Message (L' Art de la Guerre, Dead man's hand, Lord of the Rings and Bolt action)

   Hello everybody!

   The absence of any post for twelve months is a disgrace to my blog, I admit it! Though it is not an excuse, my laptop became obsolete and I had to take it out of action. The good news is that recently I acquired a new one. Let's hope that this year I will abide by my promise to upload at least one post every month. 

   This year I moved from my previous working place to another and once again I had to change house. Below you can see my new workbench and storage place.

   Nevertheless, I didn't stay idle all these months. I bought some rulebooks and miniatures.

   A good friend of mine gave me some old Lord of the Rings miniatures, so that I can breathe new life into them. He also finished the Khandish Charioteers, WIP of the four parts of which you can see in previous posts of this blog.

Various LOTR miniatures

Khandish Charioteers

   I managed to build, but not to paint, my Soviet army for the Bolt Action. I also built some terrain pieces and played with friends using unpainted miniatures more than ten times. We are still learning the rules but we really enjoy the game every time. Photos will follow in next posts.

  Although my wife and I had some issues with the new house and the moving process, our cat on the contrary, didn't need time to bed in.

   Finally, I would like to mention that last August my blog became ten years old!

   That's all for today! See you next year! Till then, stay safe!

  

Gundabad Blackshields Goblins WIP

   Hello! This is my first post after six months of silence. Although I had as a rule to publish at least one post every month, several problems forced me not to follow this rule the current year.        

   First of all, since I used Windows XP till last summer, one day everything on my laptop was blocked due to lack of any upgrades. Furthermore, Picasa program stopped its function. There I kept all my photos and it was the program I used to add watermarks on them, etc! In addition to all these my work kept me super busy all this period of the year. 

   Anyway, now I am back! I would like to say that my blog became 9 years old in August. I hope to be more prolific next year! Meanwhile, I bought the Oathmark Goblins box and one of their blisters. I intend to use them as Gundabad Blackshields Goblins so that my Grim Hammers will have a well-equipped combative opponent. 

   Below you can see their King, a Captain, a Shaman, some banners, a drummer and three group of warriors, two with hand weapons (swords, axes, etc.) and the third with spears.

   That’s all for today! See you next year. Stay safe!

Grim Hammers

   Grim Hammers are the only dwarves I have from "Hobbit". They are really nice miniatures of hard plastic except for their Captain which is a resin one. 

Grim Hammers

The Captain

   The box contains twelve miniatures. I kept eleven as they were and converted the twelfth.

Nine so far.

   I had a Carnyx from the Celtic warriors command sprue and I thought it was a nice idea to give it to one of the grim hammers.   

   First, I cut the dwarf's hands that held the pick hammer. 

   Then, I glued the open hands of another miniature to their places.

   And here are the last two grim hammers with the Carnyx player, the twelfth grim hammer! 

The Carnyx player

A photo from above

and the family photo.

   Below you can see some photos of the first battle that my grim hammers took part. They were victorious! Enjoy!

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!