Gameday 2015, Shield Painting Trick, and Mini-Steve

Hello,


A busy schedule together with both my computer and phone breaking, I have failed to blog recently.  Rest assured viewer of mediocre blogs, I painted quite a few minis recently and have stuff to post in the near future.

This time I only posting some pictures from one of the two annual Camino Real Gamers conventions.  I was only able to attend for one game, so I didn't get pictures of a few games.  Many thanks to our leader Gerard for putting the show on and putting up with us.  He even provided us free snacks and drinks.


A game set in medieval Japan with amazing terrain.

 A large Flames of War table.

 An Age of Eagles game.

 A Star Wars Armada game being set up.

Here's some exciting pictures from a beautiful Regiment of Foote game put on by the most excellent Steve.

 It was a great game and not just because my side won.

A cool looking game of Bolt Action being set up.

I have a trick for painting shields with the hole in the center.  GW's LotR minis, Black Tree Design minis, and others often have shield that mount on to nubs on the model.  I stick wires through a piece of paper into Styrofoam and slide the shield on to the wires. The paper is essential as spray paint melts the foam.  I prime, then spray and/or airbrush the primary color for the side of shield.  Once dry flip the shields over and repeat.  All you have left is the small details and you've only spent 20 seconds painting.

I captured the before mentioned Steve in miniature.  You can see him playing Warhammer 40K.

Steve always brings an M16 to games.  

Till next time, when I'll have French Nappies, Rohan riders, Oldhammer Imperial Guard, and more!

love,
Baconfat

A Few Painted Minis and Some Battle in the Bosque Pictures

Hello,

First up are the last of the Space Marine Scout models I have been painting.  There's more that need paint, but I am quite tired of painting these guys.  There are far more enjoyable Rohan and Napoleonic models currently being painted.

How many troops do you need armed with only pistols and swords?

Here's five more with shotguns.

 I finished a few more random sci-fi models.  An old Warzone mini to go with my retarded futuristic COBRA force.  The other two are Reaper "bone" plastic/resin models.  The are called IMEF troops, specifically named "Torch" McHugh and Nick Stone.

They're painted the same colors as my earlier mentioned Scouts, so they fight with them without looking to out of place.  I don't think the "bones" have the quality of Reaper's metal minis.

Lastly is a mini given to me by the owner of a much better blog,  http://www.madpadrewargames.blogspot.com   The GW LOTR model is the Gondorian character named Beregond.

And now for some random Battle in the Bosque game convention pics.  There's not alot of pictures, as I only able to attend for part of one of the three days.

Here are some beautiful minis painted for Songs of Drums and Shakos, by Albuquerque's best mini baser.  Don is also and incredible painter.

This was a fun underwater game of Astounding Tales, called SHARKS!  The organizer really came up with an incredibly fun scenario.  Russian and American divers need to recover a nuclear bomb off the crashed bomber, whilst fighting off a ridiculous number of sharks.  The sharks came on the table randomly and we had to deal with a Megladon and a Great White.

Almost everyone was eaten.

Warhammer and 40K pics.

Here is an terrific ECW game, using the Regiment of Foote rules.  The organizers John and Steve were great and brought hundreds of beautiful toys for us to push around.  I like Steve better, because he buys me beer.

Here's an incredibly well painted flying chaos demon shogoth kroot dice carrying imperial steam tank cannon chariot thing.  I really like that poor tied up bastard along for the ride.