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My friends and I have been getting nostalgic for past 40K shenanigans, so we're planning for a big Apocalypse game between Christmas and New Year. One thing I've always wanted is a retro Ork army. Think 2nd ed 40K Orks and their wonderful aesthetic. I've discovered Trollet Miniatures and their amazing retro Ork sculpts, so I've laid out a little money and purchased many STLs. My resin printer is going Brrrrr, and the first batch of Bad Moonz boyz are ready for a primer! These really are wonderful STLs! I can't wait to paint them in a retro Bad Moonz scheme.

I had to take a break for a few days and the next week or so will be spotty at best (2 deaths in the family. ), I've got that building mostly finished. New roof panels, some lighting and a couple of little mods. Just have to finish marking the panels in.

Flocked, tufted and sitting outside for the varnish to cure - but think these are now done.

Finished assembling all my StarCraft minis from the initial wave. Now to work out a basing scheme and get painting.

Some recent painting and it's not Napoleonics! First up is an Uruk scout command group for the current GW Lord of the Rings game. From left to right: un-named captain, shaman, standard and drummer. These figures finish my 'Lurtz's Scouts' army, and they can do double duty as command in a generic Uruk army. Next are some some Uruk pikes. Moving to sci-fi, next we have some monopose generic police by Metal Magic. These 25mm figures were sculpted decades ago and still look fine. Years ago I had painted these in a 1980s-era look of mid blue with white helmet, but nowadays that seems out of place with the police deployed by modern dictators. So I repainted them in black and dark grey.

With my first tournament ever out of the way I've had my fill of lizardmen for now, so on to my neglected skaven army yes-yes! Some people hate rebasing minis but it's very zen to me - only downside is now I have heaps of 20mm squares no longer useful. And I also had the stormvermin on really nice glowing warpstone-green old cobblestone B2B resin bases. Though they're monopose (and of course very complex, bespoke fits so no customising) the new AoS clanrat models are so damned nice.

Our gaming group has recently started playing the occasional game of kill team. The first three games were a series of PVE linked scenarios using marine scouts against a Necron sniper and its buddies. I like that the game uses small elite groups, so decided to paint up an Ultramarine Angels of Death kill team.

A side project this time. I recently scored three sets of mdf counters with flag symbols for Britain, France and Prussia/Germany. The first photo shows some unpainted samples: functional but not all that good to look at. The markers are 25mm diameter. So I decided to paint them, even though I didn't need to. The next photo shows how they turned out. There are 25 of each nation so plenty to use as activation markers. The other side is blank, so can be used as ambush or reinforcement markers. They can also work as objective markers.

Been a while getting back to these, but some of the terrain tiles I've been working on in the last few months. PVA still wet for a couple, so set them outside to hopefully speed up the curing in today's sun. Might need to add a few trees to the tower tile.

G’day all from the Slave dungeon, Today we only have a small release of some new 28mm Alien Invasion miniatures. There are 2 vehicles in the form of the Dune Stalker Command vehicle, and the Sand Reaper heavy weapon vehicle platform. We also have the Command figure from the command vehicle being released as an individual figure. These figures are the continued expansion of the range that Michael Broadbent sculpted many years ago and have now been re-designed by Ross Franks of https://www.twistedpancreas.com/ For these, and all of our other great ranges, check out slave2gaming.com

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October already...feels like it was January only yesterday. Anyway, another month and more hobby! I got my Starcraft minis yesterday, so I'm hoping to get a bunch of them at least assembled this month.

Nice work folks, can you believe nearly half way though October already (don't blink). Am doing up some 'Tin Soldier' 15mm metal ancient Indian spearmen currently (because they are my latest random 'cheapish' bargain purchase, don't need 'em but want 'em coz they are cheap). After that I need to get the proverbial finger out for some 28mm ACW as we have a (free set of rules called) Valour & Fortitude (check out the perry miniatures website for more details) battle at the local club next month. Got to finish off my Rebel Louisiana Tigers regiment and tweak my artillery limbers. Also, I just bought 2 more mounted perry ACW officers so that , at a stretch, is my October goal. I will try and post piccy's if I actually do any of the above lofty goals. Happy hobby-ing to you all! cheers

Good to see you back and posting!

First update post. My battletech collection since an earlier post about them got a like since I did my comeback post.

I remembered to take photos of a game! My local club (Group North in Adelaide) is having its annual Open Day later this month and I will be running a game of 'Valour and Fortitude' Napoleonics, with French versus British somewhere in Spain. Yes, I get to use more of the Napoleonics I have been painting. First photo shows a battlefield overview several turns into the game. In the foreground light cavalry brigades are facing off: British at left and French at centre. Cavalry fights in the V&F rules are fast and nasty: if you don't break the opponent on your charge, you get thumped by fresh opponents. Here the French cavalry ended up winning, only to see it crumble as artillery canister and British riflemen picked off crippled units before they could rally. The middle of the battle lines show a fresh infantry brigade arriving on each side. This is Napoleonics: escalation is mandatory! Next photo is a better view of the opposite end of the table. The British in the foreground are attempting to grind down the French flank with firepower: this had mixed results and had to be finished off with bayonet work. At right in the photo the French are attempting to capture the farm. They eventually got in, but were badly mauled doing so. The cotton fluffballs denote units that fired. On infantry one fluff ball means fired, then can do any action except charge. Two fluff balls means the unit volleyed and cannot take a further action this turn. I only have a 6'x4' table for the Open Day game, so for our practice games all infantry and cavalry units are half size at two bases instead of the usual four bases and all distances are halved.

A quick battle tech update, I split the models roughly in half between the Greens/Reds and the Blues/Yellows. Clan mechs (front tray) won't be being used until after wave 2.