Air Support!!!

I got my bombers and fighters finished for DW at the weekend.

I have to say that painting the DW has been really enjoyable. A real divergance from the sorts of things I usually do. Can't wait for the range to be expanded!

Dystopian Wars is here!

After a lengthly DIY induced gaming hiatus I am back. First up is My Kingdon of Britannia fleet for Dystopian Wars.

I wanted to do a sort of disruption camo for the ships. It didn't turn out quite how I'd imagined it but its okay. Just need to paint the fighter squadrons and two bombers then I can think about adding extra stuff once The Silverfox and I have had a trial game.

Jumping onto the queue next will be a couple of Malifaux figs that are on there way because my resolve crumpled like an old balloon when the GoGs started ooo'ing and aahhh'ing over the figures.

ASMOH & Prussian Steampunk Sets Sail

ASMOH 2011 has been and gone. I took the World Eaters with the addition of the Raptors and suffice to say my last game was fought on table 25. Out of 25. More detail after the jump thingy...

I've also added some pictures of my first Dystopian Wars Prussian Frigate and the Rhino I completed today for my Tzeentch meltagun squad.

Events listing

Played around with the blog settings - someone gave me access. I had a computer. Dangerous combo...

Added an Events list to the sidebar just over to your right. I'll add links soon but in the meantime give me a shout at vonjenk@ntlworld.com if you'd like info on any event.

Edit: Links Added and they all seem to work!!! :-)
If you come across another event then give me a shout.

Come in Raptors; your time is now

First weekend in April was Vanquish over in Bristol. The results and pictures are over on the Bristol Vanguard site. Suffice to say I took the World Eaters, lost all 3 games on the Saturday and was in the bottom 4 and then won both games on the Sunday to finish 47th out of 67. I'm happy with that to be honest.

Even happier with an honourable mention for the army itself!


However, I now realise the army doesn't quite work (what's new eh?) so changes are a-foot. Or a-wing depending on your viewpoint. I'll detail what I'm planning in a later post but for now meet the new Raptors.
 

It's all gone evil. With spikes on...

My weekly post is either early as it is normally Sunday or late as I didn't post last Sunday. I'm going with early as it sounds like I have a degree of skill at clock watching...

Anyway... last weekend was all a bit Napoleonic so no real painting time and this weekend is Vanquish so again a lack of time to daub paint on models. Having said that I have completed 5 figures and who'd have guessed that Dark Eldar who have been missing for 12 years presumed squatted would suddenly be involved in the last 2 posts. More on the Kabal in a minute...

I'm baaaaaaaack!

Well, it's been a long time coming, but I've not been idle... Well, not totally. Anyhow, since my last post I've completed a Flames of War 8th army (to be posted sometime) and started work on the dark eldar.

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I bought a load of dark eldar when they first came out (November '10?) and then, like all good wargamers, let them sit in their shrink wrap in boxes for ages. I find that if I don't open something as soon as I buy it and put it together and paint it, it stays on the shelf for an age, behind all the other things in my painting queue.

So, first order of business was the 30 or so wyches. Now, I like the new wyches, which are streets ahead of those crappy old ones GW put out, but with them all in a running pose, I didn't want the tabletop to turn into an 80's nightclub dancefloor with everyone doing "the running man" dance move..... You remember the running man, right? Anyone? Errr, ok, moving on....

So, I decided that as these were supposed to be uber-athletic crazy space elfs I'd chop some of them up and give them other dynamic poses. So, mixing the legs with those from the hellion and raider passenger sprue I made a whole load of crazy poses! And yes, it did involve chopping some eldar arms into three and pinning them back together. I'm a little nuts like that you see.....

I needed something for them to be athletic over, so I reasoned that they were attacking an Imperial Guard outpost and hence the fact they're leaping over things from the imperial guard tank sprue :)

Also attached is a photo of the hellions, which are "straight off the sprue", which was a nice change of pace after the wych conversions.