Hobby Update #2

I started I working on painting my Questing Knights and have managed to get 2 of them completely finished...alas my steam for Age of Sigmar seems to have faltered. These models are incredibly fun to paint, but they do take a while. Below are some pictures of the Questing Knight Champion.

So the hobby winds have shifted and I'm now pumped up to start working on some dropzone commander models! I was able to assemble and fully magnetize the PHR starter that I picked up and have even gotten the base coat of paint down on all of the Scourge vehicles from the starter box. I really do love the airbrush...makes painting go so much quicker. The plan is to paint up the UCM and the Scourge so I can start demoing some games. Perhaps I'll start working on the PHR, but we'll see where hobby winds blow then.

For the Scourge, since they look very crustacean like, I used the following picture for inspiration.

Here are some WIP photos of the Scourge. I'm going to try to take some nicer photos of the Scourge and UCM forces when they're all done.

I've also purchased the DBA 3.0. Fantastic set of rules. If you have any interest in historical warfare I'd urge you to pick this book up. For me the selling points are that the game plays quickly, you don't need hundreds of models, an army is incredibly affordable, and you still get that big battle feel. Other than the 28 mm figures I have already any further big battle games I only really want to play them in 15mm. Otherwise it's skirmish games for me at 28mm. And the only skirmish game I'm truly interested in at the moment is SAGA.

Age of Sigmar is fun...but it just doesn't quite do it for me. Perhaps I'll elaborate on that more in a different post though.

Hope you all have a good one! Until next time!

Hobby Update #1

I thought I'd write a post about what I've been up to hobby wise lately. I've been a little all over the place, but it's been keeping me going!

Bretonnian Knights
I finished this Knight of the Realm that I had started months ago. I had all the base layers down, so it didn't take long to finish him up. He just needs some static grass added to the base and he'll be completely done.

Of my knight errant command I only have the musician left. Yes, I know some people used the hawk signifying the champion, but when I saw it I thought this would make a great hunting/messaging bird! So he should get finished up here in the next couple of weeks.

Medieval Infantry

I plan on using these models in several different game systems. They can be Battle Pilgrims in Age of Sigmar, fierce foot or foot sergeants in Lion Rampant, a unit of Crusader Warriors in SAGA. I choose to paint up 12 for now, because that's the unit size for infantry in Lion Rampant. These are Foot Serjeants from Fireforge Miniatures. Pretty good models and fantastic value. I decided to also purchase the shield transfers for these guys. Perhaps I'll do a review on the transfers at a later date, but I have mixed feelings about them. I think the next batch I do will turn out better though.

Dragon

This is a Reaper Bones dragon that I'm currently working on. This is both my first Bones model, the first model I used a lot of airbrush work on, and my first experimentation with oil washes. So a lot of firsts for me! The pictures below below show what the dragon looked like before I gloss varnished it for the oil wash. All the green layers and yellow layers were all done with an airbrush. The smaller details like eyes, mouth, horns/claws were done by normal brush. The plan is that I'm pretty much finished with the layers, and I'll put down the final shading via oil wash. We'll see how it turns out!

Dropzone Commander

I picked up the starter box for the PHR! So now I have the starer armies for PHR, UCM, and the Scourge! I'm incredibly excited about this game and love how it plays out. Seems very tactical and the rules are pretty tight. The fact that you can also destroy buildings is just fantastic. Now I just need to find the 2-player starter set in the garage! We recently moved so there are still lots of things in boxes. Somewhere in the garage there's a box with my 2-player Dropzone Commander starter box, unopened GW daemons, and Dropzone Commander rules. Once I find it I'm probably going to start using that airbrush to pump out those starter armies! 

That's it for now. Told you that I've been all over the place!

Hope you guys have a good one! We'll see how much I got done in my next Hobby Update.