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I bought this fantastic Gobleon from Ammon Miniatures at Salute 2013 and had forgotten all about it until a friend of mine suggested I painted my Rogue Trader Orks pink. I don’t really want Pink Bad Moon Orks, but i figured the Gobleon would be perfect in the role of The Pink Goblin!
I haven’t been to Salute since 2010 and I must say I was surprised how far the gaming industry has moved in those few years. It was also the first time in a while I caught up with Mocaiv and Artemis Black, who I learned has joined forces with HassleFree Miniatures. Below are a few photos from Salute, but for me it was new French and German Games that stole the show and I bought some of the amazing miniatures for the 45mm French game “Smog” and some of the funny miniatures for the new French game “Da Clash”. [miniflickr…
This Goblin Gunner is my first crewman for my Goblin Pirate Clan. Normally when I start a new army I start by painting one of the characters as they are the coolest figures, but in this case this little fella in his trolley pulling “The Argument” was my first port of call. I’ve glued all my Pirate goblins on these awesome wooden bases from Micro Art Studio which I thought would give the Pirates a nice ship feel… but in this case I made a mistake with the bases. Can you see what it is? Yes, the boards on the baes…
I am a big fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion and I think Death Note is a brilliantly clever mange series, but nothing beats Battle Angel Alita. However, whereas the other two mentioned Japanese franchises have a spoiled choice for figures, Alita has close to none. In fact the only one I know of was a limited edition figure which was released when the mini series Gunnm: Another Stories was released… and now that figure and the boxset is mine.
My available time for painting miniatures has been severely limited the last few years so my hobby needs have been entertained elsewhere in a more solo-focussed hobby that is vinyl figures. This interest pretty much started in 2009 after a holiday to Tokyo but now with the newly redesigned Scrollmaster.net I’ve decided to open a section dedicated to Vinyl figures starting with my latest purchase: Mr Carl Fredricksen from the amazing Pixar movie “UP”
I first saw the Mr Carl Kubrick Fredricksen on Instagram and spent quite a while trying to find one up for sale. Just as I was about to give up, this double set popped on Amazon and it was an easy choice to get Mr Fredricksen to balloon in.
While my wargaming miniature hobby has a been standing almost still over the last few years due to my lack of available time to paint, I have thrown myself over another hobby, greatly inspired by recent holidays to Tokyo: Vinyl anime and Mange figurines. They may seem like an odd addition to this site, but for me they have been as much fun in a more solo-gaming way. I plan to photograph all of them individually at some point so keep an eye out.
It is the day after the official Warmachine torunament at AGS Con 05 with a slightly Cryx-y feel to it (4 Cryx armies vs 1 Cygnar and 1 Khador) and a somewhat recognisable list of players (4 from my local club PEWC). My force used was (I had two forces but only used this one): 1 Warwitch Deneghra 1 Seether 1 Night Wretch 2 Deathrippers 1 Skarlock Thrall 2 Pistol Wraiths 1 Necrotech 6 Scrap Thralls 1 Mechanithrall max unit A good day of gaming nevertheless and congratulations to Angrychef for winning the tournament. Photos below are from my 3 games. Game 1:…
As I play Warmahcine the first undead pirates I have are ofcourse from Warmachine. Couple of conversions. Can’t have pirates without Jolly Roger. I wanted my pirates to look a bit mouldy, so I kept to brown and green colours. However I also wante them to tie together as a unit so I paint skarfs red wherever possible. Skin was standard Mechanithrall skin which is bone and black. The Quartermaster The Quartermaster turned out nicer than I planned. While I just wanted to get the pirates painted, I did take a bit more time in painting the centre piece of the unit:…
While buying up pirate minis I’ve come across several smaller pirates figures such as pirate goblins, monkeys etc. As you can read on my pirate notes I want to make use of these minis as enhancements to characters such as a gun minion that gives better RAT etc. Minion in action