Micro Art Studios -- Best Bases Money Can Buy (Kickstarter)

If you read this blog, you'll note that I use Micro Art Studio's bases; they're cheap and work incredibly well.  Check the Kickstarter if you can:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/coolminiornot-base-system-featuring-micro-art-stud

Dystopian Wars — Operation: Coos Bay

Here's the scenery we have for out two-day, combination 7500 point battle; a Normandy-style invasion.

Dystopian Wars - Campaign 2013

It's been a while, and while I have been busy with modeling and painting, I simply haven't had the time to do the uploading and tutorial process.  I've been fastidiously recording all my progress on current projects, but have been waylaid by something fun — a Dystopian Wars campaign!

We did quite a bit of DW last year, and it seems like a summer game for a lot of us. We can enjoy Sundays while gaming and drinking Blood Marys.

Here are some pics from our inaugural game: Loot the Lusitania!

We were running two games, side-by-side, on 4'x4's.  It was myself (EBS) vs FSA, and PE vs. China. Above is the deployment of the latter game.

We had only one Lusitania (Olympia?) model at the "clubhouse", so we used a Prussian Battleship for our Lusitania. It had 4AA and 9AP, and the goal was to prize it for 300 campaign points. Small items could be picked up for 50+(d6x10) campaign points, simply by moving your ship to an all stop and getting them or swinging by them and picking them up on the d6 roll of a 4, 5, or 6.

The PE vs. China game was very close, but the Chinese edged them out for the victory. My game was a little more one-sided; in addition to prizing the Lusitania and grabbing five tokens, I completely obliterated my opponent's forces. The FSA player is really fun to play with, and one of my favorite people to game with, and I think we both really enjoyed ourselves.

Also, I quickly airbrushed up my land forces for the EBS, using a Mediterranean Blue (VMA) and Terran Khaki (RMS), and I think the scheme looks good. Here are some samples, and I will post more once they're completely done.

Dreadnaught: Work in Progress

Empire of the Blazing Sun Carrier

Some updates: My carrier for a battle today.

More Scenery (Beach Invasion)

More added, for an "Normandy"-style game we'd like to play:

Dystopian Wars scratch-built scenery

Some very impressive work done with the cheapest of materials by a player in my tabletop group:

Dystopian Wars

Even though I haven't been posting much, I thought I'd take a detour and post some minis from the other game I am really into: Dystopian Wars.

Below are my battleships, the Souryuu （惣流） and the Ayanami（綾波）from the 南極巡礼連合艦隊。

As mentioned in other blogs, my Dystopian Wars fleet is painted to be viewed from the distance of about three feet, and from the top.