The workbench is still looking busy but is now at least a little tidier. I still feel pretty chaotic when I look at it as there are over a dozen different projects that I can see. As ever there are too many unfinished projects on the table. I might nee…
As well as the civilian mechs I got at Triples I got some of the new trucks. These are now glued together. They have a nice rugged 2300ish look. I’ll not do too much about them here but I’ll post a bit more when they get closer to being done. The one o…
Hoi,Another small update today. If you frequent Jan-Willem’s blog, you will have seen his post regarding te selling of some old school Classic Battletech 28mm figures. These figures, in this scale, are called battletroops and JW (also known as Pijlie) …
I have purchased a large amount of GZG 15mm vehicles that have have been sat around for a while now. In terms of weight in the lead mountain, this is the single biggest purchase I have made in ten years. I wanted some stuff that would fit in with…
I’ve been thinking a lot about using laser printing on MDF recently, I have lots of designs oiginally planned for the 3D printing but I have never been able to realize them because the production cost will be insane.With laser printing on some cheap …
This weeks club game was an arranged game with Dave B and he wanted to have a game of 40K as he’d picked up the new Chaos Army Book and the 8th Edition Rules recently and wanted to give them a try, and as I was keen to see if there were much changes to…
….or Gunships!2 resin and metal dropship/gunship kits from Rebel Minis (they did a sale last year and I caved), they also come with flight stands which I have mislaid but should turn up? They’re not bad but there were some issues with holes and flash…
Section (Pc): WorldWorksGames’ Dwarven ‘Diorama’ – Dressing the ‘Big Wall’
Starting to ‘Dress’ the ‘Big Wall’ …
Dressings on foamcore (3 mm, 2 levels) …
Section (Pb): WorldWorksGames’ Dwarven ‘Diorama’ – base tiles
Went for a few more til…
Got myself a Captain Kara Black, from Sedition Wars – Battle for Alabaster, on Ebay …
Nice, little, polystyrene, piece … the pics speak for themselves, on the casting quality (clicky-for-biggy).
The Colonel
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WIPpies …
Hoi,You might remember I’ve bought some pretty nifty Studio Bergstrom Star Wars Rebel Alliance star fighters for my friend Mark and his son Enzo. Well I have finally finished the last quartet of them: two B-wings and two Y-wings.The bases are made from…
Here’s three more MERCs units done for a customer:USCR SefaduFCC House 9 And here is a Reaper mutant that we also painted up for the customer: These 5 moderns were painted for a another customer. They are from Foundry…
The CMoN forums have a picture of a WIP version of Blight fighter for the Rivet Wars board game.
I really can’t wait for this to show up and I honestly don’t even care if the game is any good. I may even try to paint one or two of these a…
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WIPpy …
Picked up these a while back from Khurasan as transport for my armed men in Parkas from Khurasan, they needed something for those frozen wastelands or hostile moons, they are nice kits and take the paint very easily.
While I’ve mentioned Kickstarter projects in the past this is the first time I write an entire post dedicated to one. I’ve been wary of backing any and have, as more and more projects sprang up, felt a bit of a “Kickstarter fatigue”. There have simply …
(L): Kitbashing Caelum Calauticum for Warhammer 40k
WIPpy …
I was going to write about the upcoming Elysium by Neill Blomkamp, but with some other movie/tv sci fi turning up I decided to simply expand this post. For me District 9 is one of the best sci fi movies of the past ten years. Granted, that might not be…
OK, I’m a mecha fan. I fell in love with mecha sometime in late grade school or early middle school when I first an episode of Robotech, then was later introduced to Battletech in 8th grade. I’ve been a sucker for Big Stompy Robots ever sin…
Just finished off the first squad of the ‘opposition’ for my Future Wars project.The First Interdiction Squad, Taranthra Assault Pattern, Earth Invasion Force. 2065ADObviously I’m using Tau for the ‘Enemy’ just because they fit the bill and they’re fig…
…but currently painting, Copplestone Back of Beyond, Khurasan M1A2′s and Modern US Infantry, Artizan Cowboys, Ironclad Steam Vehicles and Figures, Rebel Minis Gunships, 15mm Modern Scenery and Khurasan’s Werewolf in Gravesend to name a few!Some of th…
….and GZG plus my pension fund from Sir Michael Awdry at 28mm Victorian Warfare!Top brass for my colonial marines, figures are from Oddzial Osmy with GZG robot bodyguards, lovely looking figures but by the rings of Saturn a fecker to clean up (…
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A few of us got together today for a warm-up event in preparation for the upcoming Star Wars LCG Regional event held next month. There were four of us playing. Due to some scheduling issues there weren’t more but at least we had an even number. All of the players were using cards from the [...]
We had 12 guys out at the club last night and four games ran–a pretty good evening given the nice spring weather. The most notable portion of the evening was the Warmachine game, where Kevin played with both unpainted and proxied figures (“unclean!”)….