First possible entry into the Golden Dragon Games painting contest.

 After some printing of possible models to paint, I have finished one of several possible entries.

This being one of the revised US Cavalry Bikers. I finished him a bit ago, but this little guy is just one of several possible miniatures I could enter. Honestly, I'm not sure that I'm limited to one entry each phase. I'll have to check.

State of my hobby.

  Its been a VERY long time since I've written here, which has more to do with life in general taking me from building or painting as I dealt with a lot of things. But this last year I've actually gotten going again with hobby things. This upturn in inspiration, and motivation, is a bit sputtering but there. So I've decided to kick off writing here again.

I've gotten interested in a new wargame (and reinterested in a couple of older ones), Marcher: Empires at War. A World War II alternative history dieselpunk sci-fi wargame from Golden Dragon Games which tickles a few of my hobby, and general, interests. My oldest has gotten into it as well, and with my addition of a Resin and FDM 3d printer to my hobby arsenal we've begun to build our armies. I've gone with the US forces, while he has gone for the Empire of Japan. Both of which are full of interesting minis and vehicles.

We're also looking into starting some Necromunda play this year, which will be a return for me, as I used to play it the first few years it came out in the 90's.

GDG has started a 4 phase painting/modeling contest this month running into next month, which I plan to toss my hat into the ring for.

Updates and hobby content will be coming, though I've not set myself a schedule yet. Start a bit slow and build up I think.

Be well, and happy hobbying!

Wow... been a long time since I updated anything here.

Life, well it happens. Been quite a while since I posted, but there are pretty good reasons. Two changes in jobs, closing the commission painting business due to lack of clients, etc etc etc. Lets just call it no time and keep it simple.


As it stands I have a LOT of GW Dark Eldar and Space Marine product sitting on shelves that I'm going to be selling to clear space. Plus some specialty stuff I bought and I'm never going to get around to working on from other companies. It's pretty distressing to know my 'hobby time' is going to be practically non-existent for quite a while yet.


Geeze, thinking about it I haven't played a single 40k game in nearly 2 1/2 years, and about 2 for Infinity. I really need to get some table time with Infinity. Compared to 40k, Infinity is by far more fun to play, and doesn't make me cringe when I see the pricing on figures/boxes.


Well, off to deal with more life.


Until later, be well.

Initial Terrain WIP, Part 7

Had to take some time off from the work on the Sinner's Respite due to my printer running out of ink. But I finally got moving on it again after a trip to Fedex Kinko's.

I printed out a number of textures on cardstock to use in detailing out the structure. Overall the effect is pretty nice, and a bit of touch-up with paint and marker will be necessary. But I am happy with the direction this building is going in. I'll be working on the second level later tonight, with a total revision of how to do the doors (which means a small amount of break down and rebuild).

Until later!

Initial WIP on Terrain, Part 6 (Terrain in a Game)

Today is an update just showing the current terrain project in a game of Infinity. Detailing updates will continue Monday evening as today is a 'day of rest' for me.

Initial table layout. The hot wheels cars are a tad on the small size, but did give a bit of cover in play. The walls on top of several of the buildings are from War Gamma ( WarGamma.com ), The crates and pipes are hirst mold stuff cast in resin. The white foamboard buildings are from a league member, while all the grey buildings and oriental style buildings are things I've built or am in the middle of detailing.

JSA vs. a Nomad GML list

my ALEPH vs a Haqq list

My Marut going Rambo, at this point my opponent conceded the game because of a lack of a reliable way to deal with ARM 8 and BTS -9.

Overall the Sinner's Respite has been working out well. Both games had someone use it. In my first game both of my Dasyu (1 sniper, 1 hacker) used it to great effect (okay not so much the hacker... missed all her hacking rolls by 1). In the second game one of my Naga placed 3 mono mines in it and tied up one of the opponents figs for the entire game (though the GML neutered my list in turn 2).

C&C welcome!

Until later!

Initial WIP on Terrain, Part 5

Day 5 comes to a close. Didn't get as much finished as I'd like, partially due to having to go material shopping.... Seriously, who the heck prices paper? 250 sheets of cardstock for $14.99+ tax? No packages smaller at the office supply stores? Had to settle for 67 lb cardstock at one of the craft stores, when I REALLY wanted 110 lb. Oh, and my new scroll saw blades... well they are pretty slick... they are called Spiral blades, and can cut in 360 degrees without turning the material being cut... unfortunately they have a HUGE downside. This downside being that they are VERY easy to break. Inside of the first 20 minutes working I'd broken 2 of them, and one was simply from trying to put it in the blade holders a little to tight. *sigh*

What I did accomplish was adding some external electrical breaker boxes to the building, 2 interior sliding doors, framing out the second story balcony, adding in posts to the third floor to add some kind of LoS obsuring lattice (probably), adding clay tile plasticard to the upper roof, as well as buildng an air handler to put on the roof. Overall about 1/2 of what I wanted to get done today. But not really to far behind at this point.

Imagery galore:

You've likely noticed the 'fringe' on some of the doors and other edges. This will be dealt with, it's a mix of primer/humidity and minor fringing of the hardboard I used. I'll be sanding the areas that are having the issue and when I get to painting it will go away.

C&C is most welcome!

Until Later!

Initial WIP on Terrain, Part 4

Day 4 of the construction of Sinner's Respite. Things went really great for the first 3 hours of work, then my last scroll saw blade broke. So the last cutting I needed to do in order to finish the roof on the third floor had to be postponed until tomorrow.

Since pretty much everything else had been finished to the pre-detailing point I decided to prime the building. I left the main club wood floor masked while I primed it so that I could use wood stain on the floor in that room. As soon as I get the new scroll saw blade installed I'll finish the last cuts to finish the roof and then I'll get onto beginning to do detail work.

Progress to this point:

1/2" tall 'railing' around the upper floor will give no cover unless someone is shooting at a fig from ground level. This kind of balances out other factors in the building. Though part of the 'roof' will have a decorative fence added that will give full cover from certain angles. I also plan to build an air handler (hvac compressor) to place on the roof as well.

This room will have a modular wall most likely to allow it to be used in multiple ways.

I have to trim one side of the roof, and cut the interior rafters for strengthening this piece. Without the rafters it will be VERY easy to break the glue joints.

Front

Right

Back

Left

This corner seperated before the glue fully set, yet is still glued together. I'll be covering this corner with plasticard which should also increase the joints strength.

Initial priming

C & C welcome!

Until later!