You Cook's What's You Find's

Master cook and tribal leader of the "Haf Emppte Pot Clan, Skrtch'M Cleen is heading to the clan nest for dinner.

His pot is full of spice sauces to juice up the soup. 

The venom from the 125mm fangs of his pet cave spider, "Sloo Dth," adds a real extra kick to the soup.

Which it really needs as it's mostly toads, slime and fungus for the clan tonight, if only he could scrounge a little meat...

Ah,"we'r in luck thinks Skrtch'M Cleen" for here comes some "Long Pork" in a can, just in time for dinner. Brave and cursed Hiktos Nuluk only thought is "Here we go again-engage the foul creature!"  (see World Historyprof: The Continued Adventures of Brave Hiktos Nuluk for his back story)

Skrtch'M Cleen is a plastic piece I painted over the weekend.

Fire Drake

When we say "Fire Drake" we mean a true beast of fire dreaded throughout the land.

Immune to normal blades and bolts, the Fire Drake can only be harmed by weapons of cold and water spells.

As the Fire Drake is fire, he does not breath fire, rather his bite literally injects fire into his victim's bodies.

Luckly for all, the Fire Drake is as rare as it is deadly, even so wore upon those that stumble upon one.

The Fire Drake is a plastic piece I painted earlier this month.

Monsters, Monsters Everywhere

Brave Hoplite Hiktos Nuluk has found himself in a most unusual situation-surrounded by monster from the future.

Actually, facing off against a horrible beast, god or demi-god is very common for our poor cursed hoplite. (see World Historyprof: The Continued Adventures of Brave Hiktos Nuluk for his back story)  Engaged by four at a time seems a bit over kill.

Brave Hiktos Nuluk mus battle the beasties Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolfman... 

the Undead Imhotep Mummy...

and Undead Count Dracula the vampire...what's a brave hoplite to do!

The "Horror Monsters" are a special pack from Crisis Protocol by Atomic Mass Games, I painted them within the last month. Brave Hiktos Nuluk, who I use to show the size of creatures, is a metal 25mm piece I painted in the 1970's.

Dracula some stages of painting.

Glued and ready for priming.

I hand prime all my pieces. In Drac's case I used a charcoal black.

Next comes the first dry brushing of metal, an antique gold in this case.

Unfortunately, the photos of the painting steps of red, black, grey and white where lost when I got my new phone.

Here Dracula is ready for highlights.

Now I am ready for the game board, my opponents will tremble in the power of the King of the Night.

This Dracula is a plastic piece from Atomic Mass Games for Crisis Protocol. I finished him yesterday.

Cold War APC's

Found some more of my 1/285 scale Cold War Micro Armor

NATO M113'S one is an Vulcan Cann armed AA vehicle

Warsaw Pact BMP's and a 3 vehicle SCUD mobile missile launching unit.

All are metal pieces from either CinC or GHQ.

 

Warrior Princess Zolan Durunsdagtr

In the Dwarf Kingdoms, it is not only the males who wear the armored pants in the family and go to war. Those females who choose can readily join in the conflicts against the kingdoms fores.

One such battle maid is Princess Zolan Durunsdagtr, whose excellent armor and weapons have been used countless times to prove her worth in battle. She proudly wears the scars she has gained leading her forces in defense of her king and kin. Woe to those who underestimate her skill in battle for she knows that fierce warrior skills are not limited to the males of the species.

 Princess Zolan is a large plastic piece I painted this week from Godtear.

The Raid

As ancient as war itself is the raid on an enemies supply lines.

Here we have an example of such a raid between the Teutonic Knight's and Lithuanian forces in the late 14th century. 

This was actually a play test for some new skirmishing rules I'm working on. The Lithuanian men-at-arms were able to beat of the Teutonic Knights but a cost of over half their men.

These are all plastic pieces from the Joan of Arc game that I painted in 2024.