At the moment I am moving about some furniture between rooms. This have unfortunately made my regular “photo-place” unavailable. So the photos of my little dudes is not the best at the moment. I will try to take better photos once the redecorating is done.
But here we have the iconic warpsmith fresh out of the forge :) .
I didn’t really like the original master of possession model so I made my own version. This model will double as a sorcerer as well. I guess that the difference between a master of possession and a sorcerer is thin line :) .
The mighty Storm Lord is ready for battle. With its chassis tied to the unification wars, it’s mighty frame have seen a multitude of battles. The great crusader brought it to the stars and to the stars it brought its devastation. And now as Horus draws close to terra this behemoth return to its cradle to serve once more.
I decided to re-paint my Stormlord. I love the look of the tank and want to be able to bring it more often. Originally I painted the tank for my warhounds/world eaters. And it looked nice in blue. But it kind of stopped me to bring the tank with any of my other legions. So a neutral grey is the new color for it.
Another dreadnought gets rewarded for faithful service. Now it’s time for my Leviathan to be gifted some more dakka.
There is something dark and twisted moving in the ranks of the 4th. A holy union between steel and flesh, gun and limb.
Come forth my children of oblivion. Let’s bring ruin to the imperial truth and all who spread its lies. The kingdom of man will fall and the galaxy will burn.
Decided to give one of my contemptors a set of Volkites. I love the look of the autocannons that is he’s “original” load out, but the volkite have a little bit more bite to it. Don’t get me wrong, I like the look of the volkite as well but it is something with those long barrels :) .
I have this vision for a city that never seem to leave me. I can’t do anything else but to give in to it and try to make it come to life. This is the next chapter in my effort of creating my own tabletop miniatures game.
What started as a modification of a simple skirmish game ended in a re-write and a reboot of my self-developed game.
For anyone that checked out Kuggköping in the past, you will now find that the game is a lot different now. It has been re-imagined and re-done from the ground up. Now the game is far from finished and there is a lot left to do before I could call it all done. But I think that it is solid enough to share with the rest of the world.
Taking the game from a skirmish game and turning it to a solo/cooperative/ semi player vs player game have been really fun and I now have a game I can enjoy in my own company or with friends and family.
Since covid-19 happened there have been difficulty to meet with others and enjoy a simple tabletop game. So, some months into this pandemic I decided to do something about it. Why not create a game that I could enjoy while the world figure this pandemic out. Something that I can play on the evenings when my children is put to bed and that could give me a similar experience that many other games dose but in my own company.
Obviously as the games father I love it and find it enjoyable. But I do think others can enjoy it as well.
As we are sitting at home waiting for this disease to disappear, why not go on an adventure into the wonderous city kuggköping.
I hope you feel a little curious about the game and I encourage you to go and check it out.
http://notacollector.com/kuggkping-the-game
The Moonstone characters are done. Such lovely models, so much character and originality. These where awesome to paint.
Now I just need to get a game in with them. With COVID and everything going on that might take some time to arrange, but I am happy I got them painted.
I do have 8 more models for moonstone left to paint up. I do however have some other things to attend before I can start on them and it would be nice to play the game before making more models.
4 down 2 to go. Almost. Some details and the bases left to do :) .
I think it was two years since I got my kickstarter backings from Goblin King Games. During this time the boxes of wonderful models have been waiting in storage. Now is the time to start painting up the boxes.
I don’t know why it have taken me this long but hey better late than never right.
I feel in love with this game by just seeing the artwork when the Kickstarter was announced. It is the only thing I have backed and I am so so happy I did.
There is so many lovely models for this game and as far as I can tell from others reviews the game is quite good. I will paint up some models and then try the game out. This is going to be fun!
So, with the release of Malifaux 3 edition my favorite master Lucius got a new crew box. In that box where a new character called agent 46.
Becaus I already owned the 2 edition crew box I had all models except for agent 46. Buying a new crew box for one model was never an option for me. But Wyrd was quite clever and have made it so that you can buy separate characters from new boxes so that you don’t need to pay big bucks for individual models.
Now, living in Sweden and not in US means that on top of the cost for the model I also need to pay shipping and custom. All and all the amount would add up to about the price for a new crew box. No retailer I have talked to in Sweden would be willing to help me either.
With all that I settled on the fact that agent 46 were a model I wasn’t going to get.
But then I got the idea of converting my own. In there RPG version of Malifaux wyrd sells a multi-part kit and with this kit I could probably use some parts to make my conversion.
And here is the result. It is not an exact replica of the original model. More of a representation of the concept art. If I can get my hands on the original at some point I will. But for now I am happy with my own creation.
And here is the concept art I was basing my conversion on.
My spouse wanted a new crew for Malifaux and settled for Rasputina. A fun crew to paint. I tried some new things with there color scheme. Some airbrush, some oil paints, some acrylics, some washes, mixing all of it on the same models. I learned a little more of how I can use the different mediums and my spouse is happy with the end result.
After realizing that my old Lucius crew was broken up I have wanted to fix things so that I could use Lucius again. So what better way to do so then adding some creepy kids and a horrific babe. That a game like Malifaux exists, where you can bring a crew of lawyers and nightmares is wonderful. Malifaux is truly a beautiful game filled with fantastic concepts.
I found an contemptor that needed to be rescued. The load out might not be optional for Horus Heresy but it looks cool. I have some other weapons for him waiting to be painted. Finally have my talon of contemptors, one less life goal to worry about ;) .
So, finally managed to finish the two cyclops for my Euripides crew. Looking forward to putting them on the gaming table :) .
And here we have the whole crew so far.
The terminators are done. I like how they turned out and I like the small conversions I added. Now I have 15 terminators plus 10 tyrants. Seems obvious that the next list will be terminators heavy. Heavy infantry in land raiders and supported with robots. That needs to happen soon :D .
So, I am back on the terminators. Final step before finishing them. For theses guys I tried a new thing for me. Heavy oil wash. Basically covering all models in a messy thick wash and then removing it with mineral spirits and cotton swabs. I also tried a new brand of sealer. I don’t know if I did something wrong or if the sealer wasn’t good enough. But I kept rubbing off the seal and the paint, which caused some problems, understandably. But I managed to fix the issue in the end and now I think that the models looks ok.
I will probably go back to sealers that I am familiar with and try this out again.
So, I have played around some more with the airbrush. This time adding the skin color on 2 cyclops for my Euripides crew.
I like having this tool to be honest. It is relatively easy to create a ok paint scheme for more organic models.
Now I do have a lot on my painting table. If I don’t count the half painted Terminators I still have ton to go through. So I will try to wrap these models up quickly and then move forward with some more stuff.
So, as the eternal hobby butterfly I have changed projects on the fly.
Lets address the elephant in the room. The wish airbrush kit. Back in February I was planning my malifaux table project and I felt it was a good opportunity to test out the concept of an airbrush. Making terrain and terrain pieces seemed like a good start to learn about this painting tool. I have also been curious about these small compressors for next to nothing.
I have been considering an airbrush for some time. The tool is self and what it can do is something I know I could use and get mileage out of. But I have been putting it off for one simple reason. I have a family, 2 kids, 5 dogs, 1 big house and a full time job. My hobby time is very sporadic. And many times I need to drop my painting on short notice and come back much later. An airbrush can’t sit with paint in it for to long and need to be cleaned between sessions. This have been my biggest issue. Would an airbrush fit my life and hobby arrangement right now?
So, spending 30 euro on an Airbrush kit of an unknown quality seemed like a reasonable step. If it doesn’t work as expected or don’t fit in my hobby life, then I haven’t spent to much money on this experiment.
Due to corona I received the airbrush kit 3 months after I ordered it. So basically when I had finished the gaming table. So instead of using it to paint terrain I jumped straight to miniatures.
Before my purchase I made sure the airbrush and compressor had some key features. The compressor needed to be able to produce a psi of at least 30psi. It also needs to have a water filter and be able to adjust the air pressure.
For the airbrush I needed it to be dual action, controlling air pressure and paint flow separately. It also needed to be gravity feed and have a relatively small needle. I found one for about 30 euros including shipping.
I took a week and played around with the kit once it arrived. I had a couple of concerns. One was that the compressor wouldn’t produce 30psi. The other was that the compressor wouldn’t be able to hold a even air pressure when you paint. The third was heat. Being so small and without a tank I could imagine that it could get quite hot if it was working longer periods of time.
The kit I got have non of the issues mentioned above. It works great and behaves like I had hoped. For the airbrush it self I had no real expectations. I just wanted it to be able to do some basic stuff.
All in all the small and cheap little setup works great. I have been able to prime, base coat, make surface lighting, surface highlighting and smaller lighting with it without and issues. The first real project was my New malifaux crew. And the airbrush worked for about 1,5 hours straight without burning up so I am pleased.
Would I recommend this type of airbrush kit? Firstly I don’t know how long the compressor will live. It might die on me within a month, a year or never. I also don’t know if the quality is consistent for every product and kit. But the one I have here worked as intended and I can’t point out any real issues with it. For learning and trying the concept out it have been well worth it’s money for me.
Let’s talk about this new Malifaux crew. In celebration that my gaming table is done I got a new Malifaux crew. I really liked the concept of giants and ice pillars so I just had to get the euripides box. I painted the white blue skin with the airbrush and continued painting with the trusty brush after that.
As you can see the models have a lot of split lines. I don’t know why Wyrd allow this. The splits is placed in wierd places and on details where green stuff would only look bad if you tried fixing it. Like splits on muscles and on smooth skin. I hope Wyrd can get a handle on this in the future because the designs of the models is great and it is a shame to see them chopped up like this.
On the final result you can see that I have covered up most of these splits and in the end I feel it looks ok.
So this concludes my first airbrush experience. I have to say that I like it. It is another tool to use. I have learned a lot along the way, clogged nozzles and dryied paint on needles. To thick paint and to thin. I have made all the mistakes but I feel I am starting to get the feel for it. And I look forward using the airbrush some more :) .