Birthday Treats!

Last Tuesday it was my birthday or as I'm getting on a bit I prefer level up (can't take the gamer out of me). My beautiful wife had bought me the star wars rebellion board game. Where you play the struggle for the galaxy one team rebels other the empire.  You build fleets and even death stars! to take over the galaxy. Once the post man brings it I'll post some pics. I also reciced the bolt action rule book so a while new game to learn! With some birthday money I've ordered a British para section and para command squad to start me off. Also with some money I bought a 14pdr field gun for my Dystopian legions forces. Though worryingly stock levels seem to be really low and prices are rising. Amazon starter sets that were £30 are going for £80 - £90 + now so is this a sign of legions being discontinued?? To bolster our forces my friend and I have agreed when playing each other to use some ranges from Warlords black powder range.  The British soldiers from the Anglo Zulu was range for ok  (the size will be a little off) my friend is trying to track down some Prussian soldiers.
Last but certainly not least my awesome friends who run a Kawaii  blog bought me an E wing for my rebel x wing fleet!!!

Can't wait to in pack this and add it to the fleet!
So now I'm eagerly awaiting the postman bringing me loads of parcels  😃

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Kingdom of Britannia Dystopian Force!

Here's a quick pic of my kingdom of Britannica force.  Ready to serve the queen at a moment's notice.  There is:
Colonel Gilbert 'Bertie ' Smithington
A Lieutenant
A section of line infantry
A section of Black Watch
A section of the dashing sky Husssars
And lastly some Light Dragoons










Also this week I've started my kick starter terrain.  I've done the 2 smaller buildings.  They are a little fiddly but mainly that's down to my skill and patience levels.  As an added bonus they go together quite well to make a little out post. Onto the power station now!



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Last bits of Dystopian Legions and a kickstarter!

Finally finished up my dystopian legions force! The sky hussars,  knightly order light dragoons and Colonel Gilbert 'Bertie ' Smithington were all finished up last night.
The light dragoons were as mentioned fiddly to put together but decent enough to paint. Only used a 'gun metal' type paint on the exo skeleton as I liked the effect when it dried. It's basic but I feel it does the job and at my current skill level I'd only ruin it if I tried anything else. The Sky Hussars' only hurdle was getting a smoke effect for the jet pack. I painted the smoke cloud black then grey then dry brush a bit of white on the billows. The colonel I'm really happy with, the uniform colouring came about by sheer fluke. I had painted it dark blue but didn't like that so made a lighter blue and put it on top. It's come out quite nice.
This week I've also backed the new improved Shattered Crown kickstarter. This is mainly to get the awesome bear riders and stag riders up and out to the people give it a look and maybe some support.

Dystopian legions Black Watch

This week I've been finishing off my Dystopian legions Black watch and starting the sky hussars and light dragoons knightly order plus adding shelves to my geek section.
The black watch are similar to line infantry but also love a bit of close up fighting. My favourite model of these is the one holding the Nock gun. These models are nicely detailed and easy to put together. (just requires the gun sticking onto body).
After adding more shelves to my little corner of the house I now can display more models plus put them higher out of reach of my roving two year old! Am also making room for when my kickstarter terrain arrives which fingers crossed will be mid November.
The sky hussars and knightly order dragoons are almost done mainly just basing them now so pics will be up soon of them.
On a non miniature related matter I'm also counting down the days to when fallout 4 is released roll on November 10th for the grand daddy of post apocalyptic video games !!!
Have a great week guys

The week that was

This week I've been quite busy so only made up my Dystopian legions knightly order. Coming out of the bubble wrapping I cleaned off all the little bits still stuck on the model from the casting process then had to figure out what went where. They were quite fiddly sticking the lower arms onto the rest of the model was exceedingly difficult!  After much cursing some weeping I managed it. They were attached to the base, now I just want to add some bushes to the base. For this I have some of tough string that I might base on milliput and add to the base maybe with some stones.
Also out last week is the Gunslinger from Icarus model. I love this model and will hopefully be getting it soon.
Have a good day!

Don't Forget the Fluff!

Finally my Dystopian legions stuff arrived! Can't wait to put them together. Once I fought my way through the packaging I got to the goodies. I have to say I was a bit underwhelmed. Not by the products themselves the models look great though they don't have instructions so gonna have to fire up the brain and have a fiddle. The packaging around the models was a white box, the models all wrapped up in bubble wrap and a slip of paper saying the rules are online. Not what I was expecting. The starter set I bought had a box with great art work and had with some cards with stats on for the miniatures. What I got today felt like someone had just thrown the models in a box and sent them to Wayland games to send to me. I get some of it is due to cost cutting etc but surely a proper box isn't too much effort?  Part of why I love gaming is the fluff,  the art work,  the little stories etc. This is what I loved when you open up some newly purchased  models, rules etc. When I first got into 40k I loved the background stuff for all the models. Reading the pdf rules for Dystopian legions is great the artwork is nice and lots of little descriptions really sell it so this is why I was a little sad with my plain white box.
On a minor point pdfs are great for allowing access to rules at a cheaper price but man I miss a good printed rulebook. The last one I bought was for Across the Dead earth. It's a great book with all the fluff I love.
So basically I love all the background to games some people love the painting side but me I love playing and absorbing all the background history that goes with it. Hopefully I'll get the models put together soon.
Have a great day

Dystopian Legions Line Infantry

Just finished my section (with the exception of one tiny job) of Kingdom of Britannica. The models themselves are really nice lots of detail. A few had little bits of sprue or something from casting process that had to be removed. The only major issue that I had (though I hadn't noticed until I sat down to paint them) was the lieutenant who appeared to be missing a hand!! Going to rectify this by trying to give him a hook as he's a grizzled veteran.
Painting them was fairly simple I went with the old red coats with white trousers, they are blue on the box but hey I grew up watching Sharpe and love it so white trousers it is!  Obviously more justice would have been done to the models with someone else's painting skill but I'm slowly learning. Now starting the black watch section.
Have a great day guys