Deviant Designs Deeds

Final batch of otheworld kobolds, first off a family picture:- Then the command group

Phase 1 avengers now complete. Not all in the correct unifrom but as good as I could get for a very small cost:- Individually we have the Hank Pym the Ant Man (also present as Giant Man/Goliath) Wasp And a not so well painted Thor All based on bits of scrap slate picked off of someones drive. Broken up with a hammer. Interestingly this can be drilled so offered up a bit more flexibility than I originally thought. Next batch are the phase two avengers (Caps Kooky Quartet) and lesser lights, Black Widow (not officially a member for some time after her early appearances), QuickSilver, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye and Hercules. Which ignoring the traitorous Wonder Man and Swordsman take me up to the period before Black Panther joined, followed by the Vision and Yellow Jacket would mean I have covered all members up until issue 100 (and I have a Mantis and Beast somewhere), which if I am correct would take me up until around 150.

So having now painted a fair number of fantasy figures there is a need to start to work out how they could be used. Mordheim initially springs to mind with a solid background and some nice terrain already build. My original plan was to use the figures as part of a D&D game but this still looks a long way off. With my thoughts returning to old school gaming I have been toying with gladiatorial battles perhaps using the fantasy trip or one of the early old school games. This has now come around to possibly using 3 rd (or 2 nd ) edition warhammer fantasy battle.  These early rule sets certainly cover most of the creatures that I was thinking of using and of course I already own the rules. For 3 rd edition I have the rulebook, siege, army lists and slaves to darkness. So plenty to be getting on with. I also have the box and booklet for Terror of the Lichemaster but the cardboard figures and most of the buildings are long gone. However I do really like the later editions of WHF...

Otherworld Stone Giant, mainly dry brushed. Plus a Barbarian by Grenadier (I think).

Mark, recently posted a piece on early Runequest so I thought I’d add some thoughts as how I got into the hobby. Back in 1977 I joined King John School, Essex which had a games club run by a Mr Eagle. The original early games that I remember being involved in were war games, most notably,  MTB , and early WRG WW2 rules using 1/300 th micro tanks, Modern British vs Russian  1/300 th armour (no idea where they went), and Skytrex WW1 and WW2 aerial (again just where did those aircraft go?).  But my imagination really took off when we started playing Dungeons and Dragons (presumably white box but I cannot remember). The first adventure I remember playing I was a barbarian fighter type who got into lots of trouble in an Inn and failed quite heroically trying to kick his way through a wattle and mud wall. Mr Eagle soon killed me off when I recklessly removed a spear from a statue only to be crushed as the roof fell on my head. Anyway I was hooked. In the early ...

Just a quick update on some recently painted figures Citadel Vampire for Mordheim. Otherworld Otuygh Some westwind insane asylum inmates  And finally some old Rafm Hunting horrors.

Painted a few months ago, hopefully a better picture to follow.