Weird WWII Nazi Zombies

A recent Painting-in-Progress - a horde of Nazi Zombies! Miniatures are from Secrets of the Third Reich and I bought them off a friend (they were surplus to his requirements). Not much left to do on them now!

Merry belated Christmas...

Merry Christmas to anyone who reads this!
I had a very good day of debauchery, eating lots of chocolate and Christmas dinner! I also had a few surprises present-wise, mainly in the shape of an Xbox360 and Modern Warfare 2, which was a massive surprise! I never thought for one minute that I'd get one, as the main people who buy me presents (my parents) had already bought me Space Hulk, which is a rather large chunk of gift! I knew I was getting that (as I was the one that ordered it and took delivery of it for my mother) and there were a few other things that I'd ordered (wargames hobby-related) that I knew I was receiving, so when I'd opened my presents and received everything I expected, only to be given another large box...

Christopher is happy today, put it that way! I'd have been over the moon with Space Hulk etc. but this is another level of cheerfulness!

So, I got...


Space Hulk, which is a ton-weight! I'd avoided going into GW so it was still rather new to me when I opened it up - I'm extremely impressed by this, and really flummoxed as to why it was a limited edition. I savoured opening it up and the new game smell - I think the card tiles were really the way to go for GW - they're much more evocative and atmospheric than monotone plastic would have been. I've removed all the miniatures from their sprues and began magnetising the Terminators, to go on 40mm bases to make them playable for 40k. They might be the start of a small Blood Angels army with the release of the Codex (rumoured to be later in 2010).


This is another gift from my parents, a poster board, which is to be hung as a picture on one of my bedroom walls. I'm not entirely sure where at yet - I love these old propaganda posters (and got a few similar things picked by my mum this year - I got this on a mug too, and some coasters (for hot drinks) with various other phrases on from the same WWII British propaganda series - Make Do and Mend for example).


I've heard nothing but good things about this book - it takes a sort of CSI look at zombies and whether humanity would survive a real-life outbreak. I've heard it recommended all over the place, so it was lovely to get it from my sister and her partner this Christmas!


Another gift from my parents (and ordered by me) - the "Wasteland Desperadoes" from Copplestone Castings "Future War" collection. £8 for 4 "character" miniatures seems great to me, and they're all such characterful and interesting sculpts. The detail is fantastic and the casts are top-notch, barely any moldlines. These are part of my first order from Copplestone, and I have to say, I doubt they'll be the last! I also have some of their scavengers and will probably need to bulk up their numbers sometime...


And finally, another from the parents - some terrain bits and pieces (with one of the Desperadoes in for scale) from Black Cat Bases. There are some mattresses, a couple of sofas, a "fly-tipping pile" of rubbish (with mattresses, overturned wheelie-bins, bags of rubbish and a dumped fridge) and finally, some washing machines, which were an added freebie! Very nice I think - the casts aren't the greatest, but I think that's how they manage to sell them so cheaply, plus for terrain they're fine! These are for my wasteland terrain collection and should begin to appear on some of my new pieces.

Thats about all for today, I have a large update to post another time, but this was starting to stretch into essay proportions. I've begun the magnetisation process and will have some pictures of that tomorrow!
Chris

Introduction

Hey folks!
Just your basic introduction here - who I am, what I game and what I plan to do with the blog...
Well, I'm Christopher, 23 year old, currently of no-fixed-occupation. A few weeks ago I had operation number 6 on my knees, this time my right knee. I've had trouble with them both for about 12 years now, which has led to me still being yet to complete my university degree, which utterly sucks - at the moment I'm unemployed and no longer a student, at least for the time being, until my knee is sorted out. It seems as though this operation has once again failed to fix the problem, but I have to give it some extra time before the consultant can re-evaluate it. Not exactly fun!

Annnyway, I'm interested in various things, including wargames, film, gardening, cooking and reading, and the primary aim of this blog is log my wargames miniature painting progress. It'll be a place where I can keep all of my projects together and plan what I'm going to tackle next. It'll also be somewhere for me to recap the projects I've already finished, with small amounts of fiction and background material. I also aim to eventually put up battle reports and the like, when I finally start to game on a regular basis - up until this point in my wargames hobby I've mainly been a modeller and painter, which I hope to change in the new year.

As for the games and forces I collect and play, they are the following:
- Warhammer 40k: Imperial Space Marines - Shadow Wraiths Chapter - these are my main 40k army, using the basic Space Marine Codex.
- Warhammer 40k: Chaos Space Marines - The Vulture Legion - a Chaos Renegade army in the vein of the Red Corsairs - a force of Renegades and Legionnaires banded together under a charismatic overlord, with support from various different factions.
- Warhammer 40k: Chaos Daemons - a side project, these are basically various minis I've accumulated in trades and eBay bulk-buys over the past few years. One of my favourite projects.
- Warhammer 40k: Imperial Guard - these are an army I've had a while, but are in a mightily busted-up condition. Numbering 150 or so Infantry, 3 Leman Russ and 8 or so Sentinels, these will be getting some love and attention in the new year. They will be urban-operations themed.
- Warhammer Fantasy: Warriors of Chaos - another army that's waiting for some attention. These are mostly still in pieces, and also eBay bulk-buys. They'll be getting some Knights in the new year.
- Warhammer Fantasy: Dwarfs - an army that was started and finished a few years back when I got back into the wargames hobby after a couple of years hiatus - these may be sold off to sustain the hobby...
- Necromunda: Escher - these are an almost-complete gang, on lovely resin bases. They also feature in my wasteland post-apoc setting.
- Necromunda: Orlocks - finished gang, for either Necro or the mentioned wasteland setting.
- Mordheim: Human Mercenary Warband - complete.
- Mordheim: Witch Hunter Warband - complete.
- Blood Bowl: Humans - complete.
- LotR: Evil force, mixed - so far, these are complete. Might sell them...

Wasteland setting: As mentioned above, I have a lot of miniatures for a post-apocalyptic wargames setting. This is one of my main focuses at the moment, with a number of factions that are currently finished or work in progress. Mechanics-wise it will be rather similar to Necromunda, with gang-on-gang scale conflicts. No real solid plans for this gameswise at the moment, but it's very fun for modelling purposes. My main sources of inspiration for this are Fallout3, Mad Max 2, various Zombie films and Firefly.

Well, that's enough of a ramble for now. There should be regular updates coming :)
Chris