Felix, Author at Felix's Gaming Pages

No one told me…

Having started painting some Old West miniatures, I started to think about scenery. I remembered from years ago that Snapdragon Studio made some Old West Scenery. So let’s “Google” them. I did find them and found their wonderful Old West buldings, however I was also pleasantly surprised to see that Snapdragon had started to sell some of their 1/300th SF range again.

I was always a fan of their buildings and have quite a few in my collection including this bunker.

Snapdragon Studio Bunker

Simon has one as well.

Snapdragon Studio Bunker

My Epic battle reports shows many of their buildings off (there are some Forge World ones in the reports as well).

Time to think about which buildings I am going to buy.

Old West Outlaws

I was lucky enough to get for Christmas two packs of Foundry Old West Outlaws (thank you Simon).

Old West Outlaws

There twelve miniatures in total, which should be more than enough for some Old West games.

Old West Rules I shall be using the Legends of the Old West Warhammer Historical rules which I purchased when I was at GamesDay 2008.

A tabletop miniatures game which allows you to bring to life the deeds of the brave lawmen and gunfighters of the most famous period in America’s history. This lavish, full-colour manual contains all the rules you need to gather your posse and play games set on the harsh American frontier. Within you will find eight action-packed scenarios, and a campaign system that allows you to develop your fighters into hard-bitten heroes and villains of the Old West.

Fight alongside some of the deadliest figures of Western legend – such as Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. Rob a stagecoach with the James gang, or try to out-draw Wild Bill Hickock. Grab your sixgun, saddle your mustang and prepare to take part in the wildest adventure of them all!

First stage will be to base them and then give them an undercoat.
Have a look at my Old West miniatures Gallery.

Plastic Stompa – Pictures

Finally pictures of the plastic Stompa have surfaced on the web.

I do quite like it.

Apparently it will be released on the 7th March along with the plastic Shadowsword.

Grey Knights Razorback

If you have looked at my Grey Knights Landspeeder you will realise that I am attempting to paint a Grey Knights force which goes beyond the listings in the DaemonHunters Codex. What I am trying to do is to create a Grey Knights force (using the Space Marine Codex) and then using a DaemonHunters force as allies.

Having constructed my Razorback and added Grey Knights iconography I gave the model a black undercoat.

The next stage will be adding the basecoat.

See the full workbench feature on my Grey Knights Razorback.

Ruined Tank Factory

Forge World do make some excellent scenery, especially for Cities of Death games.

Simon now has a fair few of the pieces including the huge ruined tank factory.

It makes for an impressive centre piece for any game.

Simon has done an impressive job on painting it as well.

UK White Dwarf #349

Managed to get hold of the January issue of the UK White Dwarf #349. Not sure if I got it early or whether GW released it early as the last Friday of the month is Boxing Day!

It’s a very Orky issue, with lots of Orks in it, and Orky stuff.

Very nice battle report involving lots of Orks and lots of BIG Ork stuff such as submersibles and Pulsa Rokkits.

Of course lots on the new Battlewagon.

If you are an Ork player, well worth getting a copy.

Inquisitorial Stormtrooper Repressor Undercoated

Having finished building my Inquisitorial Stormtrooper Repressor and added lots of symbology I gave the model a black undercoat.

I used Citadel’s Chaos Black spray.

I also undercoated the dozer blade as well.

The next stage will be to give the model a base coat.

See the full workbench feature on the Inquisitorial Stormtrooper Repressor.

Epic Imperial Guard BaneBlades

These wonderful Epic BaneBlades are from Simon’s collection.

We often forget how well sculptured these models are (or should that be were).

With today’s plastic 40K scale BaneBlade these huge monstrous war machines can now grace the table for Warhammer 40K. Next year we’ll see the plastic Shadowsword and Ork Stompa and the gaming tables will never be the same again.

Ork Looted Rhino Gunner

I am quite pleased with my Looted Ork Rhino but still have a fair bit to do.

One of the things it does need is some weaponry, this was an attempt to add an Ork Gunner with Big Shoota.

Alas it doesn’t work for me. It looks like the Ork’s firing his Shoota at aircraft rather than at enemy Imperial Guard. I will be revisiting the Gunner at a later date.