Spring Clean: Halfling Hullabaloo

The Most Halfling-y Thing I Found

Mar 27 2021

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When I saw these I bought as many as I could. They are perfect for my Halflings and I was worried that rather than an army of Halflings it would look more like an army of tiny humans but with things like this I can really make it look proper Fantasy Halfling.

I hope you guys enjoy this project and please leave a comment.

I have a bad habit of not taking pictures of things so I’m using this project as a sort of challenge to take a picture at every step and explain to you guys as clearly as possible what I’m doing.

As you can see the pigs are properly huge and look very Fantasy

The Carts are full of fruit and vegetables which the Halflings need to bring with them into battle for a half time snack

The First Step was to paint the Pigs with GW Emperors Children after spraying them with Wraithbone

Then a Drybrush with 50/50 Emperors Children and White, I deliberately tried to make the brush strokes visible to simulate a bit of hair

Then a light Drybrush of pure White. Emperors Children has a hint of purple in it which helped to shade the pigs

Then a dab of Black Wash for their eyes. I prefer Black Wash to straight Black paint. I think it looks a little smoother and leaves a tiny bit of the base colours showing through rather than making black pits, that being said anything smaller than a giant pig isn't getting eyes in my army

Here is my tiny Pallet. I find an old medicine packet works great for tiny amounts of paint like this that can spread out all over the place on a larger pallet.

Some dots of White for Eyes

The Finished Pigs

The Finished Pig and Cart. Don't Worry the Carts will be next, they might even take two entries to cover the whole process.

Size Comparison.

The Most Halfling-y Thing I Found

Mar 27 2021

Tutoring 10

Skill 10

Idea 10

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When I saw these I bought as many as I could. They are perfect for my Halflings and I was worried that rather than an army of Halflings it would look more like an army of tiny humans but with things like this I can really make it look proper Fantasy Halfling.

As you can see the pigs are properly huge and look very Fantas

The Carts are full of fruit and vegetables which the Halflings need to bring with them into battle for a half time snack

The First Step was to paint the Pigs with GW Emperors Children after spraying them with Wraithbone

Then a Drybrush with 50/50 Emperors Children and White, I deliberately tried to make the brush strokes visible to simulate a bit of hair

Then a light Drybrush of pure White. Emperors Children has a hint of purple in it which helped to shade the pigs

What I've Got

Mar 27 2021

Tutoring 9

Skill 10

Idea 13

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It’s probably best to start this Spring Cleaning with what’ I’ve actually got.

Three Boxes of Wargames Atlantic Halflings
Dwarf Wizard on Pony
Three Pig Carts
A Giant

This is a mix of stuff I’ve had for a while and some stuff I bought last night.

These Guys, I picked them up about 6 Months Ago

Last Night's Haul. I Already Have a Gandalf but he's in storage and for $7 It's worth getting another.

Halberds and Swordsman

Loads of Archers

Pikemen

What I have Painted

"Gandalf" Size Comparison. I think he makes a perfect Wizard for Halflings, Nice and Chunky for the Old school fantasy feel.

These things are just too Halfling-y to not add to the army

I also plan to get another few boxes of Halflings. The First thing I’ll do is paint the Carts and the Giant then Gandalf before I start slogging through the infantry.

I also want to talk about what sort of force I’m building here and how I want to keep it as generic as possibly while still having a distinct Halfling Theme