Warlord Titan

I picked up on ebay a metal Titan and finally got around to painting it.

The base is to be done next.

X-Wing miniatures game

Must resist, must....


X-Wing miniatures game

I love space games and who wouldn't want to re-create the battles out of the movies.

Stay on target, stay on target.

It has the Millenium Falcon

How cool does this look?

Tie Fighters

Tie Bombers

X-Wings!

More 28mm scifi

Been busy and have now finished up my Xmas presents.

These figures are great.

28mm spider tank.  It's a resin model that is a pain to assemble but looks very Ghost in the Shell.

Sniper

Sniper with very big gun

Plasma Gun

"Kimbo" combat shotguns

Sarge

28mm Scifi

For Christmas,  I got a few 28mm scifi figures from Antenocitis Workshop which I'm thinking to use for Tomorrows War and also just for the pleasure of painting them.

I first saw these figures at Salute a few years ago and have been wanting them ever since.

I've started with a few figures.  I need to do the bases.  I'm waiting to pick up some bases from Kerr & King at Salute this year.  They have some really nice looking bases that will very scifi.

The Police car



The Cop



The gun slinger firing



The Sniper



The Lieutenant

Burton 2013

Woot woot, I won my first FoGR competition!

I partnered up with Kevin J and his Danish army and we won the competition.

It was  very different going into the last bound and actually being worried about how many points we were on and how much we needed to win by to win the comp.

Game 1
Big win vs another Danish army

Game 2
10 all draw against a nightmare Early 30 Years War German Protestant army.
Mick H brought in a 21 battlegroup army, damm there were a lot of them

Game 3
Big win vs imperial spanish

Game 4
Minor win vs Japanese army.

Let's see if I can hold my game by myself at The Challenge.

Usk 2013

So,

I got to give my new Louis XIV army a run this weekend in Wales and they did rather well.

We managed to get to Wales, not withstanding the snow, red alerts and general panic.


I teamed up with Paddy from Oxford and we had a cracking time.

We didn't loose the army once, but on the same side, weren't able to get a big win anywhere.  All the armies we faced were tough and proved hard to crack.

Rnd 1 9-11 vs Ottoman Turks
Rnd 2 12-8 vs Imperial Austrians
Rnd 3 10-10 vs Later Russians
Rnd 4 18-2 vs Later Swedish.

Various Photos

Rnd 1
Janissaires moving into the enclosed fields.  Dragoons thinking, maybe we shouldn't play with 8 muskets hiding behind a wall.

The french holding off the Turkish cav

Rnd 2, Imperial Austrians holding a flank.  Maybe I won't send my cav down that way.

The French redeploying.

Rnd 3, the Russian defensive position.  Four heavy guns on a hill, 4 light guns next to the hill, everything supported by infantry.

The Russian infantry leave their defensive fortifications to say hi to the French.  The light horse remember they have an appointment somewhere else.

The Russians advance towards the French inf while redeploying their flank away from the flank march.

WIP - Louis the XIV army

Well, I'm sold.  I am very impressed with the results of the Army Painter dip.  It really gives my figures depth and makes them look fantastic. (compared to my usual painting).

So, from all the various posts/hints and recommendations on how to use the army painter, it boils down to this.

Paint the model with your normal colours, don't worry about dry brushing/shading
Paint the model with army dip (I don't dip, I paint as I can't shake the paint off like it suggests, I don't have a back yard)
Let the dip dry for 24 hours
Give the model a matt varnish
finished!

The matt varnish really improves the figure.

Figures with the base paint

Now with the matt varnish.

Might need to improve my photos.

Anyway, I will put up more photos soon.