Thats not a moon, its a paintstation! Ep 2

Hello guys!

For the past few days i have been working on my new painstation. If you remember my old paintstation, which you can find here. This one is quite different from that one. The old one was in our living room, so it realy was not that nice. This one is in our bedroom and can be hidden away easily. There is not that much board space than in the old one, but i dont need it anyway. As every miniature hobbyist knows. More board space = more stuff stored into piles.



Here we can see the big closets in our bedroom room. Inside those is hidden my new paintsation!

 And the it is! Lets go and take a closer look.

I made a table that slides in and out. It also can be locked into position. There is plenty of space for my legs underneath the table. Also i chose a light that can be moved in and out with the table, as well as up and down.

On the left side i have four small shelfs for all of my paints. I still need to go trough and check which ones are ok to paint with. Next year ill also try to move out of gw paints range into Vallejo, as i like them more.

On the left side there are my scenery stuff. Only the ones i use the most. Also there are my spray paints. I think that i will move them somewhere else, as there is not much point of storing them there becouse you cant spray paint inside anyways.

Here is the table i mentioned earlier. Mosty normal painting stuff. Also a smaller lamp if i need more light.

On the back wall is a hook for my dremel. This is still in the reach of my hand, even is the table is locked into the out position.

 Under the table is an electrical outlet for the lights and the dremel.

Under the table is also storage for my spare parts and more drillheads for the dremel. I also wrote a letter to santa, hoping for an airbrush and air compressor. The compressor can be stored here as well.

Over the table is a bigger shelf for anything realy. Now its used to store the rest of my scenery parts and miniature kits.

And this is the end of our tour. All in all im relly happy how my paintstation turned out. There is still options to modify the shelfs if i find the need for it.

I  have made some changes to the foru layout and added some pictures to the USMC section, so check those out.

Like allways thanks for reading and if you have any comments or questions. Let me know.

-Nojis

Back in business!

Hi guys!


Im back to give you a quick update. It has been three months without painting or gaming. That all had a small change last week when i faced Juhas blitzkrieg germans again. The game was on a display board of Portinhoikka which Juha had made. Portinhoikka is a real life location where Finland faced the Soviets back in the war.

More information about the board or our battle you can find in Juhas blog

Now onto other things. As i told you, we had our second baby boy join our family little over three months ago. Now our one bedroom appartment has got a bit too crowded for us. Now we have just five more days until we get the keys to our next and bigger appatment. So slowly im getting back into gaming and painting as soon as we are done with the move. Ill post some pictures about how i set up my next painting station and also im thinking about buying an airbrush for painting, so ill blog about that too. Also if you fancy modern combat i have something comming up with that too, so stay tuned.

As you can see this blog is not dead, far from it.

Thanks for reading.

Below are some shots from the game with Juha

Until next time

Hello all! I just popped here to announce that my blog will prodably be neglected more than usual. We had a newcommer to our family four days ago, so we will be a little busy with two children now.

The blog is by no mean over, i will do some minor updates here and there. I think i will resume the blog near christmas.

Id like to thank you everyone for reading my blog. See you next time!

Dropzone Commander: Pheonix rising from the ashes?

We all have had some time now to play with our new and shiny Pheonixes. As the model is awsome and the rules are still in experimental stage, i want to start a litle talk about the rules.


The Armor
As we all know the Pheonix costs alot and has the whopping 9 damage points, but the armor is 5. So my first question is that should it be 6 or not? and why? I dont have an oppinion on this matter yet, i still need to play more with it but what do you all think?


The Guns
Next thing is the weaponry. The ranges on the missile barrages, AA-guns and chainguns is fine as it is. BUT... i realy think that the chainguns scream for alternate fire mode, like the Vindicator AA-guns on rapier tanks. To be honest i think that the alternate mode should be just like the Vindicators focused fire pattern so E7 SH3 AC3 but with a range of 12 and MF of 8.

You may ask why? Well one thing i have noticed with the Pheonix is that while it has a potential to take out alot of stuff with the large template of the missile barrages. After they have been fired the Pheonix scares nobody.
For example i had a battle of 1500pts against Scourge. I fired my first missiles into a Reaper squad taking them out. Next shot was against 3 stalkers and 3 hunters, all under the template. I missed the shot, it scattered 6 and didnt harm anyone. After this the Scourge just swooped around and under the Pheonix as with the 2 shots together from the chainguns needing 5+ to hit the skimmers. The scourge player didnt really care about the pheonix anymore as it didnt have alot of offensive potential anymore.


The disc of doom
The Pheonix model has the awesome radar disc on its back. I think every UCM player out there was hoping a rule for it. As that didnt happen i have started to toying around with couple of rules for it

1. Tactical awareness
The Pheonix is well equipped in commnication systems, to keep a constant connection into the planets surface where ships like Orlando type strikecruisers keep an eye on the battlefield with diffrent kind of optics, therman UV-systems and sends this information back to the Pheonix.

Once Per game game on activation of the Pheonix, you may force the opponent to show his current command cards.

2. Operational support
The Pheonix is designed to provide close proximity command and support to any battlefield actions. It provides UCM forces a constant feed of information about all know enemy formations and their movements. This makes it easier for UCM to hold their ground as they know what they are facing on the battlefield

All UCM infantry units that need to make a morale check can do it with a +1 modifier to their dice roll

3. False communication
The Pheonix can use its systems to send falce comunications to enemy units, cousing confusion and loss of coherency in enemy formations and directing enemy fast movers to wrong targets

Enemy fast movers whos flight patch would cross the Pheonixes command radius must reroll their reserve roll. This may only affect one fast mover in each turn.



There is some of the rules i have tought about. Surely they will need some refining, but thats just to get started. Now im intrested that what have you tought about the Pheonix? Please comment and share your toughts.

Dropzone Commander: Mortars, Mortars everywhere

As most of you allready know. Hawk Wargames has released the UCM mortar teams and the experimental rules for them. You can find the rules in the Hawk website.

Hawk is also releasing new infantry for Scourge and PHR. Shaltari is getting somekind of heavy infantry walker thingys, which realy are not infantry.

As we can see from the mortar team rules UCM is also getting Heavy Hazard suits, and Anti-Aircraft teams. With all the infantry comming from Hawk, they are clearly making a change into the game and giving infantry more role than finding objectives and hauling them out of the battlefield.

I dont have enough gaming experience to really comment the rules. Ill just say that the concussion shells seem really intresting and will open up some new tactics. First that come in mind, is pushing the nasty Scourge warriors back from windows and preventing them from shooting those combined shots.

Also, if the mortar teams can shoot individual targets, so two bases fire on two targets. It will give some grey hair to enemy infantry. But on the other hand, when the role of infantry is to get objectives there wont be that much shooting at them with the mortars. We just need to wait how they will play out and how they will shape our lists.

Sadly for me the mortar teams need Bear APC:s so you can field them. And atleast for the moment i am aiming for pretty air based list without them. But i will surely be getting mortars at some point!

Dropzone Commander: Ferrum and the gang

I just finished my Ferrum and the drones. It has already been on the battlefield twice, but painted models are always more fun to play with.

Im really happy how the Ferrum turned out. The parts are all glued in place as im really not into them moving. In my oppinion the decals are a perfect last touch for the Ferrum.

Ferrum lifting more drones to the battle from the drone bay

Jerry the drone

 

I will be adding these photos to the UCM gallery later. Next posts i will show the Falcons, Archangels and Raven A:s. I did some more decal work on them.

New blog sections!

UCM Gallery

Now i can officially tell you all that the UCM gallery has been opened! Its still a little light on pictures, but i will add more as soon as i shoot more during games. Just look for UCM in the top navigation bar and it takes you to the gallery

Dropzone Commander

The Dropzone Commander part is going to be a link list taking you all who are more into DzC than Bolt action to post talking about Dropzone. I also hope that the dropzone players will give me feedpack in those posts. Im still fairly new to Dropzone, on the other had i have a bad case of "DzC fewer" going on right now.

Bolt Action galleries

As for the French and British galleries i hope that i have the time to take pictures tomorrow at the club as me and Herkko are having a DzC game.


I hope you all like the new content that i have made. Im slowly but surely getting the blog to the state that i like.  if you have ideas of how to improve the blog or something else, feel free to comment.