http://www.tabletop-terrain.com War Gaming and Modeling for Pulp, Warhammer, Mordheim and Flames of War Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:54:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A gaming friend of mine recently picked up a copy of Warhammer Historical: Legends of the Old West, which is a Wild West skirmish wargame. Reading the rules it's sort of a franken-game, combining the best features of Mordheim, Necromunda and the GW Lord of the Rings systems. ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2010/02/06/988/review-black-scorpion-tombstone-miniatures/ Here's the first seven Space Hulk Genestealers I've dip painted. That leaves me with 16 left, all of which are repeated figures except for the big nasty Brood Lord. The figures are nicely sculpted for a GW boxed board game. I particularly like the floor bursters, because they're a ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2010/01/16/979/space-hulk-dipped-genestealers-group/ A friend of mine bought the Space Hulk re-release last year and I volunteered to assemble and paint the figures. Assembling them took me about a week and a half, but they've been sitting in my garage since October last year waiting for paint. I've finally stopped playing XBox 360 ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2010/01/06/969/space-hulk-dipping-genestealers/ Yes, it's gone quiet here on the modelling front again. If you're wondering why it's because of several things. First I've started a new hobby and blog: physical computing with an Arduino board, which has been stealing some time from modelling. Secondly, it's because I've got a bunch of projects on ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/10/12/956/a-new-hobby/ I haven't posted for a while because pretty much all I've been doing is assembling Orcs and Goblins, basing them and priming them. So here they are: - The Orc General on foot, assembled from the $40nz Orc Warboss plastic boxed set. To be honest I found this set to ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/09/13/941/primer-madness-orc-edition/ I'm still assembling and painting Orcs, and have enough of them now that I'm sick of shuffling them around a game table manually. Instead of buying a set of GW movement trays and cutting them to size for the larger bases that Orcs use, I dusted off some old ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/08/17/932/plasticard-movement-trays-warhammer/ I've been assembling the Games Workshop plastic Giant I purchased recently and while admiring all the head and weapon options you have in the box I thought why should I have to pick just one? Fortunately I still have around 80 rare earth magnets left from my purchase from ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/07/19/918/magnetised-giant-warhammer/ I haven't posted for a while, because I've been slowly assembling the various bits and pieces from my Imperial Games Warhammer order, and while I enjoy making GW plastic figures, it doesn't make for very interesting blogging. To date I've built most of a Warhammer Giant, a box of ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/06/20/907/heat-forming-plastic-night-goblins-warhammer/ I've dipped another ten Zombies since I mixed my own green dip and I've added in the five Zombies I painted slowly years ago to create this small unit. Can you spot the hand painted vs the dipped Zombies? It's not that hard to do, but I'm happy to ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/06/04/906/dipped-zombie-unit-warhammer/ Now I've painted my Orc Border Patrol force, I'm looking to expand it to a full Orc and Goblin army. I was steeling myself to pay full retail prices, until Daniel pointed out Imperial Games sell Games Workshop below retail in New Zealand. To my knowledge that makes them ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/05/31/905/more-orcs-from-imperial-games-warhammer/ As dipping Orcs in off the shelf pre-stained wood varnish worked so well I thought I'd try some different coloured dip. Unfortunately Wattyl don't make a green all-in-one varnish product so following Dustan's advice again, I mixed my own. I picked up some Tamiya X-25 'Clear Green' enamel paint ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/05/21/904/dipped-zombies-warhammer/ Last weekend I finished the last five Goblin Wolf Riders to complete my Orc Border Patrol force. Each figure in this force has been painted the same way - primed white, base coated with flat colours and then dipped in an all-in-one varnish and stain product. I think they ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/05/13/903/dipped-orc-border-patrol-complete-warhammer/ Dustan recently posted in our forum about his homemade paint station and I've edited his posts into this blog entry. There are more photos and details of construction in the forum posts if you're interested - Stu. I decided to revamp my tired old painting table with a stepped shelf ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/05/07/902/dustans-homemade-paint-station/ As I mentioned in the last post, Goblin Wolf Riders were the next into the dipping tin. Here's the first small 'speed bump' unit of five Wolf Riders for my Border Patrol force. The wolves were based, primed white and then quickly painted with a watered down Scorched Brown. ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/05/02/901/dipped-goblin-wolf-riders-warhammer/ I completed this Orc Boar Chariot over the week, painting and dipping the boars, riders and several parts of the chariot separately before putting it all together. This turned out to be something of a mistake because evidently you're supposed to build the boars into the chariot before painting. ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/04/18/899/dipped-orc-chariot-warhammer/