"SOD"

All right. So "SOD" is the Scandinavian Oldhammer Day or, more correctly, oldhammer weekend. I'm still working on freeing the weekend for some time away from the family, but it looks like I can allow myself to be cautiously optimistic about joining the event on the saturday.

My hope is to participate in a 4th ed. Bring and battle and I feel like that is certainly possible with my current collection of 4th ed. High Elves, painted of course. I will probably get the army to a respectable 2500-3000 points before the start of march, so I might also be looking for a straight up 4th/5th ed. Warhammer battle. Responsible hammer that is.

No pics today but apart frm basing on the crew I've painted two eagle claw boltthrowers for the high elves. Hopefully I'll get some pics up before Christmas.

During the hollidays I still plan to begin painting my silver helms. They are prepped, but still needs an undercoat.

Cheers.

Yes. 10 archers done. These miniatures are easy to paint, but not very inspiring. In some ways they are better sculpts than the spearmen from the same box, but not really great. These will have to do until I get a hold of some of the metal archers from the period.

Hope you like them.

Today I also prepped a small unit of 5th ed. silverhelms. They still need some greenstuff love, before I can basecoat them, but given the horror that are these minis when it comes to assembly I'm quite pleased with the work I've done.

As we enter december, my goal is to finish the silver helms, but as I have quite a long christmas vacation I hope to sink my teeth into another unit or maybe some reaoers or eagles, befor years end. This should put me well on pace to have an army ready for the springs events. One of which is a campaign weekend and the other being the danish oldhammer weekend. Neither of these have set a date yet, but I'm hoping they won't clash with any family stuff.

Spearmen

I finally wheeled the ol' camera out for some picks if my spearmen. Still without their shields, but I still haven't got a hold of the right ones, so untill then they will have to go shieldless.

And here they are revealing my mediocre painting skills. taking such revealing photos makes it obvious that I will have to fix a few things when I get around to painting their shields, but for now they are done.
Also yesterday I prepped and undercoated 10 archers and today I stripped 2 boltthrowers and their crew.

Eltharion

Eltharion the Grimm.
Such an iconic model and one I dreamed of owning when I was a kid.
My first painted army was a high elf army for 4th/5th edition. I actually had a griffon model, but it was deathclaw with a high elf silver helm riding it. I pined for Eltharion on stormwing back then, but my focus shifted and I've painted severeal armies and even another high elf army, without ever getting the model.

A couple of years ago I finally visited ebay, and got one. Took a while to paint it, as stuff happened but here it is in all its glory.

He was a lot of fun to paint and it motivated me to move along with the stripping and repainting my original High elf army from back in the day.
Ebay will have to be visited to get the missing pieces, but slowly I will make a 4th/5th ed style High elf army.

Nostalgia hammer

So. What happened excactly? Well, life happened. Warhammer as I new it died, job and family took a lot of my time etc. You know, stuff.

Well I'll try to post some pics soonish, but my "new" project is coming along nicely. A loong time ago I believe I posted some pics of a unit of sea guard, ever since then my joy of painting sort of diminished and the games where few and far between. They still are, but my painting mojomis back on and I've vaulted into a large pile of 4th/5th ed. Warhammer high elves. I've painted Eltharion on stormwing and am putting the last work in on a unit of 20 spearmen.(I've shown the griffon and rider on the oldhammer facebook page, but will put pics up here as well.

Hope you are all well. Since you ask, I'm not at all gutted that I missed the old world army challenge. No sir, not one bit. ;)

I made a game!

Oh, yeah merry christmas and a happy new year. I hope santa was good to you, he certainly was to me. New brushes made their way to my hobby table so I'm very happy.

Oh and all this free time during the holidays and flu stricken wife has left my evening wide open. So naturally a painted tons of minis, no? No. I made a game, well to be honest it still needs a lot of work but the basic rules are ready to go for testing of the core mechanics. I thought it would be fun to share on the off chance that someone felt like trying out a skirmish wargame for small warbands, like you know, noones made one of those before. They have? Oh ok, but no one made a game like this and since I couldn't quite find one to suit my tastes this one will do nicely. Have a look if you dare, since I did it all on the iPad it needs a lot of tender love and care in the layout department and proofreading, but the core mechanics are sound(and I hope fun) there's only one scenario so far but more will come. 

So if you are feeling brave have a look here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7jsi3xtsmf7yky6/AABRIf97RSet8wDSB_DQqXLNa?dl=0

Oh and I've started work on some loot counters for general use in wargaming.

Cheers.

A bag of gold!

Or, more correctly, a bag of lead. But to me its pure gold. Pics further down, but first a little rambling.

It's been awful quiet on the blog for a while since i've been using my time for other stuff. I have game mastered a huge siege game and plan on a second one in the future. It was so much fun and really brought all of us back to a much happier and simpler time as we played with everything we had from three factions. I'll get some pics up later, promise.

I've not painted a damn thing for more than a month! Urgh but sleep deprivation just does that.

I have however started writing my own skirmish game. I've started collecting small warbands for skimish gaming in general and this is wherenthe bag of gold comes in. Behold the loot. 7£ worth.

See anything you like? Well too bad cause I'm keeping it all!