Monthly Archives: June 2009

More painting progress

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Posted by Totengraber on June 29, 2009 – 10:28 am
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wotrrulebook_873x627.jpg I mostly worked on War of the Ring stuff this weekend. I got about 100 or so Elves assembled, based, magnetized and primered as well as 18 or so infantry movement trays.

I also worked more on Nuke and Hellsmith for Pulp City. I really need to get these done soon. Nukes toxic look was not really working for my (awesome! gorgeous!) wife/critic. The darker primary green just looked bad to her. This morning, I added some Trollblood Base to the flourescent green I’m using and went over the green parts. I think it looks pretty smooth and less “chalky”. I hope it looks better to her, too.

This morning, I also washed over the Ent with Thornwood green as I’d previously basecoated him in Trollblood Highlight. It looks more like a tree now. I may do some highlighting and such on him and then I need to paint the leaves, moss, fungus and the base (with a dead Uruk-Hai).

Flames of War – Another 1500 point game British Infantry vs. British Air Landing

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Posted by Totengraber on June 26, 2009 – 10:37 am
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fow_logo_color Joel is potentially going to a tournament this weeknd, so I offered to play him in a game of Flames of War to help him practice. I’m no great opponent, but I thought it would help. We played with the same armies as last ime, but we played the Breakthrough mission. I ended up being the attacker and he the defender. He chose his deployment quarters and I chose to deploy on my side of the table in the right-hand quarter. Because of the mission rules, Joel was in Prepared Positions which allowed me, being British, to use the Nightfighting rules.

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War of the Ring – Second game; Elves vs. Isengard – 1,600 points

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Posted by Totengraber on June 24, 2009 – 2:45 pm
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wotrrulebook_873x627.jpg Bill and I played our second game of War of the Ring last night. Again, he played Isengard while I played my Elves. Bill had purchased a good bit more troops to use such as Uruk-hai Scouts, Uruk-Hai crossbowmen, Ugluk, more Wargs (I think) and maybe just more regular Uruk-Hai. Me, I thought I had enough assembled to make a good 1,600 point list, but I ended up having to use more characters than usual.

Here’s my list:

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Just some painting progress…

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Posted by Totengraber on June 23, 2009 – 4:51 pm
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Over the weekend I was able to get a lot of things done:

Primered all my assembled War of the Ring minis. (24 High Elf Warriors, 24 High Elf Archers, 24 High Elf Spearmen, 24 Wood Elves, Glorfindel, Ent and a number of characters)

Made bases for my Flames of War Churchill Crocodiles since when I pinned the trailers on, the joint seemed finda flimsy.

Painted two Flames of War British M10C SP (17 pdr) tanks. Man, FoW stuff paints up super-quick!

Painted my two HQ stands for my Flames of War British army. They only need dullcoated now.

Applied a basecoat of Trollblood Highlight on my Ent. My sexy/awesome and honest critic wife commented that she wasn’t sure about the base color, but I think some washes will make it look more like a tree.

Worked some more on Nuke and Hellsmith. The toxic glow effect still needs work according to the amazing critic-wife, “It looks like a bunch of green worms on top of yellow goop”.

All in all, a lot of progress made.

Pulp City – Level 5 game Heroes vs. A.R.C.

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Posted by Totengraber on June 19, 2009 – 10:41 am
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pulp_city.jpg Brian and I played a game of Pulp City last night. I brought in my board I’m building for Gen Con and some buildings. I still need to paint those as well. We decided to play alevel 5 game, which is what we usually play anyway. We also decided not to use any Agendas as we hadn’t played in a few weeks and sometimes you just want your beatstick to inflict some pain without any real goal.

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Flames of War – 1500 points, Late War, British Infantry vs. British Air Landing

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Posted by Totengraber on June 18, 2009 – 8:57 am
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fow_logo_color Since the Star Wars RPG didn’t happen, Joel and I played a game of Flames of War instead. He had recently finished painting a large chunk of my army, so I was eager to get them on the table and play.  He’d also built me a custom objective marker using the extra pieces from my Tom Stanley box and some extra models he had lying around. The army looks really good on the table. The only problem I had with my models was identifying which stands went with which platoon. I fixed that just this morning by putting a stripe of color on the back of the base. I used some primary and somewhat bright colors so that they are easily idenifiable from just about anywhere on the table.

Here’s my army list:

  • HQ
  • Rifle Platoon (3 sections, PIAT, light mortar)
  • Rifle Platoon (3 sections, PIAT, light mortar)
  • Machine Gun Platoon (2 sections in MMG Carriers)
  • Mortar Platoon (2 sections, 2 Observer teams)
  • Universal Carrier Patrol (3 UCs)
  • Wasp Carrier Patrol (3 Wasps)
  • M10 17pdr SP (1 section)
  • Churchill Crocodiles (3 tanks with trailers)
  • Anti-Tank Guns (2 sections of 6pdrs)

I am honestly not sure what Joel’s army list consists of.

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Disappointment

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Posted by Totengraber on June 18, 2009 – 8:18 am
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Again we had just a few people for the Star Wars RPG. Joel, Fred and Morgan were there to play last night. No word from Fuller, Dave or Chris. I assume Chris is out due to his new child. Dave and Fuller I don’t know.  At least Joe posted on the G2D4 forum saying he wouldn’t be there, which I take as interest and courtesy.

We’ll be trying again next time (7/1), which should have Joel, Fred, Joe, Morgan (?) and maybe Bryan. These guys all seem to be really into the game, so this will probably end up being the “core” group.

Here’s to hopin’.

This is almost getting ridiculous

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Posted by Totengraber on June 17, 2009 – 8:22 am
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So I assumed since Dave canceled the D&D game for last night and I’d PM’d Fred over at the Wizards Star Wars Miniatures board that we’d be playing Star Wars Miniatures. I guess I assumed incorrecty. I didn’t hear a peep from Fred or Joe regarding SWM.

I did end up watching a pretty cool 15mm historicals game called Field of Glory made by Osprey. Read More »

Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition – Well, that was a short campaign

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Posted by Totengraber on June 16, 2009 – 10:21 am
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dnd_4e_logo_250dpi1.jpg It seems our DM for the Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition game I was playing in will no longer be running the game on Tuesdays and I suspect probably not running it at all anymore (or at least probably not on a day that I can play). That sucks. I have been thinking about running my own game on one Sunday a month or something to replace it.

My awesome wife ordered the Player’s Handbook 2 for me for Father’s Day, so I’ll be getting that soon.

Tuesdays will be going back to Star Wars Miniatures again, which is pretty cool as I need to play with Chairpatine (Emperor on Throne).

Lots of progress on stuff I don’t really need progress on

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Posted by Totengraber on June 16, 2009 – 10:14 am
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So, I had a lot of time this weekend and yesterday to get some stuff assembled or painted. Well, I decided to work on Warhammer 40K stauff instead of the Pulp City stuff I should have been working on. I got a 10-man Assault Squad, a 10-man Tactical Squad, a few Heavy/Special weapon models, Shrike, a Rhino and a Drop Pod assembled and primed. Unfortunately, on some of the marines I have the fuzzy primer thing going on. I will try getting a brush or something to try and clean it up, but it is very upsetting to put that much work into assembling figures to have that happen. I wonder if the trick for cloudy clear coat will work for primer (re-coating usually fixes it for me).

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