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Thanks! But really, it's just 15 horses. I'm a lazy bastard, fail to play proper big battles in 28mm and an overall bad person, but a unit of fewer than say 12 horsemen always looks a little sad (except for all these tiny scale skirmish games in which ONE horse already is a huge thing). Nah, it's horses for courses and to each their own and all. Painting horses can be a lot of fun though.

Look, I did some painting on the guys with the differing poses. From left to right - I think that the leftmost one is supposed to hold a cornet or flag. Or he's a sort of NCO, I have to check that. Next to him we got a trumpeter in parade dress, an Officer in parade dress, another officer in field dress and a trumpeter in field dress.



They aren't finished yet and they sit on equally unfinished horses (and incorrect ones to boot. Trumpeters ALWAYS ride white horses, everybody knows that. :p )

Size comparison:

Very cute... like the size comparison shot.

"toot toot"

Nice work.

@Gitsplitta: Thanks.

@Dr H: I can't help it, I really find "toot toot" (or "toot toot, parp parp") incredibly funny for some reason.


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Some Knights of the Chalice done (finally):

...aaaaand some more, but those are WIP:

O.k I don't usually ask but how have you gotten such a beautiful blue on them? really rich stuff Siggy.

@nerdfest09: Cheers. Very simple really, white basecoat. Well, zenithal stuff, but mostly the white helps of course. And lots of layers of highlights applied by hand.

Finished!

'tis a nice blue. Good job Sigur.

Those do look fantastic sigur! I always enjoy your prolific talents

BB

@Dr H: Thanks mucho, muchacho!

@bebopdrums2424: Thanks very much, bebopdrums! Thanks for dropping by and commenting.


Alright, tonight once again fate struck and my gaming night was cancelled. So instead I did some more work on my WW2 soviet vehicles.

Zis-5 Truck


M9 Half-Track


T-34/76 ('Lana')


There will be many more pictures of these once I get the reviews for these kits done.

....aaand another T-34/85 ('Dasha'):








Here's a comparison shot to the T-34/85 (same kit too) I did last summer (called 'sqirrel'):


Hope you like them.

I like to think the Lana has "WHAT ARCHER?!" written on it in Russian there.

Very nice looking vehicles. Not too clean, but also don't look like they were driven through a wood chipper filled with mud. Well done!

@Wehrkind: Thanks very much. Weathering tanks for 40k and the likes I think is quite different to weathering historical tanks. With the first I tend to rely on the bits and pieces I learned over the years, with historical vehicles I'm must more prone to looking into what the scale modellers do. That's usually the stuff I'm not quite as used to doing, but it gets better results on those models I think.

Here are the last two regular Terminators:



Just the Librarian left to do now. After that It's on to the Genestealers!

Happy Easter, people!

Here are some flowers because there are way too few darned flowers on Dakka.

Happy Easter to you Sigur as well, nice um... flowers

Terminators are looking nice as well

Happy Easter Sigur. Thanks for sharing the beautiful flowers. Nothing's out here yet... everything's still brown.

Holy crap those terminators are amazing dude 0_0

@GiraffeX: Thanks.

@Gitsplitta: No problem. Well, to be honest it's just some stock photo I dug up online. But there's some flowering going on around here too.

@Pyro Pete: Thanks very much, mate!



Reducing a Panzergrenadiers platoon to its core - yup, that's seven bleeding MG42!



These are my first minis by The Assault Group (will post a review once they're done) and a MG42 HMG team by Warlord Games. Once I got those finished I should be one step closer to having my full Panzergrenadiers platoon done.

Look who's finally finished:


Got a bunch of new Brotherhood minis from another client now though so expect to see more of those in the near future.

Beautifully painted warband.

They look fantastic Sigur.

Absolutely love the bloodbowl orcs from the last page, and the blue on those terminators is really striking. Awesome painting

@Warboss_Waaazag: Thanks very much. Those Freebooter's Fate minis are beautiful.

@GiraffeX: Cheers, much appreciated.

@RiTides: Thanks very much. Hope that my BB Orcs get another game in some time soon!


WIP Carrion Drakes for Descent (2nd ed.):

Those are great! Gotta love the combination of green and red.

Thanks very much, Gits! I was quite unsure if it would work using complimentary colours like that, but now I'm rather happy with how they turned out. They look like delicious, delicious fruit. :p


Carrion Drakes finished:


The slightly more colourful guy in the middle is the "leader". In Descent the baddies player always gets two varieties of monsters (except for the big bad ones, those are always big and bad): Usually it's three models in the box, two regular ones cast in white plastic and and one cast in red plastic. This one usually is either tougher than his pals or - more often IIRC - has one or two extra special. abilities. When painting them you somehow have to make that guy stand out a little of course.

Here's the monster card if it helps any.



Hope you like them.



By the way, I know we're all completely nuts in here for the Thirty Years War, the most defining conflict in European history up until the Napoleonic wars and beyond with the Peace of Westphalia and whatnot. Fascinating stuff and pretty much as 40k as it can get. Devil's Playground, the first supplement for Pike&Shotte, is up for pre-order and will be released this month.

http://store.warlordgames.com/products/the-devils-playground-pike-shotte-supplement

If you want to see pictures of minis built, painted and shot by yours truly in printed form you should buy this supplement. And the P&S rulebook. And a bunch of not-28mm scale figures and play with them. Good stuff.

Never an dull moment. Love the termies. warband and tanks. The tank commander has a great expression on his face.

@Solar_lion: Nope, it's the rock&roll lifestyle indeed. Thanks muchly for the comment. Yeah, for a company who don't really do infantry they did a great job on the soviet tanker.


Last night I finally had a game again. Fun one, too!


Legends of the Old West, the GW one.



The scenario was a classic thing: Indians versus cavalry in a Dawn Raid. A group of cavalry guys (6, all armed with Repeaters) set up camp at a local farm (but aren't allowed to sleep inside as the farmer's wife and daughter sleep in there), two of them are on guard duty during the night. Shortly before sunrise the Indian group (9 with a mix of weapons. 1 single-barreled shotgun, one with a six-shooter, three with long rifles, the rest with repeaters), approaching from a table edge of the attacker's choosing, sneaks up on the farm to steal some cattle (6 markers. We used a mix of pigs and goats. As we were one marker short we used the farmer himself for the 6th).

Indians would be spotted if they were within LOS of one of the sentries (which are moved each turn by the player who won initiative. At the beginning of each turn both players roll a d6 each, the higher number wins and the player who rolled it gets to move all his models first, then the other player moves all his models, then the initiative player may shoot, after that the other player shoots, then close combat is fought by models who in the movement phase moved in base-to-base contact). Each turn you roll if the sun rises. On turn #1 it rises on a 6, on turn #2 it rises on a 5, etc.

I played the Indian attackers and was lucky in being able to sneak up right to the farm before sunrise undetected. Right at sunrise my guys managed to kill two cavalrymen in their sleep, already putting quite a lot of pressure on the other side. One of my guys took the poor farmer hostage and brought him off the table. In the meantime a firefight emerged in which I had some trouble bringing my numerical superiority to bear, especially when the cavalrymen remembered their drill and pretty much set up a firing phalanx (granted, it was just 4 guys, but it was pretty effective). They even went on a counter-attack when one of my guys (One-Eyed Snake) got a bit too close the cavalrymen leaped forward and clobbered him.

Two men with long rifles I had put on a little hill to give some supporting fire, but they proved to be mighty inept at doing so. In the end I managed to kill one more cavalryman, they botched their morale check and fled the scene.

Legends of the Old West is in its core rules a very simple game, simpler even than Flying Lead, Necromunda or Gorkamorka. Everybody moves 6" a turn (no running), stat lines tell you how well the model shoots (cavalrymen have an S(shooting) value of 4+, indians 5+, if you pass you hit and you roll for wounds. The wounds table is a bit different to the usual GW, much more 4+ around the middle area), if you're wounded you're off the table and out of the game. In close combat each model involved rolls 1d6, the higher roll wins. In case of a draw the side with the better close combat score wins.

However, the way the turns work and the initiative roll give it a very nice mix of tactics and friction. The main thing that adds complexity is the guns. Depending on which gun a model uses it may move either less or more and still fire this turn. A model with a six-shooter may move their full movement allowance of 6" and fire, a model with a repeater may move up to half their movement, a model with a longrifle may mot move at all if they want to fire their gun. A few examples: Longrifles and single-barrel shotguns also require one turn to reload, with a 6-shooter you may try your hand at 'fanning' which lowers your accuracy drastically, but you get a whole lot of shots this turn, and so on. 70% of the fun comes in with the campaign system which gives you the usual goodness: You got a set number of dollars to start with, you hire your posse and equip them using that money, your guys get wounded, get better, acquire new skills from certain lists, there are long tables for all kinds of nasty ouchies your guys accumulate over time and so on.

In the core rulebook there are three gangs to play: Cowboys, Lawmen and Outlaws. Certain characters are classified as 'heroes' and get two more stats than the other models in the game, that's Fame and Fortune. These points can be used either for special actions during the game or for withstanding wounds ('cheating death'). Your usual gang members aside, you may hire Hired Guns of all flavours as well as send out heroes to search for Legends of the Old West such as Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid or Calamity Jane whom, if you're lucky enough to find them, you may hire to ride with you.

On top of that there's all kinds of stuff like an infamy rating for your gang, tons of equipment to buy for use in-game or in between and a bunch of classic scenarios like a train robbery, a jail break, the aforementioned cattle raid and so on. In the supplement books there are more gangs to choose from (Indians, US army, mountain men, bandidos, the mexican army, chinese and a bunch more) and much more stuff. All in excellent production value, full colour and all of that. It's a huge shame GW stopped their whole historicals division.

Anyway, if you happen to have a copy of this available to you, grab a few miniatures and friends and have a campaign. Extremely easy to get into, quite fun and full of period flavour.

Looks cool! I grabbed a copy of LotOW about 7 years ago, but have yet to play. I will have to remedy that soonish!
Are you using 15mm men there, mounted on pennies? (Or whatever the tiny euro coins are?)

Absolutely do that. The core rules themselves may look a bit underwhelming at first, but all the "fluff" around it like equipment and such adds enough "complexity" and of course it's gotta be played as a campaign. Those are 28mm figures, I think by Artizan (very, very pretty minis), mounted on something 20mm-ish in diameter.

Sweet. I have a bunch of Artizan 28mm cowboys from when I picked up the book. Maybe this summer they will get dusted, painting and shot!