Painting Update - Dungeon Tiles

 Hello Folks,

Figured I better do a post with the last bit of painting for 2020. I decided to work on some dungeon tiles over the Christmas break, not really sure why was just motivated that way. Anyway here's what I got done.

Base Set:

First up got cracking on the base set. I did well on the floors which are easier, but not as well in walls, only like half the walls done so far. But I think they turn out pretty cool.

Torture Chamber:

They also do some themed add on sets, so I did one of those when I got tired of the basic rocks. This one is the torture chamber which has wood floors and various torture stuff.

Progress so far:

Here's a shot of all I got done so far. As you can see I'm getting somewhere but mainly need more walls. Plan to keep chopping away at this, I figure it will be easy to toss in a few bits now and then. Its really only the walls thay are slow as they are bigger 2 sided and have more details.

Beastlords:

After awhile I decided it was time for a tile break! So I painted some Christmas goodies, more Bot Wars stuff, these are basically the dinobots, fun! Have a few more to do of course. These are just fun to do so make forxa great lock down diversion!

Bought: 367 
Painted: 353
Total: -14 pretty close

Thanks;

Mike

Paintimg Update - Spooky Ghosts

 Hello Folks,

Got another bit of painting done. Decided to do some additional ghosts, so I would have enough to run a Saga Age of Magic army of all spooky ghosts!

Group shot first as it works better 9n face book.

Few hexwraiths, plus the king of the dead and his Banners. Based different to fit in their respective armies, but teaming up for saga!

Hexwraiths:

Ghostly wraith on ghost steeds with scythe whats not to love. Super easy to paint also. Have 1 left to do, but rushed these as just need 4 for saga.

King of the Dead:

Another great plastic kit from GW, so much better then the old king of the dead. Really pleased with how he turned out.

Army:

So here's what a full army of spooky ghosts looks like! I think this far from a good undead army, but I mostly want an 3xcuse to use my big ghost chariot! Plus I think age of magic in particular is better of you don't take it to seriously and just set out to have a laugh.

Bought: 367 Armada!
Painted: 291
Total: -76

Thanks;

Mike

Painting Update - Bot Wars - Valiants

 Hello All,

Just a small update today, finished the variants half of the botwars starter set. Basically autobots. This just a fun little side project I picked up because I thought the models were very cool!

More to come but not sure when, next little project is a few more ghosts for next weeks club day.

Pledge Status, 2020:

Bought: 347 picked up a new game of thrones army on black friday
Painted: 286
Total: -61 

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Club Day Warhammer

 Hello Folks,

Managed to get in another club day, great time as usual. Today the main game of the day was By Fire and Sword, but we decided to play a side game of warhammer fantasy 7th edition.

Serge has some Skaven from island of blood, so I took small armies of both lizards and high elves, hoping to get 2 games in. They were around 700 points.

Probably got something things wrong, rusty on the rules.

Game 1: Lizardmen

First up the rats would have to fight dinosaurs. I forgot the set up shot but here we are after turn 2. Terradons flanking with skirmishes on the sides and a steggadon up the middle.

The rats pressed forward, lucky foe me their warp fire thrower just explodes and the has mortar shot wide!

Turn 2 much excitement! The steggadon charged in against the rats, but rolled very poorly, then fled from combat and was overrun! The blow pipe skins mage to kill a rat ogre thou. Meanwhile the terradons dropped rocks on the other unit of rats who panicked.

Rats counter attack, the ogres charge the skinks who flee into the woods. The mortar gassed a few of the others, while the cheiftans unit advanced.

My turn the orange skinks fail to rally and flee off the board! But the blue sk8nks are to to flank and t8ss javelin while the mage fires in some spells.

Skaven charge the mage who flees, and mortar gasses a few skinks who panic. The ogre tries to block and save the remaining unit from a rare charge.

Missing the last picture, but the terradons cleaned up the ogre, while all the skinks ran way, so a win fir the ratmen!

Game 2: vs High Elves

Second game I took out the very high elves to have a go. My plan is to shoot arrows while the sword masters murder everything and the knights flank.

Skaven fire the poison mortar dead on the swordmasters, who can't cut gas... All but 2 or 3 due who then obviously flee, he not good.

I decided a risk is needed so try a long charge with the knights but am an inch it 2 out sadly. But I am able to pincushion the mortar with arrows.

Skaven get right up in the archers face, with the ogres in the woods.

I'm not really willing to pit the knights into a forest, so try to run past. But lucky I am able to panic one skaven unit with shooting 

Rats fail to rally, but but up most of one unit with fire, the other die from the charge. Not looking good!

I try to charge the fleeing unit, but they run out of range. At least my wizard is able to kill the pesky fire thrower.

Skaven charge the knights in the rear with the ogres, killing a couple and making them run. While the remains unit tries to get my wizard with magic. But no luck their.

The disaster continues as my knights fail to rally and exit stage left! The skaven are able to kill my wizard on their go, so another solid win for them!

Not a great showing on my side perhaps, but was great to get back to playing this game again, very fun.

As usual here's a picture of the other games ongoing:

Tod showing Jay that rivers are a bad time.

More open battle.

I guess Cossacks raid a village i guess which is their bread and butter I assume!

Thanks;

Mike

Painting Update - Battletech Clan Invasion Kicksterter

 Hello Folks,

Another small bit of painting. Recently received wave one of the battletrch kickstarter for some plastic models so have been painting them up. Finished the starter box plus 1 bonus model.

Mechs:

First up the 5 mechs you get. I decided to paint them in as the Jade Falcon Clan because green and yellow are cool. Very nice models, much improved over the old metals. Also come pre assembled so very easy to get going. All in all very fun change of pace.

Elemental Battle Armor:

You also get a couple of stands of battle armor. These are kind of my favorite not going to lie, the rocket jumping guys are just fun.

Hellbringer:

Finally I painted up this guy from a salvage box. Mainly for nostalgic reason as o used to use one of these allot back in the university days. My old pal Ron ran a very fun mercenary campaign.

Group shot of course.

I still have like half a dozen more clan mechs, and a unitbof battle armor, but this is enough to get started, so I'll just leave it there for now. More to come once 8 get a game or I guess wave 2 ships.

Pledge Status, 2020:

Bought: 277
Painted: 281
Total: +4 made it into the green!

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Return of the Club!

 Hello All,

The club has returned! This time we are playing Saga: Age of Crusades. I took my Ordenstaat (Teutonic Knights), and ended up fighting martins Crusaders.

We did the random mission, but I just set up the terrain, so we skipped those rolls. The special rule was no special rule, and the mission was Show of Force. Basically survive and get a unit into the enemy deployment.

Here's the set up. I wanted to do a northern crusade so brought some stuff which worked great with the clubs mat.

Crusaders took the initiative and moved up a bit shooting a few arrows. The turcoples started an annoying plan of charging up shooting and falling back.

I shifted everything around a bit, and did the same, a bit less effective.

Crusaders brought the turcoples around the forest to fire on my brother Knights. I used a defensive ability but he still killed 2!

I decided to make a suicide attack with my remaining knights, but had poor luck and only killed 1, so that was a bad call.

Crusaders kept up a hail of fire, really killing off my serfs.

Starting to get a bit desperate being down on saga dice. But I saw able to kill some serfs to get more. I went for a double charge with my remaining Knights that went ok.

Crusaders were able to counter attack pretty well with their own knights however. As you cans ee very few unit left for me!

I decided on a last hurrah! So my warlord charged the annoying turcoples. I killed a few but not as many as I wanted, and my guy was left exhausted and vulnerable. The single knight charge was not very mighty either hah.

As if to add to the indignity the turcoples just shot my warlord down with arrows, no honor with these pagans!

My turn such as it is. Just 1 saga dice but I managed to get a shot off and finish a unit of knits! take that.

Crusaders use their turn to get into my deployment zone, so yeah I feel like it is safe to say they showed me the force!

Final turn for me, my saga dice did not roll a symbol I could use to activate my levy so that was that! We elected to skip the mathematics phase, but I am somewhat confident that the Crusaders won! Was a very fun game thou never the less, great to have the club back again look forward to more!

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As usual here is a few shots of other games going on:

Spring Crusades

Much larger desert crusades. I assume the camels are about to unleash hell.

Also WW2.

Thanks;

Mike

Painting - Iranians Team Yankee

 Hello Folks,

Got another painting project completed. I decided it would be a good idea to do something easy, so looking at my list 9f stuff to do I settled on some Iranians for team yankee, someone has to play the good guys right?

Anyway this went quite well so I got the stuff I had done plus a second wave. Very simple with washes and dry brushing using make up brushes.

Tanks:

First up a full company of cheiftan tanks, carefully selected by the Shah. You can also use some us or Russian tanks, my plan is to mix in my Jordian Pattons.

Cobra Attack Helicopters:

To be honest I mainly have these as they are just in the starter box. But even bad helicopters make this game more fun. They came out pretty cool at least, and didn't break any tail rotors this time!

Infantry:

Actually even managed to get the infantry painted. Usually I just buy them. A fun mix of us and Russian stuff. Normal ride is m113 but I took the btr69 option as wheels are more fun.

Recon:

Jeeps and scorpion tanks, whats not to love. Note I bought the wrong jeeps by accident should have gotten the Israel pack as they have TOW but I decided to not care.

Full Force:

So there you have it whole bunch if Iranians ready for battle. All this only comes to 65 points, but I find this game more fun on the smaller side anyway. Hopefully cam get in a game some day. 

Pledge Status, 2020:

Bought: 277
Painted: 273
Total: -4

Thanks;

Mike