Reaper miniatures Orcs

These lads are all from Reaper Miniatures. The one on the right I have shown off in a previous post. However after leaving them half painted for nearly a year now I finally decided to finish off the rest. So here they are.

Being from the Reaper Bones line, I varied the standard sword orc model by carefully cutting the hands off the mini's, then positioning them so that the weapons were at different angles. I varied the battleaxe models by positioning the ax heads. This provided enough variety to the models to make them distinct enough from each other on the table.

I still need to do some tidying up with them, painting the eyes and applying blood stains to the weapons. But, after a year, they can finally hit the table. These guys will predominantly be used for role playing, but will also make a nice berserker unit for Dragon Rampant or Kings of War.

May you have a blessed, safe and very Merry Christmas

Isaiah 7:14 New International Version

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

Luke 2:1-20 New International Version

The Birth of Jesus

2 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. ² (This was the first census that took place while^[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.) ³ And everyone went to their own town to register.

⁴ So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. ⁵ He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. ⁶ While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, ⁷ and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

⁸ And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. ⁹ An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. ¹⁰ But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. ¹¹ Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. ¹² This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

¹³ Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

¹⁴ “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
    and on earth peace to those on whom his favour rests.”

¹⁵ When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

¹⁶ So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. ¹⁷ When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, ¹⁸ and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. ¹⁹ But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. ²⁰ The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

I wish you a very Merry Christmas. God bless!

Grim Dark D20 Player Characters

Here's two characters from our new Grim Dark D20 campaign. On the left is Valkalyn, a Dark elf sorcerer who has escaped to the (Warhammer) Old World and who masquerades as a High elf among the humans. On the right is Grug, a Red Ogre warrior-for-hire NPC who has attached himself to the group and has pulled their butts out of the fire on more than one occasion.

This miniature is a D&D Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures female Paladin and no matter how hard I have tried (three flipping times!!!) I still haven't been able to get the eye's right. :(

"Over here, Grug"

Grug is a Mantic Games, Kings of War, Ogre. I really like these Ogres. Mantic Games have done a great job with them. Must get some more sometime.

Ok enough said. Time to get on with more painting.

Zombies!!!

Painted these Mantic Games Kings of War zombies a few months back but never got around to showing them off. Until now!

I've based them for use both on the battle table and for role playing games. They fit into a slotted base for when I'm playing Kings of War, Chaos Wars or Dragon Rampant. But they are also set to be used for role playing.

DungeonCraft on YouTube

It's been a busy time at work of late, so not much in the way to show off. I have been fortunate enough to be able to spend what spare time I have had on preparing for role playing. One fantastic resource I have found is DungeonCraft on YouTube. See his trailer here:



Professor Dungeon Master talks about the type of game I would love to play.

I first cut my teeth in role playing with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. It was an eye opener that such a game existed and I remember fondly playing most weekends with my friends after we got back from the beach.

I went away from AD&D when I first played Runequest. If thought the mechanics to be intuitive and excellent. The setting was amazing as well. But I have always still pined for those heady days of the simplicity of AD&D.

Well, fear no more. Professor Dungeon Master's suggestions have made me fall in love with D20 rpg's again. Once I have killed off (er, I mean, mishaps have happen to...) the current player characters, I intend to run a D20 lite version based on a lot of the advice given on DungeonCraft.

Lots of good advice. So what are you waiting for? Level up your game!

Klingon D6 for A Call To Arms Starfleet

Been a while... been a long while...but finally, back to the Klingons!

Here is the Klingon D6 Battlecruiser of Axanar fame for ACTA Starfleet.

Klingon D5 for A Call To Arms Starfleet - UPDATE

UPDATE - It didn't seem right to me that the D5 ACTA ship data card that I posted in the previous post had two rear firing photon torpedoes. In the TV shows, Klingon's face their enemies and have minimal weapons facing to the rear. They only have some just in case an enemy gets behind them. So I reduced the number of torp's to the rear by one and adjusted the ships new points value to 150 points. But feel free to use either version.

Klingon D5 for A Call To Arms Starfleet

I have finally had the time to get back to doing my version of Klingon ships from the TV series for ACTA Starfleet. Been very busy working on stuff for my roleplaying group of late, so my apologies there fan.

Anyway, here is my take on the Klingon D5 as seen on Star Trek Enterprise and in the Axanar fan film.

The types of weapon systems come from online schematics. The numbers of dice for each weapon are based on the D5 being a bigger hitter than the D4. Enjoy!

MOAB 2019

MOAB 2019 is back this long weekend. I attended Saturday. There were a lot more games being played than last year, and that seemed to chew up space normally set aside for the retail section. So the retail section seemed to me to be slightly smaller than last year. But other than that, there were a lot of gaming tables and many of them seemed dedicated to playing 40K. Other popular games being played were DBA, Flames of War, Blood Bowl and a few one offs. There was a couple of demo games as well. Here are the photos I took of the day.

This is from a Kickstarter called Mirrors of Tullarn. You can find it here currently active here.

This game (see image above and the next few) is based on the idea of near future warfare. Combat drones slug it out across tomorrows battlefields. Only one command vehicle is needed to control the drones. Drones can self repair in-field. Sounds like an interesting game and its based on very near future tech. You can find out more at their website here.