Robin Hood revisited

You will recall my previous Robin Hood post from January 2016. For some very meta theme nostalgia, I'm revisiting the subject ten years later.

These Merry Men are from Slave 2 Gaming. They're Mike Broadbent sculpts, but they're not his best. I did them quickly with Speedpaints, and they came out OK in the end. Absolution Green, Forest Sprite, Pallid Bone, Hardened Leather and Satchel Brown were staples, with a few other greens and browns for variety.

I asked the AHPC Antipodean chat what colour Maid Marion's dress should be, and blue was the answer. I painted Will Scarlet scarlet, but it's the sculpt for Alan-a-Dale with a lute on his back.

I also found a missing Bretonnian squire, and did a quick paint job on him. I really should have spent time doing highlights, he's a lovely Perry sculpt. Maybe later. You can buy these figures again now, $A15 each... (the S2G ones are < $4 each)...

Aliens: We're in the pipe, five by five

I painted the figures from We're in the pipe, five by five, the expansion for Aliens: Another glorious day in the Corps. It is not a snappily-named series. After the above photo, I went back and added more details to their patches and her glasses.

Spunkmeyer & Ferro

40K Sisters of Battle: Seraphim

 I painted these flying nuns almost three years ago, but realised that I haven't posted them to this blog.

The Seraph Superior has a rose for her wax purity seal... marvellous detail.

I really like these figures, but the flight stands are a delicate pain. They have the tiniest connection to the jump-pack and are very fragile.

I've added a washer beneath each base to drop the centre of gravity.

Skull-o-meter™: 27

40K Lamenters: Suppressors

These are one of the weapon systems of all time. Some sort of anti-grav/ hover tech, mated to a massive automatic weapon. Beaten zone for days!

These have been on my painting desk for ages, and then I lost one of the heads. I recently found it again, and with the impetus to clear some room before AHPC XVI, I finished them off. I used paperclips for the flight stands, drilled into their legs. I got these off eBay without the clear plastic flight stands. The original flight stands were notoriously awful at staying intact. I've had enough problems with my flying nuns*.

Skull-o-meter™: 14

* I realised I haven't posted these to the blog, and I'll do that next week.

Snow Golems

I like to do something seasonal for Christmas, and with the mercury well over 30℃ these snow golems were perfect. They're from Nolzur's Magnificent Miniatures, and required minimal prep. My painting technique of white undercoat, Speedpaint 2.0 Battleship Grey, drybrush white really brings out the mouldlines like I intended... I used some sparkly snow effect on the bases held in place with satin varnish, hopefully it holds.

With a repaint, they'd be great for goo or mud monsters of any description. They're decently sized, on 30mm bases.

Merry Christmas, and all the best for 2026!

Grimdark Future: Red Corsairs vs a Knight

Just some photos of our latest game- we pulled out all the stops to have a big battle, that lasted several hours. The main drawcard was the intimidating knight! I was torn between trying to bring it down or ignoring it, and pathetically chose a terrible mixture of the two. I did a lot of damage, but couldn't bring it to its armour-plated knees. There are optional rules for accumulating damage, which I may consider in the future- otherwise a warmachine with one wound left operates at full strength, but a platoon with one guy left is pretty useless.

Stompy robot! With hand-painted markings.

Hordes of cultists. The movement bases are a real time-saver.

The lascannons did a lot of damage.

My elite close combat squad flubbed their moment and got taken out.

The wolves ripped the cultists apart.

The spider chased the wolf up the side of the building.

The spider charged the knight but got squished underfoot.

My commanders scaled the building to attack the knight, but couldn't kill it.

This was our biggest battle yet, and it was a bit of a drain in the evening. But we played it to a satisfying conclusion, and got some big toys out.

Star Wars: Battle of Hoth

I didn't even try to resist this Commands & Colors ruleset for the Battle of Hoth, with little toy AT-ATs and snowspeeders. Speedpaints always help with these, and the bases are just sand, painted blue-grey and drybrushed white. The infantry are ~20mm.

The game comes with two branching campaigns of four games each, which is a great way to tie it all together. A game takes under 30 minutes, so a full campaign can be knocked out in an evening!

I threw everything I had at this unstoppable AT-AT,
but it lumbered through my lines and took out the orbital cannon.