tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86360224107880618822024-03-16T00:08:29.658-07:00G's SpotThe ramblings of a wargames junkie, with piccies and stuff, of the many and various flights of figure fancy that have gripped me in the past and those that will do so in the future.Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.comBlogger338125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-18808475870709235622019-11-30T08:06:00.000-08:002019-11-30T08:06:39.141-08:00The French in IrelandHello again.<br />
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Phew!!! I just about managed to get in a post before November is out as, yet again, the out of kilter work/ life balance, the poor light and life in general has slowed progress to a crawl. Never mind.<br />
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By a lucky coincidence, a chap named John asked a question on the French regiments in Ireland in and around 1690 on a Facebook group a few days ago and, as it was something I had delved into in some small way, I was able to help. I also informed John that I had finally finished a couple of regiments and said I would post a few pictures, so here we are. I believe the Facebook group was "Pike & Shotte Wargaming", aimed at the Warlord Games rules but far wider in scope and knowledge than a single rules set. So, for John, and hopefully a few others out there, here are some more figures it has taken me about seven years to varnish and base after initially painting them back around 2012.<br />
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The figures are again the old plastic Wargames Factory ones, with some conversion work, the flags hand painted onto calico following originals depicted in the excellent Mark Allen series on the French army of the time way back in the early 90's in "Wargames Illustrated" magazine. I believe these works have now also been collected in one of the "Century of the Soldier" works (from Helion, I think) covering the army of Louis XIV.<br />
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Will I be painting up more French? <br />
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Unlikely, in truth, because I want to concentrate on the Jacobite regiments and William's army to oppose them. Painting more French would, I think, steer me more towards the Marlburian War and thereby diminish any focus on this specific project, which is taking me forever anyway! I do fancy doing the Zurlauben Regiment though, if only to get some bluecoats on the field amid all the grey and red. The flags are pretty distinct too.<br />
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If you are in Birmingham, England, tomorrow, I am sure you can get a copy of this book and lose yourself a load more cash at the "Wargamer" show at the King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy. Sadly, I cannot make it, despite the best laid plans, so I will have to content myself with walking the dog, sorting stiff out and possibly, just possibly, getting a little painting done...<br />
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-45976156664148540352019-10-21T11:28:00.001-07:002019-10-21T11:28:42.499-07:00More Jacobites Ready For Action!Hello again.<br />
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Hot on the heels of Lord Louth's Regiment of Foot come the first of the regiments and units I first painted back in 2012, but have only just got around to finishing off. This project really has been a triumph of perseverance over planning!<br />
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Formed from a variety of converted and "as is" Wargames Factory plastic Marlburians, these were inspired originally by a few things - the "Beneath Lily Banners" rules, Mark Allen's work on the French army at the end of the 17th and into the 18th Century, the Jacobites featuring specifically in Wargames Illustrated issue 54 for March 1992, some very nice looking games at shows, the availability of the aforementioned Wargames Factory figures and various bits of reading matter, such as Michael McNally's "The Battle of Aughrim, 1691". Apart from the plastics, which enabled me to get into the period cheaply and paved the way for relatively easy conversion work, which I was "into" at the time, there were also several ranges of metal figures available to fill out what I expected to be a considerable number of regiments.<br />
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Of course, as is always my way, the wind changed and so did my tastes, as other projects came and went to match show games with anniversaries (Bannockburn, Malta, etc) and these figures languished in storage until now. I added more figures to what I started with from the likes of Reiver Castings, Copplestone and Foundry, but they are only now starting to make it to the painting table, as first evidenced by Lord Louth's Regiment.<br />
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As usual, the flags are my own hand painted on calico types. So, without further ado, I give you the regiments of the Earl of Antrim, the Lord Grand Prior and a couple of light guns to add a bit of extra bang for the proverbial buck.<br />
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-81707442803146698972019-10-14T03:50:00.000-07:002019-10-14T03:50:47.932-07:00Lord Louth's RegimentHello again.<br />
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Way back in the heady days of July, 2012, with the London Olympics around and about and dear, old Blighty feeling good about herself for at least a couple of weeks, I posted what was, then, the last pictures and words for my then vogue "1690" project. The post was about a squadron of the "Montpuillan Horse" I had made from the Wargames Factory Cavalry set, the first of my planned Williamite cavalry to feature and, so far, the only squadron of Williamite cavalry I have built!<br />
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The project took a back seat for seven, long years, whilst I busied myself with Medieval English and Scots, 16th Century Mediterranean figures, Dark Ages, Swiss, Burgundians and French and Indian Wars stuff for various show games. I kept buying a few figures here and there with the intention of returning to the period, but nothing happened. Until now, that is!<br />
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Way back in 2012, I used the Wargames Factory infantry as the basis for an element of pikes, simply adding brass wire to the plastic bodies, and that element was painted as Lord Louth's Regiment, with mostly grey coats and feuille morte/ filamot ("dead leaf") facings. I had every intention of adding the rest of the battalion, but that did not happen, until now that is!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lord Louth's Regiment of Foot in all its glory.</td></tr>
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After seven years, I finally got around to painting the rest of the battalion. Unlike the pikemen, theses are almost all Copplestone Castings, the exception being the Reiver Castings Officer front and centre. The are several problems with having such a gap in progress on a project and, more specifically, a single regiment.<br />
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<li>Exactly what colours did you use for the figures painted all those years ago?</li>
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<li>If you based the figures, as in texturing those bases, what materials and colours did you use? Can you match the new ones to the old ones?</li>
<li>Has research material moved on to show regiments and/or their flags differently to what we used to think?</li>
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As is the norm with my regiments of supposedly identical figures, I like to vary things a bit. Hair colour is the main difference, but, with something like a Jacobite force in the field, with fresh recruits mingling with older hands and inadequate supplies, some further variety can come in with breeches, stockings, hats, weaponry and pose if desired. Look closely at the photo above and you will see some variations in coat colour but more in breeches and stockings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The colours, taken from Michael McNally's book "The Battle Of Aughrim, 1691". The motto is what I would call a typical Irishism - "Festina Lente" translates as "Hasten Slowly"...They are my usual rectangles of calico attached to brass wire and hand painted.</td></tr>
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As I mentioned above, research can and does move on. The flags are taken form McNally's book, mentioned in the above caption, but Mark Allen's work back in "Wargames Illustrated" issue 54 (March 1992) draws on other sources and shows them differently. There is also a query around exactly what feuille morte/ filamot looks like. It simply means "dead leaf" and Allen (see above source) quotes it as "yellowish brown". Out with my dog at this time of year, I am seeing all sorts of dead leaves in all sorts of vaguely brown colours! Mine may be a little too tawny, but I am happy with it. As Lord Bellew's regiment may feature soon, I need to be happy with it as he used the colour of his flags and cuffs too!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The regiment laid out as it will eventually feature on the table top under the "Beneath the Lily Banners" rules.</td></tr>
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So, it remains to be seen whether I get distracted again, especially for seven years, but this project at least has nudged along a smidgen. With so many other desires and potential distractions, it might in truth be a while before it nudges along some more, but, the good news is that I have started texturing the bases for the other 10 regiments I painted back in 2012, along with a couple of light artillery pieces, and have spray undercoated a regiment I believe will become Bellew's in the not too distant future, so I am at least optimistic of some progress very soon!<br />
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-47512463684377856132019-10-05T14:33:00.000-07:002019-10-05T14:33:29.739-07:00Better Loot Than Never...Hello again.<br />
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Doesn't time fly when you get back into your work schedule and, as the annual peak period of the year builds, lose all track of time?<br />
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It has been almost two weeks since the Chillcon show in Derby, back on 22nd September. I was in two minds whether or not to go. I checked out the traders and, to be honest, whilst there were some gems, there were others I had not heard of or, on the face of things, was unlikely to be particularly interested in. Oathsworn would be there and there stuff is great, but I did have that feeling that I had probably done enough Burrows & Badgers stuff for now. Colonel Bill would be there too and there second hand options are always worth a look to find those hidden gems. Laser Cut Architect could tempt me with some more "Necromunda"-esque MDF terrain, but I have not painted a gang or built the stuff I have already yet. Crooked Dice were there and I had seen mention of a "Grandville" line of figures in honour of the graphic novels by Bryan Talbot, so I fancied a look at that. They might even convince me to add more to my B&B stuff. But there did not appear to be any real draw for me.<br />
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Of course, I did venture along to Derby and, in addition to what I had seen advertised, was pleasantly surprised to find Warlord there with a very full range and others too. And, as always, there was plenty to tempt me. Why would I doubt there would be? I think because, not having played anything for months and with my work/ life balance all out of kilter for a while now, I am struggling to get into anything. Quite simply, however, games or no games, time or no time, I realised again just what this hobby does for me, the release painting even a couple of miniatures provides.<br />
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So, where did I spend my hard-earned money?<br />
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I did see this advertised and it appealed on a number of levels. To top it off, I got this for £31!!! It retails for £40!!! It ticks a number of boxes - limited figure requirement, an interesting period of history, expandable to other armies and not just Romans and Celts, simple rules. Only around a sixth of the rulebook is rules, the rest being scenarios, background, etc. I look forward to trying this rules set out and painting a few Celts. I would like to do some Roman Civil War stuff I think - Celts, Spanish, Numidians, Germans and Romans all freely mixed across the two "Roman" armies. <br />
Thanks to "Mighty Lancer" game for this bargain!!!<br />
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I also had my eye on "A Dark And Bloody Ground", buying this from Warlord so I could get the "free" figure - a Woodland Indian peering over a large rock. This period is one for which I have some forces and was the subject of the last game I took out on the road at the Barrage show last year. I am still part way through painting the 35th Foot! The "Age Of Caesar" book I bought for some further background for "SPQR" really and the "free" figure is a Roman officer, so usable for that too.<br />
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I saw this on Nephew Nick's "Sleeping Dragon Hobby Shop" stand and immediately saw some potential for old mine works in my "Burrows & Badgers" games.<br />
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From "Laser Cut Architect" I acquired these sets to add some buildings to either my "Strontium Dog" set up or for "Necromunda"<br />
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Nephew Nick supplied this kit for two Biohazard tanks and, with two in the pack, it will be one each for "Strontium Dog" and "Necromunda". The other kit is a two tier medical block which will have to feature in one or the other game.<br />
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Pretensions towards using my Ancient Indians as a Great Kingdom in "SAGA: Age of Magic" saw me buy this figure from "Crooked Dice". Not cheap but, I am sure you will agree, very suitable for a fantasy Indian army!<br />
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These two "Crooked Dice" figures I had seen advertised and fancied as a crime-fighting duo for Scarsburgh, my fictional Burrows & Badgers town. "LeBrock" is a badger, but is rather smaller than the Oathsworn versions, so he will be painted as some other type of animal. "Ratzi" will do nicely as a rat, however! So, I give you Hemlock Holmes and Dr. John Ratson.<br />
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A little, light, flavoursome reading from Oathsworn Miniatures is this small collection of newspaper-style articles and titbits. Having done a campaign newsletter or two in the past, I really appreciate this sort of thing.<br />
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Finally, I could not resist adding a few extras to my Burrows & Badgers collection. The main set will happily form part of my "Molegrew Haulage" company from the dockside area of Scarsburgh and you can never have too many wagons. The two ladies to the right I see as proprietrixes for a high-class/ lowlife nightclub in downtown Scarsburgh, with the odd talon or claw in the criminal underbelly of the town. The archer and fox figures will fit pretty much anywhere in my existing stuff.<br />
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So, a rewarding, if mildly expensive, visit and a most enjoyable one. How dare I think going to a show was not worth it!<br />
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-89110524554017305362019-09-18T04:58:00.000-07:002019-09-18T04:58:15.356-07:00It's been a month!!!Hello again.<br />
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At the risk of being accused of spouting a cliché, time certainly flies, does it not?<br />
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I cannot believe it has been a month since I last posted anything, but it has been indeed that long. I will not bore you with a list of excuses for my absence from blog-dom, but at least I have not been totally idle during this time. I have finished a Burrows & Badgers house, done two more units of Jager for my Crimean War Russians and have a few more Oathsworn Miniatures figures complete, which are the subject of this piece.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frances and Ferdinand Hapsborough are orphaned twins, whose tragedy serves as both moral and warning to all children who do not heed their parents. Constantly told to beware of predators, the two mice would happily ignore the warnings and romp gleefully around their environs, getting into whatever scrapes they thought fit. One day, however, a rather hungry owl took a shine to the two tasty morsels and swooped low to enjoy an unexpected lunch. At the last moment, the two realised their peril and fled for their lives, screaming and hollering in terror. Their father heard their cries and came running...he lost his life protecting theirs. Now these two are dedicated members of the Nutkin Wood Neighbourhood Watch, keen to avenge their father and defend their home.</td></tr>
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Sadly, I am now at something of an impasse with this project, as I have largely done what I wanted to do. I have a pirate warband, a Military Order one, a band of Witch Hunters, a band of street ruffians and these fellows. I still have the paltry sum of eighteen figures left to paint from the Oathsworn range, including some of my personal favourite figures, ranging from more pirates to mercenaries to religious figures to civilians, but I have a liking again for some more regimental and regimented stuff.<br />
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His Majesty's 35th Regiment of Foot has been part completed for almost a year now. My 1690 project stalled a few years back, but does still call to me, especially when I see games of that era at shows or in magazines. My French Wars of Religion project has barely got off the ground. And I have all those boxed sets to work through at some point, including Blood Red Skies, Cruel Seas, various sci-fi and fantasy offerings and more esoteric things like "Carnevale" and "Hellboy". And I still do not have any Crimean War British except for four-fifths of the Light Brigade.<br />
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The lead mountain of Oathsworn Miniatures figures has been quarried, mined and otherwise abused to the point that I have fewer than a score of figures left to paint! I am down to the most recent purchases (at "Barrage" back in July) and those I have so far not really known what to do with or have held on the back burner whilst I prioritised others. All, however, are prepared and undercoated ready for their turn at the paint table.<br />
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Firmly in the "not really known what to do with" category is the subject of this post. He certainly is not a pirate, so that option is a non-starter. Neither os he a witch hunter, as clanking around in all that armour would make the sort of stealth such characters use to get close to some devilish, twisted, night time ritual somewhat difficult. He has no Dickensian vibe at all about him. so the Dickens Street Runners are a no go too. Neither is he a civilian. He could just fit into the Nutkin Wood Neighbourhood Watch, but that organisation was supposedly about a group of put-upon small fry banding together for mutual defence and this fellow is neither small nor put upon looking at him! <br />
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However, he is painted, he is based and he is most definitely ready to go!<br />
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He may well end up leader of some border garrison, or perhaps the commander of a Customs & Excise force. Those mercenary figures Oathsworn have, with their Landsknecht-style costumes, have to be garrisoned somewhere, after all. The fact that I have all those Landsknecht-style figures yet to paint may well steer me that way, but I also know that further figures in that style will be part of the next Kickstarter.<br />
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So, for now, Kelly le Brock remains a solo agent, his two-handed club swung for his own, rather than someone else's, benefit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One angry badger! Perhaps Brian May has shown up to preach...I wanted to get a drop of water in, hence he is standing on a rock at the side of a pool. Perhaps he is crusading against amphibians!?</td></tr>
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-29335145890267082092019-08-17T06:16:00.001-07:002019-08-17T06:16:52.194-07:00Don't Borrow From This ChapHello again.<br />
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There is something rather ironic about Summer from a figure painter' perspective, I feel. You should be enjoying all that lovely, natural light, those long days that give you plenty of time to speed all those projects along, the extra free time provided by not having to do school runs and so forth.<br />
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Yet, this year, it has mostly been changeable at best, so that lovely light has been variable in quality. When it has been hot, it has led to paint drying on the brush in the man cave where I paint and work has been busier than ever, it seems. To top it all off, high winds have made prepping anything a lottery, as I like to spray undercoat figures, which is somewhat tricky in a wind!<br />
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Nonetheless, I have finally managed to finish a few figures, though it has tended to be more single figures for my Burrows & Badgers project rather than a juicy 18th Century or other era unit. Bear with me, however, as I have a yearning for something more substantial than single figures going forwards, so those units hopefully will not be too far away from taking their turns on the painting table.<br />
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However, back to the here and now. I have it in mind to base my Burrows & Badgers world in the seedier parts of the fictional town of Scarsburgh, with its docks, narrow streets, limited policing and other suitable archetypal factors that make it so suitable for crime, skulduggery and the odd game or two. Now, towns have civilians as well as fighting types and, fortunately, so does the Oathsworn Miniatures range of figures. So, without further ado, allow me to introduce you to Shylock Smallweed. This fellow is a slippery one, not only because of his status as a frog, but also because of his general demeanour and way of life. In common with many of my recent characters, he has a Dickensian name, but I shied away from Ebenezer or Jacob (as in Marley) for his Christian name, preferring instead that "pound of flesh" merchant from Shakespeare, the idea being that this fellow would have his pound of flesh, with interest, whereas Ebenezer Scrooge was just mean, but even he turned to the light in the end. I see no turning for this character. I plan to associate him with my pug bounty hunter, Pugga Fett, (see previous post), as every good baddie needs an enforcer. The two of them will terrorise the poor and needy of Scarsburgh whilst portraying their business as honest and respectable.<br />
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I have other civilians in the queue for the painting table and big plans for some specific terrain. I have, for example, a broken toy pirate ship, so a dry dock with said ship being dismantled/ repaired might be in order. And every good dockside needs a seedy inn or two. Then there is the idea of Customs and Excise to house, warehouses for general goods, chandlers and shipwrights and sail makers, boat makers and all manner of other bits and bobs. It could be a lengthy process...<br />
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But, for now, I give you Shylock Smallweed. Don't borrow from this chap.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Take the money! Don't worry about such drivel as interest, you need the cash, so take it." </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I plan to make the bases for my Scarsburgh civilians sort of "urban decay" in nature, hence the mix of earth, grass and slabs shown here. It is not like these characters will feature strongly away from the confines of their town.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I did a fair amount of picture research for this figure, though I make no claim that he is the spitting image of any particular breed of frog, a conscious choice on my part. The eyes, however, were a part of the figure for which I deemed research essential - how they look, what colour they are, the shape and size of the pupil. </td></tr>
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-79556041925321677252019-07-31T13:14:00.000-07:002019-07-31T13:14:36.213-07:00Cold-blooded KillerHello again.<br />
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The fun and joy of too many hours at work and too little time to paint has led to slow progress over the past month or so, but I am still trickling along. Barely trickling, admittedly, but trickling nonetheless...<br />
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A recent product of said trickle is presented here for your perusal, casual comment and, hopefully, some small measure of delight.<br />
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I have wound my way through the vast majority of the various Oathsworn Miniatures I have bought since first dipping a toe over a year ago, so much so that I now approach those few figures for which I cannot naturally find a home in one of my various war band ideas. This fellow could be a member of a fledgling police force for my urban-inspired games of "Burrows & Badgers", set in the town of Scarsburgh. Or perhaps a customs and excise "man", hunting down the rascals and scallywags of the docks of that worthy town. He might squeeze his way into the Nutkin Wood Neighbourhood Watch, if I deem that that particular landmark, Nutkin Wood, that is, has a watery part in its midst. Or he might be something else entirely.<br />
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No Dickens-inspired name for this one so far. In fact, no name at all until I decide what to do with him. So, awaiting the time I can get back to more historical figures with units and so forth, I give you yet another single figure in the form of a lizard warrior. As I have said before, do not imagine that painting such fantasy figures does not require at least a semblance of research. I checked out numerous photos of actual lizards prior to painting this figure and, although I mixed and matched styles a bit to get what I wanted, I doubt anyone would actually know that unless they knew their reptiles. I have gone for a simple, naturalistic finish which, I hope, enhances the lizard rather than enhances the fantastical.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I deliberately went for a rusted, besmirched look for his armour and sword. After all, you cannot live in a wet place and keep your metals nice and pristine, can you.</td></tr>
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-87560781287446520762019-07-13T16:21:00.000-07:002019-07-13T16:21:38.740-07:00Exclusive Residential DevelopmentHello again,<br />
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Having recently finished the figures from "The Good, The Bad and The Mutie", the starter set for Strontium Dog, published by Warlord Games/ Rebellion, it was high time I set to on the terrain that comes with the set too. I have some experience with MDF buildings, so was not concerned about the usual things you see on social media about the MDF soaking up paint, warping and so on. Thus, "set to" I have done!<br />
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In the set, you get a basic dwelling-cum-office, a generator and windmill to accompany the dwelling-cum-office, an observation tower and four solar panels, all in an easy-to-build mix of MDF and card. They are form the Sarissa Precision range of kits, which cover various eras and locales, and the wider range includes several other suitable kits in what is akin to their post-apocalyptic range. I will be adding a few in due course.<br />
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So, I sprayed on an undercoat, selected Army Painter Green as my basecoat and then weathered and highlighted up to taste. I wanted a dusty, arid environment for "Scum's World", my fictional planet on which to stage my SD games, so all effects and basing considerations were built around this. I am pretty happy with the results, but have a look and see what you think. All I need to do now is actually make some arid terrain tiles, or at least acquire a suitable cloth or something, as I have no other arid/ desert terrain on which to plonk these kits!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The base is 3mm MDF, not supplied with the kit but sourced from my stash. The texturing is small grade model railway ballast stuck down with PVA glue, painted and sparsely flocked.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I glazed the windows to give this palatial abode something like a civilised feel. The building may be from a post-apocalyptic range, but I did not want that for this use.</td></tr>
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-90382778927947315322019-06-30T04:02:00.000-07:002019-06-30T04:02:40.132-07:00New LootHello again.<br />
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I had pondered for some time whether I was going to get the second edition of SAGA, having enjoyed the first one so much. I read reviews in magazines of what changes had occurred within the rules, but nothing really stood out. I saw the promises of various world books to come, with particular interest in the Age of Samurai option, as I felt that was a way to get some oriental stuff under my belt, but left it at that.<br />
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But then came "Age of Magic".<br />
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What was this? Did I want to spend £30 on another book, knowing I would also need the new rulebook to go with it? Did I want yet more faction dice, not to mention the magic dice to go with it?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rules, the "Age of Magic" supplement and some Magic dice. I certainly hope they are "magic" when I come to roll them!</td></tr>
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So, why did I succumb? Well, I blame Wargames Illustrated magazine. They ran a piece on this game a couple of months back and I was hooked. <br />
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<li>Being the owner of many fantasy figures, many of which are ready to go on the table any time soon, being painted and all, I quickly realised the outlay on this game would be limited to the rule books and dice if I wanted it to be.</li>
<li>It was SAGA, right, so I was very likely to enjoy my games, just like I used to when thrashing Vikings and the like.</li>
<li>It was easily and quickly expandable.</li>
<li>It certainly looked the part from what I had read and seen in the aforementioned article.</li>
<li>Within the six archetypal fantasy forces outlined in the book, there was massive flexibility to be able to create what you wanted to create, but sensibly bound by certain faction rules and constraints.</li>
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All good reasons, I think.<br />
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But, me being me, my thoughts turned to not just what I had, but what else I wanted.<br />
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I have a load of stuff I do not use, painted and unpainted. Hmm.<br />
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Those Ancient Indians would make a great "Great Kingdoms" force, especially with a multi-armed statue for some monstrous clout and perhaps a shape-shifting Rakhshasa or two. For "Great Kingdoms", think High Elves/ Empire/ Gondor.<br />
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Those Ancient Chinese would also make a suitable "Great Kingdoms" choice, especially with the addition of a Chinese dragon in the Monster category. The book's specialist option of "The Theocracy of Qwan T'ang" also fits well, but from the "Otherworld" faction, equipped with demon weapons and armour. Or perhaps I can have a terracotta warriors vibe with my monsters and creatures.<br />
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The "Undead Legions" specialist option of "The Royal Dynasty of Nephren-Ka" is a dead ringer (pardon the pun) for my once beloved Tomb Kings.<br />
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My Orcs fit neatly into "The Horde". <br />
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My Chaos forces can be split quite simply, with daemons going "Otherworld" and Chaos-worshipping humans going either Great Kingdoms, Horde if I make them hairy barbarian types or Otherworld too.<br />
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And that is before I drag the dwarves out of storage, the Skaven likewise, or think about anything else...<br />
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Highly recommended if you want some quick and easy fantasy games. The variety provided by the usual SAGA battle board system, together with the addition of a magic system allowing for the complexity of different spells cast at different power levels and you have a wealth of options. And who would not want to make some weird terrain to go with your imaginative use of old and tired forces?<br />
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Go for it!<br />
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GGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-37592314200138890962019-06-21T00:58:00.001-07:002019-06-21T00:58:53.549-07:00I saw a mouse...Hello again.<br />
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"Where?" I hear you cry, in response to the title of this missive.<br />
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Well, it was not "there on the stair" at any rate.<br />
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The Oathsworn Miniatures painting fest continues apace with a couple of smaller offerings. I only have about 10 figures left to do, but there are more I want to get, so the project is far from over yet.<br />
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First up, we have an albino mouse for the Dickens Street Runners whom you may have spotted in my previous post. I have called him "Tiny Tim" (the burglar) in keeping with the Dickensian theme of the warband.<br />
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The second mousey offering is slightly different in that it is a dormouse. I am unclear as yet exactly which of my warbands the young lady will join and, unusually for me with this project, she is indeed interchangeable. I painted her with a check pattern, Rupert Bear's trousers style, on her dress, so she could pass muster with the Dun Ringill Doombringers, my Highland-style Strath Clotan raiders. She could also join the ranks of the fledgling Nutkin Wood Neighbourhood Watch, that band of small guys who have come together (slowly) to protect themselves from all the nefarious big guys in their locale. She could even join the Dickens Street Runners on occasion, providing a modicum of shooting power to an otherwise up close and personal attack option.I will have to research a suitable Dickensian name for her in that scenario - someone small-fry, perhaps a maid or washer woman, ideally with a sideline in something nefarious.<br />
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For I think the first time with these figures, I went for naturalistic eyes, though I am not sure if I pulled them off. An albino had to have red eyes, but I think they should be more pinkish in hue. Dormice also have dark red eyes and I am happier with these than those on "Tiny Tim". <br />
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At any rate, it is off to do some more Crimean War Russians now, whilst chipping away at the remaining pimple of Oathsworn stuff in between.<br />
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-86130351746961809912019-06-07T08:37:00.001-07:002019-06-07T08:37:35.164-07:00The Silent AssassinHello again.<br />
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The Dickens Street Runners were introduced top the world a few months back, one of my many ideas for a theme for a warband in "Burrows & Badgers", based, as you might have guessed ort might know, on the characters of a certain Mr. Charles Dickens. The Runners are supposed to represent the sort of nefarious inhabitants of the back streets of East London, so far centred on those in "Oliver Twist" as, not being a Dickens officionado, never having read any of his works, I can at least identify with the 1968 film "Oliver", having seen it several times. However, research can take you anywhere you like and Dickens had a number of unsavoury characters in his repertoire.<br />
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So, what do you call the sometime spy, sometime assassin, all the time performer of dirty deeds done dirt cheap, if you will pardon the ACDC reference? <br />
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Squeers.<br />
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Or "Ssqueersss" if you are the particular adder of that name pronouncing your own name.<br />
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Squeers was a nasty headmaster in "Nicholas Nickleby", apparently, but, for my purposes, he is an even nastier character from the dockside area downtown Scarsburgh.<br />
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He joins the ranks (so far) of the Dickens Street Runners, who are ready, willing and able to take on the worst the anthropomorphic world has to offer. What they lack in armour I hope they will make up for with cunning, luck and numbers!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dickens Street Runners so far: (l-r) Fagin the fox, Tiny Tim the mouse burglar, Sykes the murderous wildcat, Dodger the weasel and the sorceress, Nan-Si.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squeers, the adder assassin and spy, who lives in the pipes and sewers beneath the streets of downtown Scarsburgh.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The figure is sculpted with segmented armour, which I have chosen to paint as a non-metallic green to add to his camouflage capabilities and because I think some sort of cloth or leather armour better suits his background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last thing many a poor Town Guardsman or drunken citizen sees before the death bite is an range orb gleaming in the darkness...</td></tr>
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I see Squeers not only as a useful addition to the warband, but also the subject of a scenario or two. Perhaps he is hidden on the table, concealed ready to strike, with the Town Watch scouring the area looking for him and he looking to evade them. Perhaps the Runners arrive to contact him as he has some important information, just as a raid from the town authorities is launched into the area. Perhaps he must assassinate a particular figure on the other team's side. Perhaps the Town Watch send an unfortunate patrol into the sewers looking for him and it is them vs him alone, with him able to sneak through pipes and grills whilst they have to stay on the path. Cat and mouse anyone? Or perhaps I should say "Predator and prey"? As with almost all my "Burrows & Badgers" figures to date, he is an Oathsworn Miniatures figure.<br />
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GGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-51499110131204029232019-06-05T05:33:00.000-07:002019-06-05T05:33:38.118-07:00"Kill the SD scum!"Hello again.<br />
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What naughty, aggressive language the bad guys in Strontium Dog use! The Strontium Dogs only want to take them, dead or alive, to face the justice they deserve for their various crimes. Why get so heated about it?<br />
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Max Bubba and his gang come in the starter set "The Good, The Bad and The Mutie", so are the subject of my first set of recognisable criminals for the game. Having painted up Johnny Alpha and his two associates from the set, it was only right and proper that his opposition got the next nod. In short, with the terrain from the same set I have built and mostly completed, with photos to follow soon, I am almost ready for some SD action!!! The hardest part of the whole thing will be to get a couple of like-minded people in the same room at the same time to actually get a game in!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the left of the photo, we have Skull, Impetigo Jones, Low-down O'Phee, Max Bubba and Brute Mosley.</td></tr>
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And that is Max Bubba and his gang. I fully intend to get some more figures from the range, courtesy of Warlord Games, especially Middenface McNulty, who must be my favourite-named comic strip character ever! He is also someone I remember from all those years ago when I first encountered Johnny Alpha and the Strontium Dog concept in "Star Lords" comic.</div>
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I bought "The Good, The Bad & The Mutie" boxed set from Asgard Games on Walsall last year, fan as I was all those years ago in the late 1970's when a certain Johnny Alpha first appeared in a comic and introduced the world to the Strontium Dogs, mutant bounty hunters risking life and limb to take down the nefarious scum of the universe. Now, this was quite a lucky find, as I was never really one for comics, but I loved this strip the moment I saw it and picked it up again several years later when I happened upon an collected anthology or three in a well-known book store.<br />
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The aforementioned boxed set, available from the prolific Warlord Games, has a number of sets associated with it, so you can build up your cast of characters from various figures from within the strip over its long lifetime to date, both goodies and baddies. One of the attractions of the strip is that it is not always certain who is who in a universe of dark people and darker deeds...<br />
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The boxed set comes with three goodies (featured here), five baddies (to be featured soon, as I have painted them all), a series of cards and tokens used within the "Strontium Dog" game and some MDF terrain, most of which I built today. I hope my forthcoming week off work will see at least some of it painted, along with some other bits I bought off Ainsty years ago but never got around to. Cue Scumm's World, an arid, desolate, lawless place inhabited by hard men, harder women and whatever else the universe throws up, clawing an existence from an unforgiving rock that is home to the odd environmentalists nightmare (Ainsty's Toxicana range, bits of which I also purchased years ago!), some secret, corporation or government stuff long since forgotten (cue those old mutant apes I picked up cheaply, together with the odd sci-fi release from long ago), some disgruntled alien natives (I have to get those K'Hiff out some time!) and a storyline or two.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Gronk. A brilliant medic. Even better at fainting when the going gets a tad stressful, like all his kind!</td></tr>
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All I need now is to finish that terrain off, build myself some desert game boards, get some reinforcements to add to my SD numbers and get a few games in.</div>
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This is also one of my various boxed games nearly done in its starter format. Just the other 7/ 8/ 9/ ? to do and I will have called it all money well spent!!! I cannot decide which one should be next. I want to do "Blood Red Skies", but I also want to do "Cruel Seas". Then there is "Carnevale", but I also have all the "Necromunda" gangs to crack on with. And my 10mm Crimean War is not going to paint itself, nor is my Arab Conquest stuff. Hm.</div>
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One of my particular trends when buying figures or working through projects is that I do not like the "generic" approach. You know the sort of thing. If I change the flags and ignore the button colour, then those redcoats there will do for British one day, Swiss the next, something imaginary the day after that, and so on. If that is your bag, then so be it, all power to you and so forth, but it is not for me. I imagine such things are more prevalent in smaller scales, where one red coat looks much like another from anything more than a foot away, but I cannot say I have done any research on the matter.<br />
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I know it costs me more money to buy extra figures and more time to paint them as a result of having those extras, but I like distinction between my troops and "Burrows & Badgers" is no different. I see people posting their warbands on Facebook and the like, but I often do not see a theme. <br />
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"I want a badger with my highland types!" screams Poster A, even though his highland types all look like Rob Roy and his badger is wearing full gothic plate.<br />
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"I am going to include this Victorian dandy in my band of bloodthirsty pirates," whispers Poster B, even though he looks like he has just walked out of the Old Curiosity Shop and the corsairs from some disease-ridden, tropical hellhole.<br />
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However, my Order of the Lavender Garden is growing apace as Oathsworn release more suitable figures, one of which is the subject of this piece. My Lavender Order, as I abbreviate it, has a number of branches, the most prevalent being the military arm and the witch hunting arm. In my head, the military arm also takes care of law and order in the better parts of the land. The good news is, so long as I maintain my preferred context, I can mix and match the figures between both, allied as they are and all dressed in some way in the purple and white livery of the order.<br />
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So, without further ado, I give you a "Mouse with Crossbow", at once both a member of the town watch, a soldier of the Order of the Lavender Garden and a hanger on for some zealous type looking for a magic user somewhere near you sometime soon. As I have chosen the figures for the various parts of the order with some care to avoid glaring fashion or other faux pas, he will fit with all three quite handily. So I saved a bit of cash and some painting time after all!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mouse with no name, ready to defend the poor and defenceless in honour of the Royalist cause. Or burn and pillage a village in honour of someone's ego...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His mace looks a bit like an incense burner, but I still would not want a smack over the head with it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And, in addition to the purple and white livery, the purple lily emblem also ties the Order's members together nicely. Judging by the various scuffs and scratches on his helmet, he is either a veteran of many a fight or has inherited his headgear from a particularly unlucky and/ or unfortunate predecessor...</td></tr>
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-22283843002197094492019-05-18T05:36:00.000-07:002019-05-18T05:36:59.220-07:00What is red, ......doesn't suffer fools gladly, has an incendiary love interest, has horns he has to keep filed down to stumps and is supposed to be a secret?<br />
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HELLBOY, of course!!!<br />
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As part of my frenzy of boxed game purchasing, I simply could not resist something I found lying around in the "Board in Brum" shop in sunny Walsall recently. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a side on view of the box, which is seven inches deep!</td></tr>
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I was "lucky" enough to find an open example of the game at the aforementioned "Board in Brum", which meant I could examine the contents. There are over 120 figures in the box!!! These range from a couple of different versions of Hellboy himself to his various companions to Nazia to monsters of different sorts and even a turkey! I can only assume that is for some sort of Christmas game based in the old cartoon series, "Stop the Pigeon!", (i.e. "Stop the Turkey!") but I may be wrong. That is all in addition to the bits of scenery, cards for the game, floor plans and the like. All the figures come in storage trays too, which means they are all self-contained within the box and I do not have to buy extra boxes or files to keep things in, just remember where each figure goes!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The uppermost tray of figures contains our heroes, the five, large gribblies, Rasputin (!), a couple of Lamias and some other bits.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our prime hero in three guises, including Hellboy kid with ice cream!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The five chief gribblies - ape monster, tentacle horror, large grub, fanged amphibian and dragon</td></tr>
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I have not played the game yet, but I am impressed by the variety and quantity of the contents. There is a little bit of flash to remove, but I look forward to eventually getting some of these figures painted and trying things out. I especially like the fact that several of the figures are useable in other games - Nazis are Nazis, right? And those Lamia figures are crying out to oppose some errant Greek hero in some fabled land as he quests for an artefact to save his home city state from a gorgon or kraken or some such. Did I also mention there are harpies in the set? And how about getting Hellboy trapped in a time loop following some nefarious enemy scheme that sees him taking on Martian tripods, a resurrected terracotta army, a zombie plague or whatever? The game was not cheap, at a little over the £100 mark, but WOW! There is also a Batman game out now, so I must keep saving. My favourite superhero and all that.<br />
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And, to top it all, "Hellboy 2; The Golden Army" is on TV tonight, and I am in need of a way to avoid that utter drivel that is the Eurovision Song "Contest". Sky One at 2115hrs anyone?<br />
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G<br />
Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-33456200552283071052019-04-21T13:43:00.000-07:002019-05-18T05:37:18.608-07:00Mollie McClobberHello again.<br />
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My Strath Clotans finally have a leader courtesy of one of Oathsworn's more recent releases, which Nephew Nick obtained for me at my request at a recent show. Who would not want a wildcat with axe and shield? The fact that wildcats are a tough option in the "Burrows & Badgers" game and that she more than adequately fits the bill for Strath Clota given her plaid and bonnet were enough for me! And Oathsworn supremo Michael Lovejoy has stated that there will be more Strath Clotans in the next batch of sculpts, which means the clan can keep growing too.<br />
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She was a joy to paint, even the plaid, which, though a little time-consuming, was easy enough with some patience, the right brush and suitably thinned paint to ease its flow, but not so much that it just runs everywhere...<br />
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I have more Oathsworn figures left on the to-do list, some of which are even undercoated ready to go, but my most recent activity has seen me add to my Russians for the Crimean War, with more infantry, of which there cannot be too many. I will one day get around to some British infantry to go with the Light Brigade and will finish the Light Brigade too once I have bought the necessary extras required. Again, the absence of a definitive project is seeing me get through bits of numerous different projects, which suits me in my "skirmish" mode, and might just see me through a couple of the many boxed games I bought with the intention of getting some figures completed. However, numerous projects means I sometimes struggle to decide what to do next, so I might be painting, but I am also a tad adrift. The Crimean War project will be a continuous one for a while yet, especially as 10mm Russians are quick and easy to paint (I hope the British will be too, but doubt it somehow...), but where else should I venture? I have, by way of a quick count, the following boxed games all crying out for attention, in no particular order:<br />
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<li>Necromunda;</li>
<li>Kill Team;</li>
<li>Lord of The Rings: Battle of the Pelennor Fields;</li>
<li>Gorechosen;</li>
<li>Blood Red Skies;</li>
<li>Cruel Seas;</li>
<li>Carnavale;</li>
<li>Judge Dredd;</li>
<li>another I bought the other day and will save for a future post - it is big and the contents look amazing!</li>
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Still, this post was supposed to be about a certain wildcat, so here she is.<br />
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G<br />
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<br />Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-55389473385355544612019-04-15T17:09:00.000-07:002019-04-15T17:09:09.520-07:00The Light Brigade AssemblesHello again.<br />
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After several months of painting anthropomorphic animals almost exclusively, I decided it was high time I included something else in my schedule. My Crimean War project went into winter quarters some time back (for the winter, in fact), but Spring manoeuvres have seen the British reach the lines before Sevastopol, where various Russians have been waiting for a while now.<br />
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But what British to do first? I have a Highland Brigade. I have a Guards Brigade. I have some British line infantry in both pork pie hat and Albert shako. I have the Heavy Brigade. And I have the Light Brigade, the ones my now 20-month old Border Collie took a shine to and took into the garden for further investigation last year. They survived the encounter, as did Harry, but, in case he took a further liking to them, the Light Brigade got first dibs.<br />
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I say "the Light Brigade", but it is actually only 80% of that formation. The figures are taken straight form the Magister Militum Light Brigade pack, which features 48 cavalry figures and two horse artillery guns with crews. The figures were split into 12 lancers (which obviously had to be the 17th Lancers), 24 Light Dragoons (neatly covering the 4th and 13th Regiments) and 12 Hussars. Hm. I need figures for both the 8th and 11th Regiments for the Light Brigade, so could only do one of them. The 11th got the nod. So, four out of five regiments in the Light Brigade are done, but a visit to either Pendraken or Magister Militum for another pack of Hussars is in order. To add insult to the very minor injury sustained, I do not have a Hussar figure in my British Generals pack, so will have to use a Hussar Officer as Lord Cardigan. <br />
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Each regiment of 12 figures also came with a standard bearer included, which was also a tad unfortunate. Being somewhat anal in my pursuit of accuracy, I know that the regiments did not take their flags into battle. Undaunted, I sought images of the four regimental flags required, but came up blank for this era. Undaunted, I uttered those immortal words, "What the heck", and duly set about using a few basic Napoleonic references to <em>base</em> the flags upon. My Italics are intentional. Not only are the flags not copied directly from any sources but they are also rectangular, not of guidon shape with rounded or pointed tails, so DO NOT COPY THEM because they are there merely to occupy the pole! If any of them are correct, it is fluke!!! I used some reference material as stated, so the 17th Lancers get the Death's Head and "Or Glory" motto of their later incarnation, but I cannot verify the accuracy of this image for 1854. You have been warned! In defence of my conjecture/ creativity, 10mm Crimean War is not a popular period for manufacturers or gamers, hence the lack of definitive, easily available details, and I want to be able to tell quite small figures apart from normal distances, so the flags will help with that.<br />
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Anyway, I hope you like the brigade so far. I will buy the additions required soon and finish it off, then find some enemy guns to go and assault perhaps...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The four regiments to date, with 11th Hussars and 17th Lancers leading, the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons n the second line.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11th Hussars. This flag IS based on the Napoleonic example for the regiment, but not entirely so.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">17th Lancers, with the Death's Head and blue banner bearing the "Or Glory" motto. Crimean War era? Someone somewhere will know.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4th Light Dragoons, with another flag based on the Napoleonic example, the yellow chosen for the colour of their collars and detail from the aforementioned earlier flag. As with all four flags, however, I have avoided doing the awkward guidon shape.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">13th Light Dragoons, based on the Napoleonic example again for the flag coloured buff to match their facings.</td></tr>
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-80193071081194553472019-04-08T06:36:00.000-07:002019-04-08T06:36:46.127-07:00Very Handy Reference MaterialHello again.<br />
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Perusing a local newsagents recently in search of my usual monthly reading matter, I happened across something that immediately grabbed my attention.<br />
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This was just sitting there, crying softly at me with those immortal words, "Buy me! Buy me!"<br />
So, after a few seconds of content checking, to ensure it was not a part work but was actually the real deal, and not chockfull of stats rather than nice piccies, I duly bought it. I was not disappointed!<br />
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Just look at the sort of thing you get for your £7.99!!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A random opening of the book for photographic purposes and I got this spread of Merlin-engine Spitfires.</td></tr>
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Now, it has been a very long time since I put together a good, old Airfix kit, and even longer since I did a plane, so my memory of colours and markings is not quite what it was. I do not intend to build any kits anytime soon either, so why bother?<br />
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Well, just think of the uses this book can be put to. <br />
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<li>The book covers EVERY propeller-engine fighter class of the Second Word War the RAF used, even down to the Bell Airacobra. There are numerous Spitfires (both engine types, Merlin and Griffon), Hurricanes, Warhawk/ Tomahawk/ Kitty Hawk, Typhoons and Tempests, Gladiators, Blenheims, Beaufighters, Whirlwinds, Mosquitoes, Boulton Paul Defiants...even Mustangs and Airacobras! </li>
<li>Even if you are not an aeroplane modeller, the number of games you can use this for to fill out your forces is enviable. "Blood Red Skies" is an obvious one. I have just bought "Cruel Seas" and note that Beaufighters are available to the British forces in that game. The Desert War players can have their Hurricanes, Hawks and others. Those who prefer Normandy can go tank-busting with the Typhoons. Etc.</li>
<li>Who could go wrong with those colour spreads covering every single featured aircraft type? The header proclaims "More than 280 highly detailed colour profiles" and it is not wrong!</li>
<li>You even get a colour chart in the back of the book!</li>
<li>Most handily of all, perhaps, is the advert on the inner rear cover showing other titles in the series, with "Luftwaffe Fighters", "Pacific War" and "Allied Fighters" all covered to tempt you further.</li>
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"Absolute bargain" is what I call it. I would also throw in "essential purchase" and "eminently usable".<br />
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Published by Mortons Media Group Ltd, check out WHSmith and other newsagents or go to <a href="http://www.classicmagazines.co.uk/thebookshelf">www.classicmagazines.co.uk/thebookshelf</a> if you want to look at the whole range of stuff.<br />
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GGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-84659198491305268512019-04-05T04:59:00.000-07:002019-04-05T04:59:25.888-07:00Options, Options...Hello again.<br />
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As I strive to work my way through my Oathsworn Miniatures lead pimple, in lieu of enlarging the pimple in due course to more of a boil or carbuncle with yet more acquisitions, I am still very much in the realms of those figures who have so far not fitted quite in to existing projects. One such figure is the fellow highlighted here.<br />
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Now, for me, this is a great figure, full of purpose, experienced in his art and. judging by his eye patch, has suffered for that art too. Looking at him, I would say the word "Veteran" was most appropriate. He painted up well as do all the Oathsworn range and could have been done far more simply with just fur and armour (brown and metal as it were), but I had to enhance it further for my own tastes.<br />
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He is obviously a warrior, quite possibly a knight, but he is not sporting the lily of the Lavender Order, nor is he a woodland dweller, so is hardly likely to feature in the newly-founded Nutkin Wood Neighbourhood Watch. He certainly has no Dickensian qualities about him, so the Dickens Street Runners will not be using him, even if he wanted to be associated with a bunch of backstreet criminals. The Witch Hunters could use him, but exactly why they would when the Lavender Order knights are allied to the witch hunter cadre, being two arms of the same order, is open to debate. And pirate he most certainly ain't any more than he is Strath Clotan highlander!<br />
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So, what is he? He could be the head or a member of a new military order, perhaps a foreign one, whose emblem is the golden chalice as depicted on his armour. He could be a simple knight leading a disparate group of followers against marauding bands of one sort or another. He could be the leader of a mercenary band, perhaps the second son in a world of primogeniture, who eschewed the church for the life of a mercenary a la Medieval Italy, Sir John Hawkwood sort of character. I quite like this latter idea, as that would give me a good excuse to paint up the Landsknecht-inspired otter, hedgehog and mouse figures I have had undercoated for a while! Give them a border keep to garrison and they can be mercenaries as well as defending the locals from raids! The ideas keep forming, which, as I have said before in various posts, is one of the best things about "Burrows & Badgers" and its associated miniatures from Oathsworn. What I name him will ultimately depend on where he is from and what role I give him. Matthias von Hase is first choice for a foreign mercenary given the likely Landsknecht feel of his band ("Hase" being the German word for "hare", you see, if my memory serves me correctly), but he could become a member of the De Leveret family like Sir Robert, who featured in these posts earlier this year as a member of the Lavender Order. Options indeed!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The addition of some colour to his armour adds that extra something to what could have been quite a plain figure, in my opinion. Displaying his colours and badge in this way already starts to create a backstory for him, which interests me. Depicting the armour with a few dents and other damage, as I have tried to, also enhances his veteran status I feel. This guy does NOT stay at home polishing his armour, but wears it and wears it with purpose!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As "Burrows & Badgers" is a points based game, having that sword as either a one- or two-hander gives me some flexibility in how I construct his associates. I prefer a two-hander for him, especially given his heavy armour, as they rock in melee! I also think there is something a little bit Samurai about his armour, specifically the shoulder plates on this right shoulder. Perhaps he has been abroad and perhaps even dabbled with some oriental magic or other darker art...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love this face! Again, I have tried to depict him as a little more advanced in years than some of my other figures, which not only enhances the experience levels I feel he has, but also plays strongly to the backstory and to his authority as a figure and a likely leader of others.</td></tr>
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-49231295962156159282019-04-01T04:01:00.000-07:002019-04-01T04:01:46.042-07:00The Nutkin Wood Neighbourhood WatchHello again.<br />
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Happy April Fool's Day! Please be advised that I will not be trying to con, mislead, cajole or otherwise partake of the day's events during the writing and publication of this post.<br />
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One of the things I like so much about "Burrows & Badgers", as I have written before, is the seed it has sown in my creativity and imagination, things I had long thought at best dormant. As I trawl through the remaining score or so of figures I have yet to paint for this project, whilst contemplating adding more to the pile following Oathsworn's most recent Kickstarter, I am confronted by figures which have not yet made it to the painting station and, as with the Dickens Street Runners, I ponder why. The realisation in my head that the Wildcat with axe and top hat was a ringer for Bill Sykes and the Siamese Cat sorceress would do very well for Nancy/ Nan-Si led me to Victorian East London and its criminal underbelly, hence the Dickens Street Runners.<br />
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One such figure that I previously struggled to fit into what I already had is the subject of this piece. He is a knight, as you will see from the photos below perhaps (or at least a warrior of some standing given his heavy armour), but he bears no particular connection to the previously painted Knights of the Order of The Lavender Garden, having no lily motif anywhere to be seen and sporting neither surcoat nor coif. In fact, the poleaxe, plate armour, plumed helmet and cloak are things which set this fellow apart from his colleagues within the Order, as none of them sport any of those things. So, what to do with him?<br />
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Enter stage left the Nutkin Wood Neighbourhood Watch!<br />
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What exactly do the weaker folk in Northymbran society do for protection? How do they fend off the ravages of the darker side of life? Who bands them together and leads them when rats and foxes come a-calling? Well, Sir Tawny de Russet could do so! Squirrels might not be the Tiger tank of the "B&B" world, but give them some clout with a poleaxe and some plate armour and they might make a Panzer II! Perhaps even the Luchs version!!! Throw in some militia types in the form of mice, moles, shrews and similar small fry and we might actually get above six models for our starting warband! And for those particularly troublesome enemies, we can always hire some mercenaries. <u>They</u> have made it to the painting table, by the way, sitting resplendent in their black undercoats as I type!<br />
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So, in the absence of any other member of the Watch, I can at least offer Sir Tawny for your delectation and comment.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like the dynamic of this figure, with his tail erupting in one direction, his cloak in the opposite direction and the poleaxe almost perpendicular to both. The figure has a great sense of movement for one so small and from the weaker side of the Northymbran faunal catalogue.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I may repaint this eye. The right one looks reasonably determined (see picture one), but this one looks a bit startled! It took me about five or six shades of yellow and blue respectively to get the depth of highlight on the plume and cloak, but I am glad I put in the effort. The cloak especially had to be done to emphasise the movement inherent within the figure.</td></tr>
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-66246043510933458612019-03-30T14:51:00.001-07:002019-04-01T04:02:10.286-07:00Dodger Joins The PartyHello again.<br />
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The "Dickens Street Runners" made their debut within these "pages" a few weeks ago and they were always set to increase their numbers in short order, once I had done a bit of research on suitable nefarious types from the works of that Victorian scribe Mr Charles Dickens, esquire.<br />
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Well, one obvious addition is Dodger, artful or otherwise, so here he is in all his grimy, backstreets of London sort of manner, relocated to a fictional, northern English town akin to Eoferwic/ Jorvik/ York for use in games of "Burrows & Badgers".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dodger in the flesh. If the picking of pockets goes amiss, he can always bump them over the head with the club or slice open a belly with his knife. Not at all the cheeky, melodious chappy of the musical then...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A little light armour can also go some way to keeping our Dodger in the fight for a while longer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the "FEARLESS" skill possessed of all weasels in the "B&B" game, together with a determined, almost menacing look in that eye, will help intimidate a few opponents.</td></tr>
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You may recall seeing this figure before. The same casting appears in my Pirate warband (see previous posts). I mistakenly bought two, although not at the same time, and this second one languished in the lead pimple for a while until I came up with the notion of the "Dickens Street Runners". However, as you can clearly see, he has crawled and clambered his way out of the pimple, onto the painting table and into the blog. Therefore, he is very much ready and able to take his place on a tabletop sometime, somewhere, very soon!<br />
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And remember..."You've got to pick a pocket or two."<br />
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Or just smack 'em over the head, rob the very bones of the poor blighter and leave 'em for dead. Which ever is easier or more desirable at the time really.<br />
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<br />Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-50132196861187873472019-03-24T16:07:00.000-07:002019-03-24T16:07:42.276-07:00Alumwell LootHello again.<br />
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It is now a very busy two weeks since the WMMS show, aka Alumwell, held last 10th March at the Aldersley Leisure Centre near Wolverhampton in the UK.<br />
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I went with a plan. Definite purchases were to include some steel paper, some magnetic sheet and some more textured paint, Basetex Dark Earth to be precise and, do you know what, that plan actually survived meeting contact with the enemy! I bought all three in short order.<br />
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Vaguer plans involved something to contend the field with my as yet unpainted 10mm Sassanids and perhaps some additions to my also as yet unpainted, and largely forgotten, French Wars of Religion proposal, ideally in the form of some Reiter cavalry. Well, 19 Reiter for £2 each from Tiger Miniatures saw to the latter and Pendraken and Magister Militum saw to the former in the form of an Arab Conquest army. The choice for opponents for the Sassanids had devolved down to either Middle Imperial Roman, Late Imperial Roman or Arabs and the Arabs simply provided something that bit different. Maurikian Byzantine may well follow, but only after I have painted up the Sassanids and Arabs, whenever that may be.<br />
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The show was, I felt, more populous than recent years (especially last, held in the midst of a Siberian flourish to early Spring) and there were some good looking games on show, but arguably a diminished trade presence. Unfortunately, I forgot both my camera and my phone, so got no photos, but I can recommend this show to anyone in the area the second weekend of March next year and I will hopefully catch some of the games again later this year.<br />
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There were a couple of good looking AWI games amongst others, but a Peninsular War encounter and a Japanese vs Dutch in the Eat Indies WW2 affair were probably my favourites. I especially liked the terrain in the former and the three-engine Dutch seaplane in the latter.<br />
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So, to conclude, just a few quick photos of the best parts of the loot from the show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The newly-acquired Arab army, with relevant bases and some tents for colour, courtesy of Pendraken and Magister Militum.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A long-held but largely unfulfilled interest of mine is the Austrian Empire and the wars of the mid-19th Century, so this offering form Helion was a welcome find.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Likewise this small tome, which I had seen advertised in Wargames Illustrated, I think, and my mind went wandering to the Wyrley Retinue game based on Malta 1565 that did the rounds a few years back. I still have the Turks, some at least of the terrain and enough unpainted mid- to late-17th Century figures to paint up some Venetians and Allies for a game. Venetian amphibious operations against Turk-held Aegean islands anyone? Another find at Helion's stall.</td></tr>
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Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-44205175420770911632019-03-11T07:37:00.000-07:002019-03-11T07:39:15.082-07:00What The Dickens!Hello again.<br />
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One of the great things I like about "Burrows & Badgers" is that it has inspired to come up with all sorts of ideas for scenarios, campaigns, characters both nefarious and otherwise and various warband ideas. This is not just a wizard and his followers or a knight and his retinue, but a more rounded, every has a name sort of thing. My latest is inspired by a couple of of the Oathsworn Miniatures range of figures for the game, two figures I bought in my first ever order to them and, in truth, two figures I was unsure what to do with until that inspiration broke through.<br />
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The first figure is the wildcat with the axe and battered top hat. It is not a soldier, nor a magician. It is clearly a civilian with an axe, a top hat, a waistcoat and overcoat. The second figure is a Siamese Cat, dressed in oriental robes, with a fan and a little, pillbox-style hat. Again, not a soldier, she is a magician. In my thoughts about pirates, Military Orders, Witch Hunters and similar bands, these two just did not feature.<br />
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Then, the light bulb came on!<br />
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Oliver Reed and Shani Wallace!!! Sorry, (Bill) Sykes and Nancy! <br />
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My acquaintance with Charles Dickens' works is minimal at best, but surely everyone has seen "Oliver!" or knows the Oliver Twist story. Others will also know of "A Christmas Carol" and possibly even "Great Expectations". Some of us may have sat through one or other of Dickens' works at school, college or university. All I know is that, for me, Oliver Twist features some of the finest villains and other characters in Victorian literature and, Dickens created quite a few others I gather in his wider works.<br />
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So, I had a fit for my two figures and they are the basis of my Dickens Street Runners criminal gang. For the record, I now have Sykes the Wildcat, Nan-Si the Siamese Cat and Fagin has become a Fox Rogue. Dodger is not far from being finished either, in the form of a Weasel Rogue. I will need a few more to fill out the group, so am forced into some research into Dickensian villains, but that chore will be all the more welcome and less onerous by the conclusion of the idea.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sykes the Wildcat. You see where I got the Dickensian vibe from?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That heavy moleskin or leather coat is surely worth claiming light armour for.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nan-Si in all her mysterious glory. She could not be just plain, old Nancy from Whitechapel now could she?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My attempt at an embroidered dragon on her robe looks a bit more like a lizard or dinosaur, but I think at least helps with the oriental theme.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And there is a dragon chasing a ball on her fan. What? The dragon is eating the sun?! Oh...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And piercing blue eyes to add to the Siamese Cat vibe. I see a lot of use made of poisons as well as magic when she finally hits the tabletop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fagin was a wily, old fox in the book, so becomes a wily, old fox in the game too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skulking around looking for an easy shot, this pose I think epitomises what I want from my East London villain.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the contents of many a picked pocket will fit nicely into that pack.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the three of them together will make a fine addition to my collection to date and the foundation for the "Dickens Street Runners".</td></tr>
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I mentioned the B&B game promoting my campaign and character ideas and Nan-Si is no exception. I see her too becoming the mistress of a dark, criminal underworld of rats and other ne'er-do'wells, but think, when that day comes, she will become Su Manchu, arch-enemy of the Royalist cause in Northymbra. When that day comes, that is.<br />
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<br />Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17194866927040953340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636022410788061882.post-47555649756834199012019-03-09T05:48:00.001-08:002019-03-09T05:48:43.963-08:00It's Show Time!Hello again.<br />
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Just a brief reminder, to anyone who might need one, that the annual West Midlands Modelling Show is to be held tomorrow, 10th March, at the Aldersley Leisure Centre in Wolverhampton. Known to us "old hands" as the Alumwell Show, from its former venue, this show is traditionally my first of the year and I am very much looking forward to trotting along, checking out the numerous traders and games on show and trying to keep my wallet shut...<br />
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Check out <a href="http://www.alumwellwargames.co.uk/">www.AlumwellWargames.co.uk</a> for a full list of traders, directions to the show if you need them and so forth.<br />
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I always find way too much to spend my money on at this show and the weather is looking like it will be a tad better than last year, when the snow deterred many a gamer and trader. Although not demo-ing this year, I will be there as a punter and will undoubtedly return home the proud owner of some additions to my lead mountain, something I had not even contemplated buying when I arrived at the show and with my Bank Manager reaching for the valium in whatever dark room he inhabits when he looks at my finances. <br />
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