While i'm at Clash of Kings this weekend, I sheduled this update to appear on my blog. It's just my regular painting update keeping me up to date with the painting tally and giving me a target to aim for when buying new models this weekend. First of all, I completed my two mincers: I … Continue reading Pre-clash painting update
and here's my army: The army with a bit of Dutch nationalism. (that's my living room wall, not the Rijksmuseum...) But for those of you who want to see the army up close: For those who want to see my army list: Predictions? It's always hard to predict before the event. Last year I did … Continue reading Clash of Kings ’23, here I come!
This morning SFG-Matt posted on Reddit with a question about starter sets for Kings of War. As this is a question which surfaces from time to time, I'll spend a few minutes writing about this. First of all, the best starter lists are built by yourself with the miniatures you own using the Mantic companion. … Continue reading 2023 Starter lists for ambush
Last summer, I was a bit bored and tallied the amount of miniatures painted in the year before. As work is a bit slow this summer too, I tallied the amount painted in the year since then too. Since my blog post then, I painted 145 miniatures. They add up to: 94 goblins, mawpups and … Continue reading 2022/23 painting tally
With no pressure to finish anything, I find that my painting progress slows to a crawl. Not that I mind - I'm just painting whatever gets my fancy at the moment. A few months ago, I had over 40 halberdiers printed and painted a test model. Content with the quality of the print and painting, … Continue reading Summer painting
Last year during Clash of Kings everyone -and their mother- was playing an ogre army. I seriously estimate the amount of ogre and nightstalker armies to be half of the player base. - And they did well. Not entirely, due to this success, I have thought about starting an army myself, but always resisted to … Continue reading Idea – 12 model ogre ambush army
First things first! I completed my goblin army! YaY! For this, I only needed my 2nd regiment of fleabags. Here's them finished! It's six original fleabags plus one mounted flaggit from vanguard. Apparently, I forgot to finish the basing in this picture, something I have remedied later. Together with my original fleabags, they can be … Continue reading Painting without focus
These weeks I painted up three sets of Balistas (and one more to give away). Moreover, I painted enough crew to use two of them in both of my human armies. To do so, I based the balistas without crew and then based the crew seperately. Here's the same three balistas with either three of … Continue reading Balista efficiency – hobby update
As I recently finished my #MonsterMarch entry, this weekend was time for tidying stuff up. spoken about #MonsterMarch, here's the final blog post from the challenges' host Swordmaster. I mean, seriously, how do people find time to paint a whole army in a month? Also thanks for Albert to join us. Lovely models there and … Continue reading Easter hobby update – finishing up stuff.
I finished not only one, but TWO goblin blasters this month of Monster March! That's another run of #MonsterMarch completed! (Four in a row now! YaY) Last week, the first goblins blaster was close to being finished. After some assembly, this made the leftmost model. The 2nd blaster, however, was just in its early stages. … Continue reading MonsterMarch 2023 finished!
Vince on all things Kings of War 