Challenge Week: Alternative Companies

Right It's time again for another Chico Challenge Week™, number 7! (Gah have I really run this many?, How many have you taken part in?)

So what is this Weeks theme? Well it's Alternative Companies, meaning anything not under the GW label old or new.

Remember Oldhammer isn't just about old Citadel, so lets so show that and get some nice figure painted and shown of!

Rules and Regs:

1. Once again there will be a prize, and the prize this time is the choice of getting to choose a future theme!

2. You must be a follower of this Blog to claim your prize (So make sure you hit that Follow button on the right)

3. You may enter as many times as you wish, but all entries must be painted in the the Challenge Week time frame.

4. All Entries must be online to 1 or more of the following 3 places:

Oldhammer Facebook Group, but make sure to tag me.
Oldhammer Forum Challenge Week Thread
Your own Blog but message me to let me know it's on there.

5. Winner will be chosen by me and me alone, and I accept bribes ;) The winning entry will be posted on my Blog along with all other entries.

6. The Challenge will start at 12.01am on Monday 30th of June GMT and end 12.01am on Monday 7th of July GMT

So what are you waiting for get cracking!

Epic: More Buildings

So as the grind to get everything done for BOYL14 continues, I've made some more progress on my Epic scenery. To help make painting the buildings alittle more interesting I've been adding little details (Ork Trak chasing a SM bike, a Orka-Cola Truck)

Cold refreshing Orka-Cola? No Orksi fans here!

The future of Wargaming?

Now while I/We live in our little Oldhammer bubble and drooling over the past (Both miniatures and rules) I still like to play current games (DMH is my new love).

I happen to wonder to myself ''what is the future of Wargaming''.. and the answer I came up with both scares and interests me. It's Pre-painted games and Skirmish level games

Lets start with pre-painted shall we?.. Well to bad It's my Blog and I'm the boss dog :P

We all heard of X-wing by Fantasy Flight Games

X-Wing Miniatures is a tactical miniatures game in which two or more players use ships from the Star Wars saga to engage in space combat. Players choose ships belonging to either the Rebel or Imperial faction, their corresponding pilots, and upgrade cards to create unique squads. Each round, the players use vehicle-specific maneuver dials in conjunction with the game's corresponding maneuver templates to reposition each ship in an effort to gain tactical striking positions against enemy ships. The players then roll dice to determine the outcome.

Dead Man's Hand: Painting Bushwackers - Part 1

So my painting of my DMH Bushwackers (Confederate Guerillas) is well underway with the first 4 finished and the next 6 prepped. These will be run as post-war  Bushwackers now turned outlaws or actual Bushwackers using the rules for Wargames Illustrated.

Bushwackers so far

Epic: Orks & Buildings

Been awhile since an Epic Blog post, but have no fear today's one is a bumper one. A few of these pictures have been posted elsewhere but you can enjoy them again anyway :)

Kult of Speed Nob Bikers

Kultof Speed Spleenrippas

Challenge Week: Sci Fi - The Results!

So the 6th Chico Challenge Week™ comes to a end with 10 people submitting their stunning entries!

I have to say this was a hard choice and I've thought long and hard on a winner, but first enjoy the following entries:

Space Crusade Dreadnoughs by Bluey Zarzov

Eldar Knights by Richard Legg

Female Eldar Trader by kingedisboss

Judge Chico: Painting Judge Dredd Part 4 - Mutie Militia & SJS

So I havn't been painting much dew to my eye still being fecked up and I also had some work done on my Tattoo sleeve on my right forearm which limits to much.

But I have finished the following:

Mutie Militia Jobe and Max

Dead Man's Hand Review

DEAD MAN'S HAND is the 28mm skirmish game by Great Escape Games. Bands of tough and wily Cowboys, stoic Lawmen, ruthless Outlaws and crazy Desperados fight for fame and respect in the Old West.

With an accompanying range of 28mm miniatures and pre-painted buildings, now you can fight legendary gunfights of the historical Old West and the silver screen. This rule book contains all the rules you need to recreate your gunfights and twelve blood-soaked scenarios.

My Hero died today.. Give God a kick in the nadgers bud!

Not Wargaming related but still a large part of my childhood, Rik Mayall has passed away.

He played the obnoxious, poetry-writing anarchist Rick in The Young Ones alongside his friend Adrian Edmondson before the duo later went on to star in their sitcom Bottom.

Mayall also appeared in shows including Blackadder and The New Statesman. Mayall's film roles included the comedies Drop Dead Fred and Guest House Paradiso.

Young Ones

Challenge Week: Sci Fi

Its time for the 6th Chico Challenge Week™

So after the success of the last Challenge week it's time for the next one to get underway. Results can be seen here

So what counts as Sci-Fi, well pretty much anything you can blag and can come up with a reason why. I'm pretty laidback when it comes to what counts. The mail thing is too just have fun and get painting.

Judge Chico: Collecting Judge Dredd Part 5 - Perps & Muties. Plus 50k Views!

Bit of a joint post today, first is that this Blog as now hit 50k views and has 98 wonderful followers! so thank you for everyone the reads the bollocks that I churn out every few days. 

Part 5 of the collecting series, this time a selection of Muties and Perps. These will be used as the Angel Gangs extended family for the BOYL14: Judge Dread game (Seen here)

Judge Chico: Painting Judge Dredd Part 3 - Collection so far

Well it seems I'm back into the swing of things painting wise despite the ongoing eye problems. So today I like to show you how far I've come with the painting of the Judge Dredd project. Once again poor pictures, but what's new there eh?

Angel Gang

Fink & Junior

Mean, Link & Pa

Judge Chico: Collecting Judge Dredd Part 4 - Angel Gang Part 2

Part 2 of the Angel Gang posts of the Collecting Judge Dredd series.

Pa Angel

 Elmer 'Pa' Angel was the Patriarch of the Angel gang, a family of dangerous criminals originally from Texas City who Pa preyed on travellers making their way across the Cursed Earth. Pa was enormously proud of his children's violent behaviours and in general wickedness, and as a result would encourage it as often as possible, considering it a strength and a virtue.

Unfortunately for one of his sons: Mean Angel, Pa was disgusted by his quiet, passive personality viewing his mild nature as a disappointment and a weakness. This prompted Pa to kidnap a surgeon from nearby Texas city and force him to perform surgical modifications on his son, transforming the once gentle boy into a brutal cyborg.

Challenge Week: Chaos - The results

So Chaos Week comes to the end and what a amazing week it's been despite myself not taking part. There has been many, many great entries both on the forum and FB group.

First of all here's the runners up:

From Simon on the Picturesque Ruins: