Combat Cards: Space Wars...a review

As some of you may remember a few months ago I picked up several sets of the original Citadel Combat Cards for a pittance.  These were still new in the wrapper and I have left them that way as long as possible.  Well the time has come to open a pack and take a look...as I have been on a bit of a RT 40K right now I thought I would start with the Space Wars pack.

Lets have a look!

Here they are new in the package...yep!  Still on the card and everything!

Here is the back of the package which you can see has a brief set of rules for a simple card game using the combat cards.  Back in the day my boys and I played this game on a regular basis for a few weeks...I remember it being too basic to be interesting in the long term but we had fun with it for awhile...and lets face it the eye candy was the important part anyway...:)

Dead Lead...Casualty Figures Part 1

Once again life has been draining me of the will to write blog posts.  After spending most of my day in front of a computer screen I just have not had the inclination to do more of that when I get home.

Wah wah poor me...pity party over..:)

On to more interesting things.

While my figure painting and blog writing had been slow, somehow I've still found the time to keep adding new figures to my collection...yes yes I know you are surprised to hear that.... ;)

My latest addiction has been casualty figures.  Why?  I can't really say where the interest has come from but I'm just going with it.

Today I received two wounded brettonian figures from the 3rd ed era that I have been trying to track down for quite a while now...and thanks the that most gentlemanly of collectors...Bridgend Steve I now can cross them off my wants list!

The more dynamic of the two is this foot knight who has just taken an arrow to the chest...

Just a great sculpt that really tells a story... Here is the back view

...and here is a special treat that I wasn't expecting... Check out his tab...it made me chuckle.  A perfect example of British understatement!

And here is a picture of the othe figure Steve sent me...as you can see this poor bloke has already succumbed to his wounds.

I look forward to trying to work these guys into my Bret army or vignettes for future LPL entries.

I'm very happy to add these to the collection.  What's your take on casualty figures?  Cool?  Or waste of time?

Oh...and by the way...if you have any spare casualty figures...of any race...please let me know!

Cheers,

Blue

LPL Round 8: Retained Knights...on a smoke break...

Howdy all...sorry for the lack of blogage over the last few weeks...life has just been too hectic for me to spare the time. 

...anyway...time to get back on that horse.

Well my LPL kind of fell apart this year...things had been going quite well until the second half of the contest.  After using the team of Averlanders for Round 7 I was able to complete one more new team for round 8 but after that I had to use two teams that had been previously displayed elsewhere...which means that they didn't receive the "new team" bonus points...which meant my standings in the polls continued to slide...:(

Oh well...as someone once told me..."Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"  (whistle....)  So lets forget about the above and take a look at the last new team I was able to complete for Round 8. 

LPL Round 7: thebinman's Surprise

Howdy all,

Just a quick update...the summer is really starting to ramp up and the painting schedule is taking a hit.  for the seventh round of the LPL I had to compromise....basically there was no way I was going to be able to get a new team painted in time...but I wanted to have an interesting and compelling entry even if the figures weren't "new" ...so I opted to fall back on the the Averlanders that I have been painting up for thebinman...a fellow lead head from the LAF.  So I did a little touch up and finished a couple of shields that had been lack and then set them all up on my Photo board for their moment in the sun.

Here they are:

LPL Round 6: Orks Attack

Well yet another week has slipped by and another team has stepped into the Arena of the LPL...allowing last weeks warriors to step into the lime light....

...though they are a bunch of Losers!

...sorry to vent...its been a tough LPL....and this round my team went down to defeat...

But here they are to look at anyway!  (...losers! grumble grumble :) )

For round six I opted to start on a squad of enemies for my RT 40k project...and I couldn't resist painting up some of the Orks that have been pouring in through my mailbox of late.  Here they are!

LPL Round 5: Sea Peoples Raiding Party

Well...I've managed to make it to the mid point of this years LPL...man how time flies!  One of the great things about the LPL is that it sometimes forces you to paint outside your comfort zone.  For Round 5 the theme was: Ancients....

...now as you are well aware I have a mass of lead in my man cave...but it does not contain a single "Ancients" miniature.  BBBuuuttt...as luck would have it I just concluded an agreement with a kind gentleman from the Oldhammer Forum to paint some figures that fit the bill quite nicely.  LadAsbestos sent me a great group of miniatures to work on and among them were these five Sea Peoples Warriors...I beleive they are from Foundry.  They turned out to be a joy to paint...here they are!

LPL Round 4: Chaos Comes to Town...

Howdy all,

Time for the weekly update on the LPL.  The last weeks "competition" has been the closest contest I have ever been involved in....and is perhaps the closest in recent LPL history.  When I last checked nearly 500 votes had been cast and the two teams were still within 3 votes of each other.  As of Friday ...midday...we were tied!  My team was up against that of Professor Witchheimer...who I consider one of the best painters and photographers in the LPL...his entries are consistently of VERY high quality....so I'm quite happy that my team is even holding its own against such talent.

Anyway...on with the show.  This was a un-themed round...so I dug into some work that I've been meaning to do for many months...some more Chaos figures for my CDO compatriot Hashuts Little Helper (HlH).  The three chaos warriors in this team are a continuation of some painting I did for HlH more than a year ago ...where he sent me some painted Marauder MM90 Chaos dwarfs and I painted the Chaos Warriors that inspired them...in colors similar to his MM90 color choices.  The two citadel chaos dwarfs on this team are a part of a small batch of a few other figures I agreed to paint for HlH.

Anyway...here they are as a team...

Now let's look at the three warriors and their corresponding MM90s...

First up are the copper twins...

Here I stuck very close to the "source material" that HlH sent to me...even down to shield selection.  Luckily this is a CW that can pull off the smaller shield....which comes from the Marauder chaos/undead sprue.

Next we have the Blue meanies...

Again I tried to mimic the color of the CD fairly closely....and again I turned to my stash of marauder shields to give this guy a bit of protection.  I picked this particular shield because I felt that the bull skull motif mirrored the shape of the horns on the warrior helmet...also this CW can handle a much larger shield than the copper one.

Finally we have the Pinks...

As you can see HlH used metallic pink for his CD...and I did some experimenting with making my own pink metallic paint....and those experiments didn't go well.   

So after consulting with HlH I went for a non metallic finish for the armor.  Still I was quite nervous about trying to pull off this much pink as it was not a color I have used much in the past.  And right up till the final layer I was convinced that I was going to have to start over...but something about that final highlight pulled the whole paint job together.  Now I can't wait to try this color again on a few of my own figures!

The two citadel chaos dwarfs on this team also deserve some mention as they are both great figures in their own right.  

This guy just looks like a loony!

And this guy just looks....well...awesome....the leather thigh high leggings and the big glaive thingie make him one of my new favorite chaos dwarf sculpts.

So they they are....Team four....they've done me right this week no matter who finally comes out with the most votes.

Cheers for now!