A detailed account of my various commission/hobby projects.
Board Games – The Build-A-Robot expansion for Starcadia Quest brings a unique version of pets to the space based board game. By swapping around the heads you can create a little droid specific to your needs. The expansion also includes a few new heroes and a bunch of new villains.
Read MoreBoard Games – In space no one can hear you SQUEEEE!
Read MoreBoard Games – The 8-Bit video game lineage of Super Dungeon Explore is really obvious when you look at the Caverns of Roxor box set, almost all that characters had striking similarities to Mario Brothers and Legend of Zelda.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Terrain is back! One of the biggest complaints about 8th Edition Warhammer was the lack of varied terrain rules. Now there’s a whole supplement about terrain, I didn’t pick it up yet but it’s nice to know it exists.
Read MoreBoard Games – Clan Ijin are invading Super Dungeon Explore in the new starter set Super Dungeon Explore: Devil Island.
Read MoreHistorical – This is the second batch of 20mm Modern figures I’ve painted up for Force on Force. I think I really enjoy the simplicity of painting up small scale minis to a basic standard. This batch is more Insurgents and US Military.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Ninth Edition 40K has fixed objectives and most of the scenarios require you to hold them to score and win. Now imagine starting the game on the objectives with a really tough hard to kill unit. It almost doesn’t seem fair right?
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – The new edition of 40K has changes some fundamentals when it comes to building a force. In the last edition you wanted to maximize the number of attachments you had to get the most command points and characters
Read MoreBoard Games – Super Dungeon Explore is coming back next month. Hopefully the Devil Island starter set will be the push Ninja Division needs to clear up their backlog of Kickstarters and move forward with a great game/property.
Read MoreBoard Games – Have you ever wondered how a monster manual was created, is this something you need a formal education for? Well Dungeonology by Ludus Magnus Studio seeks to answer that question. You play the role of a teacher at an exclusive academy that needs to complete a thesis on a local monster. Taking a gaggle of students with you questing through a perilous dungeon hoping to glean enough information to right that award winning paper.
It’s a clever concept that is even more clever in its execution. I don’t have a ton of time to play board games like this but after watching the play throughs and painting up the models I really want to add it to my collection. I won’t droan on about the amazing components masterful box organization or beautiful miniatures you can see that by checking of the games official page.
The character models are comically detailed to perfectly match the art on their cards. I really liked the molded bases that give the impression of actually exploring a dungeon. These were really fun to paint. In addition to the amazing characters you get a ton on student pawns. These are really cute in their simple sculpts and by putting some paint on them I think it really added to the look. Because these are just resource cubes they need to look really similar to remain functional. I guess the expansions might add additional colors of “bad” students so I kept the colors simple. For variety I tried to have a variety of skin tones on the students to make them look unique. I think the effect is really nice.
Warhammer 40,000 – The newest Space Marine codex has dropped and brought some significant changes to everybody’s favorite space soldiers.
Read MoreBoard Games – As a kid my mom worked two jobs and waitressing on the weekends meant we got to spend a lot of time with my grandparents. Living in the country I never had cable so those weekends with my grandparents meant I could binge on all the TV I never had a chance to watch at home. Because my mom would pick us up really late at night I could usually stay up late watching garbage on basic cable.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Everybody is trying to get their armies ready for ninth edition so I’ve had quite a few random batches of models cross my tabletop. Looking at some of these I’m guessing Chinese Resin if freely flowing again now that deliveries are getting more normalized.
This batch has some Dark Angel Primaris, a variety of Deathwatch models and an old school Razorback for an Iron Hands Successor Chapter.
Board Games – Mythic Battles continues to trickle across my desk I Imagine the core box will eventually make its way here and I’ll have a significantly longer post about that project. As it stands this is an expansion for the game by Monolith Games.
With the boxes I’ve painted so far I’m impressed with the quality of the sculpts, particularly the larger monsters.
Warhammer 40,000 – House Cadmus has one of the cooler official color schemes for Knight Households. They also have a cool backstory. Peerless hunters they stalk the dense wilderness of their homeworld hunting down savage beasts. The green and yellow look great on large models and having painted a few other Knights in this same scheme i was happy to paint some Armigers to match the bigger models.
Warhammer 40,000 – Most Space Marine factions will be getting a big boost this month, the question is how with the shining knights fair?
Read MoreBoard Games – Sometimes a game comes around that just fits with the times. Maximum Apocalypse is most definitely one of those games. This set of twelve survivor figures upgrades the core game to give you some nicely detailed miniature to battle through the current crisis.
Here’s a brief description from the manufacturer:
Maximum Apocalypse is a cooperative roguelike adventure game for 1-6 players. In Maximum Apocalypse, civilization has already fallen. The players are survivors of the apocalypse whose mission is to survive the hostile landscape.
The game map is randomly generated and different every time that you play. On each turn, a player can use up to four actions to explore the map, play cards, equip weapons, scavenge for resources, draw cards or battle off monsters.
Picking a unique survivor class within the group, players must plan their strategy and work together while leaning on their survivor’s strengths in order to defeat monsters and avoid starvation. For example, the Fireman is deadly up close with his ax and can easily chop down monsters; meanwhile the stealthy Hunter is great at scouting the map and avoiding traps — but roaming monsters are gathering quickly and time is running out. If you are overwhelmed by monsters or die of starvation, the players lose. If they can find enough gas and get it back to their van to escape, they all win and live to play another scenario.
Marvel Comics – During the lock-down my family watched all the Marvel movies in chronological order, it was really fun to see how they tied everything together and had minimal inconsistencies that are easy to ignore. So it was pretty cool when I was sent these models to paint up for Marvel Crisis Protocol.
I’ve heard the game is really fun and might need to look into picking it up at some point, I just saw that they’ll be releasing the Johnny Blaze version of Ghost Rider which is pretty sweet. The models are a little larger scale which helps make painting a bit easier so my client painted up the first batch himself using the contrast paints. After that he got the painting bug out of his system and sent these over.
Starlord, Valkyire and Rocket are really cool models that will look nice on the shelf and the tabletop.
Board Games – Another Kickstarter Exclusive that really should be made available to the general public the scenery pack adds working doors, gun turrets and console screens to take the game to another level.
I tried dressing up the screens a bit with loose interpretations of some classic video game screens. I’m not 100% happy with the final results but I think they serve their purpose.
Age of Sigmar – War Cry looks like a game I’d love: chaos warbands, fancy terrain, small model count, crazy monsters, and a campaign system.
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