Weekly Waffle #86
Well, game night for this weeks weekly waffle actually turned into drink tea and talk about painting night although I have lined up a game of Wild West Exodus with Al for next week. Which will probably end in a humiliating defeat but it’s a chance to give my confederates a run out. One of the highlights of the week for me was trip down to Warhammer World with Al on Wednesday. We used to make the trip a couple of times a year when we were playing 40K but we reckon it’s been three or four years since we were last there. Al lots changed in that time. You…
Warhammer World Road Trip
So as I mentioned in last week’s weekly waffle I’ve had a bit of road trip to warhammer world today and thought I would do a quick update with a bit of a photo dump. I’ll save most of the details so I have something for the weekend but in the mean time I would just say that it was a really good trip. A big thanks to Al for driving, even though he’s now got me hooked on doing a Sylvaneth force for Age of Sigmar. Anyway I’ll leave it there for now other than to apologise about the quality of some of the images. But in my defence…
Confederate – Captain Williams (Sidekick) – Painting Guide
I didn’t have any images to work with for Captain Williams as he’s not in the concept art book and I haven’t seen any painted images of him on the net. However Corporal Franklyn is in the concept art book and he has a similar type of weapon so I thought I would go with same colour scheme. My thinking being that it becomes something of a standard for anyone who is using a light support type weapon. The first step was to prime the model and I did this using Vallejo Black Surface Primer (74.602) for a first coat. I then went back over the model using Vallejo Grey…
Weekly Waffle #85
So having missed games night last week Al was poorly this week so no game again for the weekly waffle. I have spent some more time reading through the RECON rules and watching a few games on YouTube so I think I’m beginning to get to grips with it. But none of this has in anyway made me want to even think about painting the minis. Although I have seen some new civilians from Spector that look like they would work really well for RECON but I digress. On the hobby front this has been something of a Frostgrave week. I picked a load of miniatures when I was at…
Gamers Grass Review
I’ve been using the grass tufts form the guys at gamers grass for some time so when it was time to place another order I thought it was good chance to do a bit of product review. So first things first this is not some sort of sponsored review, I have no affiliation with the company and they’ve not sent me anything to review. It’s just what I like to use. I think I first became aware of them after reading an article in ‘Figure Painter’ magazine and thought I’d give them a go when I was looking for something to use on my Guild Ball Bases. That fist order…
Weekly Waffle #84
Game night for this weeks weekly waffle was going to be more RECON. We’ve decided to give it a few more goes to see if we can get to grips with it. To help Al out I’ve spent a week looking through the rules and going back over our previous games to see what makes sense and what doesn’t. Unfortunately I’ve had something of a rubbish week this week and haven’t been sleeping well, so when I get home from work late and sat down with a brew to chill out before heading to Al’s disaster struck. I simply fell asleep and didn’t wake up until the early hours having…
Confederate – Stonewall Jackson (Boss) – Painting Guide
Stonewall Jackson is one of the Bosses of the Confederate Rebellion and like most of the colour schemes of late the inspiration for this one came from the Concept Art book. I there he is shown in a grey uniform, which to my limited historical knowledge is in keeping with the Confederate forces. The first step was to prime the model and I did this using Vallejo Black Surface Primer (74.602) for a first coat. I then went back over the model using Vallejo Grey Surface Primer (74.601) at about a forty five degree angle to start to build up some shadow and highlight. Clothing: Once the primer was fully…
Weekly Waffle #83
So for this week’s weekly waffle I’m going to venture into the divisive topic that is Age of Sigmar. Now just to start things off I have never played fantasy so when Games Workshop effectively finished off that world and changed things about it had no impact on me. In fact I found it quite interesting to just sit back and listen to some of the passionate debates that were taking place. The after one game night I noticed that Al had some Age of Sigmar models on his work desk, a bit of quizzing ensued and he just liked the models so picked some up to paint. And I…
Confederate – Buford Nash (Sidekick) – Painting Guide
I’ve used the artwork in the Concept Art book as my reference for painting Buford. In this artwork the predominant colour is brown so some strong contrasts and touch of metallic will be used to try and give things a bit of a pop whilst sticking with the overall scheme of the concept art. With that in mind the first step was to prime the model and I did this using Vallejo Black Surface Primer (74.602) for a first coat. I then went back over the model using Vallejo Grey Surface Primer (74.601) at about a forty five degree angle to start to build up some shadow and highlight.…
Weekly Waffle #82
I’ll start off this weeks weekly waffle with a bit of site admin now that I have figured out why the Ligtbox function isn’t working. I did an update mid with week some details but you should find things are working here. No game night this week so a little bit more time to try and get some work done on the civilians for MERCS ready to carry on our game next week. Try as I might though I’ve just not been able to summon up any enthusiasm for them at all. Frist up is the fact that they are made of this resin plastic highbred that is just horrible…
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