A bit of a backlog of finished figures to show off this week. I’ll start with these 28mm eight sheep from Wargamer Foundry. They’re Foundry’s code GPR066 Flock of Sheep. They’ll be useful as tabletop scatter, objective markers for Dark Ages /LOTR gaming (“what about them sheep? They look tasty!”), and so forth.
I’ve painted them as per the sheep from the box art of Yorkshire Tea, which is the household staple here. Fairly quick and dirty, but they’re not baaaaaaad. (You knew there would be a sheep pun here, didn’t you?).
Someone on Twitter said that they were just Warhammer Fantasy Battles Beastmen in disguise, which I thought was quite clever!
Nothing more to say about these guys, so I’ll just flock off.
Cheers and thanks for looking,
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Not baaaad!
ReplyDeleteThank ewe!
DeleteVery nice work Padre.
ReplyDeleteYou can also use them as blinds to represent troops that aren't currently visible. Much nicer looking that pieces of card with a number on it.
Thank you kindly. Say, using them as blinds is a cracking good idea!
DeleteO good gawds those puns!!! XD
ReplyDeleteGreat looking sheeps mate! I like that they have white eyes.
Hoping you have your tea avec lait like them proper northerners do? (And the rest of the uk for that matter) My day rarely starts minus a cup of tea+milk, tho Tetleys is my bag of choice.
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DeleteHello Dai:
DeleteMy mum was an English war bride so I grew up on tea and a brew is how I start my day. Yes, with milk and a bit sweet, but I always the steep a bit before I add the milk. My mother loved Tetleys and Red Rose but I have never had a better tea than Yorkshire.
Glad you liked the sheep-os.
Lovely looking sheeps!
ReplyDeleteThank ewe!
DeleteThey’re certainly not mutton dressed as lamb? Were you listening to Ramstein whilst painting them?
ReplyDeleteOr maybe Fallschmirjager dressed as mutton for a Sealiaon scenario?
DeleteRamstein - I got that joke!
A fine looking flock of potential mutton.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely mutton if the Uruk-Hai get them!
DeleteNice Livestock job, always glad to see this kind of 'unit' on a table!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil. I suspect it's fate will be as grisly as any freshly painted unit.
DeleteGreat looking livestock!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thank ewe!
DeleteLove those sheep. Always wanted to get a pack. There was a minigame of shapherding in a Miniature Wargames magazine back in the 90s that I thought would be fun to try out for giggles. I did pick up some sheep eventually (Gripping Beast ones). I never did play ght eminigame, but my sheepies have often showed up on the table as either an objective for raiding and pillaging (or protected from said the raiders and pillagers) or as something to get in the way of troops being able to easily move around the battlefield...
ReplyDeleteThank you Tim. I suspect they will show up on the table any chance they get.
DeleteA fun Eurogame would be to try to make some money, even a few bucks, off forty sheep. The hobby farmers I know all say that you can hardly give the wool away, and the shearer costs more every year!
We knew ewe wouldn't be able to resist a pun.
ReplyDeleteNot sure about the shepherd, based on my limited sheep herding experiences on my nieces farm, running at a flock is more inclined to scattering than gathering. Perhaps he's trying to make harder for the raiders?
Hi Ross.
ReplyDeleteThat boy is probably running from someone nasty who is just out of view!
I hope you didn't get fleeced on the purchase of these!
ReplyDeleteNice baaa-baaas! :)
Bravo Tamsin, ewe win the pun contest on this post.
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