Rorke's Drift Hospital... a tour

I finished my Rorke's Drift hospital last week.  I think I've made a better job of it than the store house. I didn't try and prime the thatch this time and it looks a lot better.

 Oddly the roof doesn't fit properly with the upper floor inserted.

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Again there's bits in the walls that can be popped out to create firing ports and extra entry ways like what they did in the film.

The hospital like the store house is a great kit.  I'll be using both next week in a game of Malifaux.

Rorke's Drift Storehouse... a tour

I finished my Rorke's Drift store house a few weeks back and thought I'd show it off.

 One slightly disappointing point about this building is that the internal wall that the roof is attached to doesn't line up properly with the outside one.

 The are parts of the walls that can be popped out to create firing holes and access points if you so desire.

Its a pretty impressive kit and I've learned a few things for painting the hospital.  Mainly don't prime the bloody thatch.The hospital is coming along nicely and should be finished in the next day or two.  I've also done a few of the drystone walls.

Zulus! Thousands of them.

Well I've now completed just over a third of the Zulus I need.  Took me a while.

my second unit of unmarried Zulus.

my second unit of married Zulus

and my third unit of married Zulus.

the whole bunch with an over saturation of light


Given that I've been painying a whole load of Zulus lately its quite understandable that I've been getting bored of them.  So to take a wee break from them I've started painting Rorke's Drift itsself.  Here's a work in progress

The roof needs a few more coats to cover the last of the white, unfortunately I've ran out of the colour I was using.  I also paint all the wood, another third of the bricks and maybe darken the bricks too.  I figure that the buildings might work quite nicely on a Malifaux board.

I've also painted some bolter fodder for my Chaos Marines.

I've ordered myself the Stormclaw box set and will be trading the Orks for more Spacewolves with a friend.  So over the next few weeks I'll be painting Spacewolves.  I might even try and get the army finished.  However until that happens I'll just paint more random minis I find on my desk.

Zulu Time Again

I've been painting Zulus again. First up is a finished unit of unmarried Zulu's.

And the start of my second unit of married Zulus

I think that puts me up to 56.  Or to phrase it another about 1/6 of what I need to paint.

I'll get them all based eventually.  I'm planning on basing them all at the same time.  Also on the desk are some more Batman minis and a few warcasters and solos for my Cryx.

Zulu Update

I've finished a war band of married Zulus.  I'm putting them in groups of 24 for easiness sake.  I've also decided that each war band will have different shields to help differentiate between them.  I'm not too happy with the paint job on them, I could have spent a bit more time on them, but I think they're passable, and I do have nearly 300 of them to paint.  They still need based, I'm thinking about doing the whole lot in one go.

I've also done a base of unmarried Zulus.  Not the different shield colours and more flamboyant headgear.

I've also finished Archdomina Makeda for my friends Skorne. I have to say I'm enjoying painting these Skorne fellows. Just got to do his bloodbowl minotaur to go and then that's that commission complete.

 

 

I'm having to take a break from operation Zulu for a couple of weeks.  My gaming group are running a recreation of the D Day landings in a couple of weeks, so I need to get my Germans painted for that.  I'm also trying to get a few of my Batman buildings painted.

The blog is back

I didn't really paint a whole lot last month.  The majority of my gaming revolving around X-Wing, Call of Cthulhu, D&D and a hint of cards against humanity.  However with me staring a new campaign of Quest tomorrow I should be getting back into my regular routine.

So what have I painted I hear you ask? Well I'll show you.

Another 20 red coats.  That makes 40 so far, which is if I remember correctly about two thirds... or maybe half.  I've got another couple of bases half done.  I also started to assemble these...

ZULUS! The ones in this picture are married Zulus.  These are the first of many.  I think they turned out alright.  And they're much quicker to paint up than the British.

A chaos dwarf sorcerer that a friend gave me.  He's a limited edition Forge World miniature from Gamesday a few years back.  And he's going to be featuring in my new Quest campaign.

Having played a game of 40k at an International Tabletop Day event I thought I might do a bit of work on my daemons.  So I painted up one of my blood crushers.

Meet Harry the Bastard, the first player of my new Necromantic Bloodbowl team.  One of the guys at my club is planning a Bloodbowl tournament later in the year, and I'm growing bored of my Skaven and I want to win it so that rules out my goblins, hence the new team.  They play in black, mostly have pun names and go by the team name of the Drakwald Draugr.

Lastly is a Skorne cyclops savage from warmahordes that I'm doing as part of a commission.I think he's turned out alright.  I'm currently working on Tyrant Xerxes, who is actually of my favorite Skorne warlock.
Well that's it for me, until next time, happy wargaming.

Operation Zulu begins

I've finished my first twenty Anglo-Zulu war red coats.  These figures are from warlord games.  And I've based them on chopped up bits of games workshop modular movement tray (most useful gw product ever).  I've based them in groups of four, two standing and two kneeling.  I haven't taken as time on these as I normally would because there's loads of them, and they still need based.  I've got about forty more red coats to do, as well as small wad of natal native contingent, a smattering of officers and a gatling gun.  Then its onto the zulu's.

here they are

Zulu!

Well after a very crappy couple of weeks (my car's engine died and need replaced) I'm back and I've been painting up a storm

First thing's first is The Hero's of Rourke's Drift set from Warlord Games.  My mum bought these for my dad's birthday and got me to paint them.  I have a set of my own that I bought along with Warlord's Rourke's Drift set a couple of years ago that I've never got around to painting but I had so much fun painting these that I've set myself a challenge.  To finish painting all my Anglo-Zulu war stuff by the end of the year.  For those of you familiar with the film Zulu (I watch it several times each year) you will recognize these four.  Starting on the left we have colour sergeant Bourne (Nigel Green), private Henry Hook (James Booth), Lieutenant John Chard (Stanley Baker) and Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine).

And back to my dungeon delving usual

some more old school night goblin netter clubbers

some plastic grave guard.  These will serve a dual purpose, wights for warhammer quest and grave guard for my vampire counts army.

and some plague censer bearers.  Again these will serve a dual purpose of being both adventurer fodder and elite (if you can call any Skaven elite) troops in my Skaven army.

I've also taken on a painting commission for my cousin. 

I'm painting all his space hulk genestealers.  Here's the first four.  I think they've turned up quite nicely.

I'm going to get onto the next batch of genestealers so until next time happy wargaming.