Burned-out peasant cottage finished
8th Edition Warhammer Fantasy?
So, GW hasn’t released all the army books yet, but realize that they have done some bad army books. Ergo, we get new rules, apparently with Empire and Orcs again. Seventh edition was released in September 2006, although it seems like it was just yesterday. That’s probably because I’m still sitting on piles of unpainted dwarfs. It also explains my immediate reaction of “WHAA!!! Those greedy SOB’s!” but then going, “oh well, it actually has been a while…” Four years ago is actually a lot longer than I think some times.
Fieldstone 6: the burned hovel
It’s been a long time since I posted something substantive. I don’t like to burden my hobbyist audience with real life quasi-drama, but suffice to say that my plate has gotten just a bit more full over the past few weeks, and yes it has impacted my hobby time. I’m still running my RPG on a regular basis, but the evening hobby time is a little pinched.
Anyways, onto other news. As it turns out, I won the grand prize for the Andaville raffle, a good sized gift card for the Home Depot. Since it isn’t a gaming-related prize, the field is wide open. But for now, I’m doing Andadas a favor by throwing together one or two of the pieces for his town that either weren’t taken or were taken but not made. Ergo, here’s a WIP shot of what I’m doing now, a burned-down peasant farmhouse.
I’ll probably have it done next week. Stay tuned.
My paint is failing me
I’m usually a black-primer guy for all the reasons miniature painters use black primer: hides mistakes, does the easy blacklining, can paint metallics without another layer, etc. But lately I’ve been priming in white because the Marauders are fairly brightly colored, being mostly red and flesh colored. But in the process I’ve discovered that paints that work great over black (like my dark brown and gray paints) look terrible over white.
I use a lot of craft paints for miniatures, because I’m not of the level of painter that really is hampered by the quality issues, but now they are starting to let me down. When the paint looks bad, I get discouraged and stop painting, or at least let it fall by the wayside for a while. So now I have two options–really try to work the cheap craft paints or overcome my frugal nature and invest in some decent paints.
My most likely course of action will be to “power through” the last Chaos Marauders (there’s 11 of them left) with the cheap paints, so they all match. Then, take stock of whatever the next painting project will be, then make the decision.
Frugal Gaming: cheap robots
I leaving my local K-Mart when I passed these guys in the gumball-machines:
Obviously inspired by Battletech minis, these guys are made of soft plastic (think Heroclix). At $.50 each, they are pretty reasonable. I gave a couple to my kids, but I may try to paint one up just to see how they come out.











