http://www.tabletop-terrain.com War Gaming and Modeling for Pulp, Warhammer, Mordheim and Flames of War Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:03:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ I finished my unit of Orc Warriors for Border Patrol earlier this week, but didn't get a chance to photograph them until today. Due to an inability to count I've actually finished 21 Orcs for this unit of 20. I also have another 4 ready to paint if I ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/04/10/898/dipped-orc-unit-completed-warhammer/ It has been a week since I posted my first dipped Orc, and now I've almost completed two ranks of five - bar edging five bases and some varnishing. These Orcs just look better and better to me as they start to rank up and I'm left wondering why ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/03/29/895/dipping-orcs-ranked-up-warhammer/ After assembling 500pts of Warhammer Orcs and discussing dipping for speed painting with Dustan and several site visitors I thought I'd give it a try and found an Australian supplier of Army Painter 'Quick Shade': Battleline Scenics. However instead of resorting to $38AUD + shipping for tin of ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/03/22/894/dipping-orcs-warhammer/ I had a bunch of plastic Orc and Goblins on the sprue in my garage. As they've been there since late 2006, they've definitely met the mandatory 18 month post-purchase stand-down period. So in the last week I've been throwing them together while watching BSG Season 2. They've initially ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/03/10/893/orc-border-patrol-warhammer/ I recently made the mistake of introducing my lovely wife to the Battlestar Galactica TV series when I bought the three season DVD boxed set. Since then I've been forced to watch several episodes of BSG a night and consequentially haven't got a lot of painting done. After our ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/02/26/892/pulp-lady-and-the-sentry/ My gaming mates and I kicked off a new year of gaming with a bit of Pulp .45 Adventure madness. Simply because Pulp is a nice, fun game and a few of the group hadn't tried it before. For the occasion I threw together a stand alone Pulp scenario ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/02/06/891/pulp-tempus-fugit-scenario/ I changed jobs late last year and was pleasantly surprised to discover that a number of the find computer geeks I work with are also card and board game nerds too. In a given week we seem to get through three to four games of varying pedigree over the ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/01/30/890/office-gaming-lunches/