Get the Kids Involved

Sorry no Menoth, but as soon as I get some good pictures I promise they are coming!

Talking of taking good pictures, if you view my profile you will see that I like photography. It's what I studied at college, I didn't do very well! But I do have a small idea what I'm doing. So I'm getting a portable studio to take some nice pictures for the blog.

The studio is 40cm cubed and comes with different coloured back drops, but I wanted a display base that would fit inside so I decided to make one. I done the board and cut the polystyrene with a hot wire cutter and started to cover it in tissue paper and PVA. My 9 year daughter wanted to help and that meant my 5 year old son also wanted to help. I said what the hell, showed them what to do and let them get on with it.

They loved it!

(Yes I know, my daughter is One Direction fan, sorry, but she is only 9)

So with a hand full of tissue paper and a brush each they got on with it. 

At one point they were doing such a good job I left them to it! 

So about 40 mins later it was almost done.

More PVA and some sand and its time to let it dry. A word of caution at this time is that this will get messy! and if you only protect the table with a carrier bag mummy will not be happy! 

So there you have it, I let it dry and painted it, added some grass and all done. Top tip, if you want scenery made let a 9 year old and 5 year old do it! As a result of this little afternoon project we are now going to do a 4x4 board. My daughter has draw it out, the base is done (has been for a while and left in the shed) and over the next few weeks we will do what we can. I will post as we go but it will take time. I can tell you it has a river, hills with both sloped and rocky sides, a cobbled area in the middle with a wall around it big enough for a few buildings. This leads me to one question? What the hell have I let myself in for?!?! I guess time will tell and I will hopefully share the experience with you.

That's it for now, thanks for dropping by and please come back soon for an update.  

Take care.

A Friday night beating and no mistake!

So, last Friday I went along to the Miniature Empire Gaming Club and Riot was kind enough to give me a game of Bloodbowl. He lent me his most excellent "Gentlemen of The Realm" team to play against his Orcs. I don't know if they have a name but I have named them the "Murder, Death Annihilation Squad"(there is a spoiler in there somewhere...). If you haven’t already (and why not?) you can check out the team and Riots Bloodbowl adventure here. Its a great blog with stunning pictures of his work to date, he also has an excellent theme and so far the team looks outstanding, but I’ll let him tell you about it on his blog. I have only every played 3rd edition Bloodbowl so had no idea what 2nd edition had to offer. Let the lesson begin... As you can probably guess by the name I have given the Orc team it’s brutal with a capital BRUTAL!! To cut a long story short at one point I had no players on the field and it was joked by Macca that I needed a bigger injury box! So with the score 1-0 I had 7 players and 5 turns to make a stunning comeback. But alas, all I managed was to get the remaining team members smashed, crunched, beaten, jumped up and down on and even kicked in the nuts! Needless to say I lost.   But it was all in the name of fun and I had a good laugh about it.. honest. So I went home dug out my Bloodbowl box and found my old High Elf team. These guys will be leading me victory in the clubs upcoming 6 dominions tournament Shameless 6 nations rugby rip off, details of which can be found here. That’s it for now, thanks for dropping in but please come back soon as the Menoth I promised last time are on there way, also more Trolls, SAGA and bit of Fantasy will be coming soon... Take care and hope to see you soon.

Troooooooooooooooooooooolls

Here are a few of my Trollbloods, I have lots more at various stages of completion. Will get some more pictures soon.

As I have said before Borka is one of my favorite Warlocks. I love the fluff, the fact he hits hard, supports beasts better than most think and is an absolute sod to kill.

Grissel Bloodsong is a great Warlock, a bit squishy so a Bouncer is a favorite choice of mine with her. Her Fell Calls get the army moving and hitting hard, and watch your opponents face on Feat turn.

Jennisa Stonetide is a great solo.   She can be a mobile roadblock, but has some really good other abilities some people forget about.

Skaldi Bonehammer and his Champions. Utterly expensive but well worth it. They can take a wallop and being weapon masters can really dish it out. Get them in charge distance of anything you want dead. I also really love the Skaldi model, what a Troll.

 Beasts! 

These are some great light warbeasts, The Axer hits hard, can survive better than most lights and has a great Animus, +2" and pathfinder when you need it can be really handy. The Bouncer is great at keeping important pieces alive, his Animus has saved the Mountain King in the past. The Impaler is great to have around, a good ranged attack, good for keeping back as a soak transfer and any warlock with a ranged attack loves his Animus.

The Mauler Heavy Warbeast!
This guy is awesome!!!
With a few buffs he can get where needs to be and deliverers a hell of a punch.

  Last but not least is my Croak Hunter, a Minion solo that has so far done bugger all for me in any games, but I love the model and am determined to get him to do something good one day...


That's it for now, plenty more trolls to come and maybe some fiery goodness of Menoth next.

So thanks for stopping by and hope to see you soon.

Let there be blogage!

Greetings,

And a warm welcome to my first blog.

About this time last year I got back into miniature wargaming after a long hiatus. About 15 years in fact! And my how things have changed.
I left wargaming behind with no malice or ill intent all them years ago. My life got in the way and left no time, all the normal things I guess, career, beer, girls, beer and eventually children (heard all this before right?).

So why the return? Why not!

I found a great shop in Gantshill called Miniature Empire, a great little place and if you have not been there I would certainly recommend a visit. I went in and had a chat with owner and started spending straight away.  They have a gaming night every Friday, it took me a while to get round to going but it was a great experience and now attend regularly. They have a forum, facebook and blog. The forum has been going a while, but the facebook and blog are new.

I now play Warmachine, Menoth being my faction of choice and Hordes with Trolls. I am also starting a bit of SAGA the Lustrian Chronicles using the High Elf board. I have been putting together a background book and boards for this that I will hopefully put on here soonish for all to use if you wish. I have also started my Orcs and Goblins for Warhammer Fantasy, but not gonna say much about this here as I will hopefully be putting it on the Miniature Empire Blog. Also dabbling in Flames of War, so much for sticking with one thing!

Its great to be back gaming and love the time I get to paint. I spend all day trying to get computers to do as their told at work, so thought I'd come home and spend more time on one doing this (at least its something I want to do though). I enjoy photography, so should have some good pictures coming your way soon, I have also been playing about with video editors so maybe, just maybe I will try posting some videos.

All I really intend with this blog is post what I've been up to in the world of wargaming and knowing me the odd unrelated rant every now and again. So please stick around, pull up a bean bag and join me on this voyage of discovery into 'the wonderful world of wargaming'.

I will leave you now with a picture of my favorite Warlock and hope to see you again soon.

                                          Borka Kegslayer