A Painter of Games

Saturday, January 11, 2025

A+ Recommended Timewaster: Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986)

This is one of the finest examples of 80's action flicks you will ever see. Great, great movie and it holds up today. Told you Rutger Hauer would be seen again soon!

Grade: A+ recommend!

On the table: Commission Project 01-02-25 some Crusaders

Some test subjects for a Crusaders contingent...

These are a WASTES OF TIME! ( and a rant about football!)

First of all - I'm not sure what Resident Evil 2 is supposed to be, but it's NOT the original by any means and I find that it sucks pretty bad. It's just a giant McGuffin Hunt. In fact, they should've called this game Resident Evil 2: McGuffin Hunt. Not worth the time or money. Grade: F

And about the Texas Ohio State Cotton bowl Classic being on ESPN and the Steelers Ravens plyoff game being on Amazon!?! Fuck right off. I started watching football again this year and the seasons are ending with Corporate greed and a P.O.S. shit named Rodger Goodell STILL selling everything out to the highest bidder. This should be illegal, and gambling should be made illegal again as well. Decouple Goodell and the gambling racket from sports. Fuck all of that shit. $#%!#$%@^@!

Rodger Goodell Grade: F For FUCK YOU!

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Time for Timewasters:

I only got about 40 percent through this giant open world FPS so far, but it's got enough to keep me engaged. Some good mechanics and great graphics keep it interesting although the grinding aspect could be reworked or done away with completely. The game relies much too much on hunting and fishing to gain money.

And Bladerunner is an all time favorite with one of my favorite actors: Rutger Hauer. We'll be seeing him again soon!

A little bit of holiday cheer:

Blacksting, Wyvern (personal) is complete!

This is the completed Blacksting, Wyvern from Reaper Miniatures. I liked this model so much, I wanted to see what I could do for a personal work. The color palette used was derived from a couple of the basing flock I have from Frontline Games. Forest Floor and Dark Soil.

Blacksting:

The model came with a plastic slotta base, which is not supposed to be part of this model, so I had to do some sculpting on the base to make it much more stable and it looks a lot better than just sticking it in the base as it was shipped. The Artsy Fartsy base building. I've never done anything much in the way of sculpting, but it turned out really well, and the model is supported much better now.

This is the color palette I chose for this project.

The finished project:

The Baron's War miniatures Sir Richard the Lionheart Project 01-01-25

I present Sir Richard the Lionheart for a historical miniatures 28mm line from Footsore Miniatures and Games at Footsore Miniatures

This mini was done in a different style than I usually paint in, but it's effective:

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Updated Terminators and Terminator Captain for Legio Fulminata (They were bothering me!)

I wasn't happy with the color on these minis. The color looked too orange-ish next to the rest of the Legion, so I fixed it. They don't bother me anymore!

Before with orange-ish highlighting...

And after the new red was applied. They don't bother me anymore.

Some 1974 Saracen looking Mercs!

Not sure what the company was or the game system, but here are some old school minis for a TT wargame from out of the seventies. Black Sabbath and Kiss were putting out their first records when these were made... and they were difficult to line on because of the age and the molding methods used back then. All in all, a good set for a campaign somewhere.

A badly molded Reaper Blacksting, Wyvern 02636 #2 On the Table!

This miniature is such a dynamic sculpt that I had to buy one for myself and see what I could do with the colors. Unfortunately, the miniature that I purchased was a factory defect. At some point, Reaper Miniatures produced a run that the base did not come out good enough so they shipped it with a plastic base instead. So I made my own. For a first try with putty, baking soda/cement mix, blue Tac and paint... it looks pretty good! This is still only about 50 percent complete. I'm looking forward to seeing how this one turns out!