Assembled an army for a new game [Rune Wars]

I just finished assembling the Daqan starter army from the Core box, and hopefully will put this on the table on July 12th against Walt.

I have to say, I've assembled a lot of minis in my day, but I did not enjoy assembling these one bit.  They aren't complicated at all (most things are 2-3 pieces, and they fit pretty well), but the mold lines were kind of a pain, and the minis feel... soft, I guess?  I'm not sure.  I did find myself damaging a few (nothing too major), something I don't tend to do.

Anyway, we'll see how the game is.  If it's good, I can forgive annoying models.

Assembled some Shadespire!

So my birthday was back on the 21st of June, and my mother-in-law gave me some money, which I used to buy some new stuff!

One of those things was Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire, a game which seems really popular.  For me, personally, it has potential to be a big hit.  It has miniatures, which I love.  And it involves building a deck, which I also love!  It's a double win!

The minis are really easy to assemble- you don't need glue to put them together, but I filed and glued them anyway.

That's the two warbands from the Core Set, and also the Chosen Axes warband.

I'll be giving this a try tomorrow- using the starter decks for the two starter warbands to start.  We may try some deck building, meaning the Chosen Axes may have a fairly random deck run with it.  We'll see, but I'm super looking forward to it.

Assembled more minis! [Malifaux]

After so long making any progress on miniatures, I have to admit, it feels good to have so many new miniatures put together in a relatively reasonable amount of time.  Once again, my new additions are for my Neverborn crew.

Not a terribly great picture, but I haven't done much work on these minis.  That is the Mother of Monsters box (Lilith's crew), as well as a Doppleganger.

No that I have a full, legal crew for Neverborn, I feel a bit more comfortable in actually trying to put my own touch on some of the other minis I get.  I have an unassembled Pandora box, as well as a Nekima, which I may start working on, and doing some of my own modeling with, but I may wait until after I get some Company of Iron stuff done.

Also, multiple times in the past week, I sat down with the intent to paint, but I don't seem to have an appropriate way to prime my models.  Once I find a suitable box, maybe I'll start getting some painting done!

Holy cow, I assembled minis!

Yeah, it's been a long time since I've actually put together some miniatures... but I managed to get a few together this week!

That's the Jakob Lynch crew for Malifaux.  We actually have a Jakob Lynch player in the local meta, but since I play Neverborn, I figured I'd grab him and add him as well.  Overall, the plastics are pretty good quality. 

I have a big gaming weekend coming up, so look for updates soon!

Hobby progress for week ending Oct 13, 2012

Got some more stuff accomplished this week, in preparation for gaming this weekend:

- Finished assembly of Epic Hexeris.
- Finished assembly of Nihilators.
- Assembled Terminus, just missing a single wing.
- Finished assembly of Venethrax.
- Finished assembly on a second Warwitch Siren.
- Finished all repairs to Deathjack.

What have I been doing lately?

So, as you can plainly see, I haven't been posting a lot here, or anywhere.  As I've probably said before, there are lot of reasons for this, some personal, some financial, and some just lack of drive.  Fortunately, I've rediscovered my interest in various games, and I've actually started being productive.

Let's start with a big part of my new interest- there's a newish game store in the area (DropZone games), and that place is a miniature gamers' dream- lots of gaming tables, great stations for working on miniatures, and a good variety of miniature systems available without people trying to force you into a particular one.  It's good stuff.

So what have I done?  This past week, I've pretty much repaired almost every model I own (for Skorne and Cryx), I've gotten about halfway done filing down a unit of Nihilators, assembled a Cyclops Brute, and begun the work for pinning Terminus.  I've also actually done some repairs on Empire Knights, for Warhammer Fantasy.

I also played a 50 point game last night against Rob.  I took epic Morghoul against Saeryn, and managed to pull off a close win.  I don't have a Battle Report, because I didn't take notes, but did take some pictures.





So, basically, I'm loving miniatures again, and can't wait to get back into the swing of things.  Look forward to seeing me around more!

Can I just say...

Master Necrotech Mortenebra has to be the SINGLE most infuriating model in the world to assemble.  Just saying.  Ugh.

Absylonia, Terror of Everblight (conversion)

I've really been in a kick to work on converting some miniatures, but I haven't been able to find the perfect one for me to work on.  Skorne, Dark Elves, Empire... these really don't fit the bill for convertible opportunities.  Cryx do a little, but I have most of my more interesting Cryx minis already assembled, so that doesn't work as well for now.

It turns out I have a small amount of Legion miniatures, from when my brother was interested in playing, until he decided he wasn't interested at all.  Going through them, I found Absylonia, and realized she'd be perfect for my needs.

So, to start, I looked at what her miniature looked like (image from the Privateer Press website):

Now, the model is fine, as is.  Certainly not too flat, plenty of detail.  But I didn't like it for two main reasons.  First, Absylonia can give herself reach, and I didn't feel like this model gave me that feeling.  Second, she can give herself flight, and although her wing-hands kind of give the impression that she can, I didn't much like it.

So basically, I wanted to give her flight and reach, somehow.  I decided, of course, to give her small wings, and tentacles instead of that one leg coming out of her dress-thing.  Also, why not put her on a more interesting base, while I'm at it?

So, the results follow:

I personally like the way it turned out.  The tentacles were fun to do, and even though it's not exactly exceptional modeling (wire and green stuff wrapped around it), it made me FEEL like I was doing real modeling, haha.  Trying to bend the cloak so that it hugged the rock on the back was a bit more difficult, but the result was decent enough for me. 

So yeah, that's done, and now it's on to painting.  I'm going to try to push my painting a little, and I'm going to try for only gray-scale.  I'm not sure how it will look (I'll test blending and the color scheme on one of my random shredders first), but I think I can get it looking good enough for my tastes.