Something a little different...

Hello all, don't fret I am still here, just haven't been doing much painting (of miniatures anyway) recently, however, that is not to say that I haven't been spending my time on our wonderful hobby...

As Monday was a bank holiday, me and two other members of my gaming club, met up to do some good old fashioned board making, off we popped to a local builders merchant and came back with my car loaded with sixteen 2' by 2' tiles of mdf, not bad for 30 quid...

We sat around and discussed what kind of boards we could make for a while, we eventually settled on two 6' by 4' boards one to be a Martian Desert, the other, a World War-esque No Man's Land, the latter, to eventually be extended to a massive 12' by 6' complete with trench system and so on...

anyway, here's how we got on:

A nice sunny day, perfect for board making...

As you can see the No-Man's Land board is coming on nicely, needs a few touch ups, but it basically there, I even started building some scenery for it...

Don't worry, there will be more scenery than this on the board

The theme for the No-Man's Land board, will be heavy devastation, blown up vehicles, forests that have been obliterated by shell fire and even the odd ruined building...

Now for the Martian Desert, here are some WIP shots, of both the board and the scenery, the theme for this will be Rocky Outcrops, Sand Dunes, a Mechanicum Research Facility etc, etc.:

And here was how the board was looking this morning: 

Certainly coming on...

This was until the weather decided to be a wanker... 

Not looking so smart now...

And so here is the board, as it stands, I'm praying that my hard work making the Martian board has not been wasted...

Sat in the Airing Cupboard...

Bloody Weather...

Coming In Hot...

So, in my last blog, I talked about the future and my Warhammer related 'new years resolutions' the last point that was mentioned was the Crashed Aquila Lander from the Battle of Macragge box-set. Firstly, I said this was no-longer available from Games Workshop... It is, mere hours after posting I discovered it on their website... Whoops! Anyhow, the person who I ordered it from, sold it to me for less than retail price, so I saved myself a few quid... Good news all round.

So my new piece of terrain arrived on Wednesday, and as I set about cleaning up the parts, I released, that I had absolutely no idea as to how I would paint this up... So off to the internet I went! Trawling through pictures of the crashed lander, most of them had a light paint scheme, which did not suit my purposes, I plan to make my first Realms of Battle board a desert scheme, and as such I wanted something that would contrast with the light coloured sand...

All was not lost though, with a little more digging I came across this:

I believe this was a Forge World paint scheme

This immediately struck me as being exactly what I wanted, so I sat there with my laptop and scenery, carefully examining the image to ascertain which parts of the crash would be red and would be black... a few hours later and this is sat in front of me:

And no-longer looking quite so graceful

Please keep in mind that these pictures are a work in progress, the basic scheme is done but it needs several washes and some serious dry-brushing before I will be happy with it.

Even more WIP than the picture before

I'm hoping when these are done they will be very visually striking against the board they are intended for.

In the left hand piece above, I intend to fill the hole, probably with EZ Water or a similar product, which will have lots of black wash in it, the hope is to make it look like fuel that has leaked and pooled amongst the wreckage.

A really boring piece of terrain in comparison...

Anyway, it's not just been about terrain recently, I did also find time to add a little paint to this guy, albeit, only this guy:

Big Mek Gubbinz!

Clever Bitz!

Anyway, until next time,

Ciao!

Thinking about the future...

Hello Everybody,

Welcome back, and a happy new year...

I'm going to be honest with you, not really a fan of new years, never end up having an awesome night, normally its a lot of wasted money and effort, on top of that, everyone makes new years resolutions that end up falling by the wayside by the end of January. In my attempt to stop this from happening, I am hereby writing down my 40K related Resolutions, in the hope that I will be able to look back a year from now, and say, yes I have done all of those, and this, this and this as well.

I'm sure none of these will be a surprise to most of you, anyway here goes:

1. Have a 2000 point Ork army painted up, with a minimum of an additional 1000 pts for the ability to play in Apocalypse Games.
2. Have a 2000 point Chaos army painted up, with a minimum of an additional 1000 pts for apocalypse sized games
3. Buy, convert and paint up a Realms of Battle and some themed scenery, so I am able to play games, whenever I feel like it.

Thus by the end of the year, I want to be able to have a choice of two armies and a board to play them on... now much of the stuff I need (in particular, for the chaos) I already have, which is good because it means I can keep the costs down.

With my new years resolutions in mind, I did a little searching online for a particular item that I never got round to purchasing when they were available and now I am just waiting for this to be delivered:

Anybody remember this little Gem, believe it or now, that was two box sets ago now!

 Now I'm just waiting on my prize to be delivered, apologises for the blue hue, this photo was not taken by me, and I'm sure when this gets delivered I wont be able to resist converting it a little, the aim is to remove the 'glass' in the cockpit, to add a chair and your mandatory dead pilot.

anyway, I'll let you know how I get on soon enough,

Ciao