More painting ,Hellboy and Burrows and Badgers

Got another couple of the Hellboy Kickstarter figures done with Speedpaints ,really getting to grips with these army painter paints now , the figures are Hammerhead and the wendigo ,still lots of figures to doi from the last Kickstarter

Finished off the last figures from the Oathsworn kick starter "the streets of New Castle" with the towns folk being a lovely varied bunch including a Marmot Butcher , a mouse rushing her child to school , A rat plague Docter and a Pigeom Union Boss to name but a few ,as always fantastic figures and now Oathsworn have added some rules for townsfolk to mess with your battle plans I am looking forward to using them in our games . The last set are the City watch again amazing figures such a joy to paint ,I tried to make them appear to be part of a well organised group by using red and green on them somewhere in the clothing or armour as usual a varied mix of animals , hedgehog , mole ,otter shrews etc all with vafriuos armour and weapons and Oathsworn have provded specific rules for the City watch rather than just using the Roalist Faction rules from the main rule book .

Another figure with speed paints

Had another go with the speed paints ,this time a Badger mage from Oathsworn for Burrows and Badgers and i am impressed the figure was done completely with speedpaints not only do they save alot of time ,the way they run into the folds and thin out on the raised areas give you a finish that looks like its been shaded and highlighted .

Ultra Modern British Army

Just recieved some stunning 28mm Miniatures depicting Modern British Infantry with Virtus Body Armour. These lovely figures are from Design for Battle https://designforbattle.com THe range comes in a few different scales and with a choice of head variants ,although only a small range at the moment ,consisting of British Infantry and Royal Marine Artic patrol . The pictures below are how they came out of the bag I have not cleaned them up at all. Design for Battle also so have a nice face book page with lots of pics and painting tips ,the owner also responds to questions and sorts any issues out without any problem ,I hope this is the start of a bigger range . One of the pics shows a half painted Spectre Operations figure for scale 10/10

This is SPARTA.....

Well my version of a Sparta army and no Gerald Butler or six packs in sight . The Spartans are the first faction I have painted up for Mortal Gods ,the skirmish game from Footsore miniatures . I have had the game for ages but not done anything with it but really wanted to start playing so I started on the Spartan starter set and have 2 Lochagos (leaders) Meonas the Harvester that came in the starter and a unnamed one made from a victrix sprue ,the game cards give the Lochagos different stats ,1 unit each of 9 heavy and 9 medium Hopolites ,these will be eventually backed up by a unit of 9 Kryptia ( elite Hopolites ) and some Peripoloi and Sphendonetai ( javelin and slingers ) ,this gives me more than required for a game I have also done some terrain and objectives ,and 3 special troops a Mantis (seer) a Healer and a Styrix (musician ) all of whom can effect the game in different ways , next up will be the Athenians before I expand both armies Figures are mainly Victrix ,the characters are footsore as are the shields

Rorke's Drift by those that were there volume 1

A new book entered my Zulu War library ,bringing it up to 123 titles , any book with the words Zulu and Ian Knight automatcally get bought . This is a new edition of an old book extemsively editedby Lee Stevenson and Ian Knight with nsome of the original work done by the late Alan Baynham -Jones An hardback edition with a lovely sleeve which has a lovely artists impresion of the action fought at the famious mission station in 1879 . The book contains eye witness accounts from both sides British and Zulu taken from letters and documents of the time and gives an interesting first hand account of the battle . The book has some great pictures of the period and modern photographs of the battle site and monuments and graves of the fallen ,266 pages which also includes maps and charts I am really looking forward to reading this and wait eagerly for volume 2

hellboy Crickets with Army Painter Speedpaints

I picked the crickets from the last hellboy kickstarter as my next batch to paint , and thought I would try out the Army Painter Speed paints my kids bought me for christmas. All I can say is that they are superb paints ,after putting white undercoat on the figures I used 5 different speedpaints to paint the figures and within an hour I had finished them all to a nice wargaming finish. I had heared that you had issues with them bleeding into each other and normal paints causing the speed paints to react in different nasty ways ,but I did not have any issues . 10/10

Assault on Vimy Ridge

Jusr recieved a belated birthday gift of Assault on Vimy Ridge by Mike Lambo . A solitaire wargame book ,this is the second of his games i have and as with the Battles of Medieval Britain ,this is a simple well produced book containing all the maps and tokens within its 45 pages but again the maps etc are available to download for free on boardgame geek . In this game you are a Canadian Sergeant in the assault on vimy ridge in April 1917 ,the game consists of 12 mission maps that link into a campaign and seem to have a lot of repalyability with the random set up system . Looking forward to playing this soon

Ogres

Finished a couple of Ogres I have had in my to do pile for a couple of years at least both I think are from Heresey ,a great little company who have lots of great fantasy and sci fi models ,Really nicely detailed and a bit naughty as you can see from the rear shot .. Both will be used for rangers of Shadow Deep and frostgrave

New Burrows and Badgers supplements

Two new books from Oathsworn for their Burrows and Badgers game. The first is the Dillendorf Agreement ,a map based campaign system . A lovely book containing everything to run a campaign in the Kingdom of Northymbra ,2 to 6 players can run warbands to try and control the Kingdom. 50 colour pages in a card backed book comes with a seperate card campaign map. The second is the besst of gthe Oathsworn Journal which brings together some of the ideas and new rules printed in the free Journal published on an irregular basis. Why buy what has previuosly free you may ask ,its simple really the scenarios ,rules and new items in this are the final versions where they may have changed over a few issues of the journal so these are easier to find and it is a really nice book for the avid players to drool over and at over 50pages contains lots of great pictures of the B&B figures . With both books you recieve a code to order a free PDF ,so extra maps ,stats etc can be easily printed off 10/10