The Warmaster!

Yup its the man who can.....

now this bad man has been sitting around the old painting table for quite a while! and as a "break" I decided to get him sorted, some bits need a final tweek but he's good as done.

Now thats he's finally painted you all know whats gonna happen now...

Armourfast review - German Mortar Team

So I managed to get my hands on a box of these the other day...





















Currently for Kampgruppe Normandy I'm running off-board arty support but I fancied getting some on the actual board! (just a excuse to buy & paint more models)

So nice and simple instuctions....

 and you get four of these sprues in the box,

the plastic is the bend type like the 1/35 army men that you can get but not too bad, a bit of cleaning up to do but again not a great deal.

I like the fact you get 5 guys per mortar team, plently of choice for basing and some extras for observers and the like.

size wise there pretty much spot on compared to the plastic solider company stuff I've got.

so about 20 mins later and I've an instant battery!! all I need to do is base them and splash some paint on them, the left overs I'll use for forward observer teams as well as normal infantry.

So nice and sinmple, good models for a nice price!

Kampfgruppe Normandy, Highway to hell.....

This week at the club, Nick was up against Coop's and his Brits,

The mission they rolled was Highway to hell and I was helping out with rules and taking snaps of the game,

So Turn One, Coop's recce team are one the table moving towards the first objective as the rest of the army comes on in coluom down the main road,

So the calm before the storm....

The British advance

and So do the Germans....

Nick fires the first shot in anger at a infantry unit killing three chaps, but not enough for a moral test, The British then break off and make some aggressive movement towards the German armour,

And the Tiger gets the first kill, One of the fireflies...

But its a trap! The other firefly has the big cat in his sights and misses with all its shots for a whole two turns!!

meanwhile the infantry advance towards the third objective supported by a sherman, 

and in a very bold move Coop's tries for a rear shot but fails to spot the panther!!  On a 2+ I might add!

but the panzerfaust armed infantry manage to spot, hit and destroy the sherman (just!)

This gives Nick a bit of confidence and another sherman "brews up"

and the view from the Piper...

3 burning shermans, a suppressed infantry unit and lots of units hiding in cover....

The Last remaining firefly waits on covering fire and pops a tiger (with ease I might add!!) the 252 is the supply truck ;)

and with the game starting to come to a close the firefly then moves forward and claims a panther again with ease!

another sherman pop's to the panthers.... 

and an all out bold as brass ball manoeuvre, the panther comes round the corner and goes for a side shot on the firefly and misses!!

so both Coops & Nick have two objectives each, but coops has taken more moral points than Nick, even though Coops managed to pick out one heroic action and 2 aircraft!!

even though I was only an observer the infantry struggled to keep up with the armour with most of coop's guys just pegging it each turn and the distinct lack of anti-tank within the infantry squads meant that most of them stayed out sight so the game became a heavy weight slug fest between the armour.

The 17 pounders on the firefies were cutting through the armour like a hot knife through butter, and rumblings of M10 Achilles were heard from Coop's much to the groans of Nick.

So with American Armoured in the pipeline and more than likely picking up various bits at salute I'm starting to suss out a list that can do the usual jack of all trades.

End of January already!!

well that month went past quick!!!

and unexpected it was a race to the finsh....

with the bits that I picked up from Ebay for next to nothing it scuttled my chances of finishing on a postive number unless I pulled my finger from my arse and cracked on!

So the chaos hounds that I've had sitting on my painting table for about 6 months!! 

I was talking to Coop's the other week about last years painted/bought numbers and quite rightly he pointed out that I'd not actually reduced the amount of unpainted figures that I've got kicking around just stayed on top of what I'm buying which I think is a bloody good point so I'm now making an effort to finish off those odds and sods that I've never been arsed to do!! 

So I'm currently chipping away at the nurgle baneblade and hopefully will be doing some of my back log from old armies and the like.... (well that the plan!)

But I need to maintain focus and spotting a load of bits on ebay for No-Go-Zone doesn't help! I managed to pick up the rule book and the minitures for a steal!

and I cranked out the "law" to tip me over the edge for my pledge.

Now I'll be honest the models are not in the warmachine/GW league but as figures go these were a nice change to paint, and the "chaos" models are going to be just as fun!

I mentioned it to one of the chaps at the club on Thursday and he'd also picked up the rule book so once we can get a game in I'll do the usual "First Look" post and see what people think.

Meanwhile this is the rest of the stuff that I got from Brittanna mintures the other week, I forgot to take pictures of them "naked" but once there painted up they should look nice.

and the ghouls have arrived for the mordhiem gang so I'll blast these out when I'm not entertaining the G.C.!

So the pledge...

Bought - 43
Painted - 44

nice and tight eh... ;)

KGN - Get on the supply train....

So my new bits for KGN started to arrive earlier this week and this is some of what I got...

So a very shiny SdKfv 252 with ammo trailer, the detail on this model is outstanding!! it has so many delicate pieces that come with it I'd say its more for display or diorama rather than wargaming.

So Hanz the medic as a size comparison,

I thought it looked a bit small personally but after some google-fu....

its pretty much bang on! 

the trailer unit, the really nice thing about this kit is that you have the options of having the door opened or closed and the detail inside is lovely, but in the usual "Anton" way I closed the doors.

The other bit that I got was from the Britannia miniatures line which is now been taken over by Grubby Tanks,

So a horse and cart, some thing that sums up the german army quite well as most pictures that you see they used alot of horse's to drag there kit around it wasn't all halftracks and prime movers.

Again Hanz jumping in on the picture cheeky little monkey!

the other side

and the two next to each other as scale/size guide.

So the links to the relevant websites,
www.milicast.com 
/www.grubbytanks.com

The customer service from both places was great, the milicast order arriving far quicker than I expected, and the Grubby Tanks order having a hand written note apologising for the delay!

So all I need to to is splash some paint on these and they'll be ready to be shot up by the RAF!

Mordhiem Crew - Armand's Animators

Mordhiem!!!

Yep its another "blast from the past" I've been "invited" into a up and coming Mordhiem Campaign at the Leicester Phat Cats, and after quite a bit of chin scratching I decided to wander down the undead route.

The initial plan was to pick up bits off ebay as they tend to go quite cheap now days, well that was until GW announced with there new sales tactic of two weeks notice that Vampire Counts are being re-released... Humm well that put a big hole in my plan as the price for undead went through the roof.

But I held out to see what shiney new stuff was going to be release and a couple of bits took my fancy but nothing usable in mordhiem.

A flying undead alter thingy!

Don't think I'd be able to get away with that as being a mount for my Vampire ;)

So onto the Crew:

Vampire - Sword & Mace
Necromancer - Bow, Sword & Spell to be rolled at the first game
Dreg #1 - Mace
Dreg #2 - Mace
Dreg #3 - Guess what?? Mace!

Henchmen Ghouls - 3
Henchmen Ghouls - 3

and that lot comes to 497

The vampire, necromancer & ghouls were dead easy to choose the models for, but the dregs not so easy, needed to be human type models but scum looking guys?

so after a bit of chit chat with my various muse's down the local shop empire flagellants were the way forward!

So the hero's of the warband

The three dreg's I decided not to bother converting them just used them straight out my bits box! 

the newish plastic necromancer

and the big man Armand, I managed to get old of the last metal one in the shop for a whopping £7 but looking on the GW website the "finecast" version is £14.50! 

I wasn't too sure what colour to do the winged arm, and in the end I decided to make red my connecting colour.

So just waiting for the ghouls to come in the post I looked at the GW ones and didn't really like them....

but the mantic ones....

are much better personally...

so if they are anything like the zombies that I got last year these will be a doddle to paint up!

And talking about paint I've now an ebay shop selling Vallejo Model Color as well as army painter products, go have a look ;)

G.C. Gaming Supplies

Cutlass Crew & Trollbloods Kriel

Well Its been a real slow month painting wise so far,

With being sucked into the MMO world of starwars The Old Republic and deciding to take the plunge and start up an ebay shop supplying paint and the like time has been precious recently.

I've been making some headway into the trollbloods that I got at the end of last year and a friend gave me a load of his stuff now he's found a new "toy" to play with ;)

so the champions unit,

I've the UA to paint up to go with these guys and combining that with the champion hero that I did as my tester model its a filthy unit!

 bung some stone scribes behind them maxed out on focus and the champions become armour 18 with P&S 12 once I get the UA done for these!

so the trolls are coming along nicely and once I've stripped the bits that I've been given I'll have quite a bit to play about with!

So with Nick's Cutlass Campaign about to kick off this week at the club and spurred on by Coopers post on his blog ( the mountain of metal ) with his dipped pirate girls which look really nice...

So I figured I'd better get me ass into gear and splash some paint on the Orc's that I picked up at salute last year, 
 

So the Admiral and his three orc veterans armed to the teeth and ready to go, Just a coat of anti-shine as I've a feeling that they'll be spending most of the game lying down due to injuries.

I've another three on the way from black scorpion miniatures and it looks like he's moving over to resin for his models so I'm looking forward to comparing the cast quality with the metal ones above.

The crew that I'm going to run with for the campaign is...

Admiral:
Cutlass, Dagger, Parrot

Orc Vet #1:
2 Cutlass, Dagger

Orc Vet #2:
Cutlass, Dagger, Duelling Pistol


Orc Vet #3:
Axe, Dagger, Duelling Pistol

Orc #1:
Cutlass, Dagger, Ships Pistol


Orc #2:
Cutlass, Dagger, Ships Pistol


Orc #2:
Cutlass, Dagger, Ships Pistol

and that lot rolls in at $496, now I'm expecting to recruit the goblins as the campaign goes on, with the few games that I've played so far recruiting orc's & vets is quite rare hence so many to start with.