Oi wat's dis den?

Today I decided to revive my old lead blog. I have felt a joy rekindled lately for this old lead hobby and think now that I will try to blog again (not that I've been the most active blogger before).

I have no photos for you tonite gentlemen, but before I bid you adieu I'll tease a little with what's to come.

Current projects (text lists, always a hoot!):

• Good vs. Evil wargaming - ongoing fantasy project morphed into a Realm of Chaos revival
• It came from the desert - 20mm apocalypse game with cars and motor bikes
• Repainting my Dark Elf BB team - currently playing in the Roguebowl league at the local club
• and 4-5 other ongoing projects

Also, I spend my hobby time completing collections of old lead, having recently completed my collection of old Citadel Goodwin Ogres and also his Khorne Chaos Champions. I'm also very close to a complete 2nd ed. 40k Ork collection, missing mostly gretchins and such.

Good night!
Thomas

Post Scriptum

A wee pic for you merry lead heads :)

My ashwasting scavvies, well some of them - can you spot any Oldhammer bits?

Last night we had ourselves a game of 40k skirmish. Niels brought his Iron Fist space marine, I compiled a list of underhive scum, number 4 vs 13. We used the community made rules set, In the Emperor's Name. The game was fast played, rules never bogged us down and it was a bloody slaughter, precisely as 40k should be!

Underhive scum line up for the slaugther

Canned meat lined up to be slaughtered

Inspecting the meat from a different angle

Former rogue trader gone underhive scum leader, Baetlegoys leads his armed vermin towards the hidden crates

Sniper Dead Sirious Black and bodyguard sneak around in the hills above the battle field

Iron Fists advances in open, confident their armour will provide ample cover

Both sides close in on the crates

Remants of the past occupants of this barren wasteland

Impact!

First blood! First turn of shooting saw the underhive leader, flying mutant and pit slave go down to the superior fire of the Emperor's finest battle troops

Melee! Despite their best efforts, the Iron Fists did not slaughter any lambs today

Torrent of fire!

The underhive scum positioned well to snipe the marines while their less intelligent mates kept them occupied

Interim leader Pretty Tony leading the pack, laying support fire from an abandoned water plant

Scum hiver Scabs getting away with the mystery crates

Scabs getting caught by bolter fire on his way up hill, moments later the Iron Fist commander fell to the torrent of fire and the hive scum managed to get back to their den with a crate of ... Creme A

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

Elric - another future project

Having received another Elric mini for my collection, I found it prudent to take some pictures of my small collection. This is a project that's waiting to be kickstarted by an unknown catalyst (like unemployment - which is not unlikely these days, sadly).

I have the collectors box of course and a smalle groupe of pro- and antagonists. If my rare readers should have in their possession a mini from this series, that I'm missing, please don't hesitate to sell it to me :)

Hills done!! + basing my old Mordheim warband

Had time to stop by the workshop today and complete the hills I've been working on. Tested out a few techniques and learned that pigment can be quite messy business :)  At one point, I thought I had ruined my terrain but I think I managed to pull the colours back together nicely... I'm still not sure about the flock, but I decided they are done in order to move on to another project ;D

While paint, glue and varnish dried, I had time to base my old Skaven warband for Mordheim. I recently bought some lovely bases from www.warbases.co.uk - these are their 20mm round standard bases, and I really like them. I've bought a bunch of different sizes and will use them mainly for my fantasy collection. Also had time to bases some fighter-type humans for my painting queue (which is quite long) :)

Thank you for looking!

And now to something completely different! As I've decided that the blog will include my other hobby projects :)

I building 9-10 pieces of terrain for Epic Armageddon, which I still enjoy playing.

The hills are ALIVE! The (l)on(e)ly completed TS Marine unit from my future HH TS army is posing for size comparison.

Base coats applied, wash+drybrush+dirt pigments and flock await. These hills are a part of an Ork themed terrain pack I'm working on.

4 Ork structures are currently under construction and I've just had an idea to do "forest" style pieces.


Cheers,
Thomas

As a small bonus, you get an overview shot of my paint station. I share a workshop with 8 other likeminded grownups. Mostly we chat and drink beer, but sometimes we play the odd game and paint/build stuff :)