New additions for my table

Hello and welcome back.

I had some Amazon vouchers burning a hole in my pocket from Christmas. So I plumbed for some gale force 9 Aliens stuff. 

First up is these assets and hazards.

They will be handy for adding dressing to bunker/vault explorations. I may try to make a press mould of the face huggers so they can be used to decorate various bits of terrain. The set may also make good dressing for those folks with a thing for the Necromunda Underhive or Judge Dredd/Strontium Dogs settings.
As if the denizens of Mattblackgod’s world don't have enough problems I also got these:

Each alien body has a option of two heads, which the spares may also be useful for set decoration. Or possibly a head swap with a genestealer. As I also have the Warlord Judge Dredd set still to paint I guess I will be able to run some Dredd vs Aliens games. 

The figures are 30mm and are multipart hard plastic. So they should fit nicely with the rest of my 28mm stuff. 

As the prices aren’t too bad I ordered the Queen and Solaco set with the lifter. £12 for the queen compared to £30-ish for the 40K ambull. No brainer really. Although a quick google search had the dreaded Ambull sets are currently coming in at a whopping £120!! Are people mad?? 

I guess that my figure buying embargo for 2021 has gone south already. 

Thanks for looking. 

Take care out there and remember they mostly come at night.....mostly.  

Happy New Year 2021

Happy new year to all my readers. Let’s hope 2021 is a better, brighter and more stable year for us all. 

Believe it or not I have some plans for 2021 although I suspect that they may only last a few weeks before I get distracted. The overall plan is to try to hit similar painting numbers as 2020, that is at least 2 figures a week. I also plan not to buy any new toys, however we like last year I doubt I will last long on that one. Especially with Stargrave lurking on the horizon (a space variant of Frostgrave). Although my collection probably has enough figures to cover this game. 

Mattblackgod’s world:

Setting may need more melee figures. I figure after 100 years firearms would start to reach non functioning levels. There would also be a drop in available ammunition. A couple of years back I knocked together a load of PA melee figures from various kits. Hopefully I can get to them. 

2000AD:

At the end of last year I picked up the Warlord Judge Dredd set so there is a fair amount of figures to paint up for that. In addition I still have half of the Strontium Dogs figures to paint up. The good thing is that many of the figures in both sets are compatible. My PA setting is futuristic so the figures can fit into it as well. I will hopefully be able to run a figure comparison post to Mongoose’s 2000AD figures. 

Dreadball:

I have some extra Dreadball teams to paint up. There is the Dreadball Extreme set up get paint on too. It is a street version so there are booby traps and other hazards that don’t turn up in a Dreadball league game. It looks to be a fun variation.

Mytharth:

Mytharth is my own fantasy setting designed to run with Frostgrave games. There is a bunch of resin barbarians in the paint queue waiting to become a warband. My collection of unpainted Wizards has grown too. 

Zone Alpha:

Not much needs doing for Zona Alpha. I have plenty of figures and terrain to cover everything. That’s the advantage of being a fan of the Stalker and Metro computer games. Over on Facebook the Zone Alpha group has a competition to build a zone anomaly running throughout 2021. So I am planning on building at least one.

Oldhammer:

My collection of Oldhammer figures still waiting for paint will hopefully get coloured in and applied to what ever faction on Mattblackgod’s world. Some of them may also be useful for the forcoming Stargrave game. I would love to make a Ork Slaver Walker as shown in a illustration in the 40k Rogue Trader rulebook.

Trogs/Orks:

I have plans afoot to get more Orks painted for MBW. 

15mm Post Apoc:

Inspired by the Rage 2 computer game I have figures to paint various post Apoc factions for the MBW15 setting. The advantage of these is that a few of them can be used as factions in my Wild Galaxy setting. 

Wild Galaxy:

Apart from stealing factions from my 15mm Post Apoc setting I have a few terrain ideas to pursue. I would also love to build a 15mm scale cargo spaceship from junk. A frontier world space port is another idea that I would like to pursue. 

Gaslands:

I have a large fleet of vehicles from my Dark Future, Axels & Alloys and Warlands collections. To play Gaslands all I need is some race gates. If I keep them scale neutral they may also be useful for 28mm racing games. 

Prehistorics:

I have a bunch of 15mm cavemen and woolly mammoths to paint up. Hopefully I will get to them before the year is out. I would ultimately like to do different tribes (maybe in 28mm) inspired by the Chronicles of ancient darkness series of novels by Michelle Paver. 

These novels are a excellent read by the way. 

Those are the plans. We shall see how much I get through. As a old manager of mine used to say “A plan only survives it’s first draft”. 

Have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2021. 

Thanks for reading. Take care out there.