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This is my work station. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It's also a rather nice and cheap Bandua Wargames product that is going a long way to keep my hobby efforts more organised, especially the paint rack. On it, at the moment; is the start of my Roman army for Warhammer Historical, some Empress miniature U.S. Frogmen, alongside a Mantic Chovar(?) (Psychic Jellyfish) and some tucked away Hasslefree sculpts that were simply too nice not to buy.

If it isn't clear already, I am a hoarder. I took the big step away from GW models and have been throwing money at all sorts of different companies. I've backed alot of kickstarters and plunged into many new systems and my main struggle is finishing models. The change has been good though, I've already played more games in the last six months than in the preceding three years and have been thoroughly impressed by games like Dropzone Commander, Zombicide and Blood Bowl to name a few.

But back on topic, I'm due to play my first game of Warhammer Historical in the coming week and need to get my 500 point warband finished. My list is probably a little flawed, but its more of a fun introduction into a game where I think I already understand most of the mechanics.



This is my first legionary unit's command element with the block red colour applied. I really like the warlord games plastics and picked up the army box for a bit of a steal, alongside a couple of metal reinforcements. The figures are a little smaller than I'm used to and can be a pain to rank up. I also spent a lot of time thinking about how to deal with the base tabs that all the models come attatched to, as you can see in the pic, one of the tabs has survived the process and is sticking out at the front! But I'll take care of it. I used a filler, (polyfilla) smoothed around the tab, on top of a flat renedra base before applying a sand gravel mix. I kept the tabs to provide a little bit of height- the Renedra bases are incredibly flat! Hopefully my Romans will not be dwarfed by the apparently larger barbarian sculpts Warlord does!

I hope to get basic colours down on this unit alongside two others before my game this week, though that may be a stretch, the back ranks will only be getting basic higlights and washes for a basic tabletop standard.



This is my 'allowed' distraction. This is one of a team of five Empress Frogmen from their recent kickstarter. I've made no atttempt to clean them up yet, but I've started to think about basing and I think calf deep in water would really make the amphibious nature of the team pop. But I've never really tried anything of that standard before, so any pointers or tips would be greatly received.

I appreciate the photos are not the best in the world, but I think they serve their purpose for an introduction and hopefully the quality of my pictures will improve with the models! Thanks for looking?

Nice work here! You've got yourself a sub.

More?

Hi, the call for motivations really working! I've been tinkering away assembling the last of the models needed for my 500 point army, but ranking up auxilia didn't seem exciting enough for an update. I've got a morning painting tomorrow so I'll hopefully get a decent way with the legionary unit, enough for an update and some pics thanks for the nudge!

I vote for an orange wetsuit frogman (although it would also require white swim trunks) and cue up Thunderball while you are at it!

Look forward to your work, enjoy seeing other historical modelers on here.

Catchup

So its been a little while.
Life carried on at a pace that my hobby couldn't keep up with. I've been city hopping from Sheffield to York to London- with a fantastic but ultimately disappointing day at Wembley. Alongside that I've spent a couple of days caring for my flued up girlfriend and putting in some overtime at work.
But I'm back with some pics of part of my kickstarter rewards from PDC Gaming.



So, its a nice little kit and probably a little too basic though that cuts down on assembly time and it's decent enough looking on the tabletop. I've upgraded mine with PDC's upgrade sprue, which includes an upgraded hull, basic turret and more weapon options. The way the barrels and ends combine are quite innovative, meaning that, for instance, the large mortar/cannon becomes a tri-mortar and rocket launcher- which I like.



The end shows the rather squat nature of the tankette.



The larger mortar shown with upgrades.



The basic gun, a fusion/melta style affair.



The minigun, shown without ammo.

Overall really nice and impressed for a plastic offering from such a small company. Unfortunately a quick scan of the kickstarter thread on dakka shows the company has gone to ground without delivering rewards to Oceanic and Asian backers, which is a shame and I hope the situation gets resolved because three of these may not be enough for me!


I have managed to fit two games of Dropzone Commander in between updates, scoringa win and a loss with my UCM against a friend's tricky Shaltari. Expect to see some pics of them in the future!

@Maniac_nmt thankyou, I hope my lack of historical updates doesn't put you off. Ashamedly I had to look up that reference! So I fear it could be a standard black scheme on the frogmen.

So it's been a while. Tedious progress has been made stabbing what seems unreasonally proportioned legionaries, after heroic scale models (PHD- Post Heroic Scale Difficulty), with drabs of paint. So I won't show them off for awhile and when I do so, from afar.

However, I have put together a Mighty Empires map.



It's roughly representative of Dacia and Moesia at about 100AD. The main features of the map are the Danube, flowing from west to east into the Black sea. Trajan's bridge crossing it near Drobeta and another crossing point near Sucidava- (although no Roman bridge existed here at this time, one eventually did during Constantine's rule. It stands to reason that the Danube was crossable at this point and so another bridge has been included for gameplay.) The Carpathian mountains dominate the map north of the river, whilst the south is host to Roman Agriculture.



The main alteration of the map was adjusting the river so it flowed into the Black sea. The coastline's beach will be represented by painting the river tiles running north-south as a beach, with the far east land, painted blue.

Hopefully this will evolve into quite an exstensive and detailed campaign, that will motivate me to paint the hordes of plastic piling in around me!

So you mentioned you have some hassle free minis? Would you mind doing a quick comparison between the hasslefree and the empress minis? I recently got some hasslefree minis and went and have also been eyeballing the empress minis, cheers!
And I'm loving the mighty empires map idea, that is AWESOME.