The Taking of Osgiliath, a change in scenery!

Well the wait is over and while this may be a little off kilter from the 40K subjects we GoGs have been putting up here, it is worthy of publication.

As you will all remember way back in the end of May beginning of June the GoGs had the culmination of all the army building that went on. We descended on Lenton and had a weekend mini-tournie in honour of The SilverBacks birthday!

The prizes were all donated by the participants and the choosing order for the prizes was done from the lowest in the listings to the winner. So to be fair...(as we GoGs always try to be!) The loser of the tournie would get the best of the prizes. These ranged from boxsets of 40K troops to ForgeWorld models so the choices were fab! There was one prize that I had my eye on though. Our friend Eddie Artillery had offered to make a custom piece of terrain for the chooser of his nominated prize....anything you wanted.....gulp! My mind was a blur of images from 40K defence positions to LotR set pieces! Then it hit me....what about this game we were just venturing in to....War of the Ring! Great!! A building to house troops in during battles! Faaaantastic!!

Well as was expected my Guard only managed one draw all weekend and got slaughtered in all the other games :-(. Oh well!!!! I get the first pick of prizes......without hesitation I chose the terrain feature.

The next week Eddie wanted to kno what I wanted....I was the proverbial kiddie in the sweet shop! So he offered some suggestions! One of which was the town of Osgiliath.....did I read that right! Osgiliath!! The whole town! Eddie said "Yeah of course!" "I have a great vision of the damaged bridge and the surrounding buildings!". OMFG!!! I thought!

Yes Please!

Now such is the dedication of the man, that he missed out on our gaming nights in order to complete the project.....and here are the results!

These are staged using my Isengard army, as unfortunately my Gondor army isn't ready yet! But you get the drift....these are beautiful models, the terrain features encompassed with the buildings is second to none!

Here is a lovely centrepiece of the tower and the ruined place of worship.

Orcs pour across the river..in the background can be seen one of the huge Mordor Trolls followed by a supporting phalanx of Uruk-Hai Pike!


A Mordor Troll rampages through one of the derelict gardens in the suburbs!

The Berserkers prepare to take the fight to the City!









Ugluk restores order with his scouts by taking another impudent head!

Bow armed scouts move through a once magnificent building, now just ruins!( Note the detail in the trailing ivy and the ornate gateway)

Here is a fine example of a two story building now reduced to ruin, through the onslaught of the forces of evil!

A view from one side of the ruined bridge.........and the other!

Eddie has put up a ramshackle planked bridge to cover the gap!

The river section covers a full 4 feet! The bridge being the centre piece for this! AWESOME!!

Here is a better shot of the bridge exspanse, complete with makeshift bridging, you can also see the ornamental statues on the support pillars!


A detailed ruin that will take at least three companies of troops!

Well I hope you enjoyed the tour, this has given me a great incentive to paint the rest of my troops for War of the Ring....however I don't have any Mordor or Gondor troops! Perhaps I need to remedy that!!! :-)

Till next time TTFN!

The Green Machine Rumbles on

Well, as Our Lizzie lets me have a day off to celebrate her birthday, I spent it wisely and in her honour. I therefore present to you Messers Zagstruk and Snikrot. Zagstruk is a pain to put together but a breeze to paint. Snikrot is pretty easy in both departments.

Next on the table are 10 Stromboyz to hold Zagstruks hat and coat as he dukes it out with anyone close enough.

My preparations for the next Apoc game are in an advanced stage.

The post is sponsored by JCB

My preparations for the next Apoc game are moving along nicely.

As you can see JCB wanted to branch out into the world of 40K and I have provided them an opportunity. 6 Mega-Armoured Nobs and their own battlewagon, with Kill Kannon. I have left the battlewagon with removable turrets and the hint that it is open topped. Thus it can be used for a variety of roles in any list. I think that this needs playtesting to work out the best use of this.

These are definately not the best painted figures I have done. But it was simple, quick and I think an effective colour scheme. It seems that Eddie might have converted me to the benefits of yellow painting.

If you should go down to the woods today...

Well guys, you lot may have sat back on your a***** and been happy, possibly with the exception of Eddie and his alleged undercoated marines, but I am still plowing on and on.

So here are 10 Kommandos all done and ready to creep up where you least expect them. These will soon have Snikrot added to them for a little bit more Orky fun,

So, the next big question for me after shopping at the model shop is what colour shall I paint the battlewagon with KillKannon?????? Answers on a response to the author!

Quick Update

It's all been a bit quiet around here so thought I'd just pop in and say hello.

We all had a great weekend up in Nottingham and I've got the results and hopefully some photos to post on Sunday.

This tournie marked the end of our initial GOG Challenge and the overall winner will be announced shortly. GOG 2 will be coming soon to a blog near you.

In the meantime we're embarking on different projects and no doubt updates will be posted as the long summer nights continue; hoping to have my Tower of Skulls project up and running shortly and will post updates as time permits.

Well - here it is

Well we are off to Lenton to take part in our final hurrah at the end of 7 months of hard work and laughter. I wish us all good luck and bon chance, and may the best guy buy the beer.

I sincerely hope we are back at work monday still feeling the effects of the weekend whether they be alcohol, humour or good game related.

I leave you with the age old salute of may all of your dice be double sixes (especially for leadership/faith point tests).

Over the finishing line in a cloud of exhaust smoke

To finish the 1750pts off we have only 4 models. 2 more of those lovely and friendly Nob Bikers to make the squad up to 5 and the painboss. And the last 2 Pardon Koptas, one of which is armed with the permanently overheating Kustom Mega Blaster.

So there it is done.

Well that is apart from the 10 Kommandos with Snkirot, Battlewagon with Kill Kannon, 10 Stormboyz with Zagstruk, Ghazghull and 6 Mega Armoured Nobs, and a squad of 20 Nobs which are on my painting desk. That will leave me shed loads of foot sloggin' Orks, Lootas, Tankbustas and Grots to paint before I achieve my aim of world domination .... sorry that is next week ... I meant to say the ability to field an Apocalypse force on my own.

Now to see if these fine examples of Ork-dom can finally beat my curse of never being able to beat the Varistat........