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.