Relics: The Horror!!!! C'thu coming to Kickstarter

A big announcement was posted up on Tor Gaming and the Relics facebook group

Thats right, The C'thu will be makin an appearance on the tabletops of 2016 yes!

There is a counter running now here which puts at a January 6th kick off at around 6pm :-D

The only other image i could track down of C'thu art is this promo postcard featuring a battle with the Orcnar:

I shall be covering the ks as much as possible and will be painting up my Ridend and remaining Nuem in the run up and throughout. Jacob and i love relics so will be following with interest!


Edit: Not long after posting this Tor released some new concepts!

Proper badass!!!

Lords of War Tourney for a Birthday Party... Genius!

Regular readers will know that Jacob and i are pretty mad for Lords of War and its probably the game we play most together out of all that he is able to. The simple rules and easy to follow mechanics make it ideal for any gamer, and Jacob has often taken his sets into school on end of term game days and taught his mates how to play!

Earlier this year Jacob said he would like to have some friends over to play Lords of War for his birthday, and he asked if i could set it up as a proper tournament for them which of course i said yes as it was a great plan haha.

In passing at Salute i mentioned to Martin (Of Black Box Games) that we were doing an LoW party for Jacobs birthday and he thought this was an amazing idea too... Roll on to November and a big box of LoW goodies arrived at our door from Nick & Martin, packed full of posters, gaming mats for the boys, some tshirts and one massive stack of shinny command cards for prizes!


So yesterday was the big day and Jacob and i transformed our bunker into a venue fitting for such an epic clash of Generals:

Round 1 was ready to kick off as our mighty generals faced off across the fields of war! The boys were all excited to take part in a proper tournament with me officiating and solving rules questions:

Round 1 drawing to a close with victories for the Dwarves, Undead and Lizardmen:

Round 2 ready to start after consuming some cookies of ultimate strength and the malteasers of destiny!

Round 2 in full swing as strategies learned in game 1 are used and refined against new opposition with desperate combat erupting across the land... this round saw victories for the Dwarves, Undead and Elves:

Our Generals required more sustenance for the final conflicts ahead... Jacket Potatoes of Wisdom aided by the Cheese and Beans of Justice :

Round 3 and the last great battles of our time were being waged as darkness drew close, long were the struggles and valiant were all our generals but victories were had by Dwarven, Lizardmen and Elvish commanders:

After a total up of the points scored using the official LoW system Jacob had won, but he had beforehand decided to pass on the winners prizes to the second place if he won as he had received his own tshirt, posters and shiny commander cards from Nick & Martin. Victorious instead was George her receiving his tshirt from Jacob and with a tin and full set of Dwarven Commander shinies. All of Jacob's friends took home a mat and a selection of shiny commanders along with badges:

They all had a great time and have begun bugging their parents for card packs of their own haha, they all wish for this to become a regular event so we are planning the next tourney for the Christmas holidays or early new year.

If you haven't played lords of war yet i cannot recommend it enough, its a lot of fun, easy to pick up, many many hours of play for the entire family not just hardened gamers.

Myself, Jacob and my wife Emma would like to thank Nick & Martin for helping to make Jacobs party such a great event and we look forward to the new challenges that the Undead vs Templars expansion pack will bring to our games! Cheers guys!

Legion of Everblight: Saeryn & Rhyas the Talons

Behold the glory of Everblight, his twinnies haha:

I picked these up on standard release rather than pay well over the odds for one of those 10th Anniversary box sets earlier in the year. Big fan of Doug Hamilton's work on the new sculpts, they are a massive improvement over the prime versions of the pair!

Legion of Everblight: Mack daddy Thags

Thagrosh, the original Pimp Daddy of Hordes haha, now in Con Limited Painter of Everblight form:

And a second Bloodseer i picked up cheap in an ebay auction ;-D

Legion of Everblight: Ladies and Rangers

More Legion goodies today, i dont have masses more of these to go again now:

Deathstalker

Saeryn, Omen of Everblight

Strider Rangers

Legion of Everblight: Once more unto the Blight!

Well October was a proper washout, my illness came back with avengence and i achieved diddly squat!

I'm all recovered now and to get my painting mojo back on i decided to get painting up some of my recent Legion acquisitions as they are nice and simple to do and i have been dojoing list ideas with my mates at Imperishable Dominion and so am really keen to get them on the table:

Angelius

Nephilim Bloodseer

Raek

Spell Martyrs

Spotlight: Westwood Woodworks Kickstarter

Regular readers will remember my reviews a while back of some great pieces of hobby kit from Westwood Woodworks; namely the Malifaux Mover tray, Tournament Tray and the Illumistation.

Since then the Illumistation 2.0 has been released into the world, a good friend of mine was given one as a birthday prez from his Girlfriend earlier in the year and they look really good! A couple of improvements have been implemented with some feedback from existing customers such as myself and others to help refine the product.

Now Andrew has big plans and needs our help to realise them so he's coming to kickstarter on Friday 23rd October:

From the KS Draft:

How did the Illumistation come about? Well, I'd not long taken up Modelling and was beginning to get quite a collection of paints, brushes, models - all of which had taken up permanent residence on the kitchen table, which my girlfriend was none too happy about!

I'd had a brief look on the net for some kind of storage but it was well out of my price range! So, i decided to make something myself. I do woodwork for a living after all!

The first Illumistation, I made for myself, out of MDF. It did it's job but it was very heavy and the light i'd used just got in the way while i was (trying) to paint. My girlfriend was happy because my 'stuff' was no longer taking over the kitchen! but I knew I could do better.

And so the Illumistation 2.0 was born! Made from Redwood Pine, it is much lighter then it's predecessor. It has 6 adjustable shelves, a 2 draw unit made from MDF, with curved edges, which is removable. A piano hinge ensures the drop down front is stably attached to the main body as this houses the removable Painting Pallet. The Painting Pallet is made from MDF and has 2 rows of round 34mm cut outs that can hold paint or models, there are 2 larger cut outs to hold water pots etc. Attached to the painting pallet is a daylight, 30 LED, foldable lamp. This has 3 brightness levels and comes with a UK plug - however European and American plugs can be ordered. A chrome carrying handle finishes off this beautifully, hand-crafted, case perfectly.

The Illumistation 2.0 has been BETA tested by several modelling enthusiasts as well as myself!

Illumistation Specifications.

The Illumistation is 390mm high x 515mm wide x 120mm deep.

490mm deep open.

So why do I need your Pledges?

I am raising funds to allow me to rent out a unit to create and store the Illumistations - I'm currently working from my Workshop in the garden and definitely need more space! This will then allow me to branch out into other areas of gaming accessories. I would also like to get my brand more widely known so would like to be able to advertise worldwide. Dream big, as they say!

There are a limited number of early bird pledges available for a sizable discount on the Illumistation!

So there we have it, Westwood Woodworks has outgrown the garden shed and needs our help to raise funds for setting up in a warehouse unit and expanding the business. Andrews products are top class, every model you have seen on my blog painted this year (All 666 of therm!) were painted on my Illuimstation... which is now lovingly covered in hundreds of hours of paint splatter haha. Every tourney i attend i use either my Warmachine Tray or my Malifaux (Bushido) Mover to safely move my forces around the venue. I cant vouch for these enough, they are Fanplastic Approved!

Friday, 1pm, jobs a good'en