Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

With Spring hopefully not too far away it was time to rouse my Burrows & Badgers warbands from hibernation and play another game.       Setup Once again arch-enemies Werdna Thunderfoot's Royalists and Mellifluous Malachi's Wildbeasts would take up arms against each other. The Royalists.  L-R;  Nainama the Sparrow; Beriys the Adder Mage; Werdna Thunderfoot the Hare (Leader); Apodemus the Mouse Ranger; Briar Far-sting the Rabbit Archer; Lutralus River Blade the Otter (Second)   The Wildbeasts.  L-R Putor the Ferret; Woodpaw the Weasel; Mellifluous Malachi the Fox (Leader); Salien the Toad Mage; Shakey Bart the Weasel; McGranite the Ferret (Second)  This game is based upon Scenario 3, Defend the Haul, from the rule book.  Mellifluous Malachi's Wildbeasts have taken over a mouse house while the owner is away.  The evicted rodent has sought the help of Werdna Thunderfoot's Royalists to take back his rightful dwelling. The W...

Next up for my 10mm Warmaster Revolution Ogre Kingdoms army is this unit of Leadbelchers.  As with the rest of the army these are 3D printed figures by Teremki Studios and bought from  MGS Miniatures .   I turned these around quickly, having learnt a lot when I did the Bulls and Ironguts .  I've thoroughly enjoyed painting all of these miniatures.  This unit even had a few Gnoblars with them, they are just full of character.  This gave me a bit of practice getting the colours for the Gnoblar skin right, as my next unit is 36 of the little buggers. Here's a shot of the boys on a day out in the countryside.

The latest unit for my 10mm Warmaster Revolution Chaos Dwarf army is a regiment of Hobgoblins.  There's 36 of these pesky varmints in the unit, 12 to a base.  The sculpts are by  AnkyloMiniatures, bought as part of an army deal from  MGS Miniatures .   These are lovely characterful sculpts, the details are incredible on something so small, and I doubt could have been achieved on anything apart from 3d sculpts.  This is a mixed unit with archers, close combat troops and even some Sneaky Gits mixed in.  This gives great variety on each strip with none of them the same.  The Chaos Dwarf army is coming along well now.  I'm aiming to get most of it done by Salute. 

Introduction Since the semi-finals took place ( here and here ), I've been trying to get a long enough time slot to play the Goria final.  This weekend I finally got that chance.  The big match was between the Fir Bolg (Undead) who had previously trounced the Formorians (Orcs and Goblins), and the Sidhe (Elves) who beat the Gaels (Humans).  I used the same selections as I did for the previous games with the exception of adding a Cyclops to the Fir Bolg force to bring the points up to the Sidhe level of about 800 points.  You can see the lists  here .  Set up To help randomise the game I number each unit and each order dice.  Then when I draw the order dice I play the appropriately numbered unit.  I also use this to randomly deploy the units, avoiding unconsciously matching up units during set up.  As an order dice is picked from the bag I deploy the unit working from top to bottom of the table/mat.  Starting point (Sidhe at top) Turn 1 T...

I've decided to switch to monthly rather than the weekly updates which I did for all of 2022.  I'll still be posting when I complete something, but time is very precious at the moment so this works much better for me.   Completed This month I've completed the following:   A regiment of 10mm Ogre Ironguts for my Ogre Kingdoms Warmaster Revolution army which you can see  here .   Six 28mm Norse warriors for my Ragnarok project.  You can see more of them here . I prepared a load of 2ps to use for bases for 28mm plastics.  This involved giving the edges a good thick coat of Humbrol Khaki enamel, followed by a couple of coats of Vallejo German Camouflage Black Brown, then varnished in Humbrol Gloss and finally a coat of  Vallejo Satin varnish to tone the gloss shine down.   In progress The following are on the table as January ends: A regiment of 36 10mm Hobgoblins for my Chaos Dwarf Warmaster Revolution army.  These are v...

As I was working on the 10mm Ogre Ironguts I was also painting up six Victrix figures to use as Norse warriors for my Ragnarok project.   The majority of the parts came from the Victrix Dark Age Archers set, but I added in some spares from a Viking sprue to make the spearman and axeman.  I did some cutting and replacing of hands to make these work and that's one of the great advantages of plastic figures. I also used a head from a Viking sprue and another one from a Viking Command sprue for two of the figures.  When I assembled these I very methodically took notes of what parts I used for each figure.  The aim is to stick this all on a spreadsheet and it'll help organise me as I build more.  I don't mind if you call me OCD.  The Victrix sets give such a fantastic number of parts that they're very good value.  The quality of course is second to none. A few of them can also do double duty as Germanics for the Late-Roman project that I'll be st...

My first completed unit for 2023 is a regiment of Ogre Ironguts for my 10mm Warmaster Revolution Ogre Kingdoms army.  These chubby brutes were the first 10mm 3D printed figures that I bought.  The sculpts are by Teremki Studios and I bought them from MGS Miniatures .  I was so pleased with them I promptly ordered two full armies - these and a Chaos Dwarf one.   I'd learnt a lot when doing the Ogre Bull regiments so managed to turn the Ironguts around much more quickly and less painfully.  As with all the Ogres, they'd been printed three to a base, but this time I clipped them into singles BEFORE painting them which helped save a lot of swearing and grief!    The printed bases are too thin for handling during gaming so I stick them on Warbases 2mm 20x40mm MDF bases anyway.   I added a layer of Milliput to build up the levels, then a layer of Vallejo texture, paint with Dulux emulsion that I had made to match Citadel Dheneb Stone, added s...