Aristeia! hEXx3r Nomad Witch

More than any other hacker in the brief stretch that the discipline has been applied to Aristeia! hEXx3r has changed the face of the game forever. In record time, she has proven capable of turning the tide of a match by sending her opponents into disarray at the worst possible moment. Armed with nothing but software, hEXx3r gives the heavyweights a run for their money. She freezes them, exposes them and then throws them into ambuscades choreographed at the speed of thought. The words “that Nomad witch” are often muttered by players as they’re carted out of the HexaDome.

hEXx3r the Nomad Witch is one of my favorite models for the miniature board game of futuristic gladiator combat. Aristeia! is my favorite miniature Boardgame that I have been playing with a friend. We have both collected all of the expansions and have a blast playing it. 

A new version of the game will be released by Corvus Belli soon called Hexadome. My friend and I are both looking forward to that. Hopefully they will incorporate all our current owned models, but if not we will still play the older version as it’s a blast.

I painted up the Nomad Witch for my friend and below is the original model I painted.

The following photos are of my model I painted this week. This is a new skin, same character just a fantasy look.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Age of Chivalry: Mercenary Artillery

Another installment for my friends commission to help along his growing Condottieri Saga warband. 

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

 

King Williams War in Ireland: Soon to be King William himself!

Finished another commander model, William of Orange or a proxy for another General. 

One more to go and then 12 cavalry!

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

King Williams War in Ireland: Another Brigade commander done

 The project continues, and I still have steam. One more brigade commander done, two overall commanders and twelve cavalry to go! Then I will be off the leash to paint whatever I want to add to the period. So far this is a good start, and I have not lost interest nor regret putting in the time to do so.

Here are a few snaps of a general yet to be named.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

King Williams War in Ireland: Tyrconnel's Regiment

 Another cavalry unit done, two to go!

Here is Tryconnel's regiment that was involved in the counter attacks at the Battle of the Boyne. 

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

King Williams War in Ireland: Danish Funen Regiment and the Comte Dutch Davo

 Well I finished the final infantry battalion for the Williamite side, the Danish Funen regiment. 

I also painted up a command figure. I really liked painting this figure and I had no idea what was really in his right hand until I started putting paint on the figure, the spyglass is so cool. What a nice sculpt. 

Since I'll be using the rules Donnybrook for my upcoming convention game, I'm going with the narrative flow and naming him Comte Dutch Davo. There is something pretty cool in having a figure represent you on the field of battle!

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

King Williams War in Ireland: King James II Life Guard

 So I had to switch it up right in the middle of painting my last needed foot battalion for the scenario I want to run. I just needed a break, so I painted up the first of four regiments of Cavalry for opposing force. 

I normally just glue the riders on the horses and paint them because of my process of mounting them on paint holders. My normal is painting pre gun powder cavalry and there isn't as much fluff. It was more difficult getting in the nooks and crannies, plus I primed them in the only spray can I had at the moment, white. So there's that as well. 

In the end I was still happy with how they turned out. But next time I will either get a can of black prime back in stock, or paint the riders separately.

So here is King James Life Guard.

As always thanks for looking. 

Cheers

Kevin

King Williams War in Ireland: Danish Garden til Fods (Foot Guards)

 Getting close, this is my third battalion done of four I am going for. After that I will paint four cavalry units. I think I may make my deadline.

So far no burnout and still having fun with this period. Some Star Wars Storm Troopers, and Tuetonic Knight foot soldiers almost caught my eye and diverted me, but I am staying strong!

This installment is the Danish Foot guards that had straw colored coats. Man, straw can be so many colors! I ended up going with Vallejo Desert Yellow, followed up by Yellow Ochre. I like how it came out.

Next up the Danish Funen battalion.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

King Williams War in Ireland: Francois du puy du Cambon Regiment

 I've completed the second regiment of Huguenots. Now that puts me at half way to being half way done!

Moving on to the Danish Regiments now, and then over to the four regiments of Cavalry for King James!

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

King Williams War in Ireland: Pierre Massue, Le Marquis de Caillemotte Regiment

 Three Regiments were part of King Williams army in Ireland. Here is one of those that I have painted up for a scenario I am going to try to do at a local convention at the end of September. I almost have the second one done, which gives me two more to do. Then I have to paint several troops of horse for opposing forces. Time is short, but I think I can get there.

As always thanks for looking,

Cheers

Kevin

King Williams War in Ireland: King James "The Earl of Clanrickard's Regiment"

 After talking with Clarence about this Regiment, I decided to go ahead with my own take of how the Clanrickard Regiment would look. Not having ordered the Civilian packs, I did my best to mix up the colors, though staying on theme of red coats with Yellow cuffs etc. 

Now I have a force for both sides to do a small Donnybrook fight. But my main goal is to do one of the 4play scenarios. So I still need to paint four Regiments of Foot, and four of Cavalry for opposing forces. 

Having fun painting these lads so far.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Battletech: Dawn Guard

 It's been almost a year since I expressed interest in painting up a new Battletech unit for Alpha Strike called the Dawn Guard. A House Davion unit. The color combination really grabbed me.

So I have painted up a whole company this past week and I did them in a quick slap dash dirty look. Just wanted to get them on the table. They turned out better than I thought so I can't wait to get them on the table.

I had a little trouble taking the pictures as my light setup caused the yellow and white to reflect back and made it hard to focus. I muddled through and got them pretty decent. 

Twelve units done for the company, plus the awesome Rifleman below!!!

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Age of Chivalry: Condottieri Army Italian Crossbowmen

Another group of dudes done for a friends Condottieri Saga Army. Just a few more to go and I will have the project completed.

Here are 18 crossbowmen. With all the assorted dress and no uniforms per say for the period it was hard to come up with a color scheme. So I decided I would break them up into three 6 man color groups and add some variation within each color group to make it appealing yet not drive me crazy trying to paint umpteen colors. 

I think I succeeded. Now he will be able to break them up into 6 man units, or combine the different groups to make a nice looking 12 man unit. 

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

BLKOUT UN Raid Force Alpha but this time for a friend

 A buddy of mine who doesn't have the skills had me paint these up for him. I didn't mind since it was a small group of figures, plus the fact I told him he had to play this game with me;)

So I painted these up a bit different from the ones I painted for myself, but I think they still do the job.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin

BLKOUT: Manticor Borz Group

 It's been about four or five months since I painted any BLKOUT models. So it was refreshing to come back and do something a little different from my last few projects. BLKOUT is an Ultra Modern, Science Fiction type of game. 

These models have been painted for me, just me. That always feels satisfying to say that. Not for this person, not for that person, just me. 

Here's a little extract about them.

"Manticor prides itself on physical strength, and their combat tactics mirror this. Implacable in their attack, layers of ballistic armor let the soldiers of the Manticor Borz Force shrug off hits that would incapacitate any other force. Practical and methodical, Manticor Borz may not be flashy, but they'll put you in the ground nonetheless."

You can see why I chose to paint these lads, they are my kind of boyz!!!

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin