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!

Back

Ok, been a while.

I've playing and painting a lt lately.

I've been painting all sorts of different things for various of my modern armies and then I decided to do something new. Well not really new. A while ago I painted e test model for a high elf army. I then shelved it and did other things for a while but it was there in the bag of my head nagging all the time.

I really love high elves and what I am about to show you is the start of my 3rd high elf army through my gaming career. The models are the Jess Goodwin seaguard from ages past and some of my favorite models ever.

Hope you like them.

The heat is ON

Man it sure does get hot in these rhinos!

Really, for the last month the weather has been killing me! Its hot outside and inside and all through the night even. I don't cope well in the heat. I don't paint. I can't sleep. Uugh. Hopefully some rain will come soon and I can get back to painting.

Miniature exchange.

Yeah I entered one of these things a while back. The idea is that you sign up and the organizer gives you a secret santa. You have to paint a mini for someone and someone will paint one for you. I recieved a lovely withhunter and I decided to paint a wardancer.

This is what it looks like in a crappy phone picture. Enjoy.

Back!

Hi there, been awhile. I've been busy playing and painting, but not blogging. I've played a bunch(5) of games the last month thats 5 times more than I've played in the last year. So yeah, BIG deal.

I held and played in an event but before I get to that I just want to say thank you to Peter Acs for nominating me for a Liebster. This was unexpected but very nice. It will be awhile before I get around to do anything about it really but I am going to do a post later.

So, the event. I didn't take any pictures because I was busy having fun and enjoying myself way too much. I think 7 or so different scenarios were played with much success. The first scenario I played was a battle for some standing stones in the middle of the table. My wood elves vs. A freinds empire. In order to win you had to stay close to the standing stones but when you did, you were moved around the standing stones clockwise, meaning that we had a bunch of units each riding the roundabout of death. Great stuff.

Other highlights included laughing, cursing the dice, singing but no dancing, drinking bear eating take away and just chatting with freinds about stuff and warhammer.

I even managed to win a few games, something rare indeed.

Like I said I've been painting. Wood elves first and foremost, but a little progress has been made on my kislev! No pics now, maybe next post though.

Ah, great to be back. More stuff soonish.