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, January 31, 2023

Battletech Genyosha project

Finished another four mechs for my growing Genyosha project. A Banshee, Trebuchet, Hunchback, and a Thug (never go full Thug or people will start talking about you behind your back). 

I need to paint at least another 12 to get where I want them to be. That would give me 28 mechs, but next are four more for my Kell Hound project. 









As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin






Sunday, January 29, 2023

Another Saga Army: Attila and his Hun's

 Painted another Saga Army up about a month ago and just getting around to post some pictures. I need to paint another 12 cavalry and 12 infantry to have all the options I want, but burned out for now and waiting for my muse to get me going again, but that won't stop me posting what I have so far.

The Hun's with lance's are my Hearthguard and other than rebasing and flocking them, they were painted by my friend, and same goes for infantry. I painted Attila and the three groups of bow armed horsemen.

So here they are in all their splendor....


[Below Attila]





[Next three pictures are three groups of warriors painted by me]



[Hun Heavies]

[Hun Levy]


As always thanks for looking....

Cheers
Kevin










Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Middle Earth Battle Strategy game: Wild Warg Chieftain

 Added another model for my MEBS game faction the Angmar. I've painted up the Wild Warg Chieftain which will lead a pack of Warg's on the table for me.

I really like this models dramatic pose. It's a metal model so it's pretty hefty, and it was fun to paint. 

Now that this is done I've moved on to painting the Witch King on horseback, and foot. Not sure what I will tackle after that as I am going back and forth between game systems. I am painting stuff to the rule of cool and where ever my heart takes me. A lot more fun painting that way, but it is a little slower gathering enough pieces to have a force.

This is my model! There are many like it, but this one is mine! 





...and now I am in a world of shit!





As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin







Sunday, January 8, 2023

Scottish Highland Cows and everything you wanted to know about their kilt wearing!

 Okay they don't really wear kilts, but how cool would that be for some fantasy-Scifi futuristic race I ask you?

These 3D prints were made for me to my size specifications by Oldsarges , he has the license so he can print stuff for you if you need something that's different from the main mini manufactures lines. 

These two bases of 6 cattle complete the required number of bases I need for objective markers for the skirmish miniature game of Saga. They have a book on Magic, but it's mostly historical armies, which is my gig.

Here they are in all their mooing glory (or is that mooning if they were wearing kilts?)....


As always thanks for looking
Kevin


Thursday, January 5, 2023

Charlemagne (the man in miniature)

 Charlemagne or Charles the Great, a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Emperor of the Romans from 800. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of western and central Europe and was the first recognized emperor to rule from western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire around three centuries earlier. The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded was the Carolingian Empire. He was canonized by Antipope Paschal III—an act later treated as invalid—and he is now regarded by some as beatified (which is a step on the path to sainthood) in the Catholic Church.

I painted Charlemagne up for a friend who is all things Polish and for some reason all things Charlemagne as well. A Gripping Beast figure that I copied from the artist that painted up an example for Gripping Beast.





As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin