Miniatures Monday

A Gun Mage

This week for Miniature's Monday, we return to the Iron Kingdoms.  I painted this miniature for the Gun Mage in our current IK campaign.  Overall I think that it turned out rather well, but it started out a bit rough.  There is a lot of small detail on this one, and my eyes aren't getting any younger.  I also tried experimenting with a different photographic background, but I'm still not sure what I think of it. The miniature is an official Iron Kingdoms miniature from the Hordes line and is available from Privateer Press for $9.99.

Miniatures Monday

Here is the completed set of adventurers from our current Iron Kingdoms campaign.  From left to right, we have Trayjo the Alchemist, Voldrag the Doomreaver, Lowgear the Steamjack, Kerbok the Gobber Mechanic, and Ellyon/Liness the Warcaster.  Overall I'm pretty happy with how these came out, and it's nice to have a fully painted party on the table.

I tend to think that his should be an automatic success.

A few weeks ago, in our Iron Kingdoms campaign, my friend Dan made what I think was a spectacular roll.  When the GM asked for a d6 roll, Dan's die came up corner "corner".  There is no trickery in these photos, the die actually landed and stayed on it's corner.  Indeed one of the craziest rolls that I've seen on my 35+ years of gaming.  Does anyone else have photos of wacky or improbable die rolls?

Miniatures Monday

This week or Miniatures Monday, we have the last member of our Iron Kingdoms party, Voldrag the Doomreaver.  The Fellblade was a bit tricky, and I had a tough time deciding which pieces of armor to do in red, but overall I'm fairly pleased with the results.

Miniatires Monday

For this week's Miniatures Monday, we are continuing with miniatures from our current Iron Kingdoms campaign.  Here we have a couple of photos of Ellyon the Warcaster in his coal powered armor.

Miniatures Monday

This weeks for miniatures Monday, we have an alchemist from the Iron Kingdoms.  This is one of the miniatures that I painted to represent the adventuring party in our current campaign.  He's a bit monochromatic, but he is an alchemist, and I'm not sure that they are the flashiest of dressers. :-)

Miniatures Monday

This weeks we have another Iron Kingdoms miniatures.  This one is  a warjack intended to represent our gobber's's steamjack.  All of the rivets took a bit of time to paint. :-)

Wrecking Crew: Work In Progress

It's no secret that I enjoy painting miniatures, and for years I've been intending to paint miniatures to match the characters from whatever campaign we are playing.  Sadly, I tend to be a rather slow painter, and it seemed that just as I was finishing the first miniature, the campaign would end.  This time I set out from the very start of our Iron Kingdoms game to collect and paint miniatures that I felt matched our characters, and amazingly enough, they are nearing completion!  Oddly enough, my Doomreaver (in the center) is the farthest from being finished.

Miniatures Monday

A gobber miniature for our Iron Kingdoms game.  I'm actually pretty pleased with how this one turned out, but then how can anyone be sad about a miniature with a spyglass and a pocketwatch? :-)

Iron Kingdoms Campaign Update

To keep Dan in the loop. :-)

     So when last I left off, our intrepid band had just captured the prime suspect in the warehouse break-ins and had been promised by our friend Sgt. Hill that we could question him at the jail when he regained consciousness.
     Voldrag the Doom Reaver was late in arriving at the jail (I missed last week), and when he got there, he was greeted with a scene of tremendous carnage.  Five grey cloaked individuals lay dead, and the prisoner was holding his leg, having had the tendons cut during some torturing by the party...  Additionally, two of the party's elves had vanished, and the gobber had gone off to buy some coal for his steamjack at some point.  We have also acquired an alchemist named Trayjo.  Voldrag was sad at having missed such an epic battle, as he's always one for a good fight.
     The prisoner, who is named Davin revealed that he was hired by a woman named Tyla Helden to search for a necromatic relic, and that she was currently staying at the Smoke and Stack Inn.  Davin the prisoner asked to be freed, or at least provided with a weapon to defend himself as the grey cloaked guys had been sent to kill him.  Instead, Mallik the gun guy inexplicably shot Davin in his other leg, the one that hadn't had its tendons cut during torture.  The Doom Reaver was pretty weirded out by this, and he's a Doom Reaver...
     The party returns to the headquarters of the Illustrious Brass Anchor Trading Company to speak with Diera, our employer.  While selling the goods acquired from killing the grey cloaked assassins, we learned that one of them was none other than the renowned rifle guy Thurston Sale.  No way that one will come back to bite us.  No way.
     The party journeys onward to the Smoke and Stack Inn, where we meet up with our old friend Rel Venik, the manager of one of the robbed warehouses.  Rel seems pretty disturbed and took the party to a back room where he revealed that it is him that Tyla Helden was seeking.  He then proceeded to relate to the party a wild story that involved The Five Fingers, a group called the Black Guards, a place called the Shatter Stones, some undead, some caverns, and a mysterious priest who gave him his wild tattoos.  Now all of this had Voldrag thinking, "I've got to check this place out!"  Alas Voldrag's adventurous musings were cut short, for during Rel's tale, an evil curse was activated that began closing up his eyes, nose and mouth threatening to suffocate him!  It was super creepy, and despite the party's best attempts to save him, Rel sadly expired, but he did leave a note.

     Upon inspecting Rel's body, the party discovered that parts of a map were tattooed on him in various places.  The party copied down the map, then left the Smoke and Stack with his body, by pretending that he was drunk.  We ditched his body and returned to the Smoke and Stack Inn to search a room that we had the key from, having relieved one of the dead grey cloaked assassins of it.  The room turned out to have nothing of interest, so we returned to the bar where while chatting with the bartender, the party revealed that they were seeking Tyla Helden and were in the employ of the Illustrious Brass Anchor Trading Company.   No way that one will come back to bite us.  No way.

Iron Kingdoms

Last night we returned to the Iron Kingdoms.  Our characters are in the employ of the Illustrious Brass Anchor Trading Company, where we provide muscle to protect against pirate raids and the like.  Our home port is in the city of Korvis, and we found ourselves investigating a series of mysterious break ins at some of the Illustrious Brass Anchor Trading Company's (IBATC) warehouses.  The curious thing was that nothing was stolen, and all of the crates that had been broken into had been in the warehouses for nearly a 100 years.  So clearly someone was looking for something specific in dead storage.  My Doom Reaver Voldrag did his best Columbo impression, but to little avail.

Voldrag's Character Sheet

Our first stop was to talk to one of the warehouse managers, a tattooed fellow named Relvenik.  Despite his awesome faux goatee tattoo (the faugh-tee), he didn't have much insight into the crimes.  Fortunately the city elf in the party discovered the marks of a grappling hook high up on one of the windows, so a least we knew how they criminals had gotten in.
We decided to try our luck at a bar to see if we could pick up any rumors related to the crimes, but beyond finding an odds sheet for betting on which warehouse would be hit next, we came up empty.  Fortune was with us though, and we were awakened by our old friend from the Korvis City Watch, Sargent Hill, who informed us that another warehouse had just been robbed.  Our party sprung into action and once my Doom Reaver remembered to put on some clothes, we were off to investigate.  This, time, careful searching paid off, and not only were we able to determine that it must have been a rather large group that robbed this particular warehouse, but Voldrag was able to follow some blood drops to a crate in which he discovered a partially naked dead man.  This wasn't just any dead man though, he was a member of the city guard, and his missing uniform meant that one of the guards with us was likely an enemy!  Sure enough one of the guards made a break for the door!

The Scene in the Warehouse

 Our trusty steamjack LOgear managed to harpoon the fleeing man, drag him back and knock him out with a warhammer.  We were quite fortunate that the man didn't die, and when he recovers sufficiently, we intend to question him...

To Be Continued.

Iron Kingdoms Miniatures (Works In Progress)

I've been assembling and basing some Iron Kingdoms miniatures from Privateer Press recently.  They are very nice miniatures, if a bit setting specific, but they certainly do take some time to put together.  With cleaning the mold lines, j-bonding the parts together, and basing them, these are all that I've managed to build in the last four weeks.  Now I just need to wait for the weather to break so that I can prime them and begin painting them.  I've got quite a backlog of miniatures already, but I can't seem to stop adding to it. :-)