Felix's Gaming Pages

Old West Stage Coach

I was given a laser-etched MDF Stage Coach from Sarissa Precision for Cbristmas, it comes as a piece of laser-etched MDF and a smaller piece of laser-etched card.

It was very simple to put together, the card components were quite tricky and you need to watch that you don’t bend or crumple the card aspects. I was really impressed with the wheels which though looked quite delicate, were pretty easy to remove from the MDF.

The model I made looks very much like the marketing material and I was impressed with the quality of the kit and the explanatory instructions, which made construction very simple and relatively quick.

Tally Ho! Mechanics

Tally Ho is a game idea that I started developing, probably nearly twenty years ago, but hasn’t come very far. The vision for the game is having small unit actions in the 1930s, normally using a small band of heroic adventurers versus nasty types.

I am aiming to use the blog to expand and explore upon the ideas behind the game and rules and then collate them before publishing them on the main website.

In terms of game mechanics, the main concept was less about realism, but much more about heroic actions in the style of film and television heroes.

Each figure in the game is an individual character and would be represented by a character card. The character would have characteristics that would allow them to carry out certain actions in the game.

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Venturing into Darkest Africa

These are some of my Foundry Darkest Africa figures currently on the workbench.

These are nice models with a lot of character. I will be using them for Tally Ho! games and also Doctor Who scenarios.

Enfield – A League of Exceptional Gentleman

I had a pack of Darkest Africa miniatures from Foundry. I also intend to use them for VSF and Old West scenarios too, as well as Tally Ho! games. This is Enfield from the blister of A League of Exceptional Gentleman.

Enfield

Another nicely crafted model from The Foundry. The model was glued to a two pence piece and I gave the model a white undercoat. 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. In addition I added some Citadel slate as a rock for the base.

Starting on painting the model with a light brown for the hat.

Old West Gunfighters

Have been painting some more of my Old West gunfighters, Bitter Creek Todd and Bitter Creek Todd.

These are very nice models, full of character and will work for games in the old west. Still some way to go on the painting though.

Nearly done with Ned Buck

This is Ned Buck from the VOW232 The Outlaws blister.

Pretty much completed the base coat for this model.

The next stage will be to give the model a a wash of Citadel Shade: Agrax Earthshade.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT

Here is another of the metal miniatures from Harlequin Miniatures. This is Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart was one of the founders of UNIT and commander of its UK operations.

I painted his uniform with Flames of War English Uniform 921.

Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was born in Scotland, according to dialogue in Terror of the Zygons. He first encounters the Second Doctor in The Web of Fear (1968), when Lethbridge-Stewart is a lieutenant colonel commanding a British Army detachment sent to investigate the Yeti in the London Underground. By his next appearance in The Invasion (1968), he had been promoted to Brigadier and was working with UNIT. When the Doctor was forcibly regenerated and exiled to Earth, Lethbridge-Stewart gave him a position as UNIT’s scientific advisor after he helped defeat the Auton invasion.