New Dunkeldorf Kickstarter incoming early November!
Max the Florist selling his wares in the Streets of Dunkeldorf
Just a quick update on the new upcoming Kickstarter: The Streets of Dunkeldorf! This will be a smaller kickstarter involving different characters you meet in the streets! First one I painted was Max the Florist and all his fancy flowers! They are actually just from the 2 original flower sets we sell, but I heavily converted them by cutting off the tops of the flower vases and gluing them unto various terrain elements. The flower tufts and laserplants are from Gamer’s Grass! You can find the flowers, barrels and furniture here: https://kinggames.dk/shop/dunkeldorf-miniatures-343c1.html
The Street Lantern will be part of a set of different lamps and sign posts available in the kickstarter!
Here’s a couple of pictures of the miniatures I painted before and during the kickstarter!
Traud the old Bloodhound tracking foul mutants out of Gruselwald!
The Kingpin (Sven) and his gang aren’t the only ones invading this kickstarter! We also have the Witch Hunters who is looking for certain mutants in the sewers!
Johannes Koch, the Witch Hunter with Traud. I know he will fit perfectly with our WFRP campaign!
Thank you to all the backers who have backed our 3rd kickstarter!
So it’s been a while… Well, actually it has been 2 years since my last post! Lots have happened since then and I’ve ended up neglecting my blog a little. I’m mostly on Instagram now, where there are loads of pictures! Check it out: https://www.instagram.com/cabanaminis/
The focus on this kickstarter is our favourite RPG villain from our own WFRP campaigns, Sven the Brewer!
The campaign focuses on the brewer Sven and his gang of thugs, the group of Mutants hiding in the sewers of Dunkeldorf and the Witch Hunters and their Hired Swords who are en route to Dunkeldorf to rid the town of the mutant scourge.
The dwarf siblings: Marik and Barik ready to kick some hinds!Agnes about to teach Old Tully a lesson not to beg for Sven’s Bitter!
A couple of shots of the thugs from this campaign!
In order to try and be a bit more active, I’ll put up more pictures than words, since I have so much to show you. Imagine how many things I’ve painted the past 2 years!! I don’t think I even managed to show anything from our 2nd Kickstarter, which will need a post of its own! But here is a little tavern mood picture that we use in our own RPG campaigns (Both D&D and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay)
The Prancing Peacock Tavern. Filled with sitting and standing townsfolk NPC’s!Bertha and Bull from our 1st Kickstarter and Sabine (and Franz if you look carefully) from our 2nd Kickstarter!
Okay, that was it for now! Go check out the kickstarter if you want! And if you read this after it is over, Pledge Manager for late pledges is right around the corner :)
As you probably suspect, much of my time has been spent on me and my husband’s Dunkeldorf Miniatures project and less on blogging. But today is the day we launch our Kickstarter! It has already exceeded any expectations we had for today.
We knew there were a lot of interest, but we didn’t think we would be funded this early!
The goal was to be funded on the first day, and after only 31 minutes, we reached that goal!! Fortunately we prepared a lot of stretch goals involving free miniatures and accessories, so I don’t think people will be disappointed!
Littleton Proudcock in his tavern “The Prancing Peacock”
As this is the first day in the 30 day Kickstarter Campaign, much can happen during the campaign, and we continue to be humble, as we don’t want to expect too much. We really hope people will be kind enough to share the news about the Kickstarter to friends and family that are interested in such nerdy things as this! And to be a part of this unique experience!
Bertha the Ratcatcher searching the sewers of Dunkeldorf after her cat Bull
A lot of work has been put into the pre-release of the Kickstarter!
Here is a little bit about the “crew” behind the project!
I (Nana) painted all the miniatures, terrain, accessories and scenery on the pictures! I also assist Nicki whenever I can and I have taken over a lot of the work involving King Games, so Nicki can focus 100% on the Kickstarter these first few days of the Kickstarter!
Nicki (my husband) is the brains of this operation and is in charge of all background stories, graphics, Kickstarter page, social media, communicating back and forth with our artist, sculptor, casters and also manage all the advertising involved. And probably a million other things I forgot to mention! So basically, he has his hands full at the moment!
Mustafa is in charge of all the artwork that is being done for the campaign, which involves a whole lot of drawings, sketches and final artwork. He really outdid himself with all these amazing pieces of art! And we’re so grateful that he has been able to put all of our ideas and visions into art!
Sonny is in charge of every piece of sculpted miniature and accessories in the campaign. And like Mustafa, he really outdid himself too! He pushed the boundaries of his abilities and conjured up some beautiful miniatures! Perfect combination of the visions we had and the artwork provided! We are really lucky to have found such talent!
We had a lot of fun taking photo shoots of the miniatures in different situations and we will be doing more of that during the campaign and when we launch the miniatures on King Games (sometime in July or August, unless, God forbid, we get delays)
Erika Schmidt the Blacksmith daydreaming about her days as a Zweihander in the Imperial army (before her leg injury)
As I am writing this (3 hours in) we are 250% funded, so we are over the moon (yes, I just did that) with joy! The “Early Bird” pledge was gone in no time, so we might have put the backer limit a bit low. But we might make it up to people who missed it, somehow :)
Old Tully, the beggar and once famous entertainer, begging in the streets of Dunkeldorf
I will be updating my blog during the campaign, to show the progress and maybe some sneak peeks of the greens :)
Until then! Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far! This is a dream come true for us!
Herman Geishalz plotting in his manor! What sinister plan is he brewing up next?
Finally back in business after a nice long holiday and a huge workflow!
And our new webpage dedicated to Dunkeldorf is up at: www.dunkeldorf.eu. We are very proud of our project and hope you all like it too!
But now it’s time for the second painted miniature: Bertha the Ratcatcher! I have already shown the greenstuff version of her, and now she is all painted up. She is a gaunt and not very feminine character and one of my favourites! I present to you: Bertha!
At the moment, she is on her way to the caster and hopefully we’ll see some metal versions of her! I can’t even begin to describe the feeling when you finally produce something of your own, after having only sold other companies’ miniatures for so long!! As I’m not the most talented miniature painter, I hope to someday see Bertha and the other miniatures painted up by a professional!
Well, I’ve had this well lying around for a couple of years before i finally decided to paint it! I found this and the stables from Forge World in a cheap bundle on eBay, but only just finished this one!
The trees are from a company called Busch. I think it’s smaller scale, but they are rather cheap and they look pretty good even at close-ups. The old Forgeworld resin is very high quality and very dense, and I used so much time filing/sanding the bottom on this and the stables, since they put way too much resin in the mold it seems. Had the same problem with the Carmine Dragon and the Roadside Shrine (all originals of course) but with a lot of excess resin at the bottom.
I added a rope from a reaper miniatures adventurer’s kit (the bucket is part of the scenery and attached to the base) and I put 2 ravens which I painted up as starlings. The one on the ground is from Tabletop-Art’s Raven set and the one on the well edge is from Tabletop-World’s Tombstone set.
I used water effects in the watering trough from AK’s Resin Water kit, so it’s ready for any thirsty horse or desperate adventurer (who is too lazy to use the well)
This turned out to be quite a centerpiece for our rural Warhammer RPG sessions! We used it as a midpoint for a beastmen encounter a few sessions back and it was used (with great success) by our rogue Ozzy and his faithful companion Littleton Proudcock (aka P-cock) as a great place to sneak-attack!
Now that the 4th edition is on the doorstep (not literally, but close), and we had an amazing preview PDF of the whole thing, I thought it would be suitable with a little tribute miniature that my husband pieced together and sculpted, and which I painted.
The thing is based on artwork from the 4th edition rulebook. The artwork really captures the essence and gloomy atmosphere of the rpg, so we did our best to reflect that unto the mini.
Here is the artwork the scarecrow was based on:
We tried to make it reflect the artwork as much as possible with what materials we had, and I think Nicki did a great job sculpting his first pumpkin!
I painted some black spots around the “head” to resemble the flies buzzing around the rotting pumpkin head and tried to make the body look as tattered as possible!
Here is a work in progress photo of the piece:
Some dryad arms were used aswell as a scarecrow body from Ristul’s, some goblin pikes, a wood elf sword, and a fenryll sign if i remember correctly!
All in all a very fun project and we really enjoyed the process!
A few days ago I made a post about some townsfolk for our RPG – a blacksmith and a halfling nobleman. This time I painted a couple of real oldschool Bretonnian Archers and a small child from Freebooter.
The archers were really fun to paint. We found a bunch of these stored in my husband’s parents’ attic and I decided to paint 2 of them as archers for our town scenery. I already have one practice target from Zealot Miniatures and I have several extra targets from Mantic Kickstarter due in May.
I painted them in 2 themes. One standard Archer with the Colours of Talabecland and some freehand “embroidery” and a little moustache :) the other is in Hochland Attire with a little Bretonnian Lily icon (Fleur de Lis).
The kid is from a Freebooter Miniatures: Lobo the Old Warhorse set. I added a large feather to his (or her) hat, though it is a little hard to see on the picture. The base is the original metal base customized to fit a 20mm base. I painted the child androgynous, so we can use it as either a girl or a boy squire, helping the pc’s carry their luggage and other necessities.
For our newest campaign (WFRP) we wanted some bandits (some shabby/suspicious types) and I spotted the Dreadmere Mercenaries that fits right into our campaign! I did however, find a miniature suitcase (that’s a suitcase with miniatures inside it, not a very small suitcase!) filled with bandits we haven’t used in a while and now the town is swarming with thugs! Since our band of heroes are all shady and no strangers to crime, they suited the purpose!
I painted one of them as a woman even though I was unsure if this was the case! But it is nice to have a bandit type female to have a more realistic look than a lot of other miniatures which are usually bombshells wearing a corset with cleavage, visible bellybuttons or highly inconvinent bare skin mixed with pieces of armor. So I tend to go for it whenever I see a more unconventional female miniature!
I also gave the individual minis some character by adding scars and patterns. Had a real good time with these :D
Phew, time just flies when you are having fun! Been spending a whole lot of time playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 (the best game I have ever played in my 25 years of playing computer games!)
I’m totally blown away, and I have already gotten so much inspiration from the game for Rpg sessions, characters/npc’s and miniature colours!
I do have this mini ready for display! This is the Carol, the Christmas Bard from Reaper sculpted by Bobby Jackson. I chose to not paint her as a Christmas elf and instead painted her in vivid colours, worthy of a true bard. The colours are actually inspired by Dandelion from the Witcher franchise. The outfit from the 3rd Game installment to be precise!
She is perfect for our new campaign! And looking forward to having her around in Talabecland!
I didn’t notice the monkey until after I started painting her, so I painted a little subtle :)
