Thinking Outside the Box

August was a really productive month. Between my other half away visiting family and me sleeping even less than my usual there was a lot accomplished. Modeling / Painting - I primed the remainder of the figures I'd built for Batman Miniature Game  (18 in total) - Finished painting the original hero miniatures for Guardians Chronicles - Painted my first figures for Batman Miniature Game : uniformed cops (5 figures) - Repainted two Heroclix : Barbara Gordon and Batman Beyond . There's a custom profile card created by me on the blog, but I didn't feature Barbara. Can you spot her in last month's posts? - Completed my entire batch of Law Forces for Batman Miniature Game  with four SWAT troopers and three officers (7 figures) - Added a full set of extra walls/fences to my Garden of Morr set and got it all painted up. Construction / Terrain - I touched up a western wagon toy given me by a friend. It looks pretty good, but I'm not sure when it'll make ...

Here's a quick post to finish off the month of August. I bought the Games Workshop "Garden of Morr" several years ago, with an eye to using it for games of Strange Aeons or possibly Empire of the Dead .  Some of these pieces even made an appearance in a game or two of Batman . A few months ago I had done most of the painting required on the fences, but more recently I added an extra set of all the walls from friend who had used parts for another scenery project. Some repair work had to be done on that set, as the spikes on all of the walls had been removed. I needed some patience but was able to glue appropriate pieces back in place. Some of them look like they've been bent down or replaced. Painting was accomplished largely through dry brushing using my standard colours for stone and dirt. I did use some P3 Cryx Bane Base to give it a bit of green before painting the foliage. I opted against painting all of the roses sculpted in, I thought it would look to...

As a miniature wargamer, Mordheim is one of those games that you hear about quite often. It's like that popular movie from the 80s that everyone seems to have seen except you. What little I knew about Mordhiem before last week amounted to this: It's a fantasy skirmish game It's based on Games Workshop 's mass battle fantasy game Warhammer Fantasy Battles (you can see how they really stretched for a name on that one...) It's yet another game that people seemed to love that GW no longer supports Like some of the other specialist GW games, the rules took on a life of their own and were, for a brief time, available for free download from their website. I was given a copy of the rules and built a warband. I fully admit that I only skimmed through the book until I found the undead section, where I set about building a team based on figures I actually owned. We played a three player game last night. After only one game my overall thoughts on th...