Odds & Ends (19) - Keeping it in the Family

My son has been painting on and off since he was about 8(he's now 10) he started with a few Reaper Bones dragons and other beasties but as he has gotten older he is now interested in Fallout and Blood Bowl(amongst many other things!).

With his pocket money and birthday/Xmas he has acquired quite a few of Modiphius' Fallout range, so I thought I'd show of his painting, first up his Fallout collection:

As he was showing considerable interest in Blood Bowl and being very keen for him to get into it myself I gave him my spare Lizardman team which was well down my queue for painting and over the course of a couple of weeks he has painted and based his first team:

As for actual gaming, he has played a few half's of table top Bloodbowl and plenty on the Xbox,  I have also had him playing Dragon Rampant and Bolt Action both of which he picked up quickly and enjoyed and he has now picked up a 2nd hand Age of Sigmar Lizardman force and has been browsing 3rd party Kroxigors for his Bloodbowl team to replace the current one he's not keen on!

The start of his AoS army:

Hopefully it's not just a fad but so be it if it is!(though it would be awesome if he caught the Bloodbowl bug at least!)

Prohibition Era - 15mm Project - (VII) - Civilians - The Gents and a few Cars

Following on from last time, here are the men from Blue Moons civilian pack and some extra cars I picked up from E-bay (for about £5) which match perfectly with my existing cars and the minis. The cars are from Kinder Eggs and are metal and plastic they came in a garish red and bronze colour scheme so I've done a quick repaint:

and the Cars:

That's the end of this project for now until I finally get some additional buildings and more importantly more enter-able buildings!

Not sure whats next, I still have a load of minis I got at Xmas to make a start on mainly Blood Bowl and 15mm Fantasy or I might be tempted by my Epic Bad Moons I'll see what takes my fancy!

Prohibition Era - 15mm Project - (VI) - Civilians - The Ladies

I needed a few civilians for my Prohibition era games as they are an important part of the game play, but Blue Moon only sell the one pack with far more (25) than I needed, however the lack of other options meant I had little choice.

I'm not really complaining though, as despite having far more than I'll ever need; as per the rest of the range they are lovely minis and good fun to paint plus easy and non-uniform which is always welcome especially when I'm only slowing getting back into painting. Another plus is it does give me an excuse to pick up some WW2 Home Guard types and maybe have a "what if" invasion game.

First up is the nice selection of female minis which are a nice change to the predominately male figures most of us gamer's paint, it also gives me a chance to use some of brighter less used paints in my collection:

The Gents are next, along with the repaints of the Kinder Egg cars I found on E-bay.

Gaslands (9) Pedestrians and the final vehicles

This is probably the last Gaslands stuff I'll be doing(well at least until I find both an Ambulance and a more suitable Helicopter)

First up is this final car, not that I need anymore, but my 9 year old son built it and he couldn't be bothered to paint it and as I couldn't bear to see it go to waste here it is:

Next is Elheim miniatures Gyrocopter, I couldn't get the pilot to fit as nice as a more competent modeller would but its good enough for me:

A couple of size comparison pics:

and lastly a bunch of Elheim's post apoc 20mm minis to go with the one from the last Gaslands post:

Not sure what I'm going to paint next, I'll just see what appeals, but I might make a start on my 15mm Prohibition civilians and vehicles.

Blood Bowl (IX) - A couple more Star Players and some more odd Balls!

Well my annual midwinter unwillingness to paint seems to have finally gone, although it it took the best part of 4 months to pass this time! Partially my own fault for ordering a load(well to me anyway) of mini's all at once which only added to the usual loss of urge to paint I have in winter.

Starting off slowly then, I have managed to finish a couple of Star Players and some new Balls for Blood Bowl:

I have been trying to get my mitts on this mini for about 10 years but since it was OOP it was silly money on E-bay, but following Forgeworlds release of a new version the prices have come down and I got him for less than the cost of the new version.

Griff Oberwald:

Madcap Miggz:

These are the new balls I have just finished:

And finally a couple of pics of the full collection of 38 utterly redundant balls that I have amassed:

Not much to this post but I'm just glad to be painting again, and I have almost finished my Gaslands pedestrians and final vehicles which will be the subject of my next post.