tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51827649744805450762024-03-20T13:25:36.438+00:00Neil of Orange's Hobby BlogA Blog chronicling the various hobbies I am enjoyingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-23173007381589219662013-10-26T11:23:00.000+01:002013-10-26T11:23:08.847+01:00Moving homeI've been remiss in not posting on this blog a decision I made a couple of months ago.<br />
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I'm now posting on <a href="http://www.mywargame.com/">http://www.mywargame.com/</a> - you'll find there's a more frequent flow of articles on there from several authors on a wider range of topics. I hope you'll follow me there, but if not thanks for becoming a loyal follower here!<br />
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Recent posts I have done are:<br />
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<a href="http://www.mywargame.com/2013/08/17/starting-legion-of-everblight-2-progress-and-journeyman-league-rivals/#.UmuXuvk3t8E" target="_blank">My Everyblight forces for Warmachine/Hordes</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mywargame.com/2013/09/09/reaper-bones-cthulhu-review/#.UmuXt_k3t8E" target="_blank">A review of Reaper's Bones and Cthuhlu</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mywargame.com/2013/10/05/minature-review-ramshackle-rhebok/#.UmuXrPk3t8E" target="_blank">A review of Ramshackle's Rhebok</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mywargame.com/2013/10/15/miniature-review-guild-of-harmony-maria-and-burt/#.UmuXh_k3t8E" target="_blank">Some steampunk minis I turned into Wedding cake toppers</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mywargame.com/2013/10/20/event-round-up-goodbye-to-malifaux-1-5-tournament/#.UmuXZvk3t8E" target="_blank">The final Malifaux 1.5 event I ran</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-38311046526820591382013-08-04T18:15:00.002+01:002013-08-04T18:24:27.149+01:00More Malifaux figuresWell this week I have mostly been painting my kitchen and looking at my much delayed but very exciting Kickstarter goodies - more on those in some future posts hopefully. A heads up that my <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/starting-legion-of-everblight.html" target="_blank">genestealer giveaway</a> ends tomorrow - I am finding I literally can't give them away currently.<br />
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Rather than let the weekend pass without a post, here's some Malifaux figures I've finished this year and not posted for one reason or another.<br />
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First up is a warden I painted for Ian at my local gaming club. He was kind enough to let me have his Shang figure so I offered to fix the warden up and paint it (it was missing a claw). I've used my <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/making-snow-bases-for-miniatures.html" target="_blank">snow base </a>technique here, without the snow that is.<br />
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Next its a couple of Waldgeists. These beasties featured in my <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/malifaux-brawls.html" target="_blank">brawl blog </a>the other week for the first time and I thought I'd show them in a bit more detail. I've used the <a href="http://www.fenrisgames.com/shop.html#!/~/product/category=2202455&id=13780387" target="_blank">Fenris games woodland bases</a> here, extras from my gatorman squad. These are a very recent purchase - with the immenent release of Malifaux version 2.0 I discovered they are useful to a Zoraida crew in the new version and I like the current models. If the new plastic versions are good too, well they fit into at least 3 crews I have (Zoraida, Lillith and Marcus) so it wont hurt to have some variety!<br />
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This ugly critter is an Insidious Madness. Its usable by both my Zoraida and Kirai crew, but I haven't actually put it on the table yet. Clearly inspired by Lovecraftian themes, I added an interesting bit of freehand to the base :)<br />
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These dapper looking ne'er-do-wells are my Wastrels from my long time in progress Lucas McCabe crew. Again using my snow basing technique (plus a few cacti), all of my Guild models will be based on slate (cork) to tie them together visually. These are the only other plastic Wyrd figures I have completed so far aside from <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/yin-penangalan-weekend-painting.html" target="_blank">Yin</a>. I did manage to undercoat these without losing any detail but I have to say they are a challenge to paint with the sculpted details being so fine. I hope I get better at completing them, although I hear the later releases are improving in terms of both the detail and not using such tiny components separately (the bowler hat for example).<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-65300977448057823542013-08-01T20:13:00.001+01:002013-08-01T20:13:54.760+01:00Making snow bases for miniaturesA mid week post!<br />
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As a follow up to my Legion of Orangeblight post, I've put together a quick step by step tutorial of how I made the bases. I like to imagine someone asked me how I did it.<br />
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I also want to remind anyone out there who might be interested that I am giving away some painted Genestealers as a little compo on my <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/starting-legion-of-everblight.html" target="_blank">previous blog post </a>- not many people seem keen so a very good chance you'll get one if you follow the instructions.<br />
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So, snowy bases.<br />
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Step 1: Select your bases. These are 40mm round recessed bases for Hordes figures, but this works for most bases.</div>
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Step 2: The left base is going to be a low base and I need to cover the slot as I will be using sand to texture the base. The right will be raised with stone, using cork, so I dont need to worry about the gap.<br />
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Step 3: PVA. I water the glue down by varying amounts for different uses. At this point its 80% glue, a nice thick coating.<br />
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Step 4: Positioning some cork. This is a 2-3mm thick piece from a tile. Different thicknesses work, depending on the look you are after and what you can find (I'm struggling to find a supply). The cork will stick really firmly to the PVA.</div>
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Step 5: Dipping in sand. I have a tin with sand of all sorts of grades mixed in and some small bits of slate. Whenever I pop to a hobby store and they have some sand I haven't seen before I buy a small bag and add it to my tin. Make sure all the PVA is covered at this stage.<br />
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Step 6: Sealing the sand. (Important!) Once the first coat is <u>completely</u> dry, using more PVA (50% mix this time) I completely coat all the sand with glue. I've found over the years the bottom coat alone will slowly shed sand over time, especially if you play with the figure or transport it a lot, This step helps prevent that somewhat.<br />
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Step 7: While the top coat of PVA was drying I added some more cork to my stony base to raise the level and make it wider - the beastie I have is quite long for his base size. PVA used again (100%).<br />
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Step 8: (Only once everything is dry) position the figures. I'd already put together the figures that these bases were destined for (yes filed, pinned and greenstuff'd like the OCD hobbist I am) and added pins to their feet. Using these as guides I was able to make small holes in the bases. Next I used a pin vice to drill deep holes into the bases so I knew where they would sit once painted - its easier to do this before you do a nice job and then mess it up with a drill!<br />
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Step 9 : Undercoat - your usual choice of black spray<br />
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Step 10: Sand base coat. I'm using GW mournfang brown here.</div>
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Step 11: Dry brush sand. Using a small dry brush I've coated this sand in GW Averland Sunset.</div>
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Step 12 & 13: I missed a couple of photos here! First I base coated the stone in GW Fang and then drybrushed it with both Russ Grey and Fenris Grey. I should have tidied the black edges of the bases at this point - make sure you do.<br />
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Step 14: Snow goo. So my recipe for cheap snow is baking soda and PVA. I mix by eye, till I get the consistency you see here. Just add more powder or glue as needed till you are happy.<br />
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Step 15: Apply snow like paste. Plonk the snow down where you think looks best. I'm still figuring out how best to do this both practically (with a paint brush or modelling tool seems best so far) and aesthetically (it doesn't always look great). You can apply many layers of paste if you like (leave each to dry before adding the next) if you want really deep snow.<br />
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Step 16: Make fluffy snow. Once everything was dry, using PVA (80%) I lightly coated the snow paste and then dusted the bases with baking soda. This will mean that powder will come off the bases for a while (even blowing really hard doesn't remove all the loose powder) but it looks much better than leaving at just the paste stage.<br />
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Step 17: Was tidy up the paint on the bases but I quickly found out that the baking soda sucks paint to it from some distance away so this is not the place to do this. Tidy the bases at step 13.<br />
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Well that's it, hope this is useful and don't forget, <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/starting-legion-of-everblight.html" target="_blank">free Genestealers!</a><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-81936571476822008742013-07-27T08:21:00.002+01:002013-07-27T08:22:50.291+01:00Starting Legion of EverblightOk, this is a long one, but bear with it, there's a competition in here!<br />
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Last year I took the plunge into Privateer Press's Warmachine/ Hordes games by starting a Minions army. My <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/privateer-press-journeyman-league.html" target="_blank">gators</a> have had a few posts of their own but although I like the models, I found their choices limited, their game play restrictive and a bit defensive in what is generally an extremely aggressive game.<br />
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I have been thinking for a while maybe I picked the wrong faction for my play style, certainly when just starting out with a game finding an army you enjoy is important. With the news that my local store <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The7thHeavenGamers" target="_blank">7th Heaven Games</a> was going to run another Journeyman league I thought I'd approach the game with a fresh set of eyes and give it another go.<br />
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After a lot of pondering and reading of the excellent <a href="http://battlecollege.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">BattleCollege</a> I decided that I rather liked the Legion of Everblight.<br />
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These monsters are the babies of a dragon (Everblight) and, in the world of Hordes, Dragons are serious business - essentially Gods or Titans made real. These little critters are only the tip of the iceberg, the whole army is dripping in shark headed dragon things of all sizes so I was really quite tempted. I have issues with some of the infantry models, but the range choice available compared to Minions was enough that even if I ignored the units I didn't like, I'd still have 3 or 4 times more things to choose from!</div>
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As well than my dragon fixation, I noticed the shredders reminded me a lot of the Cheat, so that more or less sealed the deal. Things got sweeter when I found someone (thanks <a href="http://hobbydad.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hobbydad</a>) to share the 2 player starter box with - Legion are one of the two forces in the box and along with a mini rulebook, for the same price as a starter battlebox you get an entire unit of troops extra (big beefy infantry at that).<br />
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Having chosen my new army, I then had to decide how to paint it. I didn't want to use the standard colours if I could find another scheme that worked plus there's 3 other local players with Legion already so I wanted mine to be a bit different. For inspiration I looked on the official forums for ideas (link <a href="http://privateerpressforums.com/showthread.php?15652-Legion-of-Everblight-Group-Shot-Schemes" target="_blank">here</a>).<br />
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I narrowed my inspirations down to 3:<br />
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Some amazing paintwork here and a really interesting idea. Click on the name to go to CloudFang direct on the forum and see more of his work.<br />
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A minor variation of the main scheme and some great paintwork once again. Click on PG_Col_Festus's name to see more. This made me think about how I could tweak the main colours and still have my own flavour.<br />
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The last option was a lot more unusual. CaptainSpud's scheme is, well, orange and you may have noticed on this blog I like orange, although I never paint a lot of it. This chap has featured in the pages of No Quarter magazine so clearly this is a top notch job as well.<br />
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Having chosen three templates, I needed to try them out. I like painting over a black undercoat and while I am happy to take my time, I don't want to go mad with very difficult colours or effects (hello and goodbye yellow). I had some GW Genestealers spare that share a lot of features with the Legion - chitin armour plates, tough skin areas, lots of arms and claws and teeth. Hopefully I would be able to make a decision based on how painting them went. For all the schemes I used GW's current paint range, generally their recommended colour progressions as well. My thinking was I needed to be able to get hold of the colours easily (in order to be able to add to the army for years to come) and if possible avoid mixing highlights to make everything as consistent as I could.<br />
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So here's the CloudFang scheme. This was tough to pull off effectively, maybe a Genestealer isn't the best model to try this on, but it was a lot of effort and didn't really look anything like as good as the original inspiration (CloudFang has done an excellent tutorial on his threads if anyone wants to have a go - black undercoat was the biggest mistake here).</div>
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PG_Col_Festus tweaking the normal scheme inspired me to do something similar, the Genestealer figure inspired this in part, but its also the same colour combo I used on my <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/big-based-undead-nasties.html" target="_blank">Vargheists</a>. I was pleased with how this came out.</div>
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So finally CaptainSpud's colours. I was really hoping this would work but orange can be a difficult colour. It took a fair amount of effort, however the final effect was I think worth it and worthy of consideration.</div>
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Next I went to social media and asked anyone who would share an opinion what they thought of the three. I was secretly hoping for orange, but the blue-purple was a close second. In the end orange got the thumbs up generally so now convinced I wasn't just orange obsessed and it really did work, it was time to get going...</div>
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...and here's the Shredders. Notice how they aren't a million miles away from the Cheat? These little mouths on legs are a lot of fun to paint but there's not a lot of armour on them so I'd need to get to a bigger beastie to see how that looked.<br />
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Orange : Mephiston Red, Troll Slayer Orange, Fire Dragon Bright - Yriel Yellow optional</div>
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Grey : Mechanicus Standard Grey, Dawnstone, Celestra Grey - Nuln Oil wash optional</div>
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Blue : Kantor Blue, Macragge Blue, Altdorf Guard Blue</div>
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Base stone : The Fang, Russ Grey, Fenris Grey</div>
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Base sand : Mournfang Brown, Averland Sunset</div>
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Snow : Baking soda and PVA glue!</div>
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I'm going to try using Jokaero orange over Mephiston Red in future before Troll Slayer Orange as otherwise it takes several coats to go anywhere over red, so hopefully this will save me some time.</div>
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This is Lylyth, my warcaster. I'm still experimenting with the skin tones I want to use on the Nyss (that's northern elves to the uninitiated) but here I've experimented with an orange base blending to a subtle light purple (I don't think you can tell!). The clothes and cloak are orange but with a strong red base. The armour is the chitin grey and as a spot colour I've used dark blue. This wont come up much on the beasts but on infantry there's often too many elements too close together to just use 2 colours to my mind.</div>
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So big beasty time. I was already planning ahead by this point and had bought a Legion heavy warbeast box which comes with the components to make 3 different gribbles. Using magnets I would be able to use all of the options in different games, and with 2 torsos to work with, I had a lot of variety very quickly. My wife pointed out that with the main arms and head removed, the torso actually looks like a cute dinosaur, the black ball joints are the eyes and he has a huge chibi style head so I had to take a shot to share this with you.</div>
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This is the Carnivean mode. The 11 point monster is a bit of a poster child for the Legion so I was more than happy to have him as my first big warbeast. The three shots I think give you a good impression of how the colour scheme translates and I think looks really effective.</div>
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Some shots from the front and rear.</div>
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Here's the Ravagore version, a simple head and upper arm swap and I have a different beast to use in my games, this one is an acid spitting monster (I have a flame/acid spurt effect to add to the mouth once its complete).<br />
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Finally there's the Scythean, a close combat specialist with huge shoulder spines for some reason.<br />
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Here's the battle box group shot, the basic starter force. Its 13 points which is a lot for a battlebox and very effective in the game (unless you are playing against Mark's Stearforge). I've played a lot of games at battlebox level, winning 4 out of 6. At 15 and 25 points I've played 2 games each and just (and I mean really close in some cases) managed to win all 4. I strongly suspect my luck is well overdue a bashing so I'm already at peace with an inevitable string of loses soon!<br />
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That more or less brings me up to date with my new Hordes army, the henceforth named Legion of Orangeblight. The league expands up to 35 points which means I have a lot more things to paint and I hope to show these in my blog over the coming weeks.<br />
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This just leaves the competition. Now I've chosen my colour scheme I've got 3 Genestealers floating around who are in need of a good home. Post a comment below as a registered member of my blog (sorry you can't enter anonymously) if you'd like one - you can state a colour preference if you like and if there's more than 3 people interested, I'll pull names out of a hat. Obviously you'll need to provide me with a postal address at some point - we'll sort that out privately once I announce the winners. You've got until 5th August to post.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-64978697000566801742013-07-21T14:05:00.001+01:002013-07-21T14:45:11.039+01:00Malifaux BrawlsThis weekend I ran an event at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The7thHeavenGamers" target="_blank">7th Heaven Gamers</a> focusing on larger scales Malifaux games. The event was called the "Masquerade Brawl" as a knowing wink to the larger games being called Brawls and many of the players at the liking a bit of a dress up. In all the excitement I didn't get photos of people in their assorted masks (Ian was in a <a href="http://www.aftermath-club.co.uk/campaigns/malifaux/LUCIUS.png" target="_blank">Lucius</a> mask and wig at one point) and in one case full steampunk cos-play (Emily was a heroine in the heat yesterday!).<br />
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Brawls are games where 2 masters can be used and typically larger amount of soulstones are available to hire crews. We decided on 50 soul stones and below you can see the crews that turned up.<br />
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This is Mark's exceptional Arcanist crew. This is more than 50ss but its all the figures he could potentially use during the game due to powerful abilities that allowed models to be summoned, combined or powered up into Avatar form.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Of particular note is the wonderful Avatar Hoffman model Mark has recently completed.</span></div>
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Mark's opponent was Matt C using a combined Misaki and Yan-Lo crew, as Ten-Thunders.<br />
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Here's the Torakage Matt's been working on, its looking really nice.<br />
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On to the next table we had Emily's Jacob crew, playing as Ten Thunders. He was joined at the last minute by Misaki (not shown here). This represents all of Emily's painted figures, but the Thunder will be adding choice soon I'm told.<br />
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Emily's opponent was Andy using Guild, with Peridta and Lucas joining forces to round up some varmits.<br />
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Here's my crew - Neverborn lead by Zoraida with Lilith turning up to help. Most of these figs have been shown on the blog before, but the Waldgeists are new and finished, whereas Lilith and Zoraida's avatar are WIP. I got to play as it wasn't a tournament with time limits, poor Jen had to put up with me answering rule queries but we did get a solid 3 turns in.</div>
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I wanted to show the epic table that Ian and Matt K were playing on, Rob spent 2 days making this Terra-clips masterpiece, its a great showcase for the game. Featuring 2 levels of streets over about half the table and several multi-story buildings it has lots of interesting locations to play over and a nice water fountain feature provided by local game designer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlackRoninRolePlayingGames" target="_blank">Tarran</a>.<br />
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The final shot from the day highlights Mark having a ball with all the large models he could possibly get on the table. Both Ramos and Hoffman have manifested as Avatars here, the Cophee Duet have combined, a peacekeeper is pitching in and, not to be left out, Matt C threw Izamu the Armour in for good measure. Despite how it looks, Hoffman died shortly afterwards as Misaki is a beast in melee.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-27129903704038686222013-07-05T01:54:00.000+01:002013-12-20T09:56:16.180+00:00Time Travelling adventurers from HeresyWow, my post last week is now the most visited page on my blog - thanks to everyone who shared it and my new subscribers. I do have a competition on the way, the prizes are now almost ready so please do subscribe to get a chance at winning! On to the new stuff...<br />
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I've been sitting on this post for a little while as these figures were done as birthday presents for big Dr Who fans I know. Now they are happily with their new owners I can share them.<br />
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<a href="http://www.heresyminiatures.com/shop/" target="_blank">Heresy Miniatures</a> do a wide range of figures for a variety of genres and there's a few of the sci-fi range that with a bit research could be painted up to resemble certain pop culture icons. I selected <a href="http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_64&products_id=152" target="_blank">Dr Hugh</a> and a <a href="http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_60&products_id=319" target="_blank">Sharclon officer</a> as suitable figures.<br />
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So here's Dr Hugh, complete with red sneakers. Very pleased with this chap, looks better in real life but my ongoing battle with my camera aside hopefully you can see how this chap looks. I've noticed that these photos are at the stage where I hadn't quite finished the base, but you get the idea.<br />
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Detail from behind. A nice coat he has on, quite a lot of surface to play with if you like that sort of thing when painting.<br />
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This stout little chap is the Sharclon. I'm really happy with the paint job on this and the sculpt itself is a masterpiece in all the right detail in the right places, the face is wonderful and you get a selection in the pack, including a helmeted version if you prefer that.<br />
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Based to roughly match Dr Hugh, these two figures have ended up in the same household after a couple of birthdays - so now they can face off or band together as the wibbly-wobbly timelines play out!</div>
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Another year another hobby challenge to craft a gift for my wife's birthday. This year the choice was a minion from Despicable Me. You've probably seen the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQQvanCpC3Q" target="_blank">Banana song</a> doing the rounds recently...</div>
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So the question was how to make the little fella. The sage advice my brother gave me for sculpting was to find or make something to sculpt over, so I got myself a kinder egg...</div>
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<a name='more'></a>So after some failed experiments with plasti-card I started work using Milliput. The process was slow as I needed to wait for each element to cure before adding more so I didn't ruin anything I had already done. This means there's a day between each of the progress shots below! Before I started sculpting I glued the kinder egg shut and cut off the bits of the hinge that were sticking out.<br />
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So to start with its basic dungarees shaping and a pair of legs made from some plastic-card tubing. I'd already drilled some holes as guides for the legs and arms at this point so I knew where to avoid.<br />
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First bit of fiddly stuff - the straps over the shoulders. Key to working with any sculpting material is using just enough water to keep it smooth and not sticking to your modelling tool but not so much you are working with runny material.<br />
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With the straps in place, I threaded a paper clip through the waiting holes (which was much harder than I initially thought) and added an arm at a time.<br />
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While the arms were drying I glued some greenstuff feet on to the waiting legs (its actually a failed bunny head from my <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/its-got-nasty-big-pointy-teeth.html" target="_blank">Easter painting comp entry</a> cut in half!) and added some Milliput to cover the tubing. I also started using GW's liquid greenstuff at this point to fill in the gaps around the kinder shell.<br />
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I worked on the hands separately, something I could do while the rest was drying. The banana holding hand I was pleased with but the spare one less so, Milliput isn't idea for fiddly work and I was a bit pushed for time so I bodged it a bit.<br />
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Having ruined a pen, I found a suitable sized round thing for the minion's google - its a bit narrow but the right width at least. I convinced some plasti-card to work as the headband and added some bits of paperclip as hinges. Lots of liquid greenstuff at this stage to fill in all the gaps.<br />
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Finally it all comes together, the hands added after a bit of drilling so they pop onto the end of the paperclip arms perfectly.<br />
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You can see here how much greenstuff was added to smooth things down. There was a lot of careful filing too. Finally he was ready to paint!</div>
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I used new GW paints across the board for this chap, their base colours being strong and vibrant for this project. The little 'G' on his front pocket is freehand, as is the mouth.</div>
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So here he is holding aloft the prized banana. I also added a base at my wife's request, black and while tiles.<br />
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The yellow was a true pain, I really need to consider a different technique the next time it comes up!<br />
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Yes, I did little buttons on the back even.<br />
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The other reason I thought of these this week is that local game designer Taran will be using them at his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/174365956061323/?ref=2" target="_blank">Infected Dead launch event</a> in a few weeks time - check out the link and come face the zombies if you can make it! My own legions of <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/warhammer-zombies.html" target="_blank">zombies</a> from a little while ago are going to join in the carnage, as well as the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqzOeiC0juz7mXy5W7fEJnuwkIX3kJeZrWD0Wy_gehl-VQQBlXoB-71QXhSSwZTQF63M7v9rrAxD2OBLOHgWFj1Pv2RTheu-5M_JESHypsTcdorpkhItf3ml9QUEmSCGMs0s81NhYnvgpm/s400/Ladies.jpg" target="_blank">lady troopers</a> from way back.<br />
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Taran is also responsible for the splendid new banner at the top of the blog, many thanks!<br />
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Taken from their wide range of adventurers and other ranges, these figures are destined to be members of my henchmen squads. Where the troopers I have from <a href="https://www.heresyminiatures.com/shop/" target="_blank">Heresy</a> and Hasslfree are somewhat regimented, this figures are a more rag tag bunch, deliberately so as they are going to be on more dangerous missions, whether embarked in a flyer or acting as melee troops.<br />
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This first lady is, I believe a reference to Seline in Underworld, played by Kate Beckinsale. Regardless, she's a tough looking one in a trenchcoat, bodyglove and packing 2 pistols.</div>
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Arguably this character is the same reference, but I am wondering if its more Kate in Von Helsing. On this figure there's a great sense of movement in the swinging sword arm.<br />
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The huge bloke (no size reference I know, but trust me he's marine scale) is I think a Ghost in the Shell reference to Batou. Wearing a bomber jacket and a t-shirt he's clearly not scared of anything - tiny gun too!<br />
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This gun toting teen is I think Buffy - I chose to give her a pulse rifle as I like the pose but there's no doubt she can handle herself at close range I like to think!<br />
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Lastly here's Hasslefree's own character Libby (who is I think is inspired by Sally White) in the Leia/Jedi cross over style. A great figure and frankly with a light sabre a terror on the tabletop.<br />
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Where these characters had shiny leather elements on them, I've used some clear gloss finish acrylic to make them look the part, I think it works well and I've made sure I have a pot handy now for anything I do - although I have to paint it after varnishing as I use anti-shine spray!<br />
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This is only the first 5 I've completed, I have a bunch more ready to go at some point and Hasslefree have released a whole load more characters since my last order who are great as well!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-91582643808807154292013-06-08T08:57:00.003+01:002013-06-08T08:57:49.507+01:00Twisted Allegiances : Malifaux TournamentLast weekend I ran my second Mailfaux Tournament - another multiplayer extravaganza!<br />
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After the first event earlier this year the feedback was generally "more of the same" so I looked into what I could do. Some lessons learnt from the first time round was to be more prepared and to remind people to turn up promptly!<br />
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With this in mind I worked with Rob, the shop manager to ensure we had all the schemes and strategies printed out and protected to give out to all the players as packs as they arrived. I had registration sorted out using the store PC and I made sure I took photos of all the crews entering the painting this time around.<br />
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I arranged a few votes to determine some of the details of the event and one of the changes this time was to try out a few story encounters. These took a fair bit of play testing and while the first encounter seemed reasonably well rounded, the second was problematic and on the day proved tough make much progress with in the short space of time we had available. The details of the full event pack are <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dsle_SY0eL53g6FydjjKQVDJd22PzkFlfOYFymA478M/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Anyway on to the eye candy. Here's all the crews that entered the painted competition. A huge thanks here to the sheer number of new players and crews that turned up as well as the longer in the tooth players (and their crews) who constantly support these events and games we arrange.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Molly's crew by Si - I love Molly and the crooligans here especially</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Von Schill's crew by Big Simon, bought and painted in the last couple of months - the Orian mere hours since the paint dried!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacob's crew by Emily, painted in what I am calling a canvas style,<br />really interesting and striking effect, even more so in person</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacob's crew by Steve, my old mate. Recently returned to gaming and painting,<br />he's adding more detail to these as he gets chance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zoraida's crew by Jason - its all frogs here with a really nice shared palette<br />and great bases to bring the models together</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicodeem by Matthew, an interesting mix of book 1 and 4 models<br />overshadowed by the huge and grim Killjoy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perdita's crew by Andy - the selection grows as Andy leaves no<br />corner of the guild unexplored for recruits <br />(he married the proxy into the family in one game)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally we have our winner, Rob's Leviticus crew. <br />We have a rule at 7th Heaven - you can keep entering a crew until you win - <br />Rob was narrowly pipped last event, but now he'll have to paint something new!</td></tr>
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One thing I did forget to do was take shots of all the tables, I had spent a fair bit of time constructing a pile of terraclips buildings to help on the day. Before the event started Rob, Steve and I built 5 tables in readiness, you can see hints of them in the crew shots above and there's a few shots I've stolen from Matt below of some games in progress.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Battle at the farm! The noobies take on Rob - Rob suffers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Its Jacob and Jacob vs Lucius and Mei Feng - my Oogie Boogie guest starring here.</td></tr>
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So the day went really well, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, although once again time was the enemy. I'll have to consider how the sort this out for the next event, we'll certainly be doing more before Malifaux 2.0 hits officially.<br />
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The overall placings then were:<br />
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Best Painting: Rob<br />
Best Sportsman: Jason<br />
3rd Place: Jen (very narrowly pipping Ian on a technicality)<br />
2nd Place: Matthew - for the second time just missing the top spot and...<br />
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1st Place: Big Simon - a stunning first place with a clear 2 point lead. Newly into the game Simon is crushing his foes with the combination of Hulk Hogan moustache and giant leaping Iron Man suit.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-52995584945344676182013-05-20T19:52:00.001+01:002013-05-20T20:10:27.556+01:0040k Apocalypse "Big Cap Battle"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Last weekend I posted that I was preparing for a large 40k game. Turns out it wasn't large, it was colossal! I had a great time with the Big Cap gamers and we're already planning what we might do next. I hope you enjoy the pictures and the ramblings that follow, there's a lot of pictures so this might freeze your browser a bit!</div>
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The Big Cap gamers are (left to right) "Slash" Ben, "Viking" Tristan , Ross "Whitehorn", Wiggy the Gnome and Rasta Dave. You are fortunate I wasn't in the shot :)<br />
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<a name='more'></a>So arriving at 9am we got set up at Burton town hall as part of the Beer and Pretzel event happening all weekend. First task was set up a marshalling area and assemble the forces.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The forces of good arrayed for battle!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The assorted forces of destruction!<br />
Tristan turned up after a lot of shots were taken so shown here in small-o-vision are:<br />
The second Leviathan (silver)<br />
The second greater Brass Scorpion,<br />
3 Grey Knight Dreads and<br />
a Dreadknight, all Tristan's</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here we have (left to right):<br />
Deathwing Terminators (mine)<br />
<a href="http://www.filbot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Marko</a> (Ross) - count as Riptide<br />
Spaceshark Terminators (Wiggy)<br />
Riptide and drones (mine)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Spacesharks (Wiggy)<br />
Hammerstein and Mek Quake (mine)<br />
Contemptor Dread (mine)<br />
Sir Bedivere/ Knight Paladin (mine)<br />
2 Sentinels (Ross)<br />
Dark Angel Dread (mine)<br />
Spaceshark Dread (Wiggy)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4 Knights forming the house of Dave, including a Baron<br />
The first Warhound (Ben)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6 Knights forming the house of Ben, including Baron<br />
The loyalist Reaver (Ben)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The reaver again (its so damn big, Ben)<br />
The second warhound (Ben)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The house of Ben, better shot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The house of Dave, better shot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">12 Killer Kanz (Ross)<br />
Bill and Ben the stompers (Wiggy)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first greater Brass Scorpion (Ross)<br />
3 Defilers (Ross)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Chaos Reaver (Ben)<br />
the first<a href="http://dreamforge-games.com/" target="_blank"> Dream Forge</a> Leviathan (Ross)<br />
A Decimator (Dave)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A huge converted counts as Defiler (Dave)<br />
An Ork megadread (Ben, I think!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turn one, dreads, termies and other smaller walkers only!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The end of the table, the termies hide!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tide of Kanz turn up. Ross rolls invisible dice, Tristan doesn't watch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turn 2 forces advance and dig in, the ground is shaking, big things are moving...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turn 4, some Knights turn up yay!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turn 4, I see your Knights and raise you 3 defilers... The titans watch on from afar</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turn 5 more Knights arrive at the opposite flank - somehow some Kanz are still wandering about</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turn 6 All the Knights are here!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As more defilers turn up and my flank looks weak a pair of riptides jet pack in to help save the day</td></tr>
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The forces of destruction bring even more Defilers into the game and finally the first super heavy arrives! Its a Stomper named Bill (or possibly Ben). The ante is upped.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I see your stomper and raise you 2 warhounds (turn 11??)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave tried to order the warhound around sheep dog style with mixed success</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My last terminator throws caution to the wind to advance on the enemy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damage is starting to tell on the Knights, most are on fire...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Argh! Its a Stomper and a Scorpion! Never fear my one terminator with a sword will deal with that...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ross looks pensive as the beer arrives and the Warhounds take aim</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Its a reaver! Good job too, the Leviathans (counts as Warhounds) have turned up as well</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-87589990241044199742013-05-12T10:30:00.000+01:002013-05-12T13:02:01.101+01:00Riptide and Imperial KnightFor the last few weeks (or is it months?) I've had a background task of getting a number of big robots ready for a big fun game of Apocalypse 40k that my brother is organising.<br />
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He and some of his engineering genius friends have a huge collection (both in number and size) of models for the larger game of 40k and they were keen to have a big landmark battle. The <a href="http://www.spiritgames.co.uk/articles.php?menu=11" target="_blank">Beer and Pretzels event</a> @ Spirit Games in Burton is hosting this event so I've been working towards this deadline for a while (as have several others!). You can see various bits of progress by my brother and others on <a href="http://mywargame.com/">MyWargame.com</a>.</div>
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I'm taking a bunch of dreads and some other bits but wanted to have a couple of larger toys to contribute. Ben, the genius behind the Imperial Knight above (and seen in many other places including one of Beasts of Wars' podcasts), helped me acquire and build my own Knight and with the recent Tau releases, a Riptide was my second slot easily chosen.</div>
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So first up is my Knight. This guy has been knocking around my painting table for an age. I posted a preview some time ago promising I'd do him one day. I've been using him as a Dread Knight in my Inquisitor army and his armament and size fits that role well.<br />
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I had a bit of a play on the rear of the Knight as there wasn't a huge amount of bulk here. I've added some ammo boxes and other bits from my bits box to suggest a bigger generator. I found this chap a bit of a challenge to paint, large areas that are quite sooth and in places quite devoid of detail. Its a functional paint job but I feel I could have done better.</div>
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Imperial Knights are organised into houses so have heraldry and ranks and so on much like historical knight households. My Knight is now owned by Inquisitor Coteaz and with my squads split into Red and Blue I had to split this chap down the middle! It also mimics nicely one of the typical heraldic colour splits.<br />
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On to my Riptide. Thinking ahead for once, I wanted to do something interesting with the base. Using my circular cutter I made a large version of the Fire Caste symbol (see in the chest and shield of the Riptide) on the base. Its not exactly scenery, it could be some Tau landing pad I suppose, but in my mind it looked quite cool.<br />
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So here's a before and after shot. The before is blue-tac'd and propped up so the pose is a little different.<br />
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This chap is pretty huge so I spent a lot of time painting him and discovering I'd either rubbed the paint off the edges or managed to smudge wet paint somewhere, and this was doing this in components as well so it could have been worse. I'm not used to painting things this large so I've learnt a few things but overall its a pain.</div>
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I magnetised the main guns and the turret weapons so I can switch and change the load out as I get a better idea of what works in the game. It does mean I ran out of bits to attach the other systems with but never mind!</div>
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So here's the group shot with all the components and the shield/missile drones. Mission compete, now I just need to work out how to transport it safely...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-9331890946061425032013-04-28T14:30:00.000+01:002013-04-28T14:30:02.412+01:00Back to bases<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another week gone by and more hobby goings on to report. I'm currently planning for my next <a href="http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?41729-Multi-player-Tournament-Salisbury-1st-2nd-June&p=534675#post534675" target="_blank">Malifaux tournament </a> so if you can make that you'd be more than welcome.</div>
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I've been working on basing (or re-basing in some cases) my miniatures in better ways since taking up small scale skirmish games. For Malifaux in particular I am picking up minis from the various factions and its an opportunity to use different themes.</div>
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This lady is a gunslinger from the Iron Kingdoms range that Privateer Press supports alongside its RPG. A couple of months ago I took part in a short campaign and this was my character. Long term she's going to appear as a Gunsmith in Malifaux which means she's an Arcanist. I had an idea in my head that I wanted really steampunk bases for any Arcanist figures I get, so I was looking for something special.<br />
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Fortunately I found <a href="http://www.foundationsofwar.co.uk/" target="_blank">Foundations of War</a> on ebay and they had a range of resin bases that matched what I had in mind. Using pieces of clockwork watches they've made some great looking bases. Hopefully you can see from these varied shots how great the detail has come through.<br />
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In case anyone is counting, that's 4 guns shes got :)<br />
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This next chappy is the Arcane Effigy from Malifaux. I've used him in my Zoraida crew (as is her want) to boost the amount of cards and spells the hag gets - especially useful if you are planning to 'Avatar up' during a game.<br />
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This little chap is attached to his based by a pole of metal and it looked a bit naff frankly. This clockwork base was perfect to re-base him onto with the raised central shaft from the cog. I still have 3 more bases from the set, one is already painted and I have a figure in mind to mount on it, so in time that will appear on here.</div>
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These tiny chaps (sorry they are a bit blurry - its because they are so small!) are Malifaux piglets but I am using them collectively as the Lost Love(s) for my Kirai crew. As I have used a Spirited Away theme for that crew, following the film's story her parents have been enchanted and turned into pigs. So while not physically lost, they are spiritually. I've swirled up a bit of wood filler on this base and painted it as mud - seems to fit them nicely.</div>
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Finally a bit of a WIP on my Gatormen posse. I painted the minis <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/privateer-press-journeyman-league.html" target="_blank">a while ago</a>, but my Minion army for Warma-Hordes still isn't based properly. I picked up some woodland path bases from <a href="http://www.fenrisgames.com/" target="_blank">Fenris Games</a> of various sizes and am working my way through the army. This one has a nice little stream sculpted into it which I've added water effect too.</div>
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Quick post this weekend. On passing through my game shop on Friday I couldn't resist picking up Yin, the Penangalan for my Kirai crew (Malifaux again!). I've been working on a lot of hobby projects that trickle on for weeks if not months, so I thought I would buy a fresh mini and get it finished in a weekend as a challenge.</div>
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Here's the box artwork - Yin's an unpleasant looking character and I thought would be a fun mini to paint. Lets see how the art translated to figure.</div>
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Here's the completed figure. I must confess after undercoating I was worried I'd lost a lot of the detail, I didn't look at the figure too closely before spraying and things looked very smooth while the paint was wet! I think it dried largely alright, however I have noticed that the Malifaux plastic miniatures in general have very light/fine detail so I may have to be more careful in undercoating in future, one of my wastrels has a very vague face at the moment!</div>
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Yin is based on an Asian folklore monster, a sort of vampire. Essentially the head and organs of the creature are mobile and the body is left behind. This means painting all manner of gore, organs and mucus - a lot of fun experimenting here! I've used some water effect to make drippy bits of gore hang off the model, gloss paint to make areas shiny and a lot of different ink mixes to get assorted shades of blood. My favourite combination here was using the old GW Dwarf flesh with a red wash over it to get the wormy body colour with muscle tone - very simple and I think very striking.<br />
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Oddly I went for a completely new base style on Yin. I had the idea that the trail of gore she'd leave behind would really have an impact on a more conventionally setting. The black and white tiles of a traditional kitchen for some reason jumped into my head so that was my challenge. Using some plasti-card I got very carried away making little tiles. I even broke one just because. Once neatly painted and with Yin in position, I had to carefully apply pools of gore where I felt they may have splattered - above you can see a small pool growing the from the drip on one of her coils. There's also a large amount of gore where she slithered into position, much like a worm trail.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-12630819899530261872013-04-15T19:11:00.001+01:002013-04-15T19:11:52.939+01:00Big based undead nasties<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I've actually had the first bunch close to completion for a while, they just needed some final details and basing. Its a unit of Vargheists, new additions to the army this latest version of the book.</div>
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The kit allows you to make the winged terrors shown here, or huge ghoul like creatures that really don't float my boat - I'm looking for some werewolves to use instead. I've gone for a slightly unusual colour scheme, using the new GW paints - the space wolf armour progression I think for the skin and a slightly unusual blue to purple blend for the wing membranes and fur.<br />
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Each of the new guys is a completely separate sculpt which makes them all very characterful. The downside is should you get more than 3, the parts aren't multi-pose or even compatible with different bodies, so without converting you are stuck with the same 3 poses over and again.<br />
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This chappy with the extra set of wings is the unit champ, my favourite pose of the 3. I've found the unit to be an interesting addition to my army, so very useful in most match ups if you can save them from being shot! I've based them consistently with the rest of my newly coherent undead, although I've added some small bits of shale to break up the larger bases.<br />
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Next up are the figures I use as spirit swarms who have been around for a while now. I really don't like the current standard models, so I've used instead Lord of the Rings army of the dead models. I've used the metal set that included the king which I don't think is available now, but you do get a lot of plastic warriors in the set now. I've mounted 3 to a 40mm base (what we called Monster bases back in my day, relatively tame these days that size!) and when formed up they do look like a mob of ghostly warriors which is perfect.</div>
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I painted these very easily, I recommend the trick. Painted over a black undercoat (my standard) I dry brushed the entire lot dark grey. I then progressed the grey tone lighter and lighter till I used only the slightest amount of near white paint. Once this was all done, I liberally doused the lot in green wash and ta-da, job done.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-43965470574384513622013-04-01T18:23:00.004+01:002013-06-28T09:40:55.224+01:00Its got nasty, big, pointy teeth...My local games store 7th Heaven ran a painting/ diorama competition this year with an Easter theme - namely there must be a bunny in there somewhere. I didn't have very long to ponder my entry or find different figures, so with my homage-o-meter running on full I decided Monty Python's Holy Grail was my best bet here.<br />
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So here's the finished entry. Our valiant Sir Boris is ready to confront the beast at the cave of Caerbannog complete with a little title card in case its not clear to the casual viewer what's going on<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><b>.</b></span></span></div>
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Facing him is a little bunny I put together in a hurry with green stuff and pro-create (not for any clever reasons, just my green stuff is a bit old so after making a few bits I threw it out and used whatever else I had). Someone pointed out I could have used the <span id="goog_1476504265"></span><span id="goog_1476504266"></span><a href="http://wyrd-games.net/shop/Jackalope.html" target="_blank">Malifaux Jackalope</a> instead - I wish I had thought of that (and had time!) as I do want to add one to my collection, but this little fella did turn out ok and definitely cuter.</div>
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The bunny and the knight are about to duel over a small clutch of Easter eggs as you can see from this shot.<br />
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The base is made from mounting card with a couple of increasingly small circles of foam board stuck on top. Into this thicker base I was able to cut appropriate sized holes for the miniature's bases. Next I used bits of cork, slate and sand to add some texture. All the gaps were filled and smoothed using wood filler. Lastly I scattered a selection of GW skeleton bones around the site to show just how wide the vicious streak this rabbit has is.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-48496261399877015422013-03-11T19:25:00.004+00:002013-03-11T19:25:24.174+00:00Warhammer Zombies!<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well another week gone and I'm a day late posting, but hopefully this was worth the wait! I've added some new gadgets to the sidebar - there's an RSS feed which was a specific request - so enjoy. I've also picked up a few new followers the last few weeks, welcome all - that's doubled my followers to 6! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've not played a huge amount of Warhammer for a while, but a couple of my friends decided we should fix this for 2013 with a slow (continental drift slow) grow "tale of 3 gamers". My friends have limited time for painting, so the plan is to play 500 point games of Warhammer, once a month. Each month we will increase the army size by 20 points and everything must be painted to be fielded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've had a largely painted set of Warhammer armies for some time, Wood Elves, Skaven and Vampire Counts. What I haven't done is spruce these up for years, all of them are really inconsistently based and in need of a fix-me-up. I can't seem to shake my undead fixation, so dispite some misgivings about using them at 500 points I chose them. For reference my friends are using Goblins and Lizardmen, I'll see if they let me take some shots.</span><br />
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Operation: Pimp my zombies was kicked off. I've been sitting on 60 odd GW zombies for ages but recently got some of <a href="http://www.manticgames.com/Shop-Home/Kings-of-War/Undead/Core-Units-Zombies-and-Ghouls/Product/Undead-Zombies-Regiment-30-Figures.html" target="_blank">Mantic's excellent minis</a> (30 to start with) in hope that I'd be inspired to paint a more suitably sized mob. For the GW mob, some rebasing and choice painting was all that was needed to get them ready for the table. My key discovery recently here is the wonder shade <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1500256a" target="_blank">Anthonian Camoshade</a> - seriously douse any figure that needs to be a bit drab over a base coat and your rank and file are done (works with skaven and all manner of swamp folk fantastically). So here we see a GW spruced up and a comedy half zombie from the Mantic sprue - useful where some of my zombies are overreaching themselves a bit!</div>
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As there's so many of the damned things I was keen to try some regimental basing for the zombies. My goblin using friend had a few spare, so here are the results of these experiments. I've added a <a href="http://www.renedra.co.uk/webstore.html#Buildings" target="_blank">gravestone</a> to a couple of them for fun.</div>
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I really like the Mantic zombies, so much more dynamic than GW's and a very good price too.</div>
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I did add a few more GW zombies to the unit as well as few solo Mantic shamblers. All of the new additions were base coated in a strong (but unpleasant) skin tone, light greens, greys, light browns and a yellowish variant. Next loincloths and other assorted clothes were added in darker colours, greens and browns typically. A fairly liberal coating of dark red was added to assorted viscera and wounds and the teeth picked out. This is all hit with camoshade and we're largely done. I've added some brighter red blood to the more dangerous zombies where they've managed to find a meal and made everyone's eyes glow a selection of unpleasant colours using Tausept Ochre as a base, then a bright yellow plus optionally a shade if I wanted a really odd colour, blue or something.</div>
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So here's the entire unit of 48 ranked up - the standard and musician are frankly ancient lead GW figures, which while nice, fall over all the time so I need to sort those out. I could use a banner too.</div>
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Here's them again without the flash - not sure there's much new to see but some of the colours show up differently. The bases are simply sand stuck on with PVA (under and overcoated to stop it coming off) painted dark brown then drybrushed with medium brown. Finally some some more PVA to glue random clumps of flock were added - I like the idea my undead are attacking over broken earthlands.<br />
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To finish, here's a complete army shot of the forces I've previously posted on this blog - essentially my most recent undead additions to my army and all consistently based. Use the labels on the right to see the detailed posts about my Wight Lord, Skeletons and Ghouls.<br />
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The idea is to add to this growing horde by updating my existing collection to a fresher state or paint some of the hordes I have collecting dust (including the other 42 zombies) - or more likely completely new stuff as the evil retailers out there realise that undead are clearly the coolest figures.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-80069636919783797422013-03-03T11:47:00.000+00:002013-03-03T11:47:22.776+00:00Unexpected Agendas TournamentAfter an exciting and fun filled day, here's my write up of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/481671591896151/" target="_blank">Unexpected Agendas</a> tournament that ran on 02/03/2013 at the 7th Heaven Games Shop.<br />
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The tournament was based on encounter driven multi player games, which mean each table had a strong theme. So on a busy Friday night of roleplaying, I snuck into the shop to set up the tables the night before with Rob's help.<br />
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Seamus's evil plans are on display for all to see on the Badlands table - here the Irish madman is going on a killing spree near the dead zone while the Von Schill crew toy with the other half of Sonnia's embattled crew.</div>
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With the tables all set, I thought I was all ready for a busy day of running the tournament. What I had forgotten was the Rob was getting all the agendas (much like schemes in a normal game) printed and I would need to get this cut out before the players arrived. As our first contenders arrived I presented them with sheets of card and scissors and everyone got involved with the Blue Peter spirit! This meant I didn't get photos of everyone's crews, which I apologise for.</div>
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Eventually we had 13 players with all the cards they needed and 4 great looking tables to battle over.</div>
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Here's an in progress shot from the first round battling over the graveyard. The gremlins have found the real Necronomicon and are running away from Kaeris on the warpath with her pet bipedal stream train! Lucius wants in on the action too so is frantically ordering his special forces into the mix.</div>
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Here's a Ronin reinforcement that Matthew hired into his Seamus crew during a game where he was the underdog. Its a turtle fantasy football figure from <a href="http://www.greebo.it/mainsite/" target="_blank">Greebo's</a> upcoming Nippo Goblin range (I got it early from an Indiegogo project). Next to Leonardo is Bryan's hand from late in the second round - it looked like his Viktorias were about to unleash hell with cards like that!<br />
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Here's a battle unfolding on the Mailfaux table, with the Ortegas attempting to sneak into the creepy haunted house early before anyone notices! Big demons have descended upon Ramos while the Viktorias are eyeing up the shape of the fighting and waiting for the right moment to break cover.</div>
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A couple of Andy's new recruits to his guild crew. The Austringer is a homage to Richard O'Brian I'm told. The cards and spell picture next to them is Leviticus casting unnatural wasting on Lillith for a staggering duel total of 30 - she was down 5 wounds after this, only to be punched in the face by Rusty Alice - who would have thought?</div>
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A furious rumble in the bayou is unfolding - the Silurids enjoying the watery scenery. Leviticus is spreading out looking for scrap in ponds while Kaeris lines up some devastating fire-power.<br />
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I managed to snap a few crews on the day - here's Will's Kaeris in situ on the bayou board. They are all mounted on metal grills over furnace like bases.</div>
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Here's Dan's Lillith crew. Great use of Heresy's demon here as an alternative mature Nephilim. Dan won the Sportsmanship award on the day, so well done!<br />
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Here's Karl's Ramos crew which won the best painting award. My photo really doesn't do them justice - combination of bad lighting and a bit too much reflection. There's some lovely subtle colours and highlighting on these figures and the crew look great together on the table. There were some really nice crews in play on the day (see <a href="http://hobbydad.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/whole-crew-together.html" target="_blank">Bryan's here on his own blog</a>) so Karl did well to come top.<br />
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3rd Place went to Louis with his Marcus crew - you can see him in action on the Bayou board above using his dratted frog men to great effect.<br />
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2nd Place went to Matthew with his Seamus crew. Clearly his evil plans worked pretty well.<br />
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1st Place went to Mark with his Kaeris crew, which I really must get a shot of! Mark was great fun to play against, scoring well in the sportsmanship award and he was certainly a contender for painting too. However it was with an eye on the prize that Mark ruthlessly hunted down his agendas (note the Steam Golem bashing his way though gremlins in the graveyard shot above) - to the point of even shooting Kaeris in the back with one of his own models to ensure he spent all of his soulstones in one turn to achieve a personal agenda item - that saw him ultimately victorious. He didn't quite demolish the entire creepy structure in round 2, but it was close and he did manage to land mine about 50% of the figures on the table in one turn as well.<br />
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So that's all done and dusted for this month, but I am pleased to report many players were very keen for more, so I'll be planning something for April. Any excuse to wear a cowboy hat and carry a nerf gun around all day...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-80697836574103305762013-02-17T11:34:00.000+00:002013-02-17T11:34:51.004+00:00Henching for WyrdI've been enjoying Malifaux a lot this past year so after discussion with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Gentleman-Gamer/271236162940159?fref=ts" target="_blank">Matthew</a> the local Henchmen, I've applied for and been accepted into the Henchman ranks for Wyrd Miniatures. This means I can demo games and run events officially on their behalf.<br />
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I'm very excited by this opportunity and have already run a number of demo nights at my local gaming store. Next up is a<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/481671591896151/" target="_blank"> tournament on the 2nd of March</a> - anyone who can make it is welcome!<br />
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Back to some minis then. As the Malifaux league grew last year, I was wondering how to expand my Zoraida crew. The stitched togethers were my first additions, but after those there were a lot of options so I had to decide which way to go. Dolls was one route - with Collodi and his retinue and so on. I'm not a massive fan of some of those models but I do really like the Puppets Wars plastics so I am hoping Wyrd will redo (in plastic) a number of figures in future. Neverborn Nephilim were another route, but that felt more like Lillith's thing so I may come back to that.<br />
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So instead I went the cowboy/shooty route. This isn't all that common from what I understand and the options are limited, but I was really interested in seeing what I could do here. Zoraida is a subtle enhancing leader and can work with anything, in this case I was looking to maximise the amount of bullets I could put in the air. <br />
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First up, the only real Neverborn cowboy option, Tuco. Clearly a reference to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, this chap is an ex-guild Ortega family member who was captured by the Nephilim and has become tainted whilst held in captivity. Now resenting his former clan, he works for the Neverborn to try and reclaim Malifaux. With a bit of "Smooth Criminal" style going on with this figure, I opted to copy the official paint job closely and am pleased with the outcome - although I can see a few chips on the photos so I need to sort those out an finally varnish him! In game he's been amazing. Extremely sneaky, fast and surprisingly durable, he's been a real asset to me.</div>
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Next up is the Brutal Effigy. Created by Zoraida to learn about and exploit the other faction's weaknesses, the Effigies were created in mockery of the very things that made each faction unique. This backfired during 'the event' and the effigies awoke with their own intelligence and agenda - they felt kinship with the factions they were designed to weaken. All this said, the Neverborn can still command them when nearby so Zoraida can make good use of all of them. I have chosen the Guild version, the Brutal, who at once resembles the Judge, death marshals and has 4 horse like legs. This little chap lives up to his name, pretty cheap but hard hitting, he also comes with a pretty easy to cast healing spell that fills a utility gap in my crew. Again I've stayed close to the official paint scheme here and am very happy with the outcome. Thinking ahead to the inevitable Guild crew I will own, I have started basing that faction differently - using cork. My Kirai crew is on wooden boards, my Neverborn on swampy or badlands type bases, I wanted the Guild to be different again.<br />
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Next we have some minis that aren't official Wyrd products (traitor!). I picked up some <a href="http://www.blackscorpionminiatures.com/index.php" target="_blank">Black Scorpion</a> cowboys as the Wyrd equivalents for the minions I wanted to use were't quite what I had in mind - i.e. more cowboys! I've reviewed the complete pack on <a href="http://www.mywargame.com/2013/02/10/review-black-scorpion-miniatures-tombstone-2/" target="_blank">my brother's blog</a>. This slightly over the hill cowboy is my choice of desperate mercenary. Very cheap to hire and in all honestly not great, these mercenaries are an easy way to increase my figure count and get more cowboys in to my game. I've found that having a figure I really don't care about is actually very useful - more than once Tuco has plucked some treasure from the centre of the table, danced back to this guy and then left the poor sucker to lug it round and hide for the rest of the game while Tuco goes back to the party.<br />
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The last cowboy I've managed to squeeze in is this amazing looking chap. The second Black Scorpion figure in my crew, I'm using him as a convict gunslinger. The figure is suitably menacing and ready for mayhem. Ruleswise this guy is where the pain is at, possibly the most bullet based output per soulstone in the game. Combined this with Zoraida's abilities to control her minions, this guy is a one man army with the right cards. I've shot to pieces Dust and Ashes - and the urn he left behind. I've also shot McMourning's face right off. He's good.<br />
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So here's the main part of my Zoraida crew - the figures I've completely painted. Its not quite everything I used in the league, I had some success with the Arcane Effigy and Zoraida's Avatar too, but they aren't finished yet. I never quite got around to using my Spawn Mother or her Gupps, the all fishman crew is surely an experiment for another day :)<br />
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So just to round off on the league (as it finished last year I should really get these catch up posts out of the way!), I was very pleased to find that I had won the league with a combination of winning most games and getting so much of my crew painted. I was also voted best painter, which I am really happy about as a lot of time and effort went into these guys. Most hobby points went to Matthew who painted a huge array of mardi-gras themed undead and best sportsman went to Si, with his Orphelia lead crew and exemplary playing attitude.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-23783187100015340762013-02-09T16:05:00.000+00:002013-07-31T22:38:48.225+01:00Space Marin- erm, Interstellar Commandos?In a week where <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21380003" target="_blank">GW made the news</a> in a way they probably aren't too pleased about, I'm posting about my Grey Knights army that doesn't have any Space Marines, hopefully avoiding any legal issues.<br />
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I've been pretty busy on the hobby front this past week, hence no blog last weekend. I tried out the classic Vampire: The Eternal Struggle CCG last Saturday which was really interesting - I'm sure I'll be giving that another go. Sunday I was helping out at my local shop, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The7thHeavenGamers?fref=ts" target="_blank">7th Heaven Games</a>, rearranging the layout for optimum gaming fun! More gaming tables than ever so come check it out. They are also doing a bit of <a href="http://gogetfunding.com/project/7th-heaven-gamers" target="_blank">fund raising</a> if you are feeling generous- and even if you're not the deals are actually extremely good value anyway!<br />
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On Monday this week I played a 1000 point game of Warhammer 40k verses Will, using his Chaos Space Marines. My Grey Knights army is really an Inquisition force, lots of human henchmen doing the bidding of Inquisitor Coteaz. I've been collecting figures for this on and off for about 18 months now and I can field around 1250 points.<br />
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Slowly expanding the army as I find figures I like is a joy. Its not creating a competitive army (it was never meant to be) so there's no 'must get the new meta-game beater' threat hanging over my thoughts. This latest batch of <a href="http://www.heresyminiatures.com/shop/" target="_blank">Heresy troopers</a> arrived on Christmas day and very pleased I was too. On discovering just how many spare components I had from the character upgrade kit, I ordered another pack of troopers to get the most out of them.</div>
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Here's one of the reasons I was after some new recruits - the special weapons guys, with a normal rifle trooper for reference. 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A rear shot so you can see the amount of kit these models have sculpted on them - ready for anything these troopers!</div>
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As I had 8 figures lined up and am currently running my army's henchmen as two rival 'houses' I needed to paint half blue. Here's the standard troopers I've added. The blues will get special weapon support in the nearish future no fear.</div>
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The other thing I was keen to add to my squads was some leader characters. The character sprue Andy's created to supplement his troopers is great for this, in fact offering too many options for what I needed! To get around this, I've magnetised the options for my two chosen leaders.</div>
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This allows me to run my grizzled commander with a chainsword or powerfist depending on how flush I am feeling and the red guy can switch to just a rifle if the Mantic trooper with powerfist I already have shows up.<br />
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I thought it was a good time for a bit of a recap on just how I was doing with the reds and the blues so here's a couple of group shots. The first shows Coteaz and Frank overseeing the Blue house in full strength from the safe walls of my <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/making-your-own-40k-scenery-part-2.html" target="_blank">big bunker</a>.</div>
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The second shot shows Deadlock (who I can't decide whether will be used as a Paladin or an Inquisitor going forward) standing proud over Red house. The magnetised sergeant has switched to a third combination, I love those little 'rare earth' magnets - try looking for the 2mm ones on ebay if you are interested.<br />
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First up is the Nicodeem crew from the local henchman Matthew. These chaps were painted with a Mardi-Gras theme - Matthew has several versions of Nicodeem now. Since this photo was taken Matthew has progressed his crew to include a totem, an avatar and several unpleasant minions I have yet to face, like Bette Noir. I'll endeavour to get an updated shot once the show down is scheduled!<br />
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Next up is the Marcus crew belonging to Carl. I'm facing this crew again this coming week so it'll be good to see how this has grown since these humble beginnings. I know there's a lot more beasts that could potentially be turning up. I especially like the bases on this crew.<br />
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This is Andy's Perdita crew. Andy is very new to painting minis and it good to see him progressing and working on figures from various games. Andy does have a fairly broad Malifaux guild collection so I hope to see more interesting combinations in the near future. In the back ground you can see a swamp built using the <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/making-your-own-wargames-scenery-swamps.html" target="_blank">guide</a> I posted last year and painted by Rob the <a href="http://gogetfunding.com/project/7th-heaven-gamers" target="_blank">local store owner</a>.<br />
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Largely considered to be the player to beat in the local area, Mark has been running Ramos recently, although he has a large collection of guild figures too. There's some great light source painting here and bold schemes running across the figures. Facing Avatar Ramos, the Coryphee duet and Lazarus in a single crew (roughly 35 soul stones here) was terrifying I can tell you. I managed to take the Coryphee down sacrificing both my Stitched Togethers to achieve this. Lazarus I managed to blast apart with concentrated Avatar Zoraida pins and needles power. After this is was a case of stick to the strategies and schemes to pull off a very narrow win (7-6) and worry about the next time I face this pain train (or possibly Mei Feng now as Mark both owns that crew and the name fits better).</div>
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Finally for today we have Rob's crew, lead by Leviticus. There's some great painting in here, the bright greens and pinks are very eye catching and the skin tone and highlights on the abominations/engine is unusual and effective. An usual crew as they don't get to draw cards in the normal way, the focus is to get Leviticus to die as often as possible and return to life to reap the benefits. Rob's got an interesting collection of figures here, heading largely down the undead path to start, with Guild Autopsies and Punk Zombies. There's a sneaky effigy in here too for some card manipulation tricks. Rob's had some mixed luck with this crew, I was able to keep Leviticus from returning to life by dealing with his waifs (the colourful ladies) with my gunslinger and when all else failed, mind controlling Rusty Alice to finish the job.</div>
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The character in question is Oogie Boogie from Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas". The image below is the source of inspiration for the Snoogie Boogie-man (or Oog-loo?) I've made.<br />
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So why am I all about the Oogie at the moment? Well if you read the last post you'll have seen I've been using some Stitched Togethers in my Zoraida crew for Malifaux. I'm allowed to use 3 of the evil critters, however Wyrd have only made 2 unique figures. This got me thinking, perhaps I could make my own Oogie?<br />
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I've not really done much sculpting before, but I felt big burlap sack monster wouldn't be quite as hard as some figures that exist out there! After consulting <a href="https://www.facebook.com/metalgrindgame" target="_blank">my brother</a> and the interwebs I got cracking. Using paper-clips to make a rough skeleton to sculpt over, I used miliput to make the rough shape of Oogie first.<br />
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After lots of filing and hacking with a craft knife I had an outline I was happy with, so it was on to the detail. Using Pro-create I worked on turning the outline into the character proper. I also took the opportunity to make a themed base, there's a sort of fairground of doom motif in Oogie's lair.</div>
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Next it was on to painting - here's a work in progress shot as I argue with myself over detail I had sculpted and things I had painted for effect - some worked and some didn't make the final version.<br />
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So here he is finished, now holding the fateful die! I didn't sculpt the stitches in the end as it wasn't going well, so I opted for simply painting them and I think it works well enough. I also repainted the die, I got some feedback on my stitched that they were too shiny so I took note and fixed that here.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-9335680079026915892013-01-13T15:29:00.000+00:002013-08-04T18:28:48.287+01:00Stitched TogetherWell its been a while since I updated my blog! For 2013 I am going to try to post smaller updates more often rather than trying to save up for the perfect, but far too long (and daunting to type), posts.<br />
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Looking at my last post the Malifaux hobby league had just started and a lot of games and hobby effort has been and gone since then. I really enjoyed the league and did far better than I had anticipated - I'll hopefully come back to that in another post.<br />
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For today, here's the Stitched Togethers I am now the proud owner of.<br />
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These little critters are some of the more unpleasant characters in my Zoraida crew. Zoraida can create all manner of evil dolls and bestow a mockery of life into them. Based on <a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR9WtzhyaUYZDxWaJQ2hQdMlnwDeqfHQ3EfSNp4WxhwJb7qqplIpQ" target="_blank">Oogie Boogie</a> from the Nightmare Before Christmas (they have abilities such as "Gamble your life" and are clearly little burlap sacks filled full of nasty) I love these figures so its a bonus that they look great and work extremely well in the game too. On this first little figure I extended his head a bit, adding the "pony tail" with some green stuff to make him look even more like Oogie.<br />
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This first sack of unpleasantness is mounted on a raised base that supposed to be a sewer pipe outlet, leaking some nice green ooze. The figures are quite small but in game they are "height 2" which is average so larger bases help remind me and my opponent of this during play. The small die was added to the base to again emphasise the gambling aspect of these guys, plus again they are Oogie's favourite toy in the film.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533686158290173577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182764974480545076.post-14570776303484489462012-10-26T08:08:00.002+01:002013-08-04T18:28:35.046+01:00Return to Malifaux : Starting Zoraida crew<br />
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My ongoing enjoyment of Malifaux has gone up a notch the last couple of weeks. My local gaming shop has kicked off a slow grow hobby league and I was keen to take part. Stealing a bunch of ideas from the Warmachine slow grow league, <a href="http://www.7thheavencrafts.com/" target="_blank">Rob the shop owner</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/clackclickbang/videos?view=0" target="_blank">Matthew the local Wyrd henchman</a> and I (the local OCD organiser and planner) came up with a hobby focused set of league rules.<br />
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The key driver behind the league is getting people to play lots of games of Malifaux, ideally with painted figures. The format allows for an unlimited number of games to be played, by only 12 scores will count. There's lots of fun achievements to earn points for which again focus on trying new things out rather than playing all out to win. Avatars are encouraged, with bonus points for painting them and managing to manifest them.<br />
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So with all these incentives floating about, I looked at my Kirai crew and decided to put her on hold for now. I'm waiting for the new Storm of Shadows Ressers to be released to expand my undead, there's only one or two other figures I really want for Kirai. This means from a hobby point of view there wasn't a lot to inspire me. So it was time to pick another crew.<br />
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I've picked up a Spawn Mother figure as I think the idea of a giant murloc is funny and I really like the miniature. I also like the Silurid figures, so I guess a crew of fishmen was the next logical step. Reading around on the <a href="http://www.wyrd-games.net/forum.php" target="_blank">Wyrd forums</a> and <a href="http://pullmyfinger.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">PullmyFinger wiki</a> it seemed that I could either go Marcus (and focus on beasts) or Zoraida the Hag. My friend Carl was toying with Marcus, so that left me with the Swamp Witch. As it turns out, I am the only Neverborn player representing so I am pleased I chose this crew.<br />
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As the league progresses I will able to change master, but I am not sure I will go that way, there's so many choices the Hag opens up that I am keen to stick with her and also try out the Avatar version.<br />
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The first two weeks of play are based on the starter boxes, with a 20 soul stone limit. Some aren't great selections so we've allowed some changes, but for Zoraida its not a bad start at all. I've used Bad Juju and 2 Silurids consistently - with the boxset coming with 25 SS of men, it was the only sensible choice really. Zoraida can summon a voodoo doll totem for free during the game so that helps a bit.<br />
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I've squeezed in a lot of games these two weeks while the crews are small to get a feel for my crew and give me some leeway if I can't make any of the later weeks.<br />
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<u>Game 1 verses Arcanists (Marcus and Carl)</u><br />
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This first game was my second ever with Zoraida and Carl's first with Marcus. There was quite a lot of head scratching as we figured out what on earth we were doing. The story behind the game seemed to be that Marcus had been encroaching onto the Bayou and Zoraida was going to claim it back. Marcus had left all sorts of valuable things in the areas, some of which I wanted and others he needed to destroy.<br />
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The early game was dominated by bouncing silurids tagging every piece of terrain on the board and a devastatingly effective attack from Bad Juju dealing with Carl's Razorspiner Rattler. I got over confident and left Zoraida somewhat in the open. After Myranda turned into a huge bear, I obeyed her into charging Marcus thinking I had the game sewn up. Turns out Marcus is more wily than that - deftly dodging the bear he covered a huge distance and took a lump out of the Hag. This was followed up by a Waldgiest uprooting what seemed like half the table and attacking Zoraida with an entire forest. Down to 3 wounds the Hag looked even worse than normal.<br />
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Fortunately I got the initiative on a pivotal turn and managed to repulse everything with the Hag, turn into a Raven and get out of dodge. By now Myranda was dying from poison thanks to the voodoo doll and an obeyed Waldgiest charging her giant bear form. The Silurids had finished their tour of the entire table and Bad Juju finally caught up with the Waldgeist.<br />
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End of the game result was a victory for me, but Marcus is a much more powerful master than I think most people think, now Carl knows he's going to be a lot more aggressive and the mistakes I made won't fly next time.<br />
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Matthew is the local henchman and crazed Nicodeem collector - he's got all 3 versions of him, 2 Mortimers and a whole mardi-gras of punk zombies. For the hobby league Matthew started painting a new version of this crew with a Southern/Voodoo theme, so Nicodeem is Baron Samedi, Mortimer is Uncle Reemus (zip-a-dee-do-dah) and the punks are all kinds of day glow.<br />
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This game really worried me as Matthew could summon a lot of punk zombies if the cards were nice to him and I was unlucky enough to get Slaughter as the strategy. On the plus side there was a fair amount of water on the table so my Silurids would be a bit more free to move than normal. Matthew had destroy evidence, so yet again it looked like Zoraida's territory was being invaded and she was having none of it.<br />
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Fortunately between voodoo doll poison and the punk zombie ability 'self mutilate' the undead were falling over themselves time and again, so I was racking up a fair number of kills. Towards the end of the game Matthew picked up the pace, paralysing Zoraida for a turn (even with will power 10!) and killing bad Juju. Finding a nice safe high spot as a Raven, the Hag held on for the last couple of turns, about facing the nearest punks with obey spells and mugging poor Mortimer with both Silurids (zip-a-dee-do-ARGH).<br />
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End result was a solid victory for the Hag, but if the game had gone on much longer attrition would have seen off the Silurids and Matthew would have gained the last piece of evidence he needed to destroy. A very different crew will be needed if I get slaughter again, maybe I should reflip the strategy if I get it, even at the cost of a soul stone to do so.<br />
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<u>Game 3 verses Guild (Perdita and Andy)</u><br />
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Andy has a number of Guild crews and is using the Ortegas for this league. Again the Hag's territory was being disputed, this time I needed to claim the centre of the table. Knowing how tough Perdita was I had to tread carefully here as I could lose any of my models in a single turn if I got into her sights. <br />
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Andy was unfortunate not to bring Francisco with him meaning he had to take Papa Loco. Papa Loco has one of the lowest willpowers in the game which made the voodoo doll and my obey spell all too easy to use and he blew himself up almost immediately. Already on the back foot, Andy struggled to get my men into his sights, using cover and movement tricks to their fullest I was able to avoid almost all of the pain he was threatening. Poor Nino was eaten by fishmen, Santiago ran around confused by obey spells and Perdita was trying to get a bead on Zoraida. Bad Juju appeared on Andy's board edge, claiming a scheme for me. In the dying moments, the fishmen and Zoraid as a raven all flew right up to Perdita to contest the claim. <br />
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Andy had a tough game here and I really started appreciating just how good Silurids can be in this game. I did however get a tough lesson in crews with high willpowers - once Papa Loco was dead it was close to impossible to tell any of the other Ortegas what to do. I need to think about including minions of my own worth obeying, especially with the voodoo doll. Hmm, what to take?<br />
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Right on the heels of seeing off the Ortegas, the gremlin versions of the family turned up in my Bayou. This was a smack down challenge Si and I were looking forward too. Much like Papa Loco, Pere Ravage was an obvious voodoo doll target for me, so I was interested to see how this would go.<br />
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Si wrote the battle up already so here's the brilliantly composed report from Ophelia's perspective...<br />
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<i>Ophelia LaCroix put her back up against the tree and stared about at the swirling mists of the swamp. This one, she'd admit, had not gone to plan. The swamp witch had been sending her scaly critters further into LaCroix territory and Ophelia had figgered this place was as good as any to send the message that she wasn't going to stand for it. The humans had tried to put up one of their stone buildings here and would you lookit, the thing had fallen down. What kind of idiot put a stone building in a swamp anyways? So this was where Ophelia decided to tell the old human woman where the line was. It was, whatsit, a cymbal.</i><br />
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<i>Well, old Pere went racing off as soon as he caught sight of the witch and it sounded like he blew hisself up even faster'n usual. Ophelia had been pushing the boys forward to cover as much ground as possible when the fishy bastits appeared out of nowhere and that was enough to set everyone to shootin'. So much for the plan.</i><br />
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<i>She'd been figgering once the fish-things keeled over - they got awful confused when you got 'em alone and just up and died half the time - she figgered then they'd be doing alright, but everyone hightails it when the swamp man shows up. She'd pumped a lot of lead at the thing from a ways off but once it came in close she knew she'd be hard pushed to do anything but run like a greased pig. That was when Rami blew the damn thing's head clean off, best shot she ever saw, 'course he went down pukin' after that but could have been the diet, there was some bad hog lately. </i><br />
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<i>Francois never had the sense to run so the fishman got riled up and beat him bloody, and Ophelia had had to shoot it to teach it a lesson. Then Raphael started runnin' at her with his gun up like he thought it was his time. Well, Ophelia wa'n't going to let Raphael run the family so when he stumbled to a stop a few yards off she just hollered at him to pack up his things and cool off, and off he stomped. Raphael could clear his head pretty well if he had some time to get his strength up, so she wasn't too worried 'bout that.</i><br />
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<i>'Nother of those fish-beasts had come flyin' out of nowhere just now but he looked pretty damned sick and Ophelia reckoned he didn't have long to go. Ophelia was holding close to the tree for the time being and that was when the raven came cawin' down and settled on the one across the ways, and turned into the old crone. Who ever knew what humans were gonna do next?</i><br />
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<i>Ophelia straightened her shoulders and pulled her hat down low. "This still ain't yer swamp, lady!" she yelled, "'cause this here is my damned tree!"</i><br />
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Si had only 2 gremlins left by the end and with the Reconnoitre strategy this just wasn't going to work. We both picked stake a claim and eye for an eye which lead to some amusing calculations and bluffing as the game came to a close. Although I only had the Hag left at the end of the game, it had very much gone my way.<br />
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The starter crew has been working far better for me than I had expected. I am now looking forward to playing around with what's in my team, but Bad Juju feels like my lucky mascot at the moment. Its up to 25 soul stones next couple of weeks and I can drop figures from the starter box. I am tempted to just add another 5 point model for now and perhaps consider a bigger change at 30 stones - I need to get the Spawn Mother painted then I can consider an all fishman crew!<br />
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The invaded territory plot seems to be the theme of the league for me, being the only Neverborn player I am happy for the story to continue this way for now. Perhaps I'll make her hut later for thematic effect!</div>
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So as promised previously, here's a post on making some swamps. <br />
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I've made these specifically for my Hordes Minion force, but the bigger templates and the technique can definitely be used for other games. I am working on a bigger swamp for Malifaux and we'll see if that's a good size for games like Warhammer and 40k too.<br />
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After the jump you'll get to see, in best Blue Peter style, a step by step of one I made earlier.<br />
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Excuse some of the photography here, most were taken with my phone as I did the work.<br />
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So to start with I have been making my bases for most of my scenery out of mounting card. I am fortunate to have a huge supply of this stuff from a friend of my parents.<br />
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For circular bases I've treated myself to a <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Olfa-Compass-Cutter-cutting-circles/dp/B000BK7NWC" target="_blank">compass cutter</a> which makes the job of cutting these out a doddle. It does limit the size you can make so for my planned bigger swamps I'll have to come up with a different plan.<br />
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Next step is a recent discovery (thanks to <a href="http://robhawkinshobby.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Rob Hawkins</a> from his work on various scenery projects). <br />
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<a href="http://www.powertoolsdirect.com/ronseal-multi-purpose-wood-filler-tube-range?utm_source=google&utm_medium=merchant" target="_blank">Wood filler</a> is used to roughly sculpt out the shape you want your swamp to take. Rather than a simple circular pool a number of broken watery areas looks good, especially on the bigger templates. I've found using a <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1095464" target="_blank">sculpting tool</a> and a lot of water you can move the filler around easily and get a nice goopy finish.<br />
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The filler takes a while to dry, make sure it is thoroughly set before starting the next steps, especially if you've made the stuff quite thick.<br />
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The next couple of steps can done in either order, depending on how you want the details to rest relative to the sand.<br />
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Here I've used green stuff to make some interesting features on the swamp. There's no need but I think it adds something to the terrain. Also there's plenty of sculpting materials out there, I just happened to have some greenstuff nearby.<br />
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Lilly pads are very easy. Roll a ball and squash in place, Then using the tool, make a small slit on one edge. Mushrooms are also easy, roll a ball then pinch the top, then squish into the base.<br />
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The tree stump was more fun. This was a fairly big blob of green stuff that I slowly teased into a sort of volcano shape using the sculpting tool, making bark like lines down the sides over and over. The top was then smoothed flat (using lots of water).<br />
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The stump was sculpted in place so no glue needed, the others I used some PVA to make sure they didn't fall off. Make sure this is dry before moving on to the sanding step. <br />
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To sand the swamp, dilute some PVA about 50/50 with water and then coat the areas you want to be sandy in the mix. I like to leave the smooth edges leading to the pools clear and some random other bits too. The pools I avoid completely, which is why if you are gluing interesting features to the swamp you must wait for those to try before moving on to this step else you'll get sand on those (voice of experience here...).</div>
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Simply dunk the entire swamp into a box filled with a mixture of sands and stones and you're done. Once dry I paint all the sandy areas with a top coat of PVA mix to make sure that sand doesn't come off.</div>
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When this is all dry for the final time I move on to painting. Rather than spray undercoating I use <a href="http://www.greatart.co.uk/DALERROWNEYBLACKGESSOPRIMER-gesso-primer.htm" target="_blank">Gesso Primer</a> to add a bit of texture and protection to the swamp. Key here is the water effect I have doesn't play well with PVA so a nice thick coat of primer avoids this problem.<br />
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The base coat I have used is a GW 'base' paint called Dryad Bark. Any dark brown will do, but I find the base paints are especially good at covering in relatively few coats.<br />
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After the base coat I move through a number of brighter browns using a thick brush and the 'wet brushing' technique. This is where rather than diligently painting every nook and cranny you paint a little slapdash over the texture of the model, leaving some areas with the darker colours exposed. Unlike dry brushing this technique requires you have a fair amount of paint loaded on the brush. For a swamp this effect works well I find. I've used GW's old Scorched Brown (I'm sure there's a new equivalent) and the new Mournfang Brown to get progressively brighter.<br />
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The last stage on this step is properly dry brushing the sand. I've used the old Tausept Ochre, again I'm sure a new version exists. This is a light browny-orange colour and its important to dry brush this carefully otherwise its a bit of a colour jump from the darker browns.<br />
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Moving on to greens, I've used a variety of different shades to wet and dry brush colour in places that feel right and all over the pond/ water areas. I also shade the sandy areas the GW's <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat800004a&prodId=prod1500256a" target="_blank">Anthonian Camoshade</a> (this stuff is amazing for anything organically brown or green ).<br />
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Nearly done now. The penultimate step is painting any details you may have added. Here I've painted up some cute mushrooms and the tree stump is quite cartoony and bright ways to add some splashes of different colour to the swamp.<br />
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Once everything is dried I have been adding GW's water effect to the pools. I am not sure I like this product so I wont link it! I'm pretty sure that a clear gloss would achieve the same effect as the GW stuff dries to a molecule thick coating despite going on pretty thick. This is disappointing because while it is wet the thick coating looks really good! I am tempted to try some other water effect products to see if the final look of the water can be improved.<br />
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So here's the 4 swamps I have finished to various effects - now destined for battlefields many and varied hopefully.<br />
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This first swamp is the one shown in most of the WIP shots, now with added water effect. Oooo shiny.<br />
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Here's another big one, here I used an old GW tree stump rather than sculpt it and there's lots of little pools of water rather than a couple of big ones. I've also added some grass tufts.<br />
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This is a smaller pool and I've used a skeleton casualty marker as a bit of interest here (from a Mantic skeleton kit).<br />
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The final small pool I've made is a bit different. Here I embedded half of an undead horse into the swamp at quite an early stage so I could partially submerge it and add some sand to areas too. The water here is actually lots of layers of PVA so its a bit milky but I rather like the unpleasant effect it gives to this particular piece.<br />
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Some weeks a lot of projects come together all at once - its one of those this post. I've been playing some bits of the new edition of 40k and with so many space marine armies around in our local group I was keen to bring something not in powered armour to the table. As I've posted <a href="http://neiloforange.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/sci-fi-troopers-from-heresy-and.html" target="_blank">previously </a>I'm collecting a Grey Knights army based around Inquisition troops and various other sci-fi miniatures I am interested in.</div>
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Very recently I got a copy of <a href="http://www.manticgames.com/Shop-Home/Project-Pandora.html" target="_blank">Mantic's Project Pandora</a> as I was keen to try the game as I had heard good things from <a href="http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Frontline Gamer</a> and the <a href="http://quirkworthy.com/" target="_blank">designer himself</a>. My ulterior motive was to get some of Mantic's Corporation figures to see if they would be another good source of troopers for my slowly growing force.</div>
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So what do I make of these guys? They are roughly the right size to go with my Heresy and Hasslefree troops, although somewhat more spindly (possibly more realistic but less fun!). The figures come with very limited options - a few alternate heads and a few special weapons (which I elected not to use). Not the end of the world in my experience, but even the repeated 3 fixed pose bodies are very similar meaning the overall look of the squad is very repetitive.</div>
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The figures arrived already removed from sprues so I'm not quite sure whether what comes in the game box is the same as what's in the squad box if you buy them separately. I also discovered the plastic is somewhat different to the previous plastic Mantic used, superglue being a better choice with this stuff than liquid poly.</div>
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The guns I found really hard to paint for some reason, especially given the industrial polymer (or 'grey') look I am using on my guys. They also look slightly bent to me - see the blue dude above.</div>
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Like the rest of the troopers so far, I'm continuing the red and blue squad split. I was originally planning to make each squad a different colour, but this limits the intermixing I can do - especially as I don't know what figures I will eventually put in the army overall. Inquisition henchmen squads have a lot of options.<br />
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Overall I didn't much enjoy painting this squad, the model's details are quite shallow which means most of the detail is sort of hinted at rather than nicely raised and accessible to paint - especially for rank and file troops (potentially as cheap as 3 points each) I'm not willing to spend a lot of time teasing out subtle details! The guys do fit into the rest of my troopers reasonably well, especially when mixed in. I don't think I'll be getting any more of these to increase my army size and I fear these chaps will long be the first casualties from a squad (which in the new rules means putting them in front...)</div>
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So moving on, and to prove I'm not unfairly judging these guys, its time to show off some other figures from my growing force. I'm still experimenting with the best way to get photos of my figs (I will give up and get a lightbox at some point) so excuse the spam here!</div>
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First up and key to the selections I am making is <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1190021a" target="_blank">Inquisitor Coteaz</a>. By taking this dude as my HQ I get to take henchmen as troops rather than elites, allowing me up to 6 squads!</div>
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This is the first Finecast figure I got from GW and despite a few issues (I had to sculpt a new finger, fix a toecap and a few bubbles) the detail is exceptional on this thing. I've since varnished it, but for the first few games he was unprotected and no paint rubbed away so the material seems to be pretty good if you can get a good casting. My Mannfred Von Carstein on foot is story for another day...<br />
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In contrast to my issues with the Mantic guys, this figure was sculpted to be painted. Despite the density of the detail in places I had no trouble going to town on him and am very pleased with the final result. I also changed the skin tone as a nice reference to Samuel L. Jackson in Star Wars - you'll notice the hammer has a purple (s)haft.</div>
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Next up is another Hasslefree figure, <a href="http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=the-smudgester~hfp015&category=miniatures~aliens%2C-animals-%26-monsters" target="_blank">the Smudgester</a>. Despite being tiny (that's a 25mm base he's on) he's full of character and perfect for use as a Jokaero in my henchmen. I quite like the orang-outangs of 40k but this guy is even cooler if you ask me. He also reminds me a man-hound character from the <a href="http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/Ravenor-The-Omnibus.html" target="_blank">Ravenor series</a> of novels called Fyflank - we'll come back to his owner in future. The Jokaero are also quite small and have some unique abilities in game, the key one illustrated by this figure is being able to fire one of a variety of very heavy weapons each turn so I am very happy with this proxy. I've named him Frank in reference to Men In Black's little alien talking Pug dog.<br />
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Next up are a couple more ABC warriors (from <a href="http://wargamesfoundry.com/fantasy_ranges/single_packs/2000ad/any/abc_warriors_black_blood_ro_jaws_deadlock_2000ad019/?sector_id=&PHPSESSID=a702a5badb1e928bdb8a9259bd86c156" target="_blank">Foundry</a>) - I'm getting close to having them all done now. This is Deadlock who despite being generally a nice model has a pretty awful sword blade - I might replace it at some point. So aside from being armed with a spatula like weapon this is another figure I like a lot with a lot of cape to go to town painting. In game so far I've used him as a lone Paladin - yes I've actually got a Grey Knight (proxy) in my Grey Knight army, don't worry there wont be many! Turns out having a unit of one is quite a lot of fun and the rules aren't a bad match for Deadlock's character.</div>
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Here's Ro-Jaws. He's a toilet cleaning bot in the stories, so I use him as a servitor, it sort of fits. I've upgraded the heating unit in his head to a multi-melta so he can do more than just fling poop at my opponent.</div>
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Finally (usually for me) some sneak previews of future bits for this force.</div>
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First up is a <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1680&bih=935&tbm=isch&tbnid=EnAxoAXS5E_DTM:&imgrefurl=http://www.houseofpaincakes.com/2011_03_13_archive.html&docid=lKnfJpFcG7zAbM&imgurl=http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/1143/epic8.jpg&w=1098&h=1667&ei=XTdoUKj0J-L80QXLg4DICw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=1457&vpy=254&dur=3137&hovh=277&hovw=182&tx=140&ty=130&sig=102675467530383164943&page=1&tbnh=137&tbnw=88&start=0&ndsp=44&ved=1t:429,r:16,s:0,i:117" target="_blank">Knight Paladin</a> figure. Based on a design a friend of mine came up with using pieces from all sorts of GW kits, this huge figure (that's a Dreadnought base) is a reference to the <a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/31727/games-workshop-epic-system-6mm-games-in-the-warham" target="_blank">Epic</a> games of yesteryear. I've decided to use this as a Dreadknight - if I ever get my Mongrol built I'll have 2 then!<br />
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To finish here's my first Chimera proxy. Its a land train/ bull dozer thing from <a href="http://www.ramshacklegames.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ramshackle games</a>. This was a bit of a pain to build but it looks great (and check out the prices) so I may just get several more when they reopen their store. They are roughly the right size and again fit in with another character theme I am working towards in this force.<br />
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