Wildercorp Hunters Started

 It has been a very busy summer and cannot believe I haven't found time to post and not as much painting as I would like at all.

Here is a quick palate cleanser I did to take a break from all the grim dark 40k for the Wrath and Glory Campaign.  First mini's from the Warcry Wildercorp Hunters set  (a gift from my family!).  One of these is a Cities of Sigmar soldier equipped with the unused spear from the set.  I really feel like spears or pikes should have been a part of the Cities of Sigmar troopers actually.

These were fun to paint and looking forward to the rest of the box set.

 

 

 

I think these are my favorite two, I call them Otto and Sven.  Otto is about to bury a hatchet in someone while Sven sicks the hounds on them.

Wrath & Glory - The March of Chaos Story so far

 So I finally got around to updating the Wrath & Glory campaign page, check it out for a full synopsis.

 Here are some pictures I took of some of the battles.

 

The group finds themselves surrounded......

  

 

We shall prevail!

 

 

This was quite the battle, and we found our first big boss!

 

Wrath and Glory - Cultists and Plague Marines

 Just a quick post showcasing some cultists and plague marines I painted up for the Wrath and Glory Campaign.

I did a little bit of kits bashing on these, adding mechanicus arms to the figure on the left and right of center.  They are intended to be Dark Mechanicus Cultists.

These three Death Guard Plague Marines were part of the Blackstone Fortress Expansion No Respite and I was quite happy to finally get them painted up!

Printed Mechs by Titan Forge

 So, I 3d printed these mechs really just to play around with and never really meant to fully painted them.  They are by a company called Titan Forge, who makes really good stl files.  You can check them out on their web site https://titan-forge.com/ or their MyMiniFactory store.  I have actually printed quite a few of their miniatures and have never had any issues rinting them.  

These Mechs were printed on a Phrozen Sonic Mighty 8k.  The print consisted of the main body, arms and legs and the cockpit cover.  Their were multiple weapon options.

I primed them in Leadbelcher, which I had never used out of the rattle can.  The result was a very smooth finish.  I then taped off one of them and hit the top areas with a blue paint (Coastal Blue from Rust-oleum).

They sat around for many months and then I started playing around with them after I got a bit burned out from painted all the minis for the ongoing Wrath and Glory campaign.  The green one was supposed to be just bare metal that I was going to test out some weathering effects, but I got carried away and really liked the models so put in a little effort.  The canopy over the cockpits is literally just a coat of Gryph Hound orange over the leadbelcher, and I think it looks pretty great.

And now they are being used in the Wrath and Glory campaign. Woot.

BattleTech Alpha Strike Review

 So I didn't really start this blog to post reviews, but I liked this game so much I wanted to post something in case someone somewhere is looking for a review and some information about this box set.

My son is running a Transformer RPG game for his friends.  At their last game he asked if he could use some mini's for their game.  I was surprised, as he has quite a large number of transformers action figures, but he said they were just too big. Unfortunately, the closet thing to mechs or robots I have are my Skitarii and they were over at the site of my Tuesday Wrath & Glory game.  So, he used a cadre of Votann squats.

Interestingly, I have a history with BattleTech and the PC game is one of my favorites.  I had been browsing on Amazon and saw a couple of different box sets for the table top version of the game and an idea struck me.  I could get that game and my son and I could play it and he could proxy the Mechs for the transformers in his RPG.  After a bit of research I decided on BattleTech Alpha Strike.  

I believe that BattleTech Alpha Strike is a entry level skirmish version of the the bigger game BattleTech A Game of Armored Conflict.  It was supposed to be quickly playable right of the box and game with 13 miniatures!  The price that day was $53 (retail of $79.99).  Pretty good deal I thought.

The game comes with everything you need to play.  There is a squad of 8 Northwind Highlanders and 5 Clan Jade Falcon with Mech Cards. The miniatures are very nice IMO. It even has card board buildings and trees.  The Quick Start Guide is easy to read and understand and has two tutorial missions that build on one another.  We were able to sit down and put everything together and play and it was a lot of fun.  From what I understand, Alpha Strike is supposed to be a quicker playing game than the full game and less crunchy.  It uses an non grid battle map and you measure distances.

I will say the game does feel a bit scaled down and I believe there is a Commander's Edition Rulebook and even a Commanders Edition Update to the Quick Start rules here -  https://bg.battletech.com/downloads/

And the quick start rules specifically state that any special abilities found on the Mech cards but not listed in the Quick Start have no affect but can be found in the Commander's Edition. A good example of the is that each side has a missile boat Mech with Indirect Fire capabilities. I knew from playing the PC game how awesome indirect fire was and we agreed to house rule those into the game when would could not find them in the Quick Start.

I will note also that the game comes with a deck of pilot cards that are never used and that I didn't find mentioned in the Quick start rules, so I assume those are for more advanced games.

All and all, a worthy investment and I will probably track down a copy of the Commander's Edition of the rules.

Below are some pictures from our play.

 

Our table set up for the second mission (my son wipe the field with my mechs in the first mission, which was set up on a field with a few clumps of trees)

There is my sneaky missile boat hiding behind a building.

The final blow was landed on my son's remaining attacking Mech leaving only his critically wounded Atlas to retreat from the field.

I definitely plan on painting these miniatures and certainly will post the results.

Wrath & Glory, The March of Chaos - WAAAGH! Ork Kommandos

So, in preparation of some upcoming potential encounters my Ork Kommandos Kill Team found their way onto my paint table.  I had painted up three back in "Orktober", so had to build and paint the rest. 

These are a tabletop quality speed paint.  I tried to vary the skin tones.  They were actually a lot of fun to paint.

Here are a couple shots of the whole crew on the tabletop.

And this little guy might be my favorite!

Anyway, great to have these done.  And I can see why people like Orks, they are fun to paint and have lots of character.

Warhammer: Wrath & Glory, The March of Chaos – The Crew, Part 2

 The final two characters of the crew were Otto-uitroff and Simsel Simselson.

One of the very first things Warhammer I ever painted was the Start Collecting Adeptus Mechanicus box, so I had plenty of Skitarii to chose from.  I also took the bits left over from that box and mixed them with a Necromunda Cawdor gang box and came up with a very cool squad of what I called Dark Mechanicus techno-raiders (that probably needs a posts someday).  

But, I wanted something custom and unique for BCamp and remembered that I had a torso from the Blackstone Fortress character Daedalosus.  And with a few bits here and there came up with this gentlemech…..

OTTO-UITROFF - played by BCamp

 

                                                                                                  

Otto started with a standard Galvanic Rifle but at some point pick up a flamer and I used what I think is a Meltagun from my Krigers with a small canister attached to the side.

I used a standard Skitarii backpack and let the player choose from an assortment of heads.  This was the hardest part of the kit bash, as I had to cut off, shorten and then reattach the breathing hoses that came around the shoulders.

I actually hate painting red.  Hate.  Never can get the highlights right.  However, I recently started using AK Iterative paints, and their reds are fantastic!  I got there red color set on sale somewhere and for the first time really enjoyed painted red....huzzah!

Side-note: I actually had this model's torso because I had ordered the Blackstone Fortress expansion Escalation with the game itself (I had really wanted to play Neyam Shai Murad).  Many months later and during the middle of COVID I decided to paint the rest of the explorers and found that Daedalosus was missing his head.  I contacted Games-Workshop and the customer service was pretty outstanding.  They literally sent me an entire new expansion box to compensate (pretty sure COVID protocols had a hand in this also).  I used his backpack on the aforementioned Dark Mechanicus I had built and was very pleased to use this torso here!

SIMSEL SIMSELSON - Played by SH

While digging through that box I realized I had an actual sanctioned Pysker model for Simsel, equipped exactly as his was....but with the wrong head (very androgynous bald egg of a head).  After a very short haircut the head was replaced with a head from the Navy Breachers and I have to say, I really like this model.  Standard color schemed I gleaned from google searches of Astra Militarum Psykers.

This was a mini that I originally never had a desire to paint, but it was a joy to paint.  And I even got fancy and painted the inside of the cloak red with the awesome AK reds.

And here is the whole crew, ready to burn the heretics!

Follow their story on my Wrath & Glory page (work in progress).