This is a bit of a misnomer as these two got started a couple of days ago, but as I said last night I didn’t have it in me to finish them yesterday… sadly for me I left them at the ‘OMG these are so crap’ stage… there was more white left than looked good for them… but to be honest I am really pleased with them this evening…
The flag is one of the paper ones I did in about 2019 and is just blue tacked on just to see what it looked like. To be honest I have a selection to choose from…
These are the next three that I am going to get a start on. They are the command section of the 666th Zoltan Zombie Dog line.
My package from Alternative Armies came today, so I will show them off tomorrow.
This one definitely looks more suave and sophisticated than last night’s one… well he is a count and the former leader of the tomb city of Czarlingrad. Altogether not a nice chap at all! I really like this miniature, which is why I have one too.
I have the remaining two infantry to do for the undead. I will then move onto the undead cavalry and finally the dogs. My mate has ordered another four or five so I will have a few more to do… I also ordered myself a few too as there was 20% off last month.
Tonight my plan was to do a couple of the undead miniatures. Instead I managed only one and made a start on the second.
I did this one in a standard ‘Russian’ green colour…
I will get him and the other ones based properly this weekend.
I do like this miniature with his rather grumpy vampire pose.
Tomorrow I will get on with the second one, hopefully by bed time I will have him done and if lucky I will make a start on the drummer and standard bearer.
Tonight I did the first of the undead. These are commissars of the KGB.
As you can see they look rather dead and are liche officers. The one in the middle looks a bit odd as he is an undead toad.
These weren’t too difficult to paint due to the minimal details. I actually used some Speedpaints on the coats as I wanted a different grey to the trousers. Needless to say I was very, very careful. Tomorrow’s lot will take longer as there are four miniatures with a lot more detail on each. Two are vampires one is a drummer and the last is a standard bearer.
This little chap is the final ork from the Alternative Armies pile of miniatures I am doing for my mate.
I had sent him a photo of the latest two and asked what colours he wanted doing on the undead.
I was just about to get him painted when he sent a message and asked for him to have a red jacket with yellow trim. This isn’t a problem but Five minutes later he would have had a brown jacket.
Tonight I did another couple of the Alternative Armies Miniatures. We have an exploring officer on the left and Sir Markus Conclave of the Kings Own Rockette Batteries…
Of the two Conglave is my favourite of the two.
This leaves the orc reporter for the ork miniatures I will keep going with the Alternative Armies until my secret project arrives 😉.
Today I managed to get a bit of painting done as I was in the house due to having a bit of a head cold. I also had to go and pick up Esther from the Ferry first thing this morning so I had a bit longer to paint too.
I still have another three orks to do before going onto the rest.
When I picked up Esther at the ferry, I also picked up her sister and our new house guest….
Last night we played the fourth scenario in the Silver Bayonet…
An agent had been killed in the forest and both forces had to findmthe body and retrieve his signet ring to prove the rumours were true. The first team assigned to this had been chased off by some strange squat creatures… I mean whatever could possibly go wrong! 🙄
The five markers across the middle of the table were the clue markers…one of them would be the missing agent.
As you can see we set up in opposite corners and off we set. I won initiative and moved to the wood as my officer and investigator moved towards the marker, Joe did likewise.
Unfortunately for Joe the Goblin on the centre hill saw his troops and moved off towards them. Unfortunately for me a goblin randomly chose to appear right next to the marker so a bit of a scrap occurred. In fact my officer and agent were stuck there for the next four turns as all Goblins appeared at the same spot… on the upside I got a lot of points for killing them all…
I moved the marker and miniatures for a photo opportunity.
Now luckily for me both of the above were armed with cold iron weapons, which negates the 4 points damage reduction against the Goblins, also my officer was lucky enough to be wearing a religious symbol, which thankfully causes the Goblins to take a -3 to hit… this alone kept my officer alive on a number of occasions.
By turn three all hell was breaking loose across the centre, not to mention that Joe had found the missing agent’s body…
The goblin attacking Joe and did a bit of damage on the officer, but as said officer had already blasted him with a blunderbuss then he quickly decided to lie down.
As I said things got a bit messy in the centre, by turn five bodies were piled everywhere
We managed on double one whole game and this led to a possessed scary thing which thankfully appeared on Joe’s side of the table, unfortunately for me, not close enough to stop his infantryman carrying off the agents ring.
Once again my poor investigator did his best to chase the artefact, and once again it slipped through his fingers.
In the end Joe had four of his force downed and I lost one.
Injuries for his officer was a permanent reduction of -1 to health, this goes alongside the jitters which gives him a permanent-1 to his courage roll. His Swordswoman took a ball to the knee and has a -1 to he movement, she also has the jitters. His doctor and infantryman took only a flesh wound so are fine.
My one casualty was extremely unlucky as he was killed by the extremely accurate shot that got him. This is after he did a reroll to reduce his damage, which he did… sadly just not enough… I rolled a six, I needed a seven! So poor Francois, the Miller’s son from Lille, will sadly no longer make it home to his wife and young child.
Louise Julie, comtesse de Mailly did an excellent job cursing just about everyone in her line of sight, it was her intervention at one point that kept the noble officer alive. Captain Jean Luc Picard was most grateful that he found such a useful associate. He was also lucky that as a comtesse, she could never be claimed to be a witch.
It was another great game, total casualties across the three forces were and amazing ten downed. My force comprised eight, Joe had seven and the Goblins five.
We are going to take a break for a while, bit it will give me time to sort out more terrain and to find all the monsters I might need. I can see some 3D printing is going to take place for some of them.
Bogenwald 