Cultists with guns... Big ones...

Bit quiet on the Oldhammer front for me of late but I have finished a couple of additional cultists for the Astral Wyrm Cult.

First up to give the cult some heavy firepower is Brother Reepah.

His colour scheme ties in with that of the Brother's Dymm...

...but with groovy purple hair...

Then there is an additional bullet shield, Brother Slink, who I imagine is some sort of twist.

Finally a shot of whole cult as it now stands.

I will probably add one more member to bring them up to a round ten.


Till next time...


Cap'n Smyrk

More civilians... Coming soon...

Not much to say this month, still working on a couple of further members for the Astral Wyrm Cult including one with a very big gun...

However my day was brightened when I got home from work and found a package waiting for me. This contained my order from the Colony 87 kickstarter courtesy of Jon over at Magpie and Old Lead.

Further day brightening occurred when I noticed that I was one of the lucky recipients of the Gargouille bonus figure.

Photo from the kickstarter page

After a closer look these are a great set of figures and will be provided also sorts of interesting characters for my Euphoria setting.

Hopefully soon I will have something physical to show.

Till next time.


Cap'n Smyrk

Non-combatants...

I've started painting up a few civilians minis to provide some background to the more violent gun toting types.

The first two are a couple of Hasslefree villagers I bought at Salute.
Neither have any particular sci-fi or 40k elements but Rogue Trader was all about using fantasy models, and it does mean I can use them in fantasy projects as well if I wish.

Not the best pics I'm afraid, will maybe try and take some better ones later.

I'm pretty happy with how they have turned out particularly the barmaid. Both painted with my normal eclectic mix of citadel, vallejo and humbrol paints.

Anyway next on the painting table are some more members for the Astral Wyrm Cult, including some more serious firepower.

Till next time...


Cap'n Smyrk

Rampant battling Dragon Gods...

So to keep up with my resolution to post something at least once a month and realising that the end of the month has snuck up on me I've thrown together this post on the fly without anything specific to show off.

As such I'm mostly going to be talking about some of the stuff I bought whilst at Salute a couple of weeks back. Unusually given my predilection for Rogue Trader and sci-fi subjects these mostly consisted of Fantasy rule sets...

I will admit to being somewhat of a collector of rules possessing many which I've never really played but enjoy perusing. Anyway this post isn't going to be a review of these rules, I leave that to more qualified observers but will mostly be my rambling thoughts.

First up was Dragon Rampant which is obviously fairly well known in the old school gaming scene along with its historical parent Lion Rampant.

The other was Foundry's God of Battles by Jake Thornton. I will admit to having fairly fond memories of Jake's tenure as White Dwarf editor (despite it being during the dreaded 'Red Period'), possible as it was around that time that one of my favourite GW games, Necromunda, came out.

Notably there are are some similarities in the basic rules concepts of the two sets although they are intended to work on slightly different scales and Dragon Rampant is of course a lot more generic not being tied to a specific world or miniatures range.

Having said that creating your own lists for GoB wouldn't be particularly difficult, and the concepts behind some of the armies included are quite interesting. The army based terrain tables and weather charts add a touch of flavour to the proceedings. The Habitat rules which have terrain pieces inhabited by various denizens that will defend their homes violently (often against both sides...) are also quite amusing.

I particularly liked the 'Miracles' magic system in GoB which is a relatively simple card based (using normal playing cards) system but includes a lot of tactical depth at the same time.

I suspect that overall Dragon Rampant is likely to be more useful to me if I ever feel like getting any fantasy games, mostly as I'm only likely to ever be able to field a enough models for a skirmish.


On the painting front I'm currently painting some Hasslefree villagers (also bought at Salute) to use a non-combatants.

Till next time.


Cap'n Smyrk

Adventure time...

I finished off the Eldar Scout I was painting this weekend. I'm pretty happy with how he came out, I am finally getting the hang of painting gemstones.

Anyway here he is in glorious technicolour...

Have to say his sword is more of a bludgeon than a blade, being somewhat lacking in the edge department...

A shot of him with his fellow scout that I already painted.

Finally here is my Rogue Quest adventuring party as they currently stand.

Now I just have to decide what to paint next...

Till next time.


Cap'n Smyrk

Adventurer in Progress...

Thought I show a few work in progress picks of my Eldar Adventurer.

He has his base colours and is just waiting for a bit more shading and some highlights. Still need to paint his various gem stones as well.

And a pic of him with my earlier Scout to show where he should end up.

Also remembered that I have this Necromunda Wyrd lying around who might end up taking on the role of the Wizard in the Rogue Quest party.

 Till next time.


Cap'n Smyrk

More Heroic Types...

Hello all


Haven't been doing much on the Oldhammer front of late but I have come up with my selections of what to use as the Heroes for my Rogue Questesque game.

These are selected from minis that I currently have painted but show my basic thinking even if I decided to use a different mini later.

I decided to follow the basic Advanced Heroquest pattern.

As such we have the Warrior:

The Wizard:

The Dwarf:

And the Elf:

Next on my painting table is probably going to be this Eldar scout to use in place of the one I've already painted as he looks more adventury (is that a word?).

 

I would also like to have something a little more impressive for the wizard but I don't currently own anything suitable other than this guy (but I'm saving him to act as a possible bad guy):

Alternative to the Warrior would be a Barbarian although again this model is along with the rest of the Astral Wyrm Cult earmarked to provide targets enemies.

Anyway that's the state of my current thinking hopefully I will have something move leaden to show you next time.

Till then.

Cap'n Smyrk