Final Girl Season One - Fully Painted

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Board Games – Final Girl is a unique Solo Only board game inspired by cult horror classics. The system utilizes a unique VHS case that has each “Story” you can mix and match components of each story to create a unique scenario. The game has been reviewed very highly and currently is running a Kickstarter for a second season, if you like horror movies or solo games this is probably worth backing.

The miniatures are on the small scale but it doesn’t take much effort to add some contrast paint over a base coat and have some decent looking models.

Mad Max Inspired - Hybrid Board Game

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Board Games – Waste Knights is a unique game set in a Mad Max style apocalypse. The minis are pretty detailed for a boardgame and about the same size as Zombicide or other similar games.

To paint these up I started with a basic Khaki basecoat followed up with contrast colors to match the minis to the character sheets.


From the Publisher:

Waste Knights: Second Edition is a post-apocalyptic game of adventure and survival for 1-4 players inspired by cult classics of the post-apo movies and set in dystopian Australia destroyed by experiments of a powerful corporation. Each player becomes a rugged hero, travelling through the wasteland, facing unnatural weather and enemies forged in long-forgotten laboratories as well as experiencing adventures full of dramatic choices and disturbing characters.

The game is adventure-based, with each Adventure branching out into a number of Plots revealed depending on the players’ narrative choices. Each plot offers unique game mechanics and stories that can be found in the Book of Tales – some of them are keyed to a particular adventure, some are generic, but all enable the players to immerse themselves in the setting and make decisions that change the world around them.

Each knight (player) has 2 actions at their disposal, which basically enable them to travel around the continent in their Vehicle, explore the area for ever-dwindling Resources (Fuel, Ammo, Meds), or camp in order to repair their Gear and heal Wounds or Radiation. Each adventure additionally offers a number of unique Plot Actions that let the players affect the story and fulfill their goals.

However, the heart of the game are stories. Each playthrough is based on an adventure found in the Guide. Some of them are co-op, others competitive, others still may end with the players grouping around different factions and forced to fight their former friends. The construction of each adventure offers lots of narrative choices guaranteeing high replayability and encompasses unique setup elements so that the basic game can be prepared quickly and the players can focus on the plot, not the rules.

Western Legends - 3D Tokens Fully Painted

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Board Games – Western Legends is a cool game set in the Old West. The game has some cardboard pieces that represent the various locations you can explore in the game. This batch is for the upgrade tokens that take the flat cardboard and make a 3D representation. To keep this simple I matched the colors for the tokens while adding a bit of old west flair.

Aeronautical Imperialis - New Forces Join The Fight

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Warhammer - 40,000 – Tiny planes seem to be a better way to show off how battles for the air happen in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Recent updates really limit what you can bring in a standard 40k game, so if you’re a big fan of air combat then checking out Aeronautical Imperialis is the game you were looking for.

This batch adds some Raven Guard Space Marine, Aeldari planes and a few Ork Boma’s.

To paint these planes I start with a few layers of grey dry brushing to get the shading right. I then follow that up with some contrast paint to add the colors. By pre-painting the shading the contrast accentuates and flows over to make a nice looking paint job with very little extra effort. Once that’s dry I use some traditional paint to pick out the details.

Necrons Unearthed

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Warhammer 40,000 – This batch of models are a few Necron characters along with a few MDF Terrain pieces. The painting is pretty basic tabletop quality.

Modern Factory Terrain

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Historical – This batch is just a few small factory terrain pieces for 6mm historical gaming. Painting these started with two layers of grey dry brushing followed up with some contrast colors and a wash to unify the whole thing.

Tyranids - Rising Stars?

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Warhammer 40,000 – Tyranids might be on the rise again with the Genestealer Cults getting a new release. These Gaunts were painted to match an existing force.

A pretty basic paint job bone, light green with a wash to shade an tie the colors together.

Beast Grave - Warhammer Underworlds

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Age of Sigmar – Warhammer Underworlds is a well designed competitive mash-up of a card game and a miniatures game. It sounds like with the next release they’ll start rotating out card sets so the barrier to entry for new players will be significantly lower.

Tome Keepers - Part Two

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Warhammer 40,000 – This is the last part of the Tome Keepers custom space marine chapter I recently painted up.

I’m a big fan of the Heavy Intercessor models, they’re bulky and carry some pretty impressive firepower.

Tome Keepers - Custom Chapter

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Warhammer 40,000 – Creating your own space marine chapters is one of the more rewarding experiences you can have as a Warhammer player. The background “fluff” for Space Marines leaves a ton of room for you to create your own story, and that story can make the games you play with friends more meaningful than just kicking the crap out of each other of moving pieces around a board to get the high score.

Anytime someone asks me about getting a space marine force painted I always suggest creating your own chapter or unique scheme. In doing so you open up the possibility to use any of the plethora of rulesets, special characters and source material that Games Workshop creates for their poster boys.

This chapter is based off the Tome Keepers chapter with a few tweaks to the scheme so there isn’t any confusion on the table. Their owner has an existing Black Templar force that is nearly complete and as such wanted to incorporate the First Born keeping a black scheme with the Primaris Marines decked out in a bone color. Once I started painting the force that idea changed a bit and the force may be primaris only at some point.

With this first batch done he has a big enough selection to start a crusade force and grow it. Next up I’ll have some additional Primaris Marines and a small Imperial Knight contingent to give him options as the crusade continues.

Blackstone Fortress - Another Set Fully Painted

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Warhammer 40,000 – Blackstone Fortress is a cool looking game. Having still not had a chance to play my own set I can only comment on how cool the game looks. One day I’m hoping to play through it as well as get my own set painted but right now there are too many other games that are grabbing my attention.

These models are some of the most characterful models Games Workshop has made combined with the expansions and previous Kill Team box set you really get a feel for what a Rogue Trader and Crew look like. A weird cross between a pirate and cyperpunk with a little gothic thrown in is how I describe the Rogue Traders.

The villains of the set are also quite unique Traitor Guard, Beastmen, Cultists, Chaos Marines, and some random gribblies make a force that your heroes will have to face in their quest for the secrets of the Blackstone Fortress.

Deathwing and Death Korp - Notice a Trend?

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Warhammer 40,000 – Sometimes I feel the names in Warhammer are a bit one dimensional, especially when you get a variety of armies that have similar names for example there’s Deathguard, Deathwing, Death Korp, Deathwatch and I’m sure there’s a bunch more.

In this batch I painted up a few Relic Terminators in the bone Deathwing scheme as well as several sets of the new plastic Death Korp of Krieg infantry models from the new edition of Kill Team. While I really like the new models, I don’t care for the revised game.

I’m sure the game is better with the revised rules and weird symbol based movement, but for me it feels to similar to other skirmish games that do a better job like Marvel: Crisis Protocol. The appeal of the previous edition of Kill Team was how close to 40k it was while being a different scale with a little more customization. It really felt like the in-between step between 40K and Necromunda. Honestly the new edition is probably fine and will catch up, but I have all the books for the old system (including the one that came out months before the rerelease, another sore point) so I can just build forces using that and enjoy it when I want to play a skirmish game in the Grim Dark.

Cursed City - Painted Up

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Age of Sigmar – Cursed City was one of those chase big box games that Games Workshop didn’t produce enough of and then allocated to stores resulting in ridiculous price gouging for people that actually wanted to get the game to paint and play. Maybe once all the supply chain issues clear up they’ll reprint the game so everyone that wants one can get it.

I’m really happy to have had a chance to paint up this set and in actually just a bit jealous that I didn’t pick one up for myself. There are a ton of cool models in this set that would be an amazing basis for conversions so maybe they’ll release them separately at some point.

To paint these I stuck with contrast paint over a variety of base colors, the look is slightly different than my traditional painting style and I like how the effect ties all these models together.

First and Only - Gaunt's Ghosts

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Warhammer 40,000 – Gaunt’s Ghosts hold a spot near and dear to many people’s hearts so when they came out in plastic I assumed I’d be seeing them on my table. These were really fun to paint up and the camo was way less complicated than I assumed it would be. By using contrast paint over the green base it was pretty simple to add the patterns.

Grey Knights

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Warhammer 40,000 – Grey Knights recently got a little boast with a new model.

Raptor Storm

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Warhammer 40,000 – These Landspeeder Storms should be the last of the Space Marines for the Raptor (Great White) chapter I painted up.

MDF Terrain

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Terrain – I really like the terrain from TT Combat while it’s not as detailed as the stuff I got from Knights of Dice it is significantly more affordable.

Ghostbusters - Board Game Painted Up

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Ghostbusters - Board Game Painted Up

Board Games – Several years ago the Ghostbusters board game was on Kickstarter. When I finally got it in hand I played it once and put the game on the shelf. It’s not because the game was bad but more so because the game is involved and unless you want to play solo getting people dedicated to playing through a boar game campaign is hard.

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Middara - JRPG Board Game

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Board Games - Have you ever wanted to play an epic JRPG style game analog? If so Middara is the game for you. Tons of miniatures, massive rulebooks, cards galore this game is an epic quest in a box.

Here’s the description from the manufacturer:

Middara is a 1-4 player cooperative choose-your-own-adventure style miniatures board game. Players assume the role of a party of adventurers in an ultra-modern fantasy setting that exists alongside our very own Earth. During the game, players will experience an in depth, fully narrative-driven adventure that contains over 90 hours of content. Throughout the narrative you and three of your friends will confront real decisions that change the course of the story and its outcome.

Players will face many dangerous adversaries throughout the story and will take part in heated combat with these foes.Middarafeatures an innovative, dice based combat system for these encounters. Based on their equipment and abilities, players will have access to unique two-dice combinations that will increase their attack and damage potential in a variety of ways. In addition to numbers, dice have a particular set of symbols on each face that can be spent according to players currently equipped weapons and abilities. With nine different types of dice, over 110 unique abilities and 150 unique pieces of equipment the possibilities for different character builds are endless.

What makes Middara so compelling is that the outcomes of story decisions and encounters have far-reaching effects that determine how the story moves and resolves. Friends and family might get killed, or they may survive. Maybe the players avoid some problems entirely, only to be faced with a whole new challenge.

Gameplay Features:

  • Narrative-driven campaign that contains over 90 hours of content.

  • Unique dice-based success system featuring multiple dice that players can upgrade throughout the campaign.

  • 36 modular map tiles representing different locations in the world, such as magical forests, caves, and swamps!

  • A.I. controlled monsters, NPCs, challenges, traps, and other narrative-driven obstacles.

  • Campaign character progression via a point buy system allowing players to ditch traditional classes and instead focus on building the character they want to play.

  • Over 110 unique Disciplines and over 150 unique pieces of equipment.

  • Stand alone scenarios for when you aren't playing with your campaign group, or even when you are!

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Mythic Battles - Titans

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Board Games - Titans is an expansion for Mythic Battles featuring some really large monsters.