Necromunda - Zone Mortalis Terrain

As I eluded to in my previous post, I recently caught the Necromunda bug (again). The Zone Mortalis (2D) play mode of the game makes it ideal for playing over video call, but that doesn't mean the battlefield should be flat. I explored a number of options for complementing the game boards; in this post I am comparing 3D printed and laser-cut MDF terrain pieces from TTCombat and Art of War Studios.

Excuses, excuses..

Oh boy, has really been almost ten years!? Well, I guess my 'Big update - I'm back!' plans did not quite work out so well. In all seriousness my life has moved on a lot, both professionally and personally. These days I find myself with more time on my hands again, which allows me to yet again dust off that bookshelf (because that terrible, terrible metaphor will now follow me to the grave) and crack open some old and new boxes. I think I am now old enough to stop making excuses for not being a dedicated blogger, and instead just post content as and when I feel like it. I'll start today by summing up my past decade of gaming.

Dark Heresy chaos sorceror

A good friend of mine asked me to help him with a model he converted. It is made of different GW parts and is going to be a chaos sorceror in his Dark Heresy campaign.

BloodBowl Lizardmen - Painting #1 - Saurus

I am probably the last person who still didn't try the fancy new washes that appeared in the stores of many leading companies of late. This is about to change with my new Lizardmen BloodBowl team.

BloodBowl Lizardmen - Building the team

In the last few years I haven't been playing blood bowl on the tabletop, but used the pc / psp version  instead. And since it is much easier to try new teams I abandoned my long time favourite orcs and gave some others a go. Of all the teams that I tried I liked the playstyle of the Lizardmen the most, so I decided to make a tabletop crew for them.

'Vintage' w40k Tau army

I dug up my old Tau army and had a game of 40k with a friend just for old times sake. I am trying to decide wether I want to finish them or just sell them. Either way I will want to post them sooner or later so here we go...

Marco Colombo finished! ...well... for now

I tried to make use of having one more day left before going back to work and finished painting Marco Colombo. Or at least I have done all I could at the moment...

Gems and glasses

This week I only wanted to paint the Gems and the lenses of the spyglass but I got carried away and cleaned up a lot of little things.

A new lamp and NMM attempt

I bought a nice new lamp during the week. I didn't actually realize how bad the spotlight I used was until I tried the new one. It is a halogenic magnifying lamp.

Cleaning up

I finally got down to painting today. I cleaned up the reds of the cloak, painted the mustard-yellows of the outfit and added an extra shade of brown to the skin.

Some painting + falling in love with new minis

Unfortunately I only have time to paint on weekends. On Saturday I did the first layers of skin, some reds and blacks. A bit random but I don't really remember how I used to do this so now I just go for what I feel like.

Painting attempt #2

Time to get on with painting again. I need a piece that has enough details on it to practice the fiddly parts and also big surfaces to incrase my paint control skills.