Blood Eagle

We played our first game of this last Monday, using my Wolfpack from the Giles Kristian books Raven Blood Eye, Sons of Thunder and Odin's Wolves. David had his own vikings and I'd made up a third Sidhe warband at the last minute which Jim used on the night.  We went for a very simple scenario to test things, Davids vikings were in a village trying to sacrifice some christian priests on the old Oak tree, I was supposed to be trying to save them and the Sidhe were annoyed that a sacred oak was going to get soaked with christian blood.

The game went okay, the feel of it is very different to In Her Majesties Name and Daisho but it seems to work. Even with the extra abilities that the Sidhe had it didn't feel out of place.

Anyways, my pictures were a bit crap because I kept forgetting to take them. but here they are anyway and also here's my copy of the Blood Eagle - calculator  I've made up for making warbands.

Quarterly Update!

I like the idea of doing the blog to keep track of what I've been painting, but it just doesn't happen that I remember to take pictures as and when I complete stuff, so over the last few months I've been working on the following.

So first up we have the 10mm Finnish I got from Pendraken at the Leeds show. Based specifically so we can try them with Chain of Command to see if it will work in the smaller scale, these ones are finished, the rest have been based up and will be used with these ones for BKC.  Russians will be bought at Carronade and the same will be done with them.

Next up, there was a small resurrection of DBA at the club, and seeing as RiC and myself have been talking about it for a while, I finally got round to finishing off my 15mm Hordes of Things armies, I have Arabs and Undead, most of whom were already painted but needed tidying up and rebasing onto proper bases, all new MDF bases with magnetic strips on the bottom so they'll stick to a biscuit tin. I have a bunch of Dwarves, Medieval Humans, and Celts that need worked on and I have some Romans already.

This next set are the 28mm WW2 Germans, I got one squad for christmas, the rest I picked up second hand from ebay, 2 squads finished, 1 more to go and then buy some support options for playing Chain of Command.

Lastly for this update my Skaven warband for the next Mordheim campaign at the club, painted up differently to Fi's Skavan so I can claim these ones.

More to come at some point, I bought Blood Eagle when it came out and I'll no doubt get a few more Vikings for it, as well as playing with some of the more mythical warbands from it will likely see some of my Elves getting a tidy up as Sidhe and some dwarves as well.

Likewise on the new rules front Sharp Practice 2 is finally on the horizon and preordered so that means a concerted push to get my forces painted up for it. I keep hoping that I'll be able to pick up some prepainted Napoleonics at the Carronade flea market really cheaply, but I doubt that's going to happen as I really hate painting formal uniforms.

New Year

Well as always it's been ages since I posted anything, the hassle of trying to take pictures is the main bit that has prevented me from doing more regular updates.

Since the last update I've done a bundle of more things. I finished off those Orcs for use in Frostgrave and I've got enough others from the likes of Mordheim and the rest of an extensive fantasy collection to do me many more warbands.

My Clan patrol for Diasho has been finished off and I'll get round to doing my other Buntai sometime this year.

Got some 10mm Finns from the visit to Leeds and in trying an experiment I've based up and painted enough to try and use in Chain of Command with each base being a team.  I'll pick up some Russians at Carronade and once they're done we'll see how it works out in that scale.

My Brother in law has picked up a copy of the 7TV rules and a bundle of Dr Who figures from (Black tree?) So I've been painting them up, 3 Doctors and 5 companions done so far as well as the Ghostbusters for him from Crooked dice.  Another friend (Who doesn't wargame had spotted 7TV at Leeds and said, "There's a wargame I could get into." So we have and I painted her up the SHIVA set for her christmas.

My other stuff includes painting/tidying up 2 Epic armies, space wolves which was mostly tidying and unifying the schemes  to finish it off. The other was a Chaos force, mostly from scratch so that now gives me 3 fully done Epic forces to use.

My Napoleonics for Sharp Practice continues to be a slow burner, with 2 British units finished and 1 French Unit half way there.

I've also been doing some small modelling projects, including a scratchbuilt Sentry box and trying something out with how to texture a building. I have a load of foamcore which I had made a church with ages ago, but never got round to finishing because I couldn't make up my mind how to do the brick work until an experiment paid off. Hobby craft do A4 Sheets of foam, so I made a small ruined corner of a building and covered it with the foam, and then once everything was dry I etched into it with an old stylus to create the bricks. I like the end result so sometime this year that church will actually get finished.

Looking forward to this year,
Finish that Buntai,
Get the 10mm Russians and get them done for CoC as well. The balance of the models for these forces will just be based up without a dice marker for BKC.
Make 10mm Trenches, gun emplacements etc for our little campaign.
28mm Germans, I got a squad for christmas from the inlaws, so I'll get them done and probably pick up enough to finish off a platoon for CoC.
Continue with Napoleonics.
Blood Eagle comes out and I want to pick up a few more personality type vikings as most of mine so far are from the Gripping Beast Plastic boxes so having a couple of extra stand out models would be good.
I'd still like to get more Victorian period models for use in IHMN but we'll see how that goes, it's not a priority.

British Para's

As promised some time ago, here are some bad pics of my British Para's for Chain of Command. It's missing the support options, they are mostly painted and ready but need based as I discovered the bases they came with are entirely useless and don't fit. Especially the 6pdr, the base is far too small.

 The main platoon

 The man in charge, undisturbed with his mug of tea in hand.

 Squad 1

 squad 2

And finally a little bit of something to cheer the troops up. Jodie from Colonel Bills.

The Painting Table

It's been quite busy with lots of little bits and pieces on the painting table recently.  Mostly involving a lot of glue.  I went through and assembled the Napoleonic French I got at the Claymore Bring and Buy. It had enough for 4-5 units for Sharp Practice so I've been back and started painting the 2nd unit of British, first unit below and will need to put some of the rest together at some point.

I also assembled a Skaven warband, which I plan to use for the next Mordheim campaign

 Clan Patrol Buntai for Daisho is next, I'm doing some touch ups on these to unify the colours as they were a right mix of models that I got from Dave. 

 Lastly on the assembly front, some Treasure Markers for Frostgrave

Finally for this post I'm playing Epic with Kev on Monday so I had to go through my Marines to  make sure I had enough to make the 3000pt list. Here's my space wolves and some miscellaneous other bits and bobs I have used before. These were originally from Space Marine, so the companies were very different than they are now. 

 and the spares box, rather a lot of marines still in there, some of them even have chapter markings painted on, Whitescars and some Dark Angels.
 

I still have a shed load of Imperial guard and chaos infantry sitting in boxes as well. I used to have a regiment of about 25 Imperial Guard companies under the Space Marine rules. I'll need to check through that lot soon as well.

Been a While

It's been a while since I last posted up on here. I have been busy with stuff, but mostly all small bits and pieces of projects.

Frostgrave seems to have piqued everyone's interest so I dug out all my unused wizards from my collection and set about pairing them off and painting them up.  Orc Warband at the bottom as well.

 

I've been working on my little 10mm Fort, just needs a gate made, drybrushing to make the woodwork not so flat and flock the ditch area.

I've also managed to complete my ww2 stuff, (Pictures to come of the British Airborne) But here's a test one of my Foundry Home Guard.

I've also finally sorted through my 6mm Moderns and based up my Modern Soviets. 

Not sure if I'm going to keep them or put them into the bring and buy at Claymore. I may have to get through more of my extended stash before I do that. However I also have these and I have no idea what they are.

Any Ideas?


Lastly, it's been Malifaux, got my hands on 2 crews, Rasputina and The Kin. They're all assembled but need to wait and see how the painting goes.

The year past and looking Forward.

So that's another year. (And 6 months or so since my last post) 

Updates have been good this year with a lot of targets made.

I've finished off my 10mm Germans for BKC. (Actually all painted and based)
My 10mm Arabs are done.
10mm Crusaders done to 1200 pts
10mm Undead, High Elves, Mongols based and mostly done. (alongside some Romans)

I rebased my 15mm Seven Year War French in Canada in line with Maurice. Hopefully I'll pick up the remainder at Vapnartak.

28mm Tuetonics finished and based for Impetus.
28mm Viking/Dark Ages enough finished and based for 2 Dux B forces.
Purchased and painted up a bunch of supplementary stuff, livestock, carts, Monks etc 
Painted up some Valhallans for the Steampunk game In Her Majesties Name.
Touched up and rebased a bundle of Amazons (About 40 Old Grenadier models so far) for IHMN in the Congo.
Rebased and touched up most of my old 25mm RPG figures. (about 20 figs)
Painted my Dork Tower Miniatures.
Painted a set of Talisman Miniatures for a friend.
Painted a group of Napoleonic British (Thanks Kev)

Lastly model wise I glued together my Terrablocks I got for Christmas. These are a 3d dungeon type landscape models from Sally 4th, pics soon, but one of the reasons I wanted to get some of my old RPG figs touched up and rebased. I guess my monsters will need to be done soon as well.

Looking forward, I'm not sure I'll be making a huge amount of model purchases this year, I need to start concentrating on storage :( so that I can get everything tidied up properly. This also means that I want to get some of the old stuff sorted out properly in time for the Bring and Buy at Claymore unless anyone wants to sell it for me at Carronade. (Time to be ruthless if I can muster the courage)

So most of my painting this year will be concentrated on finishing off armies and warbands that I already own.10mm a must finish for this year.

Biggest challenge coming up is going to be keeping the Dux B Campaign going smoothly as we're still not sure how it's going to pan out past the 1st round.

Also I need to sort out some rules for doing some Scifi skirmish gaming for a Star Trek style Computer Game we've started playing, some non Tabletop gamers in the group so I'm thinking I may stick to Spacehulk rules and see how it goes, my other main option I think would be the Dr Who miniatures game rules which would work quite well as well.