Rogue Trader 15mm: The Project Update

A couple of posts ago I mentioned I was working on some 15mm for the holidays. Well I didn't  get as much done as I wanted but I did get to tidy up a few and get a few new bits painted.

The Torg Warband so far.

Evil Space Dorfs - Painted Masters

Almost Xmas time eh? Full of joys and spirits? I wish that was the case in the Danks household but alas not too be as last night my Boiler went boom.. Looks like it won't be fixed to after the hoilday season to boot! So no hot water and heating! Bag Humbug!

Oh a plus note I've done the first bit of painting in a little while (Bad eyes strikes again) but I managed to paint up the Evil Dorf Masters! They look rather spanking too!

4 Masters all together

Evil Space Dorfs - 2nd Master Casts

So yesterday I showed you the first picture first Masters Casts of a Evil Space Dorf Officer & Trooper (HERE)

Remember the blacked out figures?

Wanna see them?

Really?

Ok, just for you.. don't tell anyone:

Dark Judge Dorf Chico & Cyber Goat ''Ram-Bam''

Evil Space Dorfs - First Master Casts

So as some of you know I have had the rather talented Mr Fimm of Oakbound Games commission me a range of ''Evil Space Dorfs'' You can follow his work on his Blog

It's been a fair few months in the making and you can view the concepts and greens here:

Evil Space Dorfs - Concepts 1
Evil Space Dorfs - Concept 2 'Gramps & Fenlock'
Evil Space Dorfs - Greens

Now the Master Casts have arrived:

Outcast Greenskins: More Bastards!

Taking a week out from my massed SAGA whoring (Wait till you see my new Scenery for SAGA, think Stonehenge).

Now as readers of OoaB know I have a long ongoing Outcast/Chaos Greenskin force being painted up. My Force is going to break down into 3 Parts:

Chaos/Outcast Goblins W/ Randoms (Giant, Orc Warmacines, Orclings)
Khornate Half Orc Warband
Corrupted Hobgoblin Warband

Each of these 3 parts will join together for large games but each will have it's own theme and flavour.

Khornate Half-Orc Commander

Black Friday, Cyber Monday.. Orcs Nest?

So since today is Black Friday a trend brought over by those bloody.. sorry lovely Yank-a-doodles, me and my Wife decided it was high time for a trip into London. What's a trip into London without going into the infamous Orcs Nest (And Forbidden Planet but shhh we won't talk about how much my Wife sent in there).

Nostalgia or Why we buy silly things..

Oldhammer, Retrogaming, collecting/hoarding or whatever else you wish to label is simply a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.

Or

Nostalgia

We all have that same feeling of that ''Golden Age'' when we first looked upon the hobby we now love and some cases despise. My ''Golden Age'' is around '94 to '98 when I was deeply rooted in the hobby and for a fat nerdy and very quiet kid a way to express himself and not feel quite an outcast.

My local hobby shop was and still is GW Watford, I remember or at least though my nostalgia tinted glasses a welcoming place as much as a smelly Heavy Metal booming shop could be I guess.

It was nostaliga which made me buy these are longing for them as a poor kid

SAGA: Anglo-Danish Ceorls Part 1

Arhhhh so at last my Mum and Auntie has been sent packing back down to Barnstaple and the family which gathered for my Mums 70th has dispersed back to their various holes.

As such I haven't had much chance to paint this week but I did knock out 8 Anglo-Dane Ceorls (Warriors).

2 Points completed, 4 to finish.

Warband of The Bane Mistress: Part 9

At the beginning on the year I was working on my Slaaneshi Drow or Dark Elves if you prefer. But dew to other projects and partly burn out that these were shelved.

During my house move 2 months ago these got pretty bashed up with 90% of the figures having some form of damage (The Brides of Slaanesh suffering the most).

But having won a few Ebay lots of various Dark Elves I was missing from my collection (Including my favourite Dark Elf ever made) I bit the bullet and decided it was time for the repair and repaint to happen.

Brides of Slaanesh: Daemonette possessed former Khanites

Painting Citadel Judge Dredd Part 7 - Sherson & Watlock

So after being robbed yesterday of £205 (Had to buy new glasses dew to my failing eyesight, which need special lenses) I set to work cracking out a few Perps/Muties.

So I present to you..

Sherson & Watlock Mutie Detectives:

Sherson & Watlock

No Law 2000 Miles: Judge Minty - Part 2 + Ma & Pa

Well finished painting Judge Minty, while painting there was a feck up though *Grumbles*. I bough some Nuln Oil from my local GW and noticed it had a black top (Like they had when the range first came out) but thought nothing of it, anyway when I used it the wash dried Glossy despite a good 30 seconds of shaking, I'm guessing the old medium has begone to break down.

So I had a shiny Minty... lucky enough a second wash from another almost empty pot of Nuln Oil got rid of the shininess.

Judge Minty looking to take aleak behind the crates.. Damn old age!

No Law 2000 Miles: Judge Minty - Part 1

Due to his age his views start to change and he starts to think the people of the Mega City are not that terrible.  However, while on a mission with Judge Dredd he finds himself gun-to-gun with a small time thug.  Due to his reflexes not being as good as they used to be, the thug shoots first and Minty was hospitilised.  While laying in the hospital bed he Realised he was no longer fit to be a city Judge he decided to take The Long Walk out into the Cursed Earth to bring law unto the lawless. He encounters a small band of people in the Cursed earth he also has to deal with Radioactive dust storms.

Combat Zone: Scavengers, Rus-Co & Scatter Terrain

So last few days I have been busy painting as normal, trying to get everything painted in time for a game on Wednesday which I'm providing both sides for (Scavs and Rus-Co).

I'm also trying to get my own Terrain finished (Some case even started), I'm still umming and errring about my home made stuff, part of me wants to just leave it and move on to the bought stuff.

3 Scav Heroes: Road Warrior, Mr U Kip & Chang

Wargaming Scenery on a Budget

Now yesterday I posted up the second part of my Scenery on £4 series of posts ( Part 1 & Part 2). Now they aren't great but do the job they were made for.. to game with without breakages or any worries.

Now I haven't just been working on the cheap end and have started on some mid-range pieces (Still haven't spent more then £20 on the following though).

Now these haven't been built by me but rather bought.. from a well known store, Yep Pets at Home heh.

Rus-Corp Grunts patrol the Rad areas looking for Gangers

Chico does Wargaming Scenery for £4: Part 2

This is the second part of fecking around and making a mess with paint/sand/glue/random shit and you can see Part 1 HERE (Go read it now I'll wait).

I will state this now, for anyone who likes stunning looking scenery this post isn't for you, this is dirty and cheap which is made to bash around no skill is required though so anyone can have a go if they so choose.

3 bits out of 10 have been finished, bloody hell is it hard work.. Even to the rough basic standard it takes time and so much effort (Just as well my Wife has bought me some Mantic Scenery for my Birthday).

Combat Zone: Rus-Co Troopers/Henchmen

Yes I know more Combat Zone (Expect a fair few more posts in the weeks to come) and even more Mark Copplestone Ex-Grenadier figures.

But this time I have some Corporation Troops to give the Gangers a good banging (See what I did there?).

Rus-co Troopers/Henchmen:

Orctober: Foundry Orclings..Thousands of 'Um!

Well Ok maybe not that many, but 4 40mm stands worth, fun little buggers to build and paint. I included a few of there Orcling Outriders and the Limited Edition Orclings around a Forge/Anvil.

Combat Zone: Battle Report - Monster Hunt

Last night while enjoying a bottle of Hobgoblin (It may have been closer to 4) I had the chance to play a game of Combat Zone to a good friend of mine. Now It seemed like a good idea at the time but as my Scenery is still under construction and a Battleboard yet to be made we made the best of what we had,

So we just used the scenery which comes with Combat Zone, as it turned out it was more then enough for such a small game.

Brak the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Six Six Sixers hated Zone 17, there was always something quite off putting about the old style brick ruins and that sense of someone or something watching them.

The Sides:

The Six Six Sixers:

4 Average Gangers + 1 Veteran Gang Leader: 3 Machine Pistols, Flame Weapon, Autoshotgun

The Monster:

Hero: Recoiless Rifle

Gargath smells prey, Gargath will hunt! Gargath will eat well!

Combat Zone: The Six Six Sixers

So this coming Wednesday at my local games club (Watford Wargaming Federation) I'm running a Combat Zone Demo to drum up some interest in the 20 year old game (First written in '94).

As such I need to get some Gangs an Troopers painted (Troopers have only just been ordered from Forlorn Hope).

Anyway heres some more Bikers done, The Six Six Sixers:

Combat Zone: Scavenger & Biker Gang

Another change of pace and another project progresses alittle further. Some of these have been shown before but they have had a few bits repainted and tidy up to fit with the newer painted ones.

Gang Leader & 2 Veterens

 The Scavengers are a mix of EM4 (Ex-Grenadier) and Copplestone Castings, as they are both sculpted by the same person (Mark Copplestone) they blend perfectly.

Rogue Trader 15mm: Cult of the Children 'Stealer Cult Limo & Brood Brothers

Last night I unpacked my stalled 15mm Rogue Trader project which you can view some of the posts via the links below:

The Start

Emperor's Children

Ork Freebooters & The Torg

The Torg Oshkosh & ''The Hog'' APC

Now once I unpacked them I couldn't just leave them alone, Oh No! As I have large amount of 15mm stashed away I decided I better get some more done and it'll be a nice change from my other projects.

Cult of the Children

Judge Chico: Painting Judge Dredd Part 6 - Judge Quincy, Hershey, Anderson & SJS Judge Cash

Wow a post 2 days in a row, looks like it's back to normal on OoaB Blogging wise. Anyway yesterday was a nice relaxing evening of painting and listening to Horrorcore Music.

Relaxing eh?

Anyway I managed to get 4 Citadel Judge's painted including one in his undercrackers (Underwear for you non-British types).

Orctober: Slave Ogres & Half Orc Slavers

So still feeling rather Ick but at least I'm on the tail end and get continue my mission of making the Lead Mountain smaller (Not that it doesn't get new items added a few times a week though).

Judge Chico: Painting Judge Dredd Part 5 - The Ape Gang

So what a grotty week it's been in the Chico household with me dealing with a nasty Nurgle inspired Cold and one of my little furry minions being shit every morning.

Needless to say I have had a few mins to paint, but I did get some stuff finished :D

Ape Gang: Fast 'Ekk, Don Ugglie & Joe Bananas

Orctober: Orc Bolt Thrower & Agaroth The Unwashed

Greenskin painting continues on and off (Also painting a few other bits at the same time) this time with my first full blood Orcs and a dirty little chappy.