The Plan....

So I've been thinking recently about all things gaming. As you'll have seen from the recent posts from my esteemed colleagues we're branching out into a lot more non-GW games. This is mainly because we've looked at the costs involved and blanched.

Instead of £50 on a Land Raider we're spending £50 on a starter set and rulebook for a new game. In the last 6 weeks I've acquired Kings of War, Flames of War and Malifaux. We've also now played Dystopian Wars and Uncharted Seas so I'll be expanding them and taking a look at Firestorm Armada.

I've decided that I have enough 40K stuff for this year so instead I'm going to spend the next 6 months getting all these other game systems completely up to speed. Expect pictures very soon as today I've built my Malifaux Crew, painted 5 Dwarfs for Kings of War and stuck my fingers together with a base of Fallschirmjaeger for Flames of War. I shall also be basing and repainting my Prussian Empire fleet for Dystopian Wars soon: Eddie made such a good job of his that I need to up my game - which is brill cos that's why we do this right???

6 months of non-GW building and painting starts here. Watch this space!

Putting the F back into the hobby

So, back with another blog. And this time, there are some words..... We've been discussing what to play recently and have stumbled across a number of new games. Whilst 40k will probably remain our staple game withall the armies we have and the fun that we have playing it, The recent GW price rises have really opened other games up to us (and

it's not like we were shy about them before!) but when you consider that you can get a gang/crew/posse for a whole host of other games for the same price as a Rhino or even a Land Raider for the larger games, it suddenly becomes all you need to enable yourself to play all the games you've seen lurking on the internet or admired the figures for. So, on that note, enter Malifaux!

This is my first crew, that of Sonnia Criid, the Witch Hunter. her crew works against people who cast spells mainly and she's a member of the Guild, who try to bring law to the lawless steampunk victoriana game that is malifaux. I decided that I just had to get her painted, so here she is along with her gang. I'm not a huge fan of the sculpt of the taller guy with her, but her sculpt is great and the Witchling stalkers in the front are fantastic, really deep cloaks. I went with red on all the figures to tie them together (red is the faction colour of the guild) and she also gets a purple dress as she's the leader ;)

And that brings me nicely onto the title of my post. The F is for "fun" you see and that's what I'm having with all these new figures. And I've learnt that now I have less time for hobbying with a 1 year old toddling around the place, I need to choose things to work on that are fun. There are 19 base coated Wyches on my painting table, 3 half built ravagars in the garage and 4 raiders that need finishing off, not to mention the 20 warriors that I need to build. But for some reason i couldn't face doing them, so I did my malifaux crew. And now I've started on four 8th Army deacons and 2 german Vielferwachers that I found whilst putting the deacons together. I have no particular plan for when I'll use any of them, but they really got my enthusiasm going, so I started on them!

I do need to get my Dark Eldar army done, but I'm sure I'll get enthusiastic about them at some point, but right now I'm bouncing all over my miniatures collection, building and painting the stuff that looks like fun, as opposed to working to an army list. Mighty refreshing and heck, fun is what this hobby is all about after all! So hopefully there'll be many and varied posts about lots of random miniatures that I'm finishing over the coming months.

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.