Salute 2010

well that was a cracking day... Frotherheim eventually got working smoothly after a few bum starts... we almost had too much scenery and too many figures oddly... but sterling efforts for all...


The other Frothers game was brilliantly done and looked great - World War 1 Subutteo:

and other fun stuff was to be seen...

Star Wars Lego:

Weird War Two with the cracking Area 51 UFO kit under the camo netting:

of course, some time was spent taking plenty of reference pics of the Doctor Who Miniatures game (the Mobile HQ did special duty on the day) and that oil rig...

and Antenociti's Governance of Technology game look superb, every building with fully accessible interiors... cracking work...

got to chat to plenty of folks... said hi to Andy at Heresy and checked out the not-Doctors I painted for him in his display cabinet (forgot to get pictures of them myself before I sent them off to him)... as for purchases, I got a lovely Bell heli for UNIT from Karl at the DWMG table (not a proper purchase in terms of trade stands, but most welcome), some of Mantic placcy skeletons to go with the free ghouls sprue and some control panels from Antenociti that I reckon can get Daleked up quite nicely... Ian from Fenris mugged me and I ended up with load of really lovely deep ones... and lots of sundry other little things picked up or thrust at me so that was great (I have classic GW pygmies! completely politically incorrect and lovely!)

Salute 2010 - Frothers presents Frotherheim...

Frotherheim - where the sky rains with fire and all below is ruined and wracked.
Frotherheim - where looters and adventurers seek rich pickings in the wrecked buildings and mysterious rocks that have fallen from above.
Frotherheim - where the survivors blame the warbands for all the ills that have befallen them and happily execute them in cruel and unusual ways in Execution Square.
Never was a town more cursed than Frotherheim.
In every alley way scum waits to cut your throat.
In every shadow lurks a monster ready to rip you asunder.
Fame and fortune or shame and an ignoble and rather painful death await all who venture within!

Frotherheim is a game run by Frothers for Salute 2010 using the Song of Blades and Heroes ruleset.

Prizes have been generously donated by such companies as Blood Moon, Otherworld (yes, you have a chance to win the uber massive Otherworld giant!), Dave Thomas, Fenris Games and Red Box Games.

Come and see us on table GD03 where death, glory and spankingly good prizes await you!

Salute next week...

still buggering about and staring at stuff for Salute... have much Who-ness planned once Salute is out of the way, in the meantime the results of several snatched moments in Photoshop and I get a new logo... well two technically... haven't the heart to get rid of Ernst Stavro just yet though, so the monocled bugger will hang about still...

wonder if I should make the A more visible... hey ho...

Ruined Tower...

a peak at the ruined tower destined for the Frother's table at Salute 2010... still needs some bits finishing, but wanted to get some pics up for the Feb entry and just to show I've not been completely twiddling my fingers...

the whole tower is 17.5 inches tall, scratch built from foamcore, card, balsa and kitty litter... windows and embossed foamcore from Antenociti... hard to get a decent full length pic, so this will have to do...

the Ice Warriors cometh...

a quick distraction to get my mojo back (oddly have found painting a real chore since I bought new glasses - prescription did change, but can't really see what that has to do with anything)...

BTD Ice Warriors (since Jon at BTD was able to track me down an Ice Lord for the normal price as opposed to the tenner eBay would demand)... not much to them really, a lot of green (must do Tre's gobbo's at some point), bit of red... the GW washes came in handy...

need to finish the bases and varnish, but I like these as is really... half toying with doing some snow on the bases, but that's a bit dressy for my bases... tried to do some wrinkles/scales on the Ice Lords skin, but you can barely see it in the pics... I did a hint of teeth as well which seems just enough...


one of these guys will double as Harma in full Dalek Killer mode...

the lenses were a bit of a pig as, when you really look at them, I don't think a single one matches another... reds have come out better than I thought though... all in all, I'm happy enough and feeling mojo'd...

December update

well, ok the Sontarans aren't technically part of the update a month thingy as they were done mid 2008, just needed rebasing... however, I've not got much else finished at the moment, I'm working on some stuff for the Frother's game for Salute 2010 - ruined tower and some warbands, but I need to contribute more ruins - and am doing my first painting commission which may be my only one as it's not nearly as much fun painting for someone else...

the Frotherheim stuff will get a showing on here in time...

the good news is I've finally tracked down an Ice Lord which means I can finally do my Ice Warrior unit, which means I then need to finish my Draconians so they can both donate models to Abslom Daak and the Star Tigers...