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 this past weekend my girlfriend Rita and i gave a go at playing Fistful of Lead: Wild West. i don't have much western terrain but i made out with what i had on hand. wasn't to sure how condensed or spread out i should of placed the buildings but i think it all came together rather fine. we didn't play any scenarios in the rulebook, so we just scattered some gold tokens across the table and see who was able to end up with the most pieces of spanish gold. Henry Burnett sneaks on top the roof, and tries to take a shot at the indian across town. Burnett takes a fatal shot. Eli McKinney sneaking around a building, attempting to get the drop on anyone. Perkins climbs to get e better shot, but is taken down, but not before he takes out another outlaw. a death in the streets from multiple sides. such an exchange of gunfire. it was at this moment i went back to the rulebook and was curious what shock markers did in FFoL" Wild West and i was dead wrong. in the book there are mo...

 a while back a good friend of mine gave me a nice size box of random bits and plastic sprues from all sorts of GW box sets. out of all this i was able to put together several plastic zombies from the classic set GW came out with back in 2000. when i went to assemble them i didn't give them any hand weapons because i planned on using them as if they were the classic living dead. just out to eat some brains. i tend to use these with my pulp and fantasy games, and also i put them on 3mm thick MDF bases so they would fit right along side of my pulp/fantasy miniatures. when sorting out what i had, i painted first six figures that were not fully clothed. the only objects the zombies had in their hands were pieces of wood or a dismembered leg from a unfortunate victim. only had two who had their guts visible. the zombies that had more clothing on than the first group. few heroes finding themselves in a tight spot. several gunslingers trapped on top of a building,as the undead stalks them...

i have taken notice i am starting to accumulate two groups of fantasy miniatures. all of my Wizkids D&D miniatures or other miniatures that are scaled with them or just want to use them in my D&D sessions, i use the bases they come with or other kinds i ordered online which tend to be 1.5mm thick. any other fantasy miniatures i have like GW/Citadel or Reaper i put them on 3mm MDF bases. and recently but slowly i have been picking at my box of shame to get some figures painted at the bottom i found a two plastic box sets of GW Chaos Warriors from 1998. i made each model an individual, despite they are all armed with either an axe or a mace. the leader, Tor Lan'gwar. armed with an axe and shield. chaotic sorcerer, Mordrek the Damned. armed with a sword and a arcane focus. modeling this warband using Wiley Games Fistful of Lead: Fantasy rules, i also used an old Mordheim Possessed Magister figure. was not fond of the spiked mace he had, so i clipped the head of it and replaced...

 last weekend for our D&D game session my group had to seek out an ogre mage, but along the way they ran into some spirits that were not all too friendly. not gonna lie it was fun as hell running these guys. harassing the party and even got a chance to possess a player who in turn was killed by her fellow party members. i used the ghouls from the Mantic Games Undead Encounter plastic set, painted them all white, gave the figures a paint wash using Apple Barrel Cool Blue, and then glue a clear flying peg underneath to a base. i did not use any black wash like i normally do because i wanted them to almost look  like they were see through. at first i was gonna use these fellows as cultists, but i really wanted ghosts but i did not like the selection Wizkids has in their D&D line. same thing with this fellow. but when i put this guy together i sort of gave him a unique hand apparatus, which had him stand out from the others. so i did the same paint technique to him like wi...

" You come to learn, you want to know the magik, the dark magik? what you want?! infliction or affliction?! " finished another exciting leg of our D&D campaign last night, and as usual the adventuring party had to meet a very important and large character to direct them in the path they must travel to complete their quest. now for myself, i like to create characters that goes against the grain and so unusual things or even create unusual characters to further my stories in my D&D adventures. this time the heroic party had to cross paths with an ogre mage to aid them in their quest to stop a mad man of a necromancer. with ogres not known to be very smart, i wanted something different, but i knew i wouldn't find an ogre mage figure anytime soon.. so i took another large figure from the Time of Legends: Joan of Arc game i had sitting around and redid the base and clipped the head of his staff and swapped it with a animal skull from the Citadel Skulls set from Games W...

 its a been a long time since i played any Gaslands or even doing any converting toy vehicles for the game for maybe a year or so. i was bored the other day and had the game table cleared, so i dug out my Gasland stuff and decided on a simple scenario. simple scenario, get the rig from one end of the table to the other. easier said than done. layout of the table. nothing special. the rig is being sponsored by Slime, only armed with weapons fired by the crew, +2 hull and a front mounted ram. and the chasing team is sponsored by the Warden, the Los Guerreros armed with machine gun and a mini-gun, Mesias armed with a flamethrower, and La Parka armed with a mini-gun. here are some of the highlights: Mesias gets close enough to start going at it with the flamethrower. the Warden's team begin to split to bring down the monster. the rig, Cradle of Filth was taking damage from mounted mini-gun fire. Eddie comes around on the left flank. La Parka and Chavo continue damaging the rig. the cre...