Dystopian Wars gaming and some other painting projects

As you probably realise I am not much of a gamer recently. I keep building and painting models for myself. I keep painting models for others, but rarely have I got time to actually play the games I love. Recently one game caught my war gaming balls in a clenched fist of pain dealing and I started playing, you guessed it, Dystopian Wars.

I forgot how cool and exciting it is to discover the rules with a mate across the table. You want to do something with a model (move, attack, board) and you don't know how. You both open up the book and look for answers. That is the thing I kept missing from online gaming. Yes, you can chat with people, but rarely there is anything more than insults and jesting there.
I and my mate Mike we spent yesterday early afternoon on cracking Dystopian's rule system. Especially the planes and tiny flyers and how combat works. We had to, unfortunately, have a look on YouTube and watch couple tutorials on the subject and were both disappointed with the quality of tutoring. We decided, the the whole All Along the Watchtower Podcast crew will endevour the making of good quality clips for YouTube that will show beginners how to play this game.

Apart from Dystopian Wars, I have been painting, yes. I started working on 10 Ork Burnas and 8 Lootas and I am trying to finish 9 Squigs for my Orcs. Pictures will follow soon.

Till next time gang!

Prussians and Britanians forces painted!

Below you got two pictures of mine and my mate's battle groups. As I hate playing with unpainted models and I really do want to play some more games of Dystopian Wars I decided to paint those two lots. I'll be honest with you.

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Couple things I noticed:
- preparation is everything when working with resin
- clean your models in luke warm water and washing up liquid
- dry fit everything to avoid misplaced parts

Other than that, these models are beautiful! I loved every minute of painting them. Great detail, great design... woof! Awesome.

Dystopian Wars painting

After seeing how the game plays I decided to take the plunge and bought myself a Prussian Battlegroup. Got it yesterday and got so excited with the sheer coolness of the models I couldn't stop myself for painting one or two. Actually I painted four, just in time to go to the club later that day and take them out for a spin.

So here are my four Prussian ships I managed to paint:



What I really don't like is playing with or against unpainted models. So when one of my mates, Mike, got his Britanians out I felt sorry for him and offered to paint his battlegroup too when I get some time. So far I managed to wash the resin properly and gave them a solid black undercoat:



I know it's not much, but I thought I'll share my plans with you guys.

Also, only after two games I managed to notice what my Prussians are good at and what to expect from Brits and Japs! Gawd! Those rokkits :D Pissed me off! Really cool faction. If I ever decide to go for another faction it will be Japs... If not for the coolness I will buy them just to be able to field this mofo:

Mechanical Ika [Squid]

Isn't it cool!?!!

Finecast - double trouble and problem resolution

So as you probably read in one of the previous posts I have had some problems with the two Finecast models I have purchased on the day of release; Ghazghkull and Black Orc Big Boss. They were miscasts with loads of mould lines and flash.

So I went to my LGW today to return them and complain a lot and tell them how dissatisfied I am with the product and how my hopes were let down. To my amazement, and it's not going to be a good thing, the manager of my LGW told me that 'no one forced me to buy it' and 'it's all because it was the first batch'.

Let me get something straight. The excuse of it being the first batch is a complete nonsense! Even more so it should be the priority to get all the models perfect so the new line is maybe understocked but at least meets the quality demand that goes with the price and their promises. The other thing is that no one forces me to do anything; I don't need to be told that. No one will force me to buy shitty overpriced models from GW when there are plenty of other companies doing same or better job for usually less money. I think that comments like that show either the manager's ignorance towards his folk or his lack of professionalism. The only thing that works for him in this case is that after comparing with another model that he took of the shelf, he told me to pick the best sprues and try to work with them, greenstuff them and file them and make the model look good. Of course I could keep my Ghazghkull. Which was nice, but I didn't need the two comments mentioned earlier. If he hadn't said that I would say that he handled the issue perfectly.

So in few weeks time, or maybe days it depends, you can expect Ghazzy to appear on my blog and a little interview with a little miserable fella who was mistreated in the casting process...

Till Later folks!

PS
One more thing: screw the weekly posts! I got more things to say, I can't wait to tell you, so there might be a weekly round up, but I will be posting stuff whenever I feel like it. The wise person was right! You know who you are ;)

Week 22 - Looted Wagon (finished) and Big Trakk with Supa Kannon (wip)

As you have seen in my previous post here I have started building some funky models for my ork army. I started off with the Looted Wagon for my Burnas. Then I got another Rhino, the new Mk IV, I think, and decided to convert it into something bigger. I saw this picture of a Big Trakk with Supa Kannon and thought, hey! That's it! After looting my bits box I found a Basilisk gun and Battlewagon turret... that was it! I am making a new funky thing!

So, below is a picture of the first, finished Looted Wagon:









And here are some wip pictures of the Big Trakk and it's Supa Kannon:







And welding marks in green on the below picture:



And the size comparison of both and after undercoating:





I have done plenty of work on the Big Trakk Rhino. It has been cut in half and broadened to accommodate the base for the Battlewagon turret. Plenty of work around the Basilisk cannon to fit it in the turret. All the black bits are plastic card. Barrel end is a sheet of plasticard with holes. Lots of work done, I think the result is an amazing model! Will get painted soon!