I finished painting up a few of the miniatures from my next kickstarter, CULTISTS!
Sadly painted by myself, I will be getting someone more talented to paint up some for the "studio paintjobs".
I have mailed off a sculpt of a cultist leader to my caster and will be making a master mould once Iain sculpts me a few more cultists (which he is doing now).
I've been busy the last little while packing up the remaining pledges from the kickstarter I ran in November. It's all done! They're all shipped and only a few people who have yet to provide me with an address.
Here's a few miniatures I managed to paint in the last few days:
These little critters are originally from Malifaux, but I plan to use them as "Void Hounds" when I playtest my gothic horror rules. I like how the blue came out - I was trying to make it not too garish.
I was lucky enough to pick up some miniatures on Bartertown from the Red Box kickstarter. I was looking for more of the wolves, and this guy had six! I still have to do the Fenris, but not quite sure if I need two...
Painted while listening to: The Asylum by John Harwood (no relation)
This book really captures the Victorian feel, but suffers from a super long drawn out story. It might have been better as a short story or novella. The ending was good though!
I came across a person (sundayhero) on the Lead Adventure Forum who was taking commissions for terrain. His posted examples looked incredible, so I took the plunge and had him make up a few things for me:
Dimitri was very communicative and made sure I received just what I wanted. His pricing is extremely reasonable for the quality of the terrain - highly recommended!
I was lucky to finally have enough terrain and miniatures to play a game of Battlegroup Kursk with my 10mm miniatures.
Grant and I had a great time trying out the rules - definitely one of the best sets we've played so far!
The two above pics are the initial terrain setup on the table. The buildings are all from Escenografia Epsilon (which I picked up at Pendraken). See my previous posts for reviews on them. The church is an N scale railroad model I picked up on eBay. It has the cool Russian spire. I was lucky to find it! I still have to re-paint it and make a nice base for it. I plan to magnetize the Epsilon buildings on bases as well. You can see the Hotz felt fields, rubber roads and haystacks I mentioned in my previous post.
Lots of Russians!!! :-) I pushed hard with the tanks to catch Grant off guard, and succeeded. I had cleared most of the right side of the table before we called it a game.
Probably one of my favourite buys - farm animals!!!! I bought these on eBay and stuck them on some flocked bases. They really add a little something extra to the game.
Grant's infantry didn't really see much action. They crept along the left side of the table taking mortar fire. If we hadn't called it a game when we did the infantry would have been stuck in with mine.
It was just a trial game for both of us, and we really enjoyed the rules. We played parts incorrectly and it will be good next time to see how it goes.
Pooch pic!
I picked up a few various bits of terrain for my 10mm WW2 gaming.
First up are some haystacks I bought from a seller on eBay:
They size up decently next to a Stug III G. I think they were made for FOW, but works for me in 10mm.
I took a risk and ordered some of the Hotz felt fields. They arrived in normal shipping time and are AWESOME! I really like them and they add a lot to the battlefield. I'll be posting pics of a recent game soon so you can see them in action.
Lastly I purchased some latex rubber roads from Monday Knight Productions. I got a mix of various road types and painted and flocked them. Took a while to do since I got a bunch of them, but well worth it!
It was a bit pricey for the whack that I got, but well worth it as they will last. They are extremely good for gaming and because of their flexibility can bend to rises or falls in terrain. One thing I noticed is that the "dip" did not dry fully and was still tacky after two days of drying. Weird! I slapped on some PVA and that did the trick.
I wanted to have more of a bleak look to my Russians, so on the next batch I changed up what I did to the basing:
I used German Ochre Camo from Vallejo as the base colour, then washed it in Army Painter Strong, then highlighted it with Vallejo Buff and highlighted some with Vallejo Light Grey. I used lighter flocking and used a brown tuft to add something to make it pop. I like how they turned out and will be using this colour scheme from now on.
You can see a few Nebelwerfers and a Flak 88 in the background of the second pic (both from Pendraken). The infantry in these pictures were from Pithead, my first try with them and I like them!
I've been reading Battlegroup Kursk and it seems the Russians are in 8 man squads, so I changed up the basing to match that. Worst case is I just put a few of my older bases together (like I will be doing with the Germans). I've also started basing some N scale hedges from Faller.
