This Just In – More GameCraft Buildings and Dark Age!

Hey, remember me?

Man, I knew this would happen.  Once I stopped blogging for a single day, it all went downhill from there.  Granted, last week both my wife and baby were sick, so I had less time to play and hobby and blog anyway, plus I went away for the weekend.  All of that together means…it’s been quite a few days since I’ve posted.  Eek…over a week, actually.  I’m glad I made the conscious decision to not post daily, or else I would have been disappointed in myself by now.

However, I do have a few newly acquired items to talk about.

First, last week a relatively small box arrived on my doorstep.  To be honest, I’ve been so busy I haven’t even gone through the contents much, other than taking them out of the box and laying them out like this:

…then putting them back in the box.  But I do know that the package contains four more Old West buildings and some fences.  I picked them up on the last day of GameCraft’s online sale.  At this point I’m not sure when I’ll be playing Old West games, but I’m going to try and get them all built as soon as free time between other projects allows.  I’m hoping that, with all of the other games I’m planning on getting into/demoing right now, the Fall will be the Season of the Old West.

My other new acquisition is a collection of much-anticipated Dark Age stuff!

I made the decision a month or so ago to get into Dark Age, and I’m in the process of joining the demo crew, The Legion.  As you can see I now have the rulebook (a possibly-permanent borrow from Kevin.  Thanks Kevin!) and two starters: Dragyri and Outcasts.  I was drawn to the Dragyri right away, even though I’m not normally an ‘alien faction’ kind of guy.  The Outcasts were originally my third choice, but they grew on me, and they were the other starter that Meeplemart had in stock, so…why not?

I’ve already begun working on the slaves, which you’ll see more of in tomorrow’s long-overdue Workbench Update.

I’ll also be working on unboxing photo (and maybe video) reviews for both the Dark Age and GameCraft items, as well as my pre-play thoughts on the Dark Age rules.  Those things will be coming over the next couple of weeks, while I get the models ready for learning and demoing.

Thanks for reading.

Workbench Update – Stormsmiths, Old West Buildings

Not only did I finish (sans gold shine) my Imperial Armada starter this week, but I also put the finishing touches (sans gold shine) on my Empire Fire Wizard for WHFB.

Admittedly, he didn’t have much left to be finished, but I’m glad he’s done.  He’s my first Empire model that is complete, which is sad since I’ve been playing Empire since last May.  Our WHFB Tale of Gamers challenge faltering, stalling and ceasing didn’t help with completion.  Neither did picking up Heavy Gear Blitz with Andrew and Rob…which we proceeded to not actually play.  I may try and convince Andrew to make sure his starter for that is built, and we can try it one of these Tuesdays.

Anyway, I digress.  What’s on the workbench right now?

Stormsmiths

Yeah, these guys are still waiting, but they’ll get their chance now that the FF models are done.  In fact, they are both sitting right here, beside the little pots of paint that I need to paint them.  Now that’s preparation!  You can even see their painted compatriot urging them on in the background.

Old West Buildings

These beauties are in the same state as they were last weekend, as it was only yesterday that I picked up the other colours I need to paint them. But now that I have them, they’re going to get done.  The brown I put on them worked quite well, actually, so hopefully the other colours go on the same.  I’m also hoping the colours I picked up are going to look good.  If not, they only cost $1,and I can  always get a few other shades of the colours I got.  You can see the paints newest paints in the picture here.  They are “DecoArt Crafter’s Acrylics.”  Look for an update on these in the coming days.

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That’s all that is actively being worked on right now.  I’m going to focus on these until they are done, and then I can move on.  To what?  Stay tuned to find out!

And just for fun, here is a ‘snapshot’ of my workspace as it stood this morning:

See if you can figure out what’s what!

Thanks for reading.

This Just In – GameCraft Old West Buildings

Yesterday I received a package full of stinky wood.

Thankfully the wood had been cut and etched into the parts that make up three Old West buildings.  Way better than just regular stinky wood!

This is my first order from GameCraft Miniatures.  I picked up three buildings from their Old West line (numbers 001, 005 and 007).  I’m not currently working on anything Old West, but that will likely change with this sorta-impulse order I made a few weeks ago.  I’ll likely also order from Sarissa Precision and do a little compare, then I’ll know if one company is better for me than the other.  Both offer great-looking buildings, but it’s always good to have samples in hand, of course.

Here are the parts laid out for building 007, a One Storey Building. 

I’ll take some pictures while I build these guys and then write up some sort of review.  So far, they look great.  I’m sure once they are painted (or do you stain these?) they will look even better. 

Great…now I’m going to have to take out my Black Scorpion cowboys and get them on the Workbench!

Thanks for reading.