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.

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Tribal!

 So a few weeks ago I saw an article about a ruleset called "Tribal" on a blogger post I follow I Live With Cats . I was instantly hooked, ordered the rules and some minis and they came a week ago Friday. I got working on them this past Monday and realized as I read the rules through the week I would need more figures. So I ordered another batch of about 30 so I can have two sides. I ordered some tribal huts and Mammoths from Steve Barber Miniatures but they had to wait till they got their metal supply in to cast them. So hopefully I will get them soon. My plan is to have everything painted before the end of February and get in a couple of play test games so I can run a Mammoth hunt scenario at our Club Convention in the middle of March. 

Will see how that goes. In the meantime here are the first 25 figures I've completed this week (That's right mark, a whole week before YOU said I would get them done!!!).

For some reason I thought they'd be a lot easier to paint, I was wrong! There was a lot more going on with them than I thought. These are really super nice sculpts I got from North Star.


Chieftain and Hero's 



Villagers



Long Weapons



Short Weapons



Young lads throwing missiles



Though more of a challenge to paint, I still had a blast doing them.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin










Aristeia! The Game: Fiddler, Lei Gong, Señor Massacre, and Valkyrie

 So while I painted a few figures for my non painting friend, I made time to paint a few for me. The satisfaction of completing a figure is only enhanced when you know it's just for you.

I fell in love with the special edition of the Fiddler miniature a long time ago but have never been able to get my hands on one. Fortunately a brand new release came out for Fiddler for the game Infinity and I just had to get it.

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning!

Fiddler is an Ariadne activist engineer welcomed by the Nomad Nation who needs to fight in the HexaDome with her Jackbots to fulfill a dream.




Next up is Léi Gōng.

When the thunderclap comes, there is no time to cover the ears.

Léi Gōng is The Lord of Thunder, in Chinese mythology, in the HexaDome, and on the battlefield. Fast, elusive, and powerful, Léi Gōng is a veritable force of nature who changes the course of any confrontation.





Señor Massacre

WITH PALS LIKE ME, WHO NEEDS ENEMAS?

Merc and showman, Señor Massacre is as violent as he is chatty. His military past provides him with enough experience to honor his stage name. In the middle of the fight, katanas in his hands, the result tends to be a lot of mortally wounded enemies, to say the least. His constant mockery of the show, everyone else, and himself, is just his way of constantly avoiding a past that haunts him, trying to drive him crazy.



... and last Valkyrie

VICTORY OR VALHALLA!

Blunt as a sledgehammer. Valkyrie charges to the Scoring Zone and seizes it. If Valkyrie has chosen you, there’s no place in the HexaDome where you can hide. She will find you, and she will beat you. Or worse, she will trap you and make you watch your team’s defeat.



That's it for today folks!

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin








Monday, January 15, 2024

Aristeia! The Game: the rest of team from the Legendary Bahadurs expansion.

 So I finished the rest of my friends figures from the Legendary Bahadurs expansion. There are four figures and I posted about one of those figures (Oberon) last post. These three figures (Shona Carano, Koorie Queen, and the Final Boss) took me a few more days to finish. I am pretty pleased with them, a good table top standard, and I know my friend will like them.

Here is a little quick copy and paste write up of each and their pics....


SHONA CARANO Weapon teacher and living legend

The audience ratings of the primal show Yajurveda dramatically dropped at the start of the fourth season. Vissiorama gathered all their brilliant minds to seek a solution. After some deliberation, the executive management of programming approved Jake Wilson plan, an ambitious young man who was the deputy director of Maya’s marketing department. Wilson offered himself as the executor of the operation and straw man, so that Vissiorama’s reputation wouldn’t be affected in case something went wrong.

Wilson gathered and studied the profile of several candidates whose common traits were youth, good physical condition, combat experience, and the mastery of some exotic weapon. He also valued the existence of moral principles that were easily manipulated. After an exhaustive screening process and a subsequent rejection of the first candidates, it was the turn of a neoterran fencing champion, Shona Carano, who didn’t hide her involvement with a pro-human movement that denounced the labor invasion of synthetics in various areas of the society, as well as in several Maya shows.

Jake Wilson, pretending to be an activist from another anti-synthetic group, contacted Shona to help them disrupt a Yajurveda battle. The plan was to sneak her in one of the shows, where she would defeat the synthetics before the cameras, and this way, demonstrate the superiority of humanity.




KOORIE QUEEN The first Bahadur
Kylie Cosmen was born in PanOceania, on planet Earth, with the gift of the song inherited from her maternal grandmother. Since her childhood, her parents invested in the future of her extraordinary voice, so when she turned seventeen the young Cosmen appeared at one of many talent shows in Maya, winning the competition and thus making an awesome entry to the professional world of stardom.

The hand that guided her to stardom belonged to a family friend, only a few years older than her: Sophia Kreuziger. She was an efficient, thoughtful, and very intelligent agent who devised a plan to put Kylie at the center of the entire Human Sphere. The first step of the plan was to hire a personal combat trainer in various disciplines. For four years, he had Kylie getting in shape, and improving her marksmanship by throwing light weapons.

At the age of twenty-two, Kylie entered the contest Exposed Celebrities as the second step of Sophia’s ambitious plan. The program aimed to test the survival skills of a group of celebrities in the wild jungles of planet Paradiso, which was actually a set-up located in Varuna - the idyllic PanOceanian planet. During the filming, a fan spontaneous jumped from the thicket, and began attacking the singer Liliana Vitsin. Kylie responded immediately, pouncing and reducing him to a crumpled heap with only two jujitsu strikes. This is how Kylie earned herself first place on the show..

With the martial prowess of the young Cosmen being without question, it wasn’t much of a problem for Sophia to introduce her to Aristeia! She dressed her with trappings inspired by the Australian aboriginal culture, armed her with a holographic boomerang, covered her with Maori tattoos, and named her Koorie Queen - in reference to the indigenous people of the southeastern region of Australia, an ancient country that ended up making up most of the current region of PanOceania. Kylie added to her costume a piece from the front of her father’s Croc-men armor - a veteran of the Polynesian Division during the Neocolonial Wars.



FINAL BOSS The Legendary Red Beast

Ohohoh! Daddy is back.

The five-time Bahadur, Final Boss is a living legend of Aristeia! who has reunited a team of old companions to demonstrate they’re still the kings of the competition.




As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin







Monday, January 8, 2024

Aristeia! The Game: Oberon

"This life is nothing but a dream, and dreams are only dreams."

Oberon is a geist, a pseudo artificial intelligence with a great physical presence and programmed to defend his team from the malicious software of hackers.

This is one of four figures I am painting up for my friend for his stable in the futuristic gladiatorial combat game called Aristeia! 

In Aristeia! you control a team of four gladiators. Each one has it's own unique abilities and when building your force you have to take into account these strengths to better operate as a team.







As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin





Monday, January 1, 2024

Saga: Age of Crusade: Ordensstaat (Teutonic order) Sergeant's

 Finished the last week of December 2023 but couldn't find time to take photos and post of my latest addition to my Ordensstaat until today. 

Now I only need to paint four more mounted Sergeant's and six more foot to complete the army so I have the flexibility in choosing multiple force lists. 


So will call it my pre post for 2024.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin