Blood For The My Little Pony?

A mash up of Dawn of War Dark Crusade sound-bites and My Little Pony (?) animation. Mad as hell!

Love this - I think a genius mash-up by the originator. :)

My 'Ahem' New Blog

I have been captivated by the Anima Tactics range, and have started yet another blog (Anima Tactician) which can be followed by following this link here.

Fear not, this will not mean Pulp Citizen or Eclectic Gentleman Tabletop Gamer being overlooked, but my acquisition of Anima Tactics minis needed an outlet!

Ah, The Smell Of Burnt Wood In The Morning (New Laser Cut Paint Rack!)

I already posted this on my Pulp Citizen blog, but thought I would re-post for any who don't read that one.

Some things arrived in the post this morning, and among them was this paint rack (bottom picture)! Ah, the smell of burnt wood in the post - laser-cut MDF is on the way then, as any hobbyist should agree!

I don't know about other painters, but I have accumulated a sizeable selection of paints over the years. trying to keep them in a manageable order is part of the battle. A few years ago I switched from mainly using GW paints (I still rely on their washes however) to using Vallejo Model Color. A massive range of colours meant a burgeoning array of paints bought over the past few years.

That in turn led me to trying out a couple of different paint racks. I quite like the ones I had from Miniaturicum, for 30 and 80 bottles apiece (seen among my painting table debris in the topmost image), but the banked design means that the more bottle capacity that a rack gives, the greater its 'footprint' on my painting station. I also tried some CNC designs (their 'corner' efforts), but felt that the design and construction was both flimsy and fiddly so I stopped using those.

Recently I saw that Iron Mammoth (click for blog post link) had created his own paint rack, and the two-tier design looked just the ticket for me, although without the bottle capacity I wanted. So I shot Iron Mammoth an enquiring PM via Lead Adventure Forum, and after an exchange of emails, we agreed a price on a my bespoke 104 dropper bottle rack, which has a smaller footprint on my work area, and less depth meaning that the way I work with stuff in front of the rack is better accommodated.

Very easy assembly and minimal gluing and I am very pleased with what Iron Mammoth delivered. Note that this is not yet a commercially available product, but if you are interested, it may be worth getting in touch with Iron Mammoth.

Victorian Speculative Fiction-Inspired Skirmish Gaming

I have been doing some writing recently and working on a rule set to allow for skirmish level gaming Thinking handful of models rather than large formations). Think Verne, Haggard, Wells, Stoker, Shelley, Doyle and of course Moore and O'Neill...

Basically a gamut of influences for games that I envisage involving anywhere from 3-4 up through to a dozen or more models per side.

If anyone is interested in maybe play-testing these rules when the first(ish) draft is finalised, please drop in a comment below. Thanks.

WWII German Zombie

A fairly quick paint-job on this one simply as I needed to get something 'done' in order to help me get over my latest bout of painters block.

Click to embiggenify.

This mini is not really intended to go with anything I currently game, paint for or plan to do. It may get used in a planned 'pulp' style game I hope to do in the future (using some Reaper Chronoscope minis amongst others), but that will be a way off. I also have a ton of AE-WW II minis, but cannot see myself getting into them any time soon.

So a mini painted simply for the sake of it then.

The mini is by Studio Miniatures, and the base by Fenris.

Mini Update

Still doing some bits and bobs. Today I have mostly finished a 'quick and dirty' paint job on a Zombie WWII German from Studio Miniatures; hopefully it will be finished in the next 2-3 days with pictures to follow.

I have also started work on a new gaming project. Did some assembling today, including a bit of conversion work and bits-bashing. When I take pictures of the German Zombie, i may do a WiP of those as well.

Tommygun's Ironworks

I have been following the work of Tommygun on the Warseer Forums for his paper-craft creations.

However this thread has floored me. I am not an Infinity player so my interest is predominately about Tommygun's craft skills which are remarkable, I hope you will agree.

There are tremendous examples of clean-lined sci-fi buildings all following a clear aesthetic thread. Brilliant stuff in my view.