Participation Maelstrom Xmas game -come and join us.

Heya guys and girls. We'll be running out Xmas game this year at the Wargames Foundry factory store in Nottingham City Centre and would love you to drop in and join us for a game. We're planning a multi faction incident on an Imperial World beset by rebellion and will be inviting blog followers to drop in, take control of a squad and have a game with us. It's totally free, we'll provide all the minis and scenery and GM the game for you. This is provisionally booked for Saturday the 15th of December but this may be subject to change. Please leave a comment here if you'd like to attend so we can have a rough idea of numbers. Ideally we'll have four factions, each sub diviable into smaller forces but will have to cap it to five players a side at any one point on a first come first served basis (although if you've come from miles away we'll fit you in somehow even if we're busy). The idea is to run the same two hour scenario twice on the day between around 11am start and a finishing time of 4pm.

Tales from the Maelstrom Xmas participation game.

Early days yet but we *may* be running our Xmas game in a midlands wargaming venue and inviting fellow retrophiles to join in! details to follow in a few weeks (we've both got a very hectic upcoming fortnight) but there may well be the opportunity for you to come along and play a character or squad in out annual 'daft' game. Keep checking for updates :)

Eldar shuttle crew

Crew for the shuttle near finished. Trader (previously painted), Warlock (for navigating those webways), Pilot, Gunner and two Ghost Warriors for when negotiations break down :)

WIP Eldar shuttle.

About half way through painting my Eldar landing craft/shuttle for my pirate/trader/explorer force. Quite pleased with how it's looking so thought i'd stick a pic up now. Pictured are the trader and some of the 'pirates'. I'm currently painting the crew of the pilot, gunner, warlock and two assasin drones.

Angel Gang finished today.

These have been sitting on the painting shelf half done for about a year now so I spent this morning finishing them. Hopefully I'll run a Judges vs The Angel Gang necromunda game at some point.

Recent paint jobs... coming to a battle report soon.

Finished quite a bit off today. To be honest these are not my best, rushed them out to get back into painting (not painted anything for months) and very much 'army standard' The 15 fire angels and their commander previously posted are now finished (as with all of them there is the odd bit of stray static grass to blow off before varnishing), the Inquisitor with them is an old paint job but the fire angels were painted to be his retinue. Equally there is an old 'space scum' mini who is in the Inq's retinue as an 'arch militant' type. Outside of that force i've finsihed a *very* old war droid mini to fight alongside my merc force, an old 'Jerry Cornelius' figure who will no doubt enter a game or too as a rogue trader and lastly (and unlikely to grace any battle report) I finished off my Dungeons and Dragons cleric character mini - she's been close to completion for quite some time but needed basing and a few glazes.

Fire Angels

Some fairly rough and ready 'work in progress' shots of my Rogue trader Inq's retinue of 'fire angels' marines. I chose to do them in a very 'dirty' white as given they are the pre 'trader' 85 marine I wanted a fairly generic 'space troopers' look to them (as in white armour) but didn't want them to look too much like my Eldar. Fire Angels seemed like a good 'white' choice of a classic chapter... i never really like the way GW went with the 'ghengis khan in space' of the white scars (my other consideration). I briefly considered doing 'silver skulls'

but where possible I like to avoid metallic paint in any quantity and i dont think i could do non metallic metal painting justice. as it is i think 'fire angels' will do nicely having a weird KKK meets crusaders look to them and also being 'badab war' loyalists to counter my copplestone and naismith scult marines who i'm doing as lamenters (i'm totally going to regret choosing a yellow chapter as i find yellow a pig to paint).