tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501176870490865912024-03-10T03:46:34.390+01:00The Figure FanaticLaffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.comBlogger333125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-9965801216025014682020-05-01T00:06:00.002+02:002020-05-01T00:06:34.046+02:00Who craps in the forest?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Bears. Bears crap in the forest.<br />
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Got myself a bear family from <a href="https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Bear-Mum-and-Cubs-3/p/103470561/category=21735086" target="_blank">Bad Squiddo Games</a> a while back. Somehow I seem to be in some kind of animal painting mood right now.<br />
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The bears were quickly painted using Citadel Contrast paints, mostly Fyreslayer Flesh for the fur.<br />
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When it came to basing though, I wanted to convey that foresty look, so I glued a lot of moss and leaves to the bases instead of the usual tufts.<br />
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I also found a set of mushrooms from Ristuls that I had forgotten about. They were also bought from Bad Squiddo, although that particular set seem to be OOP. They have lots of other useful scenics and basing stuff though.<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-68106295710786797982020-04-24T21:10:00.000+02:002020-04-24T21:10:01.856+02:00Bad Piggies!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm not dead yet!!!<br />
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I painted up the Bad Squiddo Games' <a href="https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Pigs-at-the-Farm-8/p/150983599/category=22056044" target="_blank">Pigs at the farm set</a> for our Penguin Easter Challenge.<br />
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I mounted all the pieces on a base on which I added a <a href="https://www.renedra.co.uk/product.php?product=276" target="_blank">Renedra outbuilding</a>. After painting all the things I tarted up the base with Vallejo earth paste, various tufts (also available from <a href="https://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Gamers-Grass-Basing-Tufts/c/20887971/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc" target="_blank">Bad Squiddo Games</a>) and pig-ments (oink oink).<br />
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I decided to base the pigs on 25mm round bases. This way they can be moved out of the way of any troops fighting over the farm, be captured or even used as unit fillers.<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-14899083160962186842019-03-04T00:16:00.000+01:002019-03-04T17:08:30.463+01:00Assembling an invasion force.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Six weeks to go, and it's time to put a dent in the pile of shame. For this year's convention game we are doing Holland 1940 with lots of dastardly German fallschirmjäger raining down on the happless Dutch defenders. I actually had more than a platoon of German paratroopers bought about 20 years ago; a mix of Wargames Foundry and Crusader miniatures. About a squad were painted and another squad and a half basecoated and in various stages of completion. Unfortunately all were based on standard Games Workshop bases which I have since abandondoned for historical games. So rebaseing were in order.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh the joys of rebasing. At the same time I fitted the figures on to team bases from Sarissa.</td></tr>
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<a name='more'></a>I dabbled a bit with Test of Honour last year and fell in love with their round three's-a-crowd movement trays used to denote a group of Ashigaru. When I saw that Sarissa was doing a <a href="https://sarissa-precision.com/collections/new-releases/products/mortal-gods-basing-set" target="_blank">base pack for Test of Courage</a> (the ancient Greece reskin of Tesf of Honour) I ordered a pack with the aim of using them for my Fallschirmjäger. In participation games it is sometimes confusing for the players what figures are manning the machine gun and what figures can shoot their rifles. This will be an easy way of that. They are also useful for various three-man teams like engineers and flamethrowers. The black bases above are acrylic that I bought from eBay that also has some team bases for prone figures. Sadly the seller seems to have stopped selling them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Time to to do a headcount. Missing a rifleman from the back row. The multiple bases work fine for MG teams.</td></tr>
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The acrylic bases, Renedra bases and Warlord bases I use are all 25mm so are interchangeable. However, the Sarissa bases seems to be an inch (or 25.4 mm) so I can fit the other bases in the Sarissa trays, but the Sarissa bases will not fit into the acrylic trays... hopefully there won't be an issue.<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-35272240832443342832019-02-23T00:43:00.000+01:002019-02-23T00:43:06.107+01:00The Dwarfs of Whatever<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So despite my opinions on the Oathmark Dwarfs in my <a href="https://figurfanatikern.blogspot.com/2019/02/oathmark-dwarves-review-and-some.html" target="_blank">previous blogpost</a> I soldiered on and assembled the whole box of figures. The problem was I had no clue what rules I'm going to use with these figures. Now the actual rules doesn't matter as much as the army lists for said ruleset which dictates how many figures you need in a unit and how many figures you can have a maximum of.<br />
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My top contenders for the rulesets are, in alphabetical order:<br />
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<li>Dragon Rampant</li>
<li>Dux Britanniarum (with the unofficial Dux Arda mod).</li>
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<li>Warlords of Erehwon</li>
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I'm actually not counting Games Workshop's Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game because I think they sort of jumped the gun with the Hobbit movie rules, and I have no interest in forking out £35 for the new rulebook to see if they have changed anything, and then £35 for the army book of each army I want to play. (I'm not criticising their business model but I already buy the big expensive books for 40k so I'm thinking enough is enough.)<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Taking a look at the sprues I decided to build all the standing bodies (there are two variants) with spears. With six sprues this would give me a unit of twelve spear dwarves. Looking at the army lists for the rules I know this seemed to work well:<br />
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<li>Dragon Rampant has units consisting of six or twelve figures normally. </li>
<li>Dux Britanniarum has units of six figures, with the exception of skirmish missile troops and cavalry that are four figures per unit. </li>
<li>Oathmark I know nothing about, except that it uses square bases, so presumably blocks of figures. </li>
<li>Finally, Warlords of Erehwon have units of five to ten figures (except for Cavalry that are fewer figures). </li>
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Do you see the pattern here? If I build a unit of twelve spears and a unit of twelve hand weapons I can use them as is for Dragon Rampant or split them into four units of six figures for Dux Arda, and if I take away two figures they work for Warlords of Erehwon. The remaining six figures could be built as archers, making a small unit for each of the games.<br />
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So the plan was to build twelve spearmen, twelve axe/sword/hammers and six scout/archer types. Then I remembered the metal figures I also bought. So I decided to use two of them as champions for my big units, giving me a further two skirmish figures. They would be of no use in Dragon Rampant, but could bolster the archers in Warlords of Erehwon, and in Dux Arda this would give me two units of skirmishers.<br />
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I cut out all the bodies and glued them to 20mm MDF bases I had left over from another project (Undead for Kings of War, if you must ask). They had holes for using magnets to secure the bases to a movement tray. I arranged the bodies in to their respective units to keep track of what weapons each body would get, but also to try to ensure that I varied the heads in each unit enough. I plan on ordering unit trays for these if I find the Oathmark rules interesting. That way I can ensure the unit get a big enough footprint although the figures are based on smaller round bases. (Foot prints are important in Rank and File games.)<br />
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With the plan ready I got cracking. I didn't do many conversion, but I used some bow arms as shield arms to vary the poses a bit. I gave the unit of swordsmen all helmeted heads (except for a grumpy bald one) but mixed things up a bit with the spearmen, giving some hoods. In contrast none of the skirmishers got a helmet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The unit of archers</td></tr>
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When I assembled the archers I dug out some unused Frostgrave bits to try and tart them up a bit. I wanted to convey that ranger look. Then it got into my head to have some fun with the last two bodies, so one of them got a big hammer from the Frostgrave cultists sprue and the other got a pair of hammers. I was thinking of giving them bows across their backs and a quiver, but I thought it would look too over the top so I didn't... I also made up two left over frostgrave soldiers, one of them turned into a zombie, oh dear.<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's hammer time! Also a comparison between the Oathmark dwarves and Frostgrave soldiers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A couple of backpacks, a small axe and a pouch with a dagger were gifted to these dwarfs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A small pouch, another small axe and a potion (or is it booze) give these dwarfs some character.</td></tr>
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While looking for the bases I also dug up a couple of <a href="https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/movement-trays/dux-brit-zombie-trays/" target="_blank">Dux Britanniarum movement trays</a> so I went ahead and took a couple of pictures with the figures in Dux Arda mode.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two units of dwarfs in "blob" formation -- "formering skithög" as it is known in Sweden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The spearmen in a Shield Wall formation. Looks good with all those spears and shields.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The two units of skirmishers.It doesn't matter that a couple of them forgot their bows, they can still skirmish!</td></tr>
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And finally a comparison with a couple of GW LotR figures. Unfortunately the Oathmark dwarfs are built a wee bit more robust, especially the heads.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"It was the first time Gloin encountered the giant dwarfs."</td></tr>
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In all fairness the Oathmark dwarfs look good together in units.</div>
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-22089357325979962942019-02-20T22:46:00.001+01:002019-02-23T00:43:57.283+01:00Oathmark Dwarves, a review and some thoughts.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As a long time dwarf afficionado -- the fantasy literature kind of dwarf -- I was very curious when Northstar brought out a set of plastic dwarves. The set is in the same vein as their Frostgrave plastics, but geared towards unit building rather than skirmish warband. Thus it contains a whopping 30 miniatures (compared to the 20 in a Frostgrave box) but with more limited equipment options.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The box art. Nice innit?</td></tr>
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Apparently the nice Mr McCullough of Frostgrave fame is writing a set of fantasy battle rules for Osprey, due out later this year, but the figures were released in 2018 already. There are also goblins, elves and human sets out already.</div>
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<a name='more'></a>I was sorely tempted by these when they were released, but I couldn't really convince myself that I needed more dwarfs when I have a massive Warhammer Dwarf army mostly in metal sitting in a large GW carry case out in the shed. (Not to mention all those nice Leadadventure dwarfs I recently bought to make a Frostgrave and/or Open Combat warband out of.) But during the christmas break I played a game of Dux Gondorianum/Lard of the Rings (<a href="http://figurfanatikern.blogspot.com/2019/01/build-me-army-worthy-of-mordor.html" target="_blank">see last blog post</a>) and I got the notion of doing a dwarf army. I want to play more Lord of the Rings inspired games, and while the GW figure range is excellent it is much too costly. The Oathmark dwarfs on the other hand are cheap and seemed suitably Tolkien-esque. So I snatched up a box from <a href="https://badsquiddogames.com/" target="_blank">Bad Squiddo Games</a> along with a pack of metal characters.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each box contains six identical sprues like these, making a total of 30 figures.</td></tr>
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So let's get to the nitty gritty of it all then. Each sprue contains five chainmail clad bodies, with enough arms and weapons to outfit each miniature the same way; so you can build five figures with bows or five figures with spear and shield or five figures with hand weapon and shield, or a mix. Each sprue further contains ten heads to allow you to mix things up a bit, as well as parts to make a champion and a standard bearer (including an eleventh head with extra ornate helmet). It all sounds good on paper, but the execution is not that good, as we shall see when we go into the details.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ten heads. Only a mother could love those faces. Or a wargamer.</td></tr>
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The faces are nicely done with scowls and scraggly beards. But of the ten heads only four have helmets. Five have some kind of hoods or soft caps while the last head is bare and bald. I would have loved a couple of more helmets to be honest.</div>
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The command bits are nice, although the crest on the champion's helmet plugs into a slot in the back of the head which needs to be filled. It would have been far better to have a plain helmet and have the crest fit onto any of the helmeted heads. That way you could have done a small elite group with similar helmets but different faces, and you wouldn't need to fill anything. The champion's axe is suitably imposing but the other weapons are a bit too plain -- but I see the point of moving away from the GW uber-detailed Age of Sigmar figures.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hand weapons included, a nice mix of sharp and blunt implements.</td></tr>
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And here we come to the first of the problems I have with this set. Three of the weapon arms generally hold the weapon at some sort of ready pose at shoulder height. One arms holds the sword aloft as if shouting "charge" and pointing it in the general direction of the enemy. The last arm is at an angle to the body so looks unnatural if mounted in any other way than downwards. The champion's arm also hold the weapon aloft into the air, but at a right angle to the body instead of pointing it forward. (I call the pose "Oh look what I found."). </div>
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The spear arms are ok, but judging from the hanging piece of chainmail they are all meant to hold the spear upright so I ended up using all the "standing about" bodies for spears. The bow arms are functional, some arms hold the bow out straight in a firing pose, other have the bow lower as if just fired or perhaps moving with it in hand. The right arms either look like holding an arrow or are open like just having loosen an arrow off. Curiously no arrows are provided, although quivers are included. These hang low off the belts and look like they would tip out all the arrows on the ground at any moment. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Test figures I assembled from the first sprue, mounted on 20mm round MDF bases.</td></tr>
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The shield arms are even worse, all holding the shield tight to the body at shoulder height. This wouldn't be so bad even if it looks a bit uncomfortable if it wasn't for the fact that the shields will butt up against the faces, which means you have a problem with the beard and shield occupying the same space... I fixed this on some of the figures by using bow arms with the bow cut off to have a more relaxed pose with the shield lowered.</div>
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I feel that the set is a bit hit and miss. No hand weapons are provided for the archers and no scabbards for the sword arms either. It's hard but not impossible to do any dynamic poses but most of the figures will end up quite static looking, which is a shame. I also had to trim the necks a bit to get the heads to fit behind the shields properly. It almost feels like the sculptor made a bunch of parts without testing any to see how they went together. </div>
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-59977682307108818262019-01-06T01:11:00.002+01:002019-01-06T01:11:44.091+01:00Build me an army worthy of Mordor!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Dear Internet, I haven't written in a long time. It's not you, it's me. Truth to be told there haven't been much to write about, but I though the new year would be a nice time to make an effort and restart the blog. We'll see how long it lasts this time, but at least I have something to write about right now. (I also painted something, skip to the end if you just want to see the pretty pictures.)<br />
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Just before the new year I met up with my fellow Scandinavian Lardies (or Lardie Penguins) Jocke, Koen and Thomas for our annual shits and giggles game. In a moment of hubris we decided to play Dux Gondorianum -- which is more or less just <a href="https://toofatlardies.co.uk/product-category/dux-britanniarum/" target="_blank">Dux Britanniarum</a> with Lord of the Rings figures.<br />
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Dux Brit is a large dark age skirmish game from Too Fat Lardies which is quite brilliant if you fancy playing saxons vs romano-britons. Which is nice, I guess, but we don't have any of those kinds of miniatures or any connection to that bit of history. What we do have is a lot of Games Workshop's Uruk Hai, Gondorians and Rohirrim. The biggest hordes of painted stuff belongs to Koen and Thomas as I sold most of my Uruks and Riders of Rohan to Thomas a while back. Still, I had a handful of painted Mordor Orcs and a bunch of Wargames Foundry viking archers that didn't look too out of place in a Rohan Army. For some reason I even had two Grishnak!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my Grishnaks leads the charge!</td></tr>
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<a name='more'></a>We hadn't played in two years so the rules were a bit hazy and to top it off Koen had found more adapted force lists on the <a href="http://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">War to end all Blogs</a> blog. It feels a bit more Middle Earthy to have Uruks behave like Uruks rather than Saxons. (Unless Saxons did in fact fight, look and smell like Uruk-Hai, but I'm no historian.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Koen even had a Cave Troll!</td></tr>
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Even though the battle was drawn out by numerous rules discussions and tactics debates it was a fun battle and I realised just how much I miss fantasy gaming.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas said "I will make the charge on anything but three ones." Don't tempt the Dice Gods, Thomas.</td></tr>
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Back home again I had a rummage around my stash to see if I could locate more Mordor stuff which I knew I had somewhere. I did find a bunch of old metals that were all based with gravel glued to their bases. Some were sprayed black a long time ago while others were still bare metal. (I also found several versions of the Fellowship and 48 plastic moria goblins, but no sign of the dwarves I remember buying... I must dig deeper.) I couldn't resist painting some orcs so I selected four of the black primed orcs and just slapped some browns and a reds and metal on them and then let several washes do most of the highlight and shading.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A WIP shot of the first four painted figures of 2019, they were done on the third of January.</td></tr>
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<br />I then did a few touch ups and called them done. They are not masterpieces but they are more than table worthy. And they are orcs, the sloppy slap-dash painting style actually suits the models. I didn't time myself but I thought they took no time at all, so I decided to press on with five more and both document the method and time the different steps and the total time. So here goes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wet brush Calthan Brown all over the black, making sure to get a good coverage. 15 minutes spent.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paint various clothings Khorne Red or Zandri Dust, fur and fletches Celestra Grey. Time 30 minutes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wargames Foundry Flesh (base) on the skin and P3 Pig Iron on the metals. 40 minutes spent on this stage.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Touchups with Khorne Red on the clothes, highlighted faces and knuckles with Foundry Flesh (mid) and then washed with Reikland Flesh shade to tone the contrast down. Teeth were done with White Scar and finally the bases were drybrushed Rakarth Flesh. Time for the last stage 20 minutes.</td></tr>
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Not counting drying times I spent two hours painting five figures. That's 24 minutes per figure, not bad. After that I treated the bases to some tufts, cleaned up the edges and varnished them, along with the four previous figures. Then I took some nice photos of the lot!<br />
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So will 2019 see a return to Middle Earth for me? I think so. We are looking at maybe trying Dragon Rampant to see if it suits our playstyle better then Dux Brit/Dux Gondorianum. While we are Lardie fan boys we do recognise that there are other rules writers out there.<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-41214437716610792282018-07-26T10:00:00.000+02:002018-07-26T10:00:54.717+02:00Kill Team Surprise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So I got a surprise package from the mailman yesterday.<br />
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I spent some time assembling the small ruins from the 'C' sprues while the video was uploading.<br />
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There were three of these sprues, allowing you to make all of the above. In the box their are five more sprues of three different types allowing you to build higher ruins with full height walls.<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-47075717233558032012018-05-04T00:29:00.004+02:002018-05-04T00:29:46.642+02:00DarkOps townhouse build and review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi gang! As I said in my last post I ordered the What a Tanker! dashboard from <a href="https://www.darkops.co.uk/" target="_blank">DarkOps</a>. Now they have a lot of MDF buildings as well, so I thought I'd try one out as I hadn't heard of them previously.<br />
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The townhouse comes on 7 sheets of MDF, one of which is the base. Four are 2mm MDF and three are 3mm thick; upon closer inspection the base and outer walls (and the inside partitioning wall) are all on the thicker sheets. Now, here's the first drawback: there weren't any instructions included! I searched on the DarkOps site but couldn't find any downloads. But how hard can it be? I decided to crack on.<br />
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I started by cutting out all the wall and roof parts along and undercoating them with grey spray primer to seal them. Now, the nature of MDF is that it soaks up paint a lot, so spray priming is a good thing. Some people use hairspray to seal the MDF before priming even, but I skipped this stage since I didn't have any hairspray and didn't want to waste my precious Tamiya Flat Varnish. This led to the primer being randomly absorbed by the MDF even during the second coat, drying in a sort of speckled pattern that I quite liked.<br />
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Only the outer walls have tabs that go into the base and other walls, so I started with them. Getting the side walls to stay in place when you fit the other walls almost takes three hands, but by inserting them halfway into the base you get a lot of help. Don't forget the partition wall at this stage since you can't fit it when all four outside walls are in place. When everything is where it should be, gently press the whole assembly into the base and run PVA glue in all the joints on the inside to fix it in place. Leave it to dry a bit before proceeding, but if you don't allow it to dry fully you can adjust the pieces slightly when fitting the next part. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When the walls are all lined up gently press them down into the base.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The outhouses in the back are added while the glue is still wet.</td></tr>
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At this stage let the glue dry completely before proceeding.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now add the inner walls, one at a time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You might want to paint them first, something I figured out after gluing the first one...</td></tr>
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The inner walls are a wee bit thinner and also have nice etched details like window sills and bare stonework here and there. They also give 3D effect to the windows making them a bit recessed. It's a good idea to paint the window frames and other details before glueing the inside walls in place.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The doors are in two halves that you have to glue together. My doors were about a millimeter off centre though.</td></tr>
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At this point I was beginning to think about the doors. They have a square peg that fits in a round hole in the base and a cutout in the outer walls, and is held in place by the inside walls and the outside door frame. However, if you want them to open and close you have to paint them before fitting them inside, which means before glueing all the outside woodwork in place.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paint the doors and door frames before gluing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A square peg in a round hole? Do it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Make sure the doors can open. I had to carve the pegs a wee bit to make them swivel propely.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then carefully glue the wood work to hold the doors in place.</td></tr>
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I had to make a decision about painting on the fly. Originally I was going to paint the house after assembly like I always do, but I realised it would probably be a lot harder and messier. So what colour should the house be? As I like the speckled grey effect of the primer I let it be and then only painted the details. I left the woodwork the original (burnt) MDF colour but painted the door and windows frames of the first home blue, while the second home got green doors instead. I don't know if it's typically french, but I wanted some splash of colour on the house!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Work your way around the house...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and glue all the wood work in place.</td></tr>
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The wood work is cleverly designed so it not only holds the doors in place, but also covers all the joints in the MDF.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glue the roof supports together.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and let it dry in place on the house to ensure a correct fit when the glue has set.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As always, test fit. The roof can be made removeable, except for the outhouse roofs.</td></tr>
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The roof is next. It's easier to assemble than it looks, and the inner walls have slots in them for the roof support beams to sit in. I let the beams dry completely before affixing the roof. Don't glue the beams to the walls so you will be able to lift the roof off.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paint the roof a suitable colour. Park your cromwell outside like a boss.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some simple weathering can be added in the form of dark or light streaks going down the roof.</td></tr>
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As you can see the kit is quite simple to build but yields a good result. There are some clever solutions, for instance how the wood work hides almost all the joins. The building has a nice heft to it from the 5 mm (in total) thick walls and it is big enough to hide your tank behind (or your infantry inside)... For 19 pounds it's well worth the money, and the inside details were a nice surprise that I didn't expect at that price. DarkOps has a ruined version as well as a Boulangerie and a Black Smith's house that look very interesting.<br />
<br />There are some small drawbacks though. The first is that there are no instructions, neither in the package nor online. But as you can see, with a little preparation and careful dryfitting there are no major problems. The second drawback is that there are no chimneys included. The building is sort of aimed att WW2 although can be used earlier, but in any way it's the sort of home that typically would have a wood stove. Also the style suggests it's a semidetached house with home for two families and would therefore have two chimneys. My third complaint is that there is no ridge to the roof, so I hade to make it out of airdrying clay. Small nitpicks yes, but still detractions, especially as there are room on one of the boards to include parts for chimneys. If not chimneys, then perhaps a wheel barrow or a couple of benches could have been put in that space.<br />
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On the plus side the model scrubs up nicely without much effort. I was thinking of putting some clay on the walls to simulate plaster and get a nice 3D effect and then painting it all, but I feel that the building is table ready as it is.<br />
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I give the <a href="https://www.darkops.co.uk/collections/28mm-world-war-ii/products/dark-history-town-houses" target="_blank">Darkops Townhouse</a> 4 burnt MDF boards out of 5.<br />
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Happy gaming!</div>
Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-17378231123257151202018-04-25T00:17:00.000+02:002019-03-09T14:58:03.806+01:00What a Tanker accessories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
They say when it rains it pours. Only two days after I received <a href="http://figurfanatikern.blogspot.se/2018/04/blood-red-skies-unboxing.html" target="_blank">Blood Red Skies</a>, What a Tanker arrived in my mailbox with a resounding thud. If you haven't been around, What a Tanker is <a href="https://toofatlardies.co.uk/" target="_blank">Too Fat Lardies'</a> answer to the Tanks game that was released about a year ago.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's a German tank with the commander in the open hatch on both covers. The similarities end there.</td></tr>
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<a name='more'></a>To be fair, the Lardies' game has been in development for quite some time so is not inspired or trying to take market shares from Gale Force 9 or anything. While both games are "Tank skirmish" games the former is a fun and furious romp which simulates the difficulties of coordinating your tank crew, while the latter is an excuse to sell more toys. It's quite fun I hear, but I've never played it since it played a bit too fast and loose with realism for my tastes. Anyways, I've been busy reading the rules, painting tanks (and buying some new ones) and generally trying to get some toys ready for play.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Rubicon M10, Warlord (Italeri) Churchill... and... something completely different.</td></tr>
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A funny thing I realised was that undercoating British vehicles and Nurgle models used almost the exact same colours. All those muted pale greens are perfect for military models too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After a black wash to tone down the necrotic flesh basecoat, I used Death Guard Green as highlights.</td></tr>
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Naturally, me being me, I got bored with painting tanks and decided to finish a German MG team that had been on my painting table a couple of months now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At least they are finished now.</td></tr>
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On the What A Tanker facebook group a chap showed off his MDF laser cut dashboard for WaT, and I thought "By golly, I gotta get me one of those." It turned out the chap operates the <a href="https://www.darkops.co.uk/" target="_blank">DarkOps </a>store, who happens to feature some very nice MDF terrain kits of different flavours too.<br />
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So today another thud was heard from the mailbox and lo an behold, there was a lump of MDF inside it. Like a starved pitbull I teared the cover from the package to reveal the treasures inside.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Naturally, I couldn't just order a dashboard, I just had to order a house as well. More terrain!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the parts for the dashboard. It has little sliders and wheels you can turn to mark various statuses.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the parts for the house... except the base. That's a lot of MDF.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">....and the base for the house.</td></tr>
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I was surprised of the amount of MDF included. There are both inner and outer wall details and it's possible to make the doors open and close. Quite a good value for £19. What's not included though is instructions, neither for the house nor the dashboard, but I think I will be able to figure it out.<br />
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Happy gaming!<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-85791706071423174832018-04-12T00:36:00.005+02:002018-04-12T08:21:11.955+02:00Blood Red Skies unboxing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oh... Time flies like an arrow apparently, it's been a while. I've been busy... hobbying... working... generally just doing things but not finding the time to write about them. But enough about that, what about Blood Red Skies?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The box in all it's shinyness</td></tr>
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I got intrigued by a couple of articles and a gameplay video that Warlord released in the autumn; one particular thing that drew me in was that the rules were written by Andy Chambers, of GW fame. He has written some of my favourite games and devised a lot of clever mechanics. Unfortunately a lot of the games he has written has not been big hits, through no fault of the rules. I'm thinking of Dust Warfare for instance. The basic rules were available as a download and they had some innovative ideas that further piqued my interest, so I preordered the game. Unfortunately the production was delayed (it was originally supposed to be released by christmas) but finally I have it in my grubby hands.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Opening the box reveals a lot of pretty planes and a couple of rules pamphlets.</td></tr>
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I will not go into the details of the rules before I have played them, but they utilise a nice mechanic of tracking planes' statuses relating to eachother instead of height. Wether a plane is at 3 angels or 500 feet is of no consequence, what is important is if that plane has an advantage over another plane or not. This status represents both altitude and other factors and is shown by tilting the plane models on their special flight stands.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting the rules out of the way reveals dice, decals, cards and flight stands.</td></tr>
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The box feels a bit empty when you open it up. The majority of the space is just air, but I suppose it's to keep the models from being damaged. They fit snug into compartments in a plastic insert that is provided. Oh, if you can't tell that's six Messerschmitt 109's and six Spitfires.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rummaging around a bit more reveals more cards. </td></tr>
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The basic rules are 16 pages long, with the expanded rules booklet a mere 12 pages (which includes game credits). You do get a deck of 42 action cards so I guess a lot of the tactics might lie in card management. The scenario is also 16 pages and tells you how to choose your forces and pick a scenario as well as using the national trait cards. Finally it has five scenarios and rules for bombers since one scenario is escort duty. But there are no bombers in the box you say?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lifting out the plastic tray reveals a quick reference sheet -- there are two so you get one per side.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next some cardstock -- clouds which functions as terrain and pilot chits for the flight stands.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The clouds are doublesides showing balloons on the other side. You get two sheets of these too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next a sheet with counters, movement templates and British Blenheim bombers. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You only get one of these but I wanted to show the other side which has German Dorniers.</td></tr>
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Last some shots of the miniatures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wait, that's not a Hurricane?</td></tr>
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As I stated earlier you get twelve miniatures in the box, six messerschmitts and six spitfires. But if you preordered in december you would get a free Bolton Paul Defiant. At the launch there are only one fighter per nation available -- and I wasn't so interested in the pacific or the eastern front -- so having another type of fighter for the Battle of Britain, even if I got just one, is an immense upgrade.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The details are quite nice, even though the turret looks a wee bit awkward.</td></tr>
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The Defiant came in it's own little box with a flight stand, plane card and pilot chits. No decals though but I can probably manage.<br />
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There are squadron boxes and ace personalities released, but I hope Warlord will release more different planes soon, I want the Hurricanes and the Messerschmitt 110's too, and Stukas of course.<br />
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For now I leave you with this.<br />
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Tally ho, and happy gaming!</div>
Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-33995984268307024402017-10-10T23:36:00.001+02:002017-10-11T16:35:03.048+02:00A mousterious package arrives...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So this package landed on my doorstep. Or in my mailbox, but you get the meaning.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice little Thank you sticker inside the lid, and lots of bubble wrap! Weeee!</td></tr>
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It turned out to be that <a href="http://www.oathswornminiatures.co.uk/" target="_blank">Oathsworn </a>Burrows and Badgers kickstarter I backed. Oathsworn did a royal screw-up and delivered all the stuff one month before the planned completion date. Those guys must be amateurs. (Real pros like Flying Frog Production let their customers wait more than three years for their stuff.)<br />
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But what's inside?<br />
<a name='more'></a>"Burrows and Badgers?" I hear you say, "Wazzat?"<br />
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Well, It's a game featuring anthropomorphic animals, mostly different kinds of rodents but with the occasional fox or raven thrown in for good measure. I'm not into furry things really, but I have backed a couple of Oathsworn's previous kickstarters, most notably the "Heroines in sensible shoes" range, but also their Dwarven Brewers (sadly unavailable now). So I like their style and their business ethos, and each kickstarter has featured a couple of resin freebies. Their previous kickstarter was also for Burrows and Badgers, but had a bigger terrain piece as an extra (more about that further down). So this time I mostly backed for the resin terrain. One cannot have too much terrain really.<br />
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(Apologies for the bad photos, it's hard to photograph white resin.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First the freebies, a pewter coin and a mousling monk.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I added some scatter terrain; a well, a chopping block and a cauldron of... bubbles, toil and trouble?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I also added this rat warrior from their regular B&B range that turned out to be huge.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now for the main course; the mousling house! Cute! It will work equally well as a gnome or hobbit house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rear window...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and kitchen entrance.</td></tr>
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While photographing the stuff I realised I never put the previous stuff up on my blog, so I dug them out in all their pristine unpainted glory.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The arcane circle I got with the Senible Shoes 2 kickstarter.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The top of the stone circle has a cutout for three different insets. Here's the arcane symbols one.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All three; bubbling pit of something (stew, lava?), ancient stone altar, and the arcane symbols.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Also included were eight standing stones spelling out "Oathsworn" in runes. (I know they are the wrong order in the pic!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those freebies were a mouse scribe and a mole. The treasure chest is from Sensible Shoes 2 I think...</td></tr>
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Some comparison shots for size. And I have no idea why a lot of the pics are tilted...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big rat with the cauldron and a Frostgrave soldier.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the first Heroines in sensible shoes and the frostgrave soldier check out the mouse house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That ancient circle is big.</td></tr>
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As I said, I like terrain. I don't think you can have too much of it, as long as it isn't allt he same. That mouse house will bring a certain flavour to the table and be a nice change from the regular ruins or Warhammer style houses I have. The arcane circle is a nice centerpiece objective and the three different infills can be used to provide variety and can even be used on their own. The standing stones can be used one or two to bring some mystical air to a forest or in a circle as place of power or an objective too. Lastly the well, chopping block and cauldron are all nice pieces of scatter terrain to bring that "lived in" feeling to the gaming table, wether I'm playing Warhammer, Frostgrave or Open Combat.<br />
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In case you feel inspired to get some of your own they are all available at <a href="http://www.oathswornminiatures.co.uk/c/4562764/1/terrain.html" target="_blank">Oathsworn</a>. And in case you want to know more about the Burrows and Badgers game you can download the rules at <a href="http://burrowsandbadgers.com/">http://burrowsandbadgers.com/</a><br />
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Happy gaming!</div>
Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-49657861595047540192017-10-01T14:46:00.000+02:002017-10-01T14:49:34.984+02:00The Plague Brethren<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
... or Stink bros?<br />
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I couldn't resist this "limited" boxed set with three more plague marines. I love the new plague marines, and despite knowing that a proper plastic boxed set is on the horizon, and despite having about 50 old and semi-old metal plague marines, these were a must buy. Prize-wise they are 25 quid (or 300 Swedish Krona) for three ordinary plastic figures which is a bit steep. But who cares, money will be worthless when the Trumpocalypse comes anyway.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They come in this snazzy box. Can I please have this as a giant poster, pretty please with sugar on top?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first thing you see when you open the box is a booklet with the same illustration on.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are actually two booklets. One is the designer's notes and the other is the building instructions.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...underneath the booklets is a flap that lifts up to reveal some art cards.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All feature art by John Blance, but none is actually of any of the models in this box.</td></tr>
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Ok, a quick break here, I have to get something off my chest. I'm a big fan of John Blanche's visions and style, but some of his art is actually very bad. I like the plague marine and the pox walker on the art cards above, they are quite evocative and disturbing. If you look closer though, you realise John's method of colouring his art is just drawing some swathes of water colours in the general area he wants colour, hoping most of it will be inside the lines he drew. One is actually of Mortarion, the great Death Guard primarch, but you couldn't tell if the picture didn't have the caption. I stared at the picture for like five minutes without being able to tell where his head is. I suppose it's a case of the Emperor's new clothes syndrome, nobody dares criticise John Blanche at GW and just prints whatever he produces.<br />
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Back to the box though, are there actually any minis inside?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes there are! Note the three individual slots for the bases which I thought was bisarre.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The three figures, free from their cardboard prison at last! Still on sprues though...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...something soon remedied. (apologies for the slightly out of focus photo).</td></tr>
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The three miniatures are quality sculpts as we have come to expect of GW nowadays. They are all "monopose" meaning you can't assemble them in any other way than designed, at least not without using a lot of green stuff. That said, the leftmost figure has his arms as separate parts, meaning you could swap them for other arms you might get when the true multipart boxed set is released.<br />
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The Plague Brethren all harken back to the old style death guard in different ways but incorporating the new design elements at the same time. For example one of them has a regular style backpack similar to what chaos marines have had for the last 20 years or so, and two have the familiar spiked helmet. There are some nice details like the leader (middle in the picture) showing no sign of mutation even though his armour is decayed and mended, while the melta gunner has spare barrels for his gun strapped to his backpack. The nurgling included is great, although I'm not sure what that lump on the end of the stick is supposed to be. I'm going to mount him on a separate base, perhaps he can be used as an objective marker.<br />
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All in all, if you are a true Death Guard fan, then these are a must. If you just play 40k and have chosen Death Guard as they are newest faction or like they playing style then you better wait for the real boxed set as this one is a bit costly. For the same amount of money you could pick up a second copy of First Strike including three plague marines and eight pox troopers, as well as some Primaris Marines you can trade with some Imperium player.<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-42650416917088783772017-08-26T00:57:00.001+02:002017-08-26T00:57:34.086+02:00Back To Basics: Wargames Foundry Home Guard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
(Warning: a small rant ahead. Pictures of models after the break, if you want to skip ahead.)<br />
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So I've sort of hit painter's block... I do paint... but I seem to take ages, not finish stuff other than the occasional odd miniature here and there. I buy stuff, build them, start paint a couple and then... I loose interest. It's just not the Wargamer's Attention Deficit Disorder, otherwise known as the Magpie or "OOh shiny" syndrome. Oh I got that too, but this is something else.<br />
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I was thinking back to when I started in the hobby. You bought a thing. Built it. Painted it. Played with it within a week or so. Sometimes you had a big project (like that Tamiya 1:35 Möbelwagen). If you didn't have the correct paint you used another, or mixed a couple of paints to a rough estimate of the box cover art. Things were simpler back then, I thought.<br />
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But no... things weren't simpler, my methods were. Now we have 200 or somewhere abouts paints in the GW range, many of them technical paints, some are dry, some are layer paints, some are washes and some are glazes, some are base paints. Back then you had paints, and inks. You could thin the paints to make washes, use the inks for pin washes or glazes, and you could wipe all of your paint from the brush for drybrushing. You drybrushed or highlighted, washed or pin washed, and that was it.<br />
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Don't get me wrong, all the new techniques, all the new kinds of paints are fantastic. You can do some amazing things. But they also lead to overcomplication. Do I need to paint every model like it could belong in the 'Eavy Metal section of White Dwarf? No, but I try to. It's partially because the models have become better and more detailed so they lure you into a complicated paint job. Back then the models often had unadorned armour, maybe the odd spike or symbol somewhere. If you wanted to you could freehand something or put a decal on it. Nowadays the armours are sculpted with lots of details and 3d insignia that beckons to be painted, highlighted, washed, weathered and then some git are doing them in non-metallic metallics. (Don't get me started about that... the Emperor's new paint scheme I call it.) But I'm setting my ambitions too high. It's not that I can't paint that fine, I can. But I don't need to, and it takes too long time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My stash of Home Guard. Also includes some Crusader and Warlord figures in the top rows.</td></tr>
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So I dug up a bunch of Wargames Foundry British Home Guard that I have had in my stash for a while, and decided to go back to the basics with them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love these old sculpts by the Perry's. If you think they look familiar they are sculpted after the Dad's Army TV-show.</td></tr>
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I arranged the figures into two squads, along with some sentrys and officers and a medic (in the pic above). Three Artizan late war crew figures was among the Home Guard so I based them too. All in all 25 figures were chosen for the experiment. (The rest will follow when if I manage to finish these.)<br />
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As a basecoat I used Plastic Soldier Company British Uniform spray. I made sure to get good solid covering using three thin coats. I then washed the figures with Army Painter Strong tone wash (not the dip) using a large brush concentrating on between the legs and under the arms and around the head. I didn't want to wash all of the miniatures because I didn't want to darken the basecoat too much, just where there would be shadows. I also saved some time by not washing the whole figures.<br />
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Next step was to drybrush the figures to pick out the details of the uniform. First I tried Coat d'arms Faded Khaki, but I thought it was a bit too grey. Then I tried Coat d'arms Festering Brown (identical to the old GW Bubonic brown) but thought it was too yellow. So I used them both: the first to figures where left as they were to provide some variation, and then I simply alternated between the two pots without rinsing the brush in between so every figure would get a random mix of the two colours. It actually worked very well, providing a range of brown hues for the uniforms. I then blocked in all the skin areas with Wargames Foundry's mid Fleshtone, and called it a day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roughly four and a half hour's work, the uniform is done and the skin tone is blocked in without any shading.</td></tr>
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Using old simple techniques doesn't mean you skip painting any bits on the models so after the uniforms were done I washed the skin with Coat d'arms Chestnut Ink and proceeded to the webbings. These were done with in two different colours: Coat d'arms Putrid Green and Formula P3 Menoth White Base over the course of several evenings. An hour or so per evening listening to movie reviews on youtube while painting. I also painted all the helmets a plain green (I forgot which one, doesn't matter really).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">About halfway through, you can clearly see the difference between the two paints.</td></tr>
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After painting all the webbings I gave them a careful wash of either Army Painter Military Shader or Soft Tone: I deliberately took a handful of figures without caring which colour I had painted the webbing in, used one of the washes, switched wash for the next handful and so on. This way I got four different combinations of colour.<br />
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Next up is all the black areas, including the guns and other metal parts. I rarely use pure black nowadays, instead I use dark slate grey, wash with Nuln oil or highlight with gun metal depending on wether it's supposed to look like leather or steel. This meant that the next step was painting the boots and the metal details on the guns slate grey. The bayonet scabbard was also painted slate grey as I learned they were metal after I had painted them all with the webbing colour. Doh.<br />
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This too was done over the course of several evenings. At the same time I started to fill out the bases with green stuff as preparation for gluing on gravel and flock.<br />
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So, twelve days after starting them I have done the uniforms and webbing, basecoated the flesh, leather and metal bits, and washed the flesh. Next up is doing the rifle stocks, highlighting the helmets, flesh and metal bits, and then doing some details like Private Pike's scarf, Wilson's first aid kit and the hair and moustaches on those that have them. Hopefully I will manage that within two weeks.<br />
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So what's next? Well, I did have some more figures to paint, but I couldn't resist buying a Rolls Royce armoured car from Warbases as support for my little platoon... I will do a full review soon. Hopefully it won't take too much focus away from painting these little blighters.</div>
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-63480585074622784582017-08-02T09:49:00.001+02:002017-08-02T09:49:57.758+02:00The Adventures of the Dice Bag Lady in the land of the Vikings.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So Baggy of <a href="http://badsquiddogames.com/" target="_blank">Bad Squiddo Games</a> decided to have a holiday adventure in Sweden. Of course dice bags are not allowed out of the UK without their herders, so Annie had to come as well. Actually it was Annie who needed a well deserved vacation and decided to <strike>pester her customers</strike> visit <strike>some random internet dudes</strike> friends she met online.<br />
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For one reason or another almost everyone dropped out, except for the Scandinavian Lardies (that's me, Jocke, Thomas and Koen) -- from now on known as Annie's four Swedesketeers.<br />
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First stop was at <a href="http://gardsjoalgpark.se/" target="_blank">Gårdsjö Älgpark</a> where you can see and pet live moose.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the evening we had some beer in Uppsala. That's me on the left, and Dave who joined us.</td></tr>
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After all that cultural experiences we needed some lighter entertainment and headed for the legendary <a href="http://www.guntherska.se/" target="_blank">Guntherska</a> to teach Annie the finer points of the Swedish fika, complete with cinnamon and cardamom bun tasting.<br />
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The cruise would take us on an 11 hour trip through the archipelago, stopping at a couple of islands. We managed to wave and toot at Jocke when we passed his summer cottage. Annie was very much impressed with the archipelago and the looks of all the small wind blasted islands consisting of mostly rock with some trees on. Annie suggested that I should model the Stockholm Archipelago for Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago that's being released soon. Damn that woman, now I can't get rid of the idea of skirmishing adventurers in the Stockholm archipelago instead of a more tropical setting. </div>
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After those three days it was time to hand Annie over to Jocke. Finally I just want to show some of the gifts Annie brought me.<br />
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It was an amazing three days, I hope Annie thinks so too. To reward those of you who has had the patience to read this far, Annie has a code that will give you free shipping while she's away, if you want to order something.<br />
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I just want to give a heads-up about Annie's latest kickstarter <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1512506318/ghosts-of-gaia-two-reinforcements-28mm-scifi-femal" target="_blank">Ghosts of Gaia II</a>.<br />
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The miniatures depict post-apokalyptic female warriors with mostly breathing masks and various protective gear. A couple of young kids , an ogre (ogress?), beast with handlers and a cyborg will also be included.<br />
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Personally I'm planning on using them as Feral Freeborn for Gates of Antares, and perhaps also as Steel Legion militia for the new edition of 40k. They will fit well in with the regular steel legion troopers that also has breathing masks.<br />
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If you are more attracted to furry subjects there's also weaponized bunnies as well as human-guinea pig crossover... I think... not sure exactly what it is.<br />
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Well, I got an extra "Raging Annie" -- unpainted -- that Kevin White sculpted for Annie using her as a reference. I will be giving it away to one random follower who promotes the kickstarter on their blog.<br />
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All you have to do is promote the kickstarter on your blog (before it ends, you have 46 hours, go go go) and leave a link in the comments. If you have already done so, please do it again if you want the mini.<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-65581899563189267082017-05-30T23:50:00.001+02:002017-05-30T23:50:35.112+02:00Bases and blisters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This blog post feels like it has been a thousand years in the making...<br />
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A couple of <strike>days</strike> <strike>weeks</strike> months ago <a href="http://figurfanatikern.blogspot.se/2017/02/all-your-base-are-belong-to-swine.html" target="_blank">I reviewed the Age of Sigmar Hero Bases</a>, and now the time has come to take a look at the Warhammer 40k Hero Bases. I bought them shortly after the AoS ones, now that the 8th edition of 40k is looming around the corner I was reminded about these bases and<b> </b>dug up the photos I took back then.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first sprue with some large pieces on it. Is that a Leman Russ turret? (Yes it is...)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The second sprue also has a bunch of large stuff on it, although not as large as the first.</td></tr>
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Unlike the AoS set there are no single piece bases in this set. There are also only eight bases compared to the eleven in the AoS set.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I feel they could all function as objective markers. It will be hard to pose a figure on that bomb anyway.</td></tr>
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Quality-wise they are on par with the AoS bases. Great sculpting, some nice scenes, mostly good details although a bit soft in a few places.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next pair of bases are a bit bigger and higher. Still only two pieces.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Obvious place for a hero to perch with nice big elevated but flat areas to stand on.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fit was not great, and the back was very featureless but I suppose you should only look at them from the front anyway.</td></tr>
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The next two bases feel like the belong more in an industrial setting. Great with all that Mechanicus terrain just released.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four pieces for the left one, two pieces for the right one. (The right is 32mm wide btw)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Completed. A broken pipe with a broken threadplate to stand on, and a jumble of broken metal beams.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I feel that both pieces work better without the top bits though. And that pipe would make an excellent objective too.</td></tr>
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Last we have the Leman Russ turret. This is a corker.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Six bits to this one. That the hatch is loose ia a bonus since you can put a dead figure in there if you want to.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bottom base is 60mm across, so this is for something big. Note the very soft detail closes to the camera.</td></tr>
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And what would the bases be without skulls?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Human, ork, tau (I think), that birdlike beak-skull and genestealer skulls even.</td></tr>
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Speaking of Mechanicus terrain I got the Shadowwar: armageddon set, mostly for the terrain. I have fond memories of Necromunda, so it's nice to see those rules make a comeback, but to be honest I have too many different games to play. Still, you never know, and the terrain was a bargain. I didn't want to painstakingly paint all the details by hand, so I decided to use the salt technique.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First I undercoated the models with Ironbreaker spray. When that was dry I wetted the surface and sprinkled lots of salt on it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Time to hit it with Army painter yellow. (You could use any spray really... I just happened to have a can of yellow.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really like the flaking blistering yellow paint. Now for some washes and pigments.</td></tr>
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And that's that. Hopefully next blog post won't be as long a wait as this one... Happy gaming!</div>
Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-50187064381614438502017-02-28T23:46:00.000+01:002017-03-01T09:30:39.979+01:00All your base are belong to... swine?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was not much impressed by the scenic bases GW had released before christmas, but the hero bases recently released piqued my interest. As my FLGS was out of the 40k one I bought the Fantasy version to review.<br />
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(Note: the sprues are really the same size, some sort of trickery with the photographs have ensued.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first sprue. Some interesting stuff, lots of skulls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second sprue. The giant sarcophagus lid on the right was what drew my eye originally.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not bad detailing on this. The hammer is a little bit soft at the edges, but not too much. The skulls are crisply cast.</td></tr>
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Not being an "Age of You ruined my childhood Sigmar!"-player I'm not sure what to use the bases for. I mean, I do play other fantasy games but they have more sensibly posed and scaled miniatures which doesn't need big bases like these. Sure, these are for showcase models, but I'm severly lacking in that area too.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This large skull-shaped altar comes in four parts, rather clever to give i a more 3D look.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ruined pillar consists of a rather whopping five parts.</td></tr>
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Some of the bases require assembly. There are no instructions, but the parts belonging together has the same number with different letter suffix, so it's easy to figure out. It would be easy even without the numbering, but might take a little bit longer to sort the pieces out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Both of them assembled. Their bases are both 40mm in diameter, so they are quite large.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I decided not to glue the pillar to the base, in case I want to use it in a ruin or bigger diorama.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Again, some detailing on one of the bases is really soft, compared both to other bases and other areas on the same base.</td></tr>
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One use for these bases are as objective markers or perhaps treasure markers in various scenarios or games that require the players to loot the battlefield in some way. That skull altar for example would make an excellent spawning point for undead in a Frostgrave Scenario.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three more. I feel the centre base would make an excellent objective marker too.</td></tr>
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Some bases are obviously meant to display a figure, like the broken staircarse for example. These I think will work as simple scatter terrain. I have no idea what that comet thingy is supposed to be: it has some gocs and wheels and the comet attaches itself to one of the cogwheels. So has it been a doomsday clock, or some sort of wheather forecasting machine? "Cloudy, with a chance of Comets and Skull Showers in the afternoon." I left the comet off to make it a little bit more nondescript. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We get four bases that are a single piece, including two identical skull bases. Note also the soft detail on the top right base.</td></tr>
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Of the last ones the large cogwheel could be an objective marker, while the skull bases could both fit as treasure markers with the addition of a single weapon or a magic tome on the base.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To top if off you get a selection of skulls to add to the bases, if you should feel there aren't enough already.</td></tr>
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Overall the sculpting is top notch as we have come to expect from GW, however the castings are a bit soft here and there. I suspect this has to do with this product being "Designed in the UK, manufactured in China" as it says on the box.</div>
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I'll finish with a trio of vicious boars I got from a friend. Not sure which game they are from, Malifaux perhaps. But they are beautifully sculpted and full of character.</div>
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Happy gaming!</div>
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-3941294275701632402017-02-26T22:05:00.005+01:002017-02-27T13:10:42.899+01:00Fun with magnets!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm becoming more and more fond of converting stuff with magnets. It's partly because I can't make my mind up about the various options available, and with magnets you can swap around parts between games.<br />
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I do realise this increases the list or army building time since if I just build stuff to a fixed specification I can't change my force between games that much. On the other hand my games are few and far between so I usually don't remember how my figures are kitted out, this way I can do the army list first and then change the figures to suit.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Case in point was the new plastic Algoryn AI squads from Warlord Games. You get three squads in the Kara-9 boxed set, with five scenarios designed to learn the game with. However, I wasn't sure I wanted to use them in the configuration needed for the scenarios, so I brought out the good old drill and magnets.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is one of the squad leaders, armed with a Mag repeater and an underarm X-sling.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">However, I might want to use him as an extra support figure with a Micro-X launcher.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's all possible with magnets. A bit tricky though because the magnets are 3mm wide and the arms only 4mm thick!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fun side-effect is that you can pose the figure to either shoot with the X-sling, </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">or just run forward. I've tilted the head slightly so it works either pose.</td></tr>
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Another use for magnets is to put them under bases of figures. As Frostgrave never kicked off in our gaming group I decided to put the cultists to double use by putting them on a larger base for Kings of War. I ordered a couple of trays from <a href="http://war-bases.co.uk/" target="_blank">Warbases</a> to try it out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are the gang. Most have handweapons, some even a shield or a dagger.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In an effort to make them look more irregular I staggered the figures on the bases.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This made some of the figures unstable and prone to falling over. Magnets to the rescue!</td></tr>
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I had lots of 4 and 5mm magnets left over since they were to big to be used on the Algoryn arms. A 5mm on the bottom of the tray and a 4mm under the base did the trick nicely. It turns out that the space underneath a slotta base is exactly enough room for two magnets (they are each 1mm thick). Since the bottom magnet is bigger they don't need to be exactly aligned, which is useful if you swap figures around to avoid them decapitating eachother.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To provide variety for Frostgrave I made some with alternative weapons, and a skeleton to boot!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I also found an old Citadel cultist with a menacing look which will work perfect as the cultist leader.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And yes, the magnets are strong enough to even hold the metal figure!</td></tr>
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Of course, Kings of War haven't kicked off in our gaming group either, but I can always use the figures for Open Combat and use the tray as a secure display tray between games.<br />
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Happy gaming!<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-69934517625494307362017-02-22T00:12:00.000+01:002017-02-26T22:06:47.307+01:00Oota-goota Santa?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My hobby life naturally took a hit last year when I had most of my stuff in storage. Still, I did manage to paint a couple of things. The last thing I completed in 2016 was a figure for our local Secret Santa. I have held off showing it since I wanted to be sure the recipient had received it, however the obligatory "Thank you Santa"-post didn't materialise so I was a bit worried. A couple of eBay buys had gone missing just before Christmas and for a moment I suspected a dishonest postal worker had decided to nick my packages.<br />
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In the end I flat out asked if it had arrived, and yes it had. (My eBay buys were refunded by the seller too, so all is well that ends well, as the bard wrote.) But what was it, I hear you ask? Well, the title is a clue, as the figure was Greedo for Imperial Assault.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had a hard time deciding what colour Greedo really is. I guess the lighting on the Cantina set had some interesting effects.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His skin colour varies from green to blue in some pictures. I think I came close to the movie look.</td></tr>
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I painted Greedo with a lot of different paints from different makes. Some old ones which I happened to bring with me instead of putting in storage and some new paints that I had bought, so it's a right mish-mash of brands, but I hope you can follow it all anyway. I used GW Foundation paints for the basecoat straight onto the grey plastic instead of using a black undercoat. This way the miniature didn't turn out so dark. The foundation paints cover great on their own and I mourn the day GW discontinued them.<br />
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<li>The suit was undercoated with GW Fenris Grey, and then highlighted with thin coats of Humbrol light blue. To tone the contrast down I washed the suit with Army Painter Green Tone ink. This also turned it ever so slightly turqoise. I then reapplied some choice highlights using light blue.</li>
<li>The stripes on the suit were undercoated GW Iyanden Darksun, washed with Army Painter Soft Tone, and then highlighted with GW Flash Gits Yellow followed by P3 Menoth White Highlight (an off-white bone colour).</li>
<li>The skin was basecoated GW Gretchin Green, washed with Army Painter Green Tone and highlighted with GW Nurgling Green.</li>
<li>The boots and belt were basecoated GW Calthan Brown, washed with Army Painter Strong Tone and highlighted using Coat d'Arms Beige Brown</li>
<li>The vest was basecoated GW Macharius Solar Orange, washed with Army Painter Flesh Wash and then highlighted first with GW Troll Slayer Orange and then GW Fire Dragon Bright.</li>
<li>I painted the gun, belt buckles and eyes black. The gun and buckles were highlighted with Warcolours Pewter while the eyes received a small white dot.</li>
<li>After varnishing I carefully cut Greedo off his base and glued him to clear acrylic.</li>
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And there you have it. May the Force be with You!</div>
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-18981608060584535132017-02-16T19:29:00.000+01:002017-02-16T19:29:32.484+01:00I'm still alive...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
...at least I think so.<br />
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This will be a short update. Having recently divorced and moved house I have now finally gotten around to installing an internet connection. Which means I can update the blog again! I didn't want to do it through the phone because of the clunky blogger app or from work because hey, it's work and I'm not supposed to be blogging.<br />
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Hobbywise the last year has been a bit brutal. I have been living at my mom's extra apartment, separated from most of my miniatures and paints. It didn't keep me from buying more though, but I didn't want to start any big new projects because I would have to pack them up again. I still have to unpack all my other stuff, I wonder if I find something I've forgotten about?<br />
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Anyway, I'm back, so expect hobby related stuff and the occassional rant now and then.<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-75678422131494273662016-12-10T16:35:00.001+01:002016-12-12T11:35:23.455+01:00The Walking Dead: All Out War review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As you may have noticed earlier I backed the TWD: AOW kickstarter (if you read that out aloud it sounds like when you stub your toe in the middle of the night -- "Twudd! Aowww!"). If you didn't know, you can read a slight rant about the kickstarter and look at my first painted figures <a href="http://figurfanatikern.blogspot.se/2016/11/mantic-actually-delivers.html" target="_blank">here</a> with some more figures <a href="http://figurfanatikern.blogspot.se/2016/11/more-dipped-zombies.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Anyway, if you haven't been living under a rock for the last ten years you can't have missed The Walking Dead -- either the TV show or the comic. There have been boardgames based on both, and there's a cooperative miniatures game in the works based on the TV show. Like the LotR and Hobbit franchise, there are licenses for both the books and the movies. Hence the long title, The Walking Dead: All Out War, to set the game apart from the other games. This game is not cooperative, instead groups of survivors clash against each other with the zombies as sort of moving hazardous terrain.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The comic. The TV show is slightly more colourful. Slightly.</td></tr>
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I must confess that I haven't read the comic and only watched a couple of episodes of the TV show. But who doesn't love a good zombie game? Well I do, and I liked how the game looked in the kickstarter. I didn't go all in like most people, but I got the base game and quite a lot of stretch goals for the princely sum of 75 dollars. I think I got a good deal. For the purposes of this review though, I'm only going to look at the core game.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The contents of the base game, picture courtesy of Mantic Games.</td></tr>
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First off, the core game retails at £35 but can be had for less online. <a href="http://elementgames.co.uk/the-walking-dead-miniatures-game-core-set?d=10040" target="_blank">Element Games</a> sells it for £31.49 and <a href="http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=397&url=1010" target="_blank">Wayland Games</a> currently sells it for £27.99. As you can see in the picture you get 12 zombie figures (called Walkers), six survivors, including the main character Rick Grimes and his son Carl. Each survivor has their own character card with their stats. You also get some equipment and loot cards, event cards, a threat tracker dial, custom dice, various templates and counters and card terrain. Oh, and the rules of course; one quick-start guide and the rules themselves. Not in the picture is a playmat which is 20 inches square.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basic scenario setup. Note that I have 3D scenery from the kickstarter not included in the core game.</td></tr>
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The quality of the components are good. The cards use illustrations from the comics and while they are not the same quality as Fantasy Flight Games uses I think they should last a while. My cards was slightly warped, but that doesn't detract from the overall impression.<br />
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The cardstock used in the templates are sturdier, but the arrow for the threat tracker is quite loose, so you have to be careful so you don't accidentally knocks it up to a higher level.<br />
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The miniatures are very well sculpted, molded in quite rigid PVC -- that hard but soft plastic that many boardgames use -- and preassembled. They are a bit bigger and chunkier than some other figures ranges though.<br />
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The rulebook is well laid out with clear rules. On the back is a quick reference sheet that's actually useful. In my first game I was using just the back of the rules after two turns, except for a few minor stuff that I had to look up.<br />
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The rules are quite simple, but do their business fine. There is only one scenario in the core game, a search for food and supplies. The survivors try to gather supply counters while avoiding getting bitten by walkers or killed by the other group.</div>
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First is the action phase. Players alternate activating their survivors, who can do two actions per turn -- but not two of the same -- so move, shoot, search, hide or some other action. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When picking up a supply counter you also draw a loot card, since you can find useful items... </td></tr>
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Walkers react to noise (like someone running) or mayhem (like someone shooting). Deliberately making noise is an action, so if you want to you can draw walkers onto the other player's survivor.</div>
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Next is the event phase. Here walkers automatically attack anyone inside their "kill zone". So if you are not careful and stray to close you will get attacked. Also, walkers attracted by noise but not reaching all the way might just be in range this time. </div>
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After that you draw an event card which depending on the threat level has different effects, from adding more walkers to the board, or allowing players to move a walker -- now do you go for the other player's survivors, or move them away from your own? The threat level rises on some cards, and if there is any melee anywhere on the board. This represents more and more walkers moving towards the noise in hope of getting some fresh breakfast.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hunger. Just like when the all-you-can-eat buffé opens. Note that threat goes up by one on this card.</td></tr>
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Third phase is the melee phase. That's where everyone fights. Combats with multiple participants are broken up as far as you can into one-on-one fights. But everyone must fight, you can't divide fights so someone ends up without an opponent. Players decides if their survivors are attacking or defending, totals up the dice (there are red, white and blue dice, progressingly better) from the character card and any equipment the survivors are carrying, and rolls them. Whoever rolls most hit symbols wins and inflict the difference in damage on their opponent. In two-to-one situations just roll all the dice on the most numerous side together.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rule I had to look up. Clear as sausage broth, as we say in Sweden.</td></tr>
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The exclamation marks on some results is a crit. If a survivor rolled the dice, it means a headshot, the only way of putting down walkers permanently. In case of a firearm it also means it might have jammed so you have to roll to see if it still is working -- melee weapons are much more reliable but of course you need to get close to use them. If a walker rolled the dice it means the survivor was bitten. You can use handguns in melee if you want to, but it can attract more walkers and potentially lead to another fight. Survivors can only attack once -- they have to defend if they get involved in melee again -- but walkers can attack several times if new "meals" appear.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liam is attacked by Patrick and a Walker. The walker's dice is counted together with Patrick's dice. Poor Liam!</td></tr>
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Last is the end phase. Here you roll for any downed walkers or killed survivors to see if they stand up again. Yes, survivors that were not taken out by a headshot can come back as zombies! Then you check for victory conditions. In the core scenario one side wins if they hold seven out of nine supply counters, or if they kill the other survivors of course. Also, if threat has reached max level the game ends as it's too dangerous to stick around and each band of survivors retreat to their safe place -- whoever holds most supply counters win in this case.</div>
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There are some more nuances to the game than I have listed above. For instance, a lone walker is a pushover in melee, especially against a survivor with a weapon, but two walkers are actually quite dangerous. Getting swamped by more than two walkers usually means you end up as someone's breakfast!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liam's nerve is low so he has to roll the panic dice each activation if the threat level is higher. This result means Berserk. </td></tr>
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Also, some survivors have lower nerve than others and have to roll the panic die when the threat level rises. This can mean that they cower in fear, run away in panic (making more noise) or going berzerk (rolling more dice in melee). Other survivors have leader abilities or personal abilities that can help or synergise with other survivor's abilities.</div>
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At first I thought the playarea was too small, thinking it a bit cheap on Mantic's behalf to only have a 20 inch square playmat instead of the usual two or three foot square. However, the small playarea leads to a more claustrophobic feeling, if the mat was larger it would be like the cardio scene from Zombieland. You know, this one:<br />
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So all in all it's a good game. It runs smoothly, is a good fun with some nailbiting and laugh-inducing moments. There are different tactics involved, do I try to grab the supplies fast, or do I try to take out the other gang first. The starter is quite cheap at £35, but I feel it isn't really the good value it seems. There are some detractors.<br />
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My main gripe is the lack of replayability. You get six survivors, with some equipment, giving you two gangs of around 100-120 points depending on how you kit them out. You can't swap the survivors around a lot because the cost varies too much (Rick costs 50 points while Liam costs 10 for example). You could swap the middle cost ones between the gangs to give you some variation and yes, you could see how Rick fares without his gun, but that's not much if you want to have two equal sides. Mantic is releasing Booster packs with a couple of survivors and some equipment which I think is is not that big a hit on your wallet for £13.49 . Even having just one or two more options when building your groups will be very useful.<br />
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Another detractor is that there's only one scenario included -- "The Walking Dead", where you search for supplies. I know Mantic has planned a bunch of scenarios following the comic storyline introducing new characters, locations and equipment in various expansions, so I guess you are meant to buy those too. Which is fine by me, but it would have been nice to have at least one other scenario in there. It's like that staple pitched battle in mass battle miniatures games where two armies happen to meet on a field, line up opposite eachother, and have a go.<br />
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My next point is solo play. Zombie games lend themselves to solo play very nice, since you can try to survive against just the zombies. The event deck though is geared very much towards competetive groups of survivors, so small tips for solo play is included. And indeed I played my first game against myself, controlling both groups, but that's not the same. Also the basic scenario gets old very fast when playing solo.<br />
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Proper solo rules are instead included in another expansion called "Prelude to Woodbury". This is a "Solo starter" that includes one survivor, five zombies, a solo rulebook and all game components necessary, so more dice, more card templates, another threat tracker, and a solo event deck. For 25 pounds it's a bit steep to get if you already have the core set, as the only thing you need is the scenarios and the event deck. The extra survivor is nice -- it's the "The Governor" Blake before he became governor, for those of you who have read the comic -- but the rest is just filler. £15 for the rules, deck, and The Governor had been a more fair price.<br />
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Furthermore, while there are some brief rules on how to assemble your survivor group, there are no character creation rules or campaign rules. As I was a backer on kickstarter I received a PDF rulebook when the kickstarter ended which contain those rules, but the printed rulebook does not. That means that Mantic has decided to move them to an expansion instead. Which means that you probably need to shell out 25 bucks more to get them, bringing the game up to around £50-60 cost. I think it would still be worth it though, I'm just thinking it would have been nice to have them from the start.<br />
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I know Mantic is a business and have to earn money, that's not what I mean. But it would have been nice to have say, seven survivors and a few more equipment cards in the box and provide a second scenario to ensure better replayability, Even if this raised the cost to £40 I think it would be a better deal. (I'm trying to be objective and look at it from the perspective of someone who has just bought the core game here.) I also think they should have included the 3D terrain car models and supply counters in the core game as they really do enhance the look, but maybe pure boardgamers are not that bothered by cardboard terrain, and at least Mantic sells them separately so you can chose if you want them or not.<br />
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So what's my final verdict?<br />
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If you like zombie games and would like a nice little beer and pretzels (or shits and giggles) game to play with a mate for about an hour, this is the game for you. Especially if you have read and like the Walking Dead comic, but it's not required to enjoy the game. This game is well worth the £35 retail price. Be prepared to shell out a little bit more though if you want to play around with different survivor groups. Buy a survivor booster for more options.<br />
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If you just want to play solo you could pick up the solo starter for just £25, but that would only give you one single survivor to play with. It's supposed to have more scenarios though, so might last a while if you add a survivor booster.<br />
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If, however, you want a game that you can play solo, develop your character, or perhaps run a campaign against a mate, then this game could still be that game, just be prepared to buy a lot more than just the core set and a few boosters. You would be looking at at least £60, assuming the campaign rules are in the first expansion, then you will have to add the terrain booster for added prettybility (yes I just made that word up), solo starter and other boosters. I suspect this is what Mantic is aiming for though, hooking the fans of the comic for the long run. And they may just have the game to do just that.<br />
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All in all I give The Walking Dead: All Out War <b>4 out of 5 </b>headshot<b>s.</b></div>
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-67259935325756932252016-11-29T23:41:00.001+01:002016-11-29T23:44:59.347+01:00More dipped zombies!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A quickie, just want to show off more zombies and survivors from The Walking Dead. These were all sprayed white, block painted and then dipped in Army Painter Strong Tone. I will do the blood spatter and gore later on all the zombies together.<br />
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Not having read the comic I have no idea what roles they play, but I've tried to follow the painted examples in the rule book. Reggie however didn't feature so I winged it and gave him what I hope looks like a red flannel shirt. I like how the red trainers and socks on Amy came out.<br />
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I broke out the pink colour for these ladies, won't be painting any more pink on the rest. I hope they will stand out in the crowd of zombies while not looking too similar. Craig got a simple camo pattern resembling Woodland. He seems like the kind of guy that wears old military clothes.<br />
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All in all I'm happy with the results and will chug on with these. Hopefully I will have them all painted by Christmas (famous last words).<br />
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Someone on Twitter asked if the figures were big, and I hadn't really thought about it. They didn't feel big when I painted them, but they are indeed a wee bit bigger than some other figures. Mind you I happened to use Sandra for the comparison, so the other might be a bit smaller. I suspect such delicate sculpts as Hasslefree would be too small unfortunately.<br />
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Happy gaming and don't let the zombies bite!</div>
Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-90142655757207658312016-11-25T00:10:00.000+01:002016-11-25T15:43:32.779+01:00Ghartastic!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As <a href="http://figurfanatikern.blogspot.se/2015/12/oooh-shiny.html" target="_blank">I've mentioned previously</a>, our little gaming group has gotten into Beyond the Gates of Antares.<br />
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Or rather... we bought the rules about a year ago and have been slowly collecting figures... but never played the game. Until now! Assembling a 500 point scout force each we gathered at Mats' cat's house (Mats insists he's only the caretaker and pet slave) on Sunday to try this new malarkey. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tectorist scouts. They use their scanners to point out targets to the other Ghar.</td></tr>
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Ghar are bred for war, riding in giant three-legged battlesuits. Failure means you are relegated to outcast status and have to footslog it without the big suit, but still expected to do your bit and die for the Ghar Empire. As I play horde armies in 40k I didn't want another horde army for Gates of Antares, but only using battlesuits means I get few units and few activations, which limits my tactical flexibility (as if I had any tactics).<br />
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As I had to get at least a few outcasts I decided to paint them as fast as possible. Desperately trying to get some paint on the figures I resorted to the Army Painter dipping method. (I already had six battlesuits painted and a seventh basecoated in metal). I sprayed them with GW Zandri Dust, opting to let that be their skin colour. Then I blocked in their equipment (they don't seem to wear clothes but I painted their bodies the same colour) in a couple of different grey shades. (Only two, not fifty!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The leader of the command squad has extra copper bits on the back. I guess they are shield projector thingies.</td></tr>
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The round protruding bits were painted copper and the connecty bits were painted silver and then they were dipped in Army Painter strong tone. As in literally dipped, no time for carefully applying the stuff with a brush. After hitting the figures with Tamiya Flat Varnish they were table ready, even though the bases weren't finished. I plan to do the lenses on their helmets some day, but it's not essential.<br />
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I played against Håkan's Rebel Ghar -- basically a bunch of outcasts not content with dying for the Ghar Empire -- which outnumbered me by four or five or something like that. We both had Tectorist Scouts so they advanced rapidly across the table while my suits lumbered up behind them.<br />
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Immediately we started to flip through our rulebooks. "Ten-sided dice? Standard movement is five inches? Random force activation? Low rolls are always better? Who wrote this game?" Actually the game is very good.<br />
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It's not just Bolt Action with S/F models. It's just not Warhammer with D10's. It's entirely it's own game even though you can see traces of Rick's previous works in it. Just like E.T. is an entirely different movie to Saving Private Ryan, even though they are from the same director.<br />
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Since the game is so fresh we made lots of mistakes. Like being too careful with the assault suits, which ended up being pinned and not getting anywhere and then slowly shot to pieces one by one over the course of the game. Like not remembering there was a reaction system until the next to last turn. Like not knowing if you should try to rally your pins or try to move instead.<br />
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I lost the game of course (I'm blaming the dice, they were used to rolling high) but still had a very fun time and went home eager to paint more Ghar. I have an Outcast squad and a Command Crawler to paint and something like twelve more battlesuits to assemble!<br />
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In an attempt to further speed up the painting I sprayed the next batch of outcasts with white, and then painted their skin Zandri Dust by hand. A few equipment items were painted light grey, connectors silver and protruding bits copper like before. I did the same with the disruptor cannon except the legs were painted dark grey. And then they were dipped. I really like the effect of Army painter over white, so I will be using this method for the rest of the outcast squad and any more outcasts I buy. I hadn't decided how to paint their eyes when I did this test batch, I'm thinking yellow now.<br />
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So what can I say? I'm hooked. Well played Mr. Priestley, well played.<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-89847908625251320802016-11-17T08:30:00.000+01:002016-11-17T08:52:48.181+01:00Mantic actually delivers!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well, I suppose I owe Mantic Games an apology, as I got a package from them recently.<br />
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But first a little digression.<br />
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I backed their The Walking Dead: All Out War kickstarter this spring. Right after backing I received the stuff from their Deadzone 2 kickstarter from last year and was very disappointed. My main critique against Mantic's kickstarters have always been two-fold.<br />
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First: the miniatures do look nice, but you often see just computer renders in their kickstarters, making it very hard to judge the actual quality. Mantic keeps waffling about "Restic" and some revolutionary new hard plastic, but what it really is is just PVC, a somewhat softer plastic than the polystyren usually used in plastic kits.<br />
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Second: Mantic is good at describing all the stuff you get in your pledge, but very bad at describing what is needed for playing the game and the included scenarios. They also don't tell you exactly what is supposed to be in the retail version of the game so the backers can't really judge the value of their pledges Case in point: With Deadzone 2 100 dollars would give you the game with Vermin (space rats), two squads of human scouts, some terrain, and access to a "force booster" consisting of additional figures, as well as various stretch goals unlocked along the way. The force booster consisted of figures from the first edition of Deadzone and could be chosen from all of the factions, not only the first two. However, when I asked around I learned that the force boosters were not really enough to play a third faction. Furthermore a late stretch goal that was unlocked were a sprue of five Forge Fathers (space dwarves in heavy armour).<br />
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Sure, all that stuff was very shiny and the Veer-myn looked cool, and I would get a ton of figures. But it felt lopsided, either I got twenty humans and some thirty-odd space rats with lots of big monsters, a brood mother and a big cannon, plus five dwarves, or I got a lot of humans but not so many rats... or... or I just caved in as everyone else seemed to be doing and bought a lot of extra figures. And there were still no word on how many figures per side would give a good game. Too few and it would be over fast, too many and the game would drag on forever and potentially be unbalanced. Then it dawned on me that the kickstarter wasn't funding for the new game, it was a fire sale of all the old figures along with a pre-order of the new game that was already in production.<br />
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So I bailed and just ordered some of the new terrain for 40 bucks. Which brings me to my third point:<br />
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With the Walking Dead it's the same thing. Mantic had two pledge levels to keep things simple. One called "March to War" included the retail version of the game and some stretch goals. (See, Mantic is learning, they actually told people what would be in the retail version.) Then they had the "Something to Fear" which would include a limited edition of the game with lots more stuff, along with two expansions and some stretch goals for those expansions as well. However the number of stretch goals became so long that Mantic moved the description of the lower pledge level to their blog instead (Kickstarter limits the number of characters you can use) -- after which Mantic forgot to update that description when new stretch goals were reached. And you guessed it, when the whole thing shipped the unupdated version was used. Granted, Mantic did discover this themselves but not after all the pledges were sent out, and this time they promised to send out the missing stuff as soon as possible.<br />
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You get twelve zombies and six survivors in the base game, cards for the survivors and equipment, along with card templates and terrain markers and a playmat. The game pitches two bands of survivors foraging for loot against eachother, with the zombies as walking terrain essentially.<br />
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The stretch goals added plastic terrain like crashed cars, barricades and loot markers, more zombies and more survivors, cards for the survivors and more equipment, but also cards for "veteran" versions of four of the survivors. The game is based on the comic book and the veteran cards represent the survivors later in the series. I pledged because I think zombie games are fun and the terrain would also work with Mars Attacks (and vice versa) and if the game is shit I can use everything for All Things Zombie, which I bought way back in 2010 but never got around doing anything with...<br />
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The figures are excellently sculpted and reasonably well detailed. But they are PVC which doesn't hold detail as good as polystyren. It's also harder to clean up as you can't scrape away the mold lines. Luckily these figures didn't have many. The figures are all preassembled, even those that were obviously cast in multiple parts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four of the zombies blockpainted. The colours are a bit off, the skintone shouldn't be that yellow.</td></tr>
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I decided right away to keep things simple. This is a board game after all. I would block paint everything and then dip into army painter. The survivors would then maybe get some extra detail and the zombies some blood and gore.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "Ronnie Walker" depicting Mantic's CEO as a zombie on the left. Middle is Derek, a survivor. Random geezer last.</td></tr>
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The figures above were all basecoated with GW Khemri Brown and then I blocked in skin and clothes. I kept it simple used the same colours on most of them. Next batch will get other colours on them. And then it was time for the dip.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dipped and matt varnished. The dip works wonders in bringing out detail even on block painted figures.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Didn't realise the middle woman had a hospital gown, or I would have painted it white instead.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ronnie looks a bit strange because he's supposed to have a beard which I missed. Have to fill it in later.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like the zombie with the autopsy scars. Derek looks badass.</td></tr>
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While I was waiting for the dip to dry (it takes 24 hours) I received another package.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The missing stretch goals; Negan (with his bat Lucille), another walker and veteran character cards.</td></tr>
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Well played, Mantic, well played. I owe you an apology. Maybe you are learning after all...<br />
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Laffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950117687049086591.post-36205621348846033562016-10-31T23:21:00.003+01:002016-10-31T23:21:58.181+01:00October is... where the bleep did October go???<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Previous years, October has been Orktober... or Tanktober... and I've seen some people this year that has treated October as Dreadtober. For me October is Gonetober.<br />
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Not as in "I'm gone" or "Where have all my hobby time gone?", but as in "Dang October is gone before I figured out what October is this year". You could say that October became Culttober since the Genestealer Cults were released at the end of September and I spent the beginning of October building hybrids...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A couple of old metal Acolytes that have borrowed arms from their DW:OK brethren.</td></tr>
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I had aquired an extra set of Deathwatch Overkill genestealers. While gorgeous they have very repetetive poses and equipment. However I bought one of each hybrid box that were released with the codex and all the extra options in them allowed me to convert the extra set of DW:OK figures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The acolyte box has plenty of extra arms that can be used to convert DW:OK acolytes as well as old metal acolytes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These DW:OK acolytes were given heads some new arms and a banner from the Acolyte kit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I even managed to scrounge up parts for two leaders.</td></tr>
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To be honest, looking at the pictures, I don't remember which figures are the original DW:OK figures or which are figures from the new Acolyte kit. The kit only containes five bodies though, and only five Metamorph arms. While the acolytes get plenty of options (like five hand flamers and five autopistols as well as heavy mining equipment and demolition charges, a banner and parts for a leader) the Metamorphs are a bit left out. I can but wonder if this is intentional from GW's part, making it possible to convert the Deathwatch:Overkill acolytes, but not build more than five Metamorphs out of the box, forcing you to buy more boxed if you want more Metamorphs. I do have more metal acolytes in a box somewhere, so when I find them I need to buy another box anyway and then I can make more Metamorphs, hooray!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All my Acolytes -- three units of nine, each with a leader and mining equipment. Front are the Metamorphs.</td></tr>
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And then I built some more hybrids!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As with the acolytes I used the neophyte spare arms to convert DW:OK neophytes. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A mining laser, heavy stubber and a seismic cannon walk into a bar...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Speaking of seismic cannons I found this old conversion beamer... I think it can "count as" a seismic cannon too</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Various DW:OK figures with shotguns from the Neophyte box.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think these are from the Neophyte box. The grenade launcher itself is from a DW:OK figure that swapped it for a shotgun.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As with the Acolytes you can also equip old metal figures with the extra arms. (Only takes a bit of green stuff).</td></tr>
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So you get three different heavy weapons, three different special weapons, three different hand weapons and three different pistols for a leader, along with a cult icon and enough shotguns and autoguns to equip ALL of the figures inside the box. Theres some twenty heads in there, eight or so are mirror image versions of DW:OK heads, the rest are new sculpts. This is an impressive kit.<br />
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I didn't take a picture of all the Neophyte hybrids together like I did with the Acolytes, but in the end I think I ended up with 47 or 48 neophytes. Enough to at least build one ten-hybrid unit (to fit in a transport) and two nearly full strength 20-hybrid units. Irritatingly I built 7 special weapons and 7 heavy weapons. With a limit of two special weapons and two heavy weapons per unit regardless of how many neophytes there are in it, I need to make a fourth unit. So I will probably buy another box of neophytes...<br />
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All this building hybrids did put me off the genestealers for a bit so I had to do something else. So I painted The Dicebag Lady's fantasy female chaos warrior Adira.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hello Adira, Champion of the Dark!</td></tr>
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I will use her for my upcoming Open Combat Chaos Warband. The tentacle arm will fit perfectly as a spear with it's better reach, and for close up and personal she will use the axe. Just need to get the figures from the Pantheon of Chaos kickstarter...<br />
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Phew... and that was just the first half of October! Stay tuned for more.<br />
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