Getting ready to fly the Colours

 Boy did that summer fly by. Lots of games played at the club over the weeks, lots of Old World Warhammer. (My Orcs and Goblins army is pretty fun, for some reason whenever I successfully cast any spell it always seems to backfire on me). I still have problems dealing with pesky flying models, although my last game, my Doom Diver was man of the match, killing an Orc War boss on Wyvern in two turns of firing, so sometimes the plan works.

The army is growing and growing.

My character riding a giant squig (or rather riding in) isn't really effective in the game, so I have started using the model as a Mangler Squig instead, much more effective. I have been watching various YouTube videos on converting/sculpting your own crazy creature models, so I might have a go at making a bigger squig too.

Painting wise, I have had a rest from my own models. I did do a commission job of some Skaven for a Mordheim gang. |These are 3D printed models and so quite delicate. Combined with the delicate design of some of them, I spent the entire time when painting, paranoid something was going to snap. Luckily they all stayed in one piece and the customer was super happy with the final result.

Next up for a club night, my copy of Worms the board game from Kickstarter finally arrived. I am very excited to play this. The Collectors edition can have up to six players, so it is a great game for our club to play. The rules are pretty straightforward and seem pretty fun. My only slight bugbear is one of the rules involves flipping a coin for a 50/50 result. I have found in other games that there can be an issue with this kind of rule. Some people struggle flipping a coin (especially younger players) or there can be accusations of coins not being "flipped properly". I think it is easier just to replace with a D6 roll, 1-3 or 4-6 for either result. This edition does come with a nice heavy metal coin rather than the cardboard one the basic edition comes with, but I think I'd rather go with the dice. 

The included models are great though. With lots of character and variety, the weapons they are armed with have no game effect, weapons are chosen by cards, but they do look cool.

I think they definitely need some paint, worms definitely have to be peachy, not grey. 

Talking of club business, we have our annual show coming up this month. This is always a welcome day to counter the sadness of the end of the summer hols. Saturday the 14th of September is Newbury and Reading wargames Colours show at the Newbury Racecourse. I shall hopefully be helping out on the Bring and Buy stall again this year, it gives me a great chance to chat to lots of punters and see lots of cool models. I will also be able to catch up with some wargamer friends I don't see regularly enough too. Repeat readers will know that I like to peruse the web pages of some of the traders in advance to see if there is anything I might seek out. I have not had the chance to go through them all yet but some have caught my eye.

Beowulf miniatures look cool, they have some nice looking "Blood Ball" miniatures. (No prizes for guessing what game those models could proxy in to.) The Fiends of Chaos team look particularly cool. Black Scorpion always have beautiful sculpts (I have most of their Tombstone range) their new Foot Knights look awesome. Rok minis seem to be growing their range every year. They now have a five army battle set that looks cool. If you are really feeling flush they can include a giant dwarven fortress in the same scale that looks awesome. For those of you that wish to peruse the web pages like myself I have made a handy list of hyperlinks for you to use below. Full disclosure I cannot be held responsible that they are the correct link, or that they are secure for purchases. These are just the links I found with my google fu skills. A couple of the traders I could not immediately find a site for, so left them out. Nevertheless I hope this list helps you out. If you are coming to the show, please feel free to come say hi.

https://www.1-72.co.uk/

https://www.abcbrushes.com/ 

https://anschlusswargames.com/

https://www.athenaminiatures.co.uk/

https://www.baccus6mm.com/

https://www.battlezone-miniatures.co.uk/

https://www.beowulfminiatures.com/ 

https://www.blackscorpionminiatures.com/

https://blotz.co.uk/

https://brigademodels.co.uk/

https://www.charliefoxtrotmodels.com/

https://crooked-dice.co.uk/

https://www.culverin-models.co.uk/ 

https://www.davidlanchestermilitarybooks.co.uk/

https://www.debrisofwar.com/store/

https://www.deepcutstudio.com/

https://www.disainstudio.com/

https://www.forgedinbattle.com/

https://eaglefigures.co.uk/

https://www.empressminiatures.com/

https://entoyment.co.uk/

https://www.essexminiatures.co.uk/

https://www.greatescapegames.co.uk/

http://www.gringo40s.com/

https://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/

https://www.grubbytanks.com/

https://headbunny.games/

https://www.heroicsandros.co.uk/

https://www.imperatormodels.com/

https://ironcladminiatures.co.uk/

https://irongatescenery.co.uk/

https://www.krcases.com/

http://www.lastmanlastbullet.co.uk/

https://www.magneticdisplays.co.uk/

https://www.mammothminiatures.com/

https://www.mcmodelpainting.uk/

https://www.model-army.com/

https://newlinedesigns.co.uk/

https://www.oakbound.co.uk/

https://www.parkfieldminiatures.co.uk/

https://www.paulmeekins.co.uk/

https://www.pendraken.co.uk/

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/

https://www.peterpig.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/paintspirate/

https://productsforwargamers.com/

https://www.valiantminiatures.com/

https://www.rokminis.com/

https://sarissa-precision.com/

https://sheppeymodels.co.uk/

http://www.tablescape.co.uk/

https://www.tangentminiatures.com/

https://thepitgamingshop.co.uk/shop/

https://tumblingdiceuk.com/

https://voidscarminiatures.com/

https://warbases.co.uk/

https://store.warlordgames.com/

https://warpaintfigures.com/

https://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/