Meeting Mordheim Creator Tuomas Pirinen and Necromunda Creator Andy Chambers

WOW! WOW! Yes! I have met The Mordheim Creator Tuomas Pirinen and a the Master of rules Andy Chambers aka Horned Rat.

So this is a story to tell and I'm writing something for you to read. So how do I start this story.

My day was likes Bilbos in Hobbit. I waked up. Walked around in my empty house. Watched a discussion threat were Tuomas Pirinen was going to be with Andy Chambers in IGDA -meeting today. Like Bilbo watched the Thors contract for adventure in the movie. Just like that I packed my backpack and rushed out!

I felt like this.

Later that day met The Mordheim Creator Tuomas Pirinen and the Horned Rat Andy Chambers. But like in all adventures. Everything doesn't go like planned but ends happily and needs a sequel.

Tuomas Pirinen the Mordheim Creator. Picture is from Town Cryer. 

Andy Chambers aka Horned Rat

When I was traveling I realized that I have left all my Andy Chambers created books home! How I could miss these... Well I did anyway and I could not get these books anymore. So I had to get on my hands something Chambers writings. I finally founded one book: Path of The Archon.

These I left home and if I have not they could be signed by Chambers.

I enjoyed to talk with Pirinen and Chambers. They both were very open and liked to talk with me. It was very positive experience. It was very interesting to talk about creating these games and how do they did get some of the ideas. Both of them are professionals game makers and work currently in Reforged studios.

I like to give credit also to others who participate in making these rules like Mordheim and Necromunda. You need a good team to make it happen. Without the others, friends and talented people these books would never been done. Of course you need the passion for this and both Tuomas and Andy have lot's of it.

Andy Chambers autograph in the book Path of The Archon.

Tuomas Pirinen autograph in the Mordheim Book 

Well I managed to get the autographs. My next adventure is to get Andy's name on my books what I left home. So that is the sequel to my next adventure.

Mordheim: Battle report Witch hunter vs. Skaven

Hello somebody wanted a battle report about our game. So I decided to do one about our last game. I don't usually write these and  forget to do good notes during the battle. Anyway enjoy the report.

Reach of Darkness, Act I

Hello to all Mordheim dwellers. I have seen some evil thinks in Mordheim. Many good lads have died in dark streets of Mordheim. Well I have now a good story to tell you. I will tell it about eyes of my witch hunter warband. They have been very unfortunate by this far. They have lost many good warriors.

Luckily they have fearless leader who is ready to sacrifice just a two more men to gain some greater good.

So let's begin.

WARBANDS

Witch Hunter warband called Swords of Damnation had seven men and one dog. They had help of an elf ranger called Scar Julo. Their leader is called Dante Ala Riste. You may have heard about him? No? 

Well they were very happy to find tree wyrdstones and were heading to get out of the damned city. Before they did get out from there they were confronted by a skaven clan Pestilence. Eight hideous skaven two big rats and a one huge Rat Ogre. I heard they were called children of decay later on but that's a another story.

Swords of Damnation. Captain is the one with the feathers in the hat.
From the left: Warhound Cookie, WH victor, Captain Ala Riste, Priest Frostgrave.
Near the wall: Elf ranger Scar Julo and Zealot Pietari.
In the right three men: Flagellant Hans, WH Mad Morgan and "The Tilean"

DEPLOYMENT

Witch Hunter captain spotted the Skaven warband before they managed to ambush the poor witch hunters. It was a Change encounter. 

Skaven managed to sprint on the streets and their leader was screaming some commands from the upper ruined houses. 

Ala Riste was planning an ambush and Victor climbed high as possible with his deadly cross bow. Elf took ambush place from ruined jail balcony. Other took cover from houses expect Zealot Pietari the Puppet maker. He run in middle of street and managed to get skaven interesting about him. Yes skaven were very interested about hiom... But what happened to him I will tell later. 

Witch hunters is the blue arrow and Skaven is the red arrow.
Scenario is called Chance Encounter from Mordheim Rulebook. 

FIRST FEW ROUNDS

Skaven started to run towards the Witch hunters position. Skaven  are very fast runners and Pietari was in hurry to clime in the nearest building to get safety. Witch hunter Victor and Elf Ranger took shots against skaven only managed to stun one of them. 

Pietari is very brafe man and Warhound Cookie just standing in the open.
Can you spot Mad Morgan with double handed sword?

Next the skaven started running still towards the Witch hunters but the sneaky witch hunter captain was moving to flank some skaven. I can tell the arrows are useless against  the huge rat ogre. 

NEXT ROUNDS WITH THE FLANK

Ala Riste, Priest Forstgrave and Witch Hunter called "The Tilean" was flanking the skaven. Lads took cover from ruins. Poor priest was not managed to say any of the prayers in whole battle. 

Three skaven and one giant rat run towards the hiding with hunters. "The tilean" took a shot with hand crossbow and missed the fast rat. They were engaged in hand to hand. 

Ala Riste took aim agains the closing skaven and his pistol sayed KA-BOOM and hit with the massive strength on skaven and ricochet with the another. They both stunned and it was very easy to finish them off.  

The flanking hunters. "The Tilean"
Witch hunter, Frostgrave the Priest
and the captain Ala Riste.

KA-BOOM! Two skaven were
stunned from pistol shot. Priest
was ready finish them off.

IN THE OTHER SIDE

Skaven, Giant rat and the Ogre was running fast towards zealot Pietari. Flagellant Hans with flail, witch hunter Mad Morgan with double handed sword was hiding to ambush them and of course the Elf with the fine elf bow and Victor with the crossbow was waiting to shoot the runners. 

Pietari was put fast out of action. Mad Morgan and Hans was ready to fight against the others. Soon both were slain in to the ground fast. Crossbow man and elf could do nothing with their weapons. 

The Rat ogre attacked the elf. Elf managed to hold one round just being knocked down.  

Skaven run very fast. Keep in mind
that bows and crossbows in high
places can save you life. 

Bloody fight near the tower and
ruined jail. 

BOTH WARBANDS ON ROUTE

Both warbands losed enough warriors to take some rout test. Skaven managed to keep their nerves one more round. Poor Elf was taken out of action because of that. Witch hunter Captain had to yell commands to keep them nerves also. They did keep the nerves one more round. Victor shot one more bolt from crossbow to stun one more skaven. Maybe that was enough because the skaven routet after that and the Witch Hunters were victorious. 

Flanking Witch Hunters were victorious
and eager to start help the other.

Skaven leader was screaming
in the window. Other skaven did
not hear him to scream and
left from battlefield.

WHAT HAPPENED THEN

The Witch hunters managed to loose one wyrdstone what they were carrying in the beginning. They managed to find three more and a well after that. Witch Hunters captain could not resist to get the wyrdstone from the well bottom and jumped in to the polluted well. Six wyrdstone from one battle is a great cache but what costs? Three heroes out of action, one hencmen and a hired sword. Five men  down. For Ala Riste it was nothing. He lost more men than that already.

Witch Hunter "The Tilean" gained full recovery, Hans gained horrible scars and Mad Morgan with already broken leg managed to survive against the odds. Elf and the zealot survived also. 

Ala Riste knew that his luck was changed and it was time to adventure deeper in to the city of Damned.

Well what about the skaven then? I heard they runned away as fast as they emerged from the alleys. Some of them were killed even. If you like to know more about them... Don't ask it from me. 

Mordheim: Bridge House part 3

Welcome to read about Mordheim Bridge house part 3. This part I will show and try to explain about some small details about the house project. Most of details were done in building process and last details will be done after painting.


Here is the bridge between the houses. I have made it from ice cream sticks and card board. I have used drill to do some nail holes and just a pen to do cracks on cardboard. It was crucial to test the bridge width. It would not be nice that models wont't fit on terrain. After all this made for gaming.

Here is the bridges. 

Even the Minotaur can walk on the bridge. 

 Some details about the bridge. You can see the same details on original card board bridge.

Bridge detailing. 

Downstairs I just used some printed card for making the tiles. Also I was out of Ice Cream sticks and I had to improvise. This is easy and fast method to do surfaces.  Just remember to put some wight on it when it dry or it will go waves.

Also I made some nail holes to the floor blanks.

Downstairs tile pattern.  

When the flooring was ready I made some debris. Just cluing left over sticks and sand. Also I used some cork to do more different debris.

Sand and debris detailing. 

When it is done I have clued the original plastic parts to the house with super clue. It is wise to test that they with the holes before cluing them in place. 

Almost done. Just a minor details missing. 

Last detail is to cut of the rest of the cardboard off from the houses base.  

House don't need this much base. 

 I have done small pins to keep the bridge on place. And also it is easier to paint and store this house after it is ready and in pieces.

Here is the Bridge house pieces

If you like to know more about something. Please be welcome to ask and I will happily to answer you questions. 

Next part is the final part and it is about painting and putting the last small details. It won't be long when it is done. Until the next text! Happy miniaturing!

Elf Ranger & Woods and Halloween! (Lot's of Pictures)

Hello! Small update about my lately miniature building. I have re-based lot's of these trees what you can see from the pictures. I have about 50 trees and 20-30 bases to make. First the trees was only in green painted cardboard. They didn't look very nice on the table.

You can see also a Elf Ranger in the picture. It is a Games Workshop model and it's a perfect for Mordheim range.

Also I'm building the Mordheim house and it should be ready to be painted before the Christmas.

Here is my competition work for local gaming club. Subject was "Halloween" My work is called "knock, KNOCK! Trick or Treat!"

Goblin doing Jack o lantern.

Made pumpkin from green stuff . 

Here is the dwarf doing the knock knock!

Pumpkins, leafs... 

Close up about dwarf. 

Front yard. 

Comment's are always welcome!

Mordheim: Bridge House part 2

Hello. November is almost over and I have done the second part of the Mordheim Bridge House. My goal is to build new and better Mordheim house using original plastic parts and use foamboard instead original cardboard walls.

In this second part I have done the basic building. The Building is still lacking most of the plastic parts and almost all detailing.

Enough talking and more pictures. I will explain shorty what I have done in each picture. In the first part I did cut and made the new walls.

1) First I did do some cracks and details to the wall sections. It was more easier to do this way. This is easy part and I have just used the pen to draw the lines and some force. Foamboard is soft material and the crack will show nicely in the painted house.

Here is some crack details to the walls.

2) Next I star testing and assembling the walls. The corner pieces and the beams will with smoothly in their places. I have to do some fine cutting in some sections. As you can see in picture below where I have used the hobby knife to cut of small piece from lower corner.

Assembling the pieces with the plastic beans and corners. 

3) When the pieces with I have used clue to stick the pieces together. I have let the pieces dry over night to be sturdy enough to continue building. I have used 90 degree metal measure to make house dry in to the right angle. I have used hobby clue and plastic clue in these parts.

Here I use the original schematics to build the house. 

4) So here is the second floor. I have used just thin cardboard to make the floor. 

 

Main house is only missing the floor panels.

5) I have gathered ice cream sticks from the summer and I have also bought a pack of them. I don't eat some much ice cream that I can build a house... Or do I?

Some ice cream sticks are good way to do floor blanks. 

6) In the smaller section of the house I have done the floor before cluing it in place.

I have tested how many sticks I need to build the floor.

7) When the floor is done it is time to clue it in place. I have left a small card board slice to make it go under the wall section.

8) I have simply braked the sticks to look like torn apart wooden blanks. Also I have made with hobby knife some carvings and used small drill to make nail holes.

I have made small pin in the side to make floor more sturdy in the house.

9)  Smaller house part is ready.

Here you can see the original section and the new WIP section. 

10) In the larger house section I had clued the card board floor before making the wooden blanks. It was easier to built it that way and I did not had to do so much measuring before hand. I had to use some weight when cluing the floor. It will not dry nicely if it let dry without some weight. The floor is more like wave if not done this way. I have some support in beneath the floor. You can see the paint bottle cap under the floor. 

In larger house I have simply cut and clued the blanks in to the floor. 

11) When I have done the basic assembling it is time to move to detailing. The bridge is not ready yet because I haven't decided will I make it removable for easier storing. 

Assembling completed. 

In the next part I have detailing. I will do the ground floors, dirt, and some other things. If you like to know some more I will happily to answer to questions. 

Keep up the building! 

Lehdet ja kivetykset malleihin.

Terve. Tänään kirjoittelen suomeksi ja esittelen Pienoismallimarketin tuottamia lehtiä. Itselleni ainakin lehdet ovat helppo ja nopea lisä 28 mm figuureihin tuoda elävyttää pohjaan. Itselläni on vain pieni pussi kokeilukäytössä, mutta nämä ovat jo riittäneet useamman figuurin alustaan.

Värityksiä on useita, kuten syksyn ja kesän väreissä. Valitettasti itselläni ei ollut vielä laittaa muita kuin ruskeita ja muutama vihreä lehti alustaan. Kyseessä siis nämä lehdet. Seuraavaan tilaukseeni kuuluu varmasti punaiset ja keltaiset lehdet.

Samalla olen käyttänyt alustaan valmista kohokivetyskuviota, jota on helppo leikata saksilla ja liimata alustaan. Tämä kohokivetys on Tamyan valmistamaa 1/35 kokoluokkaan tehtyä kivetystä ja sopii erinomaisesti 28 - 32 mm figuureihin myös. Kivetys on helppo maalata ja kuivaharjauksen ansiosta kohokuvi tulee nopeasti näkyviin.

Nykyään alustan tekoni on leikkaa kivetys. Liimaa kivetys. Maalaa kivetys. Korista lehdillä.

Tiedän, että on tulossa lisää monipuolisempia maastonrakennustarvikkeita pienoismallimarkettiin ja pyrinkin kehittämään ja antamaan palautetta tuotteista, että kaikki pienoismalliharrastajat saisivat hyviä ja toimia tuotteita harrastuksen pariin.

Minulle siis voi antaa palautetta pienoismallimarketin maastonrakennustuotteista ja pyrin siis kehittämään tuotetta paremmaksi yhteistyössä pienoismallimarketin kanssa. Samalla Pienoismallimarketti pystyisi kehittämään tuotevalikoimaansa monipuolisemmaksi.

Vinkkinä harrastajille, että Pienoismallimarketista löytyy turffeja, heiniä, lehtiä, tiiliä sekä ym. tuotteita nopeaan maastonrakennukseen.

Tarkkasilmäiset voivat huomata myös lumiefektiputelin kuvassa eli kunhan ehdin esittelen myös vesi- ja lumiefekti tuotteita.

Käytin myös eräässä kilpailutyössä uusia Pienoismallimarketin tuotteita ja esittelen ne kunhan saan kilpailutyöni takaisin!

Kuvassa 28 mm miniatyyri sekä Pienoismallimarketista saatavaa kivetystä ja lehtiä. 

Palautetta saa siis antaa jorinoistani, rakenteluistani ja maalauksistani. Myös voi ehdottaa mitä haluaisit nähdä minut maalaavan seuraavaksi tai tekevän seuraavaksi. Mielelläni kerron myös enemmän seikkailuistani pienoimallien parissa. Facebook

Who let the Dogs out!

WOUH! wouh! wouh! Wouh! Echoed from the street of Mordheim. Witch hunter captain pointed his finger into the dark street and yelled "PURE THE UNCLEAN!" Poor warlock last reflection in his eyes where vicious dogs was running towards him. WOUH! wouh! wouh! Wouh! Echoed from the street of Mordheim.

Hunters prey. 

I promised to paint five original Mordheim miniatures this year. Actually I have painted six. One Warlock, Captain, two flagellants and two hounds. I have taken a small picture of the last dogs. Also here is the picture of my witch hunters and all this year painted Mordheim miniatures.

I still have lot of broken and missing parts witch hunter miniatures which I'm maybe going to mod some new and different weapons variations for Mordheim.

Here is the new Mordheim hounds!

I'm very happy about the result about these hounds. Two of them are painted about couple years ago when I wasn't as good painter as I'm now. Small amount about wash or ink I might do more visible details to these two older hounds.

Here is the all four Mordheim Hounds!

Here is my all original Witch hunter warband. I'm still missing one model. The one witch hunter with the great sword.

Ready to adventure into the darkness.