Quick Update

This week I've been mostly painting Warhammer Quest monsters.  For this installment I've got a right mixed bag.  So without further a do, lets get on to the mini's.

First up is gw's Sartosan vampire.  I really like this one.  He might look a little bit effeminate with his long robes and ruffled collar, but I personally think he's quite intimidating.  He's covered in armour plates (all very stylized) and has a stake driven though his right shoulder.  I also like the way he's holding his swords in an underhanded grip.  I think he's going to be my new foot general for my vampire counts army.

Next up is a herd of beastmen, again from gw.  I painted these up quick and dirty.  More fodder monsters form my party to chew through.

Finally we have a gigantic spider.  This mini is from Heresy miniatures and its huge.  I have three of these bad boys.  I've included a beastman in the third picture for scale.  I've tried to make it look fleshy and gross... well grosser.  I don't know how this is going to go down at the club, we've a few arachnophobes.  I personally like spiders, their cute... ok that one isn't but real ones are.

Bonus update.

I finished my Victoria of the Ashes.  I love this mini.

Well that's it for now, until next time happy wargaming.

Woot! my gencon order arrived

I got my gencon Malifaux order through the door yesterday.  And boy am I impressed.  I've only assemble the Victoria's thus far and all I can say is wow!

Wyrd have really improved on these plastic boxes.  If you remember back to my Jacob Lynch review the major problems I found with it were no instructions, slotta bases and gaps.  The Victoria's box has none of these.

Also unlike the Dark Debts crew the Hired Swords come on separate sprues.  This really made finding the components for each miniature a lot easier, especially the ronin sprue.  The came 3 to a sprue but were split into 3 sections labeled 1-3.

SOLID BASES! I grinned from ear to ear when I saw these.

 The instructions are very easy to follow.

The cards are still double sided but don't fold, they're also less cluttered with rules.  Which means they fit in card protectors.  The cards are also thicker and better quality.

First up is the Victoria of Ashes.  She is the crew's master.  This model is beautiful.  The sculpt is beautiful, the pose works well.  Not only does she look feminine but she also looks pretty bad ass.  She's my favourite out of the bunch.

Next is the Victoria of Blood.  She is one of this crew's henchmen (there's 2).  I love the pose on this one.  Not too sure whether she's drawing or sheathing her sword, but she looks cool.  She was a little fiddly to put together, getting both halves of the scabbard to fit together was a pain in the bum.

Next is the second henchman Taelor.  I love her massive sledgehammer.  The pose is great, looks like she's just swung that hammer.  Did I mention the hammer was huge?  Another thing I noticed is that she has a mechanical arm.  I never owned the original metal one, but looking at the pictures I always thought it was just armoured.

Next up is the student of conflict.  She's teensy.  Obviously a little girl who wants to be  warrior.  She's covered in books and scrolls and has her glasses sitting on her forehead.  Quite a quirky model.

Last are the ronin.  I love the animesque style sculpts.  The don't look over the top cartoony, look feminine and look quite threatening.  I might pick up another box of these when they come out.  Has anyone noticed that the whole crew is quite leggy?

I love this crew and I think I'm going to use them a lot.  I really can't wait to paint them.  Wyrd have really out done themselves here.  Well I'm going to leave it there for now, and start assembling my Herald of Obliteration box.

I found my camera, update time

Well I'm not dead.  Sorry there's been on updates from me for while.  So what's been going on.  Well I got a new PC.  During the computer swap I misplaced my camera, and since I think that this blog would be a wee bitty boring without pictures, I didn't do any updates.  I also went on holiday.  However I have not been idle.  Prepare for a barrage of pictures.

Lets start on a warhammer quest front.  Its still proving extremely popular at my gaming club.  I've got a hardcore group of 5, whose characters are doing really well.  Especially one guy's home brew warrior priest of Ulrik that has effectively become the hulk, he tanked his way through twelve chaos warriors .  On top of those guys almost everyone else has had a shot, as characters who will occasionally drop in and out when a space becomes available.  And it turns out that calling a barbarian Conan is a death sentence, for some reason they keep dying.  But the games of warhammer quest will be taking a break for a few weeks as our Priest of Ulrik is of to the US for a few weeks.  I'm still going to paint things up while he's gone, I'm determined to kill that priest.  Now onto some pictures.

First up we've got some ghosts from Reaper Miniatures.  I really like the ones with the invisible limbs.

And here are some classic games workshop goblin netters.  I have another 4 waiting to join the queue.

Here's some classic GW mummies.  One of the proved a challenge for my party.  I wonder what all 4 would do to the priest.

And a wad of skeleton archers.  Or fodder as they're role up to now has been.  Would that make them arrow fodder?  Ha ha! I'm hilarious.

Some more heroes. First up is the chaos warrior, which is the armoured Big Boris from Heresy Miniatures.  This one is being played by one of our party members.  Doesn't kill much, but is wearing so much armour that he's immune to S3 attacks.  Next up is a witch hunter from GW.  The only thing I dislike about this miniature is that fact its finecr... I mean finecast.  Admittedly he was a joy to paint.  Lastly we have a female barbarian again from Heresy.  She is very much the valkyrie.  I really like this sculpt, the pose is nice and rather unusually for a female fantasy miniature she's quite curvy.

Lastly is the skaven warlord from the Island of Blood boxed set.  I've had him sitting around for ages and decided it was time to paint him.

Finally here's a bunch of kabalite warriors I painted for a tournament that never actually happened.  

Well that's it for this installment.  Next time more warhammer quest monsters and evil doers.  Until next time happy wargaming.