(Don't) fear the Reaper

And I horribly failed at painting a mini each week. Great. On the positive side I am now training as a professional computer nerd, so that's something.

Also, I am currently working on a conversion for Asphyxious the Hellbringer heavily inspired by Darksiders 2 and the new Diablo 3 trailer. Acording to his feat "the restless souls of the slaughtered rise only to be harvested and fuel the Hellbringers power." So I decided to make him look like the Reaper. (Not the one from Mass Effect)

 Progress after some cutting and sculpting

What I am going for:

Darksiders 2: This is the good guy. Yes, really!

The guy I mean appears at 1:56. He's definitely not the good guy. But, what's interesting is that apparently his motives are pure or the sword wouldn't let him do that.

Now I'm wondering how to do the smoky wings. Or find some suitably bony wings. And if I will have to play the Diablo expansion. I mean they include the exact class for me, the Crusader. A heavily armored shield-bearing knight that batters his enemies with a flail.

This might also make a great color scheme for the Protectorate

Seriously, if I had to go into battle, rest assured I'd bring the biggest portable wall I could find and I have a soft spot for zealots in videogames. They are fun to roleplay, too.

The Templar is my homie

Fenris

Miniature of the Week (1-8.07.2013) - Bakunin Moderator

Since I don't subscribe to the superstition that you'll die when you run out of miniatures to paint, I actually try to get my small pewter mountain painted. And I thought it might be a good idea to get one mini painted each week.

This is the first mini to get under my brush: A Bakunin Moderator from Corvus Belli. Basically she is a Policewoman from a huge spaceship that is inhabited entirely by misfits. When you have habitation modules where religious nuts live right next to people who take bodymodification to a new art form, violent feminists and slightly insane scientists/artists you need a police force to stop trouble from getting out of hand. That is the job of the Moderator Corps.

She seems to have hung out a lot with the body-mod crowd, that's why she's got bunny ears







In game terms, she is one of the "cheap" grunts in my Bakunin force. For only a few points she provides additional actions for my specialist troops. She also packs a rifle and since this is Infinity, with a little luck she might down even something far above her point cost since: "You can kill anything in this game with a rifle."


I picked her to test out my color scheme for my Nomads force. Red, purple and white. I went quite light on the purple here, might have to change that with other minis, but overall I'm quite happy with how she turned out. She was also my first try in painting nylon stockings.





Under the brush this week: Warwitch Deneghra and Ajax the Great.

Cheers
Fenris

Just won a ticket to the RPC

Tabletop Fix decided I should visit the Roleplaying Convention this year.

http://ttfix.blogspot.de/2013/05/rpc-ticket-winners.html

Thank'yee kindly!

Fenris

Unboxing: FFL: El Almirante and Antoinette Balfour

El Almirante

If you have read the Freebooter's Fate rulebook (or seen any pirate movie) you know that every carribean island has a inept governor that is hopelessly in over his head dealing with pirates and whatever else comes his way.

The governor of Leonera exactly this. Known simply as El Gobernador he managed to lose Leonera to the pirates, which is since then known as Longfall. However, before he became El Gobernador, he was a hero of the empire known as El Almirante.
Our first Legend is exactly that: El Almirante in his prime.

Wielding a saber and a pistol, El Almirante can lead an empire crew against the dastardly Pirates, the rebellious Goblins or the nefarious Brotherhood. (I'd mention Amazons, too, but I can't think of a fitting adjective)

He is accompanied by his trusty aides. Mozo, Pelada and a little dog. Mozo carries a standard and serves as a rallying point for the crew and is on a seperate base. Pelada shares a base with El Almirante. She acts as a Powdermonkey, reloading his pistol.
The dog also sits on the same base and looks cute. It has no ingame effect. Among the stretch goal bits are a collection of medals, two highly decorated weapons and a stylish hat.

Lets put it together:

When looking at the pieces I first thought, El Almirante looked kinda static. When bedecked in all his finery, however, he really looks like an Admiral, standing proudly on deck of his flagship. There is quite a lot of detail on him. Mozo and Pelada look great, too. The doggy is nice, though for some reason I expected it to be a pug, instead it's more of a terrier.

The mini fit together well, though I had a little trouble getting the hat detached from the sprue. Apparently he also bought his hat a bit to small, I had to chip away a tiny bit to fit it properly on his head.

Antoinette Balfour

The second legend is a specialist working for the Pirates crew. Packing a a heavy cutlass and a pepperbox gun (highly impractical in real life, but seriously cool) that can fire 1-3 barrels with each shot adding some BANG! with each barrel.

Along with her comes her pet monkey, Grogbag, who, as the name might indicate, is as fond of rum as his mistress. He whacks enemies with empty bottles, or, if Antoinette has her pepperbox-gun, can shoot her handed-down regular pistol.

The pair also bring along a little pile of rumbottles, which make them fearless, but may get destroyed. I just can imagine her stumbling along, with a sad monkey on her shoulder, asking: "But why's the rum gone?"

Hardly any mouldlines on the mini again. It took some work lining up her head with her body, so she did not have a gash in her throat however. Her pose is okay, nothing special. Included with the stretch goals is a different box, for her to rest her foot on. 

It gives her a combat ready appearance, though I think her body's stance fits better with the non-stretchgoal gear. I particularly like her monkey, he's wearing a little vest and headband along with big, piratey earrings.

Next up: The other half of the sisters Balfour and the amazon leader Ixchelcoatl

Arrr, Mateys!

Fenris

Unboxing: Freebooter's Fate: Legends

Yarrr! Ye landlubbers and scurvy dogs! Feast yer eyes on this cache of booty!

Aforementioned booty.

 In autumn last year I took part in Freebooter Miniatures crowdfunding project for their Legends miniature set. Today said set arrived and I eagerly unboxed it.

tons of ziplock bags

The set contains six miniatures for their skirmish game Freebooter's Fate. One character for each of the five factions, plus one exclusive character that works for both the Pirates as well as the upcoming Cult faction. (Voodoo guys)
During the funding campaign, each of the minis unlocked additional bits such as a new head option, different weapons, assistants and tons of other piratey bling. Also, some Mercenary miniatures were unlocked, that can be hired by the different factions. You can see two of them (Capitan Virgo Despiedad and the Bountyhuntress Chassa) on the right side.
Since I'm a sucker for everything Mr. Klocke sculpts, I pledged for the full set and later included the two Mercs in the order. However, I didn't get every mini offered on Indiegogo. The Goblin Captain wasn't exactly my mug of rum and the Voodoo character Papa Houngan, I might get later.

First impressions:
All pieces are present, there are no obvious miscasts, hardly any flash, the amount of bits for some of the minis is amazing. All in all the high quality I'm used to from Freebooter. Suddenly I'm thinking of getting another set to also have the non-bitted out versions to build.

Coming up tomorrow: Antoinette Balfour and El Almirante, with their assorted companions.

Arrrrr!
Captain Fenris

New PC, yay!

Got my new PC! It's bloody fast, SSDs are really the shizzle!

Minor derp during setup: I installed Windows 7 32bit which caused my Driver DVD to be in French.  Also my DVD drive was apparently an antique which only runs with IDE cables.

But now everything seems to work fine.

Cheers
Fenris

Hordes: Gargantuans

I have just finished reading through Privateer Presses newest book for Hordes and oh, boy, it's shiny!
Lots of new background advancing the storyline, lots of new models including the eponymous gargantuans, Warlocks that are units or battleengines and tons upon tons of gorgeous art. My absolute favourite piece is the art for Morvahna the Dawnshadow.

She is a druidess riding side saddle on a goat. How cool is that? When I buy the Two player Hordes box I might have to keep the Circle models, since her mini actually does her artwork justice.
Also there is a new Unit Attachment for my favourite halberd swinging werewolf dudes, the Skinwalkers. I'm told he makes them awesome.

So if I like Circle so much, why am I not playing them (yet) you may ask?
The answer is simple:

Dragons!

Legion gets probably the awesomest (yes, that's a word) model in the history of Privateer Press.

The Archangel, spawned from the blood of four warlocks with a side helping of a dead dragons teeth, this blighted monstrosity takes to the skies of Caen.

My Legion is also kinda purple-ish

I don't care about the rules (which seem halfway decent to me, anyway), I want one!
The pricetag however says that it will have to wait for a while.

The rest of Legions releases are also very cool. Everblight blesses us with a flying version of the facehugger from alien, the Afflictor. (Nicknamed the rapesnake or NCPS in America)
There is the Nephilim Bloodseer, a humanoid dragonbeastie that make everything magic more awesome. Can't wait to play that guy with Hex Hunters and Bethayne.
The Warspear Chieftain made me giddy when I added up all the bonuses I can get for his unit. It's going to be more like chucking cruise missiles at your enemy.
Our new Warlock, Lylyth also cranks awesomeness up another notch and is the first Warlock to be a Battle Engine. She rides a huge warsleigh pulled by blighted ulks. But I am not fully sold on her rules, which seem kinda "meh" to me.
Finally there is the Nyss Beast Mistress, Legions crazy cat lady. Only instead of cats she keeps dog sized landsharks that eat you. She is another first for Legion being essentially a second Warlock on a smaller scale. I'm not really sure about her either. She may be able to buff a lot of models for you, but her beasts won't benefit from Legion's ubiquitous battlegroup spells. Maybe in bigger games.

But wait, there's more: Voodoo alligators and zombie fishmen. Yeah, you heard right. The gatormen bokor brings his swamp shamblers. I haven't given them much thought yet, but they are usable by the Legion and their art is cool. Kinda like Alexia Ciannor and her risen. I have to look if you can raise casualities for more zombies and spawn lesser warbeasts from the spawning vessel. Might be interesting.


What was supposed to be a short post about gargantuans exploded into something much larger, eh?

Cheers
Fenris
(not a purple pony)