'Even more prehistoric miniatures'

 'Hi Dad,

It has been a long while since an update so I thought I would share my progress again. A lot of these miniatures were Christmas presents from various people (including you and Mum, of course). These 15mm prehistorics are addictive. I do feel bad about my other currently abandoned projects.'

Figure 1 Slightly converted Libyan archers by KhurasanMiniatures. I cut the feathers off the heads (except the chief, who got to keep his, along with a flashy sabre-tooth tiger skin cloak) and added green stuff to make the clothing more like furs.

Figure 2 An Orc House from Baueda, but it works well as a prehistoric dwelling too. I may scratch build some more using the modelling putty you gave me. I found a good guide online to follow.

Figure 3 Stone Circle from Copplestone Castings

Figure 4 Animal Lair from Copplestone Castings

Figure 5 Another animal lair. It was interesting putting a lot of subtle colour variations on the rocks to make them look more realistic. Sensible people would dry brush them and be done in five minutes, but not me.

Figure 6 Animal lair number 3

Figure 7 A pack of grey wolves from Copplestone Castings. Most wolf miniatures are over-sized fantasy giant wolves. To get a more realistic size, I had to go down a scale to 10mm.

Figure 8 A close-up of one of the above.

Figure 9 I spent a lot of time looking at reference photos of wolves, and they are very varied in colour and pattern. For variety, I therefore did a second pack of brown wolves.

Figure 10 Another close-up. I also distinguished between the packs by giving the brown wolves more rocky bases, in contrast to the more vegetated, woody bases of the grey wolves.

Figure 11 The great white wolf. An actual 15mm miniature by Demonworld. This one is the pack leader of the brown wolves.

Figure 12 A giant black wolf, the pack leader of the grey wolf pack.

Figure 13 The two giant wolves together. Spent ages on their bases so this shows the other side of them.

Figure 14 I quite like this experimental overhead view of the giant wolves, and it shows some of the base details which are less clear in the earlier photos

Figure 15 Everything all together