Weekender: UK Games Expo’s Weird & Wonderful Events + Perfect Blood Red Skies Mats!
March 24, 2018 by dignity
We're delving into more awesomeness this week as part of The Weekender. There's plenty of ace stuff happening at UK Games Expo this year, so we're talking with Rich and Tony all about it!
Weekender Podcast Download
As well as that we've been delving into some hot news out of AdeptiCon and much more besides so make sure to stay tuned.
Updates
We have some great things for you to check out this week...
- AdeptiCon Live Blog - Dawn, Gianna and their team are in the US right now covering the mighty convention.
- DreadBall 2nd Edition Week - Keep an eye out next week as we delve into Mantic's Futuristic Sports Game.
- Hellboy Painted! - We were lucky enough to paint up the first pre-production Hellboy model ahead of Mantic's Kickstarter campaign in April.
Check all of the links out above to get the lowdown on what's been happening this week.
Warren Meets Mat
With the Warlord Games guys being in the studio this week we turn our attention to Blood Red Skies and think about the different mats from Deep-Cut Studio which would work for this high-flying dogfighting game.
Win Frontier Wargaming Painting Stations!
We have a look at two of the Frontier Wargaming Portable Painting Stations that they have added to their webstore recently and give YOU a chance to win one of your own.
The giveaway includes ONE Portable Painting Station and ONE Miniatures Case (Small) and all you have to do is...
Tell us what your next big project would be that you would use these for!
Get your comments in below and share with us what you're working on right now.
News
There was some pretty massive news this week and loads of awesome content for you to comment on.
- Star Wars: Legion Terrain - Check out the mats and terrain available from Fantasy Flight Games.
- AdeptiCon Reveals From Games Workshop - Plastic Sisters, Idoneth Deepkin and more revealed this week.
- PlayFusion Making Age Of Sigmar CCG - Watch out for this new CCG launching in July 2018. Watch our Lightseekers Content HERE
- Angry Joe Heading To Kickstarter - A new Street Fighter Miniatures Game is in the works!
- Cryptids - Learn more about this new deduction board game coming to the tabletop in September.
- Ultimate Werewolf Legacy - Rob Daviau adds a layer of Legacy to this popular party game.
What caught your eye this week?
The Weird & Wonderful At UK Games Expo
We talked with Rich and Tony from UK Games Expo about some of the weird and wonderful events that you can get involved in at the convention this summer.
This is a fantastic event and you can get your hands on tickets HERE.
Kickstarter
We take a look at two terrain-based Kickstarter projects...
- The Lost Islands - Printable Scenery have some amazing new STL files for you to download.
- Viking & Anglo-Saxon Terrain - See what Renaissance Miniatures have planned for your Dark Age tabletops.
...which of these would you back?
Competition Winners
Make sure to listen out to see if you were a winner as we give away prizes.
- Infinity Week
- Dark Crystal Board Game
- GameMat.Eu Prague Open Mat
If you heard your name, or know one of the people who popped up in our announcements make sure to Claim Your Prize!
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The weekend starts now. Shame I’m heading into work ; (
I remember those sad days of working on a weekend. Hope t goes quickly for you
Yep. The weekend starts now, with my Eschers finally painted and I’m off to bed. 🙂
Happy Weekend!
night night son
Ah, saturday morning: Coffee in hand and BOW weekender running in the background… Happy weekend everyone!
I want to win the BIG one. My next project will be Star Wars Legion. I’d love to use that on the go, at friends and even the local store and get the forces of Rebel Scum and Imperials painted up for some wargaming goodness.
@warzan even if Mantic’s use of the IP is restricted to a board game format, the Walking Dead has rules for creating your own characters so TWD: Hellboy Edition would be very easy to make work, it could well be one for a little Sunday gaming project.
And ofcourse once again you are bang on mate! 🙂
Oooooh man. Throw hellboy into the walking dead fray??? I just popped a disk in my back bending over back words to this thought. I need a hellboy mini to run this.
A nice weekeend everyone. Waiting for my coffee running to me and the rest of my family standing up 😀
Next project: I’d like to finally paint my AvP boardgame minis
Finishing up some flames of war pieces.Got some new panzers
It’s the Weekend!!
A very Star War-sy weekend for many I suspect, including me.
No sign of mine yet, but my Hasslefree Kickstarter arrived yesterday and they are sexy as he’ll. I may make the nekkid Matt mini a gift to @dignity as I know he’ll appreciate it
Clippers at the ready?
I frequently have to travelfor work, staying over in hotels, so the self contained nature of the paint station, especially with the light andwith often limited desk space, would allow me to take my hobby with me. Other solutions involving multiple things to remember, unpack and layout… taken care of by this.
Only concern is tipping it over and damaging models.
@warzan I think the zone of focus effect the unit creates is enhanced by turning on the light which highlights this bubble and pushes everything else away, increasing your focus.
I wouldn’t want to make any layer I added to the work surface too bright or shiny as that would only distract from the model you’re working on and potentially tire the eyes with too much background light. A matt dark green wipeable surface would be ideal.
Mynext project is to paint up anumber of KD:M survivors that I’ve been assembling from the various sprues. Been focussing on the monsters and encounters up until now, and with wave 2 imminent need to catch up with the survivors before the new monsters take over.
my next project got to be start a full JSA army, I am a Pano player but those JSA minis look soo good that I cant pass the chance to paint them
My next big project will be either my jsa for infinity, my dragons for Dark Souls or depending on which side my bro picks Imperial or Rebels for Legion.
Nice portable paint station would mean no more having to paint in the garage zone.
Super awesome video, My next big project is to paint up all my dreadball minis, that has been sat in storage for too long, my spark for the hobby goodness has been lit and i am looking forward to get back in the hobby and let my inner nerd out.
Nice portable paint station means the wife will be happy as nice and tidy and portable to take with me down to my local gaming store 🙂
Wow..this paint station is awesome 😎
Great show, thank you guys for making me spill my coffee early on
Jackhammer & the Gates of Hell..! Lol!!
Currently painting SW: Legion. The AT-ST is my next big project.
@warzan , the moment Same mentions with Vader surrounded by Rebels is from an arc called “Vader Down”. In fact I would highly reccomend all of Kieran Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s Darth Vader series as it presents the most pithy, bad-ass version of Vader at the height of his powers in the aftemath of A New Hope, the dark mirror of Artoo & Threepio in BT-1 & 0-0-0, and the wonderfully amoral archaeologist Doctor Aphra.
(there is another Vader series that has replaced this one, but wheras the first is set post Ep-IV the new series follows Darth building his reputation in the wake of his resurrection post-Mustafar, and has been quite good as well…)
my next big job is modernising the house i just bought, so i need a mobile painting setup whilst i live in a building site (unless i board the loft and create the hobby lookout….)
Do I really need to confess about all the unpainted minis and half finished projects I got laying around my apartment D:
Very well, my primed M1 Abrams for Team Yankee is blaming me for their losses for not being camouflaged, my Imperial Guard is going berserk without their officers, my Blood Bowl team might have migrated to another county in search of uniforms, I swear that the damn Leman Russ have started pointing its barrel at me during the nights and since thursday I have a legion of little plastic stormtroopers being told a bunch of unsavory lies by all the other miniatures around my home…Not to mention Blood Red Skies and Song of Ice and Fire…..ppppfffffffffh….
I got alot of stuff that needs painting and fear im being overthrown by the ungrateful plastic witchpot brewing in my cabinets…
A painting station that helps me get my paints and supplies setup and stored away quickly would aid so much in this small apartment 🙂
Also, thanks for a great show, saturday mornings with weekender are one of the best things of the week.
On the painting station was the bottom drawer difficult to get because the hinge was s in complely the wrong place ?
my next big project would be the ultramarines army i have been attempting to start for the last year or so
It would be tough to choose but my next project would probably be my rising sun miniatures. Some of those dragons and oni are awesome. Though when those new van saar are released I may need to switch 🙂
Need to paint a couple of Blood Bowl teams next week. League starting next month.
Amen to that brother @dignity, the problems of being a hobbyist/gamer dad and being grumbled at for having your hobby gear all over the dining table, it makes you negative before you even start, as the thought of having to pack it all away again sometimes makes me not want to paint. Add to that the pain of having built a hobby space, only to lose it when my lad came back from Uni. I love my son to bits but noooooooo, where’s my hobby space now???
My project would be the JSA I just pre-ordered
Justin the Jackhammer ……. Now there is a mental image I didn’t need. Happy Saturday!!
…. oh and Dreadball week !!!!! YEEEEESSSSSSSSSS
… Oh and (get all your thought down at once stupid) Look at that Hellboy … the days of Mantic being labelled as a company who produce lest than inspiring minis should surely be past now . (Love you Mantic)
The next painting project I could use this beautiful paint station for will be Bolt Action Japanese 😎
I’m already on my Legion stuff so it’d be too late for those..
@warzan
If you need USMC for a King Kong scenario let me know man!!
😉
Another great and varied show.
Love the painting stations. Looked on website. Does anyone distribute these in Europe rather than having to ship from US?
Split my time between London, Devon and NI. The paint stations would be perfect to pop I the boot of the car for doing batches of my next project Bolt Action USMC and Japanese. Currently stuffed in the space that used to carry the spare wheel. Not ideal.
Mark28, I’m confused. I went to buy one living here in the USA and the site calculated shipping from Europe. Where are these guys located?
Now I am confused @irondragon6. Clicked through to the Frontier site from BoW and prices in $. Also Led light electrics US standard hence universal adaptor. Site not particularly I formative on company and location. I still think they are inUS. Fire them an email.
Have the water mat, it is wonderful. I didn’t wait for the show to end or wait to win one, when straight to the FW site to by the large printing station. $114 US! Then the postage showed up and changed the price to $164 US, sad. I had to walk away. This happens so many times. Europe has so many great ideas but a 50% premium due to postage makes me think twice.
Thank you for once again filling my Az hole. It was a surprise, it didn’t last very long but it felt good! 😉
Was it only me that was hoping it would be Blood Red Skies week next week after watching John’s painting stream?
Cmon guys its a no brainer……… Sams gaggin for it ! Let him have it…..The painting station that is . Give him the small one and Lance the large one to inspire him to do more switch stream painting that was awesome i really enjoyed it . New fanboi here .
For the paint station contest, this entry is easy. I will be traveling to Quebec later in the year and will be getting my Blood and Plunder Kickstarter in May. This would be a fantastic way of getting those minis started while I travel away from home.
My next big project will most likely be a bunch of Oathmark Dwarves (say, 30 or so).Initially they will be designed to be used as counts-as Scots for SAGA, and then expanded as I find more rule systems.
Correction: 60 dwarves or so (two of their plastic packs, and maybe some random extras)
imo Justin should not even be considerd due to his childish and over the top behaviour a few weeks ago at the appearance of……. ” WHITE TIGEERR”
On offering mats with and without Star Wars gubbins, this is a job made for a double-sided mat.
Or identifiable gubbins from any other setting for that matter. Aquilas one side, gritty generic sci-fi the other, etc. and so on.
My next big painting project is to get finished. I’ve painted over 1300 minis and have less than 300 left to go. I paint about 330 a year so mi mission is to avoid buying anything I don’t plan on putting on the table right away and to blitz to the end so I am no longer drowning in a sea of unassembled grey plastic. I think I’d mount those cases on the wall above my station and use them as paint and tool racks. I fear they would make poor transport options as there’s nothing holding anything in place if you lay the cases down or shake them.
That painting station looks great, my next projects are finishing my war bands for Shadespire. Then I have to try to get into the Mythic battles pantheon core box as i’m not allowed to back anymore mini games on kickstarter until I finish that lol.
What a great painting station! Being able to concentrate in such a well organised, and illuminated area would encourage a concerted effort to reduce the wall of shame. What’s my next big project? Mythic Battles, um Kingdom Death, ah Blood and Plunder, or Conan…but still have a lot of work to do for Dropfleet… Help!
I would use the portable painting station to visit a friend and work on my Imperiak Skies minis.
Imperial Skies is another game I need to get into. Brigade do some wonderful models for it
As for projects I have 2 on the go at the minute Next hopefully will be 10mm Picts for Dux Bellorum. I am almost certain thst 10mm Napoleonics is nowhere near being ion the radar. Maybe 2mm using Blucher. Then there is Vanguard’s 3mm sci-fi. Just too much I want to fo
My next big project will be the new JSA Army and a Rival ISS Army to crush them .
would use it for mi kingdom death minis
Man the hobby cases look beautiful, shame I can’t afford one. Unless…
My next hobby project is going to be assisting daughter in building and painting her Star Wars Legion army (she doesn’t know I’ve bought it for her yet and will be so excited when she finds out) so the hobby case would be ideal so that we could quickly deploy and pack up the project inbetween other things. Her grandfather will also be pleased that we can keep it contained when we are visiting him. Perfect!
Painting station just needs an upgrade of an additional draw to store John
or at least a chain and sturdy manacle to make sure he doesn’t get away…… hmmmm and possibly a whip of some sort to scourge him him when he starts to get tired….. and I suppose a toe screw (definately not thumb screw as he needs to paint) wouldn’t go astray to provide an incentive ….. he’d probably appreciate all that,. He does get taken for granted at times 😀
🙂
The paint station is wonderful and it provides a nice portal hobby workstation. I can see using one of the removable drawers to store my airbrush. Definitely a great idea.
That said, the shipping cost to the USA is 50% of the cost of the paint station. At the final cost I may try to build one myself. I have seen people build an entire gaming table for a little bit more of the cost so I think this will be my own hobby challenge.
My next big miniatures project is painting the loads of miniatures from the World of Smog: Rise of Moloch KS that I will soon be receiving. Would love to have a shiny new painting station to use for that! 🙂
My next painting project, as usual, is about 15 painting projects. The big one for this part of the year will be some crusaders for Basic Impetus.
Fun little game
Star Wars Legions has arrived in a major way. My local game store, Gigabytes Cafe in Marietta, Georgia, had 100 core sets and sold almost all of them on day 1. Even before the game arrived, the store had invested in 3D printed terrain just for Star Wars. It’ll be interesting to see how this will affect the other game systems on sale.
@warzan, the lights on those paint stations make all the difference. The eye is naturally drawn to light and being able to actually see your mini is a huge psychological difference.
Looking forward to the deepkin from GW. Back to painting…
My wife doesn’t like my hobby stuff laying around either. This case would be great as I gear up to finally paint my minis from the Myth kickstarter.
Painting Project
My Rising Sun Kickstarter Pledge
My projects would be a Haqq army I have lying around and a Dwarf army I have in plan.
If I won one of the portable hobby boxes the next project I’d use mine on would be a LRDG force for Bolt Action and also some Lord of the Rings stuff for battle companies
I would use it for the big project i’m starting beginning next year following a recent 15mm Kickstarter.
Romano Brittish, Welsh and Saxons in 15mm + some nice scenery in 15mm (Arthurian Fortress, Roman villa and a small village)
So much painting to do… currently working on Pandora’s Box for Mythic Battles Pantheon, Necromunda, Bloodbowl and Conan….
But my next big project is the Carnevale Kickstarter when that gets shipped in the near future…
Next project would be WFB Ogres or Napoleonic’s.
The trench run on the death star in a new hope was taken from the film 633 squadron. There is a utube video of the film with the star wars voice over.
My Jammy Dance waits another week.
As for painting projects, my Death Guard are still on the go but it’s Team Woodbury for me from TWDAOW.
Saturday morning starts off with me having my coffee and watching the weekender before the rest of the family gets the day going. Thanks guys.
My painting project: My local game shop marked Warpath stuff down in order to make room for Star Wars Legion. I acquired way too much…. My wife and daughter have invaded my hobby space, so currently I move to a quiet area of the house using the top of a shoebox, so these seem like a much more useful option (especially with the lighting).
Hopefully, I can get my current models done before Core Space arrives on my doorstep.
Well I guess the next big project will be Forgebane, but since I’ve still got tons of Deathguard to do it’s in the very far future
Next project….wade through the mountain of mythic battle minis,have not had the courage to start yet lol
Like many my next big painting project is Star Wars: Legion. I’m gonna start with the rebels as I hate painting pure white, curse those storm troopers!
I’m neck deep in assembly and painting of a Thousand Sons force for 40k. Just picked up some old necrosphinx’s for conversion into maulerfiend / forgefiends and the old Karl Franz fell off his Griffon to become a truely Tzeentch (bird-like) Vortex Beast.
I like that paint station. I really need to start painting up the others board game minis. that will take a long time and a concentrated effort.
What i use the paint station for is the mythic battles pantheon figures and end of year the joan of arc kickstarter models
I’d work on more of my Orks in my 5k worth of point force.
Well my next project is easy, have 3 Imperial Knights, will be getting Forgebane, and of course the new Knight, it is my plan for my week off post Salute to brgin building them for House Mercial
That shold be Mercia!
Good morning, everyone. 😀
@warzan – Lucas drew inspiration for Episode IV Star Wars from several World War II movies, most famously from Dambusters …
“How many guns do you think, Gold Five?”
“Say about twenty guns, some of the surface, some of the [flak] towers.”
… and also from 633 Squadron. Here’s a video that makes the case pretty clearly. 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OZq-tlJTrU
Tora Tora Tora is a US-Japanese movie about the attack on Pearl Harbor (7 Dec 1941). I’m not aware of any Star Wars reference / connection there.
from I think the movie
Okay, Warren
There’s also the name of the planet “Tatooine” – actually a town in southern Tunisia near where they were filming the Tatooine scenes in 1975-76. It’s spelled a little differently – like Tatouine or some such.
I think a lot of it was inspired by the Japanese film Hidden Fortress
And for further evidence, here is a similar clip edit from Dambusters (a little more of a famous Star Wars influence).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMfBKrdErY
in fact George said it was the Howard Hughes film Hells Angels which inspired the dog fights, on one of the editions from years ago he talks about it and 633 squadron for the trench run, they play some of the scenes side by side, he was very into black & white movies which is why he lifted from hidden fortress too, but he was obsessed with the action scenes from Hells Angels , which for its time are absolutely unreal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8wmyCcbnX0 (sorry about music lol )
Man I know exactly what i’d use one of those painting stations for. I’ve seen people using old fashioned writers desks etc for their Blanchitsu style work. Small warbands of heavily converted grimdark models for Inq28 or Necromunda. The traditional wood effect and the compact, complete station that these create would be just perfect for that. Trays for a limited palette of colours and all the conversion bits needed to create a unique warband.
I’m currently assembling all my Star Wars Legion stuff which is a large space heavy project so I’ve got it all over the place. But the wooden painting station would be dedicated for those special small projects that you pull out, click the light on, then get immersed in creativity.
Like Warren, as soon as that light went on I was sold. It’s a Blanchitsu box through and through!
Ok, which of my “waiting in the wings” projects do I think a Frontier Wargames portable box of awesome would help me with….?
I nominate my Dads Army LDV platoon for Bolt Action. A FW box would be perfect for those long weekends at the in-laws. Fire up BoW on my phone, plop out the FW box lid, flip on the lid and suddenly the mother-in-law fades to grey and I’m in the hobby zone! Oh yes!
If I don’t win one, I’m buying one!
Happy Weekend!
That is a superb painting station. Hobby with style and panache! Having just picked up the Forgotten King box for Super Dungeon Explore last weekend (I’ve coveted it since it’s KS but never had the cash for it) I’d be painting all the minis from that and from my original SDE box and expansions that have been waiting for paint patiently for years!
My next big project will be to get some opposition to my Republican Romans, so naturally some stunningly good looking Carthaginians from Victrix… 48 or so of them 😀
There are studies that indicate that daylight LEDs help people concentrate and it is recommended for studying for example. So they certainly can help you paint better, not just by getting your colours right.
The paint station looks really good. It would be fantastic to be able to take some hobby with me on a weekend getway. My next big painting project I’d use it for? Star Wars Legions just landed, so that or perhaps I’d get stuck in to my giant box of Vietnam minies to use in ‘Nam.
The painting stations are so cool, if I was to win one, I would like to have the beast of war logo on it. It would be like getting a gift from all you guys.
Regarding the remarks on 3D printing. I own an older Printrbot Meta Plusl, Creality3D CR-10S, Anycubic I3 Mega and a PRUSA MK3. The quality, terrain wise, is not that much different between the PRUSA and Anycubic. I use Simplify3D as my primary slicer for all my machines. I found the stock retraction settings on the Anycubic are way off. An adjustment of 1.5 to 5 mm dialed in the quality. Also for the $320 US for the Anycubic vs. the $1,000 for the PRUSA, you can have a little printing farm with three Anycubics. My PRUSA is an amazing printer for high precision and awesome ABS and other exotic material printing for durable parts. For decent looking table top terrain the investment is not necessary.
For Star Wars Legion, My printers have been putting tons of terrain out from Imperial Terrain (amazing models), Terrain4Print (Great designs and free on Thingiverse) and look for “Game Terrain Engineering” on Youtube, James has released a few great designs on his channel too.
I’m currently making my way through my Space Wolves which currently have more pups unpainted than Battersea dogs home. Next project will be whatever I come home with from Warhammer Fest and I sure as Hell would love that wooden beast of a paint station to feel special & sexy while painting them 😉
Painting project: I have a shipload of World of Twilight miniatures waiting to be painted properly
I like the look of the Frontier Wargaming Painting Station. I recommend taking a look at the pictures on Frontier Wargaming’s website to see pictures of the painting station full of paints and with miniatures. I would change the paint racks so that they were stepped. This might mean that slightly less paints could fit in, but the ease with which one could find a given paint would be greater, and in any case i might prefer to have some extra paint racks on the left. As this is a modular system i could foresee this being an option. I could also see Frontier Wargaming creating parts for other company’s tools. For example, i have some of the Rathcore miniature holders and i would like to have these fit into a painting station. I imagine it shouldn’t be too difficult to make some of those. In fact, if Frontier Wargaming weren’t inclined to do so i could probably get something made / make something myself to fit into the painting station that would facilitate the miniature holders i have. It seems like a pragmatically flexible system to me.
Both of these are amazing! I’ve haven’t painted minis in years however just seeing these portable paint stations (especially the big one!) have awaken my desire to paint. The first thing I would tackle would be my CMON’s The Others minis.
I would use the painting station to take to work as I work night and when no one is looking get dome painting in, as I have just bought the warlord games waterloo starterset and I am getting the la haye saint set next mmmmmm.
If I won either of the paint stations it would come in extremely handy as I have several Kickstarter games to paint, and my next project is Barbarians the Invasion
Cracker of a show guys.
I am getting ready to move to a smaller house. That painting station would be great as a way to keep my painting stuff together since I won’t have a big workbench anymore.
My next project is The Walking Dead miniatures. Inspired by Jerry I am going to do them in grayscale. After that is 28mm modern for Skirmish Sangin.
I want a Tobruk/desert or aircraft carrier in the Pacific deep cut mat please for Blood Red Skies – that looks ACE!
My project is an Inquisition army with a Kroot carnivore merchandise faction fighting next to guard.
Love the GW previews and the Hellboy mini. Can’t wait to play that Hellboy game.
The next project I want to work on is either a Savlar Chem Dogs army or a American Civil War themed Astra Millitarum army that I could have some fun with.
Felt like I was watching Carry on Gaming with the innuendos! My next Project is a Ghostkeel for Tau.
My next project is my continuing project. In the middle of a two year painting plan to get all The Walking Dead, Operation Ice Storm, Operation Red Veil and Dungeon Saga Minis finished and make a generic set of scenery for Bolt Action and Wild West Town for Legends of the Old West. I’m making progress but being a Hobby Dad my hobby time is late at night painting on the bedroom floor desperately trying not to get in on the carpet.
Happy Weekend everyone! Great video as always. I love those painting stations, just being able to have it almost ready to go each time I want to paint would be great. What would my project be? Well, either the House Nasier starter force for WoK to go against the Goritsi I’ve been working on. Or, the Aetherium starter set I’ve got waiting in the pile of shame.
Having watched the 40k tournament in Prague coverage by Sam and Justin I decided to get me a new 40k army in order to go to tournaments like this as well. I chose Chaos Space Marines, bought the “Start Collectng” box and the codex today, and I´d use a paintstation to do my best on my new minis, whose chapter will be the “Scarsouls”.
Nice to enjoy another weekender.
That painting station would be an absolute godsend for me. My work sends me on travel quite frequently, and being able to get some hobbying done while I was away from home would help to while away the non-work hours and help keep me sane. Also, it would help keep me on track for this painting challenge that me and my “mates” (sorry, I’m a Yank so I have to put that in quotes) are doing. If I had one of those, I’d probably go on to expand my Protectorate of Menoth army and finally (finally!) get started to work in earnest on my Skorne army.
You know, if you want an easier way to do an ocean board, start with your plywood or MDF or whatever you want for your baseboard.
Then take your blues and greens to color it up for the water look.
Then you get the rippled sheets of clear plastic that are designed to go on florescent lights and other such things and use some clear drying glue to attach it over the painted board.
Then take a bit of white paint and do a very light drybrush over the top to add the impression of waves.
That custom wood case is great for mobility and to have a work progress project at the ready with all your paints and tools ready to go when you have the urge to or have a sliver of time to work on it. I would love it! I currently use a cardboard “Banker’s Box” for a project. Also if you do a have dedicated space as I do, you can use that mobile hobby box to move to a dining room table or living room coffee table to be more social at times
My project is to continue the mbp kickstarter pledge im doing with tutorial videos on you tube
I’ve got a wild west project that I’m creating for me and some friends faces on a kingdom death dashboard ideas with foreground terrain. a compact work space would help keep the painting of the minis manageable and help to make this game on track
minis are from Black Scorpians last Kickstarter.
Next big project is bolt action german grenadier army.
@warzan so with the push to “buy MERCH” is there going to be an option to get hold of the painting station with the BOW logo? Have you guys talked about making that an option with them? I think right now custom engraving is like an extra $20.
Those paint stations are very nice, and i can see some people wanting more than one.
If my hobby was not packed away at the moment i`d be stuck as where to start (getting ready to sort the old hobby area out, possibly in the summer), i`m just not sure where to start. As i have quite a few kick starters to pick from, Dropfleet Commander…All out War – The Walking Dead…Two box games of The Devils Run (two KS). On the other hand i have Dread fleet…Dread Ball Xtreme and a few Bolt Action box sets.
so once i`ve sorted out the old hobby area, it`ll then be time to pick where to start. For now though, i do have some Primaris Marines to keep me going.
a great show guys love the new stuff coming out, have you seen the new vacuum former for gamers @warzan
those painting stations look very nice. The price isn’t too bad either.
So SW legion, Faneblade, the Island kick-starter, and a painting box.
Any $ left over for things like food, heat? Nah. who needs that sort of stuff?
What a show. The mat’s are great, the prize this week is fantastic. And of course the guys as funny as hell as all way. All way a joy and never a chore watch the guys.
Happy weekend guys .
My next big project will be some Wild West exodus models , union pose .
After seeing the effect that the painting station had on Warren especially the light im certain i could over come my fear of starting to paint my mythic battles pledge .So in a nutshell thats what i would use it for .
Weeell lets see three boxs of mythic battles (core,pandoora,poseidon,atlas and 40k core box,Triumvirate of Ynnead,Gangs of Commorragh and lots more). So completely back up and more mythic games coming next year. Eye way bigger then the paint brush.
My next big project is a seraphon stegadon or the repainting of my first hobby love: the Tau
I’d love the paint station and case, it would mean I stop carting my figs and paints around in old takeaway containers when I am on business trips 😀
Hey guys, again a great weekender saturday and an awesome price.
I would use the portable painting station for “The Drowned Earth” miniatures. There are coming 3 factions, so 15 minis plus the ks exclusive.
The Station would be perfekt for this project.
My next project is to finish my Dungeon Saga kickstarter (got the expansions still to paint), then dungeon scenery from the Zealot miniatures twisting catacombs kickstarter, then the Greebo Games Florence Knights kickstarter and after that I have my Deadzone bundle to finish… and then i still have a few terminators from Space Hulk to finish the set (like 10 years later or something)………. I think I need that cool box and light to get any of it done (and even with that this may take years!)
Honestly i would use that small painting station case near my 3D printer to keep all my tool and spare parts in. Right now i use a old filament box and mistake that it for filament when i usually run out lol ( it happen more time than i care to say)
I’m currently listening to Star Wars audio books and really getting into the universe for the first time. I’m really tempted to get either Legions or Imperial Assualt. Always bern a fan of the films but beyond that never really been bothered, but now……well my gsming gene is kicking in lol
Imperial Assault with the co-operative play app is great fun
Project: I’ve bought a lot of Necromunda scenery for my Escher that needs to be painted
My next painting project I planned is to finally paint the 3 up Ninja Goblin I managed to get from Sean Green who originally sculpted the mini for Rackham I believe.
Its the one doing the kick pose. The portable painting would come in handy as I attend painting met ups with other like minded miniature painters. I attend these meetups to help push my painting skills.
I’ve put images of the mini into my forum blog
http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/painting/forum/topic/hobby-blog-2018/#post-230238
Working on English Caribbean militia for Blood & Plunder, and a 10mm Battle of The Boyne project.
Williamite War in 6mm is definately on the ‘to do’ list…
Pendrakens for this period are lovely. Sadly not aware of any in 6mm unless you want to use WSS figures. Baccus have said they want to do a Nine Years War range but no timeframe has been given
Next big project.. star wars rebel force..with some captured imperial equipment. After tgat, a us v4 flames of war for e for upcoming 20 18 canadian nationals.
That painting station looks amazing. My next big project is likely to either be the JSA rerelease (Infinity), or Tau (40k). Hopefully they won’t get consigned to unpainted hell like all my previous projects v.v
Giving my old Eldar a spruce up ready for a try at 8th Edn 40k and eagerly waiting for my core set of Blood Red Skies! Did anyone catch that on the Warlord Games site the blue seas mat has the comment that it would be ideal for their ‘upcoming Cruel Seas game’ . . WW2 Naval Combat from Warlord??? *oh my poor aching wallet*
Really?! Only one painting project? That’s impossible. Currently I have my Dropfleet PHR fleet sprawled on the dining table. Luckily my girlfriend is okay with it (for now). Next I want to paint one of the Luxumbra busts, the Morat one, which incidentally I intend to paint like Blanka from Street Fighter.
I also need to assemble some Survivors and a White Lion and start playing some KD. The new monsters just came in and I haven’t even played the core game yet. *ashamed*.
And then there’s Infinity which always pops up sometime before I join the local tournament.
Maybe a paint station will help me focus my attention. (Although I highly doubt it. 😀 )
Those mats look 3-dimensional. I’m so impressed!
I would use the painting station to finish painting my girlfriends Neverborn!
I will be using the custom paint set to get my boyfriend to paint my Neverborn Armies for Malifaux! 🙂
My next big project is going to be my Betrayal of Calth boxed set with some of the spicy upgrade kits! Going to be rad!
I want this setup to finally get my dread fleet set painted up. With this I could tote it safely to work and back! Loved the show guys great job.
I plan on painting two new Blood Bowl teams as a means to get the local FLGS crowd interested in miniature gaming other than Hero Clix and Magic. The store’s owner wants to diversify his inventory into other games and justify investment in an Army Painter paint rack in the store.
Having a project box like that would be useful for when I do painting demonstrations at the local store to help generate interest in other miniature games.
Very late on these weekenders… it’s just not the weekend until I have watched this. Ah well I have a few hours on the plane to work to catch up – really looking forward to Dreadball 2 !!
Those cases are really nice. My friends and I just got back into Warhammer 40K so that’s my next painting project.
I’m currently painting my projects for Golden Demon. So a project for that… I need any help I can get XD
Am I the only one who stops whatever he’s doing when the Warren meets Mat intro music starts to play, and immediately starts to grind up against the nearest thing I can find? ….. Big Frank my Frenchbull wasn’t too happy this morning, but gosh darn it I just can’t help myself!
My next big project involves :
A wall section of scenery- 5 beastman Gors – one sigma rite priest – three flagellants- and 10 zombies! All of which are for either Frostgrave or my Whfrp 2nd ed RPG campaign- it’s going to be interesting
Oh, and my next big project is a German Falschrimjager army for Bolt Action.
My next big project is painting up three different Shadespire teams! (not to mention all those Joan of Arc minis that will be coming later this year…)
Well my next hobby painting, after I complete my Fabled Realms sell swords, is D and D stuff ….. beasts and monsters from various suppliers to create the next adventure …..
I am new to D and D and am finding the free flow very nice……lots of work as a DM tho…
Big Project: I have a bunch of elves that need some colours added
Got to get my game up by painting a Late Roman war band band for SAGA before jumping in to Kingdom Death Monster wave 2 expansions (only 7 of them I’m not totally bonkers).
My hobby project would be to get my Dropzone Commander Scourge army painted. Or at least, approx. 1500 points painted.
My next big will be pair of new Arminger Knights from forgebane. but truly interesting one will be next. From time to timme a make a break from wargaming miniatures to paint miniatures from boardgames. This time it will be busts from FFG’s Relic with both extensions. I can’t wait to finally play it with fully painted beatiful sculpts.
I’d love the big station. Why big one? When summer comes with our nerd group we go on a nerdawey to friend’s house in the middle of forrest. Cut awey from the world we play wargames, boardgames, carggames,and paint. This station would make getting all we need for last part much easier!
I wish I could come up with something clever to say about my next project,but it is probably going to be a necromunda game. Most of my friends mostly play GW stuff , so you kind of have to go with it, although I’d love Malifaux or something to try.
I have been trying to organize my hobby space, and this set may fit the bill quite nicely. Currently working on some 30k AdMech.
My next project to paint is all my Star Wars Legion minis……..and the bathroom so my wife will be happy and therefore I can game more
Currently my project would have to be Star Wars Legion but, it would be followed by Blood and Plunder.
looking forward to kickstarter chronicle x before that come i cant spot looking at gw forgebane and probaly work on necro’s
My next big painting project for the paint station will be all of “The Drowned Earth”miniatures wich I recieve in a couple of weeks 🙂
I have a small travel set up but have been wanting to upgrade to carry a more complete collection. That Travel Kit is just what I need to get cracking on my Hasslefree Miniatures KS rewards when they arrive. Of course I could also use it to keep up the progress on my Hasslefree Dwarf army for Kings of War. I’m all about the Kev White sculpts right now!
Thanks for another great show, guys!
Those cases are great! I’d use it to inspire me to paint mythic battles stuff! Of which there is plenty!
In regards to the portable painting studios, not so much my next project but rather my daughters. I could see them being rather handy for her with her Circle of Orborus Hordes force. She’s been picking up various warbeasts and unit boxes for the last year or so. It would be rather handy for her to be able to pull out the box and have everything there all set up for her, as a break in between her study :).
I can’t be the only person that thinks Star Wars is so over, man?
As I can see the end of my Space Marine army, I’m kinda on the look out for a next project – but I’m thinking a Dungeon Saga/Warhammer Quest or start on some Fire Goblins. C’mon, Fire Goblins! Or Skaven. Or 15mm Fantasy. Or WWE…
Hmm, decisions. Either way, the missus sez I need to stop taking up half the living room with hobby stuff, so a portable painting box would be cool. (still not sure if she means I should take up more or less than half the living room…)
For the paint station, I could use it for my daemon army, most of them is still gray
well i got a karadron overlord army to build and paint which would go great in 1 of those painting stations!
Warren, you need the Orbital Earth mat voor your x-wing. I love it: http://www.deepcutstudio.com/product/wargames-terrain-mat-orbital-earth/
What with the new Necron Codex coming soon and Forgebane already on it’s way, I will definitely be painting up my Necrons to reclaim their rightful place as rulers of the Galaxy.
I’m starting the dark vengeance starter set and should be ready to paint my Dark Imperium starter set by the time I would receive the painting station. 🙂
That painting station would come in handy for the Tau army I am building!
Loving the look of the new hellboy model and game.
I love the paint stations. I will use it to paint a project. I have got two small kids and a wife who likes a clean house. So a painting station will help to paint quicker. Now all stuff are random in the house and picking all the stuff is a lot of work, the same with clearing everything up again. When I have a paint station I will finish my Imperial Assault, some Freebooter Goblin Pirates and my last Infinity Ariadna Caledonian.
Another great show guys. Thanks. As to painting projects well… besides the dozens of miniatures waiting their turn, there is the 12″ resin Warlord (DC Character) statue that I’m working on and Fallout Wasteland Warfare terrain bits.
As someone who has to get my paints out of the spare room and setup and tear down my workspace every time, a portable painting work station would save me so much time. I’d use it for my Skaven force that I’m needing to get finished before June. Then there’s my Wolsung, Guildball, Bolt Action and more AoS armies to paint. Oh yeah, and Mythic Battles 😀
Project – I have plenty of stuff waiting for me, but I’ll probably start with Star Wars, to be able to start Legion
I nee those paint Boxes. The small one will carry my copper coin collection, you know them those with the little miniatures on top. Because we had a couple of rooms flooded recently the wife is threating not to let anyone into her two new good rooms.
I could totally use this painting station to paint my KS copy of A Song Of Ice And Fire that is meant to deliver this month! I travell a lot with my painting stuff, but this looks like painters heaven in a box…
That is easy, but first:
Imperial Commander Warzan: Let the rebel scum fight over the painting station!
Hairy big head (not Zardoz): 4 Quatlos on the skinny long one.
ICW: Well, i really like the light, maybe i should keep it to myself. Sent in the giant big gorilla!
Rebel scum: What?!
For me, my next paint project, i could use this nice portable paint stations is my brown water riverine navy.
Like paulvr I think my next project could be Song of Ice and Fire KS all being well.
Having something neat and portable would please the better half to rather than my taking over the place with paints!
Great show as usual, thanks.
I’d take either of the paint stations to paint up my Vikings I’m going to buy, like the series so I’d like to get a Viking raiding party led by Ragnar Lothbrok painted up.
My next big project is LEGION! I also have a bunch of Black Scorpion “Tombstone” Minis on deck for Dracula’s America and Nearly Naked dwarves for Shadespire. One of these would be awesome to take to our monthly painting night at our FLGS!
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my next painting project is Polish 2nd armoured division for flames of war late.
@warzan – newest Darth Varder series of comics no -005 explain why those kyber crystals turn red, you have to kill jedi to get his crystal. after you have to go t dark force powered planet like Mustafar where they reclaim it for them self.
crystals are alive in some way and to turn it dark it has to be bend to dark side by great strength,
its need to be Corrupted, to quoute emperor:
teach it your pain, tech it your anger. hear it sing a hymn of darkness, make it bleed,
I would use the painting station to paint up my Christmas present from my dad. He got me some 28mm Napoleonic miniatures I had asked for. The nice stained wood would give me that old world feeling, with the practical and modern use of the portable light as a cool contrast. Need a game of Sharp Practice before Christmas.
I would use the painting stations to paint up all these Legion figures I just purchased this week. Problem is I want to play the game so much I haven’t even been close to getting my paint on. Maybe one of these stations will motivate me, or at least the light will.
Been looking at Infinity aswell, just not sure where to start
I’d be waiting for the next Bootcamp to bring my portable painting station to! 🙂
the portable hobby stations are beautiful. what would i paint? probably KD:M or the Japanese for infinity.
Ok, that first travelling hobby station is amazing. I totally need that for exactly the reasons Justin mentioned; married with kids so no hobby room!
At Salute I may end up looking for safe storage solutions rather than new minis it’s got that bad!
I totally want to buy Star Wars but everyone I know wants Imperial forces so just can’t see how it can work long term for me. On the other hand a display unit full of stormtroopers is so me!
As for what I’d paint with it… everything! But definitely start with Eldar. Going to have to look into getting one.
@dignity pub game suggestion , snake oil,played last games day at local community centre, great fun
That mobile painting station has the advantage, that you can whip it out for a quick painting session and not get into trouble with your wife afterwards because you’ve just cluttered up the dining room.
I especially like that it incorporates a good light.
The first thing I’d paint with it would be the Colette Crew from Malifaux.
My big project would be to finally repaint the high elves I’ve bought second hand, and build all the new ones and paint them in a uniform scheme
as im sat watching this i am painting my legion set so would definitely use the painting station to help me with this project. i could then go down my local club and paint and natter when ive run out of BOW content to watch!
I have two painting projects I am going go start with now; The minis from Axis & Allies Board Game and The Mythic Pantheon minis I got from Kickstarter 🙂
Great show as always, but had to pause and coment, that aerial mat is perfect for a Bioshock infinite Columbia table!
My next big painting project will be my ironjawz army for AoS. Unfortunately, I need to finish the last two big projects before I can start that one…
I clearly need that moth like focus which took hold of Warren, so please can I have a magic box? They are totally lit (get it?).
I have too many unpainted minis 🙂 I should probably start with Dreadball, and paint my Unincorporated Rebs
Battery pack was a great idea Justin!
My next big painting project…. I would love to say all of my back log, but we all know that is not going to happen. However with both the WH40K Dark Eldar and Harlequin codexes due to drop soon it has made me go back and progress a couple of old projects.
Absolutely love the paint boxes – I would love to replace the cardboard box I’m currently keeping all my painting supplies in. My next big project would be to finish the two I’m currently in the middle of: an all-in Mythic Battles Pantheon pledge, and a damn-near everything set of Cthulhu Wars minis.
Sadly, I have too many projects to pick just one. Currently either assembled and waiting priming or having been primed and waiting for paint:
– Star War Legion army (My Stormtroopers and my brother’s Rebels)
– Half a dozen Battlegroup sets from Warmachine and Hordes (went kinda crazy during Privateer Press’ Black Friday Sale this past year)
– A Harley Quinn gang for the Batman Miniatures Game from Knight Models
– The custom robots from GKR: Heavy Hitters
I might even go crazy and actually paint my Kickstarter games like Mythic Battles Pantheon (went all in on the Typhon pledge).
I’d even be willing to finally star up a hobby thread on here to share my progress if I won!
Oh man I have so many proyects right now I don’t even know how to start xD Maybe I’d use those amazing portable paint stations to put together my new Ikari Company Infinity faction. I just love those guys 😀
Next painting project: I have a large squadron (school?) of jetbikes waiting to be finished
Finally got caught up (Adepticon coverage and all)!
My next big project is of course: Star Wars Legion! At the same time continuing my Frostgrave Barbarians…
My next project is a Captain Cold lead Freeze Crew for the Batman Miniature Game.
“My” next big painting project? Putting the GF to work on painting viking houses for a huge megabattle in october
Next project: I still have an army of WW2 Japanese and some planes for them unpainted, I should finish poor Japs.
If I had one of those paint stations it would really push me to work on my Bolt Action Paratroopers. Not being tied to my full desk all the time might help.
As for next project, much to my surprise most of my stuff is painted 🙂 I’d probably start to build and paint some scenery next
I may be too late for the entry, but Kingdom Death is my next big project. I have the box of a million little sprue bits and I need to make them into survivors and monsters.
My project would be more Wild West Exodus outlaws. Need to get Frank and Jesse James on mounts.
I would love that hobby portable work station to help me get my newly reformed Japanese Secession Army painted up for coming Infinity online campaign. With a Japanese motive engraved on it and maybe some others from my favorite games.
My next big project is a Marauder army for Deadzone but with PuppetWar head swaps to remove the damn orcs from the equation. Going to be Gas Masked monsters
My painting project: a couple of my eldar are in dire need of painting
Finally getting to watch last weeks weekend
Oooohhhh that painting station – bloody gorgeous!! Now that I’ve finally got my grubby wee painty hands on my KDM core box – it’s my next (and colossally massive) painting project. Painting station would be a cracking addition for that lovely large mass of plastic awaiting the brushes 🙂
Great looking paint station.
I really have to get my Iron HillsDwarves painted, 5 New Primaris Black Templars and of course my Imperial Star Wars Legion that just arrived!
I might just skip the first two and go to the Stormtroopers! Thanks for the painting demo on STs John.
Catching up on my missed weekenders. Just finished this one – binge watching the next in a minute.
For the painting station – 6mm Roman Army, based for KoW Historical