More Battle (lore)

More Battlelore, we are approaching the amount needed for some of the scenarios in the game...

For the Pennant side:

2 Red Human Knights (Heavy Infantry)

2 Red Human Knights (Heavy Cavalry)

For the Standard side:

1 Green Human Archers

1 Blue Human Cavalry

2 Red Human Knights (Heavy Infantry)

2 Red Human Knights (Heavy Cavalry)

1 Red Human Halberdiers (can be fielded on both sides, hence the extra flag)



Back to painting, many many miniatures still to do...

S.

 Status 141/365

Cops

Another batch of miniatures for no specific game, a set of cops from Wargames Foundry.

6 Cops.

I have some scenarios in mind to use them with the agents I painted previously. And depending the case they might help or hinder them...

Also, they have a kind of Police Academy feeling to them, at least half of them (ie. Callahan, Hightower & Hooks)

S.

 Status 130/365

More green

Finally finished the Orks I've mentioned before, so 20 more miniatures painted for the challenge.

Mek Boss Buzzgob and his Grot Oilers (Nitnuckle & Lunk).

Buzzgob is introduced in Imperial Armour 8: Raid on Kastorel-Novem

2 Deffkoptas converted to have Big Bomms and Buzzsaws.

Big Bomms are from Forgeworld's Ork Bomb pack (which seems to be no longer available). One of the Buzzsaws is from Ork Nob-box and the other is an Inquisitor-scale (54mm) chainsword.

One Killa Kan.

Basically just a test for the rest of the vehicles in the army.

Ork Shoota Boyz Mob, 14 strong. Includes 2 Rokkit Launchas.

I have previously painted 16 of those (with one Rokkit Launcha & 1 Nob),

so this gives me a full 30 strong mob.

And back to painting, still have a long way to go if I intend to finish the 2013 Challenge...


S.

Status 124/365

Adding some lore to the battle

More Battlelore units finished for both camps. This time most of the units are from the fantasy department instead of the basic human units.

2 Human Blue Swordsmen units

1 Goblin Green Archer unit

2 Goblin Green Skirmisher units

2 Goblin Green Cavalry units

1 Goblin Red Swordsmen unit

1 Human Blue Swordsman unit

1 Dwarf Green Crossbowmen unit

1 Dwarf Red Swordmen unit

1 Blue Earth Elemental monster

And as previously stated: For the 2013 challenge I count these as 1 per unit and 1 per monster. So 11 units and 1 monster means adding 12 to the count. Still a long way to go but at least I got past the 100 barrier...

S.

Status: 104/365

Be prepared, FBS is coming

Just a short post, I finished the first four agents of FBS (Finnish Bureau of Safety), a fictional organization based after FBI & Men in Black.

Agents Jaakko Niittivesi, Hrothgar Nummi, Pertti Pyssy & Ville Seppä

S.

 Status: 92/365 

One more project...

And yet one more project added to this insanity. Though not anything new, but yet another project digged from the storage. According to my notes this was started around 2008-2009 and shelved not long after...

Unusually this isn't even a miniature game but a board game: Battlelore from Days of Wonder (later acquired by Fantasy Flight Games).

I added magnets to the miniature's bases so I could use movement trays which eases moving the units around the board. Additionally the flags were coated in varnish to make them more durable.



The first picture kind of gives a hint about what I painted:

5 Units of Blue Infantry for the Standard Camp.

As with the Flames of War these are smaller than the usual Citadel miniatures I've been painting, so I for the 2013 Challenge I count these as one painted miniature per base.

S.

 Status: 88/365

Summertime

I was tempted to title this "Kaislikossa suhisee", which is the Finnish translation of an old English childern's book "The Wind in the Willows".

It's been a bit too quiet on this blog, I started my vacation and have been travelling and doing other stuff. So there has not been that much time left for painting and blogging, even though I haven't been going to work...


But today I finished the last miniatures which I dipped some time ago, and here are the results:

This wa mainly a paint scheme test for these, and a quick one as usual. Red spray (from Army Painter) and just small bits of yellow for scales, brown for haft, metal for the speartips, bone for teeth & claws and blue for decorative feathers. And of course these were dipped in the Army Painter Strong Tone dip.

Not too bad, though I am not fully convinced of my choice of colours. I wanted something different from the ones used in the Armybook but I wonder if I went a bit too far. The base was painted using textured paint (Stirland Mud from Citadel Paints drybrushed with Bleached Bone, and edges painted in some dark brown). I added both Citadel grass and "Swamp Tufts" from Army Painter, which did help a bit.

Oh well, back to painting some more Orks. Have almost 20 ready to be dipped...

S.

Status: 83/365

When no one else can help...

The first 4 miniatures today are a tribute to a tv-show from the 80's: The A-Team

So let me present you: The A-Mob!

Left: Kannibal (ie. John 'Hannibal' Smith)

Right: B.A. meaning Bad Aim (ie. B.A. Baracus, where B.A. meant Bad Attitude)

Left: Faceplate (ie. Templeton 'Faceman' Peck)

Right: Zogging Mad (ie. Howling Mad Murdock)

Ork Kommando unit would've been more appropriate, but I do not like the miniatures that exist for that unit. So I just kitbashed something with the basic Ork Boyz-box.

Not to stop there, I also finished 10 Grots with their Runtherd:

That will be all for the Orks for a while, need to get another batch finished before dipping more of them...

S.

Status: 72/365

More Orks

Without further ado here are some pics of stuff I dipped and then finished.

2 Ork Nobz, they will be added to the unit from the Assault on Black Reach box. They are identical miniatures to those from the box, but the bosspoles were added and decorated with bitz from my collection.

1 Ork Pilot (will be used as a  Warboss). A Forge World event only model I bought from Games Day.

 1 Runt Bot. A Forge World event only model I bought from Games Day. Will be used as a Warboss or Killa Kan depending on the game.

Still 22 miniatures from the dipping waiting to be finished, back to work...

S.

Status 57/365

Winter is coming...

No, not _that_ winter...

Just something for my fledgling Finnish Defence Force for Flames of War that I've been painting ever so slowly. Even though winter has passed, as this is more Continuation War than Winter War (ie. Finland vs Soviet Union during WWII).

2 x Artillery Battery of 76 K/02 guns

I tried to achieve something similar to the three-color camouflage that was used (Painting reference).

With these painted I now have a full-sized artillery battery: 1 Staff team, 1 Command team, 2 Spotter teams & 4 guns. And this brings the total size of my "army" to about 1250 points.

Originally I thought I would only count normal 28mm-sized miniatures for the 2013 Challenge. But as I think I will paint other units too for Flames of War I guess I will count these too. So I decided to count these as 2 miniatures (1 each) as there's about as much to paint as for a normal miniature.

S.

 Status: 53/365 

A new foe approaches...

So, I finally got a new miniature done. Not much, but at least got something finished.

A Necron Overlord

And yes, it is my only finished Necron model so far...

The model is from Games Workshop, it is the one from the Necron Catacomb Command Barge / Annihilation Barge box (as I made an Annihiliation Barge, the overlord miniature was left over).

S.

Status: 51/365

And there's more...

More miniatures painted for the 2013 challenge.

34 Night Goblins with spears & shields. Includes full command. The empty spot is reserved for a Night Goblin Shaman.

View from above shows multibased models within the unit. I deem it necessary with larger unit as it speeds deployment quite a bit. Also helps to break the monotony of a ranked unit: For example some of the goblins are not really interested in the battle but are chatting instead. Additionally a Night Goblin Fanatic can be seen just before being released to wreak havoc amongst a nearby enemy.

All models from Games Workshop. The fanatic model was a promotional figure I got some years ago, can't remember any specifics though.

S.

Status: 50/365

It's alive!

Finally got something done for my New Years resolution, which was painting at least one miniature per day, for the whole year.

So here's the first completed project, some old metal miniatures I found in the back of the cupboard:

1 Unit of 15 Dwarf Hammeres with shields (if I remember correctly those came from some old plastic Dwarf Warrior box). Contains full command unit (Champion, Standard Bearer & Musician)

1 Dwarf Runesmith

All models from Games Workshop.

S.

Status: 16/365