(RAMBLINGS) And then there were Board games again

 During this whole Covid mess I have been slowly getting my Legion units painted and building up my army. 

It was in May that  I wanted to get some gaming back then via Analog play instead of Video games. With the inability to get some face to face gaming I started to get some games that were more for solo play. 

Playing Board games by myself used to feel like this.

At first playing Solo felt weird. After all the reason that I moved away primarily from Miniature Gaming was because I wanted to get more people to game with me and the social interactions. If I wanted to play by myself I would just play some Video Games.

However I do like the tactile feel of Board Games. Lot of the games that I had really did not entice my family to play anyway and with group gaming still out of the question then I needed to find some Games that I can play solo.

So back in June I grabbed me Aftermath - really liked it. After that the flood gates opened since I decided I can start getting games that I can play solo. And so the "Solo" Collection grew. 

Great where am I going to store these

I am eyeing a couple more games that I want to purchase. ( Looking at the Monsters and Minions Expansion ) and Jaws of the Lion  ( For Gloom Haven) Speaking of Gloom Haven I was never really interested in that until I played the game in STEAM so kudos for them starting on that. 

At the same time.. I am starting to look for SOLO variants for a couple of games that I have and time for me to play some IMPERIAL ASSAULT games as well using the APP. 

So looks like I need to enjoy playing more games by myself for a while

Revivals and all that Jazz

Live !!!

So looking at the timestamp from the last post  ( 2 years ago ) we can see that I stopped using this and just decided to post on a Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/badbeefspawning) that I created so as to consolidate all my social media into one platform.

Rune Wars : Miniatures - Waiqar Core Set painting

I have been painting my rune wars miniatures since I arrived back home. Managed to finish another 2 trays worth of Cavalry before doing and surprisingly completing the Waiqar set of the core set. I guess when you get to have flow you are able to complete stuff.. who would have thunk.

Throw back Thursday Time, What excites me right now Looking back

Looking at all the old posts that I have, it is amazing that I have been posting here on and off for the last 10+ years. Most of the armies that I have are sadly still unpainted and yet I am still collecting other stuff.

I Have returned

Well after almost 3 years of being abroad time to revive this site.

I have stuff that I left exactly as it were 3 years ago (me coming home last year don't count as I never got a chance to look at my stuff. Time to revive this site then :)

Wow where have I been and what have I been doing and going forward

And we are at the 4th quarter of the year for 2015. Whatever  happened to my Hobby Posts?

Well as always works get in the way of some gaming time. It had me going to the states in July of last  year for a couple of weeks and then  after a series of events had me being sent back to the states for the long haul in December missing out on a lot of family events.

I have not been idle game wise though. I had brought my Tau and goblin stuff to try to paint (as well as other figures) but never was able to get most of them worked on. I did get some board gaming time in most recently being part of massive games of Twilight Imperium as well as one small game from FFG called:  Star Wars : Armada.

I want to keep this blog alive though as a way for me to monitor my progress in my  painting. But I will start to keep track of my gaming stats in Armada here as well as the other gaming stuff that I am involved in.

GAMING - What have I been doing in the Gaming scene for the 1st Quarter of 2014

It has been a so so quarter gaming wise

Games Workshop

No Gaming action for 40k but I actually managed to get a game of Fantasy with the Orcs and Goblins against the Vampire Horde. As always I got stomped over by the big units while my warmachines failed miserably to dent anything.

Boardgames

Lots of Board game action was done for the last couple of weeks. Less play area than Miniature gaming required and getting non-gamer friends lets me get more play time then. Mostly it has been OMEGA PROTOCOL followed by Smash up and Dreadball that we have been gaming.

Managed to also play at Ludo Bar. Hope to get some more gaming time again for me to scratch that itch but I really also need to get back to finishing my armies.. Just need to find inspiration (translation: I need to get more games in to inspire me to paint :) )

PAINTING: Painting Project OMEGA PROTOCOL is done.

And over the last couple of weeks while I was resting my foot (whether it is gout or just a simple sprain). I managed to paint and complete the rest of the OMEGA protocol figs.

Someone teased me that I never really needed to finish this and should have completed my still unpainted armies but this gave me something (inspiration perhaps) to actually complete them.

PAINTING - Not exactly Miniatures but good enough (OMEGA PROTOCOL Pics)

Well I suddenly had the urge to spray bomb something and then paint but not exactly my (unpainted)  miniature collection. Had the urge to paint up the gaming pieces for my Omega Protocol set. Good thing I have been working at home for most of the days because of a bad right foot.

Not bad work I guess. Here be pics.

A sort of blurred shot of the Commandos
 (L-R - Commander, Rifleman, Heavy Gunner, Counter Measures, Sentry Drone, Reconnaissance)

PAINTING - Well at least there is something

Finally started painting while waiting for work.. Better than nothing

Now let me start working on those Crisis Suits.

GENERAL : What the it's Feb already

Well yes it is the 2nd month of the year.

And yes I have not posted anything for the year regarding my hobbies. Real life will get in the way of gaming as always. Let us see if I can make up by the second half of the month of Feb.

2014 - HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL and Quick look at the last few months of the year that was 2013

Well that was a fast December. With health problems knocking me out for 2 weeks and family schedules and matters forced me out of the GT and some other gaming events, my hobby time petered during the end of the year.

Interestingly I have gotten my friend hooked on board gaming but that is going to be another subject altogether and perhaps a future post.

Hobby wise  there are a lot of new stuff coming out that I am excited about. With Kill Team resurfacing this once again gives me the chance to do some quick and fast painting for a couple of models at a time for me to clear out the backlog... just in time for when the IG and Ork Codex comes in March :P

Will be doing a state of the Spawning Address in the couple of weeks to once again compare how my gaming hobby fared for 2013.

Here is to this new year 2014. May I continue to chuck some dice and duke it out on the gaming tables :)

OBERON SILVER CUP - Quick Recap

"Ignorance can be cured, Stupidity cannot" 
 -- that sums up my games last Sunday at the Oberon Silver cup :D


Without any preparation except fixing all of the broken models that I have I went and played at the Oberon Silver Cup on the weekend. I had spent the week before repairing everything that I could and looking for all missing models that I could.

WIP : Oberon Cup and 40kGT

Well it is less than 48 hours away for the Oberon Cup to be done at Centris this Nov 10 (Typhoon be danged). This will be the first time that I will be playing with my OnG army since last years Jojo Cup. I decided to go for this to at least force me to start repairing/fixing assembling the huge amount of backlogged Orcs and Goblins I still have.

For the past week all I have ever done is assemble magnetic movement trays using old CD cases and the old crafts magnet tray that I have had stored for the past oh ten years ago. I realize that after bringing out all the other stuff I have a ton of to do things before the Oberon cup and I have just one day left to do it all.

Not to be left behind, for 40k there is still the GT and I need to get everything sorted out for that as well. At least I have managed to detail the Riptide (aka "FireMagnet) to at least Tabletop standards.

Here we go. :P

WIP: Tau Allies and first work with InstaMold

Well I caved in and started to make me some Tau Allies for my Orks.. (For the Greater Waaagh)

I was planning to field the following TAU allies.

• Suit Commander
• 2 Honor Crisis Suits
• Riptide --> hey wouldn't use this X)
• Firewarriors
• Skyray

Had a bit of a problem with the Skyray and I lost the sensor bit for the turret when I was cleaning it on the balcony. A wrong move and poof it went over the ledge..(phat Effing fingers). Fortunately I had another Skyray so still had that same bit .Well necessity is the mother of invention so out came the InstaMold.

After having this for months I finally brought it out and tried it and I was impressed with how relatively easy it was. I did use Epo-Wood putty for this which is the best putty really because this thing can be easily cut but is durable.

A friend of mine was gracious enough to prime and base coat my Tau Ally figs for me..  no way was I going to finish painting them all in time for the GT.. So now all I need to do is highlight them.

Well I got less than a month now to finish all of it .. :)

PAINTING: FINALLY SOMETHING FINISHED - Grot Battery Crew A done

And after a long long time.. I finally finished me some Converted (ie replaced square with circle bases and removed the bows and arrows) Grot Crew for my Big Gunz.
Just straight up used some extra Night Goblin boyz. I like the robes for them really, maybe they are part of the Ork Mekanikus team). Still got one more Grot Crew to finish painting.. then off to doing the Shokk Attak Gun.

Grots on a Laptop

Paints used. :
 - Robes - P3 Coal Black
 - Skin - Vallejo Goblin Green
 - wrist bands -Vallejo Gaming Color - Snakebike Equivalent (Leather Brown)
 - top of base/rope/fingers/teeth  -- P3 Frostbrite
 - edge of base - SEMCO - Cobalt Blue
-  feet - P3 Umber

GENERAL : Finished Reading HORUS HERESY : OUTCAST DEAD

Wow.. that was a  rather  interesting read. No actual Legion Story just a few renegade Marines and what was left of the past. I do not understand why the Crusader Army was there on Terra in the first place..

And I was surprised on how they changed (well from what I knew) of when Magnus arrived on Terra.

This book left me more questions than answers though.. maybe it is meant to be.

Hmm..

GENERAL : HORUS HERESY : Age of Darkness read.

Ah well looking on the bright side of things of being sick for 5 days is that I managed to finish another Horus Heresy book in under a day.. The short stories were okay.. not as mind blowing as FIRST HERETIC but still good..

It does prequel and sequel to more of the stories along the way.

Now on to reading The Outcast Dead.

GENERAL - WIP and a game here and there.

Time Space Warp

Well there goes August. The whole second floor had to be repainted and one room had replaced its ceiling so all of my stuff for the second half of August went into storage. Only managed to finish the painting by the start of September. That means my plans to finish painting something has been hugely delayed. That means that I had stopped working on the grot crew batteries after priming them white (and putting on some Vallejo Green) .. now I need to clean off the dust.. (doh) before I can start on them again.

Then I got sidetracked and managedto partially finish something.. and that something was actually a SM drop pod. (well that came out of the blue). Obviously just partly assembled it until I ran out of super glue.. at which point I just started on that Skyray of mine.

Gaming at the Shakk

-Managed to get two games in at the Shakk, the place where I first started to play Warhammer 40k back in the 90s. Got a game with Benjie again using my old Marine army (had to scrounge for them) with me doing a Stern Guard drop pod list and just getting in your face against the Imperial Guard. While my second game I just faced off against Obi's DA army.. Still need to figure out how to face off against Terminators.. oh well.

Working on the Skyray -

I lost a couple of bits while I was moving around place to place assembling the model. One obvious and the other not so. Finding this out distracted me when I was assembling the front sensor and made me screw up some more. Sigh. Maybe I can finish this within the week as I err plan to just stay at home.. (to er save up on purchases and maybe do some assembly work)

Here we go with this week.

So many projects.. Need to focus.

GENERAL : Finished Reading FIRST HERETIC

Well that was an exceptional read on how the WORD BEARERS were first corrupted. I had dragged reading it at the start but after the middle part the pace increased so that I just kept reading until the end of the book.

Now I need to get a copy of the other HORUS HERESY books and finish them..

This is going to be a long reading list.