Bigg and Small

Hi,

Last time I promised you that I would revisit Super Dungeon Explore. Here you go. New painted miniatures are the Druid and the transformed Bear/wolf  (this topic is up for heated debate amongs SDE scholars), and the kobold Ogres Rex Mini and Rex Max.

Here is a small photo cartoon introducing our new heroes. "Big and Small" -Enjoy!

The Druid encounters some kobolds while searching for mushrooms for his stew. It does look a bit bad for our hero!

Rooargh. The kobolds are suprised when the druid tansforms to a gigantic monster!

The poor kobolds run for their life, pursued by the druid. 

Oh Dear, the Kobolds ran to their big brother Rex Mini for help. 

How will this end, as also Rex Maxi have come to his brothers aid?

Below are som more details of the minis. The transformed Druid is painted by my friend, all credits to him for the awesome painjob.

Rex Mini and Max

Ready for Battle

Hi there, 

Last time we visited the vehicle factory, this time we take a look at the finished product, namely the Tau Devilfish. The whole project took about one week calendar time. One Sunday and several evenings to finish. 

I must say I am quite pleased with the end result, this being my first painted vehicle and even with a camouflage pattern. I think that next time I maybe skip the pattern stencils altogether and do the pattern with a brush directly on the model itself. 

But enough with the text, here are some picture and video of the thing. 

In my next update I will re-visit Super Dungeon Explore and I promise you it will be very cool! Until next time. The Devilfish will also get some more love in an upcoming update when my next project with the Pathfinders are done. 

Fire Warriors taking postions after exiting the vechile

Front

Side

Back

Top

A Short visit to the Vechicle factory

Hi,

Yesterday I worked on the engines of the Devilfish and here are some pictures of the results.

"Today we visit the Earth Caste Vehicle factory and specially the Engine workline. Here they work night and day to produce the engines that will power the vehicles that will liberate the galaxy. Today they are working on the most common engine of the Vector Thrust Nova type. These engines power both civilian and military vehicles alike."

Camo pattern design station

Stencils cut out from foil

First stencils attached to the engine

To the left engine after first paint layer, to the right after second paint layer

Results with stencils removed (and after cleaning with brush)

Engines ready to be attached to the Devilfish

Back in Action! Crisis and Fishes

Hi Dear Reader,

I have been absent from this blog over a year my apoligies. A lot has happened tha last year. A few weeks ago I and a group of friends played some Warhammer 40K in our local Games Workshop store. I played as Tau, champion of the greater good against the oppressive forces of the Imperal Guard. That day the Tau left the field with a bloodied nose, thanks a lot to IG sentinels I could not hurt. That game and my friends got me returning to painting and collecting minis.

Today I have been working on two projects:

1. "Modular Weapon initiative (MWi)"
2. "Flying Fish"

First I almost finished my 3 XV8 Crisis Suites, the bases must be done, I will put some ruins and debris on the bases at some point. For the suit weapons i started the MWi. For this purpose I drilled holes in my suites and weapons the whole morning. 3x4 holes in the suites and some more in the weapons. In these holes I glued 5mm disc magnets carefully checking the polarity of the magnets. I put the magnet on the tip of my craft knife and checked if it would attract or repulse another magnet and glued the repulsive side downards (relative to the hole),

Here are some pictures of the project:

XV8 Crisis suit with magnets in arms and shoulders

My Crisis Suit team and their stash of MWi weapons (all magnetised)

My Second project is the Devilfish. The transport is crucial for the Tau to take and hold objectives and keep the firewarriors alive. I primed the body and other parts with Wolf Grey. Then I decided i wanted camouflage. I watched some youtube videos where they used stencils for camouflage painting. It seemed easy enough if you hade some stencil material and air brush, I got neither. But the Earth caste beeing resourceful I found some white paper stickers. I drew some polygon shapes on them and cut them out. For the first layer I would paint Deep Blue. Below is picture before and after.  

First Stencil layer on

Deep blue painted and second Stencil layer on. 

I almost knew for certain that my material choise for the stencil was a bad idea, but I went forward with it. After removing the stencils after the Ash Grey coat I almost cried. My Devilfish looked like some hippemobil from Berlin painted by a three year old. All the colours where a mess as the paint from the layers had gone under the stencil and mixed. I did not give up but took a small brush in my hand an started to define and clean up the patter. 3 hours later I was fairly happy with the result. The engines, hatch and landing gear are still unpainted. Until next time.  

Final camo after a lot of patching up with brush and wash,

SDE - Here comes the Kobolds!

Hi again fellow readers!

So it is November and this is the second SDE Theme post. As you might guess from the topic the Super Dungeon Explore Kobolds are in the spotlight.

In the box there are enough Kobolds to make up two identical Kobold Spawn hordes. I tought about for a second if I would paint all the Kobold with the same colour scheme. In the end I decided to have two "Tribes" of Kobolds with different  colours. This will make it easy to identify all models belonging to one spawn card.

My Tribes need some cool names so please leave suggestions in the comments! For the time being they are called "Green" and "Blue" tribes.

But here is my progress so far. Enjoy!

Work In Progress - Base  Coating

The Green Tribe Gougers

Gougers - Your run of th mill Kobold minions with spears. As with other Kobolds they are stronger in mobs. Don´t let them gang up on you heroes!

The Green Tribe Knuckleheads

Knuckleheads - Armed with a sword and shield and armour they can take a bit more punishment than Gougers. Also stronger in large mobs.

The Blue Tribe Gougers

The Blue Tribe Knuckleheads

All the painted Kobolds in a group shot

Total Progress painting the Kobolds, I would say bout 42% ready.

WH40K Forward for the Greater Good

Hi,

I am already breaking my SDE theme, but it is still not November :)

This weekend I painted a Warhammer 40k  Tau Fire Warrior squad I probably had for almost 6-7 years. I really hope I get a chance to play with them.

I went with a gray/blue colour scheme, These guys are urban fighters, perhaps participating in a "liberation" campaign of an Imperial hive world.

In my next update I hope I have some SDE Kobolds painted.

Have a nice late autumn week!

A complete Fire Warrior Squad

"Live and Die for the Greater Good!"

Theme for November - Super Dungeon Explore

Hi Dear Readers,

It´s been a while since last, but what I have hope will make up for any brake in updates. I acquired a couple of weeks ago Super Dungeon Explore shipped from Amazon UK. The game is themed like an 8 and 16-bit console JRPG dungeon bash and comes with about 50 minis in anime chibi style (i.e. super deformed). This post will start my theme month. I have project for the whole November to paint all the minis and will keep updating along the comig weeks my progress and maybe a review of the game also.

So I will start with the unboxing video I recorded immediately after receiving the box.

First Impressions:

Last Saturday I had a chance to assemble all the miniatures and play a short test game with my friends. The miniatures themself look really cool, but there are issues with the quality of the models.There are lot of mold lines and weird holes in places. One of the poor dragon priest fella's right arm was just a stump. Also the miniatures are perhaps in more pieces than I would prefer. I noticed the plastic cement does not work very well with these miniatures. Perhaps the plastic is different from the usual plastics in e.g GW miniatures. The assembly guide recommends super glue and this is also my recommendation. Gluing everything together without cleaning the models took about 2.5 hours and with proper cleaning double that.

The rulebook that comes with the boxed game is a very colourful and includes art that hold the theme of the game very well. Unfortunately the usabilty of the rules are not the best and you need to jump back and forth to find what you are looking for. Fortunately Soda Pop Miniatures have released a new rulebook as a download v.1.5 that is much better than the one that comes with the box. We played a 16-bit game with 3 heroes and three spawnpoints, one miniboss and dungeon boss. Once we got the hang of the rules it played quite smoothly and was really fun in my opinion, albeit playing as the consul (the bad guy) I felt I had a bit too much to keep track of. We decided to end the game when my miniboss killed one of the players and they had not made much progress. I really see forward to play again with a better understanding rules and flow of the game, so I wont give my final judgment yet.


Here are some pictures of all the assembled
miniatures.

The Heroes there are 8 playable ones and one Angry Bear (to the far left)

The baddies - Here is shown the two set of Kobold hordes, the big ones in the back row are Kobold Ogres (a new acquaintance for me)

The Dragons - Front line shows the different growth stages of a dragon from Hatchling to grand old bad ass dragion

REX(es) - These are my personal favorites. How cool are not thes massive minis with giant clubs. This dude won me the first game with Rex Smash!!

The Consul's minions ready for some mischief 

To not let the Kobolds get all the love here is my first painted Heroes the Ember Mage and the Dwarf. Hope you have enjoyed this mega update and please come back shortly to see more painted miniatures.

The Ember Mage - The orb in the staff is not an apple but a fiery globe!

The Dwarf - I call him Blue beard. 

Closeup of the axe showing my attempt to paint metal reflections