Standing off against the Iron Curtain. My 20mm modern US project- Part 1 of many.

Charlie Six Two Actual- Time to blow some shit up.

Modern is a new era for me, I've been drag from the comfortable world of WW2 war gaming where tanks and equipment had proper names like Sherman, Lee, Panther and Tiger. To the confusing world of tanks a equipment given funny serial numbers. Thankfully for Christmas 2012 my good friend Nick gave me a Janes Tank recognition guide, which now means I can look up what a vehicle looks like without a message to Nick first.

Any just realised I'm rambling. I have decided to do a modern US army, well I say modern is it based around late 80's and early 90's near the end of the cold war.

Over the last few months I have acquired  via sales, trades and forum finds quite a good selection of kits, both resin, plastic and diecast. Along with a load of Helis which aren't pictured from a magazine which when released had 1/72nd Blackhawks for £2.99 the guy at the shop gave me a funny look when I brought 4 in one go.

They are going to be painted in the NATO three colour camo scheme and will be based.

I am also under a bit of dead line but will talk about this later on, just lets say I want to get most of this done by the 18th May.

Keep on checking I will be updating about the project regularly

Thanks for reading

Happy Painting

Clearing out the display case, another blog post promoting my wares.

Having a bit of a clear out of the display cabinets. Decided to sell of some stuff that I haven't used or ever used in a while would like too see them go to a good home and get a bit of cash for them

First up is a Warmachine Mercs Pirate Battlegroup- £75 or a reasonable offer, I'm always open for haggling. 4 models in total, on resin dockside bases. Come with the units cards.

A Warmachine Ogre Body guard thing -£10 comes with unit card

Next up is a few 40K bits Ork HQ
We have Gazzie the bigest Ork in all of 40K Orkdom- Asking for £20 has been put on a larger base as the smaller one he comes with makes him look silly.

Converted Big Mek with Kustom Force Field -£10

Converted Warboss from the Assault on Blackreach box set -£10

Some Ogre Kingdoms Man Eaters, this unit of too looks like a really big fancy dress party, one as a pirate and on crossdressing ogre -£40

More picture of all items available upon request.

Prices exclude p&p.

Any questions feel free to contact me.

Thanks for looking Coops

Post Salute Blog and all that.

Back from the annual day in the smoke to spend my birthday money and bolster the mountain of metal. I was by my own admittance and light day on the wallet. But saying that I am expecting a huge pile of models sometime in June coming Via the kickstarter at West Wind productions.

Here is a picture of me purchasing some Relics for a comp they are running, I stand a chance of winning a 200 pt army, which would be very nice.

This is the booty from the day, includes the new battle group expansion, and its gone back to Normandy, so expect to see some AARs as me and my adversary start blasting the crap out of each other.

My new relics army, I enjoyed a demo against a chap I think he was called Jamie, but doing the demo meant that if I brought a starter box i got a blister for free, also some art cards and some faction dice for free, which is a good haul. So with two armies means I can do demo games and get more people interested in the system.

Mmmmmmm BGO you are my updated loveliness of a system and I know its going to be sweet getting the Brits out of the box again. An Sherman ARV and a Cromwell/ Centaur 95mm CS and my Salute dice these were pretty cool and had spartan helmets on.

Thanks for reading and expect to see some WIP over the next few days

Might be a gallery of my slowing growing EOTD/ Steampunk models.

Easter Week- Dollies, Birthday, Yanks and Kickstarters

It's been a good week hobby wise. So what's been going on in my little hobby world. 

Well firstly I would like to congratulate West wind Productions in hitting and exceeding there targets for there kickstarter which will see a huge influx of models, rules and interest in the game which is a good thing as it is one of my favourite games at the moment. Expect to see in a few months posts about this as I think there will be about 40+ steampunk/horror models hitting my desk. Its going to be great and it has been a great kickstarter to break my kickstarter cherry on.

Ok so on to whats been painted. Well as some of you may know I have been taking part in a paint along through a forum for Tor Gaming's excellent Relics system. I have now finished it and feel really proud of what I have done, It has taken just over 3 months to do. The painting wasn't hard and really enjoyable, so a new tip is break down projects into achievable chunks and work on the chunks rather than think about the overall army/project. 

So where do the yanks (sorry if I have any American readers) come into it all well a friend and fellow gamer is working on his own rules system for post-war conflicts. I have decided to help in development and paint some models for it also as it is a time period I have had little contact with. Over the past few months I have been collecting a nice stockpile of plastic kits, diecast tank, helis, metal figures and resin oddities.

All the vehicles are going to be in the NATO tri colour scheme such as this 

With finished projects and another big one on the horizon, I have decided to take a break from projects and painting for deadliness and so some painting for paintings sake. So at the weekend was Hinkley Model Show, which wasn't very well attended but there was one gem of a trader there MDP which do a variety of high end, resin kits, display bases and all manor of great hobby goods. I picked up a little steam punk bust.

And mine so far after a few hours of painting.

Still a great deal of work to do on him, but it should be good in the end.

Well thanks for reading

And as always 

Happy Painting

Hobby Update- Mid 1st Quarter Report

Power Point a go go

Its been a while since I've done a post which hasn't had a project attached to it. Well firstly its a new year and its been a good start to the year. Plenty of hobby time and what not been rattling off projects.

One of the first to get some TLC was Gruntz, some of my readers may have remembered this post way back in August Gruntz first mention

This was added to when I utilised some of the models from the metal pile I have sitting around. (I used some Battlefront Nam models for my Gruntz squads. Managed to get some other people interested and I hope to get more games of this great system which allows great creative scope.

One ongoing project which I have been enjoying greatly is the paint-a-long which Tor Gaming have been promoting. I have managed to get the second months pledge done and on the third instalment.

I still think the models are creepy but cool or as my better half think they are cute, I'm still worried about them escaping from my cabinet and molesting me in my sleep.

One of the majour projects which I'm glad is over but also a little sad that it is was the BGK demo table, Myself and the rest of the Phat Cats Demo team managed to get together. The general response has been good and I hope this leads to other shows and bigger tables.

So there are many more projects, one which I have dragged out is the Stormwall project I initially was very enthusiastic but this waned quickly, I am slightly intimedated by the prospect of painting it, yet I shouldn't be as I have done my Storm Strider which turned out very well. So expect to see more pics of that project here soon. There will be pop-up project and updates on smaller projects and models, so keep on checking back and you shall not be disapointed

Thanks for reading

Happy Painting

BGK- The Russians are ready to fight

The above picture would proof of things to come. Sunday saw Hammerhead at Kelham Hall in Newark. The demo team from Leicester Phat Cats (Myself, Nick, Anton, Phil and honorary Phat Cat, my better half Joanne) had been working on the table armies, building, lists and other bits demo tables need for the past 3 months.   

Aerial view before the game began, the Russian infantry company began the game on table and prepared for the Germans to attack.

The board was a 6ft x 6ft table, smaller than the derby show board but it still looks great.

Great church from Lancer Miniatures. Thanks to Jo for making it look more weathered.

The outskirts of the town was the Germans main objective for the game. 

KV's waiting for the coming German Storm. 

The small farm stead would be fought over with infantry facing infantry. 

Game pictures and a review of the show coming in the next few days

Thanks for reading

Happy Painting 

And can I stop painting green now?

Relics- Paint along stage 1 done- Starter Box

A few blog posts back you may have noticed this little post Creepy dolls, Well as I am away for a week soon I decided that they needed finishing a little earlier than needed. So here they are.

Proof pic for the challenge/ paint along, taken in front of the BBC website, after the Christmas dinner while everyone else was napping or what not.

My company Sergeant major, decided to give him a little brass/ coin eye. 

The first of the dragoons, I quite enjoyed painting these partially.

2/3rds of the troopers done, next months painting is going to add the final 3 to the troop.

A close up of a trooper, all have been done to what is turning into my standard level of painting, they won't win any comps but they look good at 2 ft which is table viewing range

Next month sees 3 more troopers, the first of the Grenadiers and the First Marksmen to be painted.

As I mentioned I'm going away for New Years and a little painting kit and project is coming with me. Its 15mm, its Sci-fi and I have a game soon. Keep an eye on this blog

Thanks for reading 

And if I don't post before the New Year have a great time.

Happy Painting