Just a quick post today. Painted up four Herbold Transport tanks from Death Ray Design's (click Death Ray Design's to be taken to site) that I am going to use as proxies for Battletech's Bulldog tank.
Getting closer to having enough forces for two sides so I can run a campaign. I am looking forward to it.
If it's not Kell Hound Heavy Metal, it's not Heavy Metal!
So this is what I worked on this week to take a break from building and painting Orklands Refueled cars.
Battletech has been near and dear to my heart for over thirty years. I love reading the books, their just like all those cheesy western lone gunfighter novels, or those I can solve every crime sleuth novels. I just can't get enough.
I've really started to enjoy Battletech back in the day when the BattleForce rules came out. Where you can play company, battalion, and/or regimental size games in the same time it took you to play the game Battletech itself. I've always enjoyed more operational style games, and with the combination of giant robots and operational gaming, what's not to love?
Here are the two Kell Hound mechs I finished this week, one is a Thunderbolt, the other a Wolverine. I also shared a picture of the Lance together. One lance down, and two to go for my Company.
[below Thunderbolt]
So I am totally out of Warhammer 40K, but that doesn't mean that Orks aren't still near and dear to my heart. They are just so me, whacked out, crazy ass, fun lov'in, madman!
So it will come as no surprise when I saw one of my favorite bloggers make a post called Orklands Refueled, that it gave me a reason to collect some again. It's based off the rules set Gaslands Refueled. Now I had ZERO interest in doing anything Gaslands until I saw this, here is a link to his post about it Orklands Refueled .
So Jay and I have talked occasionally over the years, mostly when he posts something so super cool it causes my wallet to instantly catch on fire forcing me to pull it out of my pocket to buy this now!
So of course I contacted him over this to get all the super cool nitty gritty details on this. By the way he has posted on his blog rules modifications for this as well as several other cool rule sets. Once I got the information I needed I proceeded to buy six cars, and all the other paraphernalia along with recruiting a friend to 3D print tires for me.
I am so jazzed I built two model kits these past two weeks and painted them up. This leaves me four to go, but I am going to take a break this next week or so and paint something else to mix things up. But I for sure will be back to this.
I've eyeballed these cool vehicles for as long as they've been released, but had no reason to buy them being out of 40K. Then Jay came along... thanks man, these are super cool.
[below: Megatrakk Scrapjet]
My buddy Rob is going to put on a game of Rangers of Shadowdeep at our local club convention. So I painted up a few spiders for his scenario. Of course I am going to play in it, so I needed some cool looking Spiders for my Ranger to battle, or let the other Rangers battle them so I can get all the goodies.... sounds like a plan;)
Sick as dog last week so didn't do much hobby wise. Just getting around to posting a few pictures of Abe for Mantic Games Hellboy. I'm working on the Frog monsters and I can have a few games with my grandkids.
Well way back in March of 2019 I went to Adepticon and discovered Mantic Games kickstarter game Hell Boy. Of course I am a huge fan and have Comics, movies, little plastic colored toys of everything Hell Boy.
Alas it sat on my pile of to do things and I just never got around to it. This March it will be a full three years and I was like this is bull crap and time to get off my butt. There are quite a few minis in this awesome packed little Dungeon crawler, so I decided to take off bite size chunks and assess the situation when I completed each little bit to see if I still had interest to proceed.
My plan is to start with Hell Boy's BPRD team and then do the frog men/monsters. From there maybe the Germans, and then I have the Werewolves and such. plus two unopened expansion boxes but I am not even going to go there yet.
The last three days has seen me make a good start in the project. I just have Abe to finish, and I chose to do him last because I knew the green would be a bitch to do. But here is what I have accomplished so far.
[Below Hell Boy of course]
[Liz Sherman]
Ugh, these took me forever to finish. Lost my muse. But I finally struggled to push these out the door. My first platoon, of a company I plan on completing, of S.A.F.S (Super Armored Fighting Suits for the Mercenaries/earth).
