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Madison, WI

LOL! I didnt mean it to be THAT diplomatic!

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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@Gitsplitta:





Last weekend I had another game of Sharp Practice with Cpt.Shandy and his great collection of 15mm ACW figures.

Here's my battle report:
http://skirmishwargaming.com/sharp-practice-defence-in-depth/

..and here's my opponent's:
https://wargamingraft.wordpress.com/2018/07/13/rearguard-action-a-sharp-practice-aar/



Hope you enjoy the battle reports!

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Heyhey, here's another update on the cultists!



At least roughly half of them. Hope you like the dudes so far!

   
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Madison, WI

Love the purple!

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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Oh man they look good! that's a lot of cultists!!

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"Nah, I'm just way too lazy to stand up so I keep sitting and paint" - Sigur

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Purging on ctf_2fort

I love the lavender colour that you’ve achieved on the Cultists! Excellent work as usual, Sigur!

   
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Affton, MO. USA

They look so good it makes me want to join their cult .

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

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Vienna, Austria

@Gitsplitta: Thanks very much!

@nerdfest09: oooh yes, and thanks very much for commenting!

@Cosmic: Many thanks, Sir!

@Theophony: Nice. That comment actually made me laugh out loud. So the snazzy outfits work then.



Since the first 27-ish figures are done I'm working on the rest now:



The temperatures aren't making this any easier. Apart from that I have to start preparing for Vienna Miniatures Convention in early August:



Highly recommending this convention. It's going to be a big deal (for what conventions look like around here at least). Throughout the two days you'll be able to watch "international mini painting celebs" do their thing and of course I'll be present as well with my workshop table(s). As always I'm happy to chat and paint with people at the event, show off some minis and maybe help out with some hints if you have any questions. I'll have brushes, paints and test minis, but you're more than welcome to bring along figures of your own.

Looking forward to seeing you there!


   
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...and because we all love WIP shots, here's another one:



I have to let you know though that this will be the last WIP of these guys though. They're essentially finished. All that's left to do is add the very special grass to the bases. Hope you like them!


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"Hold on, there's a chaos cult? This is not in accordance to regulations!"




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Yo, good evening!





...just because I happened to have a bunch of cultists lying around.

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Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!

Yes,it is I, Lottie, the curse of Millhaven. No, it's just me. Not to worry.

And I brought something new to the table; quite literally.

Vienna Figure Convention is coming up next weekend and I thought I should put another new model on display for that huge event.



I've had this figure lying around since around christmas 2017. Got the 1/24th and 1/32nd sized versions, both of which I actually won at a quiz. Crazy, isn't it. This is "Daddy's Lil Girl" by Andrea Miniatures (who are well known for making amazing large-scale figurines). The figure quite clearly is based off of the Suicide Squad film version of Harley Quinn.

It's cast in white metal, with a few fiddly parts (ammo holster on the right side and hair strands come to mind). Mold lines are to be removed; on the main torso sometimes in a bit problematic places. The legs are cast in resin, and are generally also well cast, but on the right leg there was some stuff to remove along the leg, which is really unfortunate given the very fine mesh stocking texture on the legs). The figure comes with a simple white metal base with a cracked pavement look to it.

Assembly wasn't too bad, so I quickly started painting:



I started by blocking out base colours (and in some places giving them some basic shading and highlighting) just so I know which colour goes where, what the thing will look llike overall, and to get a general feel for the figure. Hope you like her so far!


   
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Heyhey, happy Friday.

Here's another WIP shot of the Baroness of Baseball Bats, clown lady Harley Quinn, the Deranged Damsel, Five Feet Seven of Fury:




Still unsure about how to tackle the legs exactly. For now she's wrapped up and in a box and ready for travelling to Miniatures Convention Vienna at which you'll find her and me (and others, I suppose ) the upcoming Saturday and Sunday. Before that I'll attend an outdoor wedding (it's 34°C here, people). Wish me luck.

   
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Even as a miniature she's smoking hot

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"Nah, I'm just way too lazy to stand up so I keep sitting and paint" - Sigur

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@nerdfest09: yus, it's a pretty lady. But after having spent almost a week with her I think she's too high maintenance for me. Or demanding rather. I even may have to put this project to the side for a while (not the least because I should be doing commission work instead of vanity projects )


Heyhey, peeps and peepettes!

I'm back from several things I did over the weekend, one of which was Miniatures Convention Vienna.

Here's my report, hope you find it interesting:

https://www.battlebrushstudios.com/2018/08/show-report-miniature-convention-vienna.html



   
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Vienna, Austria

Right, time to get back to the painting desk, I say!

A new project (as I'm still waiting for my grass guy to send me new tufts so I can finalize the new Nurgle characters and chaos cultists) too.


This is Tabletop World's Ruined Coaching Inn:







Of course this kit has been OOP for a while now. The gentleman I'll repaint this one for got it off ebay at a pretty good price (considering the kit) and had it painted by someone somewhere. He got it back, and wasn't quite pleased with the result, so he gave it to me now. I painted quite a lot of stuff for him over the past 8 or 9 years, and he seems to like what I do. So the idea is to repaint this building so it a.) looks snazzier and b.) more like the Townhouse II I painted for him a while ago.



That's the one. So yeah, the mission is pretty clear. Wish me luck!

   
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Madison, WI

Good luck... (like you'll need it).

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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Will you be painting the Falconer's Guild in the near future, Siggy?

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This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

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Vienna, Austria

@Gitsplitta: Cheers

@Dysartes: Ho-hum. At the moment there's nothing planned. The gentleman I painted most of the GB minis for so far mentioned he'll dial it back, since they're throwing out so many new guilds at the moment. But let's wait and see. The next GB-related things I'll paint will be limited edition Esther and Quaff and the Farmers Guild again. But feel free to let anybody who has the Falconer's Guild to paint that I'd make them look really pretty.



Okay, so far I established that my phone's cam really likes to pick out blues.






   
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Vienna, Austria

Heyhey, update! Some details and a lot of dust.






   
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Holy Shark Repellent Batman! that building is absolutely phenomenal Siggy! just lost for words man it's brilliant

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" I will constantly have those in my head telling me how lazy and ugly and whorish I am. You sir, are a true friend " - KingCracker

"Nah, I'm just way too lazy to stand up so I keep sitting and paint" - Sigur

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@nerdfest09: It's quite a piece, isn't it?


Herbert P.Soup's Brigade assembles for the second game of our Longstreet campaign.



Dem Boys had taken a bit of a battering during their battle in 1861. But that was last year, now it's 1862 (the game tonight will be the first of 1862, then there'll be another one in 1862, three in 1863, two in 1864 and a final game in 1865). The regiments are set up as lean, flexible, smaller units (mainly because SOMEONE had stuck bayonets in parts of my regiments and camp fever has also struck pretty badly). However, the rascals of the 14th Louisiana, "1st Polish Brigade" (6 bases, Seasoned Veterans), have joined our ranks, and just last night an odd band of mostly Germans and Italians showed up in the camp as well. Their commander, Cpt.Myke, introduced them as his hand-picked Mechanics Guard Volunteers (4 Bases, Eager Recruits). They don't have any written orders, but seem to be eager to fight.

Thus, the brigade for tonight's game is set up as such:
2nd Louisiana Cavalry "Partisan Rangers" (4 Bases, Eager Recruits)
1st Louisiana Special Battalion "Tiger Zouaves" (6 Bases, Seasoned Recruits)
3rd Louisiana Infantry (7 Bases, Seasoned Veterans)
8th Louisiana Infantry (6 Bases, Eager Recruits)
14th Louisiana Infantry "1st Polish Brigade" (6 Bases, Seasoned Veterans)
Mechanics Guard Volunteers (4 Bases, Eager Recruits)
Moody's Company, Madison Lt.Artillery (3 Bases)

   
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Right-o, here's something I just finished, and it's got quite the backstory.





Well, a simple backstory really: I got this Malifaux warband to paint for a very fine gentleman. Unfortuntely somehow the big sombrero of the mini in the right (Francisco Ortega) had been gone and was nowhere to be found. So he contacted Wyrd miniatures. It took a few weeks of back and forth, but finally they were willing to send a replacement part. A while later they FEDEXED(!) it off to - New York. From there on the hat was off the grid and nobody knew where it was until it popped up in Sweden for a while. Then it was gone again for a few weeks until some day it actually showed up at my doorstep. Quite a saga, but now the hat's finally here and the warband is finished. Hope you like them!


Oh, also this:

   
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Right, the AAR of the second campaign game...

Last Friday we proceeded on our Longstreet campaign. After the first battle which took place in 1861 it's time for the first of the two battles in 1862.


Once more Brig.Gen. Hieram O'Goedel (my mate virago) and Brig.Gen. Herbert P.Soup (me) would meet in battle. After O'Goedel's Yankee brigade had only taken few casualties in the first game they deployed en masse and eager for another victory. His three infantry regiments were each reduced to 8 bases, and a whole new regiment of recruits had joined their ranks since: the 5th New York, Duryee's Zouaves (6 bases).

My chivalrous defenders of the South's Freedom to do horrible things on the other side has gone through some personnel change: Instead of three large infantry regiments I had five smaller ones and my cavalry has been reduced to half. On the other hand I had two regiments of veterans at hand now: The 3rd Louisiana and the 14th Louisiana (the "1st Polish Brigade").

We met around 7pm and got to it. First we rolled for a scenario and who would play defender and attacker.



This one would see Union troops attack two hilltops held by rebels.
After that we placed terrain based on the rulebook's nice little terrain card system. Pretty neat and quick. After that I deployed my troops first, then virago deployed his attacking troops.



Basically I put my veterans right behind the hilltops. On the right side I deployed the main part of my brigade. Artillery at the centre of the hill, a forward line of defence (behind a wall and a small forest) I placed the 8th Louisiana and the small Mechanics Guard to their flank. Behind them veterans (as mentioned above), the Polish Brigade.



Behind the hill to my left I deployed the 3rd Louisiana veterans and next to them in column, and right along that nasty swamp, the Louisiana Tiger Zouaves. My shrunken cavalry I deployed at the centre in the small forest. So well hidden in fact that I forgot to put their location in the overview.



Not losing a step my opponent identified the left hill as the more attractive target. So he deployed most of his infantry right in front of it in the cornfield. In the centre he deployed his artillery (limbered and on their way to taking the position behind the wall), with the 63rd New York and his cavalry as flank guards.



The game starts and all the Yankee infantry at my left start advancing, the artillery goes in position...



...and the Union cavalry at my right also advanced and dismounted behind the small forest right in front of my troops.



This is not to be. Brig.Gen. Herbert P.Soup personally takes command of the 8th Louisiana and leads them and the Mechanics Guard to shoo them away.



Of course that had been the plan all along. After a not too impressive bayonet charge and only few casualties the Yankee cavalry retreated, quickly saddled up, and took off toward their own artillery. Even worse, during the charge through the forest Brig.Gen.Soup got lightly wounded. Of course the personal physician was no where to be found.

The Union cavalry (in the far lower right in the photo below; recognizable by the horse bums) takes off in the cover of their artillery who in the mean time had limbered up to turn towards any pursuers (my infantry, left, recognizable by their short legs and cursing officers).



In the mean time at my left flank...



Something's brewing. My dismounted cavalry is swiftly repulsed from their position (similar situation as with the enemy cavalry at the other flank), and the 63th New York deployed at the centre. The rest of the union troops prepare for storming up the hill which at this point is pretty much only defended by the 3rd Louisiana.

Originally my plan had been to have the 3rd hold the hill and for the Louisiana Tiger Zouaves and artillery to shoot the snot out of any assailants.
Didn't work out for several reasons, so the Zouaves had to watch as the 3rd Louisiana were faced with a combined attack of the New York Zouaves and the 69th New York. Despite the advantage in position my guys were swiftly kicked off their hill.



An overview:



All the units I had wanted to redeploy to the left took way too long to do so and had little impact on the game.

After the left hill had been taken not much more happened. A little skirmishing between the Tiger Zouaves and the 63th New York in the small forest, the union army rallied to meet a possible attack by the remaining rebel troops. It didn't happen though, my guys retreated, and we proceeded to the campaign phase.


Post-Game Campaign Phase

There were surprisingly few casualties. The 3rd Louisiana infantry just got routed, apart from that some regiments had taken a single base of damage.

First, as always, Epic Points (the one thing that counts in the campaign) were calculated. Virago got 5 EP for showing up, victory, holding an objective, and a heroic charge up the hill. I got 2 EP for showing up. Neither of us got promoted.

Unit attrition by desertion and various forms of tummy bugs hit the Union camp pretty hard this time; not as bad on the rebels. My cavalry got halved again (to two bases), and the 8th Louisiana shrunk down to 4 bases. Of the formerly routed 3rd Louisiana 5 bases returned, but they changed from Seasoned Veterans to Cautious Veterans. Then we went on to drawing campaign cards, starting with virago:



He drew New Artillery (and thus will get new state of the art rifled guns next game. Yikes.), a unit of infantry of his would 'level up' to veterancy and one would get the special status of Old Reliables (making the immune to some "Fog of War" things I may throw at them). On top of this O'Goedel's himself got some recognition: He got another biography card (Cavalry Commander), and got a promotion. This is where he showed his status as the good guy in the whole affair: He skipped the promotion to instead help his men to recover and add back one base to a unit.

Here's my campaign cards:


Broken Code (allegedly a chap from Winnipeg broke the code and thus saved us) gives me a bonus to the roll to determine attacker and defender next time (I'd need it, as my cavalry's barely in a state to scout any more), and two of my units gained veterancy. So that's good. The Tiger Zouaves and the Mechanics Guards. Lovely. On top of this I used the New Artillery card to add another base to the Mechanics Guards (because the card's not all that good for confederates anyway). Also: I may add a company of sharpshooters to one of my units.

On top of that I'll get another new unit of Eager Recruits (5 bases) for the next game. An order to Perry Miniatures has been dispatched yesterday. :p

Yup, that's it. Quick, well-flowing game. I made mistakes. Could have been better. Oh well, next game will be the second battle of 1862, and things will be better. At least I got to fire my artillery once this time.


Hope you like the report!


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Oh, and this is something I'm currently painting on the side:



Two-wheeled ambulance wagon by the Perrys. Lovely kit.

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Awesome as always Sig. Love the battle reports. I ended up picking up Rommel after your report on it since it seemed like a good way to use all of my FoW bases since I don't care for the game but have a decently sized and painted American army. Hopefully I can pick up a game mat at the Nova Open with the 6" squares embroidered on it and get a game in soon!
   
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Das_Ubermike wrote:
Awesome as always Sig. Love the battle reports. I ended up picking up Rommel after your report on it since it seemed like a good way to use all of my FoW bases since I don't care for the game but have a decently sized and painted American army. Hopefully I can pick up a game mat at the Nova Open with the 6" squares embroidered on it and get a game in soon!


Ha, thanks very much, Das_Ubermike! Have yet to play another game of Rommel, I have to admit. But it shall happen shortly. It's such a unique and cool set of rules. I recently got hold of a bunch of 6mm GHQ WW2 figures for Rommel and I Ain't Been Shot, Mum. But yeah, Rommel is really useful with use of FoW bases. indeed. I think we'll stick to using small markers to map out the squares though. Worked OK for the test game.

   
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Madison, WI

Love the battle report Sigur, thanks.

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@Gitsplitta: Thank you for reading!



Okay, this is all the time I can spend on the ambulance wagon. Hope you like it!








   
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Not where I should be

Lovely work as usual. Such inspiration.

A silly little one, I would love to see you paint one of my pieces, but I am skint, so how about I give you a piece of scenery and you paint it and then you can do what you want with it. I just want to see one of my pieces painted properly! What do you think?




 
   
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That ambulance wagon is great, Sigur - does it come with the wounded, or are they something you've added?

2021-4 Plog - Here we go again... - my fifth attempt at a Dakka PLOG

My Pile of Potential - updates ongoing...

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

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@Camkierhi: Yeah, sounds great. Always under the caveat of "if time allows". What kind of scenery do you do?

@Dysartes: Thanks very much! It's a whole package. https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?products_id=1440

   
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Madison, WI

Love the set-piece sigur. Would be a lovely addition on the outskirts of a battlefield.

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