Turelio's Hobby Hoard

So, this will be a quick post. This was done for the OzPainters Challenge #3 , where my least painted colour is apparently pink. This model is TINY! It's a 30mm base she is standing on, so that shows how short she is. I based the colour scheme slightly on Penny from Inspector Gadget. Because I'm old, and thought that was fun. Anyway, onto the pictures! For those of you who vote on minis... CMON -  Here! Putty and Paint -  Here!

So, in the quickest time I think I have ever done this, I got two games of Journey in today! I can't remember when I got a new game AND got to play it so quickly! Btu first, I feel I need to remind people of what my first introduction to the story this board game is based on is: With that in mind, I was aware that this was not going to be a comedy game where the Monkey King plucked hairs from his head to power attacks, or questioned the sexual preferences of his opponents and team mates. But I was giggling at the memories as I played. To be brief, the game is quite fun! I read the book of the original story years ago, so I was aware that Pigsy and Sandy were not the names of two of the companions, but old habits and so on, I still referred to them as that. But flicking through at least Monkey's cards (I was playing him), I was happy to see a few references to things like The Book Of The Dead, especially in the way that they operated in game. Anyway, we played the fir...

One day, long in the future, historians will stumble over Kickstarter, and marvel at the resurgence of board games into the public eye. Wil Wheaton will probably held accountable, and only the gamer wars of 2025 will decide whether we is seen as hero or villain. Anyway... Where was I... Oh yeah! Board games and Kickstarter! A while ago, I backed Journey, Wrath Of Demons. I was a fan of the theme, having grown up with reruns of Monkey on TV, and I really liked the miniatures. The fantastic paint jobs in the updates only helped to sell it. For those of you that want to relieve the Kickstarter, the link is  here . So, I was excited to find in my letterbox yesterday a post office notice that I had received a parcel, which in this case was Journey! It only arrived about a year after the expected date, which is still good for a board game Kickstarter. So, there was no confusion as to what was in the box, but it weighed about 4.5kg, which seems par for the course when a gam...

Getting some photos quickly edited to post, as I have a huge backlog, and some recent ones I want to post. So here, with very little explanation, is my Reaper Mousling Thief: I got this one done a few years ago. I realised after painting it that I had used similar colours to a classic Batgirl costume. So I guess this Mousling is called Barbara... Voting links for those interested: CMON P&P

I've started some challenges on the OzPainters forum, and this month the challenge is to paint red. Just after it started (yeah, I picked a topic with no specific target for myself, which was fun) I realised I had picked up a classic chaos warrior at a bring and buy (possibly last years EucBowl). Chaos Warriors are red, because the only God worth following is Khorne. Right? Part of the fun has been flipping this guy over to find he is only two years younger than me. Potentially we were both in the UK at the same time, making our seperate ways here, on,y to meet nearly thirty years later. But that meant something else as well... The top right are metal filings from a Privateer Press model I'm working on at the moment. The bottom left, you may notice is a duller grey colour. This model contains lead. That's a blast from the past. I built the base up using my usual tricks, and gave him a white undercoat to prep him for painting on Sunday. As you might be able to tell, the colo...

Cardinal rule, I think, for anyone that wants to compete in miniature painting comps regularly, should be: "Don't start a new project within a few months of a competition." Further to that: "Don't start an tabletop level project, that will confuse things." The downfall of this is: "These old metals are cheap..." I started another Malifaux crew... Hall of Heroes is getting rid of some of their old stock at half price. I haven't been keen on new crews unless I can grab the totem at the same time. McMourning is a set of models I like, but the Zombie Chihuahua has been hard to get for a while. They had two in stock... I grabbed them about a fortnight ago, and spent the end of my last two days at work listening to a phone that does not ring cleaning the mould lines off the models. Last night and tonight I assembled the models and stuck them to bases. For the first time in. Y life, I'm doing Malifaux models on what I consider to be 'basic...

I want to take a few moments to talk about something that rarely happens to me, but happened all the same last Wednesday... I won a game of Malifaux! Seriously, I don't think that has happened all year. I forgot what it was like... Well, technically it was a win by my opponent conceding, but he was basing that choice in maths, which I seem to be ok with. (I mention this rarely happens, right?) We elected to try the Evade the Patrol story encounter from Wyrd Chronicles. I ended up as the defender, having to keep my crew out of site of his Master and Henchmen. He was the attacker, having to stay away from the Guild patrol. As luck would have it, he had two unused Guild Guard, painted (as is the rest of the crew) by AdPaint.  I was a bit annoyed that I was fielding bare plastic, so this will be motivation to get back and finish the crew. Anyway, I was using Lynch as a Ten Thunders master with Hungering Darkness, two Illuminated, two Low River Monks, Mr. Tannen, and two Ten Thunders Ar...

So, a quick update.ive been painting some bones minis recently. Nothing special, but just trying to get some cleared from my backlog, as well as getting them more useable for DnD. A few weeks ago, the reaper miniatures Facebook group had a tip in there about freezing bones models to make them a bit more brittle temporarily, and then using that opportunity to remove mould lines. They also suggested using a GW Seam scraper to remove the lines. A friend of mine tried it last week, and the results were really good. I tried it without the scraper the other day and was impressed. So when I got my hands on one of them tonight and gave it a go, I was really happy! Three minis: a warlock, wood elf, and ghast, all cleaned in about half an hour. They will be used in the next band of bakers game. Easily the best experience I have had cleaning minis in a long time. I also painted the Minotaur of the weekend. Not too impressive, but better than bare plastic. Mainly it was done using Reaper paints, b...

Testing out the new blogger program which should generally let me update more frequently. Here is a quick pic of something I've been working on. This is Mr. Tannen for my Dark Debts crew for Malifaux. I should have him finished by the weekend.