Men In Boxes

I haven't been able to indulge in the hobby since I got sick this January. A pile of unpainted models and unfinished project litter my two table workbench. Even the gaming table is gathering dust in the garage with boxes of scale & wargame models received this Christmas as well as from orders made the previous year slowly pile up.   I managed to finish some more stands for my HotT army but that's it. Painting total's on an all-time low. The missus noticed it and took me on a trip to the gaming store after my ckeckup at the hospital. I saw this game of warhammer 40K being played and took some pictures of the models. Some of the models are WIP customs. One of the WIP customs looks kinda like an alien pornstar but the modeler assured the other guys that he'll be refining the model soon. The second WIP was inspired by Kerrigan from the PC game Starcraft. I wasn't able to take more pictures but the Tau army looked spiffy and I liked the modelling work on their sh...

Looks like the piles of unfinished/unmade toy soldiers in my bodega may have hope of seeing a game table soon. I'm one of those who've managed to buy more than I can paint, and the the sets still keep piling up. Having a painting service nearby ( actually, its in a nearby island) can hopefully help me get these toys ready for gaming and display. Amplify’d from www.mmps.asia MMPS will provide wargamers with good quality painted figures and scratchbuilding services at very competitive rates. We want to provide our customers with the kind of service that we want to receive ourselves when we are customers somewhere. Good quality work, an affordable, fast and reliable service and honest and straightforward communications. We want nothing less than your total satisfaction when you buy from us and we will work hard to get it. I am Fons, also known as 'Fonzie' of Fonzie's Scratchbuilding Service to some of you. I am a wargamer, painter, scratch- builder...

Here are two Flyer stands for my HotT Army of Summer. A griffin is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. As the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle was the king of the birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. In that country be many griffins, more plenty than in any other country. Some men say that they have the body upward as an eagle and beneath as a lion; and truly they say sooth, that they be of that shape. But one griffin hath the body more great and is more strong than eight lions, of such lions as be on this half, and more great and stronger than an hundred eagles such as we have amongst us. For one griffin there will bear, flying to his nest, a great horse, if he may find him at the point, or two oxen yoked together as they go at the plough. For he hath his talons so long and so large and great upon his feet, as though they were horns of great oxe...

"In the high woods there was none comelier of all the centaur-girls, and she alone by love and love’s sweet words and winning ways held Cyllarus, yes, and the care she took to look her best (so far as that may be with limbs like that). She combed her glossy hair, and twined her curls in turn with rosemary or violets or roses, and sometimes she wore a pure white lily. Twice a day she bathed her face in the clear brook that fell from Pagasae’s high forest, twice she plunged her body in its flow, nor would she wear on her left side and shoulder any skin but what became her from best-chosen beasts." From Mount Pelion in Thessaly and the Foloi oak forest come the Kentaurides -- magical half woman/half horse beings prepared to serve the Queens of the Summer Court. Here are two centaur shamans for the growing HOTT army of Summer. The figures are posed rearing on their hind legs with one arm ready to throw something -- an enchanted stone maybe -- while the other arm is out...

A happy new year to all! My life has been oh so toxic these past few weeks with work. A whole new channel brand design is cooking in the pot and I've found very few time in between to game and tinker with my toys. The few hours I did spend painting were devoted to starting a new HOTT army, one I've dubbed as the Army of Summer. The first few elements are made from Mageknight figures I bought from a fellow Filipino gamer in Cebu. I didn't bother to reprime these but went ahead and painted over the previous paint job. So here are the first few recruits: The elves above will be Shooters. The downside with prepainted minis is that you get very little or no pose variations. I made do with fudging around with the bow directions. These elves however look more savage and with two poses only, I opted for a more "irregular" look. I guess I'll use these as Warbands. The idea for an Army of Summer came from Jim Butcher's Summer Knight, one of the earlier...

A very merry Christmas to everyone! May your family's Christmas be peaceful and joyous. And although my Christmas schedule has been oh so toxic of late, I've managed to cram in a few short games of FUBAR. We werent able to take pics of the whole battles but here are a few pix we'd like to share:) First up are the Terran Marines: And here are the Nova Romans: More to come!

The figures are from Heroscape and we use them as Not-Predators. The Harrakians are basically not heavily armored, favoring camouflage rather than armor. This is shown by the Active Chameleon tech that basically allows them to always be treated as having moderate cover. The roll needed to hit the Harrakian is modified by +2, which is quite difficult.  I guess that's a pretty fair trade for having minimal armor. Plus, they have a devastating 4 volleys of 5 FP per figure that can target units as per the guided munitions rules from FUBAR's sci fi supplement. Let me know if you use the stats and how they work out for your game. A 4 man squad of these guys decimated 4 squads of troopers in a recent game!