Tagged: fantasy
Review- Ancient Chinese Sacred Building by Watchful-I-Studio
While at Little Wars this year, I picked up the Ancient Chinese Sacred Building kit made by Watchful-I-Studio. They are a Chicago area miniatures company specializing in historical and fantasy Asian themed miniatures. This was an interesting kit, consisting of some very large resin pieces, as well as laser cut MDF and some thinner materials. ... Read more
AAR- Runewars, Battle at Greenfire!
One Thursday last month, no CSW club members were available, so I trekked down to 95th street to see what Greenfire Games in Oak Lawn had to offer Runewars players. It was a slow day, but Mike, one of the owners graciously offered to play. We both fielded Daqan and as I had two boxed ... Read more
Tutorial: Painting Runewars’ Waiqar the Undying
As Karl mentioned in his post, I took the Waiqar the Undying models from our Runewars box sets. After assembly and cleanup of the models, I primed them with a color I mixed- white gesso with burnt sienna and a little yellow ocher. Since there are a large number of models, I used an airbrush. While I was ... Read more
AAR- Runewars Live-Stream Video!
The last two weeks have found me playing Runewars at Greenfire Games on Thursday evenings. Despite having not yet finished the traditional battle report for last week’s game, here is this week’s adventure, a 100 point Runewars game playing the “Bounty” scenario. Brought to you through the miracle of moving pictures! Despite being a bit ... Read more
AAR- Going back to our roots, Song Of Blades and Heroes
At the last meeting we went back to the game that started it all for Chicago Skirmish Wargames. A bit of history follows. Feel free to skip ahead to the battle reports below. Back in the mists of summer 2010, Tim found myself and Pat on the Song of Blades and Heroes message board. After meeting ... Read more
Painted- Temple of Ro-Kan Reinforcements for Bushido
I recently finished some more Bushido Miniatures for my Temple of Ro-Kan faction. This is Kuma. Yes, he is clearly inspired by a movie character. Who cares? He was so much fun to paint! I am quite pleased with his expression, and the color of his bamboo staff. This is Master Akari. He’s a tanuki, which ... Read more
Painted- Tengu Starter Set for Bushido
We’ve had a couple of games of Bushido lately, so I decided it’s high time I painted up the Tengu starter set I picked up at Gen Con last year. The set comes with five models- three bird people and two humans. Most of them are multi-part models, but were not too hard to assemble. ... Read more
CSW Hobby night!
Chicago Skirmish Wargames recently got together for a hobby night. We have not done this in a while, and it was a great and productive evening, full of pizza, bourbon, and hobbying! Mike assembled a bunch of 40k minis. I’ll let him explain in his own (seemingly made-up) words: “Last night I build some Skitarii ... Read more
Runewars: Daqan Army Finished!
Continuing on from my previous post, which showed the miniatures before dipping, last week I put the finishing touches on my Daqan army. Spearmen Usually I use a brush to apply the “dip”, however for the first time ever I did the classic immersion dip. I dunked the entire figure into a tin of Minwax ... Read more
Review- Official Bushido Terrain by 4Ground
GCT Studios recently partnered with 4Ground to make a line of prepainted MDF terrain for Bushido. It became available in small quantities at Salute, and is now available for sale on their website. Because I am a very lucky guy, and had a friend and fellow CSW member present at Salute, I was able to ... Read more