Showing posts with label Neverborn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neverborn. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 February 2011

All your blog are belong to me!

Testing, testing 1...2...3...

It's worked! I've managed to guess his password, who'd have thought it would be "my_lover_is_davidhasselhoff". All that aside, I better post this before he gets back and realises! Where's he been anyway? I remember when he updated this thing at least once a week!

Well now I've hacked his system, I might as well tell you about me. I'm James, and I know Elazar in real life. I started my own blog recently, but it just doesn't have the followers, so I thought to myself, how can I reach people that clearly don't want to hear what I have to say? The answer? Hack Elazars blog of course!

Anyway it's been lacking in Fantasy goodness since Firestorm Berlin started up, in fact we're both yearning for more Malifaux (and Warmachine for me, I'm trying to convert him!). The FoW campaign is cool, and we both really love the system, but sometimes you just need outrageously weird stuff to throw on a table and have a laugh right?

So this Wednesday Myself, Elazar and the guy who introduced our local gaming club to Malifaux are all having a game. It's going to be Elazars Dreamer crew vs my Pandora crew vs Andy's Showgirls! What I thought we needed to take us into the game, was a little story setter, so without further ado!

Colette looked down into the deserted town. She was sure there had been movement a couple of seconds ago. Maybe the fading light was playing tricks? It had all started with that damned Guild officer. Her shows were attracting more and more of them every week, and although Colette enjoyed the success and wealth it brought, the Arcanist movement was dangerously close to being found out. The Guild officer had come to bring her flowers backstage, and walked in on Cassandra fixing up a mechanical dove, and had bolted afterwards before Colette could get a chance to talk to him. Now this idiot was going to spread the secrets of her show all over the damned town. This would spark interest in just how the show was performed, and that would bring more attention from the Guild than Colette needed. Given a few minutes with the man, Colette could convince him of anything, what the hell had he come all the way out here into the desert for anyway? At least it would give a chance for her to conduct her business with him away from prying eyes. Colette waved to her troupe, it was time to go. They began walking down the dusty hill track into the town...

On the other side of town, Pandora smiled as the Doppleganger returned. Candy giggled and looked up from the cat she was slowly dismembering on the floor.
"It's nearly time" said Pandora with a slight smile.

Cassandra was annoyed. She had been caught off guard by some idiot Guild lackey, and didn't really feel like being nice enough to just change his mind when they caught up to him. The sand rolled around them in the light evening breeze, somewhere in the town a shutter could be heard banging against it's frame. There was only one main road leading into the town and that was the direction they headed in. To call it a town was a bit of an extreme , it was more like two rows of buildings with a large road like gap running down the centre, but Cassandra had seen smaller settlements out here, and she paid it no thought.

Pandora quicky looked up, "Somethings wrong" she said to no one in particular. There was something else here, not just the Showgirls advancing into the town, something else, something....wrong.
Pandora looked over at Candy who was already staring down the road. "It's him"....

Colette saw the young woman and little girl standing at the end of the road. Overcome with a feeling of sorrow and grief, she knew immediately who it was and signed to the rest of her girls to stand ready. Pandora had obviously lured them here for some reason, and whatever the reason it couldn't be good.

Colette froze as a ball bounced past her. Where the hell had that come from? She looked from building to building, only now noticing something odd. The buildings weren't right, something about their geometry was off, nothing you could place a finger on, kind of like a dream....

Pandora started to walk towards the Showgirls standing in the street, the box in her hands screaming in her mind, it was too late to back down, she would have to fight here and hope for the best. Who knew what he would do when he arrived, but that wasn't a problem for now, she would take Colette and her girls down here, and if needed, him too....

As Colette and Pandora faced eachother in the street, neither of them making the first move, a door swung open in one of the buildings. Both women looked in equal surprise. Standing in the doorway was a little boy, hugging onto his blanket and dressed in a nightgown.

He walked as if floating into the middle of the street and smiled at the pair. "PlAy TiME?" he whispered.......

James.

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

The Dreamer - WIP

Got a couple of WIP pictures of the The Dreamer, my crew Master. He's the little boy dreaming up all the madness in the crew!



Need to finish off the base and tidy things up a bit.

Friday, 21 January 2011

Painting Teddy.... Nearly There!

Ok, said I'd post more progress pictures of Teddy. He's nearly done, just a few last bits to do but I think it's very clear what the intention is with it all now at least



 Yes, "NOM" seemed the obvious choice with the blocks!

Monday, 10 January 2011

Painting Teddy.... some more!

Just a quick post this one to show an awful WIP photo with awful lighting but it gives an idea of what I want to do with Teddy. The mock up:


More on this soon as the idea takes further shape!

Sunday, 9 January 2011

Painting Teddy

Been thinking a lot about how I'm going to paint Teddy. Had a few ideas. The first one I had was the 'obvious' choice of like a Care Bear. And in particular, Grumpy Bear.

He already seems nearly grumpy enough to turn into a psycho killing machine... but, a giant blue bear, whilst hillarious would be a bit of an eye sore...

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Last week I discussed with a friend about making a teddy bear for the base so I've decided that his base is going to have a prone bear that he's savaged. This led me down the train of thought of Forever Friends for the irony but the bears for that are just plain boring and then I thought of the Tatty Bears. They're always on cards and stuff, I know my last few valentines cards from the Mrs have had the Tatty Bears on, so it just seemed right that such an image of sentiment be debased into a manically grinning, gore-smeared bear.... I also really like the contrast of the bright red with the greys and pale blue so seeing as Teddy has a heart shaped belly...



So I've started making a bear for the base out of green stuff and have made a couple of patches for Teddy too just to make him look a little more beat up. He's all ready to paint now so should be WIP pictures soon!

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Friday, 7 January 2011

Welcome To Malifaux...

A new year and a new project! I have began dabbling in the Malifaux hobby and I'll write about it all here Starting with my Neverborn - Dreamer crew but with a soon to follow Hamelin The Plagued crew as well as scenery and other bits.

To get started a quick picture of a mock-up of my first four minis:



Lord Chompy Bits (back-left), Teddy (back-right), Coppelius (front-left), The Dreamer (front-right)

The fluff for the Dreamer is pure brilliance. The Dreamer has manifested himself in Malifaux through a dream. The only problem is he believes it all to be a dream. He enjoys playing games in his dreams, especially with his monstrous companion, the ancient creature Nytmare - who the Dreamer has named Lord Chompy Bits. The Dreamer thinks he's playing an innocent game of tag with the inhabitants of Malifaux, chasing them round and "gobbling them up" but in fact it is all far more sinister...

There are 3 Daydreams and 2/3 Alps to add to the crew before it is complete but I should have those in the next couple of days.

Lots to do to the minis before they're even ready for painting yet. Not sure where I'll start the painting but I'm thinking maybe with Teddy

There will be lots more about Malifaux to come. For those who haven't had a look into it get yourself over to http://www.wyrd-games.net and do some reading (and/or browse the awesome minis in the online store). It's a great game with some unique rules, a brilliant setting and stunning minis!