Painting Progress 20130113
I am pretty happy because I've done two things this weekend.
First, I built an spreadsheet with all my Citadel paints, their equivalent with the new GW color names/chart, which ones are semi-dry or almost-dry (to buy new ones next week) and to have some kind of general look of which paints I might need in the future and plan accordingly.
And second, I've been painting a few hours, with the following minis being the winners.
Here is the 5th edition box plastic Dreadnought, with some specific Dark Angels props and banners. I had it half-painted so it's been more of finally following my past schema and ideas. Nothing special to remark except that it has my first attempt at Dark Angel green highlighting. I need to practice more and the photo does not show it so much, but it looks better so from now on, at least one highlight layer will be in any DA scheme miniature.
I also had from last year a lot of necrons pending painting. As they were a gift from my girlfriend it is "critical enough" so I've started the task... and they are fairly easy and quick to paint, so here is the first one I finished:
 
As I wanted to paint more necrons, I decided to start first with a small conversion I made months ago and I wanted to paint, a necron "specter" lord.
Apart from filling the gaps of the scythe, leaving plain the handle, a bit of green stuff to leave the hands more plain like necron ones and attaching a small "necron core" inside was not in need of more modding, so for once I built it a decent base.
As you can see it is not too complex, a bit of crappy "green lighting" inside, and playing with interlacing a mixture of greys with black washes until I like the cloak color. And the base is pending too, just the ruins have some color.
But I like how it really looks like a scary necron.
 
I have one more week of vacations so let's see if I can finish either a bunch of necrons or a few other minis. And I also need to work out how to improve room lighting for the photos, colors are not well captured.
Cyberpunk 2077 Teaser Trailer + my old minis
CD Projekt RED, creators of The Witcher videogames (quite good RPGs that respect all the lore of the books) have just released a small trailer of their next game, Cyberpunk 2077 (+ wikipedia link, not much info yet, though).
From the trailer description:
Welcome to the year 2077.
The teaser shows how the Psycho Squad might acquire a new member.
The Psycho Squad specializes in combating "psychos" -- individuals who overuse implants and substances that boost or otherwise alter the human body.
There comes a point when they overdose on these innovations, and their bodies start to rebel against their biological body parts as well as all things organic around them. Simply put, they start killing people, who they now derisively call "meatbags."
When a psycho goes on the rampage, strange things can happen. There's carnage, and the psycho might be taken down by regular police, but they're not always able to get the job done.
When things spin out of control, they call in MAX-TAC (Maximum Force Tactical Division), popularly called the Psycho Squad.
And the cool trailer:
I can't wait for the game, Cyberpunk 2020 was my first approach to the futuristic cyborg setting (along with Blade Runner).
I actually have some miniatures painted from long long ago, a dozen characters depicting from gang members and private security mercs to policemen, hackers and executives:
Update: The teaser making of. Awesome level of detail...
Tags: Cyberpunk Miniatures RPG Videogames
6th edition game box and more kickstarters!
Well well, looks like this week is getting really interesting.
After releasing the big rulebook short ago, now comes the boxed 6th edition Warhammer 40,000 game.
Now in preorder (according to the warp internet sources, to be available the 1st of september), apart from a smaller rulebook (with only the rules) and some basic dice and markers, the game features Dark Angels vs Chaos Space Marines.
The best of the box are without doubt the new miniatures: Chaos cultists, new chaos space marines with lot of details, and the awesome hell brute (kinda chaos dreadnought), the chaos captain, and the Dark Angel special characters.
The tactical squad is ok (I've got tons of them), ravenwing bikes are cool (but I already have a few ones) and the Deathwing terminators are ok but I already have at least 40 of them! (things that happenswhen you start young and have multiple Space Hulk editions + an existing Dark Angels army).
UPDATE: There is a great official video of close-ups of all miniatures included.
Right now iti s the limited edition only, which features an interrogator chaplain for the Dark Angels (cool looking), so I'm in. Normal edition will be around 8$ less so I can pay the extra.
I also finished reading all the non-rulebook part of the 6th Edition book and my advice is the following:
If you want to just play, ignore the big book and grab the game box;
If you like to read a lot about setting, history, lore and battle examples, plus tons of great images of armies, grab also the big book. It is clumbersome for playing, but for all the Warhammer 40k lore is really cool.
And the second surprise is another kickstarter, this time about Mantic and their futuristic Blood Bowl Dreadball game.
The game needs little explanation: it simply is a futuristic version of Blood Bowl, with hex tiles (so slight movement changes) and the referee as its own miniature.
The game reminds me of Speedball 2 videogame, and while looks cool, the truth is I prefer the "fantasy" BB setting instead of this futuristinc one. Also Blood Bowl rules have been tested for many years (the living rulebook is free and up to date).
It also starts the kickstarter with 80$ for the boxed game containing two teams of 8 minis each + the ref, a bit high counting an additional 15$ for international shipping. As there are still 36 days left I will personally wait until they hit some stretches and add more basic contents before deciding.
Reaper's Bones Kickstarter: Run for it!
I am around 10 projects backed on kickstarter already, and not all of them are RPG related, but at the time of writing this post, you still have 52 hours to get an incredible deal.
Reaper miniatures is doing a "Bones" kickstarter: For 100$ (+25$ for international shipping), you get the "vampire level" which right now amasses around 150 200 miniatures, including heroes, monsters, futuristinc minis, "fire" and translucid special minis, townsfolk, elfs, dwarves, goblins...
Just count, is less than 1$ per mini, and believe me, the quality is really high and most look really amazing.
And then, if you want, for increases of 10-15$, you can get optional packs with huge minis like dragons (all sorts of them), giant skeletons, ettins, drows, giants, demons, even Cthulhu mythos monsters!
I couldn't resist having the Ettin and Drow extra packs, and I'm seriously thinking about Dragons or daemons, but even the basic pack is incredibly cheap for the stuff you get.
At the kickstarter page you can check the full lists, I won't link them because the image is already huge and constantly changing (the total pledges are coming near 1.9 million dollars!).
If you like fantasy miniatures, either for painting or for any fantasy game (Descent, DnD or any similar one) you should really take a look. But do it fast before the kickstarter ends!
Tags: Miniatures RPG
Two old treasure gifts
I am having terrible non-stop work shifts at the dungeon, so I haven't been able to do much things apart from sleeping and bits of reading. My only achievement lately was finishing the awesome PC game Legend of Grimrock, a true and worthy tribute to Dungeon Master 2, with really nice puzzles across its 13 levels.
Some weeks ago, one friend departed to live at USA, and he gave me one gift.
Few days ago, another friend moved to a new house, and while packaging found something and gifted it also to me.
This are the two great treasures I was gifted with:
A full Blood Bowl Skaven team, and a Necromunda Escher gang!!!
I have never played Necromunda, but counting that I have quite some scenography (both imperial ruins and barricades, trenches, bunkers...) and units to serve as count-as gangs... I should give it a try.
And Blood Bowl... was one of those games I always liked to play when I was young, but my friends were more into Warhammer or pen & paper RPGs, so I never could.
And I also have a special like for skavens as they were the mobs for Advanced Heroquest.
As the boardgame is available online (with the plastic human and orc teams), I have decided to get it and be able to finally play it.
If the child in me had thought that once grown up would have the option to have so many games he dreamed of...
And at the same time, so small amount of available time to play them.
Tags: Blood Bowl Miniatures
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