Follower Guest Spot #2

After a bit of a slump, geek-wise, following the excitement of the NAF Cup a couple of weekends ago, I woke up early this morning and did just ten minutes of painting on a half-finished knight for my Quest project. It, along with the arrival of some bits in the post for both British and Prussian forces for GASLIGHT yesterday evening, was enough to get me back in the saddle. I hope to get a record of the highlights of the bloodbowling fun from the NAF cup up on the blog here over the next couple of days.

In the mean time, may I direct your attention to Bishop Lord's new(ish) 28mm blog, Assemble the Army! for my second Follower Guest Spot? Although still in its infancy, it already boasts a couple of lovely shots of Perry miniatures ready to defend the Papal See.

Link to Bishop Lord's POST -> click here

Happy geeking,
Rab

Hey! Ho! Logo!

(With apologies to the Ramones)

I'm getting so psyched about heading off to Nottingham for the NAF Cup tonight. Home by four, freshen up and change, collected by Chris at five, then we hit the road. A couple of hours of increasingly uncivilised banter later and we'll be there. Curry. Bugman's for a pint or two. Bed. Slap up breakfast then GAMING! Woohoo!

Bag of clothes packed? Check!
Bag of miniatures packed? Check!
Let's go!

Oh, and in my pre-gaming geeky trance, I even knocked up a team logo (based on the Houston Texans' logo), printed it, cut it out and stuck it on my carry case - how sad am I? What do you reckon to the logo?

The pink and green are the team colors, the white star eye of the original I've replaced with the chaos pact team symbol, and the bull's head seemed apt for a minotaur-captained team (he is the Moloch of Moloch's Malefactors).

I hope your geeking is keeping you as entertained as mine is me,
Rab

Ready to roll... ones and skulls

Two posts in one day! Blimey! Well, completing one of my Projects for the Year is reason enough, I reckon.

Without further ado, here are Moloch's Malefactors in all their varnish-still-wet glory, ready for this weekend's massive geek-fest that is the NAF Bloodbowl Cup at GW headquarters in Nottingham.

If you're attending, come and say 'Hi' - I'll be the chap that looks like this, but with an extra year or so of parenting and teaching adding grey to the hair, and lines around the eyes...

Happy geeking,
Rab

Follower Guest Spot #1

Now that I've reached the heady heights of TWENTY-TWO followers, I thought I'd repay the favour and regularly intermittently link back to posts of theirs which I enjoy. The criteria for selection are entirely whimsical; perhaps because it matches a current project of mine, is utterly different, good fun, inspirational, has some eye-candy, who knows?!

Anyway, Guest Spot #1 goes to Christopher (AKA Axebreaker) for his rather lovely Victorian adventuress. Why don't you pop over and check it out? I reckon she'd comfortably face down a horde of Lost World neanderthalls and then head over to the Simmond-Wrights' campfire for a spot of afternoon tea and some piano recitals.

Link to Christopher's post -> click here

Happy geeking,
Rab

VSF shopping spree

As I've now painted more miniatures than I'd acquired (net), I decided to indulge myself with a couple of VSF things I've been hankering after :) All the photos below are stock images - I only ordered them last night.

First stop, Ironclad Miniatures for some dastardly Prussians (more on them in a moment), as well as a steam tank for my nascent British force, and a commander to look all heroic poking out through the turret.

 

 

And then, to equip the impulsive and antagonistic Freiherr Otto von Schwarz's* Fliegendampf Jager, I bought enough of these wings from Hoard_*_bits on ebay:

I reckon some winged bad guys (I'm playing the Brits, remember!) should add to the fun.

* The dear baron/freiherr is going to be the recurring nemesis for the VSF games that I hope will take place at some point in the next year or so. And if you think he's bad, just wait till you meet his wife...

Happy St. George's Day

As a rather patriotic sort of chap, wot, I raise my glass to you all in honour of Saint George!

Rather fabulous model below, eh? Made from cardboard, apparently!

Moloch's Malefactors

This is my team that I'm taking to the NAF cup in Nottingham at the end of May. I was a bit worried I wouldn't get them done in time but I'm fairly confident now with only four still needing proper work. Let me know what you think of this lot so far:

... and still needing basing (and I'm not happy with the buff leather :/ ) ...

... and then the ones who still need plenty of work ...

Happy gaming,
Rab

7,000 visits!

Fiddling around with the new settings on this new blog layout, I discovered that this little blog o' mine has had a princely 7,000 visits. Wow! I hope that, with bit of a fresh head of steam on the whole blogging front, that will only be the start.

To celebrate, here is a sneak preview of what will eventually be the vessel for my Copplestone sailors as they cruise the aether in defence of the Empire. Hurrah for laser cutters!

Oh, and you're always welcome to leave a comment; it's much more encouraging to continue when I know people are interested.

Happy gaming.

Cracking the W.I.P. (4)

Right, this is the one that's top of the list at the moment. My Chaos Pact team for Bloodbowl, specifically the team I'm going to use for the NAF tournament at Warhammer World in Nottingham on the 19th and 20th of May. This year. So only five weeks away. And I've got a lot still to do. My blogging might drop back to the previous low levels while I get them finished. Hmm...

Anyway, the state of play at the moment is shown below. I've got the three Big Guys (minotaur, troll and ogre) finished, although the ogre's base still needs flocking. Same goes for the goblin. I might go back and add replace some of the pink with bright green on sections of the ogre's armour to make him 'pop' a little more if there's time.

They sort of had their first outing last week when we got together for a game of BB7s, which, as you might expect, involves seven players per side. I won one game against another Pact team (after nearly blowing it by getting carried away with bashing rather than scoring, d'oh!) and then got pretty comprehensively trounced by an orc team. I like the models and the feel of the team, but I have a strong suspicion that their initial lack of Skills means I'll probably get hammered at the NAF Cup. Should be fun anyway :)

Priority for completion: pretty damn Urgent! They all need to be painted, based, varnished and dry by the morning of the 19th May

Cracking the W.I.P. (3)

Victorian Science Fiction, this time. More Copplestone goodies - I just love how easy they are to paint, even for me!

First up, the rank and file who are finished except for varnishing and a bit of foliage on their bases. The question is, do I go for green (so I can use them for action on Earth) or maybe red (for action on Mars or elsewhere across the Empire's off-Earth territories)?

Their officers aren't quite ready yet, but they look like a fine pair of gentlemen who'll maybe not even get the men in their charge killed in a gallant but ultimately doomed action against some steam-powered mechanism of the Prussians, or some fiendish native critters on Venus or Mars. Maybe...

Priority for completion: moderate - I'm so close I can taste it - but there is a higher priority coming up next time...