BUGS!

I found my 10/15 mm Xenomorphs from Pendraken and Khurasan; I want to get a lot of them painted for a gaming aquaintant's sci-fi adaption of Sellswords & Spellslingers (working title: Starships & Gunslingers), and plan to buy a handful of USCM-proxies to use as the heroes.

I need to finish my Greek Archer project, and get some more minis off the prepping station, first, though, but as I am starting my five days off period today, I should make rapid progress over the next week!

I originally purchased these to make a 15 mm God of Battles proxy T'lekkan army, and that project shall of course be re-animated at the same time (which means that I shall also have to dig out my 15 mm Copplestone Barbarians in a not too distant future).

Horisont VIII, 2016: I Ain't Been Shot, Mum

I am not sure what scale the minis used for this set-up was, but definitely smaller than 28mm!

I Ain't Been Shot, Mum, by Too Fat Lardies, and here depicting a British assault on Italian lines somewhere in North Africa (I think).

I took some piccies while running my own Blood Eagle game nearby, so I have absolutely no idea what was going on.

Camp and Baggage Bases Finished!

I did manage to get the 28mm Camp Base done yesterday, but the four 15mm bases I flocked earlier today.

Here is a pic.

We did not play GoB yesterday, as Ulolkish could not get here until mid-afternoon, but we played JDMG with the experimental house rules, and I shall record our antics in due time.

15mm Xenomorphs/Aliens (GoB T'lekkan Proxies) WIP 4

My Pendraken order arrived today, and I can now begin to finally plan in details what sort of unit I am going to use the different kinds as.

Although these are nominally 10mm, they are more than big enough to use as 15mm creatures, thus giving me a lot more options to choose from.

And, yes, there are both Facehuggers and Eggs!

I think I am going to use the small crouching ones as 'Drones', and as they are really small, I may put two on each 15mm washer base; they are a Formed unit, and by randomizing the way they are glued to the bases, I may be able to create a 'swarm' look to an otherwise dull square rank-and-file unit.

Well, we shall see about that.

For now, I need to concentrate on finishing a couple of older projects, so the T'lekkan list will have to rest for a week or two.

Quick Update!

I have at least one game scheduled in the attic for tomorrow (either GoB or JDMG), and in the case we should decide on GoB, I thought it would be a good idea to get my long overdue Camp Base (and the Camp and Baggage Bases for GoB15) finished - so I grabbed my drab earthy brown and a brush and slabbed some paint on.

I plan to highlight them with a drybrush tomorrow morning, and then flock them around noon, hopefully in time for them to dry before Ulokish arrives.

I may need to place the GoB28 Camp Base on a radiator for it to dry fast enough, but that is an easy option,

15mm Xenomorphs/Aliens (GoB T'lekkan Proxies) WIP 3

I finished assembling my 'princelings' this evening. I have found that it is easier to fix the heads in place first, then adjust the wings to fit behind/under them.

Tomorrow, I shall put some greenstuff in the gaps under the heads, and them I am all set to begin painting this unit.

I am going to prime them black, then dryprush with a blue-grey, pick out details, and then use clear varnish all over the models.

I have not worked out how I am going to do the unit leader, yet; I may do one in another colour (greyscale or boney white), or maybe use another kind of model - we shall see about that when my Pendraken order arrives.

15mm Xenomorphs/Aliens (GoB T'lekkan Proxies) WIP 2

I arrived at work late yesterday evening, just to find that I had been given last night and today off (SO stupid, we cannot acces our work schedules online!!).

So, I went home, sat down with a half bottle of mead, watched Die Hard With a Vengeance on TV, and afterwards bunked in my eldest daughter's room, as she was sleeping in my bed (Anna and Lea take turns to do so when I am working).

While I had this unexpected extra day off, the May weather showed itself from its absolutely best side today, so I spent most of the day in the garden, mowing some grass, and readying another small bed for roses in the middle of the lawn (where our flagpole used to sit - it broke in a storm a couple of years ago, and the concrete block in the ground is still there; we shall need a powered breaker hammer to remove that).

So, I did not get much hobby time, but I managed to finish assembling two of the winged Aliens.

The prone creature will need a little putty on the neck, and I am not quite sure if it is due to bad fit, or a wanting preparation job on my side; I shall pay more attention with the next one...

The bases are, by the way, 18mm steel washers I found in Bauhaus yesterday, when I went there to replenish my supply of 15mm and 20mm washers, and to buy a new splitting maul.

New GoB Project: 15mm Xenomorphs/Aliens (T'lekkan Proxies)

I recently plunged in and ordered a bunch of Aliens from Khurasan Miniatures, and Pendraken Miniatures respectively.

The Khurasan 'Space Demons' arrived a couple of days ago:

I did not unpack the critters until today, as I was busy preparing for a game of JDMG Tuesday (which will be reported soon), but Took a closer look, and started prepping and basing the winged creatures, which are going to stand in for 'Princelings'.

They are very nice sculpts, but 2 of the 3 different poses have problems with the undercut for the right arm, so some carving and filing is required.

I hope to find time for doing the last 2 of the flyers tomorrow, and maybe get some wings attached, but I am starting my 5-night work week tonight, and time is limited, as I also have to attend to the real world...

Horisont VI, 2014, Day 2 + 2½

The chaos table getting populated

I had a game of Crossfire on Spicker's table late Saturday night

Pulp game underways

DreadBall table ready for action

Dropzone Commander

Our GoB table was heavily visited all afternoon

I played a game of Lion Rampant... well I tried, but the dice weren't nice to me

This is where things began to go horribly (not just awfully) wrong. I thought I had put the mtd seargeants in cover.

And lost half of them to bow fire...

Later, after losing about half of my character's entourage to my opponents, without inflicting a single casualty in return (loosing one of my boasts at the same time), I gave up. Games with activation rolls are nor for me; no matter the odds, I'll ALWAYS fail to activate units with relatively low target numbers.

Another game was played between two other players - alreadhy, you can see the side I previously played succeeding in making its advance in a more orderly fashion.

A challenge is issued and accepted

And one commander goes down!

3rd game I witnessed

A game of Open Combat

And some 15mm Sci-Fi stuff by Phoenikuz/Torben. I don't remember the name of his ruleset, though

Some GoB15

And a fantasy game with some REALLY nice scratch-built stuff!

Thats all from this year's Horisont (at least from me, it is).

Horisont VI, 2014, Day 1

As promised, some pics from Horisont.

The pics in this post are all from Friday evening - the calm before the stom, so to speak, as the convention was not officially open before Saturday.

A table for a cave man game presented by Sonny from Rogue trader Copenhagen

The Vale of the Small Gods table (Chaos warbands slugging it out)

A game of DreadStreets (homebrewed system by Rasmus Wichmann)

Dropzone Commander table

Vikotniks fantasy bar brawl game

Table ready for some 15mm God of Battles

And some 15mm greenskins

Our LotR GoB28 table ready

And he first game underways (yes, I was a bit biased when it comes to taking pics - but actually less than a handful of the presented games were played Friday night).

The die shows the sutlers

Very nice set-up for Lion Rampant

Mars Attacks brought by Dr. The Viking

Jens from Pardulon brought his fantastic post-apocalyptic terrain

A game of Sails of Glory

After the GoB game, our table stood in for a game of Song of Blades and Heroes

Th-th-th-that's all, folks!