While looking around at a hobby store the other day I stumbled on to some pre-primed plastic models that Wizkids does for fantasy RPGs. Included in the sets were a two-pack of Oxen for about $4 USD.
The first thing I noticed was that these are actually true-scale beasts of burden. Not the anemic metal castings of yore.
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| I can't recall the manufacturer but you can really see the difference here. |
The models painted up fairly easy with a leather brown base coat, brown wash, highlights and then some minwax. They will make some excellent scatter terrain for some skirmish games, and I may pick up a few to replace my other draft animals in my 28mm Landsknecht project.
Also on-hand were some treasure pile tokens. Mason has been designing his own board games of late, so I figured I would nerd out and do some scatter terrain.
This of course inspired me to dig out a couple of Armorcast grave stones that have been languishing in the bits box for the better part of 20 years:
Hey, you got to take inspiration where you can find it.
Paint what you feel like painting. There's little point in your hobby becoming work.
ReplyDeleteExactly, Markus!
DeleteI believe this entire blog is a testament to that sentiment.
DeleteI like 'em all! Each year when I see real oxen at the local country fair, I am impressed with how HUGE they are; much bigger than cattle!
ReplyDeleteThat was my thought. The same is with Warhorses, miniatures never do them justice.
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