The Walking Dead: All Out War Kickstarter Campaign

There are only 5 days left in The Walking Dead: All Out War Kickstarter campaign but that's plenty of time to get your feet in on the ground floor of what is bound to be a smash hit in the tabletop wargame market.

The Walking Dead: All Out War is the latest spawn of the uber popular comic book series which also gave birth to two AMC television series. The game is described on the Kickstarter page as follows:

The Walking Dead: All Out War is the survival miniatures game from Mantic Games, based on the characters from the pages of the bestselling The Walking Dead comic series from Skybound Entertainment. Your group will be pitted against other groups - in a bitter fight for supplies...but beware, the Walkers react to your every move. In this game everyone and everything is trying to kill you.

Gamers have already pledged over $ 430,000 toward this project ensuring its funding. Pledge levels start at $75 and go up. That might seem like a lot but it includes everything you and your friends need to play the game. With IA rules for the walkers you can even play alone.

Check out a great walk through from the Beasts of War:


 Head on over to Kickstarter and make your pledge today!

WIP - Catachan Ork Hunter - Update

I got a little more work done this afternoon. My Catachan Ork hunter now has hair and a couple of souvenir Ork teeth hanging from his right shoulder guard.

White Metal Games - The Cons of ‘Pro-Painting’

Take a minute to read this great article on Bell of Lost Souls by Caleb Dillon: The Cons of 'Pro-Painting'. He really puts the world of professional miniature painting in perspective. And after you've finished reading the article stop by his webstore, White Metal Games. and take a look at his work.

Outstanding Customer Service

Recently I picked up a few pots of Citadel technical paints from Games Workshop. I purchased the paints at a store in Las Vegas while I was on vacation. Later, when I got home, I opened each of the pots to inspect the paints and found that both the Armageddon Dust and Astrogranite texture paints were dried out. 

What I was left with were a couple of pots with rubbery lumps in them.

I had heard many positive comments about Games Workshop's customer service so I thought I'd contact them and see if they would be willing to replace my paints. I sent the above photo to their customer service department and quickly received a reply asking for my name and mailing address. That same day a replacement of each paint was mailed to my home free of charge.

It isn't often that you find companies willing to stand by their product. After hearing plenty of other positive stories I can now definitively say that GW upholds its commitment to quality customer service.

WIP - Legion Basilisk/Medusa #1

My buddy Joe picked up an Imperial Guard Basilisk and asked me if I could turn it into a Legion Basilisk/Medusa. Before I knew what I was getting into I said yes. Somehow I had it in my head that this would be a much easier project. After I opened the Basilisk box I realized that I would only be able to use the tracks, gun and carriage, and interior hull. Everything else would have to be scratch built. On the upside he was giving me all the spare bits in exchange for my work which meant I had enough parts to build another Salamander.

Using the Forgeworld website as reference I have made paper stencils which I then traced out onto sheets of styrene. I've been working in layers of 1mm and 1/4mm styrene. I used a leather punch to make the axle holes and mounts.

I still have a lot of work to do. I have to make the exhausts for both sides, finish the front hatch and details, bevel the edges, and construct the crew compartment. I;ve already fabricated some artillery rounds which I'll be casting. The final touch will be an ass load of rivets.

WIP - Catachan Ork Hunter

This was a rather productive weekend. One of the things I was able to work on the Catachan Ork Hunter for my Inquisitorial Retinue. I reworked the shoulders adding armour to each side, one with an Inquisition icon cut out of aluminum sheet. I repositioned the rifle sling, and swapped out the ork axe with a less obtrusive sword & scabbard. I replaced the handle with a carved Ork tooth. I threw in an obligatory purity seal for good measure.

I still plan on adding some Ork tooth jewelry, and some hair.

WIP - Inquisitorial Retinue

Never satisfied with working on one project at a time, I've decided to start building an Inquisitorial Retinue. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I've decided to return to building my retinue. Quite some time back I completed my Inquisition Chimera.

I have settled on building an Ordos Xenos retinue. I like the idea of including a couple of Xenos models and xenos tech. I also plan on making more than one inquisitor and perhaps a few extra henchmen so that I can swap between Ordos based on game play. 

 In addition to the Chimera I have also completed a Ministorum Priest. I will definitely be rebasing him at some point and may even do some remodeling.

A Primaris Psyker is under construction using the Chaos Cultist box set. I will definitely be reworking this one to some extent.

I plan on including two Sisters of Battle and a Witch Hunter. I haven't decided if I'll be doing any modification to these models yet.

My first major conversion piece has been a Catachan Veteran Ork Hunter. He's still a work in progress as I let the green stuff set. He's outfitted with a weapon from an old citadel weapon sprue and his trophy ork axe. I plan on continuing the shirt sleeve on the right shoulder, cleaning up the left, adding some hair, a necklace of ork teeth, and perhaps an ork skull shoulder guard.

I'll be throwing in a Kroot warrior and may be converting a couple of Vostroyan snipers as well.