Blog discription

What will you find here? Ramblings from an aging gamer-miniature painter. When I first started out in this hobby computers were in their infancy and finding other gamers could only be done by going to conventions or as in my case bumping into somebody who happened to see me reading "Panzer Leader" on the school bus. Look how far we have come! The internet has allowed our small community to be able to connect on a level I never dreamed of when I was but a small lad. What I do hope you will find here is something interesting from one wargamer/miniature painter to another. I paint miniatures somewhat decently, so I will be posting some pictures of my work, and perhaps a review or two of games and/or miniatures. Most of all this is just about having fun and anything I post here is meant to be for that reason.

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Age of Alexander: Alexander himself!

 Another unit done for a friends Macedonians. Alexander, not painted like the later European artists often depicted Alexander with blond hair, likely due to cultural symbolism associating blondness with virtue and heroism, instead with reddish brown hair. Also I have forgone all that purple silliness and went with more natural colors for uniforms.






As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin


Monday, December 9, 2024

Age of Hannibal: Carthage Slingers

 Got a chance to finish my Carthaginian/Balearic Slingers for my growing Age of Hannibal warband.




As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin







Thursday, December 5, 2024

SF3D/Maschinen Krieger: Sdh.232 Sandstalker

Maschinen Krieger or what was before and also known as SF3D is a science fiction genre model kits that have finally become available in 15mm pewter from Slave2Game (click the link and scroll to bottom and select different armies to see the models available). 

I've been a long time fan of the scratch built kits made by Kow Yokoyama (click here to get background story) back in the 1980's. They even came out with a couple of boardgames that where Panzer Blitz/Panzer Leader style games, both of which I own. 

I always wanted to game with these but the scale in 1/20 and much later 1/35 kits was way to big for what I wanted to do on the gaming board. So I was really happy when Slave2game came along a few years back and has been adding more models since.

Below you will see one of the earlier war grav vehicles called a Sdh.232M Sandstalker. You will notice the WWII'esk style of how the kits where designed way back when they were offered as plastic or resin model kits. 

Here are three Sandstalker vehicles I've painted up. 








As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin










Sunday, December 1, 2024

Attila and his Huns

Finished some of my Huns for Saga back in January of 2023 and for some reason I missed posting them. I thought I did but I can't find them on my blog. Chalk up another it sucks getting old moment. Anyways here is Attila and 24 mounted Hun bowmen. 









As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin






Saturday, November 23, 2024

Age of Hannibal: Greek Mercenaries

 So I decided to paint up some mercenaries for my Carthaginian Army and I painted up the most expensive, totally cool one that I could pick out. The Greek Mercenaries. A formidable force as they are considered Hearth guard, have determination (basically get a free activation without spending command dice), can close ranks and add +1 to their saving die rolls, but if they charge they only have an aggression of 1 instead of 2 (which means charging them will be insane), and finally because of their well kitted out equipment they are armor value 6 against shooting. 

They ended up being a total bust being included in the army because mercenaries can't use the advance Saga abilities, and the cost of 2 points keeps you from getting that extra unit you need for this army.

BUT THEY WERE SO COOL!!!! Everyone who knows me the rule of cool is what I live by, win or lose.




As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin



Wednesday, November 20, 2024

BLKOUT: Harlow 1st Reaction Force

The strong right arm of "The Authority", the Harlow 1st Reaction Force are the elite mercenaries of Harlow Kinetic Solutions. Equipped with jump jets, smart weapons, and combat inorganics (AI robots), the 1st Reaction Force hits hard, and they hit fast.

The above is the quick snippet for this formation for the Science Fiction game called BLKOUT. Skirmish level, which hits my sweet spot for sci-fi action game played on a 2 X 2 with lots of terrain and a couple teams on each side.

The following I have painted up for a friend who lacks the skill or interest in painting. So now I have an opponent vested at least into the figures to game with. 






As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin


Monday, November 11, 2024

Macedonian Elephant

I painted this for a friend as a commission for his Age of Alexander army for Saga. The model is from Wargames Foundry. It's an older figure line from them and is a metal model. I was not a huge fan of this model. It was metal parts that had to be glued together and it was clunky and had many gaps that I had to fill with green stuff. It was probably the top of the line for it's day but it hasn't aged well. I normally place my figures on thick paint sticks using blue stuff, but this model was to heavy for that so it was harder to paint.

But I trudged on and finally got it done. Here are the results.





As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin