Quick catch up...

As I haven't been posted as often I thought I'd give a quick update as to what I've been up to.  Though I've been relatively quiet on here the same cannot be said for hobby time, which has seen the play through of The Devil In Iron campaign for Conan and we're now playing through Kingdom Death: Monster (I'll do a separate post for this as it deserves it's own spotlight but I have never gamed this much, such an addictive game) as well as squeezing in a game of Dark Crystal from River Horse Games and preparing the still boxed ships for Star Wars Armada which will be the next game we're going to run with.

Dark Crystal - a talisman style game but very thematic, I had the soundtrack blasting out while The Chamberlain became Emperor of Thra forever!

Other than sleeving lots of cards and PVA-ing cardboard there hasn't been much to show off for Star Wars: Armada however the recent Thrawn expansion did come with two Mandalorian Gauntlet Fighters so I gave them a quick lick of paint

I thought I'd also mention a couple of Kickstarters which I'm currently backing and may be of interest.  First up we have Pacific Rim from River Horse Games.

This is a game of Jaeger vs Kaiju based on the upcoming film plus the original film with 75-115mm pre-painted (not so)miniatures.  Personally I love a good giant monster movie and really enjoed the first Pacific Rim film so this was a must for me, especially as I've always been impressed with River Horse games.

The next game probably doesn't need and introduction as it's been quite heavily covered on various hobby sites, Batman: Gotham City Chronicles.  This is a Kickstarter exclusive game by Monolith and uses an updated version of the THS system which was used for Conan and on that alone we've gone all in, the game system is brilliant and will work fantastically for Batman.

Penguin and Gang for the Batman Miniatures Game

Another gang in the bag ready for some BMG gaming.  I've got to say that compared to the Joker's gang these were a joy to put together, just the usual gap filling to do as on any metal model but otherwise they went together like a dream.

The only sort of issue I had was with what sort of paint scheme to give them, I liked the Knight Models scheme so based it on that but I had to decide on whether to paint a camo design or not.  Initially I was going to do this but after seeing some of the great paint jobs from the community (over at the Arkham City Limits group on Facebook) which didn't go with camo I decided to save myself some time and go with simple grey gear for them.  The other decision to make was whether to paint Sickle's tattoos, as this is something I hadn't done before, but as he wouldn't look right without them I watched an online tutorial and proceeded to give it a go.  Though not brilliant I'm quite happy with the results for a first attempt.

Now enough with the writing and on to the miniatures:

Though I still have some Batman miniatures to go through I'll be taking a break from them as the impending Terminator Miniatures Game will hopefully be in my hands soon...

Joker and the Circus Gang

I've been a little quiet on here of late however my current project has finally been completed after a month of working on them (on and off), so I can finally present the Joker and his Circus Gang

I've got to say these have to be my favourite crew for BMG and I'll be looking to expand them later on with some more members.

However to rewind a little, when I first put these to my desk it was evident some work was going to be needed on them before I could get the first lick of paint down.

There were a few sizeable gaps that needed filling, particularly on the Titan Thug as well as on Harley's mid-section and one of the gang members had a forearm which hadn't cast, so I set to work with both traditional Green Stuff and the liquid variety.  After a week of tinkering they were ready for the base coat.

You'll notice I'm using resin bases/base toppers and I do this because I think they really help to give the miniatures that Gotham feel.  The ones I'm using are the Temple Ruins range from Fenris Games but they work well as a decrepit sidewalk.

After I had given the minis the usual Pound Shop black car spray base coat it was on to picking the colour scheme for crew.  I wasn't overly taken with the vanilla prison gear from the games (though there's nothing wrong with it) as I wanted something decidedly more Jokerish.  Luckily I was perusing through the BMG facebook group and found my inspiration, Dan Halstead had just done a crew in Joker colours and it looked great so I headed to the paint box and started to pick out all the required colours.  One thing I wanted to try out this time was not to use washes as much or at all if possible (which I didn't quite manage) and instead use layers to build up the shades and bar the green I thought it went very well.  Unfortunately for the green I just couldn't get it right and ended up re-doing it twice but I'm glad I did as I'm happy with the end results.

Enough of the text now and on to the pictures:

Mr. J

Harley Quinn

Titan Thug

Ringmaster

Clown (Shield)

August

Clown (Knife)

Contra-Auguste

Sniggering

Triston

While I was set up to take photos I took the opportunity to retake ones for the other BMG miniatures I had already completed (being much more able to take a half decent photo now), so here they are:

Batman

Commissioner Gordon and SWAT Team

Scarecrow

The Demon's Head and League of Assassins

That's everything for now, as usual I'd love to hear your comments and criticism.

Next up on the desk will be Penguin and his crew. 

Phil