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...or snakes, frogs, toads, any sort of insect, snails, etc. They're bloody killers and they do it for fun. :p Okay, I'm sitting between woods and ponds here, so maybe freeroaming cats are a bit more 'feral'. At least they stopped bringing the dead animals as gifts. (which they did twice or thrice. Usually bird heads. :/ ). Maybe that's a little harsh. I just was out on the balcony to prime some models and the cat was sitting there. It's a very friendly, cute cat.

 Sigur wrote:

The photo isn't great, but i guess you can see the breasts.

Aye and they look very nice

Keep up the great work Sigur

The Vikings look wonderful Sigur.

Vikings look great! What a wonderful force to see on the table.

The Guild Ballers look nice too, though I have always disliked Tits McGee there on the right. Your paint is fine, just always thought the model looked bad. Which is weird, because tits.
The rules for GB are available online, as well as all the cards for the models. So really you can play with whatever 32mm and 40mm based models you have handy, then decide to buy later. Nice little feature I thought.

Hullo, here's my review of one of PSC's few 28mm kits which patches up a surprisingly large gap in WW2 Russian ranges - 45mm anti-tank guns and the 76mm infantry gun.



http://www.battlebrushstudios.com/2015/08/review-45mm-anti-tank-gun-by-plastic.html

Hope you enjoy the article and that you find it interesting and informative. As always it's got a short historical bit on the models at hand, large, high-res pictures of the sprues and figures included as well as fully finished pictures of the models.

As I don't get to write up a report of our latest Dux Britanniarum game, here's the report by my first-time opponent Frank Shandy (not his real name. The real name's Jericho Burns*.):


https://wargamingraft.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/meet-the-neighbours/




A short and sweet re-telling of the story of the raid for down-kickable doors and piglets, featuring the wrath of the unwashed masses.


*) this may or may not be entirely true


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Libby wip! Well, finished really bar for the freehand chapter symbol on the shoulder pad.






Okay, here's something fantasy football-ish again, but a bit different.



Got to do a collection of Dwarfs and Halflings (sideline personel, fans) and two human star players for the customer's friend's wedding. Quite a few extra requests when it comes to some colours as the figures are meant to depict friends and family of the groom.

Nice write up! I now want to order Dux Brit and a bunch of GBP. Are all the models in the report made by Gripping Beast in their plastics line? Looks like the boxes are pretty limited; do they have a lot of variety of parts inside?

Libby is coming along beautifully Sigur.

@Wehrkind: Most of the minis from the game are Gripping Beast plastics, yeah. The leaders (and archers) on the Saxon side are Musketeer minis characters, I think the warriors and elites on the Romano-British side are ...err... not sure. proper Romano-British minis, not sure from which company. Dux Britanniarum is really, really good. Play it! Well, the minis from the boxes are servicable I would say. All you need really is dudes with pointy sticks and round shields. That's it. Well, and four models armed with missile weapons of some kind, but you can make those as Slingers from the Dark Age Warriors box. The models are a bit limited of course, but that's the thing about plastics, isn't it. I mean you may be able to pose arms at slightly different angles, but that's about it. If you want really different dudes you'll have to get metals. For a closer look at the Saxon Thegns box and the Dark Age Warriors box, here's my review of the Saxon Thegns:

http://www.battlebrushstudios.com/2015/07/review-gripping-beast-saxon-thegns.html

..and the Dark Age Warriors:
http://www.battlebrushstudios.com/2013/05/review-dark-age-warriors.html


@Gitsplitta: Cheers! Should be done very soon.


Slayers!

I'm very excited & will have need of him when he arrives.

Slayers WUUUUUT?! Those models are awesome, and silly, and awesome. The left one is fantastic. What are those from?

I am making a note to grab some GBP for Black Friday. I am building up a Celt/German/Brit collection, generalized "Old Dudes" like, and those will be great!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I'm very excited & will have need of him when he arrives.

Wait, what, really???????????????

I'm very jealous.

@Gitsplitta: Will finish him asap and PM you right then!

@Wehrkind: They quite fit Blood Bowl I think. You'll never guess where those are from - these are Warlord minis. Have fun with those Gripping Beast plastics. Let me know what you think of them!



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Here's the whole gang so far. Today I added the gardener Halfling (apothecary for treemen, geddit?), the two Dwarven fans , the cooking pot for the Halfling cook and the Bloodweiser girl:

Wow... did not expect that! It took me like 5 minutes just to find them on the site

Speaking of the site, how do you find the Hail Caesar line? I have some of the hoplites from back in the day when someone else had the name and I thought they were pretty decent. Do the rest of the sets hold up?

No idea actually. My own Ancients are all 15mm and I did a whole lot of 6mm Hoplites by Baccus years ago for a customer, but that's about it. I assume they're okay. It's kind of hard to get a proper overview of where Warlord Games buy together their mini ranges from. I'm also an unfair bastard towards Warlord Games more often than not, just because they make ....clever business decisions and appeal to a very, very wide audience.


edit: asked the Frothers guys. They swear a lot, but they do know about miniatures. Seems like the plastic hoplites used to be Immortal Miniatures' line.

Today's my birthday and just in time this arrived on my doorstep:



It wasn't my idea, but when it comes to buying toys and especially rulebooks I put up very little resistance against peer pressure. I don't like hypes (and wargaming nowadays seems to be ALL hype), especially when it comes to "the latest fantasy skirmish thing", but this looks kinda fun. Very interesting to see Osprey putting a lot more money into producing a rulebook of their own for once. This is hard-bound, full colour, thick pages, well laid out. Possibly a bit too much artwork and such. I can do without every fifth page or so being a full page picture of a wizard. The artwork is nice, but I could do without that. I've got a lot of books with wizard pictures in them. Wizard pictures and half-page photos of minis (again, nice looking, but unnecessary). The interesting thing, and this is something constable pointed out a few weeks ago already, there are no pictures, maps or anything of the city of Frostgrave itself. For a game which has a very thematic setting (it's basically this ancient ruined city covered in ice and snow) I would have expected to see something like that. Would have been cool, maybe instead of one of the many HUGE pictures.

Flicked through the rules and it's pretty much like I imagined - very simple, probably elegant. Looks fun. Lots and lots of spells (you basically play a wizard. This is the only model in the warband who gathers exp and levels up and such.The apprentice levels along, but always stays a less powerful version of the wizard, the other henchmen don't advance at all and seem to die rather easily. Warbands are the Wizard, his apprentice [if you choose to get one] and up to 8 'soldiers'.), big loot tables and random hostile NPC creatures ('creeps' essentially), some scenarios, campaign rules. That's cool. In general it's pretty much what many people suspected it to be - it's Mordheim light. This probably is a bit unfair towards Frostgrave. It's kinda like a fast Mordheim if you prefer that way of putting it.

Either way, it's a good reason to paint up small warbands of Fantasy dudes. So far Frostgrave is all about humans, but that's mostly due to North Star's minis range they have released for the game so far. I'm sure that - true to the GW model of selling Fantasy/Sci-Fi stuff - there will be more stuff added as soon as the miniatures are done. Either way, I'll just use the heaps of fantasy minis I've got lying around already.

Happy Birthday, Sigur !

And excellent work - as always

Happy birthday Sigur, sounds like you've got fodder for some fantastic new figures to paint & some fun times on the gaming table!

Happy Birthday Sir

Also great job on the dwarf team and coaches. Love the apothecary/gardener

Happy Birthday Sigur.

I picked up Frostgrave the other day as well, it looks really fun but you need an awful lot of minis and buildings etc for the missions and random monsters.

@Greldinard: Thanks, Sir, and thanks.

@Gitsplitta: Cheers, I do hope so. Glad I got all these Dark Elves painted already, because if we're realistic for a bit I have no idea where I'd find the time to paint any other warbands at the moment.

@Theophony: Thank you, Sir! Yeah, those are some fun minis. Over on another forum someone said the only figure this bunch lacks is a Dwarven Duff-Man.

@GiraffeX: Thank you! See, this is something I missed so far. I thought you maybe need like three skeletons or something in addition to the warbands. Yeah, you certainly need a ton of terrain for this game. And preferrably snow-covered ruins to boot! I really should read the section on random monsters. You almost make it sound more like a dungeon crawling game. Do you have any specific plans for your Frostgrave adventures yet? Are you gonna get the "official" minis or will you just use some fantasy stuffs you've got lying around?



Ahazra Redth finished!










...and two more BloodBowl minis done as well (halflings with a bunch of light snacks and female human star player):


Hope you like them.

Happy Bday.. hopefully you'll put down the brush for just a bit and celebrate.

No time, have to sculpt a tiny little Vince Lombardi trophy. :p

Thanks, I'd love to paint some of my own stuff actually, but ain't nobody got time for that. Happy funtimes celebrations will take place on Friday and Sunday.

That's beautiful Sigur, thank you!!

Happy Birthday!

Thats the best BB team I have ever seen ^^

Happy Bday Sigur!

 Sigur wrote:


@GiraffeX: Thank you! See, this is something I missed so far. I thought you maybe need like three skeletons or something in addition to the warbands. Yeah, you certainly need a ton of terrain for this game. And preferrably snow-covered ruins to boot! I really should read the section on random monsters. You almost make it sound more like a dungeon crawling game. Do you have any specific plans for your Frostgrave adventures yet? Are you gonna get the "official" minis or will you just use some fantasy stuffs you've got lying around?

I don't have any fantasy miniatures I could use for Frostgrave. I've had a good look round and will be mostly be using Pathfinder and Otherworld minis and a plastic Perry kit for men at arms. I'm not too keen on the official minis, I've got a lot of things to pick for other games before I get to this one, will be a project for next year I think.

Ahazra Redth is looking outstanding, Git's you are so lucky

@Gitsplitta: Glad you like the fella.

@Wehrkind: Thanks very much, had a very happy day indeed.

@Ifalna: WHAT! HAVE YOU NOT SEEN MY ORCS?! Just kidding. Thanks very much!

@GiraffeX: Well, he paid for it, so... Yeah, I'm not too much into the "official" Frostgrave minis either. Perrys along with some fantasy stuff sounds quite perfect.

Guildball Butchers!



Only lacking the mascot now. Hope you like them.

Great work and happy birthday, Sig'.

The Butchers are really nice, looking forward to seeing the other team painted.