Stop your grinning and drop your linen - the Xenomorphs have arrived!



(30/12/15) Father Christmas made good on his promise and delivered two boxes of the Prodos Games Alien Warriors, that's ten 32mm figures in total.

 

 

This is what you get in each box, 5 x heads, 5x torso and legs, 10 x arms (L/R) and 5 x tails, plus 5 x bases. There are a number of variations in most parts which allows for ten slightly different aliens.

 

 

Easy to assemble and they paint up a treat with just a black undercoat, dry brush of a dark charcoal grey all over to highlight and then selective light dry brushing of a dark metallic.

FrostGrave Band Creator

Excel spreadsheets to help you create your first Wizard's Band and select his School of Spells:

Click the link below to bring up the Excel calculator which will look like the picture belows, add number of each character type you want in the light blue column.

LINK: EXCEL Wizard's Band calculator

and the following link will lead to a Spell Selection Excel sheet, which looks like the picture below. Choose your school from the left most column, then select spells from schools to the right as per headings. Each school name will link to a display of the spells relevant to that school.

LINK:EXCEL Spell School

Papercraft Deep Space Freighter build - part 2

(29/11/15 ) Papercraft Deep Space Freighter build - part 2 : the initial post was getting a bit lengthy so a new post started here and with an up-to-date plan:

Having two separate sections for the middle/bulk of the ship was proving too unwieldy and problematic to tie in the maze of adjoining walls so have decided to go with one (too) big middle section and thus joined the second quarter section on to the new third section:

but it's starting to get too big for my little camera to take it all in so might have to get the SLR out next time!

Ok these are troops straight out of the Nam but couldn't resist a few shots:

Have also started churning out bits and pieces to fill the rooms and corridors so that the finished ship will not look so empty:

(04/12/15) One of the trickiest parts of the build completed, converting the standard Bridge module into a double sized, wrap around windowed, bridge area with space to manoeuvre:
The original.....

 The conversion.....

(13/12/15) Not many opportunities to work on the old tub this week so the only unit I managed to complete was the escape pods corridor:

(30/12/15) Not too much to show for the lead up to the Xmas period for obvious reasons, except for printing, cutting, folding and organising the remaining parts for the last section of the ship:

The Nursing Dead

Bought these four little 'beauties' at the Bristol show Blast-Tastic last month. I've already got a fair shambling horde of Zeds but you can never have too many and couldn't resist these - not sure what Freud would say being as my wife is a Midwife but hey-ho!

As a break from the Aliens project thought I would paint them up:

Alien Eggs

(13/11/15) The Alien Eggs packs arrived today from Dark Art Miniatures and they are fantastic. Very detailed, three different styles, closed, ajar and open, but with different bases also. They stand about 20mm tall with a large detailed base. Will try to get some paint on them over the weekend.

 

 

(14/11/15) First couple of eggs painted to experiment with colour schemes:

 

 



 

 (15/11/15) One dozen alien eggs ready to hatch - "But each one of these things comes from an egg, right? So who's laying these eggs? "

 

 

 

 

 



Archive of some of my previous Papercraft builds for wargames

My first big build, a castle. Initially used for a medieval game but here seen with LOTR game run for my son.

 Cityscape which has been out a few times, mainly for zombie games as seen here.

 Mixture of sci-fi fort and industrial/mining area for a Starship Troopers game.

 Another LOTR game but a fortified harbour area.

 More Zeds and bugs in the cityscape..

 Large shopping mall for a zombie shopping trip!

 A new fort for my (papercraft) Arachnids to fight over.