Deathguard Lord

Just as I was finishing the second coat of paint on the Time Lift Security, I got distracted by the Games Workshop Nurgle Chaos Lord I bought a couple of weeks ago for conversion into a Deathguard Lord.

Here are some work in progress shots.

The figure (plastic) is very cleanly moulded. The main modification I made was to cut and file off the neck and then drill out the neck stump to take a standard Spacemarine head. For this figure, the Nurgle head from the Chaos Marine accesory sprue was an obvious choice.

I added a pistol and holster from the Chaos Marine sprue plus a hanging skull from the Terminator Lord to the right hip.

The backpack is from the Possessed sprue, so far the only modification is to cut one of the hoses and rotate it as if it has fallen out. I also drilled out the other connection point. I am going to have a look at the Forgeworld Nurgle Sorceror Lord's back pack to see what else I need to add.

Now I could add the Nurgle Icon to the back pack but that might overwhelm the figure, I will think about that.

Captain Black Cosplay Competition

Work in progress on the Time Lift Security figures from Crooked Dice.

I have straightened, cropped and resized the picture, that is all.

Colours 2011

After a very long time, I finally went to Colours.

The last time it was in Reading, and I am not sure how long ago that was.

I was extremely lucky to be passing the Crooked Dice participation game when they were looking for players for "You Only Live Dice " (see the Salute 2011 post for more pictures or the Crooked Dice web site/forum).

A very good time was had by the players, with partial victories on both sides as Department X stopped the chemical attack on the Peace Conference (note to Villains, buy better quality containers) and my Villainous Star made use of his jet pack and the Auto-Gyro to make his escape.

The game won the Colours 2011 Best Participation Game.

For the rest of the show I wondered round seeing stuff I wanted to buy, and then forgetting where I saw it (so no change there).

I had an interesting conversation with the representative of the Plastic Soldier Company about plans to add 28mm vehicles to the current 28mm Russians infantry. I do hope that some of the vehicles are produced as hard plastic kits. The smaller (1/72 and 15mm) ones look very nice. I picked up the Russian Infantry, Support Weapons and Antitank Guns. Pictures when I get round to painting them.

Warlord Games supplied a Jeep, a Kubelwagen and a Cromwell tank which I hope to start soon.

Empress Miniatures (as Imprint Moderns) do a very nice range of Modern vehicles, I have one of their T90 tanks under construction. Very nice resin mouldings and easy to put together.

Figures In Comfort had a nice blue figure case which will take my 7TV and Doctor Who figures, unfortunately it is not bigger on the inside.

Westwind had the new Incursion: SNAFU figures and also Incursion on special.

Ainsty supplied some new backgrounds, which are being painted. I did forget to get a water cooler. Never mind.

I had not expected to go to Colours, so had ordered the new Time Lift Security from Crooked Dice, so I only added another two packs of TLS to the four I had ordered by post and received on Friday. The delightful Haydon suggested using them for a Blood Bowl team.

Overall, an enjoyable show, the game was extremely fun and I made it back in time for Doctor Who.

Unusual Suspects 1

A quick comparison of a range of (in many cases unfinished) miniatures.

From left to right: Offensive Miniatures Riot Police; CP Miniatures SF trooper; Crooked Dice Armed Minion with automaton head); Copplestone Guard in Beret; Offensive Miniatures Riot Police Sergeant and Hasslefree Neil (with Offensive Minitures baton arm).

Organisation to Nurture and Consolidate Europe*

* Apologies to Charles Stross for borrowing his joke (it is better in French and in the novel Halting State).

Agents Red and Blue of a UN agency involved with law enforcement.
Both use the body of The Man From 3000, Agent Blue uses The Man From 2000 head. Both use the optional gun hand from The Man From 2000.

The following are the stats for 7TV, usable for a 100 Rating skirmish.

Name	Move	Def	Hits	Str	Agl	Int	Morale	Ratings
Agent Red	6	4	3	4	4	3	6	47
	Gadgets Luck(2) Seduce Saboteur Leader(1)			Drive Snapshot Disarm Good Offence Danger Magnet(D)			Brawl 4+ Pistol 4+
Agent Blue	6	4	3	3	4	5	6	52
	Gadgets Luck(2) Seduce Saboteur Leader(1)			Drive Eagle Eye Disarm Kung Fu Grip Danger Magnet(D)			Brawl 4+ Pistol 3+

I have given them both the Drive Special Effect, even though they have no Vehicle Special Effects, but would allow them to Drive any vehicle they encountered during a game.

They both have the Leader(1) Special Effect to allow either of them to be the one activated first (and then use the Leader Special Effect to provide an Activation Marker for the other).

Insidious Industrialist

Insidious Industrialist (Media Mogul subtype) surveying the site of his new printing facility.

The body is the Man From 2000, the head is the Suave Aging Agent from the Flamboyant agent heads sprue.

Not COSHH compliant...

The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 is a United Kingdom Statutory Instrument that states general requirements on employers to protect employees and other persons from the hazards of substances used at work by risk assessment, control of exposure, health surveillance and incident planning. There are also duties on employees' to take care of their own exposure to hazardous substances and prohibitions on the import of certain substances into the European Economic Area.

Oops, someone is going to get a stiff letter from the HSE...

Luckily UNIT is on hand to deal with this situation...

You need to look BEHIND YOU!

Hasslefree's Sadie (c) is not paying attention.