Evening Wood

It's funny, but one of the things I particularly loved about this past series of Doctor Who was the way that some of the stories subtly evoked the Curse Of Fenric in various ways. Nothing overt, just these little nods in theme and tone that, in all probability, only overanalytical fanboys with too much time on their hands such as myself would ever misread into the proceedings. It's interesting then that The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe begins with an oblique reference to a past story.

The only problem is that this time it's Four To Doomsday.

I find your lack of oxygen disturbing.

2011. Apparently.

At the end of the year there are always two important tasks that must be performed. Firstly of course we must review our accounts to see if we managed to actually save any money this year. Then, after that we must take what little it is we did save and blow it all on the stuff that we didn't actually get for christmas.

It's at this point however that I also remember that I'm meant to be writing up a review of yet another year in rampant consumerism, as is apparently traditional around these parts. As ever, the following list is based on what I personally have discovered and experienced in the past year, with very little correlation to actual release dates or objective standards of taste.

CR4

That's right class, today we will be talking about Owlbears. Now, you may well ask "Why Owlbears?". But then that's my point entirely.

The Green, The Brown And The Ugly

Hey, you remember my last post on Doctor Who minis/ Where I tried to talk about painting Cybermen but could only really come out with " MOAR SILVER HERP DERP!!"

Guess how you paint Ice Warriors?

Quose Enquounters

So anyway, I picked up a copy of Quarriors at Dragonmeet the other week. I very nearly didn't though. It was, generally speaking a pretty shitty day. Having half the bloody tube closed was bad enough, but then they also decided to inject the entire population into the ramped confines of the remaining tunnels, presumably just for shits and giggles. Needless to say that by the time we even got there I was already wishing I'd never gotten out of bed and basically just planning to sulk for a few hours and then go home. I'm mature like that.

However, just by passing chance I joined in a demo game of Quarriors, and found that it seemed to be rather fun. This is despite losing in the most miserable fashion. Although to be fair that did rather suit my state of mind at the time. Since I'd bought hardly anything else that day I thought screw it, and blew the last of my money on the game straight after the demo game finished. was somewhat fortuitous as we actually left about 5 minutes after that, since the game that I was waiting for my companion to finish running had actually not happened due to someone buggering around with the tables. As I said, not a great day.

However, they do say every cloud has a silver lining. Personally I think this is bullshit, as that would clearly make them to heavy so stay up, but I'm digressing quite severely again. I wanna talk about this goddamn game.

Which is different from a Godman game. Although that would also be awesome.

From The Crypt

Having been playing D&D recently I was inspired to strip down some of my old Warhammer miniatures and have another crack at them. You may not immediately see the connection between D&D and Warhammer, but basically it boils down to not wanting to blow all my cash on a bunch of new minis when I have piles of potentially serviceable stuff kicking around.

Actually, it's not even a question of wanting. I'd much rather get a bunch of shiny new bits, but don't really have the time or money. So since these are sitting around I may as well knock out a few in between gaming sessions.

What The Hell Is The Plural Of Nemesis Anyway?

So yeah, I've been painting Cybermen.

Awesomesaurus

If you've ever looked at people discussing the whole miniatures painting hobby online you'll have inevitably seen those posts where someone walks you through the process of building and painting some great project, with lots of pictures of the work in progress so you can see how everything came together.

This is not one of those posts. Not quite anyway. The sad truth is I didn't actually think to start writing up any of mini painting shenanigans until a while after I'd finished this guy off. I suppose in a way it was thinking about how that could have made a good post that actually prompted me to start doing it all. So much for hindsight.

So, has anyone else ever heard of a Doctor Who novel called Blood Heat? It doesn't really matter if you haven't. The novel itself was okay, but all you really need to know for the purposes of this article is that it features the Silurians (who are one of my favorite monsters) and the cover looks like this:

I think you can see where this is going.

Rue The Line

So, chapter 2 in the painting of Shadowrun minis saga. Which I admit is less a saga and more of a miniseries. But I've been busy with other things, so sue me. I will get around to doing more at some point. But not until after I've recovered from painting this last lot.

The other blister pack I picked up on ebay after the Angels Of Death was a set of Black ICE Icons. These, I confess, enthused me initially a lot more than the angels. I had a great idea for how to paint them. Since they were all blocky and angular and from the internet I'd do them up up like wireframe models!

You know what I said last time about finding 25MM a tricky scale to work in? Yeah, should have thought that through a little more really shouldn't I?