2011 review - 2012 preview

Again I´m just copying Christophers ideas.
So what did I achieve in 2011?

That was the plan:

Jason and the Argonauts for the Tactica 2011
100% complete. I built the terrain, painted some scelettons and varnished and based all the miniatures Tilman painted. The whole set up looked cool at the end and most people enjoyed gaming with us at the TACTICA.

The Warlord Chronicles

60% done. I need some more rank-and-file warriors and some more buildings.


Steampunk

Only a few miniatures painted. Not good.

Post-Apocalyptic

See above.

Well my output was a bit low last year. I painted some Dark Age Games Miniatures, 40mm Nappies and even some 40k stuff, but I think I´ll save the pics for the ext Lead Painters League.

For 2012...

...I will paint and game more. I hope. Real life can be very time consuming.

But there are already some plans (which may change during 2012).

Troyans - again I´ll have to paint miniatures and build terrain for the TACTICA 2012. I´ll run a game together with Tilman of "Conquering the Lead Mountain". Deadline: End of February.

Future Wars - a friend of mine will build me a FW board, so my Post-Apoc miniatures might get some paint o.

Fantasy Stuff- something "WH-like" but with Lead Adventure Miniatures. Also terrain.

And I would like to paint some samurais, Late medieval stuff, some more SCW...I´ll see.

Happy new year to all of you

Cheers

Jan

Troy...a lot of work to do!

I cleared my workbench of all non-troian-stuff. Now my focus lays stern on bronze armour, boar-tusk helmets and cowhide shields. Tilman from Conquering the Lead Mountain and I will run a participation game at the TACTICA 2012 in Hamburg.
I´ll have to paint a lot of troians and their allies, miniatures are a mixed bunch of Foundry and Redoubt. BTW if anyone have some Foundry Sea People spare and want to sell them-give them to me please!

SCW Character No. 4 and groupshot

The last character isn´t converted that much, I only added a whip to his right hand. He wears the uniform of the Moroccan Regulares.


All four characters together, you can see different nationalist uniforms worn durig the SCW. Left to right: Moroccan Regulares - Spanish Foreign Legion - Carlists - Falange.

SCW Character 3

The miniature I´ve converted the most. I clipped off the right arm and sculpted a new one, the hair, moustache and gorillo cap are also add ons.

SCW Character No.2

Second conversion, this time a faithful carlist requete. This one had a minor miscast: Where the mouth and jaw should have been there was only a hole. So I sculpted the missing parts as he was shouting ( motivating his troops for sure). He looks a bit like Jason Statham, doesn´t he?
Here you see both fellas side by side.

SCW Character

OK I didn´t show any pics for quite a while. But when I saw Orctrader`s cool SCW Character I ordered 4 from Force of Arms. They are all almost finished, I did some minor conversions to represent Officers of La Legion, Carlists, Falange and Moors.
I start with the Legion:

Ignacio "El Leon" Vidal, Veteran of the Rifwar:

BeST 2011 (gaming session in Berlin)

Some impressions of the Games:

Seven Samurai Game (Wasa´s own Rules)

Post-Apocalyptic Setting (Level 2)

Conan Game (Broadsword Adventures)

Brasilian Special Forces (BOPE) vs. Drug Dealers (Force on Force)

Cartago vs. Rome (Field of Glory)

British vs. Mahdists (Sharpe´s Practice)

As always I was too lazy taking more and/or better pics. There were some more games, 11 in total.

I played three games on Saturday: Force-on-Force, Malifaux and Gruntz 15mm. All this rulesets were new to me, but I liked them all.

There will be more (better pics) from other players in the net soon, I´ll post a link then.