Friday, November 30, 2012
Club Scenery Storage
Bought some boxes for scenery last night for the club, we have it organised. Will need to replace some of the broken scnery, I took a whole bunch more home last night to "fix".
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Flames of War -Trademe madness
I love it when you pick up an awesome deal, 2000 points worth of Germans for $35 plus shipping. I got the package yesterday and there are a whole lot of damaged krauts and I think a bunch of smaller scale vehicles.
1x Konigstiger,
2 x Tigers
5x Panzer IVs
6x 7.5cm guns
1x 8.8cm gun
2x Hummels
2 mortar teams
2 HMG teams
about 70 infantry
and some support trucks/transport in 2 scales.
A lot of the stuff is gonna need rebasing/stripping, I think some of the glue used was supposed to be for shoes.
That's not all. For $NZ130 shipped, I have some Plastic soldier company figures coming form UK (130 infantry, 60 Infantry w/ heavy weapons and T34's). When they arrive I can put up maybe 1500-2000 points of Russian Strelkovy with Tank and infantry heavy weapons support at about 300 models. When you compare the amount of models in both armies, it's quite striking to understand the difference between German quality and Russian quantity. I'm also brushing up on the History of World War II which I must say is a fascinating read on the overall war as I've only read about parts of the war previously. And I'm looking at tank websites...So sad.
I could have spent twice that on Hobbit boxed set at NZ$245 or $145 on 4 resin infantry figures and been less than satisfied. But I digress, I don't care about LOTR/Hobbit games that much but the prices are enough to make you weep. I had a chat with someone about regional trade embargoes and why GW stuff is so expensive because retail/trade/publicly owned nature of GW and regional considerations and licensing. I understand the angles of why they're trying to justify the prices but it's blown out of proportion. It's like the housing bubble, GW are having a hobby pricing bubble and they'll end up killing themselves out of the hobby.
1x Konigstiger,2 x Tigers
5x Panzer IVs
6x 7.5cm guns
1x 8.8cm gun
2x Hummels
2 mortar teams
2 HMG teams
about 70 infantry
and some support trucks/transport in 2 scales.
A lot of the stuff is gonna need rebasing/stripping, I think some of the glue used was supposed to be for shoes.
That's not all. For $NZ130 shipped, I have some Plastic soldier company figures coming form UK (130 infantry, 60 Infantry w/ heavy weapons and T34's). When they arrive I can put up maybe 1500-2000 points of Russian Strelkovy with Tank and infantry heavy weapons support at about 300 models. When you compare the amount of models in both armies, it's quite striking to understand the difference between German quality and Russian quantity. I'm also brushing up on the History of World War II which I must say is a fascinating read on the overall war as I've only read about parts of the war previously. And I'm looking at tank websites...So sad.
I could have spent twice that on Hobbit boxed set at NZ$245 or $145 on 4 resin infantry figures and been less than satisfied. But I digress, I don't care about LOTR/Hobbit games that much but the prices are enough to make you weep. I had a chat with someone about regional trade embargoes and why GW stuff is so expensive because retail/trade/publicly owned nature of GW and regional considerations and licensing. I understand the angles of why they're trying to justify the prices but it's blown out of proportion. It's like the housing bubble, GW are having a hobby pricing bubble and they'll end up killing themselves out of the hobby.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
All things diseased and pus ridden.
My Wife takes way better pics than I do...
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| Nurgle Plague Marauders; Conversion of Mantic Zombies, GW Zombies and GW Flagellents. I'm planning on trying to do at least one of thes units for my Plague Warriors army. |
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| It's boogey time! |
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| Better pic of my Pox Riders of Nurgle complete. |
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| Nurgle Tree of Woe Rank Filler for Plague Bearers is complete. Yes the tree is spewing blood. |
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| Plaguebearers WIP |
Friday, November 23, 2012
Daemons vs lizards
Only a short post today as I'm fiddling with my new pone, it takes ok
pictures must learn to have a steady hand though, here are some pics of
2400 points versus Liam's Lizards. Game ended up with me holding the
tower in the 4th turn with Bloodletters.
2400 points GUO, HoK 29 Letters, HoN, 25 Plaguebearers, HoT w/ Shadow magic, Epidimius 5 Furies, 3 Screamers, 2x 1 Beasts of Nurgle and 2 x 1 Fiends. I got to take a new list next week. My Nurgle Daemons are failing to get the tally high enough fast but that maybe just because I was facing primarily T4 troops.
I've almost finished my unit of Plaguebearers.
2400 points GUO, HoK 29 Letters, HoN, 25 Plaguebearers, HoT w/ Shadow magic, Epidimius 5 Furies, 3 Screamers, 2x 1 Beasts of Nurgle and 2 x 1 Fiends. I got to take a new list next week. My Nurgle Daemons are failing to get the tally high enough fast but that maybe just because I was facing primarily T4 troops.
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| My Daemons. |
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| Liam and his Lizardmen, he needs way more skinks. |
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| Bloodletters killing the Skinks and taking over the watchtower |
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| Salamanders surrounded and destroyed. |
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| Skink Priest being eaten by Harpies after sSalamanders run down. |
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| Stegadon charges Plaguebearers. |
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| Slaan and Temple guard Charging tower, only to bounce off. |
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Nurgle Chaos Warriors, Cultists and T34's
So I splurged out on my Mortal Nurgle army and got the Avatars of War Corruptors of Apocalypse, straight in as Nurgle Chaos Warriors. Here they are in all their bits.
I must say I'm quite impressed with them, I wouldn't have mided a bit
more customizationability but they are extremely nice sculpts and I
especiall like the musician.
I had to assemble one with one mutated arm and he is nice and blocky and imposing with lots of details for painting rust and pustulent bits.
I assembled my first T34 for my Russians. Hot swappable turrets from Plasti Soldier Company. I picked up a box of them and two Katyushka rocket launchers.
I'm also painting this up for a friend's Deadlands campaign
I assembled my first T34 for my Russians. Hot swappable turrets from Plasti Soldier Company. I picked up a box of them and two Katyushka rocket launchers.
I'm also painting this up for a friend's Deadlands campaign
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