new terrain - deadzone

Well I have started work on a new project for a new game system I play.

Dead zone is a hybrid system; it is a miniature board game. Now I love to make terrain with the limited amount of dead zone terrain I have started to work on a table with scratch built terrain. It is a two foot by two foot table broken into 3 inch squares. I am building three by two foot table to allow a change in game. You can have. I have two ideas I would like to build. So here is the first table underway.

It is a two by two compound with a one foot jungle on the outside.

dreadfleet terrain

one of the goals for 2014 is to play all the all the dreadfleet games from the book. I have a rule never to play it unpainted with all my mini games this means I have to paint all the terrain and ships first. well I have now just finished the terrain.

still working on watch towers

well i have been working on the second watch tower.

the first one so far it is now on paint table.

this one is based around a small keep.

i have started the next one based around a forrest theme.

working on a new watch tower

i have a couple of GW watch towers that i an working on.

Here is the first one taking shape.

deadzone -box set

well finished the box set of terrain today

terrain for 2014

well this year I have started of a bit slow so it is time to pick some projects and get back to building.

so far i have completed -

how i did 2013 - hobby update

Well 2013 has long been over and I have not reported on the year that was and set the goals for the 2014 hobby year.

1. Paint one mini a day (buy no more minis

2. One new Malifaux table – circus

3 one new fantasy tables

4 Weekly update for both my blogs – firewaterportal and windwaterportal

5 run four privet events / gaming days

6 paint and play dread ball

8 Play 52 games of WHFB

9 play 26 games of malifaux, complete the mal league

10 play 6 games of kings of war

11 play 6 games of dread ball

12 start a weekly family board game night.

1.  Well I did not get the buy no more minis this year that was a fail. But I did paint one min a day this year. Painted 476 bought 812 minis.

I do keep track of my mini painting on a blog

 http://windwaterportal.blogspot.com.au/

2. I completed three new tables for malifaux this year. The circus table, the Asian jungle table and the streets of malifaux. So big win there

3. I built a couple of tables worth of terrain for the club- I also built an 8x4 jungle table for me, so a win there.

4. Blogging on a weekly basis on my blogs was not a success. I did about one post a week between all blogs not one each. This I will try to go better this year.

5. Run four events for myself this year. I only managed on event so that was a fail.

6. Paint and play dread ball – big pass on that painted 42 dread ball models and play five games.

8-11 about playing games so

52 – Fantasy - played 27

26 malifaux – played 15

6 kings of wall – played 2

6 dread ball – played 5

 In all played 49 games, this does not include the other systems I played and picked up this year.

So I had a good year of gaming.

12. Start a family bored game night. We may not have a night that we play but we do play games now do that is great.

So 2013 had some ups and down but for me and the hobby it was a great year. Lots of painted minis and terrain. One of the big changes was that I need to limit what I buy. One of the conclusions I had is don’t do new project till old one are finished. So with that some of my old unpainted armies are going to be sold off to fund any new purchases. With all the kick-starters I have next year I will be busy anyway so I will not need any new models.

With that let 2014 have just as much fun in the hobby.