Pirate Crews

Getting ready for Adepticon next week with three pirate crews for the Legends of the High Seas demo table. Crews are constructed from Privateer Press Sea Dogs, Games Workshop Empire Militia, and Wargames Foundry Scurvy Dogs.  Paint plan is simple with brown, black/grey & beach bone with a primary color for each crew.

Sea Dog Pirate

Pirate Captain

Pirate Crew

Pirate Crew

Pirate Crew

Pirate Crew

Pirate Crew

Foundry Pirate Crew

Foundry Pirate Crew

Foundry Pirate Crew

Foundry Pirate Captain

Foundry Pirate Crew

Foundry Pirate Crew

Foundry Pirate Civilian

Sea Dog Pirate Captain

Sea Dog Pirate

Sea Dog Pirate

Sea Dog Pirate

Sea Dog Pirate

Adepticon 2008 Miniature Green Revealed

Baegor the One Horned sculpted by Steve Saleh.

The annual Adepticon miniature has a number of obstacles to over come.  The mini must try and satisfy both 40K and WFB players, try and have some sort of useful roll in an army collection and avoid the wrath of GW’s legal department.  Baegor satisfies all of those criteria – an original demon character that should easily fit in with both existing demon collections and work well with the upcoming 40K/WFB demon books.  The figure appears to be a bit thin, but then the photo does not have any sizing references other than the sculpted stone base.   I’m eager to see what the production figure looks like, I hope the casting process does not flatten/stretch/thin the figure to any significant degree.

photographs copied from Adepticon.org

Gaming Community RSS Feed

If you have not already noticed, I’ve added a community RSS feed to the side bar.   The feed includes 30+ hobby & gaming blogs repackaged as a single list, allowing you to drop by for your daily gaming fix.   Tell me what you think – is it a cool way to keep track of everyone’s projects?  – is it a distraction from original content?  -do you want more?

Don’t see your name on the list & want to join in?  Leave a comment on this post with your blog address or email me at ChicagoTerrainFactory at Gmail.com.  Blogs should be focused on miniature wargaming with a minimal amount of social, political or religious commentary.  There are plenty of other places to be pissed at the world, no need to have it in your hobby too.

 RSS Feed List:  updated 1-17-08

• + 40kology +
• ++ From the Warp ++
• 40k Hammertime
• All Things 40K
• Bell of Lost Souls
• Brandlin
• Citizen Nick Hobby Center
• Col.Gravis’ Praetorian Imperial Guard
• Constantly Risking Obscurity
• Cursed Treasures
• Cyborg Trucker’s Wargaming Blog
• Dane of War
• fatgoblin’s ranting
• Felix’s Gaming Pages Blog
• freaky fre miniatures
• Freewargamesrules
• Goldwyrm’s Gamesite
• gwuscommunity.com
• Interrogator Hammerhand
• Kerstonk!
• Kosh’s Korner – Warhammer 40k on a Budget
• lone pilgrim
• mad painter’s diary
• Mik’s Minis
• Mini War Gaming
• Ministrategery
• My Wonderful World of Gaming
• myrmidon studio
• Painting Agency
• Plague Wing
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• santa cruz warhammer
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• Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog
• Tom’s Boring Mordheim Blog
• Ultrawerke
• WAB-ramblings
• Warhammer Army Roster Portal Blog
• WeeToySoldiers.com
• WF Warhammer 40k
• wiglaf.us
• Xenite’s Miniatures

One year and counting!

A big thank you to everyone who comes by to read the Chicago Terrain Factory.  January 8th marks the one year anniversary of the Chicago Terrain Factory – having received over 28,000 page views in this first year, CTF is more successful than I ever thought it would be.  The blog started out as an easy way to publish a few scratch built projects.  It’s since grown into a casting/molding How To, a modeling show case and a collection of inspirational pieces by other hobbyists.

The Hirst Arts terrain & projects page is by far the most popular attraction – out drawing all other pages & posts 3 to 1. Stubby the Carnifex and the announcement of the new IG army page are the two most popular posts.  Over all – I think you’re telling me to build more Hirst projects & paint more figures  

I would like to say I have big plans for 2008 – but the real world will have to take precedence. My second daughter is due later this month and I’ll be concluding a MBA program in the fall – making hobby time scarce.  Chicago Terrain Factory will live on with more of a focus on web reviews & points of interest from the Internet and less space given to original work.

Thank you again for reading and have a great 2008.

Ahoy, Pirates on the Horizon

Legends of the High Seas is a new pirate game soon to be released by Warhammer Historical.   By all accounts, the game is skirmish scale played campaign style using a variant of the Lord of the Rings game system.  I was a big fan of Mordhiem when that game first came out and look forward to the same sort of gang/crew development that takes place over a series of games.  On top of the excitement over getting to be a pirate, I will be assisting the author – Tim Kulinski- run LotHS demo games at Adepticon 08.  To stay on top of all the updates visit the Yahoo High Seas group.

The first batch of pirates for the demo games are the Sea Dogs from Privateer Press.  At this point, I’m going to call the crew a work in progress.  One of the “problems” with photographing your miniatures is that every flaw and missed spot jumps out of the pic and screams for your attention.  The faces need a bit more attention and I see little bits of under coat peaking out.

Quick Links: Scratchbuilt Starships

Check out Scratchbuilt Starships at The Redoubt.  The author has posted a collection of fleet scale starships crafted from plastic card.  Excellent demonstration of how to sculpt without ever picking up epoxy.  On top of that, he’s promised a step-by-step article in the future.  Stay tuned – I’ll be sure to link in any how to that comes along.