Wow, it's been a while since I posted anything on here. Not by choice mind you, but blogger seems to be playing silly buggers with images hosted at Photobucket.

Anyhoos, here's what I've been up to lately. I won a set of home-made game boards on Trademe (NZ's version of e(vil)-bay) for NZ$50. Total bargain, especially as it also included a Fortified Manor, Arcane Ruins, the Citadel Woods and two sets of the the walls and fences which alone are about NZ$320. All I had to do was a 500km round trip (to Kerikeri) to pick them up, so two weekends ago I made the trip.

And here's what the boards I won looked like. Not too bad I suppose. Each of the six segments is about 60 x 80cm (2 foor x 3 foot).

However green paint really doesn't agree with me for the plains of Nordland, so with the aid of a lot of brown acrylic paint, some beach sand and a lot of flock I've been turning them into this:

I have just finished the fourth board which is enough to cover 90% of my dining table, so I won't be able to fit more on there but I will finish the rest of them off to give me some variety in terrain.

The inevitable bodge up

I spent the past couple of days putting together a second Doooooom Wheel for my Skaven. This thing was on track to look real good. I had a new recipe for wood that looks excellent, the metal would be rusty, the bronze stained, the works. Last night I finally glued on the first wheel in the only way you possibly can assemble it. And here is the result.

Upside down back to front rats in the wheels. I can't remove the wheels without damaging the whole unit and even if I could, I couldn't then remove and reset the rats without further damage. So instead it'll have to take to the battlefield as a monument to my "duh reading the instructions upside down" moment.

High Elves - The Maiden Guard

I recently picked up these off Trademe for a quite reasonable price (I've seen people asking for over US$100 for the full set of 10)! These are a WIP, but late in the piece. I need to tidy up the robes, finish off the spears and a couple of other niggling things.

I do quite like the figures, but they are VERY small indeed, especially when placed besides other GW figures of a more recent make (eg Wood Elf way watchers).

On a completely different topic, one of the reasons why I haven't been able to take many pictures recently to put on this blog has been the dire summer weather here.

I took this pictures this afternoon to show just what it's been like.

50 Followers and a lot of undead

I somehow seem to have acquired 50 followers! Thank you all very much, I am deeply honored.

I haven't put anything new up on here for a while as the weather has been too crappy to take pictures. One of these days I really must acquire a lightbox. However, today the clouds vanished for long enough for me to take some pictures. They're all undead for the Dreadfleet based Warhammer RPG I've been GM-ing.

First up we have some Skellington marines. I would just like to say that I really really really dislike these figures, they snap and break if you look at them crosseyed, even with the strongest glue.

And next we have a trio of Crypt Horrors. These will count as the Ghoul King and his Leuftenants. I originally was going to paint them greenish like on the GW box art, but decided that flesh tones would look more ... disgusting.

The Fortified Manor

Yes, it's yet more scenery, this time the fortified manor. Quite an excellent piece of kit it is too, in stark contrast to the Witchfate Tor below. Pieces went together easily and whats more stayed together as well.

I based it on a couple of leftover bits of movement tray which were covered with local beach sand and then painted/drybrushed/flocked.

The Witchfate Tor

I have spent part of my Christmas break assembling this utter bastard of a piece of scenery. Such a cast iron bitch to assemble. I had to resort to pinning every single piece of wall to its neighbour twice (top and bottom) to make it sit together right. Still then end result is quite nice I think.

Behold, the Witchfate Tor!!!

In this picture you can see the long suspicious brown stain beneith the garderobe...

And this is what the top of the tower looks like from above...

Next up, a Garden of Morr and a Temple of Skulls.

King Amenhotep's treasures

Been painting these up for an RPG I'm currently running based (loosely) around the Dreadfleet boardgame by GW.

They're a part of the army of this chap - King Amenhotep the Intolerant. A WIP of him...