Konverting Kool Karskins

Привет everybody.

This week I've been converting Karskins to Dark Angels Scouts with shotguns. I absolutely love the models, they look like total badasses. Much better than the muffler gunners that Games Workshop calls stormtroopers. 

On top of this, I'm not a big fan of the Space Marine Scout models. They are way to screaming and running to be tactical. They also have these over/under, pump action, tube fed, shotgun monstrosities with an ejection port that's lower than the barrel that I think are ridiculous. This is a problem I have with bolters as well. It's like the designer doesn't know how a gun works. Anyways, I figured I could do better.

What I started with.

Well, Well, Well

I made this and finished painting it yesterday. I think it looks pretty good. I've been saying for ages that what with having several  cottages and fences, all we need to flesh out a little fantasy (or whatever) town is more details like barrels, boxes, a well perhaps.

This well looks kind of derpy, but we can just assume that the poor shit farmers who drink its e-coli infested waters can't afford any better. It's made out of a chopped up white eraser, chop sticks from some take-out I had, and old magic cards that are worth less than the card they're printed on.

Eraser makes really good stones actually, and hardens up nice when it soaks up glue. I can pretty easily do sloppy stone/brick if anybody has an idea for more terrain like this.

Christmas Gifts from myself YAY

Oop look at me slinking back from the holidays with zero blog action. I spent the holidays reveling in absurd amounts of debauchery, while guiltily reverting to a blog lurker. Now that the holidays are over, I'll be back in my regular blogging schedule, which is whenever I fuckin feel like it.

The most important thing about the holidays is my annual xmas gift to myself. This year the bill ran up to 277$ which covered a box of Temple Guard, a box of Skinks, a Bastiladon (Venusaur), a Slann Mage-Priest, and a Skink Priest. Normally this annual gift is fun and exciting but this year swiping the plastic was painful, as the bastard children at GW are money grubbing price whores. The slann was 60$ by itself, it is a finecast which means there aren't any extra cool bits, and I'm pretty sure GW makes sure that every single fine-cast sprue has been carefully broken in the most crucial area. All my bitching aside, the other kits are wonderful displays of plastic models that come with an eye-gougingly wonderful amount of extra fiddly bits. In an inebriated hazy stupor I rushed to assemble all the models so that I could use them to crush elves. In some later posts I'll do some battle reports, they will be glorious stories filled with elf crunchy goodness and a shameful story of a scar-vet that shit the bed against some puny hex-wraith droppings.

 The Slann finecast required a small amount of green-stuffing to fix the inconsistencies created by the semi-autistic mold operator at GW.

The Skink-Priest was much more satisfying to build, it continues to boggle my mind as to how GW can create such nice plastic models then bungle the finecast so horribly.

The Bastiladon and the Temple Guard are finished as well but I'm too fucking lazy to take pictures now, so your disgusting imagination will have to do for the time being.

WHOOP WHOOOP EDIT TIME

 FULLY PAINTED SKINKS WOOT ...........also the bastiladon

Lizardmen Painting Post #1: Saurus Paint Process

In this post I'm going to go step by step through the process I use to paint my Saurus Warriors.

So lets start with the finished product. I've got 2 done so far and I'm cataloging my progress on the third.

New Germans, Finnish Fortified Companies and Nipple Piercings.

Within the last week a lot of shit has gone down. I will attempt to tackle explaining this shit in three phases:

Phase 1: Talk about new German Infantry models I purchased.
Phase 2: Pontificate my new-found affection for early war Finnish in Flames of War.
Phase 3: Try to justify piercing my friend's nipple with a safety pin when we were fucked up.

I have a lot of work ahead of me.



First, those new Germans. I bought the platoon from a guy for $30 painted and assembled.


Pretty good deal if you ask me. They're painted better than I'd ever paint 15mm infantry. The only big issue is that they are from mid war as opposed to late and are therefore lacking some panzershrecks/fausts. Molgrimmar has some extra fausts/shrecks which I should be able to add in some crazy way.

Battalion Level Wargaming

So, since I got back to school last week I've been working on a battalion level wargame that uses FoW size bases. Each base represents a platoon.  The scale is 1cm = 10m (1:1000). I wanted made the rules detailed enough that it works for every era and as realistic as possible. The rules are attached if anyone wants to read.

In order to persuade you to here is a sample of a unit entry and a little bit about the movement and range levels. I hope someone reads it and comments, I'd like to get some play testing in this weekend; I just have to write up some forces lists. I'm thinking, Americans vs. Russians.

Movement Level	Movement Modifier	Shooting Modifier	Save modifier
Pinned	1/4x	1/4x	(-1/+1)
Withdrawal	1/2x	1x	(+0/+1)
Halt	0x	2x	(+0/+2)
Slow	1/2x	1x	(+0/+1)
Quick	1x	1/2x	(+0/+0)
Double	2x	1/4x	(+1/-1)

Range Name	Range Level	In Game Distance	Real Distance
Hand to Hand Combat	R1	Base Contact	0-1 meters
Close Quarters Combat	R2	0-10 cm	1-100 meters
Firefight (Short Range)	R3S	10-30 cm	100-300 meters
Firefight (Long Range)	R3L	30-50 cm	300-500 meters
Beyond Visual Range	R4	50+ cm	500+ meters

WWII American Para Platoon

pts	R1	R2	R3S	R3L	R4	RMax	Wounds	Move	Density	Ld
Inf	20	50	65	50	1*	100cm	40	10cm	Med	8
Un/Armd	20/4	25/6	30/3	30/0	1*/1*
Save	5+	5+	4+	4+	4+
Skill	5+	3+	3+	4+	4+

Basically, it's crazy complicated, but I've written the rules as a step by step guide so hopefully it won't be too hard to figure out. The rules are on a separate page.

Battle Standards

I have many times ranted about the bsb. Here I try to consolidate my thoughts on bsb's (should there be an apostrophe there? Otherwise it would be bsbs which looks kind of off).

Lady Eboshi never goes to battle without San, her personal banner bearer.