A detailed account of my various commission/hobby projects.
Board Games – I watched Kung Fu Panda for the first time while flying to Aruba with my wife, for that reason it holds a special place in my heart. My kids enjoyed the series but it’s not their favorite so I was surprised at how excited they were to see me painting these models.
Contrast paint laid the foundation of these and I picked out the details with some traditional highlighting to bring out the detail.
Board Games – CMON loves their kickstarters and they love parody stretch goals so much so that it’s become expected anytime they launch a new project. Nostalgia and Fandom are big motivators and for people that pass or miss the initial offering it can be super annoying trying to collect everything for a game they decide they love.
Read MoreBoard Games – Earlier this year I painted up a good portion of the Arcadia Quest heroes and in the process of painting them I started to develop an interest in the game but was holding out for various reasons. Arcadia Quest has been a very popular property for CMON so it only makes sense that they’d rehash the content in SPAAAACE!
Read MoreHistorical – I remember when the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out and the flood of pirates in pop culture that followed.
Read MoreAge of Sigmar – Stormcast Bowmen, Grifhounds and Aetherwings must be a really decent warband. This is the second warband I’ve painted this year with the same list. While I’m not an Age of Sigmar fan the more I paint these models the more I like them. Who know maybe I’ll make myself a small force in the future.
Board Games – Resource management games typically use plastic or wooden cubes in various colors because they’re cheap and easy to produce. This is fine however when a game includes sculpted versions of these resources it takes the game to a new level. Cosmic Colonies is one such game.
From the manufacturer:
Asteroids blast through the cosmos, each one packed with possibilities. One may be your perfect new home, but it takes a stellar team to build a cosmic colony...
Cosmic Colonies is an orbit-drafting game of building a home in the stars. Players must leverage their workers' unique abilities to gather resources and construct new buildings while cleverly expanding their colonies. Each round brings new opportunities — and new talent. Your old workers will blast off to other players, while their workers orbit around to join your team!
Also in this group I painted up the various resource tokens for Alien Frontiers Factions. Three little power plants and a rover look much better with a little paint.
Age of Sigmar – The alter of blood is a cool terrain piece that looks great with any of the Blood Gods followers. I believe my client will be using this for War Cry.
Also for War Cry or Age of Sigmar is the meanest toughest little person to stalk the Old World. Gotrek Gurrnison the Troll Slayer and star of numerous novels graced my table with this batch as well.
Warhammer 40,000 – Earlier this year I painted up the Ork half of the Aeronautical Imperialis starter set. This time around I painted the Imperial half. These planes are so detailed they were fun to paint.
In that same small scale vein I painted up a force of Epic Squats these were the exact opposite of the navy planes. Not very detailed and super annoying to paint. While epic was a great game the models were pretty garbage. The nostalgia factor of these isn’t as strong as some other older models I’ve painted.
Board Games – Everybody loves a huge dragon model. It’s a staple of any successful fantasy property to have at least one giant dragon for the heroes to battle against.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Due to the current situation I haven’t had as many opportunities to play Ninth Edition Warhammer 40,000 as I’d like. Which is a bummer because the few games I have had a chance to play have been really fun.
Read MoreBoard Games – Arcadia Quest is another chibi-style board game that has a ridiculous amount of expansions. When it first came out I assumed it was just CMON’s response to breaking ties with Sodapop Miniatures after the Relic Knights fiasco, and dismissed it because I didn’t think I needed another game with a similar theme. Sadly I was wrong Arcadia quest is much different than Super Dungeon Explore and if you’re a fan of the style you should probably make room for both games on your shelf.
Read MoreBoard Games – Shadows of Brimstone reminds me an awful lot of RIFTS or GURPS, as a kid going into the comic shop/game store I’d see entire shelves dedicated to the myriad of expansions these open ended games systems offered up. Shadows of Brimstone has the same feel, in the course of painting the various sets I’ve painted cowboys, astronauts, mutant snakes, Native Americans, aliens, robots, and a variety of other monsters.
Read MoreBoard Games – I know many people have taking up gardening during lockdown and that’s admirable. However if you want to keep your hands dirt free and create something beautiful you might want to check out Tang Garden.
This is a unique game that has you creating a garden for the emperor during the Tang Dynasty. The tile laying game has unique 3D elements including trees, bridges, gazebos and of course miniatures. From what I understand you score your game by looking at what the miniatures can actually see and score accordingly. It seems like a cool concept that I’d love to play one day.
For now I’m happy painting up the models. These character pawns aren’t super detailed and are a little on the small side, but they serve their purpose. Once they’re painted to match the cards they blend in nicely with the other components to create a beautiful garden scene without getting dirt under your nails.
Board Games – Sadly although I’ve painted every model for this game and watched a ton of play throughs I still haven’t had a chance to play The Others: Seven Sins. The game looks super fun and I loved the dark theme, however the game is a little mature to play with the kids so until I can get a group together to play I’ll just enjoy the models.
This “final” box has Delta Team and a variety of corrupted citizens.
Warhammer 40,000 – This batch is just a few characters for Warhammer 40k. The special edition Custodes and the special character for the Salamanders chapter.
Board Games – Ninja Division (formerly Soda Pop Miniatures) has been posting up a new chibi game based in the Super Dungeon Explore universe: Super Dungeon: Conquest. Supposedly this game will give you a new way to play with the Master Class Miniatures they’ve been releasing as well as your existing collection. Oddly enough the rules they’ve released for free seem to be a variation on the Super Dungeon: Arena Rules that is a tabletop game. The units of measurement are in inches so I guess you’ll play with a ruler and dice. I don’t know that this is what fans of the property are looking for and the skirmish market seems to be flooded with properties with stronger rulesets.
Read MoreBoard Games – Blood Rage is a viking game. I’ve painted several expansions for the game but not the core game. Much like many other CMON games it has decent quality sculpts for the various characters.
These are really similar to the miniatures from The Others and Zombicide, pretty decent for board game pieces but not quite the detail you get from a mulitpart plastic kit. I painted these up to match the cover art in simple reds, browns and blacks.
As I haven’t had a chance to play this game here’s a description from the manufacturer:
Known by many names (Seiðmenn, Völva, Vísendakona, etc.) and possessed of different powers granted by their connection to the gods, these warrior-shamans will be a boon to any clan able to recruit them!
Mystics are special units (neither Warrior nor Monster) that players can only employ once they've given their clan one of the Mystic Clan Upgrades. Each of these Clan upgrades adds 1 Mystic figure to your clan's reserves, which you can then use to Invade and battle normally. All Mystics have STR 2 and the special ability that allows them to Invade at no Rage cost. Clans are only able to recruit a maximum of 2 Mystics.
Besides adding Mystics to your reserves, each of these Clan Upgrades grants your Mystics a special ability. If you collect several different upgrades, each of your Mystics will posses all the abilities you accumulated, making them incredibly resourceful and strategic additions to your clan!
Board Games – It’s been a minute since I posted, but I haven’t been idle. I just wrapped up Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth. This is one of those hybrid board games that requires you to use an app in order to play it. The potential for this type of game is great, however the fear that an app becomes out-of-date fairly quickly makes some people scared of picking up an app dependent board game.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – As many of my clients prep for 9th Edition Warhammer 40,000, I’ve been getting quite a few random units on my painting table. This latest batch is a unit of Terminators for the Ultramarines along with a Terminator Captain.
Read More“…An explosion of creativity and violence erupted in the Aegean Basin in 800 B.C. that defined ancient Greece. This combination of science, mythology, development, and war was led by powerful city-states like Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Troy, Byzantium, Corcyra, and Thebes. These states vied for control over their rivals and dominated the lesser states around them. In time, some of them became so well known that they are remembered even today…”
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