And on Instagram:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- James, @spoontasticminis<\/a> is working on some Emperor’s Children Space Marines<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Sabrina, @Uthwulfsminis<\/a> is working on a squad of Space Marines, too, and best of all, they’re MK VI Beakies!!!! (As they SHOULD BE!!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A newcomer this year, whose name I do not know, @horridperson<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- And finally, @groddsnods<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Be sure to check out these very creative folks and their impressive efforts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve been late with my submissions because I’ve been bogged down in a project since December that was originally supposed to be completed by the end of the year. I knew if I paused mid-way to work on Forced March, I would likely never return to it, so I made myself finish before doing anything else. I present The Honeyacre Militia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThese are Halflings from Wargames Atlantic. They do NOT count for Forced March, because I started them in December. Particularly attentive visitors to this site may recognize five of these fellows from a couple of years ago, when I painted up a sprue that came free with my copy of Miniature Wargames magazine. I always liked the way they looked, they paint up nicely, and so I bought a box of them last year, figuring I’d throw them together and use them in my never-to-be-completed-or-played Empire army. Instead, I made a militia based on a settlement of Halflings in my current AD&D campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is a failure of my character that I often do things against my best interests, knowing myself as I do. For example, I have posted that I have no patience for plastic<\/a>, and yet I bought and assembled 40 plastic halflings on a whim that soon became a millstone around my neck. (Yes, I still have 20 more of these motherfuckers to paint. Not happening soon.) My lack of patience has not changed, but I still really like the look of these models when assembled and painted, so hopefully this will be worth it in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nYou can arm your halflings with spears\/halberds, slings or bows, and there are individual bits available for character models. The spears are long and look great, but they’re also quite fragile with a tendency to break, which is a bummer. Between the militia and the other, unpainted unit of halflings I used up all my spears, only to have 2 of them break about halfway down the shaft, so I guess now I have two (unpainted) halflings armed with quarterstaffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThese halflings armed with slings are pretty cool. They made me realize I have very few miniatures armed with slings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI used the bows the least, although I like the look of the archers very much. The hero with the horn was painted a few years ago, part of the original five (the other four were spearmen).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI guess the spears are long enough to double as standards if you wanted to add a banner, but it would have been nice to have a dedicated banner pole in the box. There is a little bit that looks like a chicken that may be intended to replace the spear tip for this purpose, but I didn’t use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI gave my hero an old GW shield, because the shields that come on the sprue are laughably tiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHoneyacre is known for its mead, hence the shield device. Painting a bee freehand on a shield the size of a dime is a skill I no longer possess, if ever I had it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nA closeup of the heroes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like I said, these don’t count towards my challenge this month, but now that I’m free of these halflings at last, I’m available to start on my first infantry unit for Forced March: some miniatures that harken back to the earliest days of Dead Dick’s Tavern!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We’re in the thick of it now, folks! Forced March continues with some lovely submissions from seemingly everyone but me, but rest assured I am working on my first infantry unit and should have it posted soon. For now, a quick recap of the participants and their submissions thus far. As always, please let me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,30,3,52,84],"tags":[17,151,124],"class_list":["post-7008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-insanity-pile","category-miniatures","category-painting-challenges","category-role-playing-games","tag-add","tag-forced-march","tag-wargames-atlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7014,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions\/7014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Sabrina, @Uthwulfsminis<\/a> is working on a squad of Space Marines, too, and best of all, they’re MK VI Beakies!!!! (As they SHOULD BE!!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n