Last entry for the World of Twilight painting challenge this month

Hey,

Here's my last entry for the January painting challenge.

To be honest, I had hoped to get more miniatures done, but work and family keep interfering :).
I had actually planned to do my grishak horde, but it would have been very monotonous painting, so I switched to other miniatures.
But, I did make some progress and I'm not entirely disappointed by the number of miniatures I managed to finish.

Right now I have an unfinished Kelahn on my painting desk, that I had hoped to show together with the Devanu handler. But now he'll probably be part of the Devanu Outcasts when I get them done.

Birds, snakes and some lizards often have transition between a hatchling and adult stage. With feathers or skin showing both stages at once. I tried to do the same for my jenta handler. With cream white legs, from his hatchling stage, to a darker green on his back.
He also wears some grishak skins to blend in with the pack.

 





 

The kosok is painted as a sempa, so with less colourful wings compared to the kopa.

And some group shots!

Thanks for reading!

Wouter

 

Tor Gaming's mystery box for Relics

Just a quick sidenote for those who are interested in getting some free mini's.

Tor Gaming is giving away a mystery box to one lucky winner.
I followed their Gamingfunder campaign last year and had also bought some Nuem in the past, as I really like the style and look of the mini's.
Relics also has a very nice rules-system, so I look forward to painting and playing this game in the future.

http://torgaming.co.uk/2015/01/07/win-mystery-box-relics-goodies/

Thanks for reading!

Cheers

Wouter

World of Twilight painting challenge and other stuff

Hey,

Here I am again, with just a little progress.
During the holidays I spend the little free time I had sculpting my Exiled king (Simba) for Briskars.
Quite a challenge, as it is the largest thing I have sculpted so far. He isn't finished yet, but will have to wait for a while, as I'm very busy painting World of Twilight miniatures during the spare time I have left. So here's the WIP.

In theory he is a mercenary (with Baxter's profile), and I'm going to add him to either my Maoks or Exiled, but the idea is to give him an oriental look like the other Maoks.
Baxter's club will be replaced by a tesubo and I want to add a straw hat.

Mike from World of Twilight has launched a painting challenge/competion to help backers get their kickstarter mini's painted and I decided to jump in.
My first idea was to get all my grishak done, but progress is slow so far. That's why I started with some expansion forces, so I have at least something to show with.
A devanu kopa from the basic set was still sitting on my desk when I had finally finished Arak Katain, and I felt a bit guilty I hadn't finished him first. While he can't compete in the challenge, I painted him up anyway, so my starter is finished at last.

 

For Arak Katain, I wanted a different skin-colour, as he comes from the Argoran wastes instead.
I also wanted his kosok to stand out and decided to give him some flashy wings.
The wings didn't work out as I wanted, but as I'm running out of time they will have to do.
Part of why I wanted some brightly coloured wings was because I see the kosok as a kopa.
It has always amazed me how different some male birds and amphibians are compared to their female counterparts, as if they are a whole different species.

Thanks for reading!

Wouter

 

A game of Briskars

Yesterday we had our second game of Briskars.
Truth to be told, it didn't went that well even though I employed different tactics compared to our first game. Our first game was a disaster for me too, but I played quite offensive that time, so I went on the defense in this clash.

The setup:

 First turn comes to an end with only some movement on both sides. Madog and Marten hiding behind a small tent and Zhao ready for a countercharge when needed.

The Thuleen hunter shot at Marten, hitting hard. Madog used obey so Marten could shoot back, but he rolled a Critical Failure.
Madog decided to shoot the Thuleen hunter himself after Marten missed, but failed to hit the hunter too.
The other hunter shot Marten in retun, almost killing him.
Marten shot the first hunter again in his own turn and managed to do some damage.

 The Thuleen leader charged Madog and did some massive damage.

 Zhao rushed to her leader's (Madog) aid, but the Thuleen leader dodged away.
When the Thuleen trapper also joined the fray, Zhao managed to dodge aside as well.

 What follows is the part which made me quit, The Thuleen leader hit Madog again and brought him down with a critical hit.
With Marten having to roll for morale before every activation and most likely to be put down at the start of next turn, I had only one member of my clan left, against four opponents. Time to retreat!

Right now I'm a bit at loss on how to handle my opponents Thuleens.
They are faster, hit harder and have an extra member in their group. It almost feels like I'm playing with a 100 coin handicap.
Comparing our leaders, we noticed his leader has almost the same stats, but is faster, has slightly less hitpoints but wears armour. And oh, he hits like a stormram, bringing down Madog with two hits (three without a CH) is a feat none of my members are capable of.
Madog on the other hand has a ranged attack, but if this is worth 10 more points we are not sure.
Looking at the other briskars we especially feel the extra clan member and the fact his hunters don't have to reload are some major advantages.
These are not really complaints, but we just were trying to figure out how things could go so wrong.
Perhaps I need to bring some other briskars to the field next time ...

Thanks for reading

Cheers

Wouter

Happy as a child

Last monday a package arrived that I was anxious to get.
It contains part of my World of Twilight pledge, with the new rulebook also included.
It's been a while since I felt like a child with a new toy, but this time I almost danced around the table where the stuff was laying on.

World of Twilight is a rather unique and fun fantasy setting with a lot of this old, almost fairy tale like, fantasy feel. A bit like older fantasy RPG's. It is also often associated with 'the Dark Crystal', a movie I still like and love a lot.

The pledge also contained the new ruler and a hand drawn map of the world.

Mike, the creator of World of Twilight also included these small terrain pieces, which look great.
 I definitely need more of these :).

With some of my Briskars only half finished this project has to wait for a bit longer, but I look forward to start painting those.

Thanks for watching.

Wouter
 

The Lion King saga continues

Hey,

Here's a quick update of the progress I'm making for my Lion King themed force for Briskars.

This little guy is actually calles Marten, but he will be Timon in my force.
His snout is still very rat-like, but I decided not to change it as it would simply be too much for my limited sculpting skill.

As a deserter from his meerkat colony I wanted his clothing to look a bit like a uniform.
I applied some weathering powder to his trousers to make him look like a crawled trough the dirt.
Like Nala, I also gave him a tail, just because I liked him to have one.

I hope you like him.
Even with a different lamp, he still looks a bit yellow.

Thank you for reading.

Cheers
Wouter

 

Briskars, a 54mm game

 

 

After another long absence I have finally something to show again.

This time it's a 54mm game I picked up at Crisis this year.

 

Briskars is a fun and fast 54mm scale skirmish game with a lot of character and rpg elements.

There are a lot of options you can choose from about what you can do in a turn, like a kick, head-butt, attack or even throw your opponent or pick up and move scenery.

Even in defense, you have the option to simply take the hit, dodge or counter-attack.

Which makes it quite a fun and tactical game.

The limited number of models needed (there are 3 in most starters and you need about 4-5 for a standard game) also makes it possible for each Briskar to do a lot of actions in a turn, depending on how much action points they have.

 

The rules and cards can be downloaded for free from the website:

http://www.tgcmcreation.com/content/6-downloads

A word of warning though. The game is originally in French game and the translation isn't perfect, as is often the case with those smaller gaming companies.

 

As for the miniatures, I found the resin they are using to be very brittle.

The handguard of the swordhandle had broken of in the packaging and while removing the flash the staff also snapped in two.

I mailed them because of these issues and TGCM said they are looking for a better material and that they were already aware of the problem.

I hope they master the casting procedures in the nearby future, as there were a lot of mould lines, some were hard to remove and I even noticed I missed some while painting.

This may all sound a bit negative, but the miniatures were a lot of fun to paint and I look forward to paint more.

 

As for my Briskars, the moment I got them in my hand I decided to do a themed clan.

The theme I choose is a bit silly, I know, but it kind of fits them.

Here's my first memebers of the King's Rock clan (based on the Lion King ;)).

 

Madog (aka Pumbaa)

 

 

Zhan Bao (aka Nala)

 

Nala was converted a bit, as the miniature had bulging eyes I didn't like and I wanted t make her look more like a lioness.
Seeing the artwork of their upcoming Maoks faction (felines), I noticed they all had tails while Zhan Bao didn't even have much of a bum. So I added some volume to her rear-robes and gave her something to swat some flies with.
Overal I'm quit happy with them, although they look a bit yellowish in the pictures, must be the light.

Well, that's it for now, got to take care of my argueing children :).

Thanks for watching!