Latest Terrain Piece

Just a quick few pics of a piece of terrain I finished recently.

I'm still mass-producing LOTR units, working on some Rohan Warriors right now.  I've got ten Mantic ghouls prepped and primed too, and hope to have a go at them after the warriors are done (you can see a bit of both on the left hand side of the second picture).

Re-Fight of the Battle of Coronel

I finally got around to ordering the proper ships for a fight of the WW1 naval Battle of Coronel.  Previously, I just used whatever ships I had picked up at the local game store.  But this time we were ready for a proper battle!

The game was very fun - both sides took a pounding and there were some close calls when the criticals started flying!  Germany prevailed in the end, but Scharnhorst was practically out of action at the end (with one turret remaining operational).  However, Gneisenau was untouched!  My light cruisers took the brunt of the fire - Grant seemed obsessed with sinking them.  ;-)

Mordor Orcs

The next batch of Dip miniatures are done!  28 Mordor Orcs.  

I have also started work on a few more terrain pieces:

Both are from Thomarillion - I don't see the stairs on the site now though. 

Painted while listening to:  Fearful Symmetry by Michael McBride

This one was pretty good!  It held my attention for most of it, and it brought back memories of anthropology classes in college. 

Lots of Men of Gondor!

As the first real trial of using "the Dip", I got out a bunch of Men of Gondor and gave them some base colours and brushed on the Army Painter "Dip".

I really like how they turned out!  They didn't take me that long to do either.  I worked on them in between cleaning up miniatures that I picked up recently (Sudan!!!).

I have a bunch of around 30 Mordor Orcs on the table ready to be base coated, for the next "Dip" lot!  :-)

Painted while listening to:  Bird Box by Josh Malerman

It took me a while to warm up to this book.  Overall I liked it, but don't know if I'd listen to it again.

WW1 Naval Game Jan 25th 2015

My friend Grant and I decided to give WW1 Naval action a go.  I've never painted up something like that before, so it was a bit of a challenge.  I think my ships turned out ok:

We tried out the Victory at Sea: Age of Dreadnaughts rules and they were quite good!  The bigger ships can sure take a pounding.  Torpedo boats are fragile, but deadly if they score a hit - I quickly learned that they do not fire from the front!  ;-)

Puppy pic!  

More Terrain!

After the successful attempt at making terrain, I went on a bit of a binge and made a few more:

This one has one of those plastic LOTR statues glued to it, with some yellow flowers to make it stand out a bit.

The Celtic Cross is from Fenris Games, and makes for a great piece of terrain!

More plastic LOTR terrain.  I like how the leaves turned out and the white flowers look good on it.

All flower tufts are from Tajima1 Miniatures, and are easy to put on and look great!

The above are two different pieces, with different wall sections.  I bought these off eBay, and don't know the manufacturer.  I added a resin branch I just got in the mail from Model Display Products, in one of their boxed sets - their website isn't loading when I write this so I can't link it for you.

Overall, I am very happy with how they came out!

Planetfall Directorate "Informer" Light Recon Buggy

I liked the look of the new Spartan Games Planetfall 10mm miniatures, so I picked up the main box and a few other helixes.  I wasn't sure how they'd paint up, so I tried out a colour scheme on one of the buggies:

The bases are built into the miniature, so you're stuck with it if you don't like bases on your vehicles - I usually don't but I think these look good.

I think it turned out ok, and will be using this colour scheme for the rest of the Directorate forces.