MourneQuest - Getting My Irish Up
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MourneQuest is a neat board game with some pretty colorful miniatures. Based on the novel by Garry McElherron …
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Dark Souls - Vordt of the Boreal Valley
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Board Games – Vordt is another expansion for the Dark Souls board game. It’s an interesting model as it appears to be some type of mount but is most definitely humanoid.
Read MoreThe Hunt Begins - Again
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Board Games – AvP is an odd franchise similar to Star Wars it has a pretty rabid fanbase that is consistently let down by the latest film. Part of the problem is with 20-40 year old franchises is the nostalgia is strong and fans don’t like to embrace “new coke” …
Read MoreBlack Plague - The last box?
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Board Games – Zombicide Black Plague seems to have more expansions than the “modern” version and I think I may have finished the last of the big boxes.
Read MoreMythic Battles
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Board Games – Mythic Battles is a fairly large game. My client sent over just a small expansion featuring some of the monsters. These are pretty nice sculpts, the Basilisk and Manticore are exceptional, however the wolf is a bit lacking.
Blood Rage
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Board Games – Blood Rage is a game about Vikings, this expansion introduces the Gods of Asgard. Sadly I don’t know much more than that. The sculpts are ok and feel similar to Zombicide with a different skin.
Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Board Game
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Board Games – As a kid I really loved the Muppets and Jim Henson’s The Story Teller, I wasn’t a huge fan of the Dark Crystal or Labyrinth though. As an adult giving those movies another watch I can appreciate the films more and see why some people have so must love for them.
Read MoreDeep Blue - Lil' Boats
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Board Games – Some games come with really nice pawns. I remember as a kid always gravitating toward the games that had cool pieces I could play with. My grandparent’s board game collection had plenty of random buttons or other substitute parts because so many kids thought the same thing.
Read MoreWasteland Express - Post Apocalyptic Delivery Service
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Board Games – Mad Max influenced a whole genre of movies and continues to do so almost 40 years after the original film was released. Wasteland Express is a board game that delves into what a delivery service would be like in that world.
Read MoreGoing on a Crusade - Knights Painted Up
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Board Games – Often I get large commissions for board game miniatures. Most of the time these are colored ABS plastic that very in the quality of the sculpts. Putting a little paint on them brings the overall quality of the experience way up in my opinion.
Read MoreSwamp Monsters - Shadows of Brimstone
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Board Games — I think I’m nearly done with all the Shadows of Brimstone monsters. This latest batch includes monsters form the Swamp expansion as well as some individual enemy packs.
Read MoreFirst Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet.
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Board Games – Mars has been a very popular subject fo games over the last few years. Not many of the games feature highly detailed miniature though, which means I haven’t been exposed to many of them first hand. While researching this game I found a ton of variations of the same theme, most of the games are worker placement variations in which you have to set up a colony on Mars.
First Martians is a game based on a previous award winning game called Robinson Crusoe. I guess it can be played solitare and uses an app. It looks pretty cool and the miniatures are detailed enough that a simple paint job really makes them pop.
Shadows of Brimstone - In Space?
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Board Games – Shadows of Brimstone is a really weird game. I haven’t played it personally but one of my clients is all about it. I get a few models for the game in just about every batch she send over. Initially I was under the impression it was some type of cthulu-esqu cowboy game, which in the simplest terms i guess it is. The concept is a mining town the discovers a mysterious type of stone, the ensuing “gold-rush” causes an explosion that rips a hole in reality allowing for all sorts of oddities to appear. It feels a little bit like Rifts or any number of RPGs that throw in everything plus the kitchen sink.
This particular batch is the abandoned space station. Featuring undead astronats, probe droids and gun batteries it’s a well themed expansion.
Zombicide – Green Horde Heroes
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Board Games – I wrapped up what should be the last of the Zombicide Black Plague Expansions. This was a different kind of project because there were just so many models and several varying degrees of detail on the models
Read MoreOn the Painting Table: Zombicide - The Green Horde
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Board Games – Nothing like starting the year off with a simple project. Last year I painted up several of the Zombicide: Black Plague sets. As with most games fo CMON this set is packed with a ton of miniatures (72 according to the box). The majority of those models are the zombie horde, but this set also includes some heroes and a siege engine.
Read MoreBlackstone Fortress - Traitor Command
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Warhammer 40,000 – The sculpts for Blackstone Fortress continue to impress me. In the days of old push fit kits like these would have been rather flat and lacking in detail, no so anymore. Of course the trade-off for the dynamic poses these kits offer is the lack of customization.
Read MoreThis War of Mine - Expansion
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Boardgames – I know nothing about this game. In fact I know so little that when I painted the core set I assumed they belonged to another game. But apparently it’s based off a video game that’s pretty popular, boardgamegeek has a decent summary here. The concept sounds intriguing and I might need to look into it further. These minis are from one of the expansions that introduces some additional options.
CLANK! - Acquisitions Inc. Upper Management
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Board Games – Clank! is a pretty popular dungeon crawl style board game. As such there have been a few expansions for the game including the one I just painted for a client featuring characters from the popular web comic Penny Arcade.
The minis are pretty accurate depictions of the comic characters aside from the cleric who has this weird thing on his head. I can’t tell if it’s part of his hair, or an odd helmet, but in either case I’m not a fan. The other three look pretty amazing and I really enjoyed painting these up.
I'm on a Boat ... Well Submarine Actually
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Board Games – Have you ever wondered what would it be like to be on a German UBoat hunting down allied forces during WWII? If so the latest game to cross my desk will help you live that out.
The Dragon's Horde
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Board Games – With the amount of different things that pass by my painting desk I’m constantly surprised by the amount of quality miniatures that are included with various board games. I primarily focus on Warhammer 40k as my game of choice at the moment so my board game collection doesn’t get the love it deserves and I’m not on the hunt for new games at the moment. Luckily for me my board game client helps to keep me up to date with a huge variety of board games.
The latest game Volfyirion has a large dragon model with some removable crystals.I guess it was a Kickstarted deck-building game back in 2018. Nit sure about the quality if the game itself but the miniature is pretty nice.
