Family Burrows and Badgers
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About the Project
This could be the project that gets my whole family wargaming. My son (8) got on board and together we convinced my wife to start her first wargames project. (Thanks to BoW Ben for mentioning the game one-or-twice in The Weekender) Will everyone stick it to the end and will my wife become a full convert to wargaming?
Related Game: Burrows & Badgers
Related Company: Oathsworn Miniatures
Related Genre: Fantasy
This Project is Active
My Royalists
The Royalists are coming along. The clothes etc. Are mostly painted with Citadel washes, up to 7 layers on the foxes jacket to get the green I wanted.
I tried to base the fur on pictures of the actual animals.
They’re not finished yet but it shouldn’t take long.
Painting progress - wife’s warband
All going well for her first unit painting. The main colours are layered citadel washed over the zenithel highlighting.
Wife starts painting her warband.
This is her first time painting a unit. Her only other painting was a stormcast eternal in our local GW. She is finding it stressful.Hamish starts painting his warband.
First to start painting and lots of concentration.
A lot of thought went into armour colour but he settled on Citadel Warplock and Dwarf Bronze.
Primer and zenithel
Black base coat with black Vallejo Primer through the airbrush.
A zenithel spray of Vallejo Blue Grey Pale and some thiner.
Add Model Air White and mix into grey and do another pass but more vertical. Then again with pure white.
Add some white to hands and faces if they have been missed. These are the focal point and unless you specifically want a dark menacing feel I’d recommend lightning these if they haven’t been hit.
The tortoise needed more white further down to pick out the great detail on his shell.Basing Family Warbands
We’re planning to go autumnal on the bases (except my son who wants to do snow).
I decided we would stick them to the required base size and use my favourite basing medium to get things going.
I had a pot of filler with sand a paint (paint not important here as they will be primed afterwards) mixed in already. It needed a little extra sand to get a good gritty texture and then was applied with a small palette knife. Then stippled with an old brush to get rid of knife marks. Last thing was to add a few small rocks and cat litter.
The only challenge was from the mole. My wife decided that it was to be standing on top of a molehill. Smarter and more patient people would have made a foam or green stuff hill to cover, however, we just piled up loads of filler which bulged and sagged. Then did it in layers but didn’t give it enough time to dry. Finally cobbled together with super glue it ended up not too bad.
Finally a mole on its hill.Choosing the warbands
I’m a bit behind with things as I’ve been in bed with flu for 4 weeks! So a bit of catching up to do.
We’ve had great fun picking our warbands from the range. None of us have played before so a big chunk of it was down to what we liked the look of.
My son, Hamish, chose easily. His Wildbeasts Would have a turtle as their leader, a wildcat as his second, followed by an otter ranger, adder magician and squirrel rogue.
I was told I had to be Royalists because no one else wanted to be. So, I settled on a group of grizzled army veterans, badger, otter and weasel, with a fox as their leader.
My wife (new to wargaming) got stuck straight into the meta. She’s joined the. Burrows and Badgers Facebook page, been asking advice and put a lot of thought into her choices. Her band has a cat huntress as leader, hare as second, a mole, Fennec fox and a rabbit archer.
Time will tell who prevails.
