I was lucky enough to get for one Christmas a few years back two packs of Foundry Old West Outlaws. I am still in the process of painting the models using a variety of colours.
Have a look at my Old West miniatures Gallery and Old West Workbench.
Author: Felix
Dystopian Times
At the weekend I managed to get my first game of the Dystopian Wars played. I have had the rules for a while and have had a fair few ships on the workbench too. In the last few weeks I managed to finish a few ships painted and finished.
Playing the game for the first time, made me realise how important it is that rules are written clearly and illustrated with examples. Myself and Simon spent a fair bit of time trying to work out how the game played. I don’t think it helped too much that I had version 1.0 of the rules and he had the updated version 1.1.
It took us a while to work out that if you had a single ship you could link the multiple weapons (turrets for example) and fire at a single target.
Once we had worked out where we were going wrong, we soon managed to crack the basics. Longer term, it could get a whole lot more complicated to play, once you introduce aerial vehicles and more weapons.
I did like the basics of the game, and certainly I had to think hard about strategy to ensure that my ships ended up in the right place to bring all their weapons to bear upon their target.
We made use of the cards, and I have always liked card systems. This one seemed to be just right, adding advantages to each player, without it seeming to be overboard.
I do like the models and it was nice to use something different to 40K and FoW which have dominated my gaming over the last few years. I found my Prussian ships quite simple and easy to paint, though I could if I wanted to, go overboard again and do some excessive weathering and details.
I certainly did enjoy the game, and started thinking about finishing painting the other models I have and even making some more scenery. For some reason I do quite like the idea of making some icebergs.
Crimean War British Infantry
After cleaning the Crimean War British Infantry, I glued them to two pence pieces and the covered this with PVA glue and Citadel Sand.
I also used some slate pieces from a Citadel terrain pack to represent rock.
Devil in the Smoke
I finally got round to watching the Christmas episode of Doctor Who and I will say I did enjoy it. I really liked the fact it was set in a Victorian London and glad a fair bit of screentime was given to Madam Vastra, Jenny and Strax.
I was quite pleased to find that there is an ebook with a Madam Vastra story which is available for both Kindle
Madame Vastra, the fabled Lizard Woman of Paternoster Row, knew death in many shapes and forms. But perhaps one of the most bizarre of these was death by snow…
On a cold day in December, two young boys, tired of sweeping snow from the workhouse yard, decide to build a snowman – and are confronted with a strange and grisly mystery. In horrified fascination, they watch as their snowman begins to bleed…
The search for answers to this impossible event will plunge Harry into the most hazardous – and exhilarating – adventure of his life. He will encounter a hideous troll. He will dine with a mysterious parlour maid. And he will help the Great Detective, Madame Vastra, save the world from the terrifying Devil in the Smoke.
This is very much a must read if you enjoyed the Doctor Who Christmas special.
Get Devil in the Smoke at Amazon.co.uk for your Kindle (or Kindle App).
Bolt Action Partisan Band
After thinking about Bolt Action for a while and reflecting on the rules I finally decided on which force I was going to build. My regular opponent Simon was going Italian, so I actually had quite a wide choice of potential foes, from Early War French, British Desert Rats, Anzio which would mean regular British Infantry and US forces, Russians and even Germans towards the end of the war. I did initially think about Greek, they used regular British equipment so would be quite easy to model. I did consider Late War Germans, so I could get a JagdTiger in 28mm…. but in the end I decided that I would go totally irregular and go with Partisans, so just infantry, or maybe a car or truck or two.
Through mail-order I bought from Warlord Games their Partisan Band, which in theory contains eight figures, quite pleased to find that my parcel contained ten figures.
After cleaning the castings, I stuck them to two pence pieces using super glue, after that was dry, using PVA and Citadel Sand I covered the bases.
The next stage will be a white undercoat.
Adding detail, to the 15mm Ruined Houses
I have the ruined row of three houses and the ruined row of four houses, from Total Battle Miniatures. Having previously posted about the ruined row of three houses, here is the ruined row of four houses.
Still some work to do on the stonework and half-timbered building.
Adding the detail, to the 15mm Ruined Houses
I have the ruined row of three houses and the ruined row of four houses, from Total Battle Miniatures.
Having given most of the model a basecoat, I am now painting in the details of the ruins, using Citadel Scorched Brown.
Once I have finished painted the ruins, I think I will add some additional detrius, broken beams and so on to add a little more detail.
Felix’s Gaming Pages – Top Ten Posts of 2012
Another successful year for Felix’s Gaming Pages with around 360 blog posts put online. A fair few less hits this year, but that was in the main as I didn’t attend GamesDay 2012 or many other shows and therefore didn’t live blog as I have done in previous years. So what were the top ten posts (by visits) for 2012.
10. Forge World Diorama – Games Day 2012
Well the only post from 2012 which makes my top ten posts of 2012! This was a post of some lovely photographs from GamesDay 2012 of the fantastic looking Forge World display table.
9. Plastic Imperial Guard Valkyrie at Design Studio Open Day
This post from 2009 was confirmation of the plastic Valkyrie rumour that had been floated about for a while. It has got quite popular in recent weeks, not sure why though.
8. Chaos BaneBlade
This photograph of a Chaos Baneblade that won the Silver Golden Demon at GamesDay 2007 is my eighth most popular post, last year it was number two and the reason it is, is that if you put Baneblade into Google this image comes up! It use to be the number one image result on Google, but probably due to age of the photograph has dropped down. Still a splendid model though.
7. Warhammer Fantasy Village
This post from 2009 was a series of photographs from a fantastic looking Warhammer Fantasy demonstration game at GamesDay 2008.
6. Forge World Chaos Brass Scorpion
I’ve never liked Chaos, however Forge World’s Brass Scorpion is probably one of my favourite models of all time. This blog post from 2009 discussed the announcement of the model by Forge World. I suspect that the release of the most recent Masterclass Book by Forge World (which covers the Brass Scorpion) may have increased interest in this post.
5. US Army “Bolter”
This was a news item on a new weapon that was been tested by the US Army; it was originally posted two years ago in 2010.
4. Warhammer Siege Diorama
This post was a live blog post from GamesDay 2010. I was posting photographs from the show live to the blog via my phone. This was of a fantastic Warhammer Fantasy diorama, the Siege of Altdorf. I also took a fair few photographs of the siege using my DSLR. Some excellent scenery and very evocative of the Warhammer world.
3. Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines’ Land Raider
This post was all the photographs I had taken of Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines’ Land Raider from the ‘Eavy Metal display cabinets at both GamesDay 2005 and Warhammer World.
2. Flames of War – Battle of the Bulge
This was the fourth most popular post in 2011 so has climbed two to number two. The post was from 2011 and discussed the possibilities of a Flames of War Battle of the Bulge supplement that Battlefront mentioned in February. Within the post I discussed the tanks that I hoped we would see in any such release including the M24 Chaffee and the Comet. I also speculated how nice it would be to see some Late-War Monsters. We have now seen the Chaffee, but as yet no Comet (maybe we’ll see it in 2013). As for Late-War Monsters, well Forged In Battle have produced some really nice post 1945 models.
1. Death Korps of Krieg
So my most popular post of 2012 and was also the most popular post of 2011 was a posting from February 2009 about a link I had found in the community feed of some beautifully painted Death Korps of Krieg tanks.
So will these same posts be just as popular in 2013, we will have to wait and see.
15mm German Königstiger
In the process of sorting some old gaming stuff out I found a bundle of old SDD models. These are 15mm metal castings that I bought back in the 1990s. It makes me think that the other metal models that I have been painting are also SDD.
This box was mainly late war stuff and included a King Tiger. Having constructed the model, I gave it a white undercoat.
The undercoat has shown that the quite severe casting lines, something you don’t always get with a resin casting.
Undercoating the Steam Tank
The Ironclad Miniatures Steam Tank was given a white undercoat.
