Playing games with the class

I was playing a much simplified ad libbed dungeon crawl game with some of the kids from my class. They loved it! They worked together really well to overcome the problems I threw at them

The party demolished the troll and his kobold minions.

Of course, the children were most interested in the beasties I'd brought in.

School resources lend themselves well to playing role playing games!

Perhaps I'll see if a tabletop games club is viable in future.

Converted and painted mantic and reaper skeletons and zombies

I quickly painted up plenty of the low-level undead I had floating around my reaper box, and bits box. Like the zombies, I'm trying to get a bank of commonly fought, low level enemies. Sure, painting a great big demon is fun, but I've never even played in a game that got high enough level to need the miniature.

The undead are stationed at Disneyland

Zombie magic user and zombie dance troupe

Spell slinger with skellingtons

Bits: CSM nurgle banner, mantic elves

A lot of the skeletons are just mantic elves with head swaps for small skulls.

Flame is a fiddly bit from the end of a chainsword.

The grass tufts are by army painter.

Trying to vary the reaper bones duplicated with hot water and paint jobs.

Quick and dirty paintjobs for a slow and dirty monsters. It was kind of fun, but I might make them less sloppy at some point. But probably not soon.

Mantic and Reaper Bones Skeletons, and Space Hulk

Painted up some more Reaper Bones miniatures and some Mantic Skeletons. The Reaper Bones ones were a bit of a pain to base because of the 'broccoli' base they come with (I don't know why they're called broccoli bases, they taste nothing like it).

I have some Mantic Skeletons after mistakenly stealing a sprue of them from a Mantic stall a few years ago. They're nice to paint, and much cheaper than the GW equivalent. If I were a Fantasy player I'd run a horde of these things along with their zombies.

I also got a game called 'Space Hulk' and am trying to convince the GF to play it.

Later, I took the rulebook to the beach just to take this next silly picture:

Making chocolate chaos warrior with Oyumaru

Pretty slapdash attempts, but you get the idea. Oyumaru is non toxic, so could be used to create interesting cake display items. I used http://www.magic-choc.co.uk/

Popping the warrior out of the oyumaru mould. I've not been very careful today, if I was taking it seriously I'd have been much more delicate about the whole thing. Note; chocolate won't be able to take much handling without damage to the detail, so you absolutely must hold the chocolate with tweezers when trimming off excess.

Baaa

A lego minifig.

Uh, Toad... What is that Chaos Warrior doing?

The Gangnam style dance? Limbo dancing?

As you can see, this brand of chocolate won't stay standing for long in a warm environment. That's not to say a more robust brand of chocolate wouldn't fare better. Perhaps one day I'll experiment.

Painted Dwarf Lord, Cannon and Crew

Dwarf Lord from the Battle for Skull Pass boxed set, on ebay.


Dwarf Cannon and Crew, painted and for sale on ebay. Includes pictured terrain piece.

Mum's Chaos Warriors

Really late with this one, but soon after paintintg her first miniature, An Ogre, my Mum had a go at a unit. She liked the look of some mauve Chaos Warriors on a website, and this unit of Slaaneshi baddies was the result.

More BFSP minis

More BFSP minis, Dwarves this time;





And a unit of Night Goblin Spearmen. As usual, all of them are for sale.

Battle for Skull Pass Goblins

Finished a sizable chunk of the Goblin Army.





I know I could highlight the black robes grey, it'd improve their finish, but I feel I've spent enough time with these chaps. I'm so ready to do something new.



However, it is satisfying to see several units together, all with the same colour scheme. When I put them all together I almost wanted to keep them instead of selling them on ebay in a few days.






I like the funky lil mushrooms that pop up here and there.



The Goblin Boss's pet Squig had a big enough eye to pop the added detail of a 'glint' of white, something that I've recently been trying to add.

WIP: Giant Skelly thing

A few years ago I was given some Hangman sets. Instead of drawing a man, if your opponent guessed incorrectly you would add a piece of the skeleton hanging from the post.

I built a bone giant for the Tomb Kings army out of the last kit, and this time I'm thinking I'll go for something to ride the wave of the latest army release for the hobby; Daemons.

When the damned (hurr) thing's set I'll invest in some greenstuff and raid the bits box, to create something suitably putrescent.

Mordheim: Undead

Yesterday I received an email out of the blue from a man in Holland asking if my Mordheim warband was for sale. He'd found pics from 18 months ago on the Librarium-Online forum, but they were long gone. We had a good chat about his campaigns, ending with me missing the game, and impulse-bidding on a load of Necromunda lots on Ebay that I shouldn't have.

Here are some pics of that warband. Some are a bit slapdash, but I was only fundraising. As such, the gang were never played with before being sold, like last month's Possessed Warband.



The Vampire Leader was the standard Mordheim mini, who is too short to be imposing; if I was ever to have another I'd boost his base. The Necromancer and Hero Ghoul (having received a 'Lad's Got Talent' increase') are iffy conversions; an old Daemonette of Slaanesh with zombie arms instead of pincers, and a Necromancer composed of Brettonian Man-at-Arms body with some Mordheim bitz. Apologies for those Green Hill Zone bases. That box of Brettonians went towards several cheap Spellcaster conversions for Mordheim and Dungeons and Dragons.



All of the Dreg miniatures I have seen are humans with something amiss, usually an an Igor-hunch. For this Dreg I used a Dwarf body to get a weird posture.



Ghouls. I really liked the previous Ghoul miniatures, and I think they're much more disturbing than the new plastics. I included an Ogre Mercenary with the Warband, as another fast mover to support the Dire Wolves and Vampire should they race off ahead:



From the GW site:
"Mercenaries beyond peer, Maneaters have spent decades accruing scars, tall tales, wealth, and exotic weapons before travelling back to the tribe from which they came. As Ogres tend to inherit culture rather than pioneer it, Maneaters typically dress in the style appropriate to the lands in which they fought during their mercenary career"

I decided that it might be fun to have an Ogre that had imprinted onto the Ghouls. The Gut plate received a Skeleton Warriors shield boss, a severed leg from the zombie spru in his right hand made a tasty snack, and an axeblade was made from plasticard and attached to an unused Standard Bearer arm. I took a head with a long moustache and repositioned the jaw between the tips to make a distended maw. A cocktail stick extended the nose, and the upper teeth where taken from an Imperial shield boss (the previous, frilltastic plastic set):



The Necromancer operates an Equal-Opportunities policy when recruiting zombie henchmen. A motley group of zombies of different races.



Human zombie:



Dwarf Zombie:





Zombie pillaged from Advanced Heroquest:



Goblin Zombie:



Not the so easy to show as dead, so I just lopped an arm off and poked an eye out.

Skaven Zombie:





The whole gang was inspired by one component: the Skaven skull. This one was my favourite.

I'm sure I'll give non-human zombies a go again in the future. As well as the Mordheim range which includes a zombie Sister of Sigmar, and others, I could also splash out on some minis from the Dogs of War Regiment of Renown 'The Cursed Company', which includes a skeletal lizardman, skaven, orc, goblin, dwarf and high elf. I would also give a Beastman zombie a go, as there is a bovine skull in the (Tomb Kings) skeleton box set. For a more involved project someone might get inspiration from one of the troll skulls used as markers in the Battle for Skull Pass boxed set.