Paint Table Saturday 22/02

Had fairly good week painting wise Bio Chem troopers, Alien Drones and Queen all based and finished. Hasslefree Jess was completed as well (Pics tomorrow). I wanted to start my troll this week and may still do so but I need to pop into my local LGS and get a suitable base for it so it will match up with my other fantasy themed figures. I've dug out some more unfinished bits to have a go at. Mainly a few Otherworld Miniatures Adventurers some Kiss Kiss Bang Bang miniatures from Artizan and Copplestone and a Crooked Dice conversion of a suave spy I started and then stopped painting.

Not sure about the predators yet I might do 3-4 every few weeks or so. My inability to paint large quantities of samey looking figures has kicked in after the drones and the first batch of predators. I may try working on one a week to get some of them done.

Copplestone Castings Bio Chem Troopers

Been a good week on the painting front. Managed to finish off a fair few bits here and there.

First up the Bio Chem Troops. I painted these way back in July 2011! The original first post is here.
At the time I wasn't sure how I was going to base them so left it off for a bit. until nearly 2 and 1/2 years later lol they are finally done.

There was a bit of damage here and there so I touched up the paint jobs and cleaned up some of the highlighting nothing major really. These will be useful for all sorts from zombie hunting to Alien incursions and of course Post Apocalyptic gaming as government troops from a hidden vault.

Crooked Dice Tweedy Mattison

Doctor who is not really my thing and so when I picked up the set from Crooked Dice it was mainly for the lovely policewoman figure to use with my 'Not' Hot Fuzz Characters from Hasslefree miniatures. They look a bit naff in comparison now to how much better my miniatures turn out these days. I may go back and strip them perhaps at some point and redo them.

Anyway this has meant he been put by the wayside as a bit. But mooching around for something to inspire me after Christmas I started work on Tweedy. Finished him off last week adding the last few highlights and then the base took some pics in bit of dry weather Saturday afternoon. He'll come in handy for 7TV as he comes under the Department X cast so he can Join Hugo Solomon and Miss Pandora King.

The Alien drones are based and finished but I've forgot I need to satin varnish them so they'll get done and photo'd again for the weekend doh!

Across the Dead Earth Painted Figs

The guys over at Across the Dead Earth have received there first batch of metals from the casters and they've been sent over to Artificer Miniature Painting to get them a coat of paint. 

Here are the first pics on a most amazing looking table built by the guy behind Artificer miniature painting.

Reggie member of 'The Family'.

Fatboy member of 'The Red Claw' gang.

Crimson Mercenary Fighter.

http://www.deadearth.co.uk/

Excitingly the next set of Beta rules are due to be sent out for us to look at tomorrow so I'll be re-reading and creating some of my own gangs later in the week.

Painting Table Saturday 15/02/14

Been a busy few weeks with birthdays and free time spent playing games rather than painting. This weeks there's been some progress and stuff has moved from the paint table to finished! YaY Hopefully If his dam weather give me a break and the sun come out i'll take some pics of what I've finished off.

Some will wait for a bit longer as I've entered them into a competition over at Dropship Horizon the Titanium Dropship 2014 

Miniatures currently awaiting paint this week are 6 Copplestone Future Wars Bio Chem troopers now these where done a few ears back but I never got round to doing the bases. So a few months back I did the putty work and now they are just awaiting to be painted to fit in with my other figs. Should be quick job and varnish and done.

Being in the Post Apocalyptic mood lately and not wanting to spend money on new lead just yet I have dug out some figs to paint as I'm in the mood. Hasslefree Jess has been started (again after being stripped due to the varnish incident last year) just undercoated white and basecoat of flesh. Finally new to the table is Katana Kate from EM4 miniatures sent to me kindly by Lord Siwoc many moons ago she's finally receiving paint though i'll need to putty her base.

The shuttle needs more work building it up I've undercoated it black to see if it helps with making my mind up what to do with the back end of it.........though it hasn't helped lol

Across the Dead Earth Advanced Gameplay Video

Good morning all I'd hope to post this yesterday however work and time conspired against me.

Anyhow here is the Advanced game play video it explains some of the features I mentioned my battle reports previously a lot better. 








For more info about the game please visit the website there is some awesome background for the various factions its well worth the visit.

http://www.deadearth.co.uk/

Across the Dead Earth Game Test Game 2 Part 2

Welcome to the second part of Sunday's game report I posted which the first part can be found here.

Hopefully we'll be able to see some of the figures in the metal soon! Can't wait to see them the greens (greys) looked great!

Theres some new factions put up on the site this week. The background for the characters are a lot fun I'm not 100% sure the are going to make it into the final cut but I can really recommend going to have a read. Click the names to read more.

The Murder of Crows.

The Sisters of Acquistion.

My Favourite themed gang so far.

The Engineer's Guild Forward Expeditionary Squad.

http://www.deadearth.co.uk/

Onto the rest of the battle report. The first part had both gangs advancing towards each other taking cover and in turn 3 had started to engage each other.

Turn 4.
Rolling for initiative the Family retain the advantage.

 Skylar pulls the pin out of a nade with her teeth and lobs it in a gentle arc towards the two Red claws getting on target sadly the charge must of been weak as it did nothing but blow hot air and dirt over the two lucky fighters!

 Pyro seeing an opportunity to use his flame thrower runs up and sprays the ruins that Skylar is sheltering in catching her in the burning liquid and knocking her out. (Flamethowers are deadly!)

 Adam moves upto the hedge and levels his shotgun at Shrimp and takes careful aim blowing her onto her back and knocking her out.

 Shayman moves into cover and lets a blast off at Ezra with his shotgun but the ruins absorb all the pellets and the shot misses.

 Ezra returns fire at Shayman but is cheated in turn by the stonework he is sheltering behind.

 Drezyl takes careful aim at Pyro standing out in the open sighting down his guns optics hitting Pyro but the bullet pings off Pyro's helmet and fails to cause any damage.

 Ronnie moves up and fires off a few bursts at Ezra from his smg the shots pattering off the ruins but not achieving anything besides making Ezra duck.

 Reggie moves over to the prone Topper and sticks his size 10's in to no effect and Topper just grunts and remains unconscious.

Turn 5

Drexyl takes a deep breath and aims down his rifle at Pyro blowing him on to his back.

Fatboy charges into combat with Ezra but is unable to gain the upper hand.

Reggie has had enough off stomping on Topper draws his knife and plunges it into his chest. Finally removing him from the fight.

Shayman moves over to Pyro and stabs him with some sort of home-made drug concoction bringing out of unconsciousness. 

Adam moves over to Shrimp fires off a round from his pistol putting her out of her misery.

Pyro moves upto Skylar and putting his boot on her windpipe crushes the life out of her.

Ezra hefts his machete and swings it at Fatboy striking him but failing to cause any lasting wounds. 

Ronnie realising how exposed he is in the open moves into cover and orders Shayman to do the same.
Turn 6.

Turn 5 was by far the bloodiest turn so far with people being knocked out and 2 Red claws and 1 member of the Family being killed and removed from play. Initiative stayed with the Family.

 The scrap between Fatboy and Ezra comes to its conclusion with Ezra slashing Fatboy across the leg taking him down.

 Ronnie uses all his actions to spray large amounts of bullets from his SMG but fails to cause any hits!

 This flank now secure Reggie legs it over towards the sound of fighting on the other side of the farm.

Pyro lets rip at Ezra with flamethrower but Ezra is lucky and only slightly singed!

 Drexyl moves to the opposite side of the chimney draws abead on Pyro again and loose off a burst from his assault rifle knocking him out.

Shayman tries to revive Pyro but is unable to wake him up.

Adam climbs back over the hedge and sprints into the base of the tower following Reggie.


Turn 7 
Iniative stays with the family as they tide is well and truly turned on the Redclaws in turn 6 as they begin to drop like flies!

Ignoring the unconcoius Fatboy Ezra seeing a chance for survival levels his shotgun over the ruins and loose off a blast at Shayman taking him down.

Ronnie sure his smg barrel is bent or something decides to go hit Ezra with it instead. Ezra obviously all keyed up from the life and death struggle gains the upped hand but fails to cause a wound on Ronnie.

Adam moves closer towards the struggle between Ezra and Ronnie.

Shayman tries to use his Physcian Heal thyself skill to get himself back into the fight but remains KO'd

Reggie moves up with Adam to support his comrades.

Drezyl tries a shot at the prone Shayman but misses.

Ronnie concedes the fight at this point as most of his gang are out of action and seeing how outnumbered he has become.

Game After Thoughts

Another great game the event cards didn't play much in this game as the opportunities to play them didn't quite happen at the correct moment but that's the luck of the draw!

The game got quite bloody quite fast. I'm not sure how the killing of people will work in a campaign game as yet. I think its a bit to final.

Later this week I'm going to have a crack of creating a couple of fledgling gangs and we'll get some games going and see what occurs.

I'm looking forward to the next beta release as there are some new toys in there!