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Kryptofski Ghoul Officer,

I managed to get a bit more paint on him tonight.

Still some work to go, but I am now at the ‘there is something still wrong with him’ point, it might be that he isn’t on a proper base. Or it might just be that the colours are wrong. He has been really easy to paint and to be honest hasn’t taken that long to get to this point.

He was actually meant to be for Azazel’s December Community painting challenge…. errrr but he ended up in November….Luckily I have some other heroic or Anti heroic types that can be painted up.

I decided on a tanned leather coloured coat as opposed to the rotting flesh colour I had done on the previous ones.

The flayed face looks particularly disturbing on the colpack

I will crack on with him tomorrow… and may make a start on something else.

I have a doggy (Ostarian) Hussar that will be an ADC, there is also my Orc gentleman, but most likely Rogipoos will be the one to go for….

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No Painting tonight…

Gale force 10 winds, torrential rain…. is causing the lights to act like a disco.

The kids are traumatised as their Minecraft world, they have spent weeks on has become corrupted as the PS4 flickered on and off.

I thought I would show some images of the ghoul forces… these were painted up for my friend for his birthday.

The squad in all of their glory, the faces aren’t visible on the colpack.

A close up of the colours…

The officer is wearing his elfskin coat otherwise his uniform would be green and red too.

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Oil Drums, Ghouls and Frogs

All in a night’s hobby time of an evening

First up the oil drums. These came from Elheim.

I was going for a rusted look, I think I managed it. These were undercoated gun metal then dragon red from Army Painter was added with a sponge. This was stippled over with Model Colour red leather. To be honest I am really pleased with how they came out especially as it is the first time I have done anything with a sponge.

Next up is my Ghoul Officer, his greatcoat is made from the flayed skins of the poor unfortunate’s that came across the path of his unit..The Kryptovski Death Guard, mortal troops in the service of the Dark Tzar.

Just visible beneath his coat is the dark green tunic with red collar. The black colpack and red plume will give him a bit of extra height. I haven’t decided on the colour of the fur, probably black or dark grey. I have a unit of ten of his minions to bring further terror to the nations of Urop.

And Finally frogs… the kids and I had a couple of games of Croa. A frog hopping game where there can only be one froggy queen in the pond. Ooooh it got brutal!

Frogs killing frogs, frogs being eaten by pike… good fun had all around.

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Graveyard Gamble

I am pretty new to this Kickstarter Malarkey,

so I was very pleased to see a parcel waiting for me on the kitchen table when I got in tonight.

What seems like an age ago I backed a Kickstarter by Hammerlot Games. They were producing some resin gravestones, and as I have a rather large undead force for the Witchlands I reckoned I would give it a shot.

This was my pledge… I reckoned 40 plus gravestones would be enough.

To be honest 10 would have been enough, but they were so lovely!

Hammerlot were wanting 1000 Euro’s they managed a whopping 14,000 plus, which is very impressive. As you can see from the above the delivery date was July, and I got them in November… am I bothered, not at all. The company were up front at all times and kept everyone up to date by regular updates and to be honest I think a little team of 4 people would be hard pressed to deal with such an increase in demand, they also moved production to a new location (see I said they kept us up to date).

I am really impressed with the quality.

These are the two sets of twenty gravestones…

Following are the stretch goals…

They really are awesome. A close up of the gravestones…

They are all different, no two are the same.

A close up of some of the others…

I really do like how the handles of the tools are made out of bone.

So was my Kickstarter gamble worth it, most definitely. I am looking forward to getting them painted and onto the table…

They will work well with my Witchland’s forces

A ghoul officer orders an undead engineer squad to lift up a tomb lid…I grabbed the unpainted lot as I couldn’t be bothered to dig out the painted mob…

This gives some idea of the painted types…

https://bogenwaldblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/12/undead-forces/

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Further 5 Minute Makes

I managed another 5 minutes tonight.

A few more moulds

The Greenstuff oil cans worked reasonably well.

I was going to add them onto a base this evening, but to be honest I really couldn’t be arsed…I will hopefully get something done sometime soon.

Oh and while I remember, it isn’t always sunny on Shetland 😉

Tonight’s five minutes were brought to you by…

The more astute of you will realise that 5 minutes would just about get to the opening credits.

I painted two oil drums too….

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Dark Future.. 5 minute makes

I had about 5 minutes to do something tonight as we went to the delayed Firework show and then played One Night Werewolf for about an hour (used different characters this time). I went for more Greenstuff in reusable moulds.

These oil drums are going to be for some scatter terrain, so trying just part ones.

As I enjoyed the fireworks, I thought I would share…. after 3…… oooooooh

Ahhhhhhhhhh

To be fair my wife took these shots using her phone…

The fire went pretty much horizontal…

Having an early night tonight as most of this morning was heaving a cast iron stove around for my mother in law, a great lady, but a cast iron fire, is a cast iron fire. .. oh and don’t you just love it when they don’t bother putting construction diagrams into the box….

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Dark Future…Operatives

I have some operatives for the Interceptors…

Maybe a bit in the small side but I loved the poses. One rushing forwards and the other holding his torch and handgun.

These are from Elheim there was a bit of a whoops with my order, for some reason some figures had been put into the wrong bag so COP2 (above) turned out to be COP3 (uniformed chappies with hand guns)

I haven’t managed to finish them yet, but they are getting there…

Not sure what I will get up to tomorrow night as I am helping mother in law out as Father in law is in hospital, there is pony riding, firework party and then I have to collect all of my stuff I wish to sell on Sunday (one if the clubs is having a sell your stuff day).

I have decided that I want a 3D printer so I need to sell some stuff to afford it.

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Friday’s Forgotten Forces

Ooh I like a bit of Aliteration before bed…

Well after 90 day’s straight with a post every day, tonight I get caught up with things and don’t manage to get one up in time. Poop, poot and buggeration!

Anyway having a mooch about I came across some forgotten figures that haven’t seen the light of day for a couple of years at least.

So this Friday’s forgotten forces are my Colonial Marines and their little friend, or rather big friend.

The miniatures are by Prodos and sad to say I bought the game second hand before some people even got their kickstarter pledge. The only extras I have purchased was a set of face huggers. One day I may purchase some other bits and bobs. We use these for Role playing rather than the original game. I only ever painted one Predator, although three came in the game. All of the Aliens are painted too. For civilians I use pre painted Star Wars or Star Trek minis. I also printed out and built an APC out of card to go with these.

This may become a regular post as I have so many minis that never see the light of day and it will be good to get them out again.

The photos were taken a good while ago, I will have to take some more with the aliens in too.

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Dark Future… the Final Countdown

Nearly there….

I have added various bits from a WW2 Char B to the renegade as well as a supercharger to the Interceptor (can’t remember what it was on the tank)…

I added some chain to the front of the Renegade as well as a hefty aerial, a rail and some metal gubbins on the roof.

The waterslide transfers gave me a nice vehicle number as well as a suitable name… how appropriate was the name considering I had painted the back yellow and black.

The boar came from some old Brettonian stuff I had or rather still have…11 sheets of various heraldic icons.

Tomorrow I will add some bags and Jerry cans to the Renegade.

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A Break from Painting…Werewolf Hunting

Too much on tonight so no painting.

However we did get to play ‘One Night Ultimate Werewolf’

This was a great little game, Lasting about 5 minutes per session. We played it five times in a row…. however everyone kept shooting me… to be fair I was the werewolf twice in a row.

Each person is a character in a small village, the villagers win if they kill a werewolf and the werewolves win if they survive.

The cards are lovely…really thick and very colourful.

The picture above is from the App supporting the game. This isn’t necessary and we played our sessions without it.

The rules are really easy to understand. Basically night falls and everyone shuts their eyes as they go to sleep. The first to wake up are the werewolves. They check who the other werewolf is, if any…they then shut their eyes and the seer wakes up, they can check one person’s card to see who they are. The problem is that the robber wakes up next and swaps cards with someone else. They then go back to sleep and the trouble maker wakes up and swaps cards. In the morning the accusations fly and the loser is the one that gets the most votes (and the silver bullet). Because of the Shenanigans of the card swapping sometimes you end up as the Villager when you started off as a werewolf.

The other cards are for more advanced games, we will come to those in future games.

I haven’t explained it that well, but it was a fun Games session nonetheless!