Concord - Beyond the Gates of Antares

 The last of this round of BtGoA stuff... One of the few Warlord paint schemes that I like, so I kept them generic.

Oof, that face needs working on, but at least I can get them to the table now...

Beyond the Gates of Antares, Boromite force.

 This army has been hanging around for the best part of a year while I distracted myself with various other projects.

Lord alone knows when I'll get around to using them for BtGoA. Much as I like that game there isn't much of a scene for it at the moment. Still, I love the sculpts and rate the entire range pretty highly. These models were a joy to paint

There's so much here that will be useful for all the "miniature agnostic" games that I now have my eye on. I know that there's a scifi Frostgrave variant on the horizon, for instance.

Engineer Squad

A fabulous Matriarch unit, with gun drones. Chonky.

This faction have really imaginative cavalry units.

Gaming table finally looking playable

 Using existing kits and the DIY builds I've thrown myself at in recent months it turns out that I finally have enough terrain for a varied table. I definitely need more scatter terrain however.

There's some obvious scaling issues between various bits of scenery here, but the "Garden of Morr" stuff looks ok if you restrict it to a graveyard type corner.

A Northumbrian Tin Soldier "Goblington" takes the first treasure in this game - and keeps it from what I recall.

I call this terrain building phase of hobbying over for now. I have some Antares stuff that's been waiting forever, and an elf army....

Recycled Wizard's Lair

Who doesn't need a bottle of Arran single malt whisky? A top drawer whisky for the money. Not only that, but for once the superfluous packaging struck me as the ideal basis for a Wizard's Tower.  I just wish it would magically produce the whisky too.

I suppose my thinking is obvious from the first image. I made a mold of some brickwork, and shaped the brickwork of the tower in milliput using that and sculpting tools.

 Carve away at the tower to leave a ruined superstructure and carve a 28mm friendly staircase leading up to a door.

Because the height of the door is tall, it would be nice to leave that playable - most games require a complete move if climbing.

Adding lolly stick and hardwood deta
ils, all sculpted to some extent. Make two floors, prime and slap first coat of paint on.

I also had enough Polystyrene brick strips carved to build extra ruined wall sections.

Beyond the Gates of Antares - gone Ghar Ghar.

 The units from the base game. I was putting off painting these and instead ending up really enjoying the process.

I feel like they need an accent colour now. Perhaps across the middle plating?

Establishing a foothold in the Antares universe....

 

Test post.

First time in a long time of no blogging. I hope to keep this blog as an online diary of my re-emergent love affair with war gaming.

...which began with thinking the ruleset for "Bolt Action" sounded cleaner and more interesting than anything I'd previously played....