Year of the Honcho!

 Over the last couple of weeks I have completed 8 X F-86 Sabres, 3 X B-29's, and 8 X Mig-15's for the Air War over Korea. 

Once you get past all the propaganda and politics of this war you'll find a fascinating close run campaign in the air. Both sides over estimated aircraft shot down, and the matching of post war claims to the opposing sides stated reason for losses leaves a lot up to conjecture. 

Being the first Jet vs Jet campaign I think it's a great thing to dip your toes into before moving on to more modern Jet combat with missiles and all. 

By happenstance I fell upon the rule set called  Fight, Fly, Win: Honcho. It's an easy to play fast paced game that multiple people can play. A great convention game. The ruleset is free and you can get them from Wargames Vault. They have a WWII set called Wingman, and a modern set called Danger Zone. All are based on the same rules. Here is a link Wargames Vault 

If you end up getting the rules and have questions, then I would recommend the Face Book group named, Fight Fly Win. 

Miniatures are from I-94 enterprises Raiden range, the B-29's are from Flight Deck Decals. I did find that the Flight Deck Decals 3D prints for the fighters (while wonderfully detailed) are way to fragile for gaming purposes. Nobody wants to spend hours painting, placing decals, and then only to have it break. 

Decals are mostly from I-94 specialty range, while the bort numbers and Korean decals are from flight deck. 

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Warriors of Athena: Heracles or Hercules!

 Slowly building up the forces I need for this Solo or cooperative game. Next figure up is my boy Hearcles. If you haven't read the book by Steven Fry "Heroes" your really missing out on a great story, escpecially his audio version.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Arena Rex, Three Gladiators for a friend and one for me

 Getting ready for an Arena Rex event at my house so I painted up three figures for a friend and one for myself to fill in some holes we had in our Ludus.

The first three our for my friend, and the fourth is for my ludus.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers 

Kevin

The Horus Hersey: Betrayal at Calth (a miniature boardgame)

 Well it's been a bit. Suffered a little burn out on painting and loss of interest in some projects. If you don't have the juice, it's just no fun to paint. But the last week or so I've slowly climbed back on the hobby horse. I'm trying to clear my back log on my painting table so I can make room to paint some commisions I've been asked to do.

So today here is a project I started almost ten years ago... yes for ten years these poor bastards have occupied closet space only. But no more! 

I started with the Word Bearers Chapter and have painted up Kurtha Sedd a Chaplain devoted to the utter ruin of the Ultra Marines and their false Emperor. Along with that I painted a tactical squad of Word Bearers (leaving me one more squad to paint) and Sor Gharax "The Bull" a raging madman equipped with a contemptor Dreadnaught. 

After I complete the Word bearers I'll have to paint up the Ultra Marines which would include a character, five Cataphractii Terminators, and one tactical squad. 

I didn't go nuts making them all fancy, just wanted to be able to make them table ready and play the game.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Warriors of Athena

Warriors of Athena is the new Co-op, Solo play mythic adventure by Joseph A. McCullough. If you're familiar with Rangers of Shadowdeep then the only difference between these two is one is Fantasy based and the other of course Mythic based.

The figures I chose to be my Hero and campanions are a range of figures from Lucid Eye Publications "Ziggurat" range. These are pretty cool models, especially "The Fall of Bel" model and his variant (helmeted version). 

I enjoyed painting these figures, and Hercules and a Minotaur are up on deck.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

 

Saga: Eastern Princes War Wagon

 Well my Eastern Princes were sold to a friend and he wanted a War Wagon for it. So I painted one up, and here it is. 

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Hellboy Resurrected!

 Super long time fan of the Hellboy franchise, I bought Mantic Games Miniature Boardgame called Hellboy. Of course I went all in and collected everything. But like all things us professional miniature collectors of stuff do, they sat unpainted for the last five years. The only thing I painted were five main character figures.

That all changed this past weekend when a friend brought over his game Anno Domini 1666, another miniature boardgame of swash buckling fun. This got me to get out my Hellboy stash, and the next day actually pursaded my Wife to play. We loved it! So this past week I've been busily painting away at frog monsters. Who doesn't love a good frog monster I ask you!

Here are a few terrain pieces I've painted up along with a Giant Frog and The Tentacles of Sadu-Hem.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin