Monday, June 25, 2012
Workbench of a Madman
It has been a whirlwind summer so far. The wife and kids left for Germany even before school was out-- but no rest for the wicked, as days later, I was off to Las Vegas for a work-related convention.
Friday, May 11, 2012
He triggered the rear guns once more. A direct hit!
Today is the last day for Steve Jackon's phenomenal Ogre Designer's Edition Kickstarter. It currently at almost $900k-- or 20% of SJG's 2011 gross income. I'm tempted, although I've never played Ogre before. What I have played is Car Wars, though. Through the process of this kickstarter, Steve Jackson has promised to do a kickstarter for Car Wars in 2013. Pretty cool! The whole thing really got me itching for some Car Wars, with fond memories of creating taped together graph paper areas and running down pedestrians even up into college-- twenty years ago!-- so I headed over to e23 and bought the latest rules and a counter sheet. That's not quite a complete game-- you still need a turning key and dropped weapon counters, which can be grabbed here. I actually found a scan of the original pocket box counters and have been using them, which includes another necessity-- squishy pedestrian markers! That will do as I task my poor mother to root through whatever old stuff I have left at home to see if she can find my old pocket boxes.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Check Your 6! Bombers!
Here are the photos from a recent Check Your Six! game by Bob Bryant. There aren't even all the B-17's he has, but they were a lot of them. The scenario was weighted a little more heavily to the Germans to try out some bomber simplification rules Bob had cooked up, and once those big gunned German fighters got in among the American bombers, it got real ugly real quick...
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Stoumont Flames of War
I haven't been posting, but I haven't quite been idle, either, fortunately. Here are the photos of us trying out the 3rd edition Flames of War with the Battle of Stoumont scenario from WWPD. I personally didn't notice any huge change in 3rd edition. It's more of an evolution than a revolution, fortunately. And it's not like we play it enough to hit the weird edge cases which we're probably playing wrong anyway!
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Guest Star: Dragon
I went with Reaper's Young Swamp Dragon for Black Fang. He was about the right size and shape. I didn't really try to follow the module concept art for this, I just painted him black.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Supporting Cast: Reefclaw
As I've mentioned before, I had to custom convert a miniature for the adventure's Reefclaw. I started with a Reaper moray eel familiar, and added claws from the Creature Components pack, bulked out with a little sculpting putty. If I'd had more time and energy, I might have added the antennae and such, but as it, it's an acceptable figure, I think.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Supporting Cast: Spider
Here's the Reaper figure I painted up for the spider in the Beginner Box adventure. He's just a little guy for a giant spider, so I went with a realistic paint scheme on him based on some stock picture I found on the Internet. I was pleased with how he turned out.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Pathfinder Iconic Character: Valeros
My version of the Pathfinder iconic fighter, Valeros. I wanted to make his stone mug a touristy one for Faerun, but it was pretty darn small and decided against it! I'm not very satisfied with his eyes-- but I'm done!
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Iconic Pathfinder Character: Kyra
My paint up of the Pathfinder iconic Cleric, Kyra. The eyes are a little sloppy in the magnified pictures, but in real life, her eyes are spot on for the artwork, it's really nice. Again, I totally missed that red sash. Someday-- maybe-- I'll fix it.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Iconic Pathfinder Character: Merisiel
My paint up of the iconic Pathfinder rogue Merisiel, a.k.a. Patrish, a.k.a. Kaijitsu.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Iconic Pathfinder Character: Ezren
Here is my work up of Ezren, a.k.a. Slate in our game! Already picking up some wear on his casting index finger...Number Two Son, almost four, likes to take HIS turn playing with Daddy's little men. Below is the reference picture and more angles on the miniature. I'm pleased with him, although the color balance is pretty bad in these pictures...dammit Internet, I'm a painter, not a photographer!
Thursday, February 2, 2012
The First Time is Always the Best
So Number One Son wasn't really fooling about creating his first character. I came in last night with the Pathfinder Bestiary, as our local semi-FLGS, Nord's Games, is going out of business and blowing out their stock at 40% off. As soon as I walk in the door, he launches into a torrent about his character.
"He's got an 18 Strength and a 16 Dexterity!"
"Wow!"
"And I found some armor that gave me +9 so I have an Armor Class of 19!"
"Really! You were able to afford that with your starting money?"
Big grin. "Weeeeeeeellll..."
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