Author: Felix

BoarBoyz

I have already got two painted BoarBoyz and I have started to model and paint another. I had already painted the boar and was intending to use the metal Warhammer Orc which I had bought, but in the end used the same plastic Orc legs from the Orc Warriors Command Sprue as the metal Warhammer Orc Boar rider was “too different” and in my mind would have looked out of place.

I wanted to give this rider a spear so decided to have the Shoota carried on the Ork’s back. Using green stuff I modelled a strap for the gun.

I am not that good with green stuff, but for a gaming model (this is no Golden Demon entry) it works for me.

Where’s the spear, well I haven’t stuck it on yet!

Sharpe’s Challenge

A comment from Simon during a recent game about Sharpe in an ITV advert for new drama, made me do a little internet searching and I found out about Sharpe’s Challenge.

Sharpe is back on the telly in an all-new mini-series based in India.

Sharpe's Challenge

Sharpe’s Challenge will be on ITV on the 23rd and 24th April and BBC Worldwide will be showing it in other parts of the world.

Plot

Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe’s Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general’s daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General’s daughter lie in one man’s hands….

Sharpe's Challenge

Sean Bean is back as Sharpe, and Daragh O’Malley plays Patrick Harper (which is different to the books as Sharpe does not meet Harper in the books until Portugal). Michael Cochrane is also back as General Sir Henry Simmerson!

I wonder if these characters are in the main plot (hope so) and not just used as flashback excuse.

Update: Get Sharpe’s Challenge at Amazon.

Defending the Administratum…

Had an excellent game of Warhammer 40k this weekend (well I won as well).

My Orks were tasked with defending an Imperial Administratum with just Boyz (infantry) and small-arms as well as a few heavy weapons.

There was one Nob in Mega-Armour, but for the game was considered to be not wearing it (or it wasn’t working, made out of mdf or cardboard or similar).

Coming in waves were hundreds and hundreds of Imperial Guard (okay fifty).

In the end the Imperial Guard were wiped out to a man, very Russian in their approach of waves of infantry across the square.

The scenery is Forgeworld, from Simon’s collection and has been excellently painted by him.