10mm Giant Poison Dart Frog Swarms

     Over this past weekend I finished up a couple bases of giant poison dart frog swarms to accompany my 10mm Lizardman army for use with "Bear Yourselves Valiantly" mass combat fantasy rules.   The figures were from a pack I picked up in a flea market a while back and were made by Chariot (now sold by Magister Millitum) and intended for 15mm. I think they work fine for 10mm too.
   

Two bases and a command stand.

A close up.

Shown with some 10mm Pendraken Lizardmen for scale.

Armies For Kids 2015 Project Update

This past Saturday Buck Surdu hosted a painting day to work on this year's Armies For Kids project.   Members of the HAWKs got together at his house to paint about a hundred 40mm ACW Union figures that were part of a lot donated by Maynard Creel.  Another approximately 100 painted figures donated by Keven Pinder,were mounted on bases.   There are also a large number of painted figures donated to this year's project by Ed Mohrmanm, and some by Phil Kearnan.

Photo courtesy of Buck Surdu.

       After a morning of painting, the guys took a brake and played the new Star Wars Imperial Assault game.  Buck has posted a write up of that session to his blog

Photo courtesy of Buck Surdu.

     These armies will be presented to 6 lucky kids who take part in a specially designated game at Historicon this summer.

10mm Pendraken Lizardmen Units

     This past week I completed some more units for my planned 10mm Lizardman Army for "Bear Yourselves Valiantly" mass combat fantasy rules.  Some of my readers will remember that a few weeks ago I posted the Giant Turtles that were the first Lizardman units I painted.
   So far, I did three stands of spear-armed troops, one of archers, and a Battlegroup leader, Wing Commander, and a Shaman.  Next up I hope to finish some cavalry and other assorted troops.

Three spear wielding Warbands and one of archers

The Wing Commander on his personal war-turtle "Pooky", a Battlegroup leader with banner, and a wise old shaman 

A close up of the regal Wing Commander

Battlegroup leader

Shaman

Spear close-up....

..and archers.

Dwarven Forge City Kickstarter Adds Battlements and Mega Street Pack

     I just wanted to let folks know that Dwarven Forge has now added Battlement sets, and several expanded Street sets to their City Builder Kickstarter.  And, with just two weeks to go, it's a great time to jump in on these deals.
You can check it out here: Dwarven Forge City Builder

UPDATE: In response to popular demand, Dwarven Forge just added a Sewers Only pledge level, so folks can buy into the sewer stuff without having to buy any of the building stuff.

Recently Painted 10mm Fantasy: Trojan Rabbit, and Sea-Elf Wizard

    This weekend I finished up a couple 10mm stands for my "Bear Yourselves Valiantly" fantasy armies.  The first of these is a 10mm 3-D printed "Trojan Rabbit", purchased from Shapeways.  My friend, Buck Surdu, and I both got one of these; and in talking about it, we decided we'd treat it as a kind of self-propelled  armored personal carrier.  So, to enable the "self-propelled' part, I modified some extra War-of-the-Roses figures I had to become "pushers", and glued them on the base as if pushing the rabbit forward.

Un cadeau!

Let's hope they remembered to get inside this time!

   The other figure I completed this week was an Elf Wizard for my Sea-Elf army.  I used an extra GW High Elf Wizard I had, and painted him in my Sea-Elf army colors.  I tried to paint him as if standing upon a water spout, and casting some sort of water-based spell.

Sea-Elf Wizard

Dwarven Forge City Builder Kickstarter

I just wanted to take a moment and let my readers know about the new Dwarven Forge City Builder Kickstarter.   It is introducing a neat new product from Dwarven Forge for creating modular city buildings.   While a little on the pricey side, I really like the "building block' nature of the components, and think it will be a lot of fun to play around with, besides being really beautifully crafted like everyone has come to expect from Dwarven Forge.

    I've gone in for the Hamlet set and a couple of the extra roof packs so far.  I'm interested to see just how far this one can go, knowing the success of past Dwarven Forge Kickstarters.

  To check it out for yourself, visit their Kickstarter Page.

EDIT  3.13.15:  As of last night, they have added several packs of some great looking sewers! Be sure to chck these out

Cold Wars Saturday Games in the HAWKs Room

It was busy from morning to night in the HAWKs room Saturday at Cold Wars.  In between my GM duties, I was able to get some shots of some of the other games going on in the room.  For reports on the "Battle of Paris, 1814" game and the "Battle of the Elven Capitol" game I was involved in, see Paris and Elves.

An overview of the room Saturday morning.

David Schlegel (in red hat) running his "Incident at Schlegel's Gulch" Wild West game using "Blood & Swash" rules

Duncan Adams (in maroon shirt) helps a player during his "West Bank at New Orleans, 1815" game using "Wellington Rules".

A close-up of the New Orleans game, as British try to storm the American positions.

Kevin Fischer's (in blue shirt) "Mobile Suit Gundam" game using "Mobile Suit Combat" rules

Norman Dean (pointing) explains an objective to a player at the start of his  Scarlet Pmpernel game using "They Seek Him Here, They Seek Him There" rules 

Another shot of the Scarlet Pimpernel game.

Eric Schlegel  (in black baseball hat) running his "Everyone Comes to Schlegel's Ferry" game using  GASLIGHT rules.

Sam Fusion (in black and gray sweater) giving the rules brief before his "Dan'l Boone to the Rescue" game using "Muskets and Tomahawks" rules. 

During a lull in the action around dinner time Sam Fusion presented several of the HAWKs with thank -you awards, including battalion challenge coins and battalion mugs, from the 114th Signal Battalion for the HAWKs' efforts in providing annual SLPD events for the battalion's Officers, Senior NCO's and Senior Civilian Leaders. For more info on the most recent HAWKs SLPD efforts, see SLPD