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Been painting as normal recently just not getting around to uploading so I have a bit of a backlog. So we'll start with the monsters.
Bugs (just Halloween toys picked up a load more recently)

Robots (War machine models picked up at a steep discount at Salute a few years back)

Elf King (Loka model)

Obsidian Golem (Mantic)

Sabre Tooth Tiger (Reaper Bones)

Weretiger (Massive Darkness)

Fire Demon (Massive Darkness)

Conan's the theme for this post. Bunch of model's from the Monolith board game
Guardsman

Belit's Guardsman

Pirates

Hyena

Zaporavo

and Conan himself.



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Some Massive Darkness miniatures for you.
Orcses

Gobbo Boss

Ratling Boss

Silence

Quite the update. Loving the conan model, like his agressiveness.

Cheers the models from the Conan game are fun, I especially enjoy the slinking pose this Conan has it's not the usual regimented pose or dance fighter you so often see. Theres also a new Kickstarter with a bunch of the models available cheaply.
I've decided to have a quick look at where I am with my modelling at the moment and in this post I'll discuss Sci-fi but first new models.

Razor

Starhawk VI

Cataphract

Dervish

As you can see none of these CAVs are in my usual Urban Camo scheme. Thats because I recently acquired an Algoryn army and I'm looking for a decent woodland camo scheme and I can't quite seem to find it yet. The Algoryn army is going to be my main focus for Sci-fi this year and it'll be nice to paint 28mm troopers again. I'll still grind away at my 6mm collection when I fancy a change of pace and expect to see more practice CAVs soon but it's not going to be my main focus.

This also came off the desk

Gaslands is a game I want to be able to host but the problem has been working out a flexible track system. To get a track to work out required precise measurement and math with matching pieces. Then I realised I could just make the barriers which wil give me much more flexibility and be far easier to store expect a lot of these come the new year!
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Nice assortment of Mechs there.

Gaslands car looks great. Good idea for the track solution.

Love the Gaslands car. I forsee great things!

Cheers guys I've been mucking about with the model side of Gaslands for a while but I've found a group that plays and I'm planning to sort something out to host. The terrain won't be fancy but will be flexible similar to my dungeon tiles I did a year or so ago.

I'm also reviewing my plans for the year. This post will be boardgames. Theres 5 I'm painting models for regularly at the moment. Massive Darkness, Loka, Conan, Zombicide Green Horde & I've just started Joan of Arc. While I own both Dungeon Saga and Guilds of Cadwallon they are pretty much model sources. I also have Rising Sun, Village Attacks, Death may Die, Aeronautica Imperialis and Mythic Battles Pantheon which I haven't touched (My cupboard and shelves of shame are rather imprssive. I've backed Bloodborne and expansions for Joan of Arc and Village Attacks and I want both Ankh and Mythic Battles Ragnarok, I'm also highly interested in the Monolith skirmish game. Basically I switched my GW habit over to board games and haven't looked back. Current focus is going to be to finish painting one project before starting another with Loka almost finished and Massive Darkness and Conan both fully rebased. My desire to have all my fantasy on square bases is certainly causing issues but ah well. Here's some Models

Massive Darkness
Ajax felt like he should be flamboyant.

Gobins


Conan
Ageera

Picts


Loka
Djinn and Fire Elemental


Sorceror

Waterhorse Demon

Statues

Gryphon


Madrigal from Dungeon Saga and a familiar from Guilds of Cadwallon


Apologies from the flock I took the photos before I rushed home for Christmas so they're not the best

Skirmish models is the last part of the review. I'd like to get either Warlords of Erewhon or Dragons Rampant played regularly at the club. I've found a FLGS which plays Frostgrave regularly and will start attending as thats a perennial favourite. I'd also like to try Ghost Archipelago and Rangers of Shadow Deep. The final game I'd like more of is Open Combat. What can I say I enjoy generic fantasy skirmish. I'm not particularly planning to buy more this year although I've recently backed Bones V and rceived Bones IV so can't really proclaim innocence. I've also got a bunch of board games acquired for this Bloodborne in particular and now for the models.

Arabs for the warband an Infantryman

Templar

and Musketeer


Native American Thief

and War Maiden Templar


3 Lizardmen Frostgrave Snakemen and GW Skink.


A Beggar


A Goblin


A Vaplorhine


A Beetle


And finally a Gorilla

Got really behind on updating this blog but I've definitely been painting. Got loads finished in the last 2 months. This post will be board games rank & file.

Loka's almost done heres some Drichean tribesmen and Dwarves. Only another 7 models to complete


Massive Darkness is fully undercoated heres Lizardmen, Goblin Archers and Ratkin. Quite a few more models to go......



Conan is also present with Guardsmen and Pirates


I'm hoping to finish all 3 of these by the end of the year. Currently I'm also prepping Green Horde and Joan of Arc. Rising Sun, Village Attacks, Mythic Battles Pantheon and Death may Die haven'teven been looked at yet. That ignores the expansions for Village Attacks, Conan, Joan of Arc and the comple gme for Bloodborne I've backed. Hmmmm bck to painting.......

More models today with an assortment of characters mostly from Boardgames but a few random models for Frostgrave as well.
We'll start with a Druid for Loka (only 6 more to go)

Next to Massive Darkness.
Sylvan an Elf

Myriam (who will almost certainly find use in Ghost Archipelago)

and some Orcs

I'm getting there for this game but it feels far more of a chore than Black Plague did.
Now to Conan just backed the latest kickstarter and I might get it finished before the next lot arrives.........
Akivasha

Belit's Guard

Finally for Board Games a Familiar from Guilds of Cadwallon


Now for some none board games models
Dynamic Lenore from Hasslefree

Fat Fergus from Red Box Games

Monk from Reaper

A pair of Arabs

Reaper Goblins

Reptiles Frostgrave Snakeman and from GW and Iron Gate Scenery vanilla Snakes


Obligatory Coronavirus thingy. It's not really affecting me much as I have no kids and work in construction so currently I'm continuing comparatively normally. Good luck to anybody who's ill or who's job is under threat however.

Good to see you back in action. Love the Arab shields especially.

Cheers Graven I've been painting just not posting. Well had a week and a half stood down as my company dealt with what they should actually do and conflicting advice from various companies and the government. I had some leave I hadn't taken and I'm back to work relatively normally on Moday. So I'd better get some of the back log posted. This is rather large as to be honest I've doubled my usual painting output at the beginning of the year and I'm actually posting less but painting more. On to the models-

Pair of Queens from Loka meh models minor conversions so they don't match my other pair.

Almost there only another 6 models to do.

Giant Spider from Massive Darkness

Happy with this. Nice simple job took ages to photograph though.

Swamp Daemon from Conan

Really happy with this as well.

Constructs. Cyriss thingies from War Machine

Nice and simple

Slate Ridge Mauler

Old Wyrd Miniatures metal actually one of the first models I got for Frostgrave. Glad to see it finally finished.

Ape

Reaper Bones simple and fun.

Boar Croc

From Wargames Terrain Workshop this is an excellent fun vehicle. Well moulded and good value. Excellent place to look for creepy alien critters.

Good to see the variety as always. Some great monsters in that lot.

Cheers Monkeytroll and after all that nice variety a bunch of simple Reaper Cav's
Asassin

Bishop

Rhino

Chancellor

Razor

These were a bunch of test pieces to see if I could find a nice woodland camo scheme for my Algoryn I ended up going for the scheme you can see on the Razor as it combined contrast with practicality. Really behind on my blogging hopefully I'll get back on track this weekend.

That Boar Croc is cool, and curse you for leading me to that website!! I do like random fauna and flora, I may end up getting some. You've been super industrious with all these models, mate!

I’m going to have to look for one of those slate ridge maulers, just a nasty looking beast. Nice work on the monkey, mauler and croc.

Cheers guys.Finally got round to putting up some of my Antares blokes. Before the pandemic hit I was playing the game fairly regularly. Think 2nd ed 40k with out the disgusting power gaming. Crunchy squad based skirmish. I've got three squads and a support weapon done.




I went for a woodland camouflage to fit my terrain and I'm happy with what I've done so far. At the moment my man of the match is usually the X Launcher the varietyof ammunition really helps.

Great timing. I was just reorganizing my stuff in the basement and came across all my BtGoA models and was thinking of building more Concord models and Ghar. I like the woodland scheme you got there .

Cheers Theophony got the Concord from Strike on Kar A 9. Might have a look at trading them or start a new army. My mates got Concord and all the light drones and vehicles do intrigue me. Fast and elite. I've played Ghar as well but don't have any models. The assault walkers are brutal. I'm hoping for a rule adjustment which makes the high power settings on the Plasma Carbines and Overload Ammo effective against them. Going to bung up a bunch of rank and file board games models now. I've got a rather satisfactory posting back log to get through including spaceships, various characters and monsters so if you've got a preference for the next batch feel free to chip in.

Conan Guardsmen.

Gradually getting there with Conan.

Loka Dricheans

Lokas actually completed. This means I can start on a new board game when I feel like it.

Massive Darkness Goblins, Lizardmen and Ratkin



Been on a big push with Massive Darkness lately.

This'll get complex lots of models from widely differing sources. We'll start with something simple. My fourth Algoryn Squad

A pair of Warmachine Cyriss constructs.


From Massive Darkness

Bloodhoof

Cockatrice

From left to right top to bottom Mila, Ostara, Azrael, Goblin shaman, Ogre Shaman, Valerie and finally Owen.

These are from Conan

Lion, Zelata, Shafira, Forest Demon, Valeria & Zelata's Hound

Random Henchmen next,

From left to right top down, Shield Maiden Ranger, Arab archer, GW Halfling, Bones Dreadmere Mercenary, Fireforge Russian, Fireforge Mongol, Wargames Factory Zulu, Gripping Beast Arab & Fireforge late Scandinavian

Random Monsters next.

Reaper Bones Giant, Loka Elemental, World of Twilight Frenu, Malifaux Poison Gamin and Reaper Toad

and finally Lizardmen.

Loka Snake Queen (completing Loka), Iron Gate Scenery Snake, Massive Darkness Reptisaurian Agent, Frostgrave Snakeman and Reaper Bones Snakeman. Hope theres something there to tickle your fancy!

Awesome update some really nice paintwork there.

As for taking down Ghar, I barely played the game, but it seemed that shear weight of fire and pin markers was what was needed. Then hit them with the drone weapons. It’s like soldiers shooting a tank with M16s. It doesn’t work, but keeps the driver from sticking his head out until the RPG or air strike hits it.

Well I didn't back Massive Darkness 2 none of the models really grabbed me unlike last time. But heres a bunch of models from the first kickstarter.
Oni

Need to fix the base again
Orcs and Little Ned painted as a big Orc

Overseer

Hellsbane

and a Reaper Snakeman

I also spent the kickstarter money on some new toys Frostgrave 2nd Edition and a bunch of the plastics as well as the Gaslands parts and a bunch of Halflings
Witches

Knights

Ah, the glory of North star's gaslands sprue.p

I indulged myself again recently after picking up a bunch of the Red Alert models in their 30 odd starships for a tenner bags from Plastic Soldier Company I took advantage of their recent 60% off offer to pick up the boxed game and all the expansions. At £100 for the basic box it was too much but at £100 for all the expansions it got brought. Frankly the cloth and models are seful enough to justify that price. Now originally these were destined to become merchant ships but now I probably do need to work out two proper colour schemes. Here's some photographs of the ones done as merchantmen however.
First all of them


The Federation



The Commonwealth




Most of the time I've seen these painted they've been absolutely standardised I won't do that and I'll also probably mix the ships in both fleets as that is common naval practise and will provide a bit of visual interest. Any preferred schemes on show. I should probably go red and green to match the tokens but I could do with some inspiration.

Those ships are really cool!

Cheap to £10 for 30 odd ships ain't bad at all. The £100 main game is a bit expensive but on sale at £40 for approximately 100 of those ships and the cloth? Bargain I'm considering another.

Aw nice, good to see someone taking advantage of those PSC ships! I like your mix and matching, and the varying paint schemes are nicely done.

Good call on mixing the ship variants too - anything that creates some narrative is a good thing!

These look great. Always loved your take on spessheeps

Cheers guys some more Algoryn I've almost finished my starting force of these guys. One more squad and a vehicle.
AI squad 5

Command Squad

Personally I'd have liked a bit more ostentatious gear for the officer but while it suits "Hollywood" sci-fi to have heroes dramatically fighting it suits realistic sci-fi to have them leading far less ostentatiously.

More board game figures today I've been pushing these as ideally I wanted to get Conan and Massive Darkness finished by the end of the year. Lockdown has helped but I won't quite manage it I have however got a fair chunk of Conan figures done.
Bellit's Guardsmen boring and uninspired

Guards boring and useful

Pirates

Picts

Various Critters

Hydrastus & Shubba

Khostrel Khan & Taurus

Olgerd Amboola and someone I can't recognise

Thak and a Daemon of the Outer Dark

and finally the man himself Conan, Balthus and a Dancer