Mars Attacks Kickstarter!

Look at that! Now, whilst I've backed Mantic's latest Kickstarter, I'm not a huge Mars Attacks fan (it was always more popular stateside than over here). But what i am, is a huge Judge Dredd fan.

Mantic's latest update had this as an upcoming goal.

Well, I'm sold.

Hobby ideas Volume 1: Orcs/Orks

Something that's been of interest to me lately is the idea of Chaos-corrupted Orcs (I mean, look at that picture!), they seem like a fun project to mess around with. I don't know if they'll work better as a 40k or Fantasy force - a fantasy force would fit in well with my United Chaos army project (that I've been working on during my blogging silence), but I 40k one would allow for more individual models, something that an army like this would require.
Another, similar, project would be the Ork Mekanicus Kult. An idea so cool that I can't believe that no one else has done it before (I'm sure many have, but my googling seems to be turning up a blank).
Of course, I can't be doing a 40k Ork army and not have a looted vehicle or two (Deffskulls are my favourite flavour of Ork) - and that Dreamforge Titan I have knocking around is just too tempting....
For the time being tho, I've already got enough on my plate. What with the new Zombicide boxes, the Reaper Bones (that's finally been shipped), Deadzone, Kingdom Death and a whole stack of Kickstarter stuff I've failed to mention (including the Dreadball stuff that keeps getting pushed back in the queue).
Although... With all my Deadzone add-ons, I've got a fairly sizeable Ork army coming my way in November...

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Nagash: Not with a bang, but a whimper.

Something that slipped through the cracks whilst everyone was going a bit Vostroyan mad a little while back - The Immortal Necromancer Lord Nagash has finally met his end! Yes, that's right. During the great Collectors Range purge, Nagash himself was one of the casualties. And, because of the amount of hate directed toward his model, its extremely unlikely he'll return (unless Warhammer Forge get their act together).

Yes, yes, i know. The model is, objectively, quite bad and it's removal will bring joy to a great many people (and ruin even more "worst model" lists. [We've still got Vulkan, so all is not lost]) But this still feels like the end of an era.

So here it is, farewell sweet prince and may you find hapSKULLS SKULLS SKULLS SKULLS SKULLS SKULLS.

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Painting Zombicide: The Pictures.

Ok so, as promised! Here's some pictures:

First, the second tray of zombies:

Here's the survivors:

Try not to look at Wanda or Amy too hard...

 And finally, a great big family group-shot of all the zombies:

 

Christmases are awkward, to say the least.

I've not had a game with these guys yet, but soon hopefully. Anyway, enough for now. Onward to the next project!

Painting Zombicide: The Long Wait

After (about) two months on hiatus, I'm back! Why way I gone? Mostly boring day-job related stuff. But don't think i've been resting on my laurels whilst the OC has been mothballed! I finished painting the Zombicide Abomination!

Seen here on his first, and last, day at the jam factory.

Not only that! Before painting this guy I painted the second, and final, tray of zombies! Which means I've finished painting my copy of Zombicide!  This project is due a major photodump on all the progress I've made during (and a bit before) the hiatus so expect that as soon as I have the photos.

All this is good news for me (not only because I've proven i can actually finish projects - and it's only taken my 4 months!), since it's been announced that Zombicide Season 2 (+Toxic City Mall) will be shipping a month early! So I've got a month or so's break before I dive back into Zombicide Painting.

In this time I've decided that I will work though another of my Kickstarter hauls, this time Dreadball. I've already made a start on a couple of the teams (Forgefathers and Marauders) and I've painted up a couple of the MVP's so i've got a head start, expect some more posts on them over the next few months.

Anyway, that's all for now!

Painting Zombicide: Game on!

After painting the survivors (pics to come soon), i decided to reward myself with a quick game of Zombicide (since i paint and play in different places, I've not been able to play the game whilst I've been painting the models) - It was a, relatively, simple capture the objectives game. We started with 6 survivors and ended with one, who caught the final objective. All in all, it looked very cinematic*, and cool, with the painted models and has really upped my enthusiasm for painting the final tray of zombies.

(* One problem that came up was zombies getting double activations, due to a lack of models, and killing survivors in droves - thankfully solved by my Kickstarter haul when it arrives)

Anyway, onto the pictures!

Painting Zombicide: One Tray Down!

Ok, so. I finally finished my first tray of zombies. The lessons i've learnt so far? Don't trust that brush-on varnish wont frost your models. As a side note, this was the first time i'd actually seen all the zombies together in a horde (not counting when they were in their tray), and i think they look pretty imposing...

Anyway, onto the zombies!

Team Brown

Team Blue

Team Purple

The whole crew

And Josh, still WIP, post Dip and pre-matting.