Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Nordvolk pt. 1 - Armed Villagers

I ran into the Westwind Miniatures 'Nordvolk' range at a con in Maryland over ten years ago ... and instantly fell in love with them.  At that point they were brand new and VERY affordable, so I snapped up a good 85% of their range (*excepting their cavalry, which didn't appeal to me ...).

http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=1_16

They're very close to actual vikings -- or at least close enough that they scratch that itch for me. So when the ennui of the 40K painting grind set in, I decided to take an offramp from the Grimdark and go see what I had in the old boxes that I'd never gotten around to.

In retrospect, I've been long overdue to do this.  Painting up these guys was a great reminder that I love the hobby as a hobby ... not just as a means to put Ultramarines and such on the tabletop.

So without further ado, my first tranche of that Nordvolk range:

12 done so far ... another 12 still in the box. My goal here was to create a unifying set of colors - no actual uniforms after all - while still allowing for individuality and the fact that some villagers amongst these greybeards would have gone viking, and so would have the gear to reflect that.

They're big minis - each sits on a base GW would use for a Chaos Warrior or Black Orc.

Lots of beards and pelts to paint ...

What I love about the range is that each unit has 3-4 sculpts in it that are sorta 'characters' - unique poses that give that unit flavor. Or in this case, beer.

Why, yes, he IS painted up like a garden gnome. How could I not?

Reminds me a slightly taller, angrier Balin.

One of my favorites... I was very pleased at the combination of Vallejo 'Field Blue' and 'Chocolate Brown' for a color scheme.

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