It's Here! Wild West Exodus Unboxing

Ok so yesterday when I was giving the run down of my pending kickstarters I said I thought Rivet Wars might be there today and WWX by the end of the month. It turns out I had my arrivals wrong. Last night when I woke up to go to work I had a box waiting for me on the front step and it was from Outlaw Miniatures! It turns out Rivet Wars will be here Tuesday the 10th but that's for another post...

Enough of my blabber pics pics pics pics:

I started to open the box last night prior to work but ran out of time (damn work gets in the way of fun)

 

 While my 5 year old was at skating lessons today with the wife I set the 4 year old up with cartoons and got to the box for real :)  My painted test sprue enlightened hired hand looks on in excitement

Lawmen: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Judge K Stern, UR-30, and wave 1 hired hands

Warrior Nation: Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Sky Spirit (he lives), Walks Looking, Braves with Apparition, Energy Beast (missing two) 

Geronimo! So awesome.
 

 Geronimo's legs for scale. He's a big boy
 

Warrior Nation wave 1 and 2 hired hands

 

Close up of two wave 2 hired hands


Outlaws: Jesse James (regular and alt), Billy the Kid, Frank James, Cole Younger, Apache Kid, and Jake "Smiley" Williamson


Outlaw wave 1 and 2 hired hands


Close up of wave 1 hired hands


Union: Lincoln, Grant, Pinkerton, Sheridan, Loveless, and Courtwright


Da Prez gonna get ya!

Union Wave 1 hired hands

Union Tank!

 Entightened: Dr Carpathian, Creation VII, Creation XIII, and wave1 hired hands


Up close of Creation VII he's pretty cool 

Heavy Weapon hired hands. One was missing :(

 

Firefly crew....I mean the Wayward 8 ;)

Dark Council member, Warrior Nation Totems, Marcus Cunningham (mystery backer mini), and ladies of the west 

 

 Odds and ends. I also had the three comics, rulebook, mini rulebook, and novel but didn't photograph them.

 

So there you have it my WWX haul. I was missing a couple things but I'm sure Outlaw will fix those issues. I have my bag coming in the second wave of shipping too. Ok I have to go to bed.

 

 

Looking Back/Looking Forward

Hello all the first of the year has come and gone so I suppose I should do the obligatory year in review. I'd first like to say thanks to those that stop by from time to time and see what I am blabbering about. I haven't done a good job blogging this year (really bad the last part of the year) and I appreciate those that stop by and occasionally leave a comment.

I would have to say 2013 was the year of the kickstarter addiction and one of procrastination. I have continued to work on my beloved troll throughout the year and have picked up a few other projects but never really made much head way with anything. I think some of this was due to the "oh new shiny" syndrome of kickstarters and the other (probably largest contributor) was my lack of actual game play. I feel like I got more game in the first half of the year and this lead to me being more productive and to a larger number of posts. I'd say the highlights of the hobby year would be Templecon and the two painting class I tool in Toronto......what’s that? Oh right I never wrote about it :/ I plan to do my write up soon....I promise.

2014 will be the year of the fulfilled kickstarter and the continued growth of the Kriels. Most of the kickstarters I was expecting to receive in late 2013 have been pushed to early 2014 so here is the list:

-Rivet Wars (maybe tomorrow!)
-Wild West Exodus (by the end of the month?)
-Mega Mat (early Q2 2014)
-Kingdom Death (missed the KS but got in due to a last min deal should be late Q2 2014)
-Wrath of Kings (middle/late 2014?)
-Warmachine Tactics (late 2014?)
-Relic Knights (?)

I have Templecon 2014 looming around the corner and I am really looking forward to catching up with friends from out of town. I don't intended to play a ton of tournaments but will play in one or two. While I am not planning on going crazy with tournament games it doesn't mean I don't have a painting goal and I will post on this early next week. I am hoping to play some demos for my upcoming KS releases and maybe pick up some items I didn't add to my pledges.

Ok so there is the mandatory wrap up :) Hope y'all had a great year and hopefully you will be hearing from me far more regularly this year. If you're going to be at Templecon hit me up and maybe we can grab a game in the Iron Arena or a cocktail in the bar :)

Work on the West Continues

Hey y'all how goes it? Well I'm back after 10 days in Disney and back to working on my WWX board. I was in the basement yesterday hacking away at foam and got a bunch started. I have a few WiP photos so lets get to it eh?

I decided to hack out a few more freestanding mesas. I think this bottom one may be my favorite so far.

 

If you recall my initial design for the 4x4 table was to have four 2x2 sections and one of them was going to be a cave hideout/mine. I forgot to cut the mine entrance when I made the large wall section and I have been struggling trying to decide the best course of action from here on out. I have decided to scrap the cave section for the current time as I feel it will be too limiting for game play. I also decided to man up and just cut in the cave entrance the best I could and see what happened.

 

Lug checks out the proposed entrance

 

I threw caution to the wind and went at the wall with a wire cutter and a utility blade. Here you can see the result. I didn't want to go all the way through the wall. You can see the back of it but I am hoping with the right paint it will just look like a dark mine shaft.

 

"Little tight boss"

 

"I fit fine"

 

 

Here I have the wall place on the demo section and few freestanding mesas. looks like with a little scatter terrain I should have a decent amount of cover for all parties involved. Next move will be to frame out the cave with some support beams and make a mine cart track. Once that is done I'll put some sand on the wall, painting it all up, and attach it to the base.

 



After I made my decision on the mine wall I had to think up what to do with the adjoining board section. I am going to do another wall section but not as big as the mine wall. This one with me tiered and allow for models to climb it. I roughed out the initial design for the wall with a wire cutter.

Once of the pieces I cut for the bottom section was warped for some reason which is why I had to go heavier with the liquid nails as you can see here. Hopefully once this fully dries it will sit flush and will still carve nicely.

Here you can see the how the top section with meet up. I left plenty of over hand so that after I hack in the mesa texture the should line up fairly well.

 

Ok that's all for now. I need to hit the hobby store for some supplies before they close. I hope to get some more work done in the next few days and have the demo section finished up. I ordered some supplies online and the township section will be seeing work once they arrive.



 

Knocking the Rust Off

Hey y'all. Its been too long since I have posted anything. I really have been in a bit of a rut in the hobby department but trying to get back into the swing of things. I haven't really painted anything in a while. The only painting I did was a few weeks back when I attended a painting seminar in Toronto taught by Meg Maples but I will do a post on that later.

I have been working on my WWX demo board a little so here are some wips of my first attempts at a real board:

Here is a 2x2 section of MDF. DieselDM covered this section with a spray on texture something or other as an experiment to try and avoid having to glue sand over the entire section. I have to say I am happy with the experiment and he is currently texturing three more sections for me :)

Here are three sections of mesas based on the tutorial from Rob Hawkins blog. They need to have some static grass and shrubbery added to break up the brown a little but that will be added once I get the particle board bases from Diesel.

Here is a couple crappy shots of the board with the mesas sitting on the board. I still have the big wall section of rock to work on but it is on hold until I can figure out a good way to cut in the mine shaft which I forgot to do during assemble (dumbass).

 

So there you have it the wips on my first table. I have to say so far so good and I have really been enjoying the process. I got a package yesterday from http://www.burnindesigns.net/ which will be the beginning of my township section of the board but I'll do a post on them once I get a chance to play around with them some. OK off to bed for this guy have a great day y'all.

Kickstarters Do Come True!

Those of you that follow along know I went a little off the deep end with kickstarters at the end of last year/beginning of this year. Some of the projects have been on a pretty major delay (looking at you Relic Knights) but the other day when I was napping I received a glorious package from the FedEx guy.

 

 

 According to my FedEx tracking email here is 13lbs of gaming good just waiting to be opened.

First item out of the box is Zombicide: Toxic City Mall (TCM). This requires a copy of season one or season two. This set has the new zombivor version of the original character as well ad four new character with their zombivor versions. This set introduces the new toxic zombie to the game!

Item number two is Zombicide Season 2: Prison Break. This is a stand alone game but can mix with TCM as mentioned above. This comes with six new characters and their zombivor versions and introduces the berserk zombies to play!

Here is set #2 of kickstarter exclusive characters and zombivors. I missed out on set #1 from the first kickstarter and I am really bummed about that. Despited being bummed about set #1 I am pretty excited to have my hands on set #2! At initial glance there are some really cool characters in the set. the characters are Brad (Dirty Harry), Thaissa, Kirk, Aunt Rose, and Ralph. I think on my first initial scan Brad and Rose are my favorites but not quite Nick (current favorite).

Here are four additional characters I added to my kickstarter.

Zombie Dogz! At three actions a turn and last on the ranged priority list these little fellows are SCARY!

Mans best friend. New companions for your characters. Looking forward to trying these out.

 

Gotta get some cool extra dice right?!?

 

The entire haul.....for now :) This was just wave one of shipments. I have an additional 10 (I think) characters coming with wave 2!

 

It is currently a work week so no gaming at this time but I am hoping to have a game or two next week with a buddy. I will breakdown the sets at a later time and give y'all my take on the new mechanics/characters after I get a little table time in. OK time for this guy to head to bed have a great day all.