Sunday, May 19, 2013

I PAINT FOR YOU!

So as you've probably seen I like to paint miniatures, I also like money so I'd like to offer you my skill with paint and air brush. Below is my price list it includes basing, varnishing and decalling (Shipping depends on where you live). I'm fully GST registered and will be taxed (in case you were wondering) and can provide receipts if requested on completion of the job. I mainly concentrate on Flames or War but I can do 28mm Warhammer/Warmachine etc. Below are the prices I charge (All prices are in NZD www.xe.com for exchange conversion.

Examples of my work http://s2.photobucket.com/user/kingdan23/slideshow/Examples%20of%20my%20work

FOW Infantry figure $4.50 (SS Camo $5.00)

FOW Transport, Halftrack, Tankette or Armoured Car $20.00

FOW Tank $30

FOW Heavy Tank $35

FOW Artillery $10 (Crew comes under infantry)

FOW Gun Teams $10 (Crew comes under infantry) Mortars & HMG's are free and I only charge for the crew.

FOW Planes $35

28mm Figures $35

28mm Vehicles $60 (Rhino/Leman Russ/Warjack)

28mm Heavy Vehicles/Fliers $80 (Land Raiders/Valkyries/Gargantuan)

If you'd like a quote please email me kingdan82@gmail.com



Saturday, May 4, 2013

It's TOOL TIME


There's a few things I dislike in real life like waiting, stupid people, children, teenagers, old people,  people in general, messed up coffee order, being stuck in traffic, full trains, religion and atheists, Summer, Winter and a whole bunch of other stuff but as a wargamer the thing that really grinds my gears is paying for the Peripherals.

That's the hobby tools and in this review/rant/comparison we'll compare the prices (in New Zealand Dollars) of the more commonly used modelling tools. I'm also well aware that I could've poped down to the local $2 shop and got craft knives and super glue up the wazoo, but hey, I'm a professional (I'm also aware of the irony).

So here we go Games Workshop VS Gale Force 9



Super Glue

Basically it's the same stuff anywhere you go however being super glue and in a bottle is where the similarity ends the GF9 Glue has more in it 1oz or 28.4gm while the GW stuff 0.17oz or 5gm and the price GF9 $10.00 and GW $15.00

Hobby Knife


A basic hobby knife with a scalpel blade used for cutting things (duh) the GW knife offers and ergonomic rubber handle and is designed to be used in key modelling positions and comes with 12 spare blades by comparison the GF9 hobby knife has much less fanfare it's used for cleaning mould lines and cutting plastic however it only comes with 5 spare blades
price GF9 $15.00 and GW $30.00 

Sprue/Plastic Cutters





These tools are great for chopping through plastic sprue to help hasen your trip to modelling town I'm generally a bit harsher on mine I used the GF9 cutter on the right here to cut heads of metal minis it's not what it was designed for but it works. Once again both similar products in nature although it seems GW have updated theirs to go down to a 1mm point of which the GF9 already has.
price GF9 $20.00 and GW $30.00
Hobby Drill




Mostly used to drill holes in weak points in miniatures for secure pinning or putting on a large base etc GF9 refers to theirs as a Model Pinning System whereas GW still call theirs the Hobby Drill the GW version comes with 6 spare 1mm drill bits (I still have my GW drill from 1998) The GF9 drill has just the one bit a maple wood handle (I'm not sure if this was supposed to impress?) and 3 bits of brass rod to get you pinning although stolen paperclips work just fine.
price GF9 $20 (for an extra $10 you can get 2 different drill bits and 12 rods) and GW  $30
Bone Saw

These bad boys wouldn't look out of place as part of a carpenters tool kit but these are mostly used for big conversion jobs like cutting up Landraiders and taking the limbs of giant monsters not essential but it's one of those things you need just encase also you can't buy the GW one online because "we're not able to sell chunky blades like this online because, without age verification, anyone can get their hands on it - younger children and goblins alike"
 (I haven't taken mine out of the plastic yet)
price GF9 $20.00 and GW $45.00
Tape Measures


The most important tool for any wargamer and you'll go through about 20 in about 10 years of gaming although you can get them at any hardware store the gaming tape must have 2 things on it Centimeters and Inches as we all know proper wargames are played in inches and for some reason a strange few like to play in centimeters. Both of these tapes are 10ft long and have a lock to keep you ranged in the GF9 tape however says it has tensile strength for up to four (4) feet good for faux sword fighting.
price GF9 $10.00 and GW $9.00

So in summing up GF9 is the cheapest however there are other options your local hardware store probably has all these items for less than half of all this it's up to you how you want to spend your money.





Friday, May 3, 2013

Flames of Six Day War


We can now resume normal programming: After taking some time away from blogging (mostly laziness) I'm back and here's the start of my friends Eygptians for the 1967 6 Day War. Although there are no rules yet I'm sure with the gratuitous tanks battles and sheer amount of equipment Battlefront will more than likely kickstart this badboy.

 Not being a fan of Vietnam the next best thing was the middle-east and the Arab states attempt to capture Israel they tried this 3 seprate times but failed  in all attempts and as every good general knows when you have your balls to the wall you're going to fight harder.

How'd I make these I hear you ask (and yes the keyboard is old and no I won't clean it) well my friend gave me a bunch of Battlefront Vietnamese figures and some Soviet mortar loaders. I used my trusty Gale Force 9 sprue cutters to grip and twist the Vietnamese heads off then cut a deep V around the Soviet heads then leveled them off for and awesome headswap.

The paintjob uses mostly Khaki and Green Grey for the webbing and of course Russian Green for the helmet all in all a quick mini to paint.