Archive for September, 2011

Simon

Mangler

This 'jack has been half finished on my painting table for a while now.  For some reason I just wasn't enjoying putting paint on him and progress was painfully slow.  Even once I got rolling on him this week and he was almost done I was still looking past him to other projects.... 

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TKKultist

Golden Demon Entries 2011 – Thunderbolt part 2

Now that the model was mostly assembled, it was time to paint!  I decided to take my inspiration from a WW2 allied "Thunderbolt" aircraft.  These planes were a shiny natural metal (alluminim?) with matte green anti glare strips painted along the top and black "invasion stripes" painted most often ... 

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On Memes and Kitties

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the internet is an interesting place. For someone like a sociologist studying a society means either reading up on your history or lots and lots of demographic cross sections. With the advent of the internet, people over here could easily communicate with people ... 

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redmanphill

Rutger Shaw

So I picked Rutger up cheap at the weekend and last night I sat and got him finished. Painting Solo's is great as they can be done very quickly and give you a nice sense of achievement. I will probably use him in my mercenary list but I need to ... 

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Wargamer on Tour

Sorsha goes to Guardcon?

Okay, so many many weeks ago I thought I would paint up a Menoth Battlebox to take to Guardcon (which is a Battlebox tournament) but things conspired against me and a general lack of enthusiasm on the brushes (at least for anything bigger than very small ships - more on that later) resulted in the ... 

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Felix

Journeyman League at Games Plus starts this Saturday

The Journeyman League is a great way to start or expand a faction in Warmachine or Hordes. You earn points for playing small point games and you earn points for painting models for your faction. There are three scoring tracks for the league and four separate awards. All points go toward ranks that you earn. So you ... 

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Tinman_XL

Warlands Gameplay Mechanics

At the 2011 SoCal Smackdown I caught up with Tony Kenealy of Aberrant Games, and we talked more about the game Warlands. A post-apocalyptic miniature wargame inspired by movies such as Mad Max, Warriors of the Wasteland and countless others.

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TheGreatBlah

Trollkin War Wagon Speculation

Being afflicted by a healthy dose of speculative energy, here at the Scrum we often ponder the mysteries of the IK universe. This happens with increased frequency shortly before the release ... 

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Dean

WM: Cygnar Constance Blaize (Warcaster)

Once again it has been a few months since I lasted painted anything for Warmachine.  The last model I painted was my "Kommander Harkevich" for my 'Khador' army.Yesterday I had a little downtime so I decided to paint up "Constance Blaize" for my ... 

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gdaybloke

Clash: Vox Populi Special: MATT edition

A Tale of Tiers

Not too long ago I wrote about an upcoming regional tournament, called the Mid-Atlantic Team Tournament (MATT), that I was putting together with my fellow Pressganger, Ken Botts.  You can read about its origins here.  It’s designed to help build our regional community by bringing together groups of people that normally ... 

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