WIP On the Desk: The Saga continues...

Been busy lately with some house projects and kart projects, but I snuck in some hobby time.  Recently, I've been reading over the SAGA rules and decided to switch projects after a mental block on the greek project.  So back to the Dark Ages for awhile until I get a number of pieces ready for paint work.  I decided to go ahead and build several factions that can pull models from Viking army for fodder and I had planned to expand the Viking army anyways. 

With that in mind I figured I needed some models that looked a bit less rank file like and a bit more dynamic.  And I needed some Warrior models as basically all of my Vikings are hirdmen.  So onto building and doing some minor conversion work.

Above you can see that was not limited to just Viking and Saxons, I also added a dwarf that has been on the desk for ages and two Avatars of War figures for further expansion of my Warriors of Chaos army.  On the far right is WIP of the Saxon Warlord.  In the very back are some of the warriors that I will use for the various Viking factions.

Above I had some left over metal Gripping Beasts and I recently picked up a few Foundry Vikngs.  In the middle is the model that will serve as my Viking Warlord.  I also decided against using any round bases since most of this stuff is something that I want to cross over into WAB and CoE also.  More to follow.

Old Stuff Wednesday - November: Beastman Chariot #2

Back to my old Beastmen Army from 2003, the second of two chariots.  Don't remember everything about this one, but I did convert the gor rider with the great sword, and the driver is one of the old metal beastmen.

I painted the bestigor in red face paint, because at the time I was marking things with Khorne.  For the first chariot I had used the old metal beastman chariot, for this one I used the old plastic orc chariot.

The great sword was something that I had built out of plasti-card.

The shoulder pads from the plastic chaos marauder box, which gave the model a bit heavier bestigor look.

 Until next month.......

Blog Announcement

I'm not really a Facebook person, mainly because I really don't care for being social.  My dad is a different story.  We decided that we had enough people that were curious about how our racing has been going and wanting to keep up with what we are doing, that we would set something up for keeping people informed.  He's not very tech savy and well I'm just a little bit more up on computers, so I set up a Facebook page for our racing creatively named Welte Racing, found at the following link, at least I think that will get you there:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Welte-Racing/505442252871148

So if you wish to follow that, feel free, as it will be regularly updated with racing news and results and kart building etc.... 

So what does that mean for the blog, well for one less kart racing coverage as I'm not going to post stuff at both locations.  My youtube channel will still be linked in at the side of the page.  I may give some updates on kart builds or repairs and occasionally on races, but if you want to know how the races went and more, I will direct you to that facebook thingie.

That's it for now.

Immortal Miniatures/Warlord Greeks (Short) Review

Immortal Miniatures' classical Greeks have been out for quite sometime.  I recently picked up a box for quite cheap off Ebay.  One of the local guys I know has built some of these and complained about the spindly size of the minis.  Most of the time when around his though I only had my midget Warlord Games Romans with me for size comparison.  I mainly bought these for a conversion that I planned knowing that they were smaller than the Victrix Greeks which were a little too big for the conversions that I had in mind.  It is rather ironic that the company that probably has the most scale issues in their miniature line, buys out immortal Miniatures and consequently incorporates even more scale issues.

 

So with all that said, here is a brief size comparison for everyone amongst a variety of Greeks.  Below: 1. Victrix; 2. Immortal, 3. Gorgon, 4. Immortal, 5.Foundry, 6. Immortal, 7. Victrix, 8. Foundry

 



 Below closer shot of the models on the left.

 Below a closer shot of the minis on the right from the numbered photo.

Below the face off between the Immortal on the left and Victrix on the right.

 Below with the Gorgon on the right.

 Below with the Foundry mini on the right.

 Below with Immortal on the left and Victrix on the right.

Immortal did a nice job on much of the detail, but they are just way too small for my liking.  And being smaller that detail becomes very fine and in my opinion will be harder to paint.  The Victrix, Gorgon, and Foundry scales are much more to my liking.  The Immortals are more spindly than my Warlord Romans, but yes the Romans are still a little shorter.

Next up the review of the Victrix Mercenary and Athenian kits.

Chaos Space Marine Converion - Wolf Killer

Well this is the last one for the foreseeable future.  I have no more Chaos Space Marine bodies left in the bits box, and I don't plan to replenish anytime soon.  I mounted this one on a converted 40 mm base.

 I also gave him a Space Wolf back piece.

 Below is a shot of the base, composed of broken pieces of Apoxie sculp, HO Scale Railroad ballast, and Italian Seasoning.

This miniature along with a number of the others that I have recently shown will be going up for auction on Ebay for cheap later today.  I'll post an update with the auction listings later. 

In the Bug...

Found a couple of really cool pictures of me in the Bug from this past weekend that a spectator shot.

This was in one of the left handers, driving the kart into the corner deep and kind of crossing it up a bit. 

And below is me winning an award for the Best Modified Vintage kart.  My dad did all of the mods, I'm the driver.

Old Stuff Wednesday - October: A Reaper Boris

 Circa:  May, 2004. 
This is the very first miniature that I painted in the so-called Non-metallic-metal technique.  It's a Reaper Miniature.  I believe they call it Boris Mingla or something  like that.  A cool looking mini.

I learned some much about blending, highlighting, and shading by painting in this technique. 

 A lot of people in the hobby poo-poo the technique and you get a lot of people that strongly express their dislike for anything painted in the technique.  BUT I think a lot of them really miss the fact that its a great way to exhibit expression and also a great technique in teaching someone to learn how to paint in blending, highlighting and shading in a lot of colors that I find very hard to paint.

Below are some close-ups of the details.

I still love the armor on this miniature.  May have to see if they have cast this mini in Bones and pick up another.  I sold this one years ago.