Twelve Elements of War - kickstarter Alive/Dead?

Dadgum, wish it hadn't happened the way it did but it did. They had so much interest they decided to pull the kickstarter and now they are offline ot revamp and improve their system since there was so much interest in their product. It's sad but glad. I'm still wondering, since I only joined kickstarter to find a game like this to take the place of GW, whether I'll even have the money to put up for a great game system like this. Who knows, life changes a lot though.

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Twelve elements of war started over at kick starter.  Looks like a great game and is already at 74% funded under two days.  See the  twelve-elements-of-war and know I'm a backer at the exciting 155 level and can't wait to pledge more when they hit their expansion levels.

There's a smell of Kickstarter in the air or is that Christmas?

I've noticed an uptick of Kickstarters and I'll remind myself of one I'm going for as a Christmas gift from the family.

First one up is my personal favorite and one I am going to give up GW for if they turn out well.  Yahoo for more models coming and I pray the simplicity in their rules really enables a fun game to take place. 
Link is here: sword and board games


 The War and Empire seen with 15mm ancient warriors.  Interesting but is anyone playing 15mm lately or are we still claiming 28mm doesn't take up too much space?  Either way, I'm not a follower of the norm and really like these models!  Take a look at Anatolis for his review and more information.

The last one we should all keep an eye out for later next year is the Castle Kickstarter from miniature building authority with a  pretty cool update to their current castle system.  Here's a great picture of what they have from Tabletop Fix.

Varnish complete

Awesome, no hiccups just spray and pray. Now on to the other Grave Guard and other assorted models.

Vampire counts close

Folks I've been picking these out for a while. I've still got to put the grass on and then move to varnish. I'm happy with the results even if they took longer than expected.  The red cape on the second picture turned out really well.  I decided to soften the highlight by using Fortress Gray and not Skull White. The third picture with the Blood Dragon BSB and his Gold NMM really turned out well too. I believe it's my most favorite part of the miniature.  In the last picture, the Strigoi has removable wings with a pin through it.  I still would like to try out magnets but the budget won't allow me yet.  These models were also the first time I tried Tutofig.com and Steel NMM.  I believe the blades look great for the tabletop and I can't wait to do battle with a few characters now in my games.

Dah Paint Job, Die, and Dark Elves

Dice and Brush let it out of the bag!  I can't wait to get my hands on a few of these future models and only can speculate how much more time I will have to spend to try to finish my ever growing pile of miniatures.

Bloody Beast can't help themselves to making awesome models look even better with an incredible paint job.  Love it! 


Blease World posted something quite sad.  To merely  mention Donald Featherstone's name may only conjure what some remember vividly to our present.  Seems to be the chap made a huge impact and I'm sure the games today must all tip their hat to his transcendent games. 

yes, Yes, and YES!

yes: I've always thought I played and painted but here for the last several years I've only painted.  Maybe there's truth in trying to do the best and not just finish models for the games I've never played.  Here's  a little bit more information from painters who've gone an extra mile in speaking to this anomaly.  Over Open Sights says it better than my words.



Yes: James Wappel does it again with a beautiful model.  It is just so brutally gorey.  Who could want more from a Chaos Mutant



YES!:  I've been in love with Chris Fitzpatrick since he created most of the models for GW Dark Elves.  Thankfully and unthankfully he left the GW team and built his own empire called Crocodile Games.  Take the time to look at his awesome models and I'm thankful his Kickstarter worked for the next editions to his growing model line.

Learn, Spray, Love

Since I've been going along this whole three word title, see below for what it all means.

Learn:  Never knew that Ragnar was who he was.  Should have done more investigation besides just watching the series.  Read some more at Little Lead Heroes.

Spray:  Really loved relearning this basic technique from Faeit 212.

Love:  I've always held a special place for ACW and Baron's Blog definitely is just another great discussion of wonderful miniatures and a cool game.

Shut the Front Door! Kroaked

James did it again here!

OOOs, AAAHs, and UMMs

The OOOs come from Khurasan Miniatures seen here. These dudes look cruel but at only 15mm it's a tough buy for me.  Still love their weapons!


The AAAHs come from The Dark Templar working on painting Roman Armor here.


The UMMs come from GW's plan to make something between dumb and dumber here.  I still think that terminators were the next biggest thing after dreads.  What happened?



Painting Barbarian Skin here at Camelson Art.

Interesting posts across the forums I watch

The biggest was a wonderful post on painting wolves.  Something I might need if I'm to join the ranks of Space Wolves in a few years.James Wappel on Wolves
Little Lead Heroes had a few great pictures on the battles from Historicon 2013.  Very interesting stuff.

The next is a pretty interesting read from Massive Voodoo about an older gentlemen with a penchant for using new mediums.

Blood Dragon Vampire Count

Wee! Once you get going you can't stop. Enjoyed finishing this model today. Even though I'm not 100% enjoying the gold NMM but he's good enough to bloody someone on the tabletop. I'll just need to finish grassing and clear coat him just like the other. The count(pun intended) is two and I've got nine more to go.  I almost forgot to post the guy who actually has the NMM turn out a lot better than mine: NMM gold tutorial .

VC Strigoi Vampire Test Model

I'm a big fan of how the shadow gray, snot green, and dead flesh came out with the highlight to the bleached bone. The eyes and face I wanted to focus on with the red/orange.

I'm happy knowing the models in the background will receive the same treatment. Their armor will look similar to the Grave Guard with a few golden highlights or filigrees.

Updating the VC GG

It has been such a long time I had to add this to the blog to ensure I kept up and showed progress. I'll finish these by completing the blue "magical" bits, painting a wash on all the bright colors, glue grass, and then spray a seal before I add them to the force.

Vampire counts on the way!

Yes, had a few moments over the weekend and today to spray my next batch of vampire count characters, skeletons, old armored skeletons(grave guard), and a few banshees, 10 fell bats! I have another large unit of black knights, grave guard, and knights of the blood keep(old mounted vampires) to prepare and prime. Very grateful for my wife allowing me to pair these last few days.

Vampire counts

I've had these models for way to long. I've started basing them, next step is to convert them all to reflect a Nippon feel, then base spray, paint, dip, varnish, and them complete! Wonder if the Super Bowl can wait?

James Wappel did it again with this awesome temple.  He has quite a few more but who's counting.