Working on my Photography set up

Been taking a few test shots, need to up the light a bit but as a first try on my new set up I am happy. My targets today were some Modern 28mm Figures and the new Necromunda Goliath Gangers

The Modern are the Empress miniatures Delta force and the Eureka Miniatures Recon Marines, and as everyone knows the Necromunda are good old GW.
Peace James

Zulu's and Necromunda progress.

How have we got to almost half way through January already!!. I set myself a few goals for this month and have been working hard towards them.

 Zulu's have been stuck together and undercoated and yesterday I painted the fist two units, well almost. I undercoat my figures in my old garage (on its last legs with no windows or doors) and have an old washing machine that I use as my table/stand I had undercoated the Zulus before work and in the evening I popped in to grab them. I have no light in the garage but the table is just in the entrance so I step in grab the board of figures and step out...usually. We have been having some very strong winds in the UK and that day had been such a day, as you can imaging plastic Zulu's have very little weight and had been blow off the table onto the floor this I only worked out after my step into the garage resulted in a crunching sound. Yes one base of Zulus took the brunt on my 18 odd stone and are beyond repair so one unit is a base short and will be made up to strength in the next batch. I still have the base work to do but have with the look of these Zulu's and they do not take long to paint.

 As I showed in the last post I stuck the Necronuda figures together in short order and have decided to paint them one at a time rather than as a batch. I completed the first figure and am very happy with the colours picked

While moving my hobby stuff around before Xmas I uncovered my old Necromunda figures, I have to say they still look good and will be seeing action as soon as I complete the latest figures.

 As I was working on prep before Xmas this occurred which I am sure many wargamers will understand.
Wargamers train of thought... Need to finish undercoat on Bloodbowl orcs, have some paint left so will undercoat a few more Zomicide black plague figures of Dad's... Must stick more Zulus together as I promised Dad.. While the glue is out might as well pre base them... Guess can pre base the rifle armed ones too... Seems a shame not to base the Sudan mounted as well. So an hour later desk is full of stuff little of which I planned to paint.

One of my big goals for 2018 is to get back regular gaming, I had looked at two local wargames clubs both of which meet in Stoke-on-Trent (about 30-40 min) but they meet on Thursday and Friday both days that my Wife works evenings so I have never felt I could get over. but this week I looking into maybe a Boardgames club and found one only 5 mins form me that meet on a Tuesday evening Cheshire Gamers I love a good board game and will take my Zombicide along but after introducing myself over social media very quickly found that a few of these games want to move over to miniature wargames... I am sure I can help with that .

So I will be popping along this Tuesday and seeing if I like it.

Necromunda 2.0

Morning All,
                    As I explained in my last post I am going to crack on with the new GW Necromunda, now after opening the box I have to admit that you get plenty for the money (no always the case with GW). The figures and Terrain are nice hard plastic although the figures seem unnecessarily complex to put together. This is some thing I noticed last Xmas when putting the new Bloodbowl figures together. I put this down to the figures being designed on computers and not sculpted.

anyway with it being that odd period between Xmas and New year I knuckled down for some work, I stuck the House Goliath gang in the morning and have to say that GW have made it tough for you to mix these new figures with any old ones you may have tucked away from the 90's these guys are HUGE forget heroic 28mm these guys are almost 40mm but you get some very nice scenic base's

By the afternoon I moved up to the hobby room to start on the House Escher but got a bit distracted while the first girl dried and ended up constructing all the terrain bits.

So this is where I sit today I have all the big guys and terrain done and four of the girls, I have a family meal today but should have time to complete the Escher gang and then its primer time.

  While gaming has been a rare occurrence for me one of my other hobbies has been going great, most Saturdays I am found on the sidelines of my local sports clubs trying to capture stunning action shots, its something I enjoy and has kept me from trying to play sport (while always ended in injury for me). I have an instagram account where I share my sports and a few gaming images.

I also provide images for the local newspapers sport pages and love seeing my work popping up and promoting the local teams. Other that that my life revolves around my lovly wife and daughter plus our Scottie dogs (plus our daughters Schnauzer cross)

Till next time Peace James