Author: Felix
Partisans Band – Bolt Action Workbench
Painted a (very) little more of my Bolt Action Partisans.
Still some way to go…
Painting the Stompa
I spent a little more time painting my Stompa. In the main I used Citadel Base: Mephiston Red.
Here are the feet.
I think if I am ever going to have a game with this model, I need to paint quicker, and more often.
Honoured Imperium Statue and Ruins
These have been in storage for a while now, it was back in 2011 that I gave the models a basecoat of Humbrol Sea Grey spray paint. I had earlier, drybrushed the Broken Aquila, and then used the same technique on the Space Marine Statue and ruins.
These are the ruins.
As I mentioned in my previous post on the Broken Aquila, I was originally going to keep the whole model grey, but I am now thinking I might add more scenic and foliage and rather than have it as a recentl ruin, have it as one that was left some time ago and nature has over time grown around it. The Imperium has been around for ages and so it still fits the fluff. The statue certainly looks like it is aged rather than damaged as part of a recent battle.
Pitching the Roof
I had mentioned in a previous blog post that I was thinking about painting my Sarissa Precision buildings for the Old West. I took the plunge and painted the flat roof of the store.
I used a Citadel grey to paint the roof to represent that it had been pitched with tar and then faded in the sun. Black paint would have been too dark.
You can see in this image how it looked before I painted the roof.
The downside of this kind of painting I think will be that it will obscure the laser etching of the roof tiles on my other Sarissa Precision building.
Doctor Who: Spore
As part of the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who, there are going to be eleven short novels from famous authors covering (as you might have guessed) all eleven Doctors.
The eighth books features the Eighth Doctor, who as most people know only appeared in a single “episode” (okay TV movie).
In a small town in the Nevada desert, an alien pathogen has reduced the entire population to a seething mass of black slime. When the Eighth Doctor arrives, he realises this latest threat to humanity is horrifyingly familiar – it is a virus which almost annihilated his entire race, the Time Lords…
Author Alex Scarrow puts his own unique spin on the Doctor’s amazing adventures through time and space.
This sounds like an interesting story and it will be curious to see how Alex Scarrow has developed a character that for most people will only have been seen that Doctor in the TV movie. There have been other stories involving the Eighth Doctor in print and on audio, and I have enjoyed the couple I have read and heard of those. As a result I am looking forward to reading this book.
I did quite enjoy the Seventh Doctor book which included Ace and the Daleks, I did feel that as a story it needed more depth and detail than this format allowed it, but I liked the aspect of a parallel universe, which has been covered a fair few times in Doctor Who.
Ork Stompa Head
Trying to make a determined effort to get my Ork Stompa finished, started to paint more of the head.
Still some way to go.
Painting more Old West Gunfighters
I have been painting more of my Foundry gunfighters to get more of them finished for a future game of Old West. In the main I have been using Citdeal and Vallejo paints, using browns and the odd green. I need to get some blue for jeans though.
So far I have only finished Emmet Gates, but hope to get most of them finished soon.
Fate of a Nation
Really pleased to see that Battlefront are looking at moving into a new era, with the Arab-Israeli conflict for Flames of War.
I always liked the tank models for the Vietnam era, but as I said back in 2011 when Battlefront returned to Vietnam, that:
Quite like the models. Not so sure I will be buying into the era though. Apart from NVA and Vietcong infantry, the US seem to have all the firepower and armour (as they did in Vietnam).
For me the gaming would have not been tank versus tank, more tank versus hidden infantry. With Fate of a Nation, there will be tank versus tank battles, complete with APCs, helicopters and planes.
Will be interesting to see how they support the free supplement, which models they will produce for the era.
Old School Lizardmen
With the recent release of the new Lizardmen Army Book I mentioned in a previous post that I had a Lizardmen Warhammer Army in the 1980s. These were (skinny) metal miniatures that were released in a boxed set. Really nice models if I remember rightly, no idea where they are now.
For rules I used the ones from Forces of Fantasy.
Forces of Fantasy was the first published supplement to the Warhammer rules system, it was published in 1983.
My main army intiially with Warhammer were Dwarves and then Orcs.