Two Year Anniversary

Two years and still going strong!

Lets look at my one year anniversary post here

Now lets compare those stats:

First Year

Miniatures Painted: About 200 (Doesn't include board game minis)

Vehicles Painted: About 20

Terrain Made: Tonnes! Will start adding this to the blog soon!

Page Views: Over 6100+

Followers: 8

Posts: 26

Comments: 59

Most Popular Post: Mission Complete: Poland Was Made Great Again!

Most Popular Traffic Source: Facebook

Most Interesting Traffic Source: A porn site about cuckolding! WTF!

Country Viewing the most: Australia

Most Popular OS: Windows followed by Android (Yay!)

Most Popular Google Search for the page: bolt action polish army (double yay!)

Historical Evidence Found Supporting Left handed Panzerfaust Operators: 0

OK now lets look at the last 12 months:

Second Year

Miniatures Painted: Maybe around 500+

Vehicles Painted: About 15ish

Terrain Made: Too much to count - especially the 3D Printed Stuff

Page Views: Over 26000+ (20000 additional views)

Followers: 30 (24 followers have joined)

Posts: 97 (thats 61 additional posts!)

Comments: 222 (4 times what I had in the first 12 months)

Most Popular Post:  Sd. Kfz. 13 Adler and Blitzkrieg German Pak 36 (Featured in the Warlord Games Newsletter)

Most Popular Traffic Source: Google 

Most Interesting Traffic Source: Google Spain and France

Country Viewing the most: USA then Ireland most interestingly 

Most Popular OS: Windows followed by Mac (Boo Mac!)

Most Popular Google Search for the page: 3D Printed Terrain (Pretty Cool)

Historical Evidence Found Supporting Left handed Panzerfaust Operators: 0

So its been a massive year for me!  One thing I would really like to improve on is my Followers.  I have peeked at 30 for quite some time now.  I think blogging has died off a little especially with twitter and facebook.  My twitter is actually growing very fast and I am over 200 followers now and no doubt it will continue to grow.

I am glad my blog pops up in Google Searches, that is something I have worked hard on.  For example type "28mm Polish Miniatures" into google and click images, lots of my stuff features so I am proud of that.

I am also smashing my 2018 hobby goals that I posted here .  One thing I would like to do is more WW2 content.

Finally...

I have some massive projects on the go that are secret at the moment.  I want to do a big reveal on them when I put a decent dent into them... not even my twitter followers know about them!

Thanks to all for following my Blog.

Dave.

Zombicide Black Plague Core Box Set Complete

I have finally finished painting the Zombicide Black Plague Core set from the CMON Kickstarter.  I'm rather pleased with how this turned out and I have used the painted figures now twice in group games and I have received a lot of praise from the people that I have played the game with.  I am rather chuffed about this positive feedback.

In total there is 71 painted figures.  I think everyone will agree that playing with painted figures is a much more pleasant and creates a more atmospheric experience!

Zombicide Black Plague Core Survivors Painted

Zombicide Black Plague Core Survivors Painted Rear View

The whole box set painted up!

Excuse the Poor lighting but there was a storm on and real life lightning helped
create the mood

I think you will agree that painted miniatures look far better than hordes of grey plastic

Now that this is complete... I must get started on all the Kickstarter bonuses!

Frozen Zombies by Mantic Games

The latest 20 Figures I have painted are some Zombies by Mantic Games.  These have been themed for Frostgrave and anything else in a Frozen Wintery setting.  These models are great and scale really nicely with Frostgrave miniatures.  I have some plans for these lads which I am keeping under wraps at the moment.

I did a fairly quick job to get them ready for the table.  I plan on killing lots of these guys so I didn't want to go too over the top with fancy details.

I really love the derpiness about these guys.  Zombies should be made to look like they are suffering and these Zombies do exactly that.

Blue Zombie skin to show they have been frozen for many years

Far right has taken his own head off

I love the guy second from the left

Legs and a spine, the safest of all the Zombies

Someone fell apart when he crawled out of the frozen tundra

Ranked up these chaps look great!

3D Printed Terrain Spanish Rural Buildings

I have finished painting up my 3D Print Terrain Italy/Spain Kickstarter Rural Buildings.  I have added some sand for texture to bring the buildings to life.  The walls I glued together in an L configuration.

I think they look great and they will be really handy for Peninsula War Campaigns and WW2 in Southern Europe.

3D Print Terrain Italy/Spain Rural Buildings

A Farm House

A Barn

The Three buildings with magnatised roofs.

Zombicide Season 1 Campaign - Boomtown 04

Mission 04 Doomsday Clock

This would be, hands down, without a doubt the hardest game of Zombicide I have ever played.  The scenario alone takes 240 minutes and is rated hard!

I did it in 3 hours and somehow, somehow, somehow, by the skin of my teeth survived!

I lost Phil to the horde and he became a Zombivore and kicked some butt.  You have to collect all the objectives on the board and each time the Zombies get an extra activation you have a countdown from 10 to 0.  You can spend food and water to gain back part of the timer.

3 of my Survivors were all in the red activation given how hard this scenario was and the red spawn was a killer, thankfully I had all the objectives and raced to the exit!

...stupidly hard

The table all set up, the board is huge!

I am getting good at spawning Abominations early on

Luckily I had geared up and dispatched him quickly

... and naturally another one spawns

Phil falls and comes back as a Zombivore

I nearly lost the game here, Wanda took a beating

Wanda was down to 4 wounds and had dropped all her equipment but was rescued
by the other survivors

Josh couldnt hit anything but Doug was sniping like a boss.  These two are the only
in the Campaign not to turn to a Zombivore

Amy was max level and I took the Medic ability and restored some much needed wounds before
fleeing to the exit

Well what a game, it was so hard it was almost enjoyable! I see now why a lot of people have sold their Season 1 of Zombicide and the game gets not much play considering how good Black Plague is.

If I survive this campaign, I am going to take a nice long break from Season 1 and play the crap out of Black Plague and Green Horde... 3 missions to go, until next time!

Gangs of Rome

I recently bought into Gangs of Rome.  I figured I would rather paint up enough figures for a Gang as opposed to painting up one figure at a time.

The figures are based on the official resin bases from the Gangs of Rome webstore.

The bases were initially primed grey, then sprayed with Dulux Granite effect, washed and highlighted.

I even got or pro-like and painted the models on a stick before transferring them to their bases.

I have big plans for this game and am currently 3D Printing some terrain.

The first 6 Gang Members for Gangs of Rome. Based on Gangs of Rome Resin Bases.

How it all began... must glue on sticks

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WIP

Gangs of Rome Tisiphone

Gangs of Rome Fighter Sextus

Gangs of Rome Fighter Quartus

Gangs of Rome Fighter Octavus

Gangs of Rome Fighter Secundus

Gangs of Rome Fighter Decimus