Goliath Reinforcement - Basing

HI everyone!

Hope you are having a nice weekend!

Today I am finally able to post some (unfortunately quite crappy) pictures of the new reinforcements that I am preparing for my Necromunda Goliath gang. If you remember my first game where I had quite some casualties, you understand the need for new men! Fresh meat with strong muscles and (yet) no fear to face the dangers of the underhive...

Unfortunately, two guys are missing here because I already took them to my girl friends place to paint them...

CYA!

Damned ones of gluttony - Unboxing and basing

Hi again,

what could be a better way to restart  than with a gift from a very nice friend?! Many thanks again for these two ugly guys and big regards to Texas!

So these sweet couple, the damned ones of gluttony, from Hell Dorado are now produced by Cipher Studios and available again for everyone with a slight "nuglish" taste... ;-)
Since I saw the interpretation by Jarhead on CMON, I knew I had to have these one day myself! And one trip to Texas and a nice visit later, here they are! ;-)

So let's unbox!

The miniatures come in a really high-quality paper box with two game cards as well. As you can see, the fat guy has to be assembled while the slim one only needs his tongue glued...


One thing that annoyed me quite a bit at both miniatures is a prominent mold line running straight through the highly detailed faces of both minis!

Even worse, there is a slight displayement between both sides, which makes it really problematic to fix this. Regarding the awesomes sculptes and otherwise superb details of these miniatures, I hope I only had bad luck with my box! Would be a pity if this occurs more often...
However, I did my best with some little cutters...


Then, assembling the fat one...

As you can see (hopefully on this aweful pics), the pieces do not match together very well and quite some gaps remain...

But hey! There is nothing you cannot fix with some green stuff! ;-)

And here they are based already!

Since, I am totally into Warhammer 40k (and Nurgle in particular), I decided for sci-fi styled bases (sorry all you Hell Dorado fans out there! I am sure that world is also awesome :-)) In any case, I only did very simple bases using mainly these hexagon building kits. I think the minis themselves will draw quite some attention, so no need for too much fanciness on the bases. ;-)


Finally, black priming followed with zenithal white prime and voila! Ready to be painted...

But not until next time! :-)

"Happy new year!" I am still alive...

... and work took all my time! Well, this is not exactly true because since my last post I have finally a place again to call my home, and it took some time to get settled in -- here in Bonn, the good old capital of Germany...

The good news is that now I have a lot of space for my hobby!

My "working" desk:

 My cabinet with some finished and current projects...

And two little cabinets with my collection of metal miniatures (waiting to be painted one day)...

My hobby shelf...

With inspirational books and magazines....

A bits collection...

And some (plastic) reinforcements (in case I ran out of metal miniatures ;-))

So as you can see the conditions are perfect to finally get restarted and going again with our beloved hobby!

Cheeers!

First Necromunda (test) game

Hi all,

first of all, my excuses for my long absence on this blog. Work, travel, moving and changing "companies" do not leave any time for the hobby at the moment...

However, my friend and me managed to find a couple of hours in between to first get some black and brown priming (spray) onto our Necromunda terrain and then...

play the first (test) game of Necromunda with complete and newly created gangs (me Goliaths, him Delaque) using the new Necromunda terrain (and some of my old stuff from Warhammer 40k). The scenario was randomly selected -- and very suitably -- a Gang Fight, the first encounter between two fresh and green gangs who explore the surrounding slags...

Thick smelly fog wafts through the rusty and crumbled industrial complexes that lie ahead of either gang. They do not know yet what will expect them on this dim "day" in the Hive. Carefully they move forward through the steel forest     exertively listening to every sound in the ghostly silence...

The amount of action following in the next hours made me forget to take any further pictures...
Just a couple of highlights:
- The most massive Goliath ganger, Mutant Joe, fell from a height of 6 inch and hit the poor juve  Basti, who was squashed to death by the weight of Joe, while the latter remained completely unharmed. He just fled because his fellow ganger, Klaus, panicked and ran away when he saw how Basti was splattered...
- A heroic juve from the Delaques managed to kill a completely covered Goliath ganger in one shot (7+) -- with a stub gun! Only after he pinned even the Goliath heavy, this crude weapon malfunctioned...
- Before that the Goliath heavy, Sigi, used his heavy stubber to sieve one of the Delaque gangers while the latter was crossing a bridge. The poor Delaque did never recover from these wounds...

With two people dead and one crippled the Goliath Leader decided to bottle out in the last minute before his whole gang would have been beaten up. What a first (test) game...

Necromunda - Terrain Slam - 4th with sand'n'dirt!

Dear all,

yesterday my friend an me managed to meet for the last hobby day in the next weeks (for me because I will travel to Japan for one month). While he was making a small experiment with one of the toy cars that I managed in one of the last posts...

... I managed to put some final details to my piece of terrain (sorry for the blurry pics!):

With this, we have finished construction of a total of 6 buildings. That  should be enough for some first small skirmishes! However, before that, we still have to finish off these terrain, namely some "dirtying" and finally painting...

First the dirtying: by this I mean adding some sand'n'dust to the corners and bases of the buildings. For this purpose, I mix the following together:

1. some earth from the garden (foreground, you can sort out the biggish pieces)
2. some sand/dirt from a city construction site (left bag)
3. some super-fine decoration sand (middle)
4. cheap black acrylic color (for painting inside walls, middle-right)
5. wood glue (rightish, Ponal)
6. water (green pot on the right)

One has to experiment a pit to hit the right consistency... also I dries out quite fast, so adding some water during longer sessions might be necessary.
One word of WARNING: if you try this at home be aware that the sand in this mixture screws your paint brush! So use only old brushes. The harder its hairs, the better...

And then apply!

This is how it looks after drying:

Cheers!