Thursday, April 11, 2013

Not so long ago, and pretty close by..


After the better part of a year running the unwieldy Marvel Heroic RPG, a change was in order.  A new Good Games (FLGS) store has opened up in town and with the change in scenery has come a change in game.

Fantasy Flight's Star Wars: Edge of Empire is certainly more of a traditional RPG but uses a fashionable dice pool mechanic and funky dice.  I'm hoping to write a little review after I’ve put a few more sessions under the belt.

The move to a more tactical based combat system has allowed me the opportunity to knock out a few pieces of terrain, some modular desert tiles purchased from DriveThruRPG mounted on mat board and finally get a bit of use out of the 200 odd Star Wars pre-painted figures in my collection.  I had originally intended to re-paint all of the SW figures (madness) but may settle for touching up a few that suffer from factory paintjob retardation.  

The rock pieces are made from bits of styrofoam, cut up and glued with PVA to mini-cds before being gunked with a combination of texture paste, burnt umber craft paint, fine ballast and PVA glue.  After drying, the pieces were dry brushed with a buff coloured craft paint.

They should work for 15mm as well as 28s.




Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Venerable Ambrosius aka Sniper Dude

"Venerable Ambrosius" is part of the "Griffins of Akkylannie" faction in the Confrontation (Rackham) universe.

  The miniature was included in the Hybrid board game.  I'm not sure I particularly like my work on this figure.  And what's with the tiny freaking ankles?  All miniatures require "cankles" in my opinion...





Baba Yaga.. shaking her thang

I picked up this great Reaper miniature from the now defunct Tin Soldier in Sydney.  I understand that the figure is from the Exalted line of miniatures that Reaper produced on licence from White Wolf.  It's a shame but this range is no longer in production, though I'm sure that there are figures to be found in countless bargain bins scattered across the hobby universe.  

I lost the feather on the staff whilst cleaning up flash but I'm not too worried.  My only problem now is that I need to make a hut on chicken legs to go with her.  Slavs are weird.  





Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Barbarian with Sword - Mega Miniatures

Released originally by Grenadier (?) but now produced by Mega Miniatures, this is a barbarian with a sword..  Obviously.




Ork Nobz - more of them.

Per the title, here are a few more of the plastic Ork Nobz I painted.  These little bastards went for an adventure behind the sofa cushion, were found and fixed up!

Here's the link to the first ones I posted a little while back:

http://sentientbeanminiatures.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Space%20Orc




Rabid man with sword and axe.

Another beaudy from my recent batch of painted figures, this barbarian from Reaper seems to believe that the best defense is a good offense.  

He also likes the bling.   


Yellowbeard, Ogre Chieftain

I particularly enjoyed painting this Ogre chieftain from Reaper.  It's a metal miniature, but you can now purchase the same sculpt in resin-plastic for a few dollars.  I bought another one in the resin-plastic and when I get a chance to get him painted (and maybe converted), I'll post him up.