Ian, yes the Baggage Train website could do with some updating, I only got the Roman Fort after seeing it at a show, as I couldn't really picture what it would be like from the website, and its a fair price for enough pieces to make a fort.

Friday Game
Played a 2 player, 4k a side game of KoW in 10mm. Playing distances as written in the rules, but with Warmaster sized units (which is about half the 28mm frontage) the game plays really well, even though the rules are very simple. 2 of the players were only on their second game, and 1 on his first, and we finished within 3 hours, with the Elves destroying the Mordor hordes.

Painting
Inspired by KoW I have been adding various bits to my forces - mainly big shooty bits as can be seen from the photo


Lots of Kallistra and GW stuff (sorry!) but a few bits of Pendraken, the blue headed things on artillery carriages are scratch built Dragons Head war engines, using Pendraken artillery carriages (and there are a couple of PD elves just behind them. The catapults and trebuchets are Kallistra. The really big treemen are Kallistra - these are huge about 5cm tall. Then there are Empire and Dwarf cannons at the front. The romans on the right are Pendraken to give an idea of the size of some of the tree creatures.

Terrific stuff as usual Fred.
It'll probably sound a daft thing to say, but I just 'lurve' the shade of blue you've used.
What would be a good word to describe it ?.....Vibrant ?
Cheers - Phil

Those Romans must be nervous. They weren't too happy about fighting in forests, following their experience in Germany, so mobile and militarised trees would be very unsettling.
  Do any commercial rules systems still refer to "morale tests"?

The trees may be the least of the Roman's worries.

I'm not sure that I've seen Morale Tests in those terms recently. But something similar exists in Hail Caesar and Kings of War (Break and ?Nerve tests respectively)

Phil, the blue is Vallejo Magic Blue from their Game Colour range - its pretty vibrant normally, and yesterday it was rather thin, so came out particularly shiney and bright (they aren't finished yet).

Ta Fred.
Might have to get a 'bottle' of that.
Cheers - Phil.

You can't drink it, Phil! 

You can - but it tastes terrible.

IanS 

If you drink blue paint, do you get blue wee? My smallest daughter was much more interested in eating beetroot when she thought she might get pink wee - but was never able to eat enough of the small strips in packs of salad to get to there...


Anyway.

Guns
Finished off six stands of artillery (all GW I'm afraid). And a couple of Elfy bits. (apart from dullcote)

The Dwarven canon can act as allies in KoW to a human army, and get the handy Warsmith who lets you re-roll misses, nice (and very cheesy).

In the background are the two Elven Dragon breaths - these are scratch built using Pendraken artillery carriages - still only at the block painting stage.

Playing WM tomorrow night - 2k of Araby in a four player fest. See if I can remember the rules after not playing for several months and playing lots of KoW in the interim.

Storming Fred !
Cheers - Phil.
(There is (allegedly) some 'safe' chemical you can give someone to make their wee go blue...Something medical students are supposed to slip unnoticed into their colleagues drinks, to give the victim a fright the next morning  ).

Or you can get porphyria, which I understand gives you that side effect, among others less amusing to experience.

Those Elven Dragon Breaths are funky - nice use of 40k stuff there Forbes 

(vehicle smoke launchers & Chaos weapon 'ends' if I'm not mistaken?)

Ta Nik.  I'm not certain where the bits originate from, from one of the chaps I game with (and the design was his) They are certainly plastic bitz, the two 3 prongs tubes bits are quite different but one could be a smoke launcher. I have added small bits of brass tubes to the dragons heads as well.

I recognise the 'mouths' from when I had a lovely Iron Warriors army, long-since sold (why do we do that?)

You know what I like best though? That you (and others, natch, including me) are still building armies for Warmaster (the game that changed my [wargaming] life)...how cool is that? 

Nik - while my gaming group loves its Warmaster armies and has ridiculous numbers of figures (I think over 150k points last time we added up) we are playing the Warmaster rules less and less. Personally I played lots more Hail Caesar over the last 18mts, and Kings of War recently. What is great though is that the armies based for WM are proving very versatile and playable with these nominally 28mm rule sets.

New Figures
Two small but heavy parcels at the end of this week
No 1 - lots of 6mm aircraft from Heroics and Ros - these were a christmas present from my wife, which had been delayed due to christmas holidays (and me ordering it rather late!!). I have decided to step down a scale for aircraft as the 10mm ones are rather large. By going with 6mm I was able to get ones to cover all my 10mm WWII armies - as well as gliders, tugs and dakotas for the airborne, all for £40.

No 2 - a small but important order from Pendraken - various bits to help round out my Elven and Human armies for KoW. Including lots of rock and tree creatures to round out my Forest Shamblers for the elves. I also bought the dragon rider for the Fantasy humans - which is a really nice figure, which I must photograph, as it is rather hidden in the human range (which I had always assumed was the same figures as the Medieval range).


Forest shamblers loosely arranged to check for fit. The shiney figures are Pendraken ones. Including

DN4 Rockman (the short rock creature)
DN59 Tile Golem (on a square base reaching up)
DN60 Frost Troll
AC26 Boulder Elemental
AC27 Tree Elemental

These figures have been sprayed and painted today!! Which must be some record, just over 24 hrs from door step to painted. They are just drying on their bases so no photo yet.

Forest Shamblers

Got these figures, painted and based - super fast progress!! In part due to the fairly simple dry brushed painted job.



One stand of the large Kallistra ones to do, and a single based one as the Tree Herder - which I want to customise with some extra branches to make it even taller.

FK - you may be right the Romans should be very worried - Teutoburger Wald, the trees revenge.

A question, should the biggest trees have foliage added?