Happy Friday.

My pledge this week is to finish the Skull Swords I’ve been working on (almost done) then start Earth Tribe miniatures.
Tomorrow we plan to play a 4 way game of Stargrave, which I imagine will be quite bloody as it’ll be on a 3×3 table. I’ve also been rolling up more turns for Five Leagues From The Borderlands, so a new battle may be on the horizon soon.
I’m off work next week so between painting I might get started building more terrain for Sláine.

Imagine you have a painted army. All painted in your way and style. You discover a new way to paint. Then new stuff for your army is getting released. Do you:

switch your style but leave the old ones “as is”
switch your style and redo all the old stuff
keep the army in a consistent “old” style but new armies get the new treatment

I’d probably continue with the newer style and leave the rest as is for now. It takes so long to paint stuff and I change my mind so often that keeping the same style for an army would get boring for me. I’d rather have the whole army done than spend time going over old ground and never getting the new stuff painted. The different painting styles is also a record of how my painting has progressed or changed over time.

Really not sure what to pledge this week. None of my pending projects grab my attention. I might just take a break for a week and catch up on reading.

Imagine you have a painted army. All painted in your way and style. You discover a new way to paint. Then new stuff for your army is getting released. Do you:

• switch your style but leave the old ones “as is”
• switch your style and redo all the old stuff
• keep the army in a consistent “old” style but new armies get the new treatment – This one!

I like consistency but have never had the patience for re-visiting my old stuff. The only time I did that was when I rebased some of my Warhammer for Age of Sigmar. Even then I limited myself to repair work and re-basing rather than changing the paint job.

I’m fortunate to be a fairly advanced painter with my own style of painting which even got recognized a few times on the interwebs. So, if’d discover something new in the way of painting, it’d be a tiny change or something achieving the same result as before, only quicker and/or more effectively. Since I am obsessed with consistency in my paint jobs, I’d go back and apply small changes to older minis – something which I actually regularly did, do, and will continue to do.

I’ve been sort of watching the ‘awesome’ and ‘super exciting’ reveals at the WarhammerFest thing … and for the most part it was more a ‘meh’ feeling.

I do think the new squat squad for Necromunda is kind of cool, but that hover trike thing really had me go ‘hmm’. Would love to see them compared to Stargrave minis, because I suspect they’re not dwarf sized … 😉

HorusHeresy looks like it’s trying to make things even more expensive by selling anything that isn’t a standard weapon as a separate boxed set. They’ve managed to create 4(!) sets of boxes with only weapons (and the arms that hold them). As such it looks like that if you were to buy that super expensive 200$ starter set you also need at least one of those sets … just to get some heavy weapons into your force.

Are people really *that* desperate for HH that they’d pay that much money just to get started with an ancient ruleset ?
Because it’s just 7th edition 40k … which makes no sense to me. If 7th edition was ‘good’ then GW wouldn’t have created 8th and 9th editions, right ? But then this is GW … they make a new set of rules, because that’s what they told their audience they’d do. And I’m pretty sure there’s going to be a 10th edition just because they can and not because it’s needed.

/rant

Anyways … business gonna business, so I shouldn’t be annoyed by the lack of consumer friendly updates.
It’s a dealer of plastic craic that knows people will buy whatever male bovine excrement they’re going to repackage as ‘new’.

I had a very enjoyable game of Stargrave on Saturday, four players on a 3×3 table. It was quite bloody. I didn’t manage to secure any loot but had a really fun time. Three of the players are still new to the Frostgrave/Stargrave formula but we were all fluent with the rules pretty quick.

One person even turned up with his 90s Necromunda collection to use for his warband, some classic miniatures.

I’m pretty excited to play more games of Stargrave soon.

@sundancer wrote:

All too busy and way to much details. Just by looking at it my mind goes “where the hell should one start painting these?!”

Yep. I just don’t really like the current style of miniatures GW are producing. Just like some of their game rules, they are way too over designed for my taste and seem more plasticy with clothing lacking texture. They are too perfect.
I often wonder what I’m missing when I hear several different people comment on the newest models and say that they are fantastic. Is it me? Is it my tastes. Am I blind by nostalgia? Still each to their own.

the older style minis are definitely an acquired tast, unless you remember seeing them when they were ‘new’.

The biggest problem with GW minis is that there are no viable alternatives. Raging Heroes is close, but that has its own set of things that may be a bit too nudity much for some. Everyone else is so ‘normal’ because they don’t do the stupendously high fantasy / gothic sci fi style that GW does. Granted … similar things happen with any fictional figure range outside of their IP (the Slaine or Dredd ranges come to mind), but somehow GW’s minis are forever tainted/limited to the ranges they were designed for.

I bet you can pick a Stargrave crew set and use them as Rebels in Legion. It might look a bit odd, but not completely out of touch.

Try using GW minis for anything other than their own settings … if the absurd scale doesn’t screw you over then the skulls and other crap that is attached to them will. The new necromunda space dwarves are probably the first that could work in alternate settings without too much trouble.

I wonder if one can win ‘worst painted army’  …