Category: Wargaming

The Barrage, two-day gaming convention is only seven days away.  Go to www.hawks-barrage.org and sign up now!  Don’t miss all the great games.  This is a low-key, high-fun annual event.

If you haven’t attended Barrage in the past, you are missing one of the best gaming events of the year.  We have over 50 gaming events, two Flames of War tournaments, an ADLG tournament, vendors, on-site food at reasonable prices, and fun, fun, fun.

If you go to www.hawks-barrage.org you can see the listing of events and find directions, information about local hotels, etc.

There are only eight days until Barrage.  Don’t miss the fun!  See www.hawks-barrage.org for more information about a two-day schedule of quality gaming events.

There are only nine days until Barrage.  See www.hawks-barrage.org for more information.

Recently I posed a picture of a building from Imperial Terrain that my daughter painted.  Here is one that I painted this weekend.  This is the desert farm building.  The cylindrical structure is many to be a communications array of some sort.

In the previous post I showed how we masked a bunch of the building, sprayed it with fleckstone paint, removed the tape, and primed it brown.  The doors on this building come out so that they can be opened or closed.  They slide in and out very easily.

In previous posts I showed pictures of the clockwork, unicycle cavalry from this line of figures by Joe Corsaro.  I also showed the rocket battery.  This weekend I completed the 20 infantry and the command group for this female legion.

Joe recently made available the “official” flags, so you can see the standard bearer holding one.

These figures took quite a while.  Lots of colors and lots of details.

I painted them in sort of British Napoleonic uniforms, with red blouses and gray skirts.  I’m not sure why I painted the helmets black, but the seem to fit with the overall color scheme.

Barrage is 19 and 20 January in Havre de Grace, Maryland.  Don’t miss out on the fun! 

No politics, no kvetching, just a great two days of wargaming!

See www.hawks-barrage.org for more information, directions, event listings, hotels nearby, etc.

If you’re not there, you’ll kick yourself later!

Sign up now.  Bring a buddy!

My buddy Ma’k Morin (that’s Mark with a Massachusetts accent) found one of these Darth Wader figures a year and a half ago, and I have been coveting it ever since.  Both of you who follow my blog will know that I really enjoy figures of ducks and have built up both a fantasy and science fiction duck platoon.  The star ducks were missing their leader.

For Christmas, Ma’k found a Darth Wader figure from someone in England (thanks Dave Wood), and he sent it to me in the mail.  Darth is well travelled, having gone across the Atlantic at least twice.  I was SO excited to get this figure in the mail, and sat right down and painted it.

Ma’k had hoped Darth Wader would arrive in time for my New Years Eve Star Wars game with Combat Patrol(TM), but it arrived just 24 hours late!  He will see action soon!

I have had these Pulp Figures Rockettruppen figures in the painting queue for a while.  During the holidays, I was pretty busy with activities with family and friends, so I was looking for small projects that I could work in the mornings before others woke up.  These figures moved to the head of the queue.

Anyone familiar with Pulp Figures will recognize the Bob Murch sculpting style.  These are very nice figures — like all those from Pulp Figures.  I had hoped to finish them in time for the Duke Morrison Saves Christmas New Year’s Eve game (see earlier blog post), but I didn’t quite make it.  I decided to paint their uniforms in Luftwaffe gray blue, and I think they came out nicely.  The helmets are actually gray, but for some reason they look olive green in these pictures.

The figure sets even come with an MG-34, so you can build a plausible squad; although, there are  few too many pistols.  All in all, this was a fun project, and I like the way the figures turned out.

Greg Priebe had a few extras of these old Dr. Who figures, and I think he is moving toward the newer releases.  They had been sitting in my painting queue for a while, so last week I knocked them out.

The sculpts are old-school 25mm figures, but when painted up, they look fine.

I am not sure when they’ll get on the table.  Greg is usually the one who runs Dr. Who games for the HAWKs.