Night Goblin Hordes!

   Army 2 in my "pretty pictures of painted stuff" posts, a ridiculous horde of nothing but goblins, not even orc bullys on the warmachines ( that would be cheating). This was and still is my "go-to" army for tournaments, The lions share of it was finished in 7th ed about 6 years ago, but since the latest army book came out in 8th ed its seen some revision, with more yet to come eventually.

Stunties!

So far all my blogs have been about random crap I've been building and converting, and the 2 dozen different projects I have going on all at once, between the 4(or 5) warhammer armies I have on the go, the 2 40k armies, infinity and now warmachine i have a lot to keep me busy. But I figured it was time to look back and show some stuff that's actually painted for once!

Dread Knight done right

  So this is what the dreadknight concept art started out looking like, not too bad, i can deal with that right?  Sadly this is what the model ended up looking like...

  Not exactly the most streamlined of machines, personally i find it to be a bit of a mess, it feels disproportionate and a hodgepodge of smooth plate armour and weird supporting scaffolding, and then finally there's the baby terminator strapped to the chest.. such wasted potential.

Fine-Melt?

   So, I recently bought my first ever fine-cast mini, and figured I may as well give my opinions on the whole experience.

  Finecast as a whole has been something that's caught a lot of heat (thankfully not literally or they'd have melted..hah sorry). It's been advertised to us by GW as being the best thing since the sliced bread wheel, better to work with, better detail, cures diseases, exfoliates, performs excorsisms of the most ingrained demons, you name it. Any way I've not been sold on it as a whole, I like my metal minis, and the fact that the "significant production cost decrease" was passed on to comsumers by way of a price increase didn't really fly with me either.

A long time between pagodas, Spartan progress!

  So I'll admit it, its been a fair while since my last update! It's not because i haven't done anything, it's just that every time i got near my pc i'd have a little thing called skyrim, or battlefeild 3, or assassins creed, or deus ex 2 (to name a few) distract me. If i'm honest it's my fault for putting them right there on the desk top really..

Cloning is the way of the future.

  Flashy attention grabbing picture's that have nothing to do with a blog post are also the way of the future...

   Anyway, recently I've been made aware of some stuff called "Instant mold". Basically this stuff is some plastic goop, that you heat up in hot water, and it becomes goopier (spell check tells me that isn't a word..). From there you can basically stick a model or bit into it, it will set hard around the model as it cools, but it wont stick.. and you can then use it as a mold for re-creating the model or bit, with green stuff or any other non heat based molding stuff. 

This is how the stuff comes, a pack of 6 of these strips.

To INFINITY and beyond

 So, where have my updates gone? Well, to be honest the last month I've spent wholey immersed in INFINITY, this has lead to basically no progress on anything fantasy or 40k related. Instead get ready for an update on what i think might be one of the best tabletop games I've ever played (including gorkamorka!).
  Infinity is a game produced by a Spanish company called Corvus Belli. Its a skirmish game set 175 years in the future, in a manga (cyberpunk?) style setting, using between 6-16(ish) models in a game. And I've gota say, clean vistas, cool tech, and no space marines in sight is SO refreshing. The game also has some of the best miniatures I've ever seen (in 14 odd years of wargaming that's saying something), which was the major factor that sold me. Seriously, go check out the range at http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/en/facciones/ ... I'll wait..