The Clown Prince of Crime

Just a quick update to show off my Joker. I really like they way his suit turned out.

I played my first game of Dreadball last week and thoroughly enjoyed it.  Which is good because I backed the Dreadball Xtreme kickstater with a few of my friends.  Also speaking of kickstarter my Mutant Chronicles Warzone resurrection stuff came last week.  I'll be doing a review on it in the next few days, and I'll be playing a game of it on Wednesday.  And Finally I have another 24 Anglo-Zulu war redcoats on my desk that are about half done.

I am the night

I've done a little bit of painting today.  Mainly Batman and one of the Joker's goons.  I also finished off a few Medusae that I started last week for warhammer quest.

I've also been working on a Necromunda conversion game that I call Horde Mode.  Where a group of survivors must hold out against waves of zombies.  Expect more on this soon.  

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

Lord Skrolk

Just a quick update with some more Warhammer Quest stuff.

Lord Skrolk.  I'm quite chuffed with the dirty look I've managed to pull off here.

A few more goblins.

And an ashigaru from Bushido.  I bought a starter set a while back because I thought they look cool.  I'll find some use for her, I might make up my own rule set for her.

I've decided to set myself a challenge.  I'm going to try and paint all my Anglo-Zulu war stuff before the end of the year.  This includes Rourke's Drift itself.  Could be quite hard going, there's a lot of Zulu's.  Wish me luck.

Commission Complete

Well after a week and a bit of furiously painting genestealers for my friend I'm finished.

All twenty two of them and a broodlord.  Some close ups

Even closer close ups

this one confuses me its almost as if the sculptor forgot one of his arms

he's got the shoulder joint but no arm... and there's two of them in the box.



and the boss beastie the broodlord

Now he also wanted me to turn this chaos lord into an iron warrior

Now its an nice conversion, but was unfortunately was super glued together.  Everything I've tried to strip that's been super glued together has fallen to bits.  So I had to try and paint over the top of it.  There is a few bits poking through but its not that noticeable with the naked eye.

 I think he turned out alright.

I've got a couple games of batman lined up at the club tomorrow.  I might take some pictures.  I'm going to start painting my Joker crew up this week, expect pictures.


Well that's it from me.  Until next time happy wargaming.

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.

Gotham takes shape

Happy New Year!  I hope you all had a good festive season.  I certainly did.  Here's my Christmas gaming haul.

Gears of War, Firefy, Star Munchkin, Munchkin Pathfinder, 2 x-wings, and some bull centaurs.

But that's enough of that for now.  Now onto the meat (actually wood) of the article.  I've been building terrain for the Batman miniatures game.  I got myself the Cityscape starter set from Sarissa Precision.  Its a set of 6 HDF buildings.  I ordered 6 of the small ones.

The buildings come in nice neat individual bags.  There aren't any instructions, only a diagram of the completed building.  However they're really self explanatory.  There's 5 different fronts available.  I got one of each and a duplicates of the one above.

A few shots of the bits.

A completed building.  I've built 4 so far.

Deathstroke added for scale.

I didn't glue the floors together with the thought in mind that I could add the upper floors from some of them to make larger and smaller buildings.

These kits are amazing.  They're very robust.  I dropped one and it didn't even shoogle.  The parts fit very snuggly, however unlike other buildings from similar companies these do need to be glued together.  Another plus of these kits is they smell of burnt wood (mmmm).  I would highly rate these to anyone who wants to play in a modern or futuristic urban setting.

Well that's it from me for now.  Until next happy wargaming.