Germans, Prussians, Robots, Deep Ones, Space Marines, Minenwerfer, Dacians, Adeptus Mechanicus, and some Walls

Hello Dearest Viewer,

It's been six weeks since I posted anything, but at least this time I'll show you 61 things I finished..

Here are seven little robots.  The hovering things Old Glory drones, much like little flying Fallout robots.

The three bots silently running are from Black Cat Bases.  I put one on a base made out of a circuit board, but it looks stupid.

Speaking of Black Cat Bases, here are eight of their Deep Ones, from their lovely Lovecraft line.

I loved painting these guys and want to paint more.  I know they are very shiney; I gloss coated them because Lovecraft described them as slick or slimey.

The deep ones were posing in front of some walls I made for the soon to be released Fallout Wasteland Warfare.  http://www.modiphius.com/fallout.html

In case a wall gets destroyed, I built a damaged one too.

It's simple cardboard, so I soaked it in glue to make the torn "metal" not move.

 Oh dear, someone got caught in the minenwerfer explosion!

Here are some Prussians running around.  (Warlord)

Here they are running back for a thing they forgot.

Some Old Glory small WWI Minenwerfer crews.

Here they are wondering where the Prussians went.

Here's some large Old Glory Minenwerfer's.  I posted the crews in an earlier post.  I love both saying and writing Minenwerfer.                                                Minenwerfer

Minenwerfer

Three more space marines in my quest to paint one of each legion.

Black Templar, Adulator, Dark Angel.

Two Old Glory robots, I love robots. 

The blue one is named My Little Minenwerfer.

A Warlord mounted Prussian Landwehr officer and 3 Old Glory Rus swordsmen.

I secretly positioned the Rus at different angles; so you can't tell they're all the same model pose.

Here's a GW Adeptus Mechanicus boss of robots model; next to him is an old Mageknight model with a couple GW parts added.

I spared every cost on the robot, his base is even an old broken one, held together with puppy love.

Four random models.  I have no clue who made the dwarf with a catapult on his back.  The barbarian is an old Citadel model. 

I don't know who made the large medic, but he's been conscripted into my IG army.  The little IG guy is one of the worst IG sculpts from the Rogue Trader days.

Here's some random crap I glued to bases.  The brown stone is fossilized dinosaur bone; there must be a dinosaur graveyard buried in my yard.  They're chunks sliced off of larger pieces.

The green rock is a piece of Sonoran sunrise turquoise given to me by  Huitzilopochtli.  (Tournament Gamer secret:  smash several painted models before every battle, as a sacrifice to Huitzilopochtli and you always win; but never invite him to be a house guest (he leaves his socks under the couch and puts cheese in his coffee)).

Almost everyone was posing on this 6' x 4' flexible game mat I made.  It's amazingly flexible and soft.

To make a flexible mat: 1. get a big piece of canvas, 2. mix sand, brown paint and acrylic caulk (min 1 tube per 4 square feet, 3.  put goo on canvas, 4. let dry, 5. dry brush, 6. add flock if you want

Well till next time my beloved Minenwerfers, when I'll have Polish Lancers, Prussians, robots, spacemen and only Huitzilopochtli knows what else.

XOXOXOXO

Love,

Baconminenwerferfat

Bikers, Prussians, Imperial Guard, Gondorians, and some Robots

Hello Distinguished Viewer,

I managed to take a few pics of 38 recently completed minis, before my battery died.  First up are two Old Glory bikers.

I tried to paint the DC superhero Flash emblem and a Confederate flag on their shirts.

Here are six GW Catachans.  Five of them are metal.  I realized I need to up the genetic diversity of my Catachan soldiers.

Here's an old OOP metal (plastic arm) Imperial Guardsman and what I believe is a "Navigator".

Here are four Old Glory robots.  They will joining my zombie killing robot army.

Here are six plastic GW Gondorians, based in my heretic fashion.

Here's an Uncle Mike brand deep one hybrid and an OOP metal GW dwarf beserker.

We must never forgive GW for destroying the WFB Old World and making the WFB into a space marines with crossbows skirmish game for dummies.

Here are nine Old Glory (second edition) Prussian Musketeers.

Here they marching back up the hill.

Here's three Warlord metal Prussian Landwehr.  The metals are nicer, more diverse, and slightly smaller than their plastic Landwehr.

And here's where the camera died, after taking a picture of four Warlord Landwehr running down a trail. 

Hustle up boys; it's "Taco Tuesday" at the dining facility!!!

Till next time my beloved viewer, when I'll have more random minis that didn't get their souls stolen by my evil camera and more!  There will likely be robots, Prussians, LotR, zombies, WW1 and WW2 goodness.

XOXOXOXOX

Love and wet Kisses, Baconfat

MEGA-POST! Space Mercenaries, Survivors, Zombies, Gondorians, Rangers, Imperial Guard, Fallout, Ogres, French Nappies, Medievals, Uncle Mike's, Some Junk and Chaos Wars Battle

Hello,


I've finished just over sixty minis since the last post.  After I show them, there'll be a quick Ral Partha Chaos Wars battle.


Here are three of Wargames Factory's "The Women" survivors. 

When Wargames Factory went out of business Warlord picked up there Zombies and survivors for a new game called "Project Z".  Warlord has new sculpts of male zombies that replaced WF's atrocious first box set.

Here are ten Space Mercenaries from Old Glory/Blue Moon.  You can get these from OldGlory25s.

 

Don't let my very uninspired poor paint job fool you.  These are nice minis, my paint job doesn't do them justice. 

 Here's two Games Workshop Imperial Guard models.  I hate the new title for the Guard; Molestorum Astroglide or some rubbish like that.

 

I made this test batch of sandbags out of Milliput.  They came out easy, but I think Sculpy baking clay is easier to work with.

 

Here's a Heroclix model with pieces cut off and a new hand gun painted to look like a Fallout vault member.

 

She's standing next to a cool Reaper model.  I need more of these Reaper sci-fi troops.

 

Here's two Uncle Mike minis from the Strange Aeons line.

 I didn't paint these very well either, did I?  I couldn't come up with a wheel chair friendly base.  I think I'll build it up with Milliput and paint it like asphalt.

 

 

 Here's a Victory Force zombie, that looked rather healthy.  I painted him up as a homeless looking survivor.

Here's four Victory Force zombies and one very scary fleshy Uncle Mike zombie.   The zombie girl in red is wearing a Star Trek outfit.


The Uncle Mike zombie has quite a few nasty bite marks.

Here's five Reaper "Bones" zombies.  It's true, they don't require primer. 

I tried to paint them up like the very dirty walkers from this season's Walking Dead.  They're kind of shiny looking.  I may save them for rainy scenarios.

Here are the zombies shambling towards the suvivors.  I'm very excited about the new Warlord Project Z and Mantic Games Walking Dead games.  I just don't know if I need to get both games.

Here's three classic long out of print Citadel GW Ogres.  They have so much more character than today's fat bald guy Ogres.  The ogre line is probably dead now anyway, now that they've destroyed the Warhammer world.  It's all Space Marines, demons, and naked dwarves now.

You'll notice that I forgot to put vegetation on their bases.

Here's a Gorgon from Reaper miniatures.

I forgot her vegetation as well.

Here's two Perry plastic Frenchmen.  I don't know why I double based them.

They're wearing Victrix back packs, with great coats rolled up.  At least they'd be warm in Russia.

Here's a Rus with a long spear, a Foundry model of unknown nationality, and a Old Glory Revolting Peasant that will join my Rus army.

Looking at the house in the background.

Fighting over a horribly sculpted treasure pile I found in a bits box.  I wish I knew who made this.

Five Gondorians, not on the big GW trophy bases.

Trying to see what the Rus guys were looking at.

More GW LotR guys, Rangers, also on smaller bases.

They seem to look a little shiny.  I may have overdone the protective coating.

Here are two mounted Gondorian officers. 

One of them came used, I think previous owner let a monkey paint it. I hate stripping models and can't honestly remember which one has two coats of paint and I didn't have to prime it.

On to some action, with Ironwind's update of the Ral Partha game Chaos Wars.  Chaos Wars are free from Ironwind.


Neither of had ever played and came up with completely different forces.  Ivan had Elves, 2 mounted knights, yeomen spears, peasant archers w/longbows, and four heroes and a wizard.

Here's the left side of field.  I brought evil humans: yeoman crossbow, yeoman bows, two yeoman melee units, some centaurs, a group of fighter mages, two wizards, and a demon thing.  I bought crappy level 1 heroes as cheaper leaders to try and get the initiative.    

 

Here's the right half of the field.  I split my army into two halves to make it difficult for the smaller enemy to take us all out at once.  I'm hoping he'll charge through the gap in the middle of the field, so I can pincer move him.

 

He's slowly advancing.  The longbows on the far right out range my bows and cause casualties.  Luckily my wizard had cast "universal balance".  The peasant took damage and failed morale.  Don't waste longbows on peasants.

They spearmen advance and get shot to hell by the wizards and archery.

There's a lot of shooty pew pew and mounted elves are going to charge my archers (see the red line).  The demon and yeomen charge him immediately after

The elves and archers are annihilated (see smoke poofs).  The yeomen suffered a lot losing half the unit.

Next turn, a lone hero charge my yeomen and the other mounted unit moves towards the fighter mages.  Another hero wiped out a unit of yeomen (which has already been removed).

 

The fighter mages blast away with spells hurting the knights, before a unit of centaurs hits the flanks and wipes them out.

The demon charges the hero who is attacking the yeomen.  The hero kills the demon and sends the remaining couple yeomen fleeing. 

The elves have annihilated three of my six units, but have lost all four of theirs.  All that remains for the elves are two characters who plan to go down in a blaze of glory.

They go down in a blaze anyway.  A blaze of crossbow bolts and wizard spells.  I tend towards cowardice and would have fled.  

 

Chaos Wars is quite fun and an improvement over the 1980's rules. 

lessons:

1. We learned packs of fighter mages have to be taken out immediately.  They're soft but pump out a literal crap ton of magic.  I would shoot them with crossbows.

2.  Don't put strong heros in units, they  can't fight.  Use crap heros as leaders.  Have lots of leaders to win initiative, I had seven I think.

3.  Shield cavalry until they are really in charge range.

4.  I often don't understand rules and Ivan is very much so smarter than me.  We would have played a very different game if Ivan didn't have his superior reading comprehension.

5.  Peasants suck and run away at the first chance.  Don't pay the points to give them weapons, use them as God intended, as meat shields.

I hope Ivan wants to play again, but he has since bought Dragon Rampant and I may have to wait another 30 years to play again.

Till next time, when I'll have Dwarves, Dacians, Prussian Nappies, more Survivors and probably some random minis.

love and kisses,

Baconfat