Thursday, 26 August 2021

Killteam Unboxed!

 Hoi,

 

This will be a rather special post as I will try to write it both in Dutch and in English, today I am uploading the Dutch version and later this week I will put up an English translation, so my English speaking friends will have to make do with the pictures as we say in Dutch "Luckily we still have the pictures" ;-) .

 

De nieuwe versie van Killteam unboxed! Soms is het handig om één van de huisschilders te zijn van je Vriendelijke Lokale Spellen Winkel, toen men mij vroeg of ik wellicht een "Unboxing verslag" voor de nieuwe versie van het Killteam spel van Games Workshop wilde maken, greep ik die kans natuurlijk met beide handen aan.

 Kill Team: Octarius

Deze doos bevat een gezonde hoeveelheid figuren, terrein en andere spelbenodigdheden, ik zal proberen zo duidelijk mogelijk alles te benoemen. Een beschrijving van de spelregels zal moeten wachten, want ik heb nog geen kans gehad om de boeken goed door te nemen, maar ik kan al wel aangeven dat die  afwijken van de vorige versie, meer informatie hierover is ook te vinden op de website van Killteam zelf.

 

Als men de doos open doet treft men de grote hoeveelheid plastic rekjes aan die alle figuren en gebouwen bevatten.  Gaan we die een voor een langs dan zien we het volgende,

De gebouwen:









Enkele van deze rekjes zitten 2 maal in de doos zodat hetzelfde gebouw ook 2 maal kan worden gebouwd.

De figuren van het Death Korps of Krieg:





De Orc Kommandos

 

De rekjes bevatten genoeg onderdelen om 10 soldaten van het Death Korps te maken, alsmede 10 Orc Kommandos, 1 Gretchin en 1 Squig. 

Barricades en speltoebehoren: 

Andere speltoebehoren bevinden zich onder een stuk karton om ze tegen beschadiging door het plastic te beschermen.


 

Deze omvatten 10 dobbelstenen (oranje met zwarte stippen en zonder factie logo, die zijn apart verkrijgbaar), kartonnen tokens, twee identieke sets met kaarten, een stevig kartonnen speelveld dat bedrukt is aan twee zijden, drie boekwerken; een gids om de figuren en gebouwen in elkaar te zetten, het regelboek en een boek dat de oorlog in de Octarius Sector (is het gek dat ik die in mijn hoofd de ORCtarius sector noem?) beschrijft waarin ook de regels voor de Death Korps en Orc Killteams beschreven worden alsmede de scenarios voor de Octarius Oorlog.

Als laatste zijn er dan twee blaadjes met watertransfers (decals) voor de Orcs en Death Korps. Op het Death Korps blaadje staan markeringen voor Infantry (regiments nummers) voertuig markeringen, campagne markeringen en markeringen om een mijnenveld aan te geven.

Voor de Orcs zijn er algemene symbolen, maar ook symbolen voor alle grote bekende Orc Clans.  

De uitvoering van dit alles is van een relatief hoge kwaliteit en oogt degelijk, de figuren zijn gelukkig niet in een mono pose, maar met onderling uitwisselbare armen gemaakt en met name de Death Korps figuren bieden hierdoor veel flexibiliteit. 

Zijn er dan geen minpunten te bedenken? Nou een paar kleine dingen dan; zo had het GW gesierd als ze een zip-bag hadden toegevoegd om de tokens en dobbelstenen in te doen. De dobbelstenen ogen van een wat mindere kwaliteit, maar hebben het juiste aantal stippen dus voldoen, met factie dobbelstenen voor de Orcs, Death Korps, Adeptus Astartes en Chaos verkrijgbaar hoeft dat echter geen probleem te zijn. Bovendien kun je nooit genoeg dobbelstenen hebben en hier is dan een mooi excuus om nieuwe te kopen nietwaar? Het speelbord en de gebouwen hebben een overduidelijk "Orc-achtig" thema en wellicht was het handiger om meer algemene gebouwen te gebruiken om meerdere strijdtonelen mee te creëren.

Afsluitend ben ik blij verrast met de inhoud van deze prachtig uitgevoerde doos voor Killteam, op verschillende sites is de doos al uitverkocht, mijn FLGS, Het Hobbelpaardje in Roermond, heeft er nog een aantal staan die vanaf zaterdag de 28e augustus te koop zijn. 

Hopelijk kan ik in de toekomst wat van de beschilderde figuren en gebouwen uit de doos hier laten zien.

Cheers Sander

 


 


Monday, 9 August 2021

The Siege of Vraks Part I

 Hoi,

 

While Battletech remains my biggest gaming love and I "play", or more accurately, paint several historical games and periods, I also have a special spot in my hobby heart for the Warhammer Fantasy Battles and 40K lore of Days Gone By.

So it is that I have collected some figures for the huge Siege of Vraks Campaign designed by Forgeworld many years ago. I have quite a few Death Korps of Krieg troops (or stuff that can proxy as such), Inquisitorial Troops, Dark Angels (duhuh), Red Scorpions and some Traitor Guardsmen. 

After a lot of time has gone by with me busy on other stuff, I finally found some time to paint test figures for my Death Korps troops. More importantly: I settled on a regiment and colourscheme, the 143rd. 

My testers are the small Combat Engineer squad and a Leman Russ tank for the 143rd. The Soldiers are secondhand Forgeworld figures and the tank is a regular Leman Russ converted with a Kromlech Miniatures Trench rail at the back and a Space Marine light added as airfilter to the turret. 

Figures:




Tank:






One could argue that I have added a lot of rust and mud to the Leman Russ model, partly that is because I am trying out my weathering skills and partly that is because the Chaos Forces at Vraks had a large continent of Nurgle followers amongst them responsible for releasing large amounts of acids and other chemicals that damaged men and equipement in alarming rates,. So I think I am sticking with the background and besides it gives a nice spot colour to all the blue.

The colourscheme resembles the WW1 French Horizon Bleu and I like that, even though the helmets and gasmasks are more reminiscent of the German forces in said War. 

 

Decals on both the troops and tank are provided by Scum4bag Kustoms and both quality of product and service are awesome! 

For now I am off to painting more WW2 Warlord Games Russians and Germans but I will be back with more of these chaps. While painting I have been checking out some youtube channels and would like to reccomend the following two:

Tabletop Tactics

and 

Broadsword Wargaming

You probably know of them aleady, but I just discovered them and like their enthousiasm and high quality productions. They almost make me want to create my own channel.


Cheers Sander


Wednesday, 4 August 2021

More White...

 Hoi,

 

As is now all but usual, life interfered with my hobby the last few weeks. Floods, evacuations and road accidents all did not encourage me doing any painting or other hobby activities. That said; it's summer holiday right now and I have been able to do some painting as well as play a game of Heroquest with the family.

Today I'd like to show you just one figure: A Tome Keepers Space Marine.





Being a friend of a FLGS owner and having two cute kids, means that sometimes one of those "free-give-sway" Space Marine models finds it's way over tot me. As the White Dwarf included a transfer sheet for the Tome Keepers (a Chapter of Space Marines created by the WD team just for fun) I decided to paint this figure up as one, it might also be that these chaps (The Tome Keepers) are a bit of amateur historians and this of course endears them to me. 

Let me be honest here, I am not all sure I like Games Workshop's present day rules, nor it's business model but some of the figures are really cool. I am still busily beavering away on the Stalingrad big box for said FLGS Owner and will show some pictures of stuff for that project here soon to.


Keep safe and healthy,


Sander

Sunday, 9 May 2021

Cr*pbucket!

 Hoi,

 

Quite a lot of you Blogger guys have been ranting about the downright bad service Photobucket has been supplying recently. I didn't notice I had surpassed my set amount of pictures for my Free account and as such a lot of the pictures in my older blogposts were being hidden by PB untill I upgraded. They didn't notify me about this which I think isn't really civil. This morning I received a notice that my account had been inactive for quite some time, so if I didn't activate it would be closed down. 

 

Just a random picture of me for interest ;-)

Well I activated, noticed the "exceeding hosting limits" notification and since I had no desire of upgrading I tried to delete my account. The latter wasn't an option since a free account does not have a delte my account  button. I tried solving this, wasn't able and in the end just deleted all my albums and left it at that.

Now the effect of this will leave quite a lot of the older posts without pictures. I might remedy this in due time (it has no priority for me now since I haven't been actually using PB for some time) and I might just delete the posts or provide new pictures. 


I just thought I should let you all know.

 

Cheers Sander


Monday, 19 April 2021

Late War Germans

 Hoi there!

A new post is up at the Vacination Challenge and you can check it out here:

LINK

Cheers Sander



Tuesday, 6 April 2021

Just about time...a 2020 review!

 Dear Readers,


We're already 3 months and 4 days into the new year and I have yet to submit my review for 2020. Blogging has again been one of the tasks I could not set myself to these last months, more so because I have also been competing in the 11th Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. Entries for said Challenge can be found here:

Challenge Entries

While I managed to paint a healthy 1390 points worth of stuff for the Challenge, the most prestigious part for me was gaining 10.000+ "Challenges lifepoints" meaning that during all the Challenges I have participated in, I have painted in excess of 10.000 points altogether. 


Before I start the listing of miniatures painted in 2020, I'd like to have a short recap in words of the most important projects running through the year. 

First up are the two main commission projects I have been painting: Roel's Star Wars Legion figures which was a total blast because the figures are full of character and detail.





And two Warlord projects for Martijn: both the La Haye Sainte and Stalingrad boxes. The former is done (explaining the 100 painted 28mm Napoleonics) and the latter is still an ongoing project.

On the side I have been painting stuff for myself as well, mainly Heroquest figures and scatter terrain as well as Battletech figures. 

 






Well let's see what I did in numbers this last year!

 28mm

Napoleonics: 100

WW2: 1 vehicle and 30 figures

Other Historical figures: 2 vehicles and 48 figures

Dark Ages: 16

Indian Mutiny: 10

Pulp Games: 10

Warhammer 40.000: 45

Harry Potter Games: 17

GI JOE: 3 vehicles and 10 figures

General Fantasy: 29 figures

Terrain: 12 large pieces


1:72

Great War: 112 figures

Colonial Period: 48

 

Battletech

14 mechs


15mm

Crimean War: 26

 

Star Wars Legion

2 vehicles 

31 figures

Amounting to a grand total of 7 vehicles and 558 figures painted. I am very happy with that! The output for 2019 was 261 figures so I doubled that score. This is not due to Covid I think, as a teacher it rather had a negative effect on my free time as I was forced to rapidly master online teaching. I blame it on having to do commissions as well as a lot of figures that I was able to batch paint which goes way faster then the one off figures for Heroquest or Battletech I have also painted. 

There are plans for this year in place but for now I am still very busy with painting the Stalingrad forces for Martijn. Curt has also offered us Challengers to participate in a Vaccination Challenge. Where you get to enter figures painted until you get your first shot. You can see that over HERE.

 More will be revealed in time ;-)


Stay Safe and Healthy!