Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Neil asked for a game of BKC IV to get to know the rules, but using his 20mm Spanish Civil War troops. Which I might say were beautiful. He had even rebased them specially! Phillip kindly put out the terrain, and I put out the Republicans, I went with three big commands, two of anarchists and one of Popularists with the CinC and bunch of armour and an anti-tank gun. Neil had five smaller commands(!) two of Moroccans, and the rest of different Nationalist commands, but no armour. We both had a CV9 commanding officers, but all other commands were C7, and this would be very different to the previous desert games with high cammand stats! I went for the Popularists down the middle and right, Anarchist on either flank. Neil got four out of five of his commands on, but one stalled. this would be the theme of the night. The Popularists armour piled up the road, supported by their infantry and an anti-tank gun. Anarchists to the right terrain hopped. Neil advanced up the centre too, and his...

Graham kindly invited me roud for another game. This time we were trialing the pre-release version of ' Scrapjack s' by Stalker 7. This is a cooperative (or even solo) Sci-Fifsalvage game; where your team of four has to explore and recover items from desolate areas of space. Assume broken spaceships, abandoned stations, but are they actually abandoned? As Graham and I were trialing there were no official floorplans or models, yet. So, an ad-hoc selection of miniatures from Graham's amazing collection (more retro spacesuits/diving suits than hi-tech gear here) and his great portable terrain system. Our team of four enter the area. Each team is made up of different characters, and I'm sure as the rules are finalised, more will become apparent, but ours had a hacker, a fighter, a medic and a fixer types, giving a useful spread of skills across three different stat types. Aim is to sweep each room for goodies and salvage, complete missions for rewards, and survive. That las...

Mark and I got together for a fight. Warhammer Old World at 2000 points. I decided to use my Goblin forces of 'Waaargh Jason' from Goblotopia, while Mark used his Lizards. On the left, Stumpy Jason and his wolf riders, then skirmishing archers, a bolt thrower, big unit of Night goblin spears, with my army standard Not As Big Jason and my general Big Jason (mk III, this time without the giant squig), on their right a large unit of Night Goblin archers. Facing off - Mark's cold one riders, big lizards, a low level shaman, more lizards, skink skirmishers and a Slann high level mage. On the right, the rest of the archers (I said it was big, it filled the hill), Weird Jason a level 4 mage; squigs and herders, spider riders, then a unit of Goblin wolf rider archers, out of shot, cautious Jason and his wolf riders. Opposing this half, past the slann, more lizard warriors, more skirmishing skinks (two units), and fire breathing salamanders. Mark advanced a unit of skinks in cover ...

Hi all, As the months go on, I am finding more random stuff that does not fit into any catagory is creeping it's way up to the surface of my lead mountain.  I decided a few years back, rather than just throw it back like one of Nobby's escaped socks, I would actually paint some of them   Two more Highlanders from the 80s, thanks to Brian up the road. Armed with two bottles or a sword, who is harder? More plaid Well hard! Top view   A chaos warrior It was free, and I've given it to a mate who runs a chaos armym=, hence th elack of basing as he will do it to his own style. Big chopper and not much clothing Utterly impracticle shield too!   A 1983 Grenadier warrior, and a 1985 McDeath Highlander, both from my brilliannt neighbour Brian in his random assortment of stuff. Yes, the camera is knackered... Top view, one for Frostgae period, the other to join my ECW Scots Blurry When the back vi...