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Rita and i have decided to begin another chronicles of HATE this past weekend but this time we picked different tribes to get a feel of playing style than we were used to with our first tribes we picked last year.   let the season of HATE begin... ( just a side note, i did not paint any of the miniatures, mainly because i want to take my time and do a really good job, they are so damn detail and nicely sculpted, i just don't want to ruin them. i used the pics below to show what the tribes we used for our chronicle look like. )   this time around we have a better grasp on the rules unlike our first go with the game where we made several mistakes along the way, and when i say we it was mainly i.   when we selected our tribes to play with, we basically picked at random and just make it a learning process as we went. the tribe of Um'Rak are a tightly-knit group of savages, centered around their mighty Prince. On the battlefield they move like a hive-minded band of angry ...

past few days while on vacation i finished up several more miniatures for my wild west collection and got my first set of buildings done also. hopefully next month i can get several more. Wolfe, "old man" Rusty, and Jesse. Clint, Deputy Virgil, and Connie. so i wanted to do something special for Rita and paint up a couple to represent her parents. for her father i took a rugged male figure i had and armed with a rifle with a overcoat draped over his shoulders like Doc Holliday. for her mother i used a female figure that was proper and elegant and not armed with much weapons despite these miniatures did come from a zombie killing game. i asked Rita what colors she would want her mother's dress and she requested a yellow, being that was her favorite color. i painted the scarf that was wrapped around the female's body a navy blue, to represent the Rita's love for her mom. i never got to meet her mother because she past away in 2006 from cancer, but i hear she was a g...

this past weekend our D&D group had their campaign finale and it was balls out fun! during this campaign i didn't pull punches when it came to creating story lines. i was given stern looks for the most part. but in the end everyone had an understanding on why things went the way it did. halfway through the campaign i let the players also pick a secondary character they would be interested in playing also. so at one point we would have one group of characters investigating a creepy manor for a certain npc, there would be another group discovering the plot on why the king was kidnapped. sometimes i would bend the rules to make some story arcs work out, but i tried my best to have it make sense in the end. for the finale i had written out several ideas and in the end i decided on having the game session broken up into two acts. all the photos were taking by my wonderful girlfriend, Rita. act one was the group finding the evil tiefling necromancer that had Breena, murdered for the ...

 for sometime now i have been debating how what to do for my Dungeons and Dragons campaign finale as far as the main boss. and the Wand of Orcus has been the somewhat center piece of what would become problems for our D&D group for good part of a year now. and since i like to keep all my D&D miniatures and models exclusively Wizkids, i was going back and worth on actually getting an Orcus figure. but couldn't seeing myself spending $70+ for a figure that i will probably only use once or twice. i went to Etsy.com to see what i could fine, and i came across a vendor called BunionsandCabbage. and they had a very nice looking Orcus. so i took a chance on them and ordered one. this was the very first time i ordered a 3-d printed item on Etsy. click here to check out BunionsandCabbage's page on Etsy.com the Demon Prince of Undeath i didn't know if i wanted to paint this fellow like i did with all my other Wizkids figures, or do the slapchop method like i've been doin...

 took a break from painting the wild west miniatures and the buildings i recently got, i spent the day finishing up some D&D miniatures for this weekend's campaign finale. since reading about the spellcasters of Thay in the D&D books, i was always intrigued and wanted a small coven of wizards based off of them. kept with the theme of red robes of sorts and using what would look like evil looking miniatures, i picked a tiefling sorcerer to be my leader and also the main villain of my campaign. most likely i'll add more to this group as time goes on. the miniature i used was a Wizkids Frameworks miniature. a little pricey but they look nice once built and painted. confronting a spirit of an equally venomous wizard, the archmage leads the group of necromancers into a battle of wits with the flameskull. a death knight from Wizkids. finally found a leader for all my skeletons. i almost want to get another set of skeletons just to create a fairly size horde of bones and weapo...