Yesterday the mother of my friend Christian delivered a
bucket of bits to my doorstep.
I have won a bidding and bought it in my former hometown.
The bucket was a real bargain and cost me only 2,5 Euros!
A lot of nice stuff and I got a lot of inspiration when
I unpacked it. Firstly I will use some of the bits to my
evil-tribe in the pirate-skirmish that I am planning
in the future. I got a lot of things to use if I will build
a "sacrifice-place" for example pile of skulls in various
shapes, mummys, seperate skulls etc.
I also got some complete figures made of tin and I
was especially fond of the skeleton.
Next thing will be to organize this pile of bits. :)
Yesterday I went for a recon in my local second hand shop
on my way home and I found a real nice car-model.
It was a Cadillac coup de ville 1976 in the scale 1:43.
Eventhough it isn´t the exact right scale I couldn´t help
buying it. It was in real good condition and probably a
collect car and not a toy. For 6 Euros I am quite pleased
with the buy. I will use it primarily for my post apocalyptic
game and maybe add a rough looking coupe with a roof
that can be removed when not used. The coupe will also
be fitted with some kind of weapon-system or turret for
gaming in Car wars.
Due to a heavy workload at work and also being a father
to a little daughter I have little time left for my hobby but
here is a new report. Soon I will start playing the game
Saga and to participate all the players agreed to setup a
force of 6 points.Here is mine under construction.
I chose to play the normands and is a mixture of figures
from GW, Fireforge games and conquest games and I
have also made a conversion for my crossbow-archers.
The leader is worth 2 points as being William the bastard.
The grass is made of plastic grass and is also used for
indoor football-fields.I will update this report when the
figures are finished painting.
On the third of january I was invited to my friend Mikael
for a game of WH40k. The setup was huge in any way and
we were 6 players and the points were set to 3000 points
each. I only reached 1200 points with my light armed Cadian
forces and I pimped my troops heavily. :)
The defender was me, Olle and Mikael and we played
a coalition of orcs and my light company of Cadians(traitors
of the emperor in this game).
The attacker was Marcus, Karl and Peter and they chose
a imperial force with bikes, heavy tanks and walkers.
Once we had placed all the models and the figures on the
big table it was a impressing sight indeed!
To make the game even more impressive both sides had
access to airsupport (both heavy and light).
The objectives were simple and it was to hold or take the
orkish positions and the battles raged back and forth.
The most intense fighting was in the center to take the
orkish-stronghold. To prevent the imperial-attacker from
take their objectives Mikael had three big "orc-stompas"
armed to the teeths and also filled with troops inside.
The attacker also dropped terminators behind the defenders
front and tried to overrun the orcish HQ for an easy victory
but eventhough the defenders were not so strong in support-
vehicles they held them at bay.
Eventhough it was a fun game to play it took a lot of time
to move all the forces and after 5 hours of active playing
my allergy told me to go home and I withdraw.
To summarize the imperial force would have won the battle
but with how high casualities no one knows.
I want to thank Mikael again for the great hospitality and it
was really fun to witness this game and all the impressive
models. I can´t think of a better start in 2016 for my
hobby. :)
On New years Eve I published a report on
my blog about my tower that I have built in
blue polystyrene.I also published some photos
on the forum Terrain tutor terrainiacs.
I got a very warm response and I want to thank
all of you out-there that liked my work.
Thankyou!
//Peter
On the third of january 2016 I was invited to participate in
a WH40k-mega battle and some of my troops were not
painted so I needed to update these with som "lick of paint".
On the pictures you can see my commissar and a sniper-
team and my veteran-squad.
I am satisfied with the result and I think I achieved the
dirty-veteran-look good.
I painte all these figures using citadel-paint and Army painter
and finalized the figures with Seraphim sepia (wash).
I also made som base-job using sand and pva. To get a quick
overlook I have made the officers and support-weapon-fgures with
sand/earth on the edges of the baseplates and only on top on the
regular troops.
The report on the Mega-battle is on its way. :)
