Dystopian Wars Empire of the Blazing Sun Naval box step by step

I picked up a EOTBS for D-Wars a couple of weeks ago and decided to splash some paint on them and as usual I did a quick step by step,

Started with the model undercoated black, I'm still using halford car matt primer however one of the guys has recommended using grey, might have to have a look at that at a later date.

Heavy dry brush of Necron compound one of the GW dry range.

A glaze of Gulliman blue

then a light dry brush of necron compound again, Pick out the detail with brassy brass and add some silver for the highlight

paint the wood walkways in vallejo German camo beige or commando karki in laymans terms, and blast the brass & wood with agrax earthshade (the new devlin mud) I also defined the steel plate joins with a quick line of the shade.

Then I choose the contrasting colour and with a bit of a high light and a green wash the escort is done!

Its really that simple! So after a couple of nights work in between painting the doors in the house I managed to crank this lot out.

The blue steel looks really good on these and done in such a simple way that I'm starting to mess about with glazes a bit more, All I have to do is get them on the field and see if I'll live up to my usual gaming standard of nice army no idea!

We are Legion... well Dystopian ones.. & 15mm Critical mass goodies!

I'm not talking about the highly effective Anonymous legion from 4Chan...

We are Legion

this is about the shiney new models from Spartan Games, there 28(ish)mm skirmish system in the dystopian universe, When these were first previewed on the net a while back I like them from the start and when I got the chance I got my hands on some and decided to do splash some paint on these.

I was in two minds how to paint them though as I didn't want to go down the route as WW2 Germans as they didn't fit the colour scheme, so after some digging about I found a pretty awesome site with loads of pictures of various Prussian uniforms and picked a couple from there.

www.kaisersbunker.com

 As I bought the starter set and an additional section I decided to paint them in different uniforms rather than the standard everything looks the same, So I decided with the dark green of the light infantry for the "extra section" and the dark blue for the rest of the army,

The models themselves were fairly simple to paint with good detail and the quality of the casting being very good, once I've done this lot...

Then I'll be basing them with my usual mix and rolling some dice at Coopers Yanks!

So I put an order into Critical Mass games for a unit of robot type things and they arrived really fast!!

I threw these together at work when I was on my "fag break" I tried to cut some round bases but will replace these with warbase's precut mdf shortly. 

The casting on these are really nice and I ordered the 3 man? section for a very reasonable £11 and they gave me enough weapons/arms to mix and match how ever I wanted which I though was cracking.

As I was looking at them I had a bit of an idea and though if you painted them like necrons/cylons you could use these in 40K as necons or anything else with the right amount off "fluff"

so a size comparison

They are going to look great as dreadnought type machines for gruntz, and look really nice compared to the grey knight, something I might do but not for a while!




So the pledge for November was a bit of a disaster!

I only painted the 8 transports for grunts and that was it! so finished on a not so shocking -15!

but year so far is looking like....

Bought - 334
Painted - 480
Difference - +146

so I'm happy to let this month slide, and I'm confident that I'll break the 500 mark with models painted.

So until next time!

Flames of War 15mm Churchills & Dystopian Wars bits

So the month of March is rapidly closing to an end and I managed to get some odds and sods done for Dystopian wars,

So the three bits that I had kicking around I decided to splash some paint on, 

The Second swimming Metzger Robot, the sea looks a bit naff in the pics for some reason?

Fresh out of the ship building yards the Rhine class Fleet carrier, nice and simple to paint! 

and the monster which is the Seydlitz mobile airfield, and what Coops will be facing tomorrow night ;)

And finally the churchills  for my tank company are sorted, the three on the far left are a tad shiney but I didn't shake the can for long enough so I'll re-do those at some point, nice and easy and I'm looking forward to blasting jerry with them!

with less than a week till we hit April I doubt that I'll get much more done as I'm feeling the dreaded "man flu" coming on, so the Pledge for this month stands at....

Bought 24
Painted 47
Difference 23!

So the success continues and for my first quarter I'm in the green ready for the influx of salute!

Dystopian Wars - Prussian firepower & pondering thoughts.....

So...

lets start with some more pictures of the Prussians that I've been working my way through, I've 90% finished the dreadnought, just need to order some decals from Doms decals namely the German Maltese cross so that I can slap them on various bits and bobs...

 

 





but if they did a really big version for the airships then I'd be sorted but I'm going to try and not screw up the attempt at freehand so we'll see what happens on that one!


so after trying to get my grubby hands on some khador bits and having no joy what so ever I spotted this from privateer press...

privateerpress.com


which depending how you look at it could be a good thing with the amount of people getting into warmachine and hordes so in theory more people to play against, a better torney scene, increased profits for privateer enabling better casting/sculpting techniques for there models and expansion of ranges. But if your a lead/plastic resin mountain junkie then this is no good for you as availability of low priority models could be frustrating if your having to wait a while to get your hands on something, but that's the nature of the beast eh....

Now if you tie the sudden increase in privateer press goods with...

www.tabletopgamingnews.com

now normally I don't really give a toss about who's made what and all that mumbo jumbo, and I've only really looked at the "overview" as I've no experience in this level of management, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that the reduction in sales for the UK, US & Oz doesn't bode well,

I use my local area as an example,

I popped into my local GW to pick up some paint on a bank holiday and the shop was empty, one demo game going on at that back of the shop and that was it... I used to work for the "evil empire" back in the day when necromunda, epic and 40K were at the height of gaming experience. For the shop to be empty on a bank holiday never happened! no big game no painting clinic's??

Then I get an email from the manager of GW Leicester wanting to know if the Phat cats would be interested in taking part in a local torney sending one champion from each of the local clubs, so how that pans out should be interesting as we don't tend to play GW systems that much and this tells me that the new chap is attempting to bring the "old school" players back into the shop?


but when I popped into my local independent store that sells just about everything under the sun on a midweek evening and it was rammed!! you had 40K kill team, warmachine and some magic the gathering thingy (never understood it as where's the models??)

Personally I prefer to goto my independent as I don't get bugged by the sales staff , I can pick up just about what ever I want and hell even play with unpainted miniatures.


Are GW going the  way of the dinosaur??


No chance they are that big that nothing can topple them from there position, but with gamers branching out and going "heretic" they need to look at the other gaming companies and learn from there successes..



What are your thoughts on this?

Dystopian Wars - Painting the Prussian Naval Battle Group

Well I'm gonna blame this all on Coops.....

As he fancied a game of Dystopian Wars made by Spartan Games the same chaps who have done firestorm armada and uncharted seas, so as I know how the system works I decided to dive right in and pick up a fleet box, I was gonna pick up the brits but various people have threatened to pick up the Prussians but none did so I went for it,

after having a mooch about on the spartan games forum and looking at the various painted fleets I decided to basically paint them roughly as the box art as well as how this chap has done them....

Ologotai's Prussian Fleet

so I started with the usual black spray:

Then a heavy wet brush of the foundation Adeptus Battle Grey

Add a bit of codex grey

then Pick out the metal bits with bolt gun & chaos black mixed together

then go back over the metal with just bolt gun, and snakebite leather for the wooden decking

highlight the decking with tausept ochre (stupid bloody name!)

Pick out the detail with Brassy Brass 

Ink with Badab Black and your done! Now I might add some zigzag lines on the model but I'll do that at a later stage maybe!

So as I was doing the one model I did the usual "Anton" thing and did the whole lot in one fell swoop, I'm sure some of the chaps down the shop & club will be surprised or maybe not? but I picked these up at 8pm last night and by 2pn today they were done, and that included 6 hours with the Golden Child!

One of the smaller ships, you get 9 in the box

Large Ship, you get one in the box, the reason for the missing weapon system is that you can swap out one of the turrets for a special forcefield type thing, something that I'll suss out once I've played a game with them,

I also picked up one of the new capital ships and its huge compared to the others! 

And a floating skyfortress airfield!

overall the models are pretty good with not a great deal of flash and not found any major miscasts so far, so doing better than GW's "finecast" LOL price wise the naval fleet is about £25 and the big ship & zeppelin was around the £12 mark so not a great deal if you consider the actual quality and the overall size,


So there you go nice and easy and you could easily do the same colour scheme for red scorpions for 40K, but I've never sussed out why there grey and not red?

I'm still working on the secrets of the third Reich stuff and "hopefully" I should have most of that done by the end of the month.