No Cows Here!

Hi everyone,

I am quite sure I will not get everything done by the time the campaign starts, but I will certainly have more than enough to play.  This gives me about a week to try to finish 3 bases of cavalry, 3 bases of artillery, 3 bases of Eagles, 6 more bases of spear infantry, 2 bases of White Lions and 2 bases of dragon rider cavalry.

I can tell you with the utmost confidence that I will not manage it! This reminds me of a quote by Homer Simpson to his son Bart: “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.”

That is all.  Next week when the club opens officially, I will be spending most of my free time over the weekend playing Fantastic Battles and Zona Alfa, so the hobby side of things will slow down a bit.

So until the next post, don’t let the monkey pox get you!

Regards,

NR

Double Post

Hi everyone,

I back to painting 10mm elves again.  This time I went straight for the jugular of what I hate painting the most – cavalry – and drove into the Silver Helms.

I had six bases to paint up, but I gave up – temporarily – after three.  So I started to paint up the first three of six Elven Bolt throwers that I have.

This mix up help me immensely get through the drudgery of painting cavalry.

Next week it will be more of the same or some great eagles.  Time is getting short before the gaming begins. I have about 3 weeks left to get everything finished.  I’ll see how it goes.

Till next week,

NR

Hi everyone,

During the previous week I worked my ass off on painting up the eight chariot bases within the time restrictions I contend with.  The first four are how the chariots come out of the box. These will be my light chariots.

The second four are my heavy chariots. For these I just added an extra rider in the carriage and two extra horses.  The horses come from the spare horses from my Lion Chariots I built up several weeks ago.  There are no alterations or modifications involved.  Just place the horses next to each other and …. voila – you get heavy chariotry!

A ONE WEEK HIATUS!

This week I will be taking a small break from the High Elves.  Yes, one reason is to retain my sanity – but the true reason is that I have taken 5 days off work to help a friend with his private business.  This will include 2 to 3 hours a day in the morning sorting out his paper work.

Then in the afternoons and evenings, I will be focusing my energies on a mini-project for Zona Alpha!  My gaming club has finally opened up again without any restrictions, and to celebrate, I will be donating and speed-painting up a bunch of hostiles for Zona Alfa from my collection.

I will be using Speed Paints and Contrast paints for the first time in my life! So I am eager to see how that goes.

So you should see a new project go up shortly sometime Monday evening.

Until then stay safe and have fun (this is he last time I write this – I need to find a new closing slogan!).

NR

Hi everyone,

After painting those light cavalry, it was a pleasure to paint these swordmasters up – relatively speaking!

I went with silver armour with a bluish tint.  it seemed very elvish to me.  It is also very easy to paint.  A base of silver and three diluted washes of blue…and viola.

Next week I hope to finish the chariots, if time allows me enough leeway.  I have build them to represent heavy and light chariots, but that is for next week.

Until then, stay safe and have fun.

NR

Hi everyone,

If there is one thing I hate about painting armies, besides the quantities to paint, is painting cavalry.  I find painting cavalry tedious, nerve-racking and stressful.

Nonetheless, you cannot field a proper elven army without cavalry.  So I have to soldier on and get the cavalry troops I have planned painted up.

This brings me to the topic of this post – my light cavalry for the elves. I have painted up six companies of these awesome little miniatures, and I have four more planned with 3 models per base to use as skirmishers.

Next week I should have another elite unit painted up.  These will be the Blademasters of Hoeth.  I need a break before painting up the Silver Helms!

Until then stay safe and have fun.

NR

Hi everyone,

I have painted my last three characters.  These are two ‘character passengers’ and a ‘character company’.

In Fantastic Battles, besides normal characters like generals, heroes and magic users, you can also have ‘character passengers’ and a ‘character companies’. This is a testament to the flexibility of these rules.

Character Passengers are basically generals, heroes or magic users that ride monsters and dragons.  The monster or dragon are not characters themselves but the character riding still retains his command abilities.

Character Companies are companies that are themselves characters and companies at the same time.  So you can have a dragon as a general of your army (without a rider) or an elite company – like the Fellowship of the Ring – act like a hero character.

Just another reason to play Fantastic Battles.  Next week I will be posting some cavalry.  I have already started painting them up…and I don’t like painting cavalry at all, but that is the cross a gamer must bear if he wants his army painted up.  That or build dwarves instead!

Until next week, stay safe and have fun.

NR

Hi everyone,

I spent the whole week basing and painting up these dragons.  They are D&D plastic models, and if memory serves they are Purple dragons.  Two are the same, but the middle one is from an earlier or later production wave. I bought them off Ebay at least 8 years ago for sure.

The scale is spot on for mighty elven dragons and the middle dragon could easily be made into a ‘character company‘ leader.  This is the flexibility of Fantastic Battles.

For next week I hope to finish up some more characters – the last three in fact.

Until then, stay safe and have fun.

NR