'Scatterpalooza' 2023 comes to an end...

Well the majority of scatter terrain has now been purchased and painted. I finished up with some old resin boats and another Wizkids kit --- mainly because I really liked the barrel rafts they included.

Mordheim Freelance Knight (on foot...)

 I mentioned a while ago to a buddy that the Freelance Knight from the Mordheim range was one of my favourite all-time miniatures.  He later surprised me with a new-in-blister set for my birthday.  I then stalled 3-4 years, simply being afraid to open it and "waste" it by painting it.

I finally said "fuck it" and painted the on-foot miniature yesterday.  Absolutely lovely miniature to paint (the shield is drying so it's not glued to his pack just yet).

Love the old grizzled look, the tattered sleeves and knees of his clothing.  The broken feather, etc.  Just heaps of character.  So...here he is.

 He'll probably see a lot of use in the dungeons now as the "Warrior" going forward.  Eventually I'll take a crack at the mounted version, though I have little use for it at the moment.

PS: Editing a photo for a forum mate - ignore this bit!

Daemon Prince: The Sequel

So, to make sure I can field them however I wish, I wanted a "winged" Daemon Prince as well.  Using the same Crypt Flayer kit I threw on another remaining Plaguebearer head and whipped this fella up.  Equally bloody and gore-ridden as the other one - and will likewise serve in dungeon crawls, fantasy games and Mordheim.  I love minis which give me multiple uses!

MDF is for Mordheim

Some more progress on the simple MDF kits I picked up from Red Vectors (Sold via Minibits) for Mordheim.  Simple kits, and not the best, but very good for filling up avenues or fire and adding some "bulk" to finish out my table.  Will be adding more debris and rubble to them as time permits.

Another Mordheim weekend!

Went to my buddy's for his birthday weekend/memorial day and we knocked out maybe six games of Mordheim (five of which I enjoyed!).  In one three-player game my kick ass Undead warband fell apart when two expensive henchmen and two advanced heroes actually died after the game (forcing me to re-start basically).

More dungeon crawl reinforcements.

Finishing up a bunch of random minis I've had laying around.  I was also waiting on a new can of dip, so I put a bunch of random stuff together at the last minute.

There is a Reaper "Estra, the Iconic Spiritualist" who will play the role of hag/crone/witch for dungeon crawls and will serve as a Witch for Mordheim.  The dwarfs will serve as...dwarfs.  The snake?  Well, it's from Conan the board game...and who doesn't want to have a huge snake on hand?

Game Weekend: Mordheim, and Shadow War Armageddon

Got in several games this weekend.  Four games of Mordheim and one game of SWA (followed by some role-playing w/ Savage Worlds).

 Table set-up for a playtest using some ad hoc Monster rules...worked "okay"

 Table set up for the "Occupy" scenario for Mordheim

 Table set up for the Street Fight scenario - each warband must exit the opposing street end

 A glance down the street of doom!

 The street from the other side!

 The street table.

 A three way game of Shadow War Armageddon - overall it really paled in comparison to having just played Mordheim (super "simple" by comparison)

 The wagon of "out of action" models in the first game...my Undead were slaughtered

Table set up for a generic Wyrdstone Hunt

Playtesting the beast.

Played a test game while working on the mechanics of the Stir Monster for Mordheim...it didn't end particularly well for my Undead warband...

 The warband approached the game via three launches...

 The Zombies inability to run made them easy pickings one the beast surfaced.

 The beast emerged as a Zombie attempted to spirit away a chunk of precious Wyrdstone.

 The warband, shortly before being devoured.

Before the beast appeared the warband moved quickly through the ruins, grabbing up wyrdstone...

It came from the River Stir...

Spurred on by the idea of getting to play some Mordheim in the next week or two I put together and painted the large Thaug miniature from Conan and used all of the tentacles provided with the Kickstarter pledge to make a giant waterborne beastie.

One of the pictures shows a large 28mm (32mm) figure from Reaper for scale.  The tentacles have been clipped off bases and mounted on clear acrylic (paint...in...the..ass!).  I normally don't like acrylic bases - find them far too shiny and obvious when used on normal boards...but for the tentacles which may be over water or land, etc. I think it was the right choice.

I'm doing up rules for the creature for Mordheim (which will probably translate perfectly to Necromunda if needed).  Will post that when I get around to finishing it.

Painting doldrums...

I've been in a rut for a few weeks, trying to paint.  Nothing I've painted is well done, and I've stripped numerous models (some more than once!) trying to rekindle some kind of enthusiasm.  I've been in the mood to paint, but the results just aren't coming together - perhaps I'm not overly inspired by the models...not sure.

I almost didn't post these because they're so mediocre, but models are models.

An inquisitor in terminator armour - made from a Librarian body and some bits I had laying around.  Armed with a plasma gun (possibly used as the Wargear Card "Plasma Blaster" when needed)

 

Various elements allowing me to run an Undead warband in Mordheim (for which I built the terrain the previous post).  A necromancer, some more zombies/ghouls, some hyenas from the Conan boxed game to serve as dread wolves (awful sculpts unfortunately), and some dregs assembled from Frostgrave cultist bits and other stuff.