As I promised in my last post…I now present to you some creepy and scary scarecrows for the Great Land of Harvest Army! These are from OZZ-507, “Harvesters – Fearsome Scarecrows of the Night”. They are listed in the “allies and mercenaries” section on the website, and in the rules are listed under the “Land of Harvest”.

There are 20 figures, all are metal and 28mm in size. They look like creepy scarecrows – and they do bear a strong resemblance to many of the Lesser Pumpkinhead figures. In the game, the Harvesters are infantry, but they are less affected by musketry (not cannon though). I assume that is because bullets pass through them relatively easily. They are based 4 to a 2″ square base – so five bases for the regiment. There is no regimental commander. No assembly was required for the unit other than the basing. They are reasonably good melee troops with a Melee value of 6/10, a Resolve value of 7/10, and an Elan value of 7/10 as well. The unit costs 4 points.

They are armed with a motley assortment of weapons – rakes, scythes, pitchforks, sickles, axes, hatchets, and even a hoe. As you will see below, I based them so as to mix and match the poses and the figure types such that no two bases of the five were identical. I needed to get these done for a game and I got them in under the wire – and I will share a post on that game soon.

Harkening back to my Scarecrow figure from the Adventurers of Ozz, and my other Harvest figures, I gave these zombie-colored flesh and glowing eyes. Some of the figures had pumpkin heads but I still gave their limbs a zombie flesh treatment. Other figures had hoods or sacks over their heads, so the glowing eyes tied them together too. I made sure that their clothes varied in color as after all, these are scarecrows.

I wanted them to appear as if they were coming out of a grassy overgrown field, so my basing choices reflected that in terms of the mixed flocking you’ll see. I also wanted to hide their feet as I felt that would look more creepy in the grass. You can decide for your self if that worked. Lastly, for playability, I added a small stone at the back of each base for alignment – as it’s not easy to see which way is “forward” given the rabble-look in which I arranged these guys.

I started these in June and worked on these in July – and finished them up in July. Let’s see some WIP shots and some more pics below!

WIP Shots…

I was able to finish painting them on July 18th, as seen below.

After varnishing them and letting them dry, I mounted them on the bases and went to town on the flocking – and to hide the feet.

Eye Candy

Base 1

Base 2

Base 3

Base 4

Base 5

Group Shot

I hope that you found this somewhat late post interesting. Next, I hope to share a post of their first battle at the Mass Pikemen Gaming Club.

And yes, I still have more to come…

Miscellaneous details and references for those interested in that sort of thing:

For all of my previous posts on Wars of Ozz games, figures, units, and other related projects – please see this page.

PAINTS, INKS, GLAZES, SHADES, WASHES, PIGMENTS, FLOCKING, GLUES AND MORE THAT I USED ON THESE HARVESTER FIGURES:

1. Gorilla Glue
2. 3/4″ steel washers
3. Poster tack
4. Vallejo Mecha Surface Primer “White”
5. Secret Weapon Washes “Heavy Body Black”
6. Vallejo Model Color “White”
7. Reaper MSP Core Colors “Pure White”
8. Citadel Technical “Tesseract Glow”
9. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Runic Grey”
10. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Snakebite Leather”
11. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Ultramarine Blue”
12. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Black Legion”
13. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Contrast Medium”
14. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Brownish Decay”
15. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Gore Grunta Fur”
16. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Aethermatic Blue”
17. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Dark Angels Green”
18. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Militarum Green”
19. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Charming Chartreuse”
20. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Oche Clay”
21. Tamiya “X-6 Orange”
22. Tamiya “X-20A Thinner”
23. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Bony Matter”
24. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Ironjawz Yellow”
25. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Poppy Red”
26. Vallejo Model Air “Wood”
27. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Wyldwood”
28. Vallejo Model Air “Brown”
29. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Camo Cloak”
30. Army Painter “Speed Paint – Murder Scene”
31. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Apothecary White”
32. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Skeleton Horde”
33. Citadel “Contrast Paint – Plaguebearer Flesh”
34. Vallejo Model Color “Black Green”
35. Vallejo Model Color “Neutral Grey”
36. Citadel “Nuln Oil” (wash)
37. Vallejo Game Ink “Black Green”
38. Vallejo Model Air “Black (Metallic)”
39. Vallejo Model Air “Gun Metal”
40. Vallejo Model Air “Steel”
41. Battlefront “Dark Leather”
42. PS Model Color “USAAF Olive Drab”
43. Vallejo “Flow Improver”
44. Vallejo “Airbrush Thinner”
45. Vallejo Varnish “Satin Varnish”
46. Vallejo Mecha Varnish “Matte Varnish”
47. Black Sharpie pen
48. 2″ square steel bases from Wargames Accessories (#21)
49. Elmer’s PVA Glue
50. Army Painter “Battlefields Grass Green” (flocking)
51. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures “12mm Tan Tufts” (flocking)
52. Army Painter “4mm Wilderness Tufts” (flocking)
53. Gamer’s Grass “Autumn XL” (flocking)
54. Army Painter “Yellow Meadow Flowers” (flocking)
55. Army Painter “Battlefield Field Grass” (flocking)
56. Army Painter “Lowland Shrubs” (flocking)
57. Small stones (flocking)

Again, as you may want to check out the Wars of Ozz figures’ range – there are two places to get them (and I make no money from this btw). The game rules and the figures are available from the following two places:

In the US Old Glory has a site – Wars of Ozz Miniatures.

In the UK go to Sally 4th.