Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

Background Both the Elven band of Dyvima, and the Dwarves of Bigae Elf Woe have been seeking an enchanted cottage.  If they can claim the ancient dwelling they will gain secrets from the old times to help their people.  The Fates have intervened and both groups have converged on the cottage at the same time,  There is only one way to settle the claim and that is by combat.   The forces This is a 75 point game of Sword Weirdos.  The Elves are led by Dyvima, a Fighter/Healer and comprise of another Fighter and two Archers.  Bigae Elf Woe a Commander/Pit Fighter leads a Dwarven Berserker, a Dwarven Fighter and a Human Hunter.  Full rosters can be found here .  Set up This game is a variant of the Objectively Normal Scenario on page 12 of the Sword Weirdos rules.  Rather than have a number of objectives, the aim is to have as many combatants be within 1/2 a stick of the enchanted cottage at the end of the final turn to claim the dwellin...

I was away for the first week of July and since being back work has been very busy.  However, I have completed another 11 28mm figures.  My goal in January was to complete 10 a month.  Having now completed 84 and sold 15 of the 128 that I started 2024 with, I'm two months or more ahead.   I managed to get my planned two games in as well, so although it was a short and busy month blogging has been the only thing that's slipped.  Hopefully I'll make up on that next month and post on the figures I've completed during June and July.     Completed I had a few things on the table at the end of June.  Of those I've finished the following: 3D printed  32mm Erroish Raiders.  I really enjoyed painting these.  Unlike the Bitter Nightshades ( last month ), I felt very comfortable doing these.  I took a lot of time on them savouring all the detail this time rather than just wishing them done. During the month I started and fi...

Greetings and welcome to Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed for occasional ramblings about wargames and maybe some related military stuff. Here's a picture of some Oathmark Dwarfs I finished back in January.  I liked the look of these and got a single sprue from the Dwarf Infantry set off eBay. The intention is to use them in Ragnarok games.  Easy figures to build, with quite a few options but I wouldn't want to build a lot as the left arm options are basically for shield only and they'd be very samey. Good selection of beards though, as it should be.  When I built my Gripping Beast Norse and Anglo-Saxon armies back in the 90s I hand painted all the shields as that's what we did in the old days. Now it's all decals. I'm too tight to fork out for the proper Oathmark ones from Northstar. I also had a sprue of Victrix Vikings that I was doing, so I got a set of "40 Victrix Viking Shield Waterslide Decals by Battle Flag, Super Value Set" from eBay. They were s...