gustav Eriksson as part of the Swedish war of Liberation that would eventually end in Gustav becoming King of Sweden in 1523.}

/ Hope that was of some interest, let me know how you have interpreted Lund 1676, and I hope you check out Joy of Six, there will be plenty of 6mm related things to explore.

Some more Sci-fi and Mutant 1984 stuff

On 10/06/202110/06/2021 By The OneIn Mutant 1984, Sci-Fi, Stargrave, Terrain11 Comments

Lots of things going on at the moment but getting in the occasional session and have been doing a fair few things recently.

A dropship for the 28mm stuff the Little One and I are doing, and also a really exciting Space Bus on its way.
Some clutter for Urban Sci-Fi gaming
A few more things for the Mutant 1984 project

Dropship

Following from our two games so far with the Stargrave rules (we showed some pictures from one of the games here), the Little One and I felt the need to get some shuttles of dropship without breaking the bank and we found a nice model from Mantic Games (model here) that seemed to fit the bill – it sells for about £25 but we managed to get one for £20 including postage from Ebay, as usually there are some re-sellers that may sell it to you cheaper than buying directly from Mantic.

I spray painted the model with Silver paint and used a series of washes to get a dark green metal with grime look. The funnies part of it was the last step which was done applying some Flory Models Grime Wash (I bought a few of these washes some time ago and I am really happy with the effect after in essence just dabbing it on with a brush (you can get them from here).

Really happy how it came out – quick but effective.

In addition we have order another flyer, a Space Bus from the 2001 movie, in 1/55 scale which hopefully will work (I will report back and let you know). It really works for me.

Clutter for Urban Sci-Fi Gaming

I had some 3D printed terrain I bought from Sabotag3d a year ago for my Judge Dredd project.

Put some paint on it this weekend trying to get a little bit of an overall cartoon feel to it all. All metallics are gold or silver base paint with contrast paint on top – I like the effect it gives.

And of course with a little bit of miniatures and other terrain.

Mutant 1984

Finally I have had some fun painting some miniatures from Fenris Games for my Mutant 1984 project, as per usual the the nobleman Guss af Edelhus in the forbidden zone in Muskö year 105 has an apperance, he is from Warlord Games.

Jageret Svin – bandit and explorer