One year ends and another begins

One year ends and another begins

The year 2013 has begun and i am going to review what i wanted from last year as regards to my Gaming hopes for 2012 and my goals for 2013

You can see most of my completed goals here

The goals i never managed to completed out of the list of my gaming hopes were only:

Malifaux:

Make each of these forces to 35SS (Scrap level)

Liliths Neverborn (19/35)

Viktorias Outcasts (26/35)

Dreadfleet: (painting)

My Gaming:

Urban War
Syntha - W0/L0/D0
Triads - W1/L0/D0
V.A.S.A- W0/L2/D0Koralon- W3/L1/D0

Warhammer 40'000
Orks - W1/L3/D0

                                                           Imperial guard - W1/L1/D0

Warhammer fantasy battle

Skaven - W0/L2/D2

Malifaux

Lilith - W1/L2/D0

 Viktoria - W0/L1/D1

Rasputina - W0/L1/D0

Warmachine

 Menoth - W0/L0/D0

Warmaster Ancients

mperial rome - W0/L0/D0

Norman - W0/L1/D1

Lord of the rings SBG

Minas Tirith - W1/L0/D0

Mordor Orcs - W0/L2/D0

Uruk hai - W0/L0/D0

Numenoreans - W0/L0/D0

High Elves - W0/L0/D1

Bushido -

Prefecture of Ryu - W1/L0/D0

Cult of Yurei - W0/L0/D0

Savage Wave - W0/L0/D0

As you can see i had a few good games with my Koralon. My Vasa not fairing quite so well.

there should be more games of Urban war in 2013

Warhammer 40k was interesting as the Ork games were played using fifth edition and i used my imperial guard in sixth edition.

Warhammer fantasy battles  games were used in preparation for the blood in the badlands campaign which i feel is placed on hold at the moment. 

Malifaux has had a good gaming run this years as i have been building up my three forces. I'm enjoying Victorias and Rasputina the most even though not the most successful.

I can hardly believe it has been a year since i have played Warmachine. Its not that its a bad game i just have been playing other games more.

Followers of my blog will notice i have a thing for painting up Warmaster forces and the ancient variety is no different, the gaming is slightly harder to come by with only a few players in my local area, i really like the game system and i wish i could play it more regularly.

Lord of the rings was a good change with the updated force structure. my elf list i wrote up was too outnumbered to be much use in mission while the Minas tirith fare a lot better.

Bushido i spent more time painting and had no time to play at the moment. 

2013

My 2013 wargaming hopes

Malifaux:

Make each of these forces to 35SS (Scrap level)

Liliths Neverborn (19/35)

Viktorias Outcasts (26/35)

Dreadfleet: (painting)

Bushido:

Savage wave

Cult of yurei

Warhammer 40'000

Chaos space marines (Death guard) 1000 points

Urban war

Neo-iskandrians - 300pts

No doubt i will have more projects added to this list as the year progresses.

With Malifaux i should get my Outcast done quite quickly as i only need to pick up and paint two more miniatures.  Maybe even pick up a few more for some variety.

Outcasts Crew type 1 - 35 - Scrap 

Viktoria -- 0 Pool

Bishop [10ss]

Ronin [5ss] - need to purchase

Ronin [5ss] - need to purchase

Sue [7ss] - needs painting

Taelor [8ss] 

Or

Outcasts Crew - 35 - Scrap

Viktoria -- 1 Pool

Bishop [10ss]

Convict Gunslinger [5ss]

Renegade Steamfitter Johan [6ss]

Ronin [5ss] - need to purchase

Taelor [8ss]

Lilith's Neverborn will take longer as i need to repair my cherub as it has broken off the base and will need pinned in place. i also need to buy a lot more miniatures for the Terror tots to grow into young Nephilim and onto mature Nephilim. What to add beyond that i am open to suggestions.

Warhammer 40'000

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With my purchase of the Dark vengeance set last year i will make a small death guard force from the chaos space marines from the box and a few extras from my collections. i had to build myself a chaos sorcerer as i really like the new 40k psychic power system.

I am not sure what to do with the dark angels from the set. I will keep the characters as they are nice miniatures.

Well that's all for now.

Mali Minaj

Mali Minaj

Nicki Minaj-Du Bois

The main inspiration and reason for this miniature is really the music video.
It has a very Victorian steampunk feel to it. The video even has Mannequins in it so it fits perfectly with Malifaux.

Nicki Minaj from the Video

Based on this the video

David Guetta - Turn Me On ft. Nicki Minaj 

 

Front

Front

The miniature that i used was the Arcanist master Colette Du Bois, all i really needed to do was add longer hair to the Miniature.

Back

Video back

As far as rules are concerned i really didn't have any inclination to use it in the miniature game. If i did i would just use Colette Du Bois rules.

Bear-All Showcase

Miniature musing of a bear

Bear-all Showcase on me!!!

@Docbungle is searching from across the land I am after your miniatures.

he is trying to add some community posts to the blog

Gaming hopes for 2012

Gaming hopes for 2012

Projects to finish:

Warhammer fantasy battle:

 Skaven 2000pts (two units to finish)

Warhammer 40'000 :

 Orks 1000pts (10 miniatures to paint)

Dreadfleet (painting)

Urban War:

Koralon: Make up to 300pts

Malifaux:

Make each of these forces to 35SS (Scrap level)

Liliths Neverborn (19/35)

Viktorias Outcasts (24/35

Rasputinas Arcanists (9/35)

Warmaster ancients :

Norman force 1000pts (build and paint)

Warmachine:

Menoth- Make up to 25pts

feel free to comment and add your own lists

Malifaux - Outcasts

Malifaux - Outcasts

This week i have been painting up my other Malifaux crew, yet again placing my 40K Orks on hold.

As it was only five miniatures i didn't feel too bad.

The colours schemes  i used where just the ones in the artwork and on the back of the box, so i didn't break new ground in that aspect.

now i should make a note to you, that these pictures where taken on a blackberry, as my camera is having issues. As a result the picture quality isn't as good as i would of liked. 

in order of completion :

Bishop (Pit fighter)

Steam fitter Johan

Taelor ( Relic hammer enthusiast)

Viktoria

Viktoria

The Outcasts, and a better picture too

My week in Malifaux

My week in.......

This week i have decided to delve into the character driven world of Malifaux

 having looked through the rulebook at the factions, i have chosen to begin with Neverborn and Lilith

Day 1: Arrival

Day 2 : Prep, building and basing.

Lilith, Mother of Monsters

Terror tot nephilim

Lilith's brood

Day two was spent building up the miniatures, the terror tots where a bit fiddly with their small arms.

once all was built i had to build up the bases. Now i didn't just want a sand and gravel bases, and i really liked the Victorian bases from the Malifaux range, so i set forth to make my own. As you can see i made pavings and cobblestones. I also added some flowers to the bases also. The mature nephilim i added a circular drain to its base.

Liliths base was a pre-made base resin (i think) base, that i picked up at the Kirriemuir gaming event Targe. The resin base its all paved stone and i also added a plant to her base, which you can just see in the bottom picture. That's all the progress i could do today as i needed to let the green stuff dry.

Day 3 - Basecoating and painting

Day three began with basecoating, but alas it wasn't to be that easy, a gust of wind blew my spray board out of my hand , breaking most of my miniatures, and I lost a terror tot arm. So once i had repaired the miniatures,then finally managed to basecoat them with chaos black spray paint.

Basecoated miniatures, still needing a watered down coat of black paint.

So what could i do with a missing terror tot arm?

Lucky enough i had a few unpainted Games workshop warhammer wood elf dryads which looked similar to the one i had lost.

so i attached the new arm using the miracle that is Liquid green stuff

I think is is a suitable replacement

The back view with green stuff

With everything fixed and basecoated i began painting. i decided to start off with the three Terror tot nephilim. For painting miniatures i use Games workshop paints.

so i started off with the skin base coat of shadow grey, and their "hair" scab red.

i then highlighted the shadow grey by adding elf flesh to the mix,and adding white for the last few highlights. the hair was highlighted with blood red, and a further lighter highlight of 3/4 blood red 1/4 skull white. Its a subtle highlight, too far and it starts to look pink.

Finished Terror Tot Nephilim

Terror tot nephilim

Day 4 - Painting the Mature Nephilim and Lilith

i started off the day painting the mature nephilim, i started the skin similar to the terror tots except i started a little darker, shadow grey with a little black.

To keep with the theme i kept his goatee beard red.

Mature Nephilim

This took less time that i thought it would take, so i took the plunge and also started to paint Lilith
The colour scheme i went for, was a recreation of the artwork from the cover. Lilith was a joy to paint. I kept her skin tone quite pale and the hair red to match the colouring on the artwork (even the purple and yellow striped tights).

Here is the finished result:

So i now had a completed warband for Malifaux

And now for the gaming .......

Livingston Skirmish 2011

Livingston Skirmish 2011

Livingston Battleground wargaming club along with Worlds at war ran an all day gaming event, in aid of ERSKINE, a charity that has provided nursing and medical care for former members of our Armed Forces through two world wars and the more recent conflicts . Re-building shattered lives, restoring dignity and providing first class care to ex-Service men and women both young and old.

On the day there was a both Flames of War and a Warmachine tournament plus Painting Competitions  Demonstrations from other Clubs.

More on the Warmachine/Hordes tournament here and here 

The first demo game is City of Prosperity.

 

a Malifaux demo game

Cult of December Arcanists led by Rasputina




 a Demo game of Battlefleet Gothic

Imperial fleet versus a Chaos Armada

Imperial Battleships

Part of the Chaos armada

Our Urban War four-way game

 

Warfleet Oceana is a Naval game created by the club itself.

I've seen this game at a few events but i still haven't yet had the chance to play it.

A few more of the other gaming tables

It was a busy day and i never got the chance to play any of the other Demo games, which is a shame.

I would recommend anyone else to attend next year, I myself have booked to come along next year. a truly great event.

I'd like to thank everyone at the Livingston Battleground wargaming club , making everyone feel welcome created a great day.