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Photographs of the Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group at sea.
Tribal Class Cruiser, HMS Zulu alongside two Attacker Class Frigates, HMS Withywood and HMS Bedminster.
Ruler Class Battleship, HMS Richard III with Tribal Class Cruiser HMS Ashanti.
Tribal Class Cruisers.
The “sea” is a photograph printed out onto glossy photo paper.
Check out how I painted the models.
Now this is an interesting title for an episode of Doctor Who, The Name of the Doctor.
I do like these movie style posters that the BBC have been doing for Doctor Who, certainly adds a theatrical and cinematic feel to the series. This is the last episode of the current series seven and also has River Song in it.
So what will be revealed?
Though I was quite pleased how Emmet Gates turned out, I was less pleased with his base.
I first gave it a basecoat of Citadel Texture: Armageddon Dust. Once the paint was dry, I drybrushed with Citadel Layer: Ushabti Bone and then used some Citadel Mordheim Turf.
What I did note was that it didn’t quite cover the coin as well as I thought it would. So for my other Foundry models I decided to use a bit of green stuff to texture the base.
This will combined with the Citadel Texture make the base look more like a base and less like a coin.
Here are some photographs of the Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group at sea.
This is the Ruler Class Battleship.
Tribal Class Cruiser.
Attacker Class Frigate
The “sea” is a photograph printed out onto glossy photo paper.
Check out how I painted the models.
This Golden Demon winning Duel was on display in Warhammer World back in 2007.
It comprises a Space Marine Chaplin on a bike fighting an Eldar Exodite on a giant lizard.
The Exodites were a concept that had Eldar using giant lizards as mounts and large mounts for weapons (in a similar way to Elephants or Squiggoths). It was never taken further by Citadel, though some Epic concepts were sculptured and cast, but never went on sale. The concept proved popular with some and as a result there is an unofficial codex out on the tubes and some lovely models such as this one.
Here is a photographs of all the ships from the Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group.
Look at the workbench feature.
Tally Ho! has been an idea of mine for many years now, and sadly hasn’t got very far.
The concept was based around the 1930s pulp fiction, combined with the best of the Indiana Jones films, a smattering of Darkest Africa and potentially some steampunk in there too.
Having finished my Victorian Science Fiction Steam Tank and Emmet Gates, I knew that I did need some more figures. Though I was still painting my Foundry Gunfighters, sorting through some boxes I found some Foundry Darkest Africa figures that I must have bought in the 1990s at some point.
I decided that I would try and paint these up, mainly for use with the Old West rules, but also to inspire me to revisit and think about the Tally Ho! rules and background.
After drybrushing the Battleship and the Cruisers, the next lots of ships to be drybrushed and weathered from the Dystopian Wars Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group were the small Attacker Class Frigates.
These are very tiny in comparison to their sister ships.
I think I could have added more details, but key for me was getting them finished to get them on the table.
I mentioned the armoured locomotive a week ago, well here is the rolling stock to go with my Flames of War German Armoured Train.
I got an Artillery Car and an Anti-Aircraft Car (or should that be a Flak Car?).
Like the locomotive the main parts of the model are resin with metal wheels and components.
I know I really should have gone for an Infantry Car, but to be honest the thought of trying to glue together the radio aerials put me off, so I didn’t.
Having finished the Ruler Class Battleship I then finished off the remaining ships in the Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group. First were the Tribal Class Cruisers.
Here are the finished three cruisers.
I am basically finished with these ships and they are ready to use in games.