PocketQuest (I)

A friend and I have been working on a little project, a simple yet fun mini Dungeon Quest type game, in which you control a group of adventurers exploring(ie looting) a randomly determined dungeon. The game covers spells, fighting (obviously) exploring, magic items, traps etc and includes a campaign system so that you can stick with your little characters and watch them advance and become more powerful over time. Whilst written with 6mm mini's in mind, it will work fine with anything up to 20mm.

We have managed to rope in Richard at Perfect 6 mini's and Connor at The Miniature Architect to supply the figures and game boards respectively.

We still need to tweak the rules and to finalise a couple of little details such as having Leven miniatures cast up some dungeon furniture for inclusion in the box, but its almost ready to go into production, before we do though we are trying to gauge interest in this game, as that will effect the numbers on the initial run, so please take the time to look over the following pictures and let me know (by leaving a comment)if you would be interested in this sort of thing:

6mm Sci-Fi/Post Apoc Project (VI) - KR16 Campaign - The Characters

Not got much done of late, in fact I had not painted a mini for over two weeks until today when I decided to pull my finger out and finish of my sci-fi skirmish project. So onto the figures, these are all from either Angel Barracks or CinC, and I plan on using them to represent civilians and special characters for my campaign:

Bounty hunter:

Mining party:

Paul - the lone wanderer:

Corporate suit:

A collection of civvies:

A colonial family.

Professor Waat - intergalactic crimelord:

And I have finished off a the last of my vehicles:

 This one is a conversion using Ground Zero Games bits pack:

 Finally a GW Tyranid bit which at this scale makes for a sizeable alien creature:

I'm feeling re-motivated at the moment so I am cracking on with some more 15mm sci-fi stuff before definately moving on to my Old west project.

6mm Fantasy Project (6) - Dungeons & Castles

Well, April has been a hectic month, between the kids school holidays, re-laying my drive and helping decorate our bedroom I have had less time than usual to spend on geek stuff! Still, I managed to grab a few more games of Gruntz, and visit the Royal Armouries for their new (Perry miniatures) Agincourt display and popped in to show some support for my club who were putting on one of a number of participation games.

Onto some more additions to my fantasy project, this time (and a first for me) some pro-painted 6mm mini's painted and produced by the very talented Richard at Perfect6. I am planning on using these for a Dungeon exploration/RPG-lite game that I'm in the process of writing. The only thing I have done to these is base them up on 5p pieces with some Milliput made to look like rough flagstones.

 Check out Perfect6's site for far better pics of these minis:

Next is a bit of a coup for my little ol' blog as these are the first pictures of Leven miniatures forthcoming Castles/Keeps, and lovely they are too, I'm informed that their may be some minor changes yet and they should be available to buy around July:

 

 Mick at Leven has also re-done the city wall set, this being a picture of the newly made Gate section:

Currently I am on with my 15mm scale Mech some more heavy weapons teams, and desperately trying to get my act together to finish of my 6mm sci-fi skirmish stuff!

Gruntz - 15mm Sci-fi Project (3)

 

 

Still on with my 15mm stuff, I have now finished the Eureka Ventauran faction with just a Mech to add when it arrives from Critical Mass (hopefully this week while I'm off work), and I have finished off a bunch more MDF buildings.  I am now back to the Army faction which I started with but got distracted by the lovely and very easy to paint Ventaurans.

 

First up the last of the Ventaurans:

 

Sniper Team (converted with a bit of pin to extend the barrel)

Heavy Support Team

Combat Tech Team
 

The final squad:

 

The whole Ventauran faction:

Special Forces Squad (White Dragon Miniatures)

Another Gruntz squad(GZG miniatures)

a MBT for the Army faction:

and I went back and added a commander to the first tank I had painted:

The Army faction is almost there:

Some Multi-Storey and shack like buildings picked up cheap on E-bay, I have added a load of bits from the spares pile to try and "Sci-Fi" them up a bit along with a few professional bits from GZG and Brigade:

I have now got a reasonable sized built up area with a run down colony look:

I cant stop painting this stuff at the moment and have nearly painted everything I plan on getting, I'll soon get back to my beloved 6mm however and finish off that sci-fi skirmish project and some new fantasy miniatures I have gotten hold of from Perfect6 which are awesome!