Dredduary, the short arm of the law! Chico's Evil space Dorfs.

So here is my entry for Dredduary / February for my year of puns thanks to the mighty Chico over at Oldhammer on a budget.

Bit disconcerting painting this one as this is the first time I have ever painted a miniature knowing the guy who has designed, sculpted and brought the thing into production.

I just hoped I have done the little fella (that's the miniature NOT Chico) justice!

I now have (M)arch all sorted . . . . .

and then on to Ap(e)ril. . . .

Numbers time

Miniatures painted / sold this year = 57 (2 more gone on eBay)

Target 100

Miniatures bought 15 [damn you HATE con and your give away prices ;0)].

397 miniatures to go!

42 in the black this year.

HATE con one. Can't think of anything clever to say. But look at all the cool S@*% I bought!

Yesterday with the Legion heading off to Warhammer World I decided to resist the temptation and decided to go to Hate Con one with Tim of Creative Biscuit fame.

Unfortunately Tim was snowed under at work with the Mothersday rush for next week so I decided to recon ahead. BOY am I glad I did as they had a 'Bring and Buy' stall upstairs.

I did not do any 'Bringing' but I certainly did some 'Buying'!!!!

First up this. . . . .

Yep boxed!

School Enrichment. Gorka Morka Session 1. Loadsa Dakka but no Vroom, vroom.

With the new half term I decided to make a change and bring the Enrichment lads into the 40th Millennium with Gorka Morka.

The Students were very impressed with the new set up.

First up the 'Gorka's'

'Cunning and Brutal'

Here are the 'Morka's'

'Brutal and Cunning'

Once again everyone got the same profile and weapons and will skill up as the games progress.

It was a standard 'skirmish', intro game but there was a ammo crate in the centre of the board that the students had to try and get off their table edge for an advantage next game.

It turned into a decent punch-up and in true GorkaMorka style most of the 'shootas' had jammed by the third round.

The Morkas managed to scramble the ammo crate off their table edge and secured themselves an 'eavy shoota for next game.

"MOR-KA, MOR-KA MOR-KA!!!"

Bloody typical. . . . .

. . . . . you buy your Kid a nice shiny bike for their birthday and what do they do?

Play with the bloody box!

If you squint you can just make out the bike discarded in the corner.

She never even took the packaging off the wheels!!

Warhammer 8th Edition battle report. "Is it really only turn 2?"

When would the Ratmen learn? More importantly when would the Imperial Administrators listen to his dispatches and take his reports of men sized Rats seriously?

Despite sending the heads of several specimens to the zooilogical institutes, they had been proclaimed fakes, conjoured up to scare the citizens of the Empire.

Then Ambassadors of the Emperor had arrived at his camp and instructed him to push further into the forests to investigate further and report back to the Emperor personally. Of course Custoras negotiated a good price for his silence.

Shortshank redemption pt 6. The battle of the Rock.

The sheer walls of the fortress loomed out of the thick mists, caused by the wide river. The 'Rock' was once a vast bastion, controlling access and trade along the mighty river. That was a long time ago and the large garrison had fled or been driven to madness long ago.

The massive sprawl of deserted brothels and shops at it's gates; Crashart and his warband was now trawling through in search of Wyrdstone; spoke volumes of the wealth that once flowed through this edifice.

Crashart smiled to himself as he drifted into revery, remembering happier days when he was just a dashing, young, sell sword, in exceptionially fine trousers with a purse full of gold to flash; trawling these houses of ill repute and catching the clap like it was going out of fashion.

Suddenly a gun shot rung out, shattering the silence of the dusk and snapping Crashart back to the present! Its' impact splintered the fence post near Crashart's face.

Crashhart glimpsed nerviously through the new hole in the fence to catch a glimpse of their assailants.

"Its those poxy Dwarves again, but this time their tooled up with hand cannons!"

Dwarf Maul. Scibor Chaos Dwarf

Another chip from the lead mountain. Yep it's another Scibor Dwarf.

Really pleased with the way I have painted the black cloth.

If your thinking he looks a little familiar, thats because as soon as my brother looked at this fella with his  horns . . . . .

He immediatly thought of this fella . . . .

Seperated at birth

and Dwarf Maul was born!

REALLY struggled with this one due to my colour blindness. The black on red was a nightmare for me and I could not paint the orange eyes even if I wanted to as I could not see the orange on white. Despite this I think it's a fair approximation and I'm sure he will be seen running through the streets of Mordheim soon.

Numbers time

Miniatures painted / sold this year = 54 (4 more gone on eBay)

Target 100

Miniatures bought 2.

387 miniatures to go!

52 in the black this year.

Bit scarey that I have hit the half way stage of my yearly target within 8 weeks!

Being skint will do that I suppose.

Scibor 28mm / 30mm Dwarf Robber

Another Scibor Dwarf finished off this half term. . . . .

Another gorgeous face sculpt but I was racing the light so could not make the most of the sculpters hard work.

I think this fella looks spot on for a Mordheim warband. I can totally imagine him charging round the streets of Mordheim searching for wyrdstone!

Miniatures painted / sold this year = 49

Target 100

Miniatures bought 2.

392 miniatures to go!

47 in the black this year.