Orcs in the Webbe Advent Calendar 2013 - Freddy's back

The 'potty-mouthed' anti-hero is back for yet another adventure, a Foul Mouth Freddy poem, yes that's right a poem.....

During the last days of the Mordred Wars the famous romantic poet Samuel Taylor Orcridge was commissioned by the Regent, Kinge Gorgie (Bloody) Porgie to pen a poem in tribute to our hero, Foul Mouth Freddy. For full details go to this link.

Since his first appearance Freddy has had many, many adventures, even a full length novella and has been immortalised in pewter by those artisan sculptors Alternative Armies as a Very Limited Edition casting of just 250 models (now 95% sold out), for details go to this link.

Freddy was/is based on a fondly remembered uncle, Uncle Fred who sadly passed away some time ago. I sometimes wonder what he (and my father) would make of these adventures?

If you want to read more, ALL of Freddy's adventures have now been moved over to the New Orcs in the Webbe site and can be found here.

"As someone once said, Cryptmass, isn't Cryptmass without a glass of Port and a Foul Mouth Freddy tale!"

Happy Advent.

Tony

Orcs in the Webbe Advent Calendar 2013 - Standing Stones

Day nine, and another terrain building article by me, this time a simple ring of Standing Stones for use with either Pax Bochemannica or Flintloque. For full details of how this piece was built, go to this link.

Earlier 2013 Advent Calendar articles can be found here.

The Orcs in the Webbe Advent Calendar is a set of 24 articles published in the run-up to Christmas by Craig Andrews of OITW, pop by and see both this years Advent and similar Calendars from 2012, 1011 and 2010.

Happy Advent.

Tony

Ogam & Stone entered in a competition

I have just entered the narrow gauge model railway layout Ogam & Stone into a competition to win an airbrush compressor. The model was built some time ago and was intended as an exhibition model to take around shows and advertise the 7mm Narrow Gauge Railway Society see this link for further details. In the end I did get to visit three or four shows, but for most of its life it has resided in my attic.

More details and images of the layout can be found here.

Earlier this year, I decided to repair some of the minor dents and scratches and update the ground cover. One day I'll get the 1/43rd scale scratch-built engines and wagons up and running!

The competition is simple, just send an image of your chosen model, layout or figure to jonathan@airsupplies.co.uk

Tony

Something for Nothing - part two

Last month I posted some images of three pieces of terrain I had built using simple Wood Bark Chips, see this link for full details.  At the same time, I built this road-side shrine.

The model started off as a simple piece of rocky terrain, similar to the earlier pieces. However an image of a road-side shrine found on the internet inspired me to build this larger piece of terrain.

The stone base was built with individual blocks of Blue-Foam glued in place with Superglue and topped off with a couple of larger Blue-Foam stone slabs and a statue of The Queen of Hearts. The Queen is a metal casting called The Ogre Queen and sculpted by Brad Shier as part of a Limited Edition set produced by Frothers in 2004.

I wanted a busy base, full of different offerings and these items were either scratch-built or came from my spares box.

The model was basecoated with a very dark Black/Brown and the layers built-up by dry-brushing and washes. I painted the groundwork in my now familiar colour of Snakebite Leather, highlighted with Skull White and decorated the base with railway scatter material, a couple of static grass tufts and some green foam vegetation. The two trees were added at a very late stage as I wanted to 'frame' the stone coloured statue. They were glued in place with my Hot Glue gun.

I'm very pleased with the finished piece of terrain and look forward to incorporating it in to one of my Flintloque scenarios in the near future.

The final image shows the three pieces of terrain detailed in the earlier post. Unfortunately, all work-in-progress shots were lost when my computer hard drive played up earlier this year.

Tony

Orcs in the Webbe Advent Calendar 2013 - Sticks and Stones

Day four of this years Advent Calendar from Orcs in the Webbe and another gaming scenario from me. This time a group of Halfling Boche, throw insults and stones at a couple of Noman Legionnaires. The scenario called Sticks and Stones is part two of a three part gaming cycle for the Mavryc Games boxed game Pax Bochemannica. For full details of the scenario go to this link. Part one, Parley Vous Boche can be found here.

The Advent Calendar is an annual event edited by Craig Andrews of Orcs in the Webbe and details of both the earlier entries for 2013 and similar Advent Calendars from 2010, 2011 and 2012 can be found here.

Happy Advent.

Tony

IPMS 2013. A Photo Report

The first of the promised photo reports from IPMS Scale Model World 2013, Telford. Part one a montage of Sci-Fi models, I hope you enjoy them.

Finally, I saw these on one of the tables and thought they were worth including - 50th anniversary and all.....

Tony

Orcs in the Webbe Advent Calendar 2013 - Korunna Arch

The Orcs in the Webbe Advent Calendar - Day Two is a Modelling Masterclass that I produced earlier this year. The model of a Korunna Arch was inspired by an image I saw in the Children's book Look and Learn from January 1975 - Moore's Heroic Stand at Corruna and captured in this impressive painting, link.

Craig Andrews has included the full building and painting sequence and details can be found here. I have included these images as a teaser, but hope that you check back and read the whole article when you have time.

Happy Advent.

Tony