Helsreach and other BYOL tables

I have just returned from Bring Your Own Lead 2018 Oldhammer event. In this blog post I hope to highlight the Helsreach table set up and a few other tables in the event. I plan to do another blog post with the weekend’s gaming at Helsreach. If I have gotten any names wrong please contact me, I have a awful memory for names.

Last year I was approached by Curtis of Ramshackle Games to set up and help run the Helsreach table in this year’s event. I was up for it but sadly Necromunda is a rule set I do not use. I have never really gotten on with them. So I ended up playing for some part of the weekend but left often scratching my head about the rules.

 Anyway...on to the mighty dump at the end of the Empire, the town of Helsreach...

The terrain is a mix of Curtis, his Brother’s (Badger Horsburgh) and mine. There is two distinct styles. Curtis and his brother (sorry my scatty brain can’t remember his name) are heavy on the weathering. My models are heavy on the posters and graffiti. I like my township to look lived in. Aldan Baxter supplied most of the wasteland weeds and fences which added a realistic dimension to our wasteland scenery.

And the other games....

40K RT battle of the farm

Laserburn

Chainsaw Warrior

Thanks for  reading. The next post will have some Helsreach action.

The painting challenge.

Hello and Welcome back to my blog.

It is no secret that my hobby time has slipped in the last few years. Time seems to absorbed by a thousand other things. When I do get to paint my cats seem to take it in turns to stop me. 

As it is 1st of August I thought I would set myself a target. A challenge to keep me painting. I am aiming at painting a figure a day which will end sometime in mid November, which is when I put the brushes away ready to get the house “Christmassed up”. The target is to get 100 28mm scale figures painted. This should dent the unpainted pile quite a bit. 

There may be a few issues achieving this such as me going to this years BYOL, days out, Halloween  (it’s a big thing in my household), work and chasing electrical gremlins around my motorbike’s wiring. 

I will of course try to keep the blog updated with my progress. Wish me luck.

Thanks for reading, take care out there.

Post Apocalyptic Wargames forum 10th Anniversary

Wastelanders today is the 10th year of the Post Apocalyptic Wargames Forum out in the Wastes. Happy Anniversary!

Frustrated at various forums treating The Post Apocalyptic genre as a sub genre of Sci Fi I wandered the wastelands of the internet and founded the forum. There was a great movement to it proving that the genre was popular. 

The other forums eventually set up dedicated boards to Post Apoc, to stop us pinching their followers. New post apoc games and figures popped up. The genre got a boost with popular culture becoming interested in Post Apocalyptic themes again. Now we are spoilt for selection of games and figure choice.

To celebrate this there is the 10 year celebration figure. 

There is no weapon sculpted intentionally as various members play different time frames and equipment. Just add a weapon of your choice. 

Now to get your hands on this figure all you have is DM your name and address,  over on the forum. Or use the email contact address at the bottom of this blog. 

All it will cost you is.....Postage and Packing. That is right, postage and packing. Just DM with your location and I will get back to you with a price. I only take PayPal. The figure is supplied unpainted with a 25mm plastic base. Due to the limited amount of these minis I can only supply one per person. Get them while they are hot! 

The figure casting isn’t the best but a improvement over the original casts. It has been a pain to get here. Sadly I did not have resources, time or patience to pursue another figure. As these figures are not to my standards I feel that I cannot charge for them. 

Happy Anniversary Day! Parrttttyyyy! 

Carnage attack buggy.

Welcome back to my blog. 

Warlord Carnage rules the wastes with a iron hand. His fleet of vehicles keep the territories under his control safe from the crazies in the lands beyond. The usual methods of attack involve disabling vehicles or causing them to crash. His warboys strip the captured vehicles and build new vehicles. 

The attack buggy is a change of the usual tactics for the Warlord. It is only used when the citadel, gas town or ammo farm is under threat. The buggy’s aim is to destroy the enemy vehicles with fire power. It sports a heavy machine gun and a gauss autocannon. Here weapons where captured from a transporter. The story goes that they where taken from a Civilisation Interceptor. 

This started life as a Hotwheels buggy, the weapons where already on the car. All I have done is to add a blower and Jerry cans. 

Carnage will be getting more vehicles including a couple of odd ball vehicles and a possible warrig. 

Thanks for looking. Stay safe out there.