Dark Elves from the sea?!

 Played a game the other day, a quick home-made game of fantasy skirmish created by my buddy.  We played a Dark Elf slave raid on a seaside village.  It was a good little scrap.  Each side was chasing bases of peasants around the table. 

We (the good guys) had to order and shuffle them off the table, while the Dark Elf player needed to shuttle them over to the shoreline, etc.

A great "not" Red Sonja from Hasslefree Miniatures.

 Here's the latest adventurer.  I wanted a female barbarian who wasn't a GW model, so I grabbed a new miniature from Hasslefree.  It's very much Red Sonja from the classic art.

Games!: Caverns, Crypts & Catacombs

 Just a few more pictures of some CCC gaming.

In the first Chamber the party crashes into Wights and Cultists in a maze of magical mayhem.

 

In a demo game of the first quest...our party dies in a room surrounded by zombies and on fire.  The Warrior even made it so far as opening the door to flee...before he burned to death.

New fantastical heroes! (updated...)

 I've painted up a couple more adventurers for dungeon crawling and role-playing duties.

A 3D printed Arab thief or vendor.

A Hasslefree Female Dwarf - note Hasslefree minis are pretty small...so she'll be doing double duty as a female Halfling, etc.

Shortly after posting this I finished this beautiful Tre Manor sculpt from Hasslefree.  He'll be serving as a "Legendary Encounter" in Caverns, Crypts & Catacombs and...I'm in love with the result.  It's rare I finish something and am genuinely stoked about it.  I love this figure/colour combo.

Games!: Caverns, Crypts & Catacombs

 Just a few pictures of another game of CCC.

More dungeon adventurers!

 I put together a couple of new adventurers using the Frostgrave Knights plastic box - which is simply superb.  These two were fun to assemble and paint.  Clean and not too much cluttered stuff - just enough.

This morning I also finished a great heavy set trader/merchant/diplomat in Arab guise (3D print gifted to me by a buddy)...and a sweet camel I've had sitting around from the older Conan Kickstarter.  I've finally painted it.  I don't even have a use for these figures, but they were great fun to paint.

Some dungeon crawling!

 Been fortunate enough to run a handful of dungeon crawls...hopefully with one or two more this week.

The party runs into a collection of bandits and skeletons in the Quest Room.

Kicking in the door, the Hero Party comes face to face with a pack of Ghouls.

The Hero Party actually retreats onto the bridge over the chasm to narrow the attacking column.

In another game the Hero Party sneaks past a Stone Golem in a pitch black room...only to realize it will block their escape.  They assemble to fight it on the bridge.

"Hey, we interrupting something?"

One of the several dungeons, all based around the same style Quest.

Some more gerblerns for the derngern.

 I wasn't going to build more of the Oathmark Goblin box but...then I did that.  Some poor pics, but another dozen Oathmark Goblins for the dungeon crawl.

Battlegroup Zvezda blitz.

 I ordered a small stack of Zvezda kits from Hobbylinc and an eBay shop in Estonia.  Just finishing some selections for both my Soviets and the German opfor.

A 222 armored car for reconnaissance.

A Ferdinand/Elephant for Kursk.

Two new KV-2s.  Added some cupolas and stowage and modified the barrels.  These are kits I stripped down and re-did.

Two Opel Blitz, a simple kit - one of the earlier Zvezda kits.

Three Panther D's for Kursk.  The box and the box art indicate these are Panther G's...and they're absolutely not.  They're model D's, the first service Panther model.

Some new Zvezda Su-122s - compared to the kit-bashed ones I made from the Axis & Allies miniatures game (back).

The three new Su-122s with one kit-bashed for an officer.

Three Zvezda T-60's.  These are an older Zvezda kit so they're pretty minimal, but they're also quite small...possibly a little too small.  I'll probably still use them.

Some Battlegroup work and some Old West shootin'.

 Been doing a lot of work on a variety of projects - but have neglected the blog for a bit.

Some pictures from today's SnS bloodbath.

And some Battlegroup progress.  Having begun 15mm Battlegroup, my first handful of purchases were random Zvezda tanks.  I used these to work out how to paint 15mm, and what colours I liked, etc.  I threw on some rather slapdash decals....and since then I've not been happy with them.  I put this lot up on eBay and luckily no one picked it up!  I then decided to recover them instead.

So I whipped out the old ultrasonic cleaner and some alcohol and set to work stripping down the tanks.  Then I went through and re-gunned most of them, added additional stowage, made some battle damage and then repainted them and re-did the decals with new proper ones.  I'm pretty happy with the salvage operation though I've got a few left to recover!  I also added a second platoon to the Fallschirmjaeger and an 88 crewed by some PSC crew.

Three Zvezda T-34's recovered.  The center one has been fitted with an FoW turret to match the other two.

Three FoW KV-1s with fixed turrets and replaced paint/decals.

KV-1S additional turrets painted up.

FJ platoon with an 88 FlaK in support.

Three Zvezda KV-1s which went under heavy surgery.  Re-gunned, additional stowage, battle damage, and a full repaint and re-decal.  Painted with a fictional "Far East" service camouflage scheme.