Grenadier Dragon Lords.

It's been a long..ish time since I postage about anything other than KS things but that's not to say I haven't been doing anything else.

A few weeks I managed to get my grubby little paws on some goodies at a very reasonable price.

As I've said in previous posts I've always been a huge fan of the classic 80s Dragons, so this was a real find for me.

Ral Partha Draconians.

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the old 25mm Ral Partha and Grenadier miniatures. I remember collecting and painting the Dragons as a small whelp and will probably always think that they are some of best Dragons you can set your hands on, a tad linear I admit, but compare them to some of the newer beasts out there and you'll see what I mean. Though my opinion may be tainted.

Grenadier Miniatures, Black Dragon 2. From the Dragon Lords Range.

Now then,  I've been trying to get my hands on a set of Ral Parthas Dragonlance Draconian for an age, but the £70.00 plus price point has always been an issue, thus I have looked on from a distance and been left wanting.

Until the other week that is.

That's not Handy >.>

So as I said in my last post, we've all gotten into hordes.

This has given me an extra push to actually get some painting done. I've not really been inspired enough of late to sit down and concentrate on painting, but a new game, new figures, new colours. 

YAY, I'm off again.

Anyhow this is my first batch of completed Mini's 

Not the greatest Paint Jobs out there, but I'm more than happy with the end result. So now it's onto my Carniven....

Or it would have been, if Fate and Stupidity didn't decide to raise their ugly heads...

Spiral Fractures to both of my middle fingers

So after a Gladiators style Bouncy Castle related incident I have a big swollen and very painful right hand, with two busted fingers.

Luckily I'm right handed so... erm... crap.

Nope, cant even hold a paintbrush at the moment, let alone paint anything.

Not best pleased about this turn of events, but that's the way it is I guess.

Still I am pleased that I got my Shredders finished before messing myself up.

Sucks.

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Hordes, Hmmm

So yeah, OK. I admit it I've put off Hordes and Warmachine for a while. Although I've always loved the look and style of the Mini's I've never... well... wanted to get into the game. Thus I have always looked on from a distance.

I caved...

God I feel so dirty, but after spending a day at the MK show, me and a buddy decided we would get the Two Player Starter between us, luckily for us both, I liked the Everblight and he liked the Circle (maybe a tad to much) so it all worked out well. He and another pal had an intro game of Hordes at the show, while I introduced my three year old to the hobby via an intro game of Warmachine.

Split in Two!

As the title would sugest something has been split in two. Well that would be this blog.

From the beginning I wanted to keep this a hobby blog, but over the last month or so its become a tad more business like.

 

So, I have decided to split this blog into a store.. ish type blog, and a hobby blog.

Kaon Rising

As a mentioned in a previous post I'm working on a small Chaos force based on Kaon's Despoilers shown in White Dwarf 135. Now I know that I had a bit of a break from the Blog but that's not to say that I had a break from all of my projects.

 

Here's a reminder of what I am basing my force on.

 

Busy times...

Hey hey, there you all are. I was looking for you, sorry I was gone for so long, truth is I kinda lost track with the blog for the past couple of months.

I’ve been sidetracked working on a project that has taken up pretty much all of my spare time, but I honestly believe that when you all see what it is you will understand why my blog had to take a back seat. I don’t want to go into too much detail at the moment as there is a huge chance that it will still fall on it arse and I don’t want to jinx it, if you know what I mean.

 

Anyhow in the mean time stand by for a Koan update as I’ve managed to get some footwork done there. And hopefully I’ll start updating regular basis again starting from today.

On A side note, an awesome picture.

Awesome with a side or sauce.

Follow this link to see more of Ketka's stunning work.

 

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Marauder Miniatures: Kaon's Despoilers Chaos Army.

In issue ??? of White Dwarf released in 1991 I remember seeing an offer for a 2000 point Chaos Army. I remember looking at this small force and wanting it so bad. In those days though the £57 asking price was really high, so alas I was left to look at the images and dream. I would however buy it today if it was offered at that price now. But times they do change...

  

I don't think this would even be 1000pts by today's standards.

Recently I found a copy of this White Dwarf while trying to collect all the Space Hulk related issues and came accross this offer once again. Suddenly it was twenty one years ago again, Do Want!

Work In Progress: Bane Legions Muldo

This is going to be my Work in Progress post for my Bane Legions Muldo, I'm not going to do a separate post each and every time I add a highlight,  instead I'm going to update this post and pop it at the top of my post list whenever I get to a point that I think is worth showing.

  

Assembled and ready to go.

Bane Legions, Muldo & Ulric

So a couple of days ago I got home from work to find a small package from Maelstrom Games waiting for me. I knew what it was and like an excited school boy I ripped the package open to find two wonderful miniatures waiting for me.

Nice blister packaging. Muldo is really stuffed in there.

When I made the order at Maelstrom they were out of stock but they have come into stock and reached my door in a little over a week. Which is pretty impressive, since I'm still waiting on an order to be filled for items I ordered over nine weeks ago at another online site, but more about that another day.

As per normal for Maelstrom, the mini's came in a well padded envolope and got to me in perfect condition.

Anyhow, I didn't get a chance to look at them in too much detail as stuff needed to be done. But now I've had em out and assembled them both, thought I would let you guys know what I think.

That Looks Nice!

Due to being ill and not having anything to do with the Wargaming world I've not updated the blog in over a week. Even so Voidsigns has been up again for a little over a month and I've noticed that I'm about to hit 600 hits. In the grand sceme of things that's quite a small number but considering this blog had been up for a few years and was only at 47 hits when I started writting about my hobbies I'm pretty impressed with it.

Anyhow, I wanted to say thanks to everyone thats had a look and hope that more people will follow and continue to read my ramblings in the futures.

So, as the title says, That Looks Nice.

I am referring to the following:

Candy and Cola

Finally, FINALLY I managed to get my grubby little hands on the Candy and Cola figure that was released for Super Dungeon Explore by Soda Pop Miniatures.

YAY!

I've been after this figure since the release of SDE and all my attempts to gain it had ended in disappointment, Either the price was too high (£20+ for a single figure is too much) or the store that had it in stock didn't ship to this side of the pond. So imagine my glee when Cool Mini Or Not got a restock.

SOLD!

Super Dungeon Explore Dwelling Monsters

As a group we play Super Dungeon Explore a lot, we all think the game is awesome, and I personally  rant and rave about it all the time. Soda Pop Miniatures really excelled when it came to getting this little gem out, it was well worth the wait. We have noticed however that the game can be a tad linear, a few things don't make sense and a couple of things could be better.

So, we sat down and made up some extra rules just to give us a little more... urm... stuff.

Anyhow...
 

With me being anal and the rest of the group all remembering the same rules in different ways I decided to sit down and make a pretty PDF rule set that contains all the changes that we use, and a set of new monster cards to cover the Dwelling Monsters.

See, looks really pretty.

First of all we have added Dwelling Monsters. The two sets of beasties that came in the box are very nice, but after a few games they don't really offer anything new and it starts to get a little stale. So we added some new critters and a Special Character. For the most part the new Monsters can be represented by pretty much anything that fits the bill, a bats a bat afterall. The Monster that was a hard figure to find was Barry, I use a Dwarf Wereshark from Reaper Miniatures represent him on the board.

These are what we use for the Dwelling Monsters.
Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer Fantasy.

This is Reapers Dwarf Wereshark.
Great Figure.

And yes, I do intend to base and paint them.... 

As well as the Dwelling Monsters we've added a search option, when you enter a room you can search it. You may get some goodies or some nasties may jump out at you. Also Line of sight, has been blocked by the big stuff and you can cause more that one wound per attack.

Barry. He's an asshole.

I have uploaded the complete set of additional rules we use to Boardgamegeek and 4share so you can download them and take a look. The cards are on the file and are scaled and ready to be printed out for use.

Feed back would be nice on these rules, it would be nice to hear other peoples oppinions and if anyone has any ideas for more monsters.

Well, I hope you enjoy em.

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