Realm of Chaos revisited!

So me and my fellow oldhammerer Lazar of the Young Lead blog had ourselves a quick lunch break game of Realm of Chaos.

We cut the rolling of warbands short and simply choose from whatever was painted and what we felt like fielding. Then we decided both champions were lvl 10 sorcerers and drew 2 spells from all the decks of the 4th ed. Battle Magic set, oddly enough there were no chaos spells (it's a set we borrowed), but hey ho what'd ya know it worked anyhow.

We played using the Rogue Trader reference sheet, the Warhammer Armies book and the RoC books for troops stats and it worked okay. The actual gaming however was tedious - skirmish games have come a long way since the Golden Days so we kinda agreed that if this dream of playing a narrative ever had to come to life, we will have to find a more dynamic system for the game play and perhaps also for creating the warbands/or let a GM decide rather than randomly roll everything single upgrade, item, gift, mutation, etc. - which was fun, but balls out also time consuming if not a real death blow to any gaming night that is set to last 3-5 hours including playing a game :D

Now on to the onslaught!

Hazmat Mutilatore and his band of unmerry men are shocked to see their bitter rival, Obediah Ruffhouse and his bunch of miscreants teleport in reach of the much coveted wizard and his enchanted scroll (the objective of our game).

The view through Hazmat's built in googles, a gift from his chaos God.

Hazmat and his harbingers of doom wasted no time and quick close down the offender Obediah, though taking to casualties to some powerful and vile magic.

KERRANG!!!! Steel meets wood and flesh. Die foolish womenly-dressed puny men! And they did muahaha as their bossman ran hurriedly away with his captive.

Well, I took no more photos sadly, pressed for time and all, but it sure was good fun and we managed to set up, roll dice and take down again within 2 hours, so it's definitely on again soon.

Until next time - have a good one!!!

Back to Cold Lead Mountain

Summer is over, the lead tank is full again and I'm bustling with paint energy and enthusiasm!!

My latest entry was a quick ramble on the joy of having joind the Oldhammer forum and the rekindled love for old lead miniatuers and recently I've had a game of Realm of Chaos, which have caused me to bring my old thugs back in front row of the paint queue.

Today I had some 30-40 minutes to splash some paint on them, blocking out the hair and fur stuffs - we go bright red, orange, green to add some sparkle to my otherwise drab and muted chaos fellas.

Pre hair dye!

The Chaos paint queue

The plan is to finish the thugs before the end of July and begin painting the warriors. I have traded ferousiously during the Summer, so there's more to come as I get stuff stripped, based and primed!

Stay tuned! :)

New Rats on the Block

So I've managed to finish the last 3 rats for my ratmen/skaven warband. Picture's a bit crappy but shows the joyful moment when the long lost rat brothers meet on an Ice Death World for the first time since they were seperated as younglings.

 

Hopefully, this update will see me return to the paint station. Last couple of months have been hectic - got an extension on my job, extension expired and not prolonged, gone freelance and moved hobby workshop also, but the new place holds so much promise https://www.facebook.com/Roguetradercph?ref=hl in regards of practicing the aspect of this hobby which I love - painting and modelling (still a newb) and casual gaming! 

Thanks for looking - hope to have more for you next time around (and hopefully sooner than 3-4 months)

//Thomas

Recent weeks, I've been painting 28mm fantasy for the future Good vs. Evil battle we in the "gaming" group are dreaming about doing at some point in our lives - it could turn out to become an Oldhammer thing, since we all are former WHFB-gamers.

I picked up a small group of dwarves cheap, thinking the sculpts were quite nice, then finding out they are GW and cost thrice what I paid - which made the haul so much better :)

First came out well I think, took under an hour to paint (ex. basing and priming - did the whole lot 20+ dwarves in one go) and after using this fella to test my clear orange wash I've decided that's the way to go! Quick dirty painting (more blocking out colours), a few quick highlights and a bit of shading, splash on some orange wash and you're good to go :)

In the most intense fight scene with the nasty giant rats, you see the effects of the orange wash.

The wee fellas in the extravagant dreadnought suits are my Grand Warlord retinue for my Epic Squats.

Just finished a fightning chain-wheeling monk yesterday, but he was still drying when I left the workshop (and perhaps ruined because I didn't dilute the clear orange properly). Will post more when I'm back from vacation - BATTLEFIELD BERLIN here I come ;D

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Thomas