October painting summary: Painting

 The partisans are growing in numbers, with dungeon terrain freshly painted

Being a dandy and a partisan combo

Captain's log

Feel like the news boss in spiderman 

Reporter without debt

Scarlet and her ex-husband skull

sleeping bed and spys

Tatiana and her ikea barricade

The odd couple

The old captain retelling his war stories

The old man defending his loot

The scum and his gold bag

The She-niper and her prisoner

This is MY gold

Workers and partisans at the market

And some dungeon tiles

For my son's birthday, we went to a laser tag venue, and we did a small trophy to sit on top of the birthday cake (a cup cake pyramid to be precise)

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  Working on a trophy for LaserTag competition for the 9th birthday
  

  
  

And Man o'war. These ships have been waiting for decent paint for a very long time. Finally, I gave them the attention they deserved. The dwarf proxy ships are now done.

Finally closing in my Man o'war proxies. Missing the sails on the Imperial

APO Semaine 7 - Apres la pluie vient la peinture / After the rain, the paint.

I went to Korea....

Bilingual post.

Au sommaire: Mode Je-me-plains, quelques WIP et un whisky Taiwanais.
Today's headlines: Rant, some WIP and Taiwanese whisky.

MODE Je-me-plains. La semaine fut terrible, avec voyage d'affaire en Corée du Sud juste au moment ou l'epidemie de MERS commencait a faire peur aux gens (et ma femme a réfléchi a me mettre en quarantaine pendant 14j, au cas ou). Ce truc fout les boules quand on pense a ce qui pourrait se passer en cas d'apocalypse zombie. Il y a eu comme histoires (réelles en plus bordel de merde!) de dingue: Un mec en quarantaine a decidé de voyager parce qu'il pensait qu'il allait bien sans rien dire au medecin, parce qu'il se dit que, "Pif, pouf, je vais bien, c'est une conspiration judeo-maconnique et j'ai envie de decouvrir le monde la maintenant, et que je peux pas perdre 2 semaines", fait Corée - Hong Kong - Canton, et une fois a Canton, les médecins chinois se sont apercu qu'il etait infecté et avait infecté pas mal de gens. Résultat: plusieurs centaines de gens en quarantaines. Ensuite, en Coree, ils promenent les patients d'hosto en hosto, et donc, diffusent le virus. On en est a la troisieme génération (porteur 0 coreen transmet a une personne qui transmet a une autre personne qui n'a jamais vu le patient 0). Mais bon, l'OMS dit de ne pas paniquer et qu'il faut voyager en Corée normalement parce que l'economie c'est mieux. Et finalement, cerise sur le gateau, un médecin qui s'occupait de patients infectes a decider de faire une petite sortie ALORS qu'il commencait a avoir les symptomes. Ce gros con a réussi a etre en contact avec plus de 1000 personnes. Bien sur ce gros con de docteur a été testé positif.

RANT: Light update with a lot of WIP. The week was very bad, with business trip to South Korea at the time of the MERS outbreak (my wife has been thinking about quaranting me, can't blame her). This made me think about what would happen during a zombie apocalypse. Listen to some of the scariest stories ever (and true, WTF): A quarantined guy decided to make a short trip because he believed he was ok, going to HK and South China before being stopped. In China, they tested the guy positive (!) and few hundred people have been quarantined. Then, in Korea, they move patients from hospitals to hospitals for treatment, spreading the virus. We are at the 3rd generation, where people have been infected by people in contact to the first Korean patient. But WHO said it was all fine to travel to Korea, because economy is more important. And finally, a doctor, who treated MERS patients and started to show flu symptoms decided to go to social event. This asshole has been in direct contact with more than a 1000 people. He tested positive to MERS.

Tout va bien, bonnes gens. It's all right, folks.

Dans les trucs plus sympa, une partie du voyage a inclus un saut a Taiwan, donc achat du Whisky Taiwanais qui a gagne le titre de meilleur whisky du monde 2015 ( et il est vraiment tres bon),
  On the bright side of the week, the business trip had a leg to Taiwan where I bought the 2015 best whisky in the world (Taiwanese). I tried, it is really good. 

Du très bon whisky. Some very good whisky.

Du sous couchage de folie, maintenant qu'il arrete de pleuvoir comme pas possible. Deux semaines de fortes pluies et une humidité a 99-100% n'est jamais bon pour le sous-coucheur du dimanche.
I have also been priming now that it stopped raining. There was heavy rain for 2 weeks and humidity levels at 99-100%, which is never good for priming.

Last Vasa en cours. last VASA WIP

Un bon APO est un APO avec de la distraction. Des syntha sous couché.

Man o\war Imperial fleet. Wolfship, War galley, Hellhammer, Greatships

Puma en WIP. WIP Puma

Defi APO Semaine 1 - Quand faut s'y mettre - SHK (Self Hobby Kidnapping) Week 1 - All start need a beginning

Beware, first dual language post, because,... hum, why not.
Attention, premier post en double langage, parce que.

Moi, lisant vos blogs / me reading your blogs

Alors, j'ai décide de me lancer comme un inconscient dans un APO lancé par un site que je suis depuis mon siège en faux cuir.

Comme à mon habitude, j'ai bazardé plein de trucs  qui me passaient par la tête et je pensais que ça ne se verrait pas. Malheureusement, Sieur RafPark (Mr Park, ou Mr Raf, or Mr. f'Park Râ?) a vu ma tentative de bravade électronique.
Donc turbo boost, et quelques coups de pinceaux maladroits, j'arrive à un début de commencement, même si je suis loin de l'objectif principal: Finir mes Vasa qui me regardent depuis leurs boites. Oui, je vous aime, mais je n'ai jamais eu le courage de vous toucher.

Donc point de Vasa cette semaine, mais quelques zombies qui viendront hanter mon USS Serenity et des bateaux nains qui viendront tâter du bretonniens du grand large.

5 zombies font une horde / 5 zombies make a horde

So, I have naively decided to start a SHK (Self Hobby Kidnapping) that was started by a blog I followed from my sky leather chair.

As usual, I threw stuff that came to mind assuming nobody would notice. Unfortunately, Sir RafPark (or Sir Park, or Sir Raf, or is it Sir f'Park Râ?) saw my weak e-bravado.

So, turbo-mod, and few blind brush strokes after, I started a beginning of something, not even close from my main goal: Finish my dust-collecting Vasa army. Yes, I love it, and Yes, I never had the guts to touch them.

So no Vasa this week, few shambling zombies here and there about to board the USS Serenity and dward boats about to taste Deep Blue Bretonnians.

My Plans for 2015

So, how did 2014 go?

The 2014 panzer is gone and the 2015 truck is passing

Writing
Well, not too bad, but not as good as expected. Less battle reports, my RRtK campaign frozen and some battle not written yet.

Expanding my reach

Audience wise, I have to thank Sean who gave me damn good advices how to share my reports to more people.

Painting
That were I am the happiest. I had a good production, not Golden Demon or award level, but decent quality with new twists. There was a load of survivors for my WWW2 campaign, zombies and bolt action.
I also participated to Zombober that gave me a good kick to paint my zombicide.

Battle For Alabaster - Bad guys painted

Games
THW games were the most popular system I have played in 2014, namely ATZ-FFO and RRtk, followed by Bolt Action. I have played 1 SOTR game and 3 games of Kings of War (KoW). We pledged to its last kickstarter with a friend and we had to try army combination before buying new extra stuff.

I have adopted a new format for my battles in RRtK

I have also play few small games with my son and my daughter recently, a paper Xwing game and a playmobile "Knights and Dragon".

Fighting dragons for few gems

Star Wars space fighter game (*unlicensed*)

2015 Plans

In 2015, I will try to avoid buying too much stuff. I think I will add more fantasy ranges than anything else, first to build my Kings of War army, secondly to try to get my son into it.
I am supposed to receive 2 kickstarters (3 if I include KoW): Incursion kickstarter and Stone Dungeon Tiles.

Games:

• Continue my Reich of the Thousand Deads campaign, 
• Play some Bolt Action, 
• Start (maybe this year it will happen) my Fallout campaign, 
• Play Kings of War,
• Design a Star Wars game for my kids (they are deeply into Star Wars!)
• Play a Man o'war campaign with "For a bottle of Rum" campaign rules.
• Play Incursion

 Painting:

• Paint at least an army of fantasy
• Paint at least an army of Urban War
• Finish all my www2 miniatures
• Paint 2 fleets of Man o'War

dwarf fleet #1, the Rebel fleet

dwarf fleet #2

Imperial Great Ship, galleria and wolfship

Old Memories back - Games Workshop Man O' War

Not so long ago I was wandering on FRP and found that some of the Valient range (1/1200 and 1/2000 ships) were going OOP. Like any gamer, this rang a bell of urgency and sign up for the last ships and look at them with sparkle in the eyes when they arrived. My Precious!



Yes, I have to admit, I was and still am, a big big fan of Man o' war or MOW or Manowar. I bought the game back at its release time. The good old times when you buy a White Dwarf, read the reports and looked at the photos. Manowar was appealing because it was cheap and easy to start. In these days, I used mostly the mail and order, these were the days before World Wide Web was available to all. A full game was about 2 hours and no more than 10 ships. That was a bargain. The only issue was that the miniatures were on sale for a very short time.

We resorted with my brothers to use cork sheets and toothpick to build up massive fleet of Imperial, Bretonnian and Dwarves, in addition to the 7 original ships we owned.

We played massive games during Summer and it was fun.

For some years, prices were keeping me out, and the fact that there is a limited quantity of ships on sale, mostly on ebay, mostly expensive.

The new Bretonnian fleet

So I bought new ranges on FRP as count-as and here is what it look like. Scale is totally off, so I think I will have to play without the original and lock them in a safe.

Valient, Games Workshop and Spartan scale comparison

More ships for Imperial fleet