Thinking Outside the Box

Played another 250 rep game of Batman Miniature Game yesterday. I wanted to use something other than my Bane crew, even though I have an unplayed 250 list ready to go. As I’ve been building my figures I’m keeping my eyes open for groups that I can paint together, which is how I came up with this: - Loeb - Ron w/ radio and undercover - O’Connell w/ ammo, radio and badge - Policeman - Policewoman - Batwoman All the cops I can paint as a unit, and Batwoman fills out the roster nicely. The colours probably won’t deviate much from the studio paint job. They’re police officers, so why make my life more difficult than it needs to be choosing colours? My opponent played another variation of his Arrow crew. I don’t recall all the equipment taken but the list looked like this: - Arrow - Huntress - Ron - O’Connell w/ ammo - Policeman - Policewoman The table set up had some elevated areas around the edges and corners, but was largely flat terrain. (As an aside I thought t...

If you're like me, you have a huge pile of boxes, models and various other figures and terrain bits awaiting construction, painting and (hopefully) time on the gaming table. Kickstarter may or may not have affected the size of your pile. If you've been able to resist some of the games providing masses of models on KS in the past few years I commend you. I keep a big wish list / to-do list related to my miniature hobby. It serves a few different purposes: GOOD: Reminds me of what project(s) I'm working on and keeps me on track (sometimes). GOOD: Give me ideas about stuff I could do next. GOOD: Is a place to put things I need to buy or do for specific projects. BAD: Reminds me how much stuff I have spent money on. BAD: Makes it pretty apparent I'll never finish all this stuff, or play all of these games. In May I started posting up monthly progress reports to keep myself motivated and serve as a reminder that building and priming models is progress too. As muc...

First off, I hate UPS. They're thieves who charge an insane amount of 'brokerage fees' to pay my GST for me. In this case I shouldn't even have had to pay GST, since the Badger Minitaire  line of paints are made in the USA. Anyway, they're here, and UPS still sucks balls. The paints however, do not. Here is a wonky-angled shot of the contents after I started sorting them out. I've had my airbrush for almost two years now but don't use it often. Occasional priming duty in the dead of winter is about the extent of the work my Badger Patriot had put in, until now. One of the biggest troubles with airbrushing is thinning the paints. I have paints from Army Painter, Games Workshop, P3, Tamiya, Vallejo and even some Testors acrylics. I've experimented a bit with mixing them and thinning them down and getting a consistent result is nigh impossible, and made me think that airbrushing wasn't for me. I picked up some Vallejo Model Air last summer and ...

My second progress report post, which feels like a bit of a mixed bag in terms of work accomplished. The month started off really strong with a bunch of stuff getting hobby and paint attention. Work, nice weather and a bit of vacation closed out the month and really put a dent in things at the end. June Progress Report - Painted sewer markers for Batman Miniature Game  (7) - Built Walking Dead prison tower set (1 of 2) - Painted 3 sets of lamp posts for BMG (7) - Painted second objective pack for BMG (4) - Built and painted set of custom riddle objectives for BMG (2) - Painted SuperFigs Emerald Alien (1) - Built Catwoman, Origins Deathstroke, Huntress and Origins Batman for BMG (4) - Built miniatures for Terminator Genisys starter box (32) There were several other things that I had were very near completion that intended to knock off in June. After returning from my trip and getting settled back into my work schedule I couldn't find the motivation for in the last few d...

Continuing my journey into the Batman Miniatures Game , we played another game over the weekend. We elected to play a 250 rep game. My opponent stuck with the Arrow crew: Arrow, Huntress, adding Ron w/ ammo, a Policeman w/ whistle and a Policewoman w/ whistle. I played my Bane crew again: Origins Bane, Mohawk w/ grapple, Smash w/ Titan, Dallas and Copperhead. We rolled the "Plunder" scenario and set up. I ended up with two lamps and sewers to Brad's one of each. The small number of lamps for the scenario was of benefit to me, as I'd have more room to maneuver without getting shredded by ranged fire from Arrow and Huntress. Both crews took riddle, loot and Titan as their objectives. Here are some game highlights: - The riddle tokens were attempted early. The first for each side were failed, but we didn't have any VP to lose. The other two netted 1VP for my crew. - Extra ammo was picked up by Huntress and Dallas. It became a question for me as to whether I si...

Part of my very first order from Knight Models for the Batman Miniature Game  was a set of their objective markers. Along with those first figures I also ordered a pack of the lamps and sewers which included three of each. I knew I'd want to be able to run demoes and games with my friends, so in a future order from Endalyon, I added another set of objectives and two more sets of lamps and sewers (the two-packs this time). There are seven of these total The first thing I painted for the game awhile back was that original set of objectives. Next I started in on the lamps and sewer tokens. I'd planned on leaving the sewer tokens without bases but once the lamps were painted something just didn't seem right, so I ended up basing everything. It works fine and they look decent enough. It's tough doing something interesting with plain old manhole covers. They look alright on the table, but strike me as a touch boring really...although they did photograph rather nicely. ...

I've posted a few times about Incursion  by Grindhouse Games . The campaign offered up some excellent looking figures and an update to a game I quite like. They (as most campaigns do) got caught with shipping and production delays, but things are finally here. It was a bit of surprise as I hadn't received any shipping notification. That's certainly not worth complaining about. Good job on getting the game out to backers folks! The box for the core game is massive and has a ton of stuff inside. With all the stretch goal zombies we got there is something like five dozen  zombies to use in your games. The Snafu expansion box isn't quite as large as the core game, although it is still a rather hefty package. Both boxes contain a copy of the new submarine tile as well as the new 'Assets' book. It's nice to see that all the extra items come in a standard size box with a nice tray. I've put the extra dice into the other boxes, but otherwise haven'...