Bolt Action.....with automatic rifles....

Seems like an age since I've posted anything, which is weirdly not to suggest that I haven't been productive over the past while. I've painted a lot of Infinity stuff and there's a draft post waiting for me to finish the last eight models, do some much needed cleanup work and take some decent photos.

I've previewed a few models from my Bolt Action collection before but I figured after their semi successful outing over the weekend, I should take a decent set of pics.

FAO, Medic and 1st Lieutenant

One Rifle Squad

Two Rifle Squad

Three Rif...*cough cough* Engineer Squad with Flamethrower

.30cal Team

Sniper and Bazooka Teams

Artillery Support - 81mm and 45mm Mortar Teams

M8 Greyhound and M20 Utility

Sherman Bulldozer

One of the things that always vexxed me about painting Americans in that the Sherman is so bleeding boring to look at. However, thanks to the chaps at Company B, I've made mine into a doozer. Who doozes. And it's great. It's a bit of a pain of an add on but it does make me ponder their Calliope.......(!)

There's also a Chaffee on the assembly table at the moment, an M18 Hellcat on the wish list and I've promised myself one of Mad Bob's Long Toms as a Christmas present. Why? I hear you ask. Why not? is the only answer I can give.

I've also started work on some Frostgrave terrain now that I've knocked off a winter BA table for this army (which I meant to take some photos of over the weekend and completely forgot. Also the lighting in the club hall was terrible. Yep, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.)

Pooch and I (and maybe Scotty and McBeth) are also working on a throwback surprise for this year's 12 Games of Gamesmas. It's going to be terrible to behold....I'll get a sneak peek up next week.

Air field Alpha.

Team Yankee has been another project and another scale. Taking TY on in 6mm has meant we all have armies to start with and its now all the fun stuff we can buy :) I love making terrain and I was inspired by some packing rubber a club member had brought along for guys to use. So I created the following. I have a 3 main buildings from Game Craft Miniatures. The warehouse, the terminal and the latest arrival, the hanger. The hanger is actually a 6mm building - it is indeed monstrous. I don't know how it will fit in to a full able - but I like it in this display. Inside the hanger I have parked an Intruder, a Viking and a Hawkeye. On the tarmac (at the ready) are 2 F4 Phantoms and 2 Cobras. My TY US stuff is based on 1980's Marines (even though they weren't in Germany at the tie) but hey - its all "what if" anyway. I also had a Chinook arrive this week, and although its not finished I thought I would add it in too. There are also a few 6mm cars in the carpark and the light towers. The fencing is a mish mash of what I have in my 6mm fencing box. So now we are ready for action.

Until next time - chur!

Progressing the Nappies.

School Holidays are a great time to catch up on painting - and I have been enjoying the Napoleonic painting in 15mm. Since my last post I have finished basing the Cavalry - discovered I miscounted when I ordered, finished another Battalion of Brunswickers, reflagged the 33rd West Riding Battalion and ordered the rest of my Cav and Brunswickers. So this is the overall project so far.

Thats 10 Battalions of infantry, 3 1/2 Regiments of Cav, Artillery and assorted Command stands.

Plenty more to do - probably a Brigade of Portuguese and finish the Light Cav, can't wait to get some more games in too.....hint, hint :) T

CHAAAAAAARGE!!!!!!!

Well - its been a wet and nasty weekend in Wellington, so what a great opportunity to smash out some overdue painting. So to the painting table I went and found some 15mm Napoleonic Cavalry. Heavy Peninsula War British Cav to be exact. Lots of wee detail but I got there in the end. These will join the slowly growing British Napoleonic army that I am building to play with McBeth and Pooch's Napoleonic rules that our dear friend and comrade Nick started before his sad passing. Let me just say Messrs Pooch and McBeth are doing a fantastic job and one day we will all be playing by their rules :)

I still need to finish the basing but overall I am enjoying painting 15mm again - who'd have thought!!

Lords of Ruin

A couple months ago I hatched a plan to convert a few models for the Warmachine tournament Lords of Ruin. You may remember such posts as....becoming a monstrosity. Well I managed to finish these guys off and had a blast running a fun list with no less than six monstrosities in one list.

The most gratifying end to the tournament was that my army was judged best artisan, something I have wanted to win, but always been is awe of these with better brush skills than I. Big thanks to the judges and the tournament organiser, Sean, who always run a top notch event.

So here are some pics of the finished crew!

The whole gang

The Legion Monstrosity - a Warden

The Troll Monstrosity - a Wrecker

The Circle Monstrosity - another Warden

Gratuitous Trophy Photo

Till next time, when I will have some Infinity Models to share,

Scotty.

Pooch's Painting- August

So, another month gone, another late post. And not even much to show for it!

I am working on more things (honest), but all I actually got finished in August was two figures for my Infinity Aleph army, a second version of Achilles (to be Patroclus) and an Ekdromoi. I did an arm swap between the two, my usual helmet swaps and put the spitfire into Achilles' hands, rather than it being slung over his back. Very easy conversion, but enough that I don't have two models looking exactly the same.

Front



Back

Achilles 1 and Achilles 2

The two models were finished for a competition that Pelarel ran a few weeks ago of 300 point Infinity. I had 4 games of Infinity the club meeting prior to the competition, so I was really feeling like I knew just enough that I wouldn't make a complete idiot of myself.

So how did the competition go?

Well, I learned a heck of a lot about Infinity, that is for sure! I lost two of three, and was resoundingly thrashed in the third. But I do like the game. And am already working on my next project for it. So can't ask for more than that!

A few pics I took over the weekend...

Run Tacbot Run

Guns out!

My building. Mine.

The Ekdromoi has landed

The Asuras sneaking around

Running Tac Bot

Well, that's it for this month.

More next time, probably....

Pooch

Ohh You Lucky B...........

Well I feel very lucky - I won a competition on Facebook! The new laser cut terrain company (Kiwi based) BattleKiwi had a prize draw for a Scifi dumpster, and in true form - I won the rubbish bin. But what a bin it is. It went together really well - some parts very tight fitting - and it is a terrific addition to my Infinity/city terrain table.

A big thanks to Oli - see its even customised.

Here it is in the rest of the infinity terrain. Some would say the perfect camo for a Kurgat :)

Pooch's painting: July!

Well, another month gone. Seven gone in fact, this year is going by so fast that it is getting ridiculous...

Anyway, painting. I am working on a number of "big" projects which are nearing completion, so it was only my teensy tiny (and weirdly successful) Panzer Shrek army which I completed this month.

All models from Zvezda (Panzer IIs and Stuka) or Plastic Soldier Company (Panzer IIIs).

Truly a fearsome force

CO's tank

One of the Panzer IIs



And the Stuka.

You can read about their exploits on Craig's excellent blog (linky link), so I will just throw in a few of the random pictures of game one before I got too distracted to take any more...

Panzer IIs

Panzer IIIs

Destroyed enemy tanks!

Green tokens are bogged, red token is bailed. Dice are a heartless bitch.

Right, quiet month this month, will try to finish much more for next month!

Pooch

Full Steam ahead!!

Nope, I've not succumbed to steam age naval warfare, Full Steam is the name of the release event for Privateer Press' third edition of their Warmachine and Hordes rule sets. For anyone out there not familiar with Warmachine or Hordes (Warmahordes from now on) it's a blend of Steam punk and classic fantasy with armies led by a powerful warcaster or warlock controlling steam powered robots or ravenous beasts.. and some mooks to get squished :) seriously, check out www.privateerpress.com for a nosey, it's a tight rules set with some really nice sculpts (some pretty dubious ones too but hey :))

The Full Steam event was more casual than the usual Warmahordes tournament, 2 hour games, one army list and no turn timers - pretty damn relaxed.

10 players turned up and we got underway

we played out three rounds and I even managed to get a game in when Mike T turned up in the afternoon for a look see - damn those pigs are scary! (check out the farrow minions models on the PP site.. go on!)

There were three prizes for the day -

Marshall - most scenario points
Artisan - best painted battlegroup
Iron Valour - best sport

Artisan and Iron Valour are peer voted awards which is a nice departure from the usual "best of faction" awards at the book release events. PP are starting to acknowledge the "soft" scores through extra awards which is great, though tournaments are still won by winning games :)

Points were scored 2 for a scenario win, 1 for an assassination win (kill your opponents Warcaster/Warlock). Additionally there were a number of one off awards to get through the day as well, such as playing a fully painted army, win a game whilst destroying 50pts or more of models, win a game in under 25 minutes and so on.

At the end of the day, the final tables looked something like this:

Player                    Faction                       Points
Mike            Protectorate of Menoth        21 pts (Marshall)
Chris P        Legion of Everblight            15 pts
Kane                     Cryx                              8 pts
Mitch                  Cygnar                            8pts
Scott            Mercenaries (Cephalyx)        8pts (Artisan)
Jaime                   Khador                           7pts
Chris F        Retribution of Scyrah             6pts
Bob                      Cygnar                           5pts
Thomas                Cygnar                           2pts
Dutton                 Skorne                            0pts (Iron Valour)

Big props to Dutton, not only his first event but plays a Skorne all beast 75pt list and gets the Iron Valour award - well done! :)

and now for some eye candy

 Mike's all conquering Severious 1 battlegroup of DOOOOOMMMMMM!!! 

 Thomas' Cygnar electroleapin' army

 Jaime's Butcher led Khador 

 Mitch's boys in blue

 Chris P's winged horrors

 Scott's monstrosity horde! with 3 models converted from hordes heavy beasts

 oh, and these little dudes hiding off to one side.. probably not wanting to be stepped on..

 Kane's shambling undead horrors with his invisible Kraken

 *sigh* yes, more Cygnar, Bob's this time ;)

 Chris F's angry, angry elves

 Dutton's Skorne army, yup, that's the whole army!

 mitch and scott smash into each other mid table

 "but they have wings sir!! and pointy teeth!!!!" *squelch*

 "Hellooooo?!?!?"

 "Git orf moi land you round eared gits!"

 "CHARGE!!!!!!"

 "If you'll just put your warlock right about there that would be awfully good"

 "Titan steaks for dinner lads!"

 the finger of god almost obscures Mike's battlegroup tangling with Bob's

 NOM NOM NOM NOM!

"AAARRRGGGHHH!!! A SPIDER!!" oh no, sorry it's your warjack..

hopefully my next blog post will involve me actually playing a game! I was eying up McBeth's great game of Frostgrave a couple of tables over.......