Sept 27 Quite Night on the Maruaders Front

Twas a quite night but still enough lads to sink 40 or so cans of soft drink. It is football finals season in Australia and well opponents are not turning up. Ho hum so it goes.......but as the less sporty of us prefer to chuck dice and move minis there is often an opponent at a lose end.

Malifaux with the minis I just painted.

MTG 10 + players

Imperial Guard and Eldar (clone troopers and jedi) vs Dark Angels

The Dark Angels won!

This is all that I had left at the end of my 2000 point game against a Tyranid Large Monster army.

This is what died including Belial the Chapter Master, but they won the game! I forgot to take pics of the Nids................sorry.

A new Crew for someone else

One of the nice things about painting is that occasionally you get to paint some really nice miniatures for other people. So this small crew for Malifaux was done for one of the lads at school. He kindly swapped some miniatures for me for the paint job. He liked them so much they were fielded on the table the very night I handed it to him.

Now for the pics

WIP

Well I suggested that I could display some of my work in progress so here are a few of the things on the table at the moment.

15mm Old Gladiator minis (Now Black Hat) Bactrian Pike.

A and A late Romans that look better in the flesh, hope to use them in one of the Dux rules sets.

Dry Brush Terminator hmmmm

Mantic wraiths? I think nice minis actually.

3 X 4 Viking Hearthguard  that I am painting with my son.

 

Hopefully more to follow or even a pic or two of them completed, now that would be a nice change.

Friday the 13th

Great night at the club, I was starting to worry that only card games and roleplaying games were going to rule. Ye of little faith, plenty of games being played with toy soldiers and yes if you carefully you will see a female wargamer!!!!!!!!!!!!! Actually we have two! Both are good painters and play Warhammer 40K.

 

Lizards VS Orcs. Nice game got to get the lads painting though.

 

Mind you this orc carnosaur (wyvern) has been painted really nicely.

 

The magic the gathering lads.

 

Yep you see correctly…………………..a woman………again………… Sadly her Nids went down to the Space Wolves but then so do most of the armies in our club.

 

Star Wars clone troopers and Jedi as proxy Imperial Guard and Eldar. Now this is a great Idea as 1) they are prepainted miniatures and 2) they are prepainted miniatures hehehehe. At last we see another fully painted army on the table. Oh the Chaos won, surprise surprise.

 

SAGA……………..WOO HOO.

 

Nice Vikings with big axes, now you can only use the Dane axes in the Anglo Dane army and not the Vikings but it still looks cool.

Kings of War, Elf force vs a Man force, not sure who won I think Elvish types this time.

 

The final blow on turn 3 in Saga, the Viking warlord goes down to a unit of Anglo Dane warriors (Mine J) I carefully stoped the Berserkers from snotting me by getting them to not move.

 

The obligatory WOG game with a new player, hopefully he will return, the fact that he did not get shot down may help.

Late August at the club 2013 Old school game woo hoo

This is a quick training game to introduce a couple of new gamers into WFB run by one of the more knowledgeable if somewhat younger member of the club. It seemed to go off well as not too many points but much damage done to all and sundry.

The obligatory Magic The Gathering Game. Won as usual by Charles….. Hmm full time job, lots of disposable income and therefore plenty of juicy rare cards. Not that I am complaining hehehe.

A three way Malifaux game, got to give this another go but not get suckered into to many of the new miniatures.

Malifaux game number 2.

40 K game with one of the club regulars and his girlfriend. Now how did he wangle that! Another female wargamer, not so mythical after all. These are Mark’s Iron Warriors and very nice they are too.

His ladies Necrons, well on the way to being a formidable force.

The camera was closer to the Iron Warriors than the Necrons really wanted to be.

Seven Years War using Charles Grant’s “The Wargame” Bounce Sticks and Canister templates were in evidence, for those in the know. These are the Austrian and Russian combined force.

These are some of the French, enemies of said Austrians.

A closer view of the Austrians, I believe made by Eureka miniatures, nice and very reminiscent of Tony Barton’s figures. I think Mike Broadbent sculpted these.

Wings of Glory; and the Balloon popped on the second shot from the rockets.

I have to do a few more painting tutorials to get the lads adding a bit of colour to the plastic.

Finally,

An overview of the Church Hall with 7 card gamers, 13 miniature gamers and me, gluing together Perry War of the Roses plastic miniatures in a corner watching the SYW game, oh and taking dodgy photos at random.

Hopefully a few work in progress photos of Impetus Successors 15mm, DBA/FOG Crusaders 15mm and maybe some Dux Britanarium late Romans/Romano British 28mm. Yes I know, gaming butterfly. A friend of mine actually says "You Junky!" and don't I know it.

 

 

 

 

Friday August 09 2013 Lots of minis tonight

We had a great turn up tonight with quite a few returning to the fold and playing miniatures rather than roleplay games, mind you a small group chatted all night about starting up either a Vampire the Masquerade or a Star Wars SAGA game. Pity not the Studio Tomahawks SAGA I prefer. Oh well.

Inspired by our Man O War game our resident Chaos dwarf decided to build his own fleet rather than pay the exorbitant prices on evil bay.

Wings of Glory WWII with a Battle of the Bismarck Sea refight. I joined in later to see the Aussie and US aircraft snot all the ships in short order and even take down one of the Japanese fighters. I really enjoyed to AI Japanese planes using a solo rules mechanism from the Wings of Glory Aerodrome. Good Stuff.

AI driven (flown) planes.

A couple of lads attempting to paint in poor light, I had a quick chat and demonstrated a drybrush technique and blow me away they did a great job on a Necron lord.

MTG

 

Some of the lads teaching others how to play 40K in a quick and dirty skirmish, this is what clubs are all about, all of us helping each other.

Malifaux

I had no idea that the Malifaux minis were coming out in plastic, must investigate, no no must hold back, but they look so shiny……………………well they do, in a grey plastic sort of way.

Orc civil war,                       ummm the orcs won!

Near the end of the Bismarck Sea fight, lots of sinking ships and Japanese fighters wondering what just happened.