15mm Fantasy(III) - Here be Dragons (and some scenery)

I'm taking a small break from my Dragon Rampant warbands to make a start on some fantasy specific scenery and as the laser-cut MDF revolution hasn't gotten round to 15mm Fantasy scenery as yet, its mainly costly resin that I have been acquiring.

But before I get to the smattering of scenery I have done so far, this seems a good a post as any to show a couple of dragons I recently finished, one will be for my undead Warband (I'll let you guess which one) and the other was done with no particular warband in mind - I just wanted to paint up a traditional dragon:

And the other one:

Both Dragon miniatures are from Reaper and marketed as 28mm.

Next, the few pieces of resin scenery I have done so far:

which is an Orc/Goblin shrine from Alternative Armies.

 

The smallest hovel in Alternative Armies fantasy buildings range(I have most of the others and I must say they are fantastic buildings)

A re-purposed GW Warmaster(10mm) bridge.

A Fenris Miniatures (28mm) standing stone left over from a different project.

The next couple of pieces are both from the aquarium section of the local Pet shop (and cost a fraction of price of actual wargaming stuff):

a few small scenic pieces(from Alternative Armies), the pile of treasure will be used as a counter in one of the Dragon Rampant scenarios and the skulls will make the Aquarium temple a bit more undeady!

This next piece is my first ever purchase of 3D printed scenery - The Winterdale War Tower, I am really happy with it, its a great size and didn't cost the earth, my only minor quibble is the visible striations but on this particular piece with it being predominately stonework its not a deal breaker:

Finally a couple of pics of some of the stuff together to give an idea of relative size:

Still no progress on my Blood bowl Halfling team, but the lead pile has still gone down so that's one thing at least.

Distractions & Diversions (3)

Once upon a time, all I painted miniature-wise was 28mm stuff - or 25mm as it was back then, and GW was the mainstay of my gaming world. Over the years and having discovered different scales, my 28mm stuff has all but vanished to the hellish realms of E-bay, and muchos 6mm and 10mm stuff it has funded!

Whilst I still drool over the amazing 28mm stuff out there,(I love the Dark Sword miniatures, Game of Thrones stuff) I am less and less inclined to make the purchase due to my dread of painting them.
 I know I'm not the worlds best painter, but my need to do at least a half decent paint job means 28mm mini's take an age to paint these days. Even skirmish/warband style gaming with 20 or less mini's is probably beyond my reach. The last "Army" I painted in 28mm was an Old West gang (see below), I still have the last version of GW's Human Blood Bowl team to paint up, some Perry miniatures stuff for Ronin and a Justice Dept. team for Judge Dredd and I simply cannot face doing them which is a crying shame as they're all great figures and would look fantastic with a half decent paint job. Anyway enough of my despondency, here are the few 28mm miniatures I still have that are actually painted up:

Figures from Heresy, Hasslefree and Otherworld (runestone from Fenris)

Centauress:

Possibly NSFW, Oberon:

Male Centaur:

Witch with cauldron:

Valkyrie with runestone:

Unicorn:

All the above belong to my Mum of all people, she has an interest in mythology, paganism and dark age Britain, I tend to paint them for her as Mothers day gifts as they are bit different from a bunch of flowers and she really appreciates them, and it gives me an excuse to paint these fantasy 28's that I would never buy for myself.

My Old West Gang, figures from Artisan, Foundry and Dixon:

And finally the one and only Ronin miniature I could be bothered to paint so far:

Figure is an old GW model.

Back to small scale stuff next time, possibly my Wood Elf army which is nearing completion.