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Halflings and Blood Bowl board

2011-02-08T20:42:00.001+01:00

Since finding the LAF forum I had almost forgeotten about doing updates here. I guess promising updates every saturday was setting the bar a bit high. I do however still inteend to update this site as often as I can and feel like it.

Anyway I promised you guys a look at some cool stuff so with no futher delay....

First of I would like to introduce the arena of play. The Magic Mushroom pit. Home to the Winston Big Mouths Halfling team.

MML logo

When not in play the board makes a nice wall display

This beutiful board was made by the very talented people over at CT-scenery who where kind enough to modify it to my demands :D

Turn counters also provided by CT, in the same colours as the board.

The Big Mouths are done. The team has 23 models, 22 halflings and 1 tree man.

Almost all of the figures have a number on their helmet. Fluffwise I imagne that as the Halflings tend to be....squisy they are assigned a number in the order they where recruited. Hence the higher the number the less time that player has spent on the field (I tried to get alot of 80+).

All the players are unique in that none of them share the same "body shape"/helmet/shirt combo. I also made them so that skins can play shirts If I feel like it.

The Treeman model was a joy to paint. Incredible silly but so cool...
I´m very found of the birds nest on the shoulder.

As I can only have 16 linesmen I have decide that I will use the 3 new halflings (from the latest blister) as characters.

For the next part of MML I will show you a Shadowforge Nun team to be used as amazons. All I have left is 3 mini´s and to figure out a good name for them.

Random updates

2010-11-30T22:29:00.000+01:00

Luckily I succed better in painting then updating this place, an update every saturday...Ha!
Well the ambition is to get this place going again. I got some pretty cool projects that I´ve started and hope to have finished soon and to show you here on the blogg. I´ve also made an order from the very kind people at CT-scenery (if you havn´t you MUST check them out). But I´ll keep this a secret until I know more about the progress.

Also if you live in Sweden you should check out Gamemaniacs and/or Kulturkommisariatet out as they both have special offerings for christmas (more info about this on Anatolis bloog as well as special codes that will get you a very nice special discount.

I also hope to be able to post some new film reviews within the near future, real life has taken alot of what used to be spare time so there hasn´t been much progress on that I´m afraid.

Katyn and Max Manus (and Defiance)

2010-09-26T10:24:00.000+02:00

I will be doing Sunday updates on the blogg from now on. Have been thinking about different concepts that work time wise for me (as I from about two weeks ago have somewhat limited time to paint) and also provide readers with a less random amount of updates. So from now on the blogg will be updated once a week on Sundays.

Just starting my first real job last week I decided to take a day yesterday to just watch films and relax. My local video store has had a great sale of dvd´s and I have been there looting a couple of times already.

So far I have bought:
Katyn
Good
Battle under the Orion
In Tranzit
Defiance
Max Manus

Defiance (2008)
I have seen Defiance once before and I must say that I recommend it to anybody interested in WW2 films.

The films stars Daniel Craig and I just have one word to say. Bromance. I like his acting very much and he does this role way better than any bond flick made to date.

In the film the characters are hiding in the deep forests in Belorussia. The plot follows the three Bielski brothers and their struggle for survival. Just getting food is a life/death situation and every time they leave their home in the forest camp they risk getting caught and executed. As If this weren´t enough they soon take on the task of taking care of other refugees including the old, sick and children. I won´t go into any more detail but I as I started off. I strongly recommend it to anyone with a ww2 interest.

More on Defiance can be found here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034303/

Max Manus (2008)
To start with I had no clue about Max Manus and it basically ended up here because I thought the cover was cool and I needed one more film to get a discount off two others I wanted. Sitting down and taking a closer look I relized that the movie was from Norway and delt with the underground partizan movment in Oslo during the war.

The story is told about Max Manus a sabouter working for the british intellegance sabotaging some of the biggests ships the Nazis had during the war. The fact that Max Manus indeed did exist and the way the story was told made the film really intressting and I could barley pause the film for the 2 hours it took to see.

Another film I stronlgy recommend. I´m not sure how easy it is to get outside of Scandinavia though but I would give it a go because it truley is worthwhile.

More on Max Manus can be found here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029235/

Katyn (2007)
This was the first film I saw yesterday and this was probally the film I was most excited about. Not that it was a bad movie but it was lot to take in for me as I don´t speak the language (the film is in polish) and the artistical angle taken by the director. It was very good for setting the mood, the entire film was very dark and made you go back and fourth between the lifes of the people under the soviet command and the lie´s they were told and the prison camp where the polish soilders were beeing held.

As the other films I would recommend this film but I would probally see the other films first.

More on katyn:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0879843/

For next week I will have painted my Anti-mech team for SoTR and might aslo have began painting my NKVD soldiers. Until then!

From The Motherland With Love

2010-09-07T14:39:00.001+02:00

From

Due to a freind leaving for the states for a year both painting and bloggupdates got put on hold for a short while last week.

Anyway, this models shown down below are mainly for SoTR and will be playable both as a Mecha-plutoon (see doomsday) and a regular Survivor platon (from the core rulebook). The models are from Black tree design and West Wind.



Survivor Platoon                           (51rp – support)                           Mechavaya Plutoon

Character Vasiley                  4Rp                       Character Samokhin    5Rp
Command section “1”              6Rp                       Half team             3Rp
Radio, 4SMG, Kommisar                                         Half team             3Rp
Survivor section “2”                6Rp                         Half team             3Rp
4SKS rifles, 5SMG                                                                              Full team             6Rp
Survivor section “3”                                              6Rp                         Full team             6Rp
3SKS, 5SMG, 1LMG                                             Full team             6Rp
Survivor section “4”                                              6Rp    Mechas:
3SKS, 5SMG, 1LMG                                             Scout sqaudron 1 (HMG) 5-6RP*3
Survivor section “6”                6Rp                         3 Small mechas,assu. pod., HMG
3SKS, 5SMG, 1LMG                                             Scout sqaudron 2 (Flamer) 4RP*3
Sniper team “Zaichata”           4Rp                         3 Small mechas,assu. pod.,Flamer
2 Man sniper team                                                                               Command mecha   Unknown RP
HMG section “7”                     3Rp                         Medium mecha,Twin HMG or ATgun
3 Man team                                                                                         Nayk Spider mecha
HMG section “6”                     3Rp                         Large Mecha, Per the DD rules
3 Man team
Anti armor section “5”                                          2Rp
Anti mech rifle team “0”                                        1Rp
2 Man team
Mortar Section ”8”                                               4Rp
3 Man team + spotter
Support:
Siberian Sub Humans “9”                                      4Rp
5 Man team from
3 SMG                                            0Rp
1 RPG                                             1Rp
1 Flamer                        1Rp
2 Packed LMG   (1Rp each)           2Rp
Mechas from Meachavaya Platoon if needed

The numbers next to the type of unit indicate what the bases says on the individual models in the group. As I havn´t got a Russain keyboard I won´t be recording these on the mech platoon here but you will be able to see them on the photos below.

I´m still deciding on the arment of the mechas. The Hmg mechas may be twin-linked and this would probably be what they areif you go by WYSIWYG rule. However this may be impossible to make a 50RP force with all the requirements for the force. On the other hand one might as well play 55rp battles and that would solve the problem.

Also the command mecha may or not be armed with a AT-gun. I feel that the platoon will have plenty of fast weapon platforms but lack in AT ability due to the hardest hit they can produce (without the Nayk, and lets face it it ain´t going to be played under 70RP) is Very Light AT and hence only piercing L armour. They will be deadly vs infantry but with no real AT guns tanks will have them for tea.

The regular platoon might not be the most exciting or effective force but I think the mass of models will prove fun to play with against as they really do have a "motherland" feeling to them.

So far I have completed the Mecha platoon part all but 1 half team, this will be posted with the rest of the pics as soon as they are done due to the fact that their uniforms where more similar to them.

Characters

Samokhin

Vasily

Unlike Samokhin Vasily was a real solider from WW2 and the motion picture Enemy at the gates is roughly based on his life. He is said to killed more than 225 axis soldiers during WW2.
For more info about vasily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev

Half teams

Full Teams

Group T

Group I

Group II

Survivor Sqauds

Group 4

Group 3

Group 2

Group 3

For The Motherland!

Details...
If you havn´t noticed yet I´m reusing almost every single model in both platoons. Aslo all the helmets with stars are a groups sergeant. This is also noted on the base of the mini.

So hopefully you have enjoyed this presentation of my soviet forces. I will in time get a battle report going and describe how they work in battle. Next up I will be describing the mood of SoTR and recommend and rate my top 10 favourite WW2 movies.

Help for newcomers to SoTR

2010-09-01T10:01:00.006+02:00

“This is Götterdammerung”

I would not say that I am great painter or an extremely fast painter but I think I do ok and I thought I would share with you some of the experience that might be good for a player just entering the world of SoTR (or most miniature games). This will include both handy tips “how to” and also some general advise on what one easily might overlook.

For starters

When starting your first SoTR army I would recommend watching or even better playing a game and if possible reading the rules for any nations that interest you. You will most likely need to paint about 30-50 infantry (I´d say that´s at least a good 50-100 hours in my book) and therefore you need to be comfortable with the models you need to paint. A good aid for some is to come up with fluff (that is the background story for that unit/squad).

Getting your models

West wind produces the official line of models for the SoTR range so I always recommend that you start looking at their range to see if anything fits you. They offer a couple of great blisters that will get you started more or less right out of the box (look at starter packs). A good thing is that If you don´t like their models then the friendly people at Westwind/Grindhouse are more than willing to accept stand-in models from other companies and since there are loads of 28mm WW2 companies the variation is almost endless.

However mixing different manufactures might look a bit odd as they often have different sizes of miniatures. All 28mm are not 28mm but could be 25 or even 32. But there is a good way to get around this problem and that is to look at the size guide that the SoTR forum has prepared (link provided below). This is a bit trickier than just getting the West wind blisters but with a little bit of caution and work you can avoid this mess.

Looking for inspiration

After picking your models order them and then try finding a scheme that you like. I have found that often less complicated schemes will look better as these are somewhat easier and leave me less frustrated when I don´t need to redo 50% of each model due to complicated patterns. However on characters etc I think more complicated schemes work very well and this will also provide a mental break from painting the same patterns over and over again and also challenge your painting skills.

Easy uniform (Wow, these are horrible)

Complicated patterns

I have found that a great way to find cool patterns and uniforms is to search the web for good painting guides and/or photos of real uniforms. There are plenty of good websites that can help you along with this simply by typing something along the line of “miniature painting summer camo Germans” on any search engine. Another good way is to search for videos and this can be found in masse on YouTube. There is no need for the models to exactly 28mm, I have used plenty of 15mm guides to help me and also 54mm guides may work. Trial and error is the best way to go.

There are many different ways to paint miniatures and no one is more right or wrong than the other. I´m sure that you will find plenty of inspiration and guides browsing the web so therefore I will not provide any detailed painting guide in this post. However if you spot something you like send me an email and I will be happy to make a tutorial of it.

Motivation

I would however like to give a general tip when it comes to painting and that is to not do one miniature at the time. I would recommend painting the first mini on it´s own to guarantee that you will be pleased with the end result however after that I would start painting in bulks of 2-5 models to make your progress more visible.

Another great way to booster your motivation if it lacks is to watch to WW2 documenters or listen to a good audio book (I can recommend World War Z for getting into the SoTR mood).

Basing

There is one last step that will really help your models look good something that sometimes is overlooked or skipped. Basing. Some people (like me) do this before they start painting the miniature and other wait until the paint job is done and then base it. As before nothing is more or less right but be sure to base your mini´s as this will make a huge difference on the battlefield.

Links

Finally I will share with you some of my own favourite links during the entire process of creating a SoTR army.

Models:

http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk

A great overview of alternatives

http://wk.frothersunite.com/sc/pulp/ww2.htm

Size guide

http://secretsofthethirdreich.com/forums/index.php?topic=1281.0

Painting guides

Soviet infantry

http://www.greatescapegames.co.uk/wrapper.php?w_page=Soviet%20Infantry%20Painting%20guide

German armor

http://www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx?tabid=110&art_id=855&kb_cat_id=27

Britsish ”Red devils”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArPAnUicsoA

US armor

http://www.paintingclinic.com/operations/15mmstuart.htm

Basing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcaD9tFFupc

The often most usefull site in this hobby

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article

I´m back!

2010-08-31T16:40:00.002+02:00

So basiclly it has been 1 and a half year since my last blogg here. The resaons for this is that my gaming has taken a diffrent turn since my last post. I have quit playing WHFB and stoped painting both FB and 40k.

I don´t feel like going into detail but the lack of decent players and the mentality of the company simply started to remove some of the joy with the hobby and therefore I looked at alternative systems.

On a Swedish forum I found great inspiration in Anatolis (make sure you check out his blog as well) posts were he showcased everything from regular ww2 soldiers to great two legged walkers apparently known as mechas. To say the least I was inspired and ask him if he would be kind enough to give me a demo and he did. 16 months later I have sold all my GW stuff and have collected 3 of the major 4 armies in this awesome game known as Secrets of the theird reich (known from here on as SoTR). The blog will probably mostly showcase miniatures from SoTR or SoTR related products and currently I´m building a Soviet force that hopefully will be finished in oktober.

However Mr Anatoli has been kind enough to also introduce me to This Very Ground and Malifaux (the next big project after the Soviets are done) and so this blog will most certainly also feature models and terrain for those systems.

Finally this blog will hopefully serve another purpose and that is to provide a second hand or another perspective at some of the projects and games that will be mentioned on Anatoli´s blog as he is the person I battle most of my games with.

So this post turned out to be a wall of text. But I thought that some explaining might be called for as it was a long time since anything was posted here. Now to show you the goodness of SoTR just some random pics of my collection.

Second hq done

2009-02-16T17:43:00.007+01:00

So its been a while since my last update. Painting has been slow for a while and when ive gotten around to doing it ive mostly finished up some old guardsmen that needed som attention. Ive finished up my second hq (got this in the box0´guardsmen that i bought off a mate).

Medic

Officer (Not painted by me)

Vox-operator Meltagunner (Not painted by me)

Army Standard (Once again, it wasn´t me)

Ive rebased them and now i think they fit very well into my existing army. Still got one HW to do from that batch (ohh and one gaurdsman) but after that ill post a pic on a Leman Russ thats been vrying for paint for ages. Untill then..

/Cheers

Heavy weapons team complete

2009-01-29T10:19:00.005+01:00

I bought a bunch of IG (battleforce, HQ, rattlings) of a friend this week and have therefore been busy with making them fit into my army. Rebasing is always a mess but it was ok. Didn´t cut up my fingers that bad this time :).

Yesterday i took a break from painting reggular guardsmen (got 37/60ish something done) and did a heavy weapons team instead. Not the best painting but it brings it up to an accepteble TT standard in my eyes.

Not sure when ill post another update. Ill try to make the next one a massive one with lager chunks of my army.

Cheers /Millmir

Leman Russ "Wasp" completed

2009-01-25T11:46:00.007+01:00

What a diffrence!? After completing Doomsday (the baneblade) the last couple of days i was thinking that doing another tank would take hours and hours. What i did not take in acounnt for was the fact that the Leman is so much smaller than Doomsday made it seem like painting a regular gaurd unit in comparision.

All and all i´d say it took me 7 hours or so for putting it togther and painting it. Not to bad when just the paint took 10 hours on Doomsday...Ivé used the same style as before but made this tank a bit muddier. Reason for this is i imagine that being in the frontline explosives going of will blow up a heap of mud everywhere not just where the crew is moving.

So i was orignally going to draw a freehand pinup 1950´s girl on the side of the turret but came up with this idea that i think turned out way better than a pinup could. Thinking of keeping the insect aspect on all three Lemans.

Today i´m going to try to complete to guardsmen. Ill post again when i have a squad ready and after that ill do either a lascanon heavy weapons team or a heavy bolter and then ill move on to another tank.

Cheers /Millmir

Baneblade complete!

2009-01-22T14:37:00.010+01:00

Finally i have completed my baneblade! It took me 3 days (or 11 hours) to complete and i must say i really think that isn´t to bad for a model of that size. I used the (citadel) spray gun to get the basecoat done and this saved me around 3-4 hours of work plus the fact that the result turned out smoother.

Again i used the method of making the crew parts muddy to get a realistic effect. Think this works really well and overall makes the tank look so much better.

So finishing this project meant i would be out of models for a bit...but this morning i got some new ones (my b-day) so i should be busy for a while...

I also finshed up a part of my anvil of doom thats been laying around for years. Just took a few moments and i think it turned out very well.

Next i shall be doing some Leman Russ tanks and ill also try to get around to rebasing some models im going to buy of a freind.

Cheers /Millmir

IG Officer done

2009-01-18T19:38:00.003+01:00

Tried a new type of painting today! Hungover painting :).

Think my officer turned out very well dispate the fact that i wasn´t able to concetrate for any longer periods of time.

What do you think?

With this mini done i have a painted Hq and can finally start to play small games. I think the Hq group turned out very good and i think they look very nice.

Ive also made a display piece for my dwarf army. Ill post pics of it tommorow when the final glue has dried. My plan now is to get the baneblade done before thursday (my birthday) when i probbly get some more modells.

Cheers / Millmir

IG Standard

2009-01-17T00:35:00.002+01:00

After 4 hours i finally finished the painting on my IG standard. Think he is one of the best models i have painted and i hope you agree when you take a look.

Think the flag reminds me of a power that was in WW2...No more needed to be said on that subject. Painted it somewhat like the orginal in colour scheme the obly big difference is my lighting with is painted with some gold coulor instead of bronzed flesh and white.

Enjoy, Millmir!

IG Medic

2009-01-14T19:05:00.004+01:00

Finally ive got around to painting after some intense school work. I started the medic last night and got the mini done just before i went to bed. Had plans on doing the company standard barear but ended up doing the base of the medic instead (and playing xbox =] ).

Hope you like how he came out!

Did the paintjob slightly diffrent from what i usally do. I waterd down the basecoat and applied some water to the drybrush on the clothes. Think it turned out good and i´m going to do this as standard from now on. Takes sligtly longer for the paint to dry but this time is mad up by the fact that its quicker to apply the paint.

Cheers Millmir

Vox operator

2009-01-11T17:14:00.004+01:00

Countined my HQ box today and finished the vox operator. Think he came out alright might need to put some more effort on him in the future but hell do on the tabletop for now though. Tommorow ill do the medic if theres time for it. Hopefully ill get the entire box completed on friday.

Also finished the base for the meltagun today. Nothing special so i see no point in posting it.

Cheers /Millmir

IG Melta gunner

2009-01-10T23:28:00.004+01:00

Spent all of yesterday finishing of the last parts of my guardsmen and today i have finally started with the HQ box. Started with the one i thought i´m going to need to put least attention to but still spent over 3 hours with the paint job.

The base isnt done yet but ill do it as soon as i get time.

Im pleased with the blue contrast on the green.

Cheers Millmir

Mortar team and dwarfs!

2009-01-08T20:01:00.005+01:00

Didnt get time to update last night but ive finally completed the dwarf-basing project! Just cost me two small cuts on my left thumb :). Think they came out really good and i finally feel like i might do the rest of the army one day! It really helped get my motivation back. Figured out that i had based just under 100 models in 3 days...

None of the bases have any conversion work, its simply straigt up gravel painted:

Primer: Chaos black spray
Basecoat: Bestial brown
Heavy drybrush: Grave yard earth
Light drybrush: Kommando Khaki

It makes a good contrast to my dwarfs who are mainly painted lighter colours.

Not the best picture but it works for you to get the idea.

On another note i finally finished the motar team ive been promising for a couple of days. Going to paint two more guardsmen and then move on to hq and better looking models before doing another 20 guardsmen. Cheers Millmir

30 dwarf bases

2009-01-06T20:52:00.007+01:00

Just relized when i started to go buy the rulebook today that all shops in Sweden are closed due to a national holiday. So that meant no motar team today either...

Started thinking of what i needed done paintwise and then i relized that my dwarf bases weren´t done. Since i´d been stupid enough to glue the models to the base i had to spend most of the time removing them from the bases. But boy was it worth it! My dwarf models are mainly models that ive painted a while ago and the paintjob isn´t that great. They look good on a tabletop battle but individully they simple don´t have that great standard. The bases made the models look way better!

Ive done 30 of my around 70 dwarf minis and hopefully ill get around to doing atleast another 30 tommorow.

Cheers Millmir

New display case

2009-01-05T20:23:00.000+01:00

Have today bought a display case for display of my minis. Think it may be a better way then having them in the closet....

My plan is to use the top two shelfs to show what i´m currently working on (40k, WFB or other models). The lowest will be used to store boxes of non mini related items. The shelf thats left will be used to display whatever models that fit.

This has lead to that i have not been able to complete the motar team as planned. Figured out that the base way to get hold of a base would be to buy the starter pack of warhammer 40k. This will give me the rulebook and loads of spures for conversions.

So ill make the same promise as yesterday to put the motar team up tommorow.

Cheers/ Millmir

Guardsmen since november

2009-01-04T21:46:00.000+01:00

Ive been very busy the last couple of days and therefore not posted any new pics. Ive been working on a motar (GW IG) team but im currently missing a base so ill probbly go to town tommorow and get a base for them and post pics for "all" of you later in the evning.

Ive taking some shots today of the IG ive painted from november and untill now so thats what i was thinking of showing you today.

My "green" beret conversion to the right. Had a hard time deciding on what colour to use on the beret. Went thrugh most of may paint. Tip kids: keep it simple.

One of my favorite guardmen conversions ive done.

Just an overview of some of the guardsmen that are done. I think i got three left untill im going to start to paint the HQ but i might do yet another pack of guardsmen first to get the strength i need in the army.

I other news ive finished building my baneblade. Went for the same one as the box has, tried sevrall ways but think it just looked best that way. Tried to think of conversions that would be cool but simply didn´t think it was needed when i was done.

Cheers Millmir

Crewman done

2008-12-29T18:46:00.000+01:00

Just finished the first crewman of the basilisk. Think he turned out alright.

Just relized i need to work on the right sleave some more. I think ill base him on a netted base to match the basilisk.

87th Basilisk company

2008-12-29T11:42:00.000+01:00

Have just finshied the last parts of my basilisk. I did a green colour scheme as you can see because i think it brings the cleanest results. Ill probally do the entire armoured section of my army in this colour scheme. Enjoy!

I did the troop steps muddy. I think this gives a realistic effekt.

Same side but futher away.

I like the blue contrast of the green on the "windows" around the hatch.

Loaders view. Ive added a axe and a spade on the left hand side since the pic.

Im not able to get my transfers the way i want them. Might just take them of and paint the motive on instead...

Still got some small "fixeruppers" like some boltgun metal on the earthshaker. Iam going to start working on the two crewman today and hopefully ill have some results later tonight or tommorow.

Cheers Millmir

Who am i? What do i do?

2008-12-29T11:37:00.000+01:00

My name is Millmir and i´m a 21 year old student from sweden. When i´m not i school i enjoy alot of things but currently im spending my free time painting miniatures.

Ive heard that writing a blogg to keep track of your painting progress can be a good idea when your motivation comes to a hold. I´m currently working on an GW Imperial Guard army that iam enjoying very much.

Ill try to post from time to time to let you know how my progress is doing and feel free to send me an email if you have any questions and ill be delighted to answer them.

Cheers Millmir