Weekend painting week time gaming

So the year starts to close up and of course I have got lots going on.

I had a game of Warmachine on Thursday which reminded me how much I love this game, it also shocked me how much of the game I remembered, the only thing I will have to remember is the unit activation not bad for it being a teaching game for me, and something I will remember with my Menoth for next year.

The second thing, as I was not doing loads in the day I chose to spend most of Saturday painting and managed to do these, they will fit into my mercenary 18th Century army who will be helping the Ruskis to fight against the Czar.

On Sunday while not doing much I decided to work on a new project

These are two of the defenders of the Imperium for my Warhammer 30K kill team project, which I will be adding to over Christmas with some ForgeWorld goodies.

The idea is to make a 300pt force that does not include Unique Characters but does include Independent Characters so here we have Captain Milios of the IXth Legion 20th (Sword) Company on the right who is supported by Veteran Helvane of the XVIth Legion 10th Company expect to see a Field Captain from the Emperors Children and maybe a Sanguinary Priest.

In other news I put together a Orc and Goblin Spider Monster this was fun and apart from the pictures being a bit poor was clearly numbered and labelled

Dystopian Wars

So on Thursday I had my first game of Dystopian Wars.

All I can say is what a brilliant system this is. It models naval and air combat very well and the extra stuff about tesla and fusion meltdowns is very good. I played this at Phatcats and had a brilliant time. I will be playing this again and buying more stuff.

I have also had more stuff to put together
Dark Elf dragon, this was a really nice kit that I put together in an hour with the sorceress. I could have done more bits but the client only wanted the quick and simple. Very nice

Wood Elf Treeman - not a good kit. Had to put certain parts of the model into hot water so that it would stand up in anything like a realistic pose and when it was constructed it looked very small. Would not use this if I decided to do a wood elf army.

 Treekin - while the one i put together was simple to put together I would not be impressed with this kit if I bought it the models are very small for what they are supposed to represent. for both of these units I would be looking at Privateer Press Circle wold stuff.

I will be immersing myself in the Iron Kingdoms soon when I get the IKRPG.

More work and some play

It's sad times at the moment as my power lead has died and I need to get a new one

Since last time I have been putting together a

Soul Grinder - this was a nice kit and and simple to make not brilliant just nice
Ghazkull - brilliant really quick to put together nice and quick
Slaaneshi chariot - some fiddly bits instructions could be better but ok

I have also been painting some more iron kingdoms models so expect pics soon

Till the return

Working 9 to 5 and more

So I thought that I would give a quick update about what I've been upto. I have been helping my mate by putting together a couple of models and I thought I'd give a couple of bitesize reviews of some of the models

Dakkajet - absolutely lovely model went together easy and looked brilliant when done

Battlewagon - not bad not numbered which was an issue and a few too many bits that looked the same but went together well in the end

Tomb guard - nice models and one piece body was nice lots of potential would use these if ever doing skeletons not a fan of gluing spines together

Karamazov - finecast helps this model no need to pin now certain bits were awkward to put together but nice and rewarding

Chaos Lord of Manticore - certain bits were easy certain bits were a git, the instructions could do with being clearer

Dark Angel Vets - old friend so many bits and my usual conversion fodder (see upcoming photo for this) lovely

Eldar support weapon - fail how can such a small model provoke so much swearing

Also a brief review of Kommando Khaki %&&*$$ kack is more like it opacity was zero will be getting rid of my pot

Planning for a game tonight so hopefully a battle report and maybe just maybe some pics

Also been looking at Dystopian Wars lovely models

Deus Vult and our thing

So after some interesting days of putting the Fireforge Templar Knights I was rather upset to find not all of the horses had caparisons while this is historically correct it kind of limits them when it comes to warhammer fantasyand kind of takes away from the look.

Oh well I must admit I am still not feeling Warhammer at the moment. So here for your delectation are the first two  Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon that I have painted

One thing I would like to do at some point is a game like the A Very British Civil War

This would be set after WW2 in the Azzurra Mountains and feature a group of soldiers sent out to capture / kill the local Cammora Boss, who is still trying to escape with his wife and kids and one of his best earning girls.

You have already seen some of the models that I plan to use for the criminals  and I will be using Warlord Games British Infantry for the ambushing defenders of the law.

Also as I am a fan of WWW2 and have just picked up some of the Templar Knights I might introduce the Three Spanish Knights or a Strega to the Cammorra forces while the British will get hold of mythological characters and scientifically altered super soldiers.

For the myth of the Three spanish knights read this 

Hopefully I will have some more pictures soon

Derby Wargames Show

So this weekend I went to a convention show and purchased quite a few models.

Finally I have managed to get a box of Fireforge Games Templar Knights which look like lovely models.
I will be playing around with these at some point this weekend.

I also picked up some Dixon Minis Hitmen from their gangsters range which I will be using for some skirmish game as well as the Westwind Vampire Wars Tzar and Tzarina and two kids which will become either civilians or the family to be protected

I also met John Stallard from Warlord games and picked up a French nurse who will be used as the children's Governess (she is in the picture packing a pistol)

Scarab Miniatures Rob who talked me through the rules of War & Conquest which I will be getting at some point and I would like to thank him for a brilliant chat about wargaming and giving me some inspiration for an army.

I would also like to say hi to my mates from Phat Cats who were there playing KGN which I found out took them over 6 weeks to put together it was a really well put together table with some very nice models on it.

Following a quick trip to the painting corner here is the first of the models a Lady and her daughter with their bodyguard packing a Tommy Gun

I can see an adventure in the Italian foothills coming on.

Stormtalon Attack

So over the latter part of the week I have bought put together and started painting a Stormtalon and here are the results

 I like it even though its boxy, I also got my second go at airbrushing which was fun and I will be using this from now on to do tanks and vehicles

Below we see another project which has been in the works for years and the latest ww2 axis model is a goliath who will be getting a squad when I get them painted