Savage Wave Small Guys

These were finished just before I headed off to America, some proxy figures to be used as Oni Slaves and Okina and Oto the Bakemono drumming combo.

Some of the little Bakemono figures are quite difficult to paint as in some places I can’t tell what a part of the model actually is. Anyway, they are so small, you can get away with random colours…

Savage Wave Bruiser

Should Orcs be brown or green? I guess from my early GW playing days, I have ended up going the green route, as can be seen from my Confrontation Orc horde (I must post more pictures of them sometime).

Here is a Savage Wave Bruiser. Green and mean. I like his hat!
I should have some spare Confrontation Orcs with a suitable oriental feel that could be proxied in to Bushido, I can think of a couple straight away…

Not Painting Much

I won’t be painting much this week as I have made a last minute trip to America to visit family. There is also a strong likelihood that I will be returning with a case full of Dust figures from the Miniature Market. Like I need even more stuff to paint, but as I have ranted before, prices in the US are so much cheaper that this was another opportunity to stock up on mostly Axis forces.

Savage Wave Big Guys

Finished the Savage Wave big red guys; Zuba – The All Seeing…

and Bobata – The Bell Ringer!

I used the Army Painter Dark Tone ink over block painted miniatures, nothing fancy. I am quite pleased with how they turned out.

Inked Savage Wave

The Savage Wave are nearly finished, I still need to paint Waka – The Rampager but I’ve been having trouble with the arm holding the statue head…

Below are shots of pre-inked and post-inked models. The ink is still wet so they look a bit more shiny that they really are. Also some of the ink will evaporate and reduce the level of shading a bit.

I thought the Coat d’arms Blood Red was going to be a bit to bright for their skin, but the ink has calmed it down nicely.

Here are two of the Bakemono, once again all I did was block paint the model before inking.

Grimdark Racing

Had a go of the freebie One Page Rules created game Grimdark Racing this evening. I really should have taken some pictures…

I was quite fun, but I think we will be tweaking the rules a bit to try to balance it out. Fast moving bikes seem to be the way to go, the slow heavy vehicles are just too…slow. I also think we need a way to restrict runaway leaders, perhaps the lead vehicle does not get any Dispensed items or Boosts!

Rumaging around in the Loft Full Of Lead, I have found a couple of mini projects for the next race.

Firstly and old GW bike, The Vincent I think from a few years ago, maybe more than a few years ago. It has a Chaplain rider and is very much based in the Harley style.

Secondly, an old Super Cyboar that needs repainting and rebasing. I have a few of these so will try something different with each one, This could be the start of my resurrected No Limits Ork army.

It will not take long to get these two ready for the next race. The bigger bit of work is to amend the rules and get everyone to agree!

100 Posts!

I have actually managed 100 posts. Some people have even read them. Some have even been commented on, it is always nice to get some feedback on posts, so thank you!
The original goal was to try to encourage myself to paint some of the huge backlog of models in The Loft Full Of Lead. So far, progress has been pretty good, some old models have been dug up from the loft and painted and of course there have been some new purchases painted up as well.

More of the same will follow in the coming months.

What’s On The Table?

Finally got started on painting my Savage Wave for Bushido. I have three of the large red models, Bobata – The Bell Ringer, Zuba – The All Seeing (with the hammer) and Waka – The Rampager (not shown below). There are also a bunch of the smaller Bakemono models, a bit like big eared Gremlins and a large one eyed hound like creature The Nian.
These will be finished in the next week as they are due for their first game very soon.

A Female Thor?

Just read this on the BBC News. Marvel have decided to change Thor into a female character. Really? A female Thor? You must be kidding. Is this just a coincidence that it is happening at the same time that David Cameron reshuffles the UK Government Cabinet to include more female cabinet ministers? I think not. At last it is now confirmed that Stan Lee is in league with the Tory party…
Starbuck changed gender in Battlestar Galactica, but that was many many years after the original TV series that it worked. What will we get now? A female Thor in one set of comics and the original Thor in the Avengers?

I have read Thor since the very first issue of Journey Into Mystery #83. Not that I have the actual issue, or was reading much at all in 1962, but I have caught up with the Thor story through to the Avengers and it has always been one of my favourite characters. So if the male Thor is to become “unworthy” and give up his right to Mjölnir, that does mean that this replacement lady-Thor can be a temporary thing and ultimately give back Mjölnir when man-Thor becomes worthy again. I can hope.

Polyhedron Collider Discusses Kickstarter

There are always so many wargames and boardgames on Kickstarter that it amazes me that so many people keep backing them. Mind you, looking at what I have backed, I guess I am one of them.

There is an interesting article on Polyhedron Collider that agrees with what I have thought for a while, Kickstarter is now just a pre-ordering facility for most wargames and boardgame producers. I must say that I agree with the comment about how wargames generate huge piles of cash based on the miniatures and not the rules. Sedition Wars was a very nice set of figures but a disappointing set of rules. Not having learnt my lesson yet, I have jumped in and pledged even more for Aliens versus Predator.

Most Kickstarters have a thirty day funding period. There are usually more that a hundred on the go at any moment. That is a lot of new games coming out every year. I can’t keep up with them all.

There have been a few failures in the games genre, Defiance Games’ Hardsuits is the one I hear the most about, seems the whole company had just vanished. With the $46,492. The comments pages on the Defiance Games Kickstarter is a long rant of very unhappy people that pledged in good faith and were ripped off by Defiance Games.

I had been tempted with the Defiance Games models, but I resisted. Lucky I suppose.

I have bought into a few other Kickstarters over the last few years and I am still waiting for a few to deliver, Relic Knights being the longest outstanding at fourteen months late.

For me, the best of my pledged AND delivered Kickstarters so far is Rivet Wars, although the second phase of the model range has not arrived yet.