Uncharted Seas Continues

Well, Here we are, back again.

All the basing has now been done for my fleet, just got to get the painting started now.

Final 3 Frigates



The Remaining Cruisers & Group Shot



And finally, the Battleship



I'll be getting them undercoated tomorrow hopefully and I'll start painting next weekend as I've decided to study my Proofreading course for the next couple of weeks to try & get closer to getting completing it and starting to work freelance.

In other miniatures news, I've finally settled on doing some solo gaming adventures using Two Hour Wargames rules primarily, although I have plan to do some Pulp games using Rattrap Productions .45 Adventures rules set, but thats a way off for now.

I'll be starting with a fantasy based adventure using THW Warrior Heroes rules and an adventure set in a world of my own creation that I started working on many years ago but have recently come back to and focused on, re-jigged and, hopefully, improved upon. More on that in the coming months as I prepare for it.

In the gaming front, US isn't the only new game I'm looking at getting into.

Pulp City is a game of Superhero skirmishes that I've been a fan of since I saw the first model they released,(well, it was a gorilla with a chaingun :), & I have now finally ordered my first models from them, the Ape Revolution Committee members Guerilla, Chimp Chi, Ape Bot & Virus.

I'm also going to get into Wyrd Miniatures' Malifaux skirmish game. I really like the setting and the miniatures and I am intriged about the rules as they promise something different. I currently have 2 Crews, one from the Arcanist Faction (Miners & Steamfitters Union) & one from the Resurrectionists (Morgue Master McMourning & co.).

More on all of these as we go.

till next time...

J

Uncharted Seas

So, the club seems to have adopted the Uncharted Seas rules by Spartan Games as it's newest obsession. We haven't really had a game where the majority of the club were interested in playing since Warmachine came out back in 2003, so it's nice to have that enthusiasm in the club again, it's been a while.

Anyway, I've picked up an Orc fleet starter set:



Spartan have changed a few of the things about the game and box contents so I ended up waiting about a month for the set to come through, but the wait was worth it and getting the templates and tokens in the box now is a help (although the Turning Templates are missing the Arc of Fire arrows so I'll have to draw them on myself).

The resin on the ships is nice an crisply cast, the detail is very clear with not too much flash and very easy to clean up. The metal sails were a little more of a problem, with a rather annoying mold line right at the bottom of all the sails with some quite thick flash on a couple of them that obscured some of the detailing that I had to use my files to re-carve into the metal, but overall it's an impressive little set.

DAY 1:

Cleaned up all the models & washed the ships themselves in warm, soapy water.

Cut bases for the ships and glued ships in place.



DAY 2:

Began making waves using greenstuff on the bases on 3 of the frigates, used some Woodland Scenics Water Effects to create rough water around the paddle wheels.



So far so good, I wasn't sure about the greenstuff waves at first, but I think they'll be OK. Just got to do the rest of them now :)

More soon.

J

OK, I have now made purchase of 2 new desk lamps to replace the ones I broke so hopefully next time I'll actually have some photos to show off.

I have updated my Displaced Miniatures page with some of the old pictures from the club, (Man, how did I get by without Dullcote :), go check them out.

More next week hopefully

J

Well, I've finally got the first 2 units for Richard's 1000 Sons completed and handed over.

They came out looking good, though I do need to stop having bright ideas like putting squad symbols on shoulder pads and then using authentic Egyptian symbol...I should know better by now. Still, I don't think they look too bad, at least the most complicated symbol, (the Scarab), has been done, the rest are all pretty simple from now on.

Still no photos, but I'll be popping over the Argos in a few minutes to pick up a couple of new lights, so hopefully I'll be able to start getting photos taken soon. Plus, the club that was once PEWC has officially now become Enfield Gamers and the old site taken down, so I now have a copy of all the old pictures from the site which I'll try and get uploaded to my Displaced Miniatures page today as well.

On other news, I've noticed a new Pulp era board game coming out in October which I'm definitely going to pick up when it comes out, The Adventurers. Looks a lot of fun & the character model look fabulous :)

anyway, hopefully should post again later with some pictures and whatnot so speak to you then.

Painted to date: 27 (26 infantry/1 mount)

J

Another 2 months & no update, sorry about that.

Still no pictures, but things a re progressing.

It took me a while (6 weeks) to paint the first 9 models for Richard's Thousand Son's (well, technically 4 weeks painting time, 2 weeks I couldn't hold anything in my left hand so that stopped me doing anything), but thankfully I've got back into the swing of things now and, with the help of my new P3 Wet Pallet (which is a godsend ) I've got the 2nd full unit of 9 done in about 10-11 days all told & I've got the 8 remaining Chaos space marines from the 2 incomplete squads almost sorted.

I've still got to decide on the symbols that will be painted on the shoulder pads and bases and pick up some flock to base them with, but the bulk of it's all done.

Anyway, that's all for now, so till next time.

J

Painting Update

Well, I've begun to paint things up for people, unfortunately I haven't got photos yet, but I need to pick up some new lights as the 2 I currently have have snapped off their bases. Next time I won't bother to secure them I'll use the lamps they come with.

Anyway, to kick things off, and to get used to painting multiple mini's at one time, I painted up 9 Dark Elf mini's for Rob to use in the Song of Blades & Heros campaign...just at the point they finished it...Doh, will try to do better next time, still need to do the rider for the Cold One though, but I need to sort out a new undercoating stand first.

I have also begun work on Richard's, (shadoblade), Thousand Son's. Which are taking a little longer than I'd hoped, but I am only on the first sqaud so all the little bit's I'm finding out about and having to redo/correct should mean I'll be able to blast through the rest at a relatively decent pace.

I used the GW Spray gun for the first time on the squad...not greatly impressed by the whole process, but I think it'll get better, it's not like I've invested in an airbrush set or anything, you get what you pay for.

Painted to date: 9 (8 infantry/1 mount)

Hopefully more soon, J

First Proper update of 2009

Right, January is now but a memory, and we're beginning February waiting for a heavy snowfall to begin any time today & all day tomorrow, with the temperature suitably chilly and dropping rapidly, I think it's time to stay in and get some painting done.

Most of January I spent faffing about painting a little bit, building a little bit, planning a little bit & basically getting absolutely nothing completed whilst I was waiting for Richard to put together the Thousand Sons models he wants me to paint for him.

He got them, (or at least the bulk of them), to me last Tuesday & today is the day I start the prep-work.

Here's what I've got to work with so far:



From top to bottom: 1 unit Chaos Space Marines; 1 unit Thousand Sons (6 to come); 1 unit CSM (4 to come); 1 Havok unit (3 to come + 1 l. arm for Las Gunner); 1 unit CSM; 3 units Chaos Terminators. Currently missing the above mentioned minis, plus 1 more 9-man unit, (another Havok unit I think).

As you can see most have had some kind of paint on them, (from the look of some of them, quite a few coats of paint, the detail on a few is almost nonexistent), so a few will need stripping before I can get ant paint on them, but I'm hoping to get that all sorted this week, then next week I start the painting proper.

Right, so the first project of the year is now officially underway, so hopefully regular updates will now follow.

Oh, and here comes the snow I mentioned earlier...oh joy, time to wrap up warm folks :)

More soon.

J