Monday 9 March 2015

YouTubing Warmahordes

Hi All,

Merry Tuesday! You still have 3 more painful work days to go, congrats!

I would like to share the gameplay videos I watch to help improve how I play.

Rules

Party Foul - Great "how to" videos, explanations of various mechanics of the game including terrain explanations! and dealing with not so great aspects of the game... losing.
Gaming with The Cooler - does a great explanation for new players

Battle Reports

Miniwargaming - Camera work is a bit wobbly, games are not sped up and sometimes can get rules wrong.
Chain Attack - Stable camera, games not sped up, loud background noise, not always good explanations and commentary can go off topic.
Advanced Maneuvers - Stable Camera, SPED UP, the players explanations are dubbed over meaning that there is rarely any background noise.
Gaming with The Cooler - Camera work is a bit wobbly, games are not sped up and sometimes can get rules wrong.

Tuesday 3 March 2015

Certified for Import into North America Part 1

January 29, 6:30am we leave for Sydney...
...12.30pm leave Sydney for Vancouver...
6:30am arrive in Vancouver same day and press on to Toronto!
After over 26 hours of travel back a couple of months, this was the view from our hotel in Toronto. By all accounts it was a warm night (-4 degrees).
And in the light of day it drops to -11 degrees
#can'tfeelmyface



 Surviving the Canadian winter cold, we venture off FOR BEER AND POUTINE!

Erinn no function beer well without :)
and we eated it all...

Being as Canadian as possible, Jamie "Northblade" Bell of Lost Hemisphere was most generous and hooked us up with Lacrosse tickets for the Toronto Rock vs Calgary Roughnecks. Totes appreciated, Bell! Our host for the evening was the awesome John "Steady" Steadman whose enthusiasm and love for the game was just so damn infectous. 

Half-time with cheerleaders or somethin'
Packed up and out of Toronto after the weekend and suddenly a wild Gdaybloke of the Lost Hemisphere appears! After a huge lunch and a tour of Burlington, we head to the FLGS for games.
shiny-head.jpg
Turning the cold and Canadian-ness up to 11, we hit the Falls.
not pictured, piss stained snow and ice...seriously who'd whip it out here?
aaand high fiving bears...
for reasons.
At last, we were on the road to Rhode Island! TempleCon madness coming up next week so stay tuned goddamit.
"I am the Highway" not sorry :P

Monday 2 March 2015

I'm Back - Finally Finished

Well I am back in Australia and back to painting.  It has been almost a year since I finished a model and about a year since I first started this Reckoner.  It was one of those models that I just couldn't get to look the way I wanted it to.I couldn't get the shading right, I couldn't get the metals right, I was just so frustrated I kept putting it down and looking on it. I even painting the fulcrum between starting the Reckoner and finishing it.  it came out alright in the end, still looks messy to me but I am not going to torture myself over it anymore.

I still have to paint, mark and furnish the base.



Unleashed - Painting Review

Hey Guys,

Lokius has the Unleashed box set! I was pretty excited to see this first hand and before it is available to the masses. Something that is quite rare for us Aussies.

This set has so many models from PP and have mixed with RPG. Where could they go wrong?

This is a write up of my impressions of the Unleashed models.



1. They come with no assembly required.

Pro:

  • No assembly

Con: 

  • They are already on the base, making it hard to paint underneath. Also it makes it hard to paint the areas behind weapons.

Note: 

  • Still requires "greenstuffing", there was still a sizeable gap on some of the minis
  • Also still requires cleaning of mold lines. And there is ALOT of cleaning.... Also these lines just seem to fall on the worst places! Over detailed surfaces, faces ugh.



2. They are made of a different plastic to the regular PP minis.

Pro:

  • The plastic is quite flimsy and bendy, this makes it easy to... pull an axe away from the rest of the mini to paint underneath
  • Nearly impossible to have pieces snap off

Con:

  • Even with a primer, the paint was really difficult to brush on! Even when painting straight from the pot, it pooled and didn't stick properly (when I airbrushed the minis this was less of an issue)
  • Soft plastic made it harder to clean

Note:

  • Needed a very sharp blade to clean the minis as you basically have to carve rather than scrape. 
  • Airbrush = awesome


3. The detailing on these minis was appalling in my opinion, when painting the player characters I ran into a multitude of issues. "The Chief" being the worst... the edges are not crisp, one sleeve was completely forgotten it was flat with no folds and just kind of... ended, the whelp had weird legs that made no sense also the face on the whelp appeared to be the play-dough face a 5 year old could make (two dents and a denty curve, kindof), the axe kind of just melded into the skirt with me having to draw a line where one starts and the other ended on both the shaft and the head. Suffice to say I was not at all impressed with the detail!



Painting these minis is arduous at best and I would not recommend it without an airbrush. Good luck cleaning the minis without compromising detail, and managing the areas blocked by weapons or bases is near impossible. I didn't enjoy painting these and was disappointed the quality of the minis was not up to the regular PP standards (ignoring pGrissel of course.)

I will do a picture dump at a later date of miniatures I have painted.