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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

 amazingturtles wrote:
That's so neat. The pen guns are I think my favorite part.


Thanks mate, if you like that you'll totally love what I did with the rest of the pen ;-)

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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

Time for Ze Churmans to show their metal - The League of European Nations take on their erstwhile allies, the Atlantic Alliance!

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/apocalypse-then-apocalypse-earth-battle-report/https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/apocalypse-then-apocalypse-earth-battle-report/

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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

Returning to the Combat Zone, here are the OPFOR to Musk's Marauders, and a quick write up of our test game:

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2023/09/11/into-the-combat-zone-pt-2-the-ginger-ninjas-a-test-game/

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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

Heading toward a big Hyperian Wars fantasy/ steampunk/ VSF smakcdown, let's review the factions involved so far:

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2023/09/27/armies-on-parade-hyperian-wars-the-grand-alliance-301st-skyborne/


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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

The first of our #orktober projects to come to fruition...

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2023/10/12/orktober-2023/

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Surrey, BC - Canada

Well, a very nice 2nd Addition Ork force complete with building.

Cheers,

CB

   
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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

Thanks Captain, from a master of the craft such as yourself that's quite the compliment

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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

Changing scale but keeping it Orky:

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/orctober-hyperian-wars-escalation/




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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

Yep, I've been at the recycling again... creating a "superheavy" for the villainous Virum Nascii/ Skaven (delete as applicable)



https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2023/11/12/more-hyperian-wars-escalation-diy-virum-nascii-death-roller/





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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

BIG. RED. What more need I say?

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2023/11/27/crossing-the-rubicon-nostalgius-pt-xii-big-red/




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Liberated Grot Land Raida






Northern Ireland

I would Raid any Land in that! Top job. Looks like it could pinball through a tabletop of red-spiked cactus blobs rightly. The Classic unmistakable profile of the old LR is coming though well. The only addition it might have wanted was the round bumpy tracks but I can’t think what you’d recycle to do that as easily. Great job of skinflinting.

   
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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

Thanks @theCrowe! I did toy with the idea of using drinking straws slicked in two for that effect but I also fancied getting it finished sometime before 2030 so this was a compromise solution ;-) The lascannons didn't come out quite as I'd hoped but she'll do well enough leading the assault on Orklahoma City when the time comes

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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

Whoops, no wonder views are down - had wholly forgotten to plug our posts here.. you can't get the staff these days...

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2023/12/21/into-the-combat-zone-pt-3-the-first-battles/



We dip our toes a little further into EM4's excellent "Combat Zone" skirmish system....

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/that-was-still-another-year-that-was-the-inevitable-great-hobby-retrospective-of-2023/



And the Inevitable Great Hobby Retrospective casts an eye over 2023 progress...

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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

"Cast your eye over these holiest of places. This, this, is where Humankind came to Hyperia so many centuries ago, fleeing the dying world and the ceaseless war. Here our prophet planted his flag and said “Today mankind stands reborn!”.

Many are those who have left to seek fortune elsewhere, to explore and conquer this world. Humanity - or those close enough to fit the genus – raises it’s flag on every island and continent on Hyperia. But here is where it all began. Here, on this, hallowed ground. Here the Ancien Regime was born, and in the unnumbered millienia of our history, here is where we have weathered every storm, beaten back every would-be destroyer, built our world anew. This is humanity’s rock on which all others will dash themselves."


Join us for a look at the fourth and (currently) final Hyperian Wars faction, the Ancien Regime!

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/01/29/armies-on-parade-hyperian-wars-the-ancien-regime/


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Surrey, BC - Canada

Fine work Skinflint Games.

Cheers,

CB

   
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UK

Cheers CB! Currently the few survivors are cooling off in the shed after a mega Hyperian Wars smackdown against the combined forces of the not-Orcs and not-Skaven... battle report to come!

Meantime, who amongst us has soul so dead to not feel a tingel when they see this:

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/02/10/the-greatest-game-ever-in-praise-of-heroquest-pt-1/

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Canada

More scratchbuilding! More! Maybe some more aircraft or tanks in the future?
   
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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

 RedSarge wrote:
More scratchbuilding! More! Maybe some more aircraft or tanks in the future?


On it, Sarge ;-) After all, May 4th isn't far off and that measn our Epic-scale DIY Star Wars forces will need reinforcements...

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UK

With LI out and Mantic getting in on the action, we felt it was time to revisit the Glory Days of Middlehammer with a 2nd Ed Space Marine project...

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/the-biggest-small-project-epic-blood-angels-1991-style/

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UK

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/03/09/the-battle-of-four-armies-hyperian-wars-mega-smackdown/



Smoke was rising over the dawn horizon as the tired sentry swigged the last of the water in his canteen. Squinting over iron sights, he peered down into the valley below and was suddenly snapped back to wakefulness.

The horde below seemed to have multiplied during the night. The Orca warhorde they had been tracking was far larger than intelligence had led them to believe – their brute warchiefs bellowed orders in their foul tongue, and although much of the camp was wreathed in smoke, the vibrations through the ground betrayed the steps of some far larger creature.

Could it really be true? The machinations of this new warchief that had been terrorising the northern quadrant had all been to summon some abomination from beyond the veil? The possibility was to hideous to contemplate, yet in the face of such terror, the Sky Marines stood tall…

The bushes rustled behind him. The next watch was arriving. He turned and hissed the password “Thunder?”

No answer.

“Thunder?” he hissed, irritated.

With inhuman swiftness, the chittering shadow leapt upon him, it’s blade cleaving a bloody arc through the man’s battledress.

“Die-die, man thing!” hissed the Ratman, wiping the Sky Marines’ blood on its’ cloak…


Well, it’s been a long time coming but we’ve finally managed to bring the Hyperian Wars mini-sort-of-campaign to a conclusion! And now the Orca horde of Warchief Ghazhrag The Bloody have established their status as Senior Baddies by beating seven shades out of Lord Ratticus’ Virum Nascii, we figured a suitable climax would be having them team up against the combined forces of humanity, the Ancien Regime and the Grand Alliance 301st Skyborne! And in doing so, we figured we could shake down the Hyperian Wars ruleset by seeing how it coped with a battle fo this scale and complexity…

Grab a beer, this is going to be a good one 😉

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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

In which we get back to upcycling terrain and find a glorious excuse for buying all the Cadbury's Creme Eggs you can get your hands on...

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/terrain-talk-pt-24-relay-station-echo-six-actual-redux/


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UK

In which the 4th big faction of the Apocalypse: Earth universe start to make an appearance - welcome the Asian Communist Federation!

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/04/12/the-coming-of-the-chinese/




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Not where I should be

Awesome!




 
   
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UK



Thanks Cam! Now to organise, convert and paint up the infantry....

Meanwhile - Heroquest!

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/04/27/the-greatest-game-ever-in-praise-of-heroquest-pt-2-the-heroes/




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Thanks Cam! Now to organise, convert and paint up the infantry....

Meanwhile - Heroquest!

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/04/27/the-greatest-game-ever-in-praise-of-heroquest-pt-2-the-heroes/

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UK

Will stick the full bat rep in the Battle Reports thread, but for those wanting early access...

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/05/12/the-armageddon-diaries-game-4-stop-da-stompa/

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https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/05/28/terrain-talk-pt-25-craters/

A quick and simple addition for any battlefield - a few old CDs, a bit of filler and cat litter and away you go!

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Surrey, BC - Canada

I remember making those. I think might even still in a buddies basement storage still.

Cheers,

CB.

   
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Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

Cheers CB, it's a quick hack but makes a hell of a difference to capture that 2nd Ed WD Battle Report vibe!

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UK

In which one of the many Great Annual Skinflint Traditions adds some new home made toys to the collection - this time Dark Troopers and more AT-PTs for the Empire, while the Rebel Scum get Han, Chewie, and extra company of infantry, more X-Wings and a flight of Air Speeders, all for the princely sum of about a quid. Enjoy ;-)

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/06/15/may-the-4th-be-very-belatedly-with-you-diy-epic-star-wars-reinforcements-2024-edition/


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UK

And now the battle report - spoiler alert, this is a definite contender for the most INSANELY violent game either of us have ever payed



https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/06/30/may-the-4th-be-extremely-belatedly-with-you-d-day-on-hazzard-prime/


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