Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Cool dragon bro

Yesterday I painted a young dragon from the Bones range which has been cluttering up my desk for the last week. A nice easy paint job and now I can add it to the painted pile and use it to threaten the PCs in my D&D game.

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I've got several other items nearing completion as well so hopefully I will have at least one more update this week.

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Just filling time

I've got a Kings of War game coming up tonight against regular opponent Dan. To vary things a bit I've decided to field my goblin army and as this is his last proper warm up game for the Pathfinder tournament this weekend I've been trying to tweak my army to make it a bit more effective. Last (and only) game with goblins in KoW I fielded a hurriedly put together army of what I had ready and it didn't fare well at all. With the Mawbeast packs already done (see previous post) it was time to turn my attention to sorting out the rest of the army.

First up my goblin infantry (mostly painted in 2011 before the current edition of KoW), originally I had painted these for WHFB and had thought that large formations would be handy. With KoW it seems like these are best fielded as chaff in small units. Unfortunately I didn't have quite enough models to field them in units for 20 without command so instead I pave painted up some unit fillers to make up the numbers. The mushrooms are from Crooked Claw miniatures.

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And here are the units with the fillers in place (5 lots of 20).

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As well as the infantry I have also been JP-ing (rebasing) my war machines and tarting up some 20 year old paint schemes. They're short on crew at the moment but I've found some in a box and they're on the painting table right now.

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So roll on tonight's game - I hope all the effort was worth it.

Monday, 15 April 2013

Maw painted stuff

April hasn't been as productive as March (so far) but here are the miniatures I have painted so far. Citadel 4th edition night goblin squig herders along with Ramshackle games dungers - together they combine to make Mawbeast units for Kings of War.

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Along with the thee Dungers I painted at the beginning of last month I now have a total of three complete Mawbeast troops to terrorise my opponents with.

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

The not so magnificent seven

The manically productive month of March continues. Here are some undead which I have painted up as colour scheme testers (and for use in last week's D&D game). From left to right we have two Mantic ghouls, three metal GW ghouls and two Mantic zombies.

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I don't have enough undead for a full army - just enough for a SoBaH warband and for use in D&D. The zombies and ghouls painted up really quickly so I might paint up some more at some point when I need some quick wins.

Currently on my workbench I have some assorted dwarves and some Hasslefree human adventurers (for D&D) but I'm also considering painting up my DreadBall Veer-myn. Decisions aplenty.

Thursday, 21 March 2013

So long between updates

It feels like ages since I've had any painted models to show off so here are some pictures of some miniatures which left the workbench for the painted pile today.

Firstly the final two Draconicans.

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Next up a LoTR Ent I picked up for £4 second hand.

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And lastly some GW plastic skeletons I've had for the past 20 years and never got round to painting (until now).

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And there's also a fresh batch of stuff almost finished too. How much more can I do before the end of the month?

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Go team Marauders!

Continuing the current productive streak I can now show you my completed DreadBall Marauders team. I wonder if I can get all my season 1 stuff painted before season 2 arrives?

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Saturday, 16 March 2013

More paint on miniatures

All in all quit a productive day today. I've ticked off two more Reaper Bones miniatures;-

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And I've also made a lot of headway with the Marauder DreadBall team too.


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If things go well then I may even get the team finished in time to have a game next week.