28mm Oxen for Saga Objectives

Two Reaper oxen, painted up for use as more livestock objectives for Saga. I did some experimenting on using glazing techniques when painting these. I think they were highly successful on the blend on the horns and mostly successful darkening the lower legs, but in other places my technique definitely needs refining.This was a good project to practice new techniques on, being only two figures and not part of an actual army. Adding two 28mm figures to my annual painting totals.

The last photo below is of a pair of oxen used at Colonial Williamsburg. I tried to model these after those actual oxen assuming that a living history community like Colonial Williamsburg would be attempting to use a breed that was available during the colonial period. While this isn't the medieval period, it is 'close enough' for use in AWI, Napoleonic and ACW games. For earlier periods we'll just have to use some faith. As with all of my recently completed projects, these were painted live on my Twitch.tv stream.

28mm Pack Mules - Completed

These are the finished pack mules that I started in my previous post. They were finished up in a second stream on my Twitch.TV channel. I plan to use them for Saga scenarios mostly, but they'll also be useful in many other historical periods. You always need a bit more baggage in those raid the supply column scenarios!


I'm counting this as two figures in my annual painting totals. Next up on the painting table are some French Napoleonic cannons, that I've already started with the airbrush, and some mounted French Napoleonic marshals and mounted infantry colonels. I'm not sure which I will work on next as I need both  to do some larger Electronic Brigadier Napoleonic play test games.

Because it seems to be the thing to do in the on-line miniature painting community, I've also created an Instagram page. Feel free to visit that and follow me if that's your cup of tea.

Finally, here's a video replay of the stream these were finished on. It's still a learning process. Previous caveats and apologies still apply.  I'm having enough fun with this that I ordered up a proper streaming web camera to hopefully make the picture quality better. Also I hope my on-stream painting skills improve as well.