Longmyre: Blackpowder

 Something a little different this morning!

I've been footling around with EVA foam to make some units with the vague intention of playing some Rebels and Patriots.

Longmyre Infantry

I'd been kind of wondering what to do with my Longmyre setting as it had kind of stalled out so I had a bit of a think about a fun mini project to get the creative juices flowing and ended up with a Black Powder one with Longmyre having to defend it's borders from the notorious robber Baron Vosk of Voskovia (Vosk is the villain in everything!).

Infantry Detail

The infantry are made from three strips of EVA foam glued together and scored on the top and then just painted to look like tiny men. It's kind of blocky but does the job and I'm rather pleased with how they turned out. 

Skirmishers

These figures predate my other 6mm stuff as they got made earlier this year and its taken until now to actually get them photographed. They were the inspiration for my later projects and I must admit that I haven't done anything more with them for a while now and really need to make them some cavalry and artillery to complete the force and then make some of Vosks own regiments to fight them!

Tally Ho!

I'll need to get some more stuff built as I do have a stand of test pieces that I'd made for cavalry but it's a lot more convoluted to make than the infantry so I suspect that further experimentation will need to be done to get the look and feel of cavalry without spending an absolute age making them!

Hopefully I'll have some Orks to show next but until then, All the best!

Imperial Reinforcements

 Hi!

I've been steadily working away on my scratch built 6mm Imperial project for Farpoint and have finished a new infantry platoon, this time for the 50th ''Forgotten'' Frontier Foot:

Like my von Dorn house troops, they're made from a two strips of EVA foam, one forming the body, the second their weapon. This time round I added a small plastic rhinestone to the top as I wasn't 100% happy with how my von Dorn infantry had turned out so decided to experiment a bit.

The little rhinestone gives the figure a head and I really like how the resulting figures turned out.

50th "Forgotten" Frontier Foot Infantry Platoon

The 50th "Forgotten" Frontier Foot is one of the Imperial Guard regiments deployed in the Farpoint sector. Due to the rampant corruption and neglect of the previous Governor, much of their gear and indeed new recruits were siphoned off to Baron Vosk's personal forces leaving them a shadow of their former glory. 

Infantry with Copperhead support

von Dorn's arrival has seen the regiment beginning to be reconstituted but it will prove to be a lot of work to root out the corruption within the ranks, get each unit fully equipped and ready to perform their duties. von Dorn has instituted a crash training programme with officers and NCO's from his own house troops to work with the rather ineffectual 50th's command to get them back in order.  

Thus far, I've got a full platoons worth of infantry completed for the force consisting of command squad, six infantry teams and two heavy weapon stands to give them a little more firepower. I do have transports built but haven't had chance to paint them up yet.

My von Dorn force has also been given some reinforcements, adding a command squad and HQ vehicle for the platoon as well as a pair of Sentinels to complete the force for the time being.

von Dorn Command squad with Party Wagon

I've got a plan for making a second platoon of infantry, this time riding either bikes or skimmers which is in keeping with the rapid response theme of the army but will need to footle around with some gubbins to see what I can make...

von Dorn MKIV Sentinel scout walkers

After I've got the 50th Forgotten's transports painted up, I plan on making some rebels and Orky types for my units to fight but haven't settled on anything quite yet as I have several other projects to complete or indeed work on first!

von Dorn rapid response force

I must admit that I'm really pleased with the progress I've been making with my small scale projects and I've got high hopes of being able to play some 6mm scale reinforced platoon level up to company v company games by the end of the year. As its costing me virtually nothing to make them, its also a good budget miniature project too!

Hopefully I'll get some more stuff bashed out soon as I've got several other bits and bobs finished over the last weeks but just haven't had the time to get pictures of them but expect another update in a few days with more goodies to show.

Until then, All the best!

Making Sense of Projects - Rulebook Rampage

Hi!

So I've got an absolute ton of stuff painted but not had the chance to take photos of them yet! I've also been going through my rulebooks, both physical and PDF and sorting through my frankly staggering collection of rules.

I've posted quite a bit about my love of collecting old rulebooks over the years so I don't think I need to wax lyrical about the joys of delving into old games that nobody plays anymore but my new method of constructing tiny troops, I've got a really good chance of actually trying some of them out!

Thus far, I've been concentrating on making stuff for long running projects that I've wanted to have a bash at for ages, such as my Farpoint Salvage company for Star Mogul:

Farpoint Salvage

I've also been working away at my Orks and Imperial Guard for Rogue Trader and 2nd Edition of 40k:

But I also have a fair amount of 6mm built now as well as my somewhat neglected Monty Python themed army for Dragon Rampant which I really need to get back to...

Imperial Patrol

As I'm now half way through the year and only a single game played, I need to look to remedying the situation now I'm starting to get towards having decent playable forces. Sadly my perusal of my wargame collection has got me thinking of making more and more different bits and bobs with the intention of trying out games I've not played in decades so I'm in a bit of a bind.

Do I tamp down the enthusiasm to keep making stuff for existing projects or do I embrace the ADHD and just go mental, making whatever catches my eye? Both have their pro's and con's but I do worry that if I embrace the modelling madness too much, I'll end up with a plethora of unfinished projects like I usually do...

With this in mind, I'm trying to keep some sort of focus and build enough to keep me on the right track while knocking out projects at a reasonable pace, hopefully without losing interest or hobby mojo. Thus far it seems to be working and I've restrained my over-enthusiasm enough to complete one project, namely Star Mogul (build two forces and play at least one game using them) and my Rogue Trader/2nd edition project is nearing 500 points a side of Imperial Guard and Badmoon Orks.

Once they're at that level, I think I can tick off another box but keep going with them with an aim of reaching 1000 points worth of each before the end of the year and then focus on getting my Dragon Rampant army up to spec...

Mindful of not getting bored, I do think that I'll be adding in a few mini projects along the way as I know from bitter experience that I can get easily frustrated and bored with a project that drags on too long so I'm hoping to use these small projects as palette cleansers between my main projects which will allow me to keep forging forward without the danger of burning out.

With this thought, I have been looking through my collection to see what mini projects I can delve into and have a few up my sleeve that I'm really looking forward to trying out but I also realise that quite a few of my rulesets are generic enough that my figure collection will do the job in several with only minor tinkering.

Hopefully as the nights start drawing in and I slow down with making stuff, I'll be able to try out several different games and post some mini reviews of my ponderings on them.

Anyhoo... Enough of my rambling! I've got to head out to work so until then, All the best!

Leviathan meets Land Ironclads

 Hi!

It's been a while since I've had chance to post anything so I thought it was high time for an update!

While work has been massively busy, I have actually had a rather productive hobby time with lots of stuff built and an amount painted too but its not quite ready to show yet. While construction and painting has been proceeding at pace, I've completely failed to play any games. 

While in the past, this lack of gaming would be stressing me out, I'm not worrying about it too much as I've been making so much stuff for assorted projects that I'm hoping to keep the momentum going on completing models while the sun shines and get lots finished before the gloom of autumn where I'm planning on getting some games in with my newly completed armies!

Now onto the meat of the post; namely delving back into some Leviathan themed shenanigans!

Several years ago now, I made a Dwarven land fleet for Leviathan ported into Land Ironclads and the project kind of fizzled out and got shelved.

Now skip forward to 2026 and I find myself drawn back to the project and have been thinking of restarting it but using some of the techniques that I've been using in my recent small scale work.

I think I've learned to make the most of the cheap materials I have access to and am planning on taking another swing at the lands of Aeroth as I think I could make a fairly reasonable swing at it. It's not going to be purely based on the original Leviathan setting, more of a steampunk one with gigantic clanking, steam bellowing warengines and a smidge of magic...

Hopefully I'll be able to get some test pieces put together this weekend for the assorted races and I'll post progress here once I've got them done.

I'm also hoping to finish off a couple of Orky boys so I'll be able to show them too but I seem to be getting rather obsessed with making stuff at present so they may be shelved until I get the tiny Land Ironclads made but we'll see how we get on!

In the meantime, All the best!