Legends of Empire

Right no preamble here am nearly done on an army  32 odd models nearly done for a small skirmish force of Nappy French six veterans to do
Question is which non Europeans would look good fighting them
Ideas are Japanese peasants, African Tribes

Too Infinity we hope

So its the New Year.And you should have broken all your resolutions by now.

So I have resolved that I will do things that I want while slimming down the collection of unpainted models in my collection.

So at the moment what is gathering dust on the painting shelf.
Crusade Era Knights and Gondor Rangers, these will be used for Saga when I have picked up the rules and picked up Fireforge Foot Knights.
Menoth stuff, right when the airbrush is purchased I will buy the colossal and get at least 35 pts of this army together, seeing as I want a colossal should not be too many other models to go with this.
Lord of the Rings stuff I have probably got enough of this to paint till the end of days. I will make and keep a War of the Ring Elven army with this stuff and buy some of the Knights of Rivendell.
Infinity- Right the big one for me, too long have these gorgeous models been sat around in foam and boxes. Too long have I owned the rules and done f^**& all with them. I this year will learn Infinity and play games of this brilliant looking system

Side note is that I have now painted nearly everything I own and will be adding to this only to consolidate my  squads 

40K, the gorilla in the room. I have a big enough army of Blood Angels to play with I will limit myself to making the two assault squads up to 10 men and then I will finish painting them and low it shall be finished. I may end up getting a couple of tanks and realize my dream of a tank company army with some Baal and normal Predators.
Flames of War I have an army and have the start of a second I shall complete the second and be happy to call this finished.
Wyrd Plans are afoot for a alliance with both Sonia Cridd and Rasputina fighting to fulfill my plans as there is a lot of crossover with these two masters

Also due to the fun I have had with blogspot not being able to remember any f*&&^^ passwords for the last year I will now be leaving this site to gather dust if you want to see the progress for the rest of the year follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/benquintiliani and may your paints stay wet.

Xmas Joy OK something like that

So it Xmas and the turkey is getting fat, or those that have been spared are counting their lucky stars.

In the season of goodwill I thought I would give you all some pics if I am able to I will try to get better pics

 

Here are my Flames of War Americans started. You can see a Hellcat painted for winter behind the command stand

 Above and below are the pics of a demon painted for the challenge. I wanted people to look at her and go yep that is a demon 

Week off

So have had this week off work. So the question is what have I been up to...

Bolt Action has been tempting a couple of my mates and so I am never one to pass up the chance to look at another rule set so here is the start of my Rangers Platoon

Some of these will have greatcoats but not all some are just to hard to need a coat no matter what the weather.

The Cursed Knight, the inspiration for this model came the Leprous King in Kingdom of Heaven and as a consequence of his malady he is able to use tainted weapons. He will be joining the Knights Templar who are already painted and now the force will no longer be just Knights Templar because I was driving myself mad painting that amount of white  :-(

 

Dark Angel Successor Company Master not worked out what their Chapter name is but will use them as allies for either my Lamenters or Grey Knights and here is a Devastator Squad, the fluff will be that they are having problems getting technology so that is why they cannot get all the weapons that the book allows 

I have also put together a couple of Bazooka squads and a Priest for Flames of War as well as painting the rest of my Sherman Tanks and Hellcat Tank Destroyer in winter colours

 Above and below are some ideas for my Armies on Parade board High Elves

 Easterlings with supporting Light Infantry will have to see what works

Tanks and Guns

So one of the local gaming clubs has got a Tank Aces Flames of War campaign going so I will enter my Panzerkompanie into it, so far  I have got one Panzer IV to lead them and 7 Panzer III to break into two squadrons and one to lead act as second for the Panzer IV

Pictured is the command Panzer III

I have also started buying the rest of my sisters and will continue to do this over the xmas period and picked up the Alt sculpt of Sonnia Crid for Malifaux as with the crew lists I can use a lot of the models with both factions

Hope to get more pics up this week

Hobbits & Goblins and Dwarves

So Games Workshop has released the Hobbit SBG and from the first comments on the internet it looks like people don't like it.

Having come late to the Middle Earth party I had not read the book which I am doing at the moment so at first agreed with some of the comments.

But once again we have to remember what the main target for GW is for xmas he is 8 - 12 and has never heard of tabletop gaming so walks past GW and sees the glossy display of the film trailer he has seen on TV he comes in and if the shop is good they have the stuff in the front. Mum and Dad will probably consider £20   for childmiding not bad value and all of the staff are CRB checked and shouting about sticking swords in people

Main comments are
Too expensive - likely to agree with this but I have decided to buy only certain things and use the models from my collection for others, so for my box of Hunter Orcs in which I get 12 £20 lets see what I could get. Right boxes for under £20 include a combat squad of marines or 5 marine scouts both of these are £15.50 so I might be able to pick up the glue to put them together with my £20 and after that I have one squad which takes up 100 pts of a game that is usually played at 1500pts.
So I get 12 models which are very well sculpted from the pics and in all honesty will only need 50 of these models so will spend around £100 in all. So maybe not

Horrible scale - right pet peeve here Imperial Guard Soldiers who are 6' should not be modeled the same as a 8' tall space marine, anyway lets look at the size of historical miniatures, they are true 25 - 28mm and should be the same scale and if you shop around will be able to use gripping beast or fire forge to expand your army, would like to see Imperial Guardsmen scaled down to fit better with the universe so the scale thing does not bother me in the slightest

Dont like the look of the models - ok the goblins did not do it for me but not GW's fault I know that the sculptors had a trip to New Zealand so were following Peter Jackson's vision of the goblins also from someone who has read the book they had not yet evolved into the Mines of Moria goblins also the dwarfs are based on the costumes of the film so not their fault and blame Jackson for that and go to red box games for some more dwarf heroes

Goblin Town set can be made with balsa wood - not by a 8 year old with no modelling skills the terrain kits arent really for experienced modellers but for the kids so they are not sawing into wood or scattering modelling polystyrene around their parents house, we all did it.

So for the people trying to sell the hobby to someone who has is the Hobbit any good for someone getting into the idea of tabletop gaming - I would say yes, low cost lots of people their age will be playing and terrain that just needs gluing and painting and mum and dad pay how much for a computer and games for the kid so they learn social skills because they are across the table from their opponent so no swearing at your opponent like Call of Duty

All this and not a GW apologist

Kill Teams FTW

So recently some of my friends have started getting into Kill Teams for 40k 

As regular readers of the Blog may know skirmish gaming is my thing and I was planning on doing some 30k Kill Teams. :-)

The rules that people are using are by heraldsofruin blogspot and they don't seem to different from the normal game which is good for getting new players in.

So I present my first kill team made of 

Night Lords Lexicanium 

Combat squad of Death Guard with suspensor Heavy Bolter specialist

Veteran World Eater with Power Sword

and World Eater Assault Marine 

should be having a game this weekend and week so will get to see how they do the time frame will be just after the Council of Terra