Dreadfleet - Part 2

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As well as all of those rather fine looking ships, the Dreadfleet box includes all the scenery and accessories that you need to play the game.  It's all well made and easy put together.  The only downside I think is that they've gone totally overboard with the skulls; but hey, that's what is to be expected from Games Workshop!

Some of the islands:

Giant turtle skeleton:

Cogs and auxilliaries:

Accessories (I'm rather pleased how these turned out):

Sea monster:

Dragon:

Sea monster (not so happy with this one):

Another sea monster:

Scenic scatter items:

And finally the trophies:

Overall it was quite a nice break from the sobre colour schemes of the 1930s that have dominated the last few months.  It was rather fun to break out the bright colours for a change.  I'm looking forward to seeing how this game plays though.  It looks good, I hope it plays as well as it looks!

Dreadfleet - Part 1

It seems like forever since I painted anything historical or alternative historical as what little painting time I have had has gone on painting up Dreadfleet.  Hopefully I'll give the game a go at some point in the next couple of weeks.  In the meantime, here are the ships - I'm reasonably happy with the paint jobs, it was quite refreshing to be able to go bright on the colours rather than feeling obliged to stick to the rather sombre pallette of the 1930s:

The Bloody Reaver:

The Heldenhammer:

The Flaming Scimitar:

The Shadewraith:

The Swordfish:

The Curse of Zandri:

Grimnir's Thunder:

The Black Kraken:

The Seadrake:

Skabrus:

 

On to part 2 - the rest of the box contents













Why it's been quiet . . . . .

Sorry I've been so quiet recently.  By way of explanation I was fortunate enough to have a copy of Dreadfleet come into my possession.  This has mean that there has been a very noticeable break in my VBCW output.  However, I am half way through the last ship of Dreadfleet.  Photos will follow soon.  Then it will be back to 1938!

Gaz 98 Aerosan Part Two

Well, it's taken me an absolute age to get round to painting this vehicle.  I'm reasonably pleased with the results, it should be pretty fun to play with - incredible straight line speed and the turning circle of an oil tanker me thinks!

A fine year of beer!

I can't remember where this chap came from, I think it was a limited edition from Warlord.  I just love how characterful this chap is.

The Percy Hunt - part 3

Every hunt needs a fox.  I need a camera with a better macro!

The Percy Hunt - part 2

I've had this particular project ongoing for ages now.  Tonight I finally finished painting them.

Not the best paint job that I've ever done and definitly not the best modelling that I've ever done!  It just goes to prove that you should never attempt conversions or using green stuff after a few too many glasses of port!

Yes that is a flock of sheep in the background that I'm working on.

Northumbria Police

These are some of the miniatures that came into my possession after getting thoroughly carried away at Border Reiver 2011 despite setting firm spending limits before I left home!  Unfortunately I've been away with work a lot over the last few weeks and so not had time to get much painting done.  Anyway, here a few of the Policemen that I bought from Reiver Castings.  I've also got a unit of their Police cavalry to paint as well.  Very good value for money and they paint up better than the bare lead suggests.  I will be making decals for the helmets as soon as my new printer arrives.

They still need texture to be added to their bases but unfortunately I'm away with work again a lot over the next 2-3 weeks.

Great War Miniatures Character Pack

I ordered these chaps a few weeks ago after failing to secure the rather fine motorbike mounted signaller from a fellow on the Gentleman's Wargame Parlour.  I think that these are lovely miniatures and have done what I can to make them live up to their sculpting.  The sniper will probably be employed as a Ghillie for Lord Percy's Peasant Shooting Party but all the others will probably be involved with my Regular or Territorial forces.  I still need to add texture to the bases but other than that the only thing left to do is learn how to take photos that look any good as my current macro use leaves rather a lot to be desired!

Motorbike Despatch Rider

The Padre:

The Sniper or Ghillie

The Football Player:

The Officer (converted head):



Celebrating the winnings! (Warlord miniatures not part of the Great War Miniatures character pack).

The Percy Hunt

It's been two weeks since I went crazy at Border Reiver and bought loads of new miniatures at Border Reiver and then promptly went away with work for a fortnight and didn't get to do anything with them.  Still this evening whilst bored of unpacking I decided to make a start on the Percy Hunt which will form part of Lord Percy's Peasant Shooting Party. 

I've taken militia cavalry from Reiver Castings and will be converting their rifles to shotguns (far more gentlemanly) and adding riding hats to some of them.  Here's the first one off the press, not entirely happy with the hat yet but will keep working at it.  Plus these things have a habit of looking better once painted:

IRA Characters by Musketeer

I rather like these miniatures, but that's no suprise as I like pretty much everything by Musketeer!  I'm not sure which faction these guys will get used for, probably either the Ashington Coal Collective or the Anglican League for the chap in uniform.

Brigands from Musketeer

I really like these miniatures.  I'm not sure which faction they'll end up in except for a couple of them that are pretty obvious.

The Colonel, a crusty staff officer during the Great War he thinks that wearing a fur around his shoulders and his staff officers red tabs is all that it takes to command men.

The random fascist officer.

Some of the brigand boys:

Gaz 98 Aerosan Part One

Last week Warlord Games (well the Royal Mail) delivered my Gaz 98 Aerosan.  Whilst I was rather tempted to start an entirely separate Soviet force that had nothing to do with VBCW I couldn't resist the temptation to convert this into something that resulted from some Armstrong-esque Geordie genius. 

Sadly this meant that a diecast vehicle had to die.  No pun intended.

The bumper was added as an afterthought as hey, it'll probably be needed as this vehicle will no doubt have an appalling turning circle and the best speed ever in a straight line;  mind you, with only a single LMG to strike with it's impact on the battlefield is likely to be limited!

More pics to follow once I get this chap painted.

British Militia by Musketeer

Part of my wet weekend has been spent on my British Militia.  I'm not sure what they're going to be called, my current favourite is the Longhoughton Defence Volunteers.  The only concern is that the village would have been too small back then to have enough men to form a militia.

The Boys team:

The commander:

The bomber and the Sergeant:

The messenger on his roller skates and a petrol bomb armed chap:

I really must get round to designing and printing the logos for this and my other factions.  I'm going to print the logos onto decal paper to make the armbands.  I just keep finding other more interesting things to do first!

VICTORIAN HOUSEHOLD STAFF

Another wet weekend has meant loads of painting.  Here's the Victorian household staff that I got with the steam tanks from Ironclad.  I really like these miniatures.