Vacation Means Workshop of Doom Fun!

Well fair readers of the old Blog, it's been a really busy couple of years for the Leadaddict. Between Coaching Football, Being a Football Parent, selling my business, huge demands at work, and an incredibly busy family life, there ain't been many candles burned in the old Workshop of Doom.

But I am here to tell you, the ole addict is gonna have some time to hit this thing right. Starting tomorrow I am on vacation til January 4th. And beside all of my family and friend commitments and the holiday, this old grognard is gonna paint and build armies and terrain. I can't wait. Here's what's on the block to be worked on. A nice mix of old and new:

Lead Addict's Vacation Projects 

Painting

Epic

28mm Post Apoc Teams

Necromunda

High Elves – Singles

High Elves – Bases

Dwarven – Singles

Frost Grave

·         3 Warbands

·         4 Special Characters

·         Undead

Terrain

28mm Post Apoc

Epic Buildings

Necromunda
Frostgrave

I have gotten all of the Frostgrave stuff from the first two Nickstarters and have been working on terrain, so I am looking forward to finishing some ruins and knocking out some warbands.

Since Dragon Rampant is coming out soon, I need to get some armies ready for that. I have Undead mostly done, generic human medieval (bretonnians) mostly done, and a couple of units of Dwarves started. Need to get a full complement of High Elves and Dwarves finished.

A couple of us Basement Generals have agreed to dust off our Necromunda and play some this winter, I have 3 gangs done, time to dust off the unpainted ones and paint them up and have more options and base paint my terrain.

And as the Baron and I get ready for our Fistful of Lead: Wasteland Warriors Kickstarter, time to paint some more figs and finish more have finished terrain.

And I continue to lust after Onslaughts Epic figs. So I may put in a small notTau order and have some 6mm fun as well.

Ambitious. Yes, But as I get back into the swing of things, I wanted to limit my choices, but have a variety I would enjoy. So If I get a unit form each category I'll be happy. We shall see...

Best wishes and Merry Christmas to all

Lead Addict

Epic Buildings Using Hawk Wargames Free Graphics

While watching the Olympics last night, I thought I would put together a few buildings for Epic. I have long since traded my original Epic buildings, and you have to have a cold, heartless, oppressive Imperial City to fight over, so I decided to repurpose the the Hawk Wargames free building facades for the good of the Emperor.

A while back, Hawk Wargames released pdf's of their artwork for what would become their card buildings for Dropzone Commander. These shots below are of the card buildings released.  

But as Dropzone Commander is 10mm, the buildings are just too big. So I used the original artwork, scaled it to 60% and voila, its ready to go.

The facades were printed on a laser printer, cut out, and fixed with spray fix to a building box cut out of foamcore or gator board. I made the first couple with gator board, but for such small buildings the increased structural rigidity is not needed and it is a real drawback to speed, cutting and burning through knife blades. 

So we (me and the boy) switched to foam core and started rocking out building shells.

Here are the first 7 buildings guarded by my recently finished Ultramarines:

Since I can print these out at will, I can have as large a city as I need. I have 8 buildings, and about 30 more printed out. 

I have some predators, drop pods, the rest of my bike company, and some titans to complete, then I am gonna work on enough terrain to fill a 6x8 table. I have a pretty good start with my JR Miniatures terrain, I need new roads, rivers, urban layered terrain and some additional hills.