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.

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Showcase: Nomads: Señor Massacre

I present my finished Corvus Belli model for the scifi miniature game Infinity. Pictures are at the bottom. If your so inclined below is a short history of just exactly who is this masked vigilante.

The Story line goes....

The man who would become Masacre used to be a priest. He initially thought that dedicating his life to religion would help him feel fulfilled. One day, the mercenary Deadpool visited his church and confessed to him, leaving an important impression on him. The priest concluded that there was no good in the world, and declared that it instead deserved punishment.

Taking the name of Masacre, and inspired by Deadpool, he swore that once he "fixed" Mexico, he would travel to the United States in order to join forces with his idol.

With the reluctant help of Inspector Jaime Gordón, Masacre was on the hunt for crimelord Calavera de Jade. After stopping a gang named Los Muertos from robbing a bodega, Masacre met up with Gordón. Gordón refused to give him a notebook with the names and info on every criminal of the city, for which Masacre attacked him and took the data by force.

At night, Masacre rode on his bike to Calavera de Jade's expensive mansion and crashed a party he was holding with different other criminals. The party was in celebration of the arrival of El Especialista, a henchman brought from the United States by the CIA in order to take care of Masacre. Soon after Masacre attacked the attendees, Calavera de Jade deployed El Especialista. This henchman could allegedly not be hurt by any bullets, so Masacre stabbed him with his two machetes and then cut off his arms.

After killing El Especialista, Masacre kicked Calavera de Jade out of the balcony, and the villain fell to his death. The CIA agent confronted him, and Masacre managed to use one of Calavera's jaguar pets to subdue him. Shortly before being killed by Masacre, the CIA agent promised he would be avenged.

The following day, Masacre bid farewell to Jaime Gordón, and rode on his bike to the United States, alongside the jaguar pet, whom he had named Justicia. When he reached New York City, Masacre became a member of Deadpool's mercenary group known as Mercs for Money.

However, Masacre and the rest of the Mercs for Money eventually became disgruntled by Deadpool, from the way he treated them to the delays in their paychecks. When they set out to create their own business, the Mercs discovered Deadpool had been skimming on them. After retrieving and burning their contracts from a safe deposit in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, the Mercs and Deadpool parted ways.





If you've made it all the way to the bottom here, as always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Showcase: Malifaux War Wabbit

[The following quote taken from the company Wyrd's webpage]

Malifaux, a twisted mirror of an alternate Earth in the 1900s; a world of gothic horror, Victorian structures, steampunk constructs, and wild west gunslingers. Rife with undead amalgamations, monstrous vengeful apparitions, and other creatures that bump in the night.

The wyrd-ness (pardon my pun) can be seen on their webpage here

So needing a break from painting Infinity scifi models I decided to dig out of my treasure trove this wonderfully animated model that Wryd put out several years ago over the Easter sale. It's a War Wabbit that is used as a proxy for the Gremlins War Pig. It's the kind of goofy fun-ness I like and it helped that the model was well sculpted (but delicate).

I don't know the name of the artist but looking over the web I saw some pictures of a painted War Wabbit that I took to in a half heart beat. In general I used the same paint scheme but did change some of the color palette.

Without further ado, here is my War Wabbit.







As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin