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Unfortunately there is still no opportunity to do any physical wargaming with Melbourne still in Coronavirus lockdown. I have played a couple of games of Battletech using Tabletop Simulator. While satisfying and a good chance to catch up with my gaming mates, I do miss rolling dice & moving miniatures. In between games & waiting … Read more
First night back at Monday Knights after over 100 days of Coronavirus lockdown. I got to roll some dice playing for the first time in a lot of months. Congrats to Big Nige for his win & the great Team Yankee. (Damn those Soviet Hinds!) The game was a quick 85pts Soviet vs USA Team … Read more
Here is another one that falls under the “First World COVID Problems” banner. I have tinkering with the idea of updating my 1990’s 2nd Edition lead Skaven Bloodbowl team to the current Plastic & Fine Cast resin versions. To maintain some potential interchangeability, I thought that I would paint the new Skaven miniatures in the … Read more
Very happy with today’s mail call After painting up the Gas Lands wrecks I thought I would grab some proper Gas Lands gates & dice. Found some “factory seconds” on Etsy and thought I would give them a go https://www.etsy.com/listing/624738520/ … aslands-ho https://www.etsy.com/listing/768344129/ … -skid-dice While I was on the web site & already paying … Read more
I had just finished writing up a couple MK blog posts about painting PSC StuGs and my last couple Vanguard Forces of the Abyss war-band figures when I had this email exchange with Flop. I had great visions of powering through another couple of painting projects to either add units to existing armies or just … Read more
Short post for tonight. Gamers all know this feeling – the feeling of satisfaction of painting that last miniature to complete a project. This week end – painted my last three figures to complete my Vanguard – Forces of the Abyss warband. Well – the last “unpainted” miniatures have been painted at any rate Back … Read more
*Originally posted in the Monday Knights Forum, 18 Jan 2020* Yep – happens to us all, make a good start on a new army project, smash out enough painted miniatures to be passable on the table, then distraction and loss of momentum kick in. The Blood-Masques and Warlock miniatures have been sitting on my painting … Read more
It is tough putting together Imp swarms for Vanguard for the Forces of the Abyss warband. Unfortunately the Mantic games Forces of the Abyss sprues only have one Imp figure per sprue and each swarm base needs four or five figures per base. My first attempt at proxy miniatures was using resin grots from (now … Read more
I have gotta admit – this has been a VERY long term project. Like all others, it started with some enthusiasm, but after some early progress, interest waned and the whole tray of StuGs sat on the shelf gathering dust. Assembly and painting began back in April 2013 (Yes – over 7 years ago), but … Read more
When I first got into Battletech, I really struggled with a paint scheme to do the miniatures justice. I tried some camouflage schemes and some of the complex traditional Inner Sphere liveries as well. Camouflage seemed a little pointless with giant nuclear robots crashing through the forest in the universe of the third millennium trying to … Read more
I am pretty sure that my eye sight was a lot better and my hands were a lot steadier when I painted my first batch of Battletech Clan mechs about twenty years ago. I have always enjoyed putting 3025 era Battlemechs on the table & most of my effort had gone into painting Inner Sphere, … Read more
Melbourne is into week 2 of stage 4 Coronavirus lock down. This has followed on from two separate stage 3 lockdowns which has prevented the Monday Knights from holding club meetings since June. Four Monday Knights – Lord T, Baron, Snowflake and JB11 – piloted Clint, Wolfhound, Vulcan and Javelin light Battlemechs in a “play … Read more
Unfortunately Melbourne (Australia) is still in Coronavirus lock-down which means that there will be no club meetings for the foreseeable future. Faced with the prospect of not rolling any dice for some time, I have offered to umpire a “Play by Mail” Battletech game with slightly modified rules to allow for a multi-player game with … Read more
Yep – happens to us all, make a good start on a new army project, smash out enough painted miniatures to be passable on the table, then distraction and loss of momentum kick in. The Blood-Masques and Warlock miniatures have been sitting on my painting table for far too long. I admit that a little … Read more
Still reeling from my defeat last week at the hands of the Trident Realms commanded by Lord T, this week I got to the Monday Knights club meeting early to smash out a quick game before my opponent Floppy had to leave. Only a short report this week, not much positive to report about the … Read more
It is fair to say I may have been a little cocky going into my third Vanguard game. Once again, I was facing the Trident Realms warband commanded by Lord T, this time the scenario was “Rescue the Princess”. The reason for my confidence? I was lucky enough to be the defender in this scenario … Read more
I haven’t made any progress with painting my Vanguard Abyssal army since my first game last week. Truth be known, I haven’t had much of a chance to give Vanguard a second thought much less do any preparation for my second game. As a result, I packed the very same list & miniatures as I … Read more
Boiling steam and smoke announced the arrival of the furious horde of demons which set loose from the bowels of the earth on an unsuspecting village. Unprepared for an attack by loose bowel demons, the Trident Realm defenders desperately attempted to light a signal beacon to summon armed assistance to drive the invaders back to the … Read more
The first game of Vanguard for my Forces of the Abyss is coming up this Monday & I still have a bit of work to do. So far, I only have a Despoiler, five Lower Abyssal grunts and a stand of proxy Imps painted up ready to go. Starting to think a little bit about … Read more
Time to make some in-roads into putting my Vanguard Abyssal warband & flesh out the ranks with some grunts. The Forces If the Abyss Vanguard Starter pack has a plastic sprue of Lower Abyssal “grunts”. They are a multi piece kit with plenty of weapon and head options – enough to put together five Lower … Read more
So these minis aren’t Mantic minis. I went scratching around my bits box looking for something to do a little colour testing before I started hard core painting my Abyssal demons. They are actually a bunch of resin grots that “Lucky” from the Monday Knights gave me as a birthday present a while ago (OK … Read more
Found myself with a little time and thought that I would just slap a base coat of Flesh Tearer red onto my Abysall Despoiler – after all who doesn’t go straight to the big guy when starting to paint a new project I probably should have taken some more WIP photos as works were under … Read more
The last couple of weeks has kept me on the road & spending far too many night in 2-star motels. Getting thoroughly sick of nothing to do but watch Netflix on my mobile phone, I packed a model making travel pack & made a start on putting together my Abassyl Vanguard miniatures Made a start … Read more
…the journey begins…. It has been far too long since I have had the pleasure of fantasy table top wargaming. Mantic Games were very generous in providing a number of stater & booster sets to the Monday Nights War Game club to get us started & I was crazy enough to put my hand up … Read more
The Monday Knights will be hosting a Battletech completion a little later on in July – the “One Night of Battletech Madness” I thought that I would have a crack at making some trophies for the event & here is the work in progress of the trophy for “First Place” I started with a plastic … Read more
