Fred's 2014 Painting Diary

[fsn]

Yers. I crayoned it for him myself!

Pretty colours and everything.

Even signed it.

Put in a picture of a housey too.

Only charged a fiver.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Er - its Typed and Roneod...no crayon or housesy anywhere.

IanS 

[fsn]

Maybe it wasn't you. 

Do you want one with a housey on it?

Or a horsey?  

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

THE PILLS, THE PILLS.



IanS

[fred.]

I a (probably vain) attempt to return to the topic...

Painted up 3 units of WM Empire knights over the weekend - some that had come in a big box of stuff on eBay. I couldn't be bothered with stripping all the old paint, so went with the basic colours used by the previous owner, and just tidied up a few bits, and gave them a heavy black wash to give some depth - came out not bad for a fairly modest input of time.

No photos as they are still on the table at my mate's as we did a huge Easter Monday game - that (as always) was bigger than the time available - might have a picture of the game later once I have sorted though them a bit.

[fred.]

Our Easter Big Game - 12000pts a side, undead / araby alliance escorting the wagons of golden eggs along the road. While a similar amount of Imperial forces try to wrest control of the eggs! Rules are a bastard hybrid of KoW using brigade activation and multi-side fighting.

This is late in the afternoon, as the Imperial forces struggle to get enough mass on the table to break through to the road - while the first few eggs are very near leaving the table.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those Rok eggs are very hard to shift I gather! Looking good Fred!

[paulr]

Love the scenario

[fred.]

The scenario - was a good idea, but I don't think I got it quite right. The attackers were coming on a brigade at a time, needing 2 or less on first turn, 3 or less on second, etc. This made their deployment too piecemeal - on my side of the table, we still have 3 brigades to deploy, and I think 2 on the far side. This meant that the defenders were able to deal with the attackers in detail.

I don't think it would need much to rebalance it - either half the attackers on turn 1, the rest on turn 2, or a higher chance of a brigade coming on. As always with these things its only once the stuff is on the table, people want changes, despite having had the the scenario for a week in advance.

[Techno]

Looks like enormous fun !
Cheers - Phil

[GordonY]

Love the table, looks cool.

[Hertsblue]

Ah, someone else who's not put off by the hexes. Looking good, Fred.

[Leman]

Looks very impressive. Still owe you a message reply, but a couple of weddings coming up and other stuff going on as well. Will be in touch.

[fred.]

If anyone wants to have a look there are lots more photos here  https://picasaweb.google.com/114091746313103705211/Easter2014BigGame?authuser=0&feat=directlink

The hexon isn't mine - I don't mind it, especially now Vos has added the brown panels, that help break the colour up alot. There are two problems with it, the hills are really rather low (even with 10mm figures) and dice are always getting cocked in the edges.

DP - no worries things are pretty busy here too.

[petercooman]

Nice game!

I use the hexons for naval stuff, works nice!