The post apocalyptic western genre has shifted back into my focus again over the last few months. I decided to kill several (thunder)birds with one stone and paint my 1990s Necromunda Ratskins.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: Dracula's America, Necromunda, Post Apocalyptic, Ratskins, Sci-fi, Skinwalkers, Western | 44 Comments »
What’s a cop story without a veteran only [X (TIME UNITS)] from retirement?
No better than a cop story without some idealistic rookie coming up to replace them, that’s what.
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Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2017, 40K, Arbites, Confrontation, Imperium, Necromunda, Sci-fi | 32 Comments »
Come quietly or there will be… trouble.
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Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2017, 40K, Arbites, Confrontation, Imperium, Necromunda, Sci-fi | 42 Comments »
I have been playing a bit of Shadow War: Armageddon recently.
“Gork!” they hollered. “Mork!” they screamed. “Dont fall!” I encouraged.
Filed under: Games in Progress | Tagged: 2017, 40K Skirmish, Necromunda, Sci-fi, Shadow War Armageddon | 15 Comments »
Its a nurture versus nature thing. Was I born predisposed to think that tiny, blue, reptilian-winged, space-babies with large automatics are “awsumz”? The truth may never be known.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2015, 40K, Colony 87, Confrontation, Necromunda, Sci-fi | 20 Comments »
Hobby progress has been slow since the return from BOYL, with a combination of the usual disruptive effects of late summer/early autumn slowing down output. Slowing down output, but not halting progress. Behind the scenes I have been working on two projects.
Filed under: Editorial, Uncategorized | Tagged: Ash Waste Nomads, Confrontation, Necromunda, Sci-fi, The Governor General of Sector Six | 14 Comments »
Just John, Mr Saturday, theottovonbismark and I met up at a Limerick convention last weekend. A previous post covered the very satisfactory Pulp Alley game that we played. This post details the Realms of Chaos/Highlander/Necromunda multi-player mash up that took place afterwards.
Filed under: Events, Games in Progress | Tagged: 2014, Brocon, Necromunda, O'Hammerers, Pulp Alley, Sci-fi | 4 Comments »
Less “Deathworld” and more “Underhive”, its some quick crystal formations today.
Filed under: Terrain | Tagged: 2014, Alien Flora & Fauna, Necromunda | 16 Comments »
“The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal (but at least those fishmen have taken the liberty of fertilizing your caviar Sergeant).”
theottovonbismark and I got together to play some daft and highly entertaining skirmish games set in the 40K universe last weekend.
Uzgob proves that there are some high speed pursuit advantages to having ones torso welded to army surplus vehicle parts.
The scenarios were many, varied and unlikely and not a point value was used for the duration. The games that we played were largely dictated by a desire to use some of the many miniature projects that we have been working on recently. That meant that theottovonbismarks 1989th Necromundan “Death Ferrets” Regiment allied with Inquisitor Verhoeven, some fishmen and avian scouts in the hostile jungles of Krellborn IX, the Death Ferrets went toe-toe-toe with the Ursa Miners Squat Brotherhood and also got ambushed by orks of the Bigdogz tribe and Vim Petrol babysat Gordon Schumway in a hair raising, high speed collision filled pursuit across the wastelands near Standard Falls. Hilarity ensued. Continue reading
Filed under: Games in Progress | Tagged: 2014, 40K, 40K Skirmish, Gorkamorka, Necromunda, Rogue Trader, Sci-fi, theottovonbismark | 46 Comments »
Two items today: Necromunda Milliasaurs and some dog tents from Renedra.
I picked up the set of dog tents from the Renedra stand at Salute along with another item.
Although I already have three feral, teepee type tents painted up I wanted to have models that represented tents that might feasibly be moved around easily, either on a models back or on the saddle (animal or vehicle). Although the models dont take up a lot of space, they are cute little gaming props that help to create atmosphere.
The Mutie faction in Gorkamorka doesnt use forts, being more nomadic in their behaviour. The original (stupidly named) “Digganob” supplement for (the equally stupidly named) Gorkamorka came with a set of small cardboard tents to represent the Mutie encampment, but they were lost or squished in some house move or another over the years. These cute little plastics will be a durable and very serviceable replacement.
Painting the tents was fast. I didnt want to spend much time on them so I painted the pegs metallic (that suits the Gorkamorka setting better than wooden pegs and stopped the models from being 100% shades of brown) and then washed the entirety of the models with GW Gryphonne Sepia, twice. I then washed them again with GW Devlan Mud and finally painted some black ink into the door flap edges. Very quick but perfectly ok for what the models are.
The Milliasaurs are creepy crawlies from the GW Necromunda setting. Like my Ripper Jacks and Giant Rats, they were originally supplied as servants of Necromunda Wyrd Beastmasters, who could use them to do their amoral bidding.
I gave the Milliasaurs a quick drybrush followed by a coat of Tamiya Clear Red on the chitin areas. It gave a nice cockroach sort of look I think. I did a tiny bit of detailing on the teeth and spines too.
They are creepy looking figures. The guy rearing up would stand at about 150cm in real life, which would be a pretty appalling thing to find at the door of anyones tent I reckon.
Filed under: Miniatures, Terrain | Tagged: 2011, Bug, Gorkamorka, Muties, Necromunda, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-fi | 4 Comments »
