Marienburg

[Crazy Harborc]

ZeroTwentythree

You need a change of scenery. As in a move to the St. Louis area. If you send your minies on ahead....I'll store them for you.

I do LIKE those latest yellow and reds WIP photos.

I found a box of Warlord Games ECW minies awaiting paint and glue stuffed in the back of a shelf. AND, today my copy of Warlord Games Pike and Shotte rules came in.

[ZeroTwentythree]

Thanks guys. I know the elephants seem a bit out of place, but I'm hoping that the final results (when I get around to working on them again!) will be worth it.




Back to the painting... I'm thinking about a few last minute touch-ups.





And what's potentially on deck? Another great orc greatsword, dwarf greathammer, and a couple casualties. AND.... I found the guy in the center while unpacking some other stuff. I love that figure and didn't even realize I had him!

[Crazy Harborc]

I know the feelings that go with "(re)discovering" stuff I bought whenever and put away to paint "someday". I just wish I was a master painter (first) instead of a wargamer.

Thanks for this thread. I can drool, ohhh and wow here....Then paint my usual and THEN go to my table of battle.....I LOVE IT...life is good.

[ZeroTwentythree]

I know the feelings that go with "(re)discovering" stuff I bought whenever and put away to paint "someday". I just wish I was a master painter (first) instead of a wargamer.

To be honest, I miss gaming. Haven't done much of it at all in quite a while. I enjoy both aspects equally, though I've lost my interest in "competitive" gaming as it seems to have become increasingly predominant and intense. But at this point I don't have much time in the first place, which is problem number one. Similarly, I've been thinning the backstock of unpainted figures and limiting myself to just a few projects due to time and money -- both of which seem to be increasingly in short supply.




Painted a few of the easier figures...

[mrtn]

The dwarf and the casualties look good.
Personally I've found that you usually have either time or money, but not both. At the moment I'm stuck with time...

[Crazy Harborc]

I guess the Dwarf is deciding who/what's for lunch? Good paint jobs.

Same here, when it comes to time or money. I'm 68, TIME is VERY important. Money, money....who's got that?

Having a back log of this and that to assemble and paint comes in handy.

[ZeroTwentythree]

Well, I'll always have some sort of backlog. I'm just weeding out some of the things that don't seem to have much a future.

A bit of a bad pic...

[ZeroTwentythree]

Not so much time to paint lately, but I got two more of the old spearmen done.





That brings the mixed unit up to 42 figures.





I still have 3 more plastic spearmen to paint, which will bring them up to 45 figures total. Plus a few command figures. So according to my count, I will eventually be able to run a unit of 35 humans and 30 dwarfs if I separate them. Or a giant unit of 65. :evil: With the changes to 8th, I'd like to bump that up to 40 of each. I'd like to fill the dwarfs in with some of the White Knight figures. As far as the humans, not so sure. Options seem to be to either try to find a few more of those plastics second hand, track down a handful of the old metal spearmen, or use some of the 4/5th edition multi-piece plastics with spear heads from the new plastics.

[Crazy Harborc]

Well, I will tell you......IMHO be they in two units of 40 each, one of 65 OR however....Those are FINE looking minies.

I converted 25 of those plastic, Empire spearmen to pikemen a couple of years ago. They are normally fielded as front row(s) fighters in my pike units. doesn't matter to me if it's WoTR's or ECW......they lead the pike units into battle.

[ZeroTwentythree]

One of my favorite old sculpts, but I'm a bit disappointed in my painting. I don't think it does the figure justice.





Work in progress shot of what I'm working on now...





Also, another unit shot, this time it's the greatswords. Bigger mix of races in this one.

[Crazy Harborc]

Wellll......I....LIKE all three photos. Number one looks good to me. Number two...which one is the mascot of the other one? Number three....looks like my wargaming group at our last minie con.

[N810]

Looking good 023.

[Morglum Necksnapper]

It all looks great. I love the spearmen/dwarf unit. I think mixing them all up is the way to go for your ragtag (in a good way) army.

[Crazy Harborc]

I just may sneak a few of my dwarves into one of my historical pike units for the ECW. Anyway I DO like the unit.

[ZeroTwentythree]

OK, here's the finished Master-Blaster Empire thugs, and one more casualty to add to the pile. I don't know WTF is going on with the lighting, one is too bright, one is too dim.

[ZeroTwentythree]

I have finished the last three plastic spearmen that had remained unpainted. That should bring the total (of those figures) to 33. I'm going to paint up (or temporarily borrow from another unit) a set of 3 command figures, which will bring the unit up to 36. So I just need to find at least 4 more old spearmen, either plastic or metal. I may convert a few of the old multi-piece plastics, like I did for the Pleasant Surprises figure I did (pic a few posts back) but I think I will need some more of the new plastic spear heads.

I thought I would try some "softer" and more subdued colors on these guys.

[ZeroTwentythree]

Working a bit tonight. Old dwarf wizard and another casualty. One can never have enough dwarf mages. Or casualties.




Also putting a bit more paint on an upcoming standard bearer. Here's a work in progress shot...

[Boreas_NL]

Wow, great updates! The banner is especially impressive, I know it's not yet finished but it already looks awesome! Great highlighting, it looks very striking!
Where do you get all those casualties? They are nice models!

[ZeroTwentythree]

Where do you get all those casualties? They are nice models!

They are from Artizan Designs.

http://www.artizandesigns.com/prod.php?prod=1781

The whole range (or at least the figures I've got so far) are excellent.

[ZeroTwentythree]

For the second time in a month, I played some WFB! That makes 5 games now in the past year... all within a few weeks time. I might be back, time permitting. This time it was with my newer gaming group, B.R.E.W.S. at the fifth annual Grillfest. As with previous years it was WFB (and grilling) during the morning & afternoon, and board games (and grilling) in the evening. WFB was played at 1600 points, I think we had 8 players. A few others couldn't make it til later, we probably had about twice as many people total. A couple of photos from early in the day, before everyone showed up:






We played three rounds. My games were against a witch hunter themed Empire army, mercenary Ogre Kingdoms, and fast (all skirmish or mounted) Dogs of War. Against all odds and thanks mostly to blind luck, I smashed all three opponents and ended up winning the first ever BREWS Cup, photographed below immediately after I got it, but before I had a chance to wash it and pour the beer directly in to it.





As part of the festivities, we have a painted miniature exchange. Bringing a painted figure to trade is part of the "admission price." I posted pics of my contribution previously. This year I came home with a beautiful undeadish conversion of the Archaon figure. My photo doesn't do it justice (I think I still need to work on better lighting.)




Later on, in the boardgame phase of the Grillfest, I got to play the light-hearted King of Tokyo and one of my favorites, Betrayal at the House on the Hill.

I haven't been around much. No time for gaming, record low interest in WFB the past year or so, etc. Plus a few of the other guys (and/or spouses) who aren't around as much showed up too. So it was good to just see everyone, BS about games and not-games alike. I don't get much free time or chances to play games or even just be social anymore... so it was a much needed break. I really need to get more of this sort of thing.



Coincidentally, but unrelated to the Grillfest, I also received one of the few new figures I've bought lately, in the mail on the same day.



What is it? DemoBot. I have no game use for it, I just love the look of the figure & wanted to paint one up.