Hello everybody and welcome to another Gawk Talk.
Hope you're doing well and thank you again for your patronage.
And as it's almost the end of this month, isn't it amazing?
Can't believe it's 28th of January.
Where is this this year flying by to?
It's just going so quickly. So it's just astonishing to to
see it go so quickly, so rapidly, which which reminds me,
I need to finish off my gathering of Mighty Painters
entry, which I'm almost done. I'm going to try to knock that
out today and bass them up and, and get them photographed
tomorrow. So that'll be my objective.
It's almost done. It's very, very close.
So I'm really happy for those Splatter Natters that we've done
to make some progress on that. So if you haven't seen the
Splatter Nutters, then I urge you to have a look.
They're on the YouTube channel. It's myself and usually a guest,
a third chair guest, but Danny from Nostalgia Hammer Hobbies
and Johnny Watson from Johnny Watson Gaming.
They're kind of like the the two sort of fixed regular members.
And then we have then we invite other people in with a group on
messenger, which I'll just throw people in and say, hey, you
know, if you're free, come and join us.
We had AD Wood come and join us, which is wonderful as a
surprise. I wasn't expecting him to come
on that day. It was on tour about like our
Sunday. There's Saturday evening and
with Chris Snyder, which is lovely to see him come on as
well. And we had Kim all of a sudden
from that troll. It miniatures on as well.
So it's great. I really like that sort of round
table feel where you've got people just jumping in, jumping
out and bringing, you know, different topics of conversation
into the group and and hopefully making them interesting to watch
and listen to. We're going to do as I said to
the guys in a Messenger group yesterday.
We're definitely going to do a Discord shout out, so or
community shout out. So grab some, grab some photos,
image. I might just just bring up
Discord as a thing and just go through stuff and just show
people things that the community are doing or active in.
Maybe events people are running or miniatures they're painting,
games they're playing. And that'd be really nice to
incorporate our community discord in with the the splatter
Netta. So we get their shout outs there
and, and that'd be really nice. So that's why we're going to do
it. I'm going to ask Canafxi if he
wants to join us in these kind of discord shout outs as well
and see if he wants to jump in and and show his face on camera
for all for all the world to see and do that with us.
That'd be nice. So that's been really fun.
So I've been really enjoying those a lot and hopefully there
will be every weekend now. I think this coming weekend and
we probably pretty busy. We've got some guys coming up
this weekend that's Nick and Justin Wellington.
We're going to have a big Warhammer Day and maybe some
hear requests as well, but maybe I can squeeze that in on a
Monday morning and it's going to be there Sunday evening.
So we'll see how we go. But just shout outs to a few
wonderful people that have joined the Patreon.
So really thank you so much for that.
So we've got this work. Gecko Capa lips.
I think that's how you pronounce it.
Is it all pain boys? All pain boys have been growing
in number, which is good, applying some pain to the boys,
pulling out teeth and all other manner of minor surgeries.
No doubt Zion. So thank you Zion for joining.
He got in contact with me about doing some painting lessons and
so that's wonderful. And Jim Walsh.
Thanks Jim. I know Jim's been on our
splatter natters commenting and that kind of thing.
Looks like he's out of the UK and painting some really nice
Epic stuff. Really nice epic stuff actually.
So he was working on what was it again?
I know we had some corn engine, corn engines of or engines of
corn for Epic in the background. And I think he he was working on
some wave serpents last week and what we working on this time,
mate, I can't remember now. I saw the photo, but now I
can't. I'm just drawing a blank on what
it was. I'm sure it'll come back to me.
But yeah, that's the purpose of these splat and others is that
you get to paint while we chat. We get to paint as well.
Stuff we don't normally get to paint through the week because
of work and all that kind of stuff and other commitments.
So it's our time to do some painting, get down to the work
desk and get some stuff done. So if that would be interested
to you, you can join us live or you can check out the replays or
the, you know, the when it's it's already uploaded as soon as
I've we're finished anyway, they usually go for about 3 hours
long. That's usually our sort of
session time limit. Sometimes they go for longer,
but hopefully they're entertaining.
They've they've got something in there for you guys to, to, to
listen to and watch as well, because I usually, you know,
bring up stuff to like I say, like a shout out things I want
to highlight or a guest on that I want to talk about what they
do and, and showcase, you know, Danny's channel or Johnny's
channel or something like that as well.
So if you can join us, that'd be great.
If you can't, don't worry. You can always watch the replay
if that's something you're interested in.
Now talking about Patreon. I hope people have enjoyed the
game. Two of the adapters, Titanicus
advanced rules. If you haven't seen it, go go to
the Patreon page and you'll find it there.
It was released on January 20th and that was a really fun game
to play with Max using the advanced rules for Deptas
Titanicus. So quite a bit different than
the standard game you saw on the YouTube channel or the previous
video I uploaded on Patreon here using the standard rules.
We've also got the Patreon Tobo Prime and Mega Hammer.
I want to talk about that in a minute because I've been
involved with that and it's been really fun to do with Matt at
Mega at sorry, Patreon Tobo Prime.
That's Matt. He's a Discord group that he's
running. So that's been really fun to be
part of. So please check that out as
well, if you can to get like almost like a primer of what
it's all about and why Matt put it all together.
And also to to listen to Matt's interesting story in in his, his
journey through into the hobby and how he became a war gamer
and all that kind of stuff. OK, now we've also got the war
hero quest, remote play, Prince Magnus's gold.
That was really nice and I really enjoy doing those
sessions with the guys. I really look forward to them.
We've got another one coming up this week.
What what's today? Tuesday.
So it's going to be my Friday. Those guys in the US will be
Thursday. So and that, that, that next one
looks really fun too. It's like a magic maze type of
quest with some wizard. Obviously they're going to
encounter him at some point. But yeah, that looks really,
really fun. So I really look forward to this
guy's joining me in doing that. So thanks so much.
Them, they're all actually patrons too.
It wasn't designed to be like that, but they're all they're
all patrons. So that was David as the
barbarian. The barbarian Barbarian, we're
calling him now. We've got Cameron as our wizard.
We've got Chris as the dwarf and as our as Brian is really busy
and he's been really sick. So just shout out to Brian,
another patron here. I'm really sorry to hear about
that. You, you're typically his mate
with getting over COVID. It's been a real bloody struggle
for you because he had really shaky hands.
He can't paint. It's been really frustrating for
him and he just had a real rough time that's been going for
months now. So we just haven't been able to
catch up with him. But he's been in contact with me
through Discord. So just sending my best wishes
out to your mate because there's nothing worse than than being
sick. But then obviously having that,
those shaky hands and not able not, not for you to, to enjoy
painting or just relaxing is a real shame.
So hope to have Brian back as part of our crew at some point
in the future or just having him just having back on, just
talking to the guy and doing some painting.
He did say he was going to do some paint and chats with us in
the future. I might see if he wants to do a
splatter nettle with us. That'd be really nice.
So yeah, so best wishes to you mate.
You get to get full recovery. So there you go.
That's pretty much what's on Patreon and I hope to include
some more things for you soon. There is two extra podcasts that
will be I might release 1 today and it'll go out tomorrow and
that's well, no, no, I won't release it because I'm doing the
gawk talk now, aren't I? So I'll just release that one
tomorrow. That's going to be Owen Staton's
deep dive into chaos. Now that's one I haven't
listened to. You haven't listened to.
So it'd be nice if something new.
So that'll be out tomorrow. And we did well, I I just
recorded it. It was the other guys doing it.
It was Dave, yo, not Johan. He's a Spanish gentleman.
Yandro, is it Yandro like Alejandro, Andro, Andro, that's
it. And Matthias, they got together
and they put together the scabe and deep dive this time.
So again, the same sort of format Dave goes through the
evolution of the Scaven from 3rd edition Warhammer armies into
and then they talk about the fourth edition sort of evolved
Scaven that came later and have sort of changed in the
differences and the similarities between the two.
So that was 2 hours and 20 minutes that clocked in, which
is huge. So thanks massively to the guys
for their time and for their knowledge.
I unfortunately couldn't get involved with that chat because
I had other issues outside of that that day which were sort of
unexpected. And that sort of stopped me from
getting involved with the chat. Which is a shame because I
really was really looking forward to doing that with the
guys and, and picking in with my brief and experience with Escape
and having played them, having had the Army and all that kind
of thing and really enjoyed the theme and really, really became
to love them. Actually, they weren't.
They were an Army I never really looked twice at in the past.
But painting all those old JS Gooden models and then playing
them on the tabletop, Yeah, they, they really reminded me of
the Orkin Goldmans, how crazy and, and volatile they were with
all their ingenious war machines and, and contraptions and
weaponry and all that kind of stuff.
And they were just all, you know, basically rats high on
warp stone, all drug addicts basically.
So, yeah, they were, they were really fun to play.
I love playing them in, in, in Man of War.
They've probably got that theme built into those, into the rules
and the ships and stuff like that.
So I do get to take them to the high seas every now and again
and and soon taking them back to to the advance your request
setting. So we're going to talk more
about that maybe in a future talk talk.
But for now we're going to talk about Mega Hammer.
I've been involved with a couple of sessions now, 2 sessions and
that started. When did that start?
Last Monday, maybe in last Monday, I did my first session
with Mark. Mark as one of Matt's.
That's to Planet Turbo's friends and they play in person that
they're playing in the room together and I'm just playing
through Discord. That's how we're sort of doing
doing it. And you basically have to roll
up your character through the we'll have a fantasy role play
setting. This is 1st edition, of course,
playing. It's wonderful to see the books,
you know, being used and you see that, you know, obviously that
they're using books and stuff like that.
I don't have book, I don't have my book anymore.
I don't know where the hell that went.
That was, that was long, long, long, long, long time ago that
went that went to the to the ether.
But I do, I did find my sheets and stuff when I went to
Australia last time and I went through my box of goodies of
stuff that was still there. And I was going to bring it back
because my parents were moving house and that house was going
to get demolished or whatever. So I thought I'd bring back
whatever I could find. And I found some character
sheets that I used back. These are printed in 1995 or the
copyrights in 1995. I think I would have printed
these in 1996 or 1997 around that time, I think.
And so it's almost been 30 years since I played advance, sorry,
fantasy role play. And it was nice to come back to
it. I mean, I'm not a big role
player. I really would admit that I've
I've never been a huge role player at all.
I think it's because of the fear of the mind thing.
It just didn't really get me. I've always been more of AI want
to feel the miniatures. I want to see the models.
I want to, you know, that that's been a big part of my interest
in in tabletop gaming. So role-playing.
I like the artwork, I love the books.
I love AD second edition. I think that's one of the the
greatest set of stories I think for me that I've ever read that
the series of Dragon Lance novels.
I love those Raven Lofts, Forgotten Realms, you know, all
that stuff. I loved it, loved it, loved it.
Just consumed it constantly during the 90s, but role-playing
it again. I love the supplements, I love
Dragon Lance. I think Cream is just one of the
greatest worlds ever made. And of course we played those.
We played that back in the day, back in the 90s.
We bought the little I seen the other day.
I saw it, I saw it the other day.
I think it was might have been on Holly Divers channel
actually. It brought back a lot of
nostalgic memories for me because it actually had the the
set we bought. I think it was from real Partha
and you bought the box set of all the characters from the
Dragon Lance setting. So Raisins, Caraman, Sturm, Gold
Moon, you know all those, all those characters, Flint of
course, and all in minute like pewter metal.
And you know, we painted those and use those in our adventures
and stuff like that. So we had all the campaign
packs. Then I think it was Kurt, my
friend Kurt who bought all that stuff and the other two
Norwegian guys, Ari and Banked they, they played with this as
well. And I, I enjoy that time.
I I enjoy that, that moment, that sort of window frame of
time that we played those games. But I was never a big, big into
role-playing what made one have a fantasy for me different.
And I think it's probably my favorite role-playing game.
If someone said, you know, let's play what role play, then I'd
want to play. Why have a fantasy role play?
Because the difference between that and and DND for me was the
DND. You were already these these
preformed heroes and characters, whereas one of fantasy really
brought you down into the the gutters and the filthy streets.
You would like this peddler. You were a ratcatcher.
You were some kind of servant or, I don't know, a horse
trainer, you know, or whatever, you know.
And it was funny because one of the guys posted a picture of one
of the character classes, and it had, it gives you like, a
description in your trappings and stuff like that.
And this is one of the things I really love about it because it
just brings you back down to Earth.
Yeah. You're not this superhero
character. You're a jailer, OK?
For example, one of the character career paths you got,
and he's got trappings, he's got a, he's got a set of keys, he's
got a bottle of rough wine and fleas.
You know, things like that are just fantastic.
I love that. And it, it is essentially
character building. You know, you're starting from
scratch. You are just nobody.
You're just some vagrant that has somehow, somehow become on
this quest. And I, I love that idea about
it. And I do love the old Warhammer
setting, the the role play books, the artwork.
Martin McKenna, I mean, and yeah, Tony Ackland and all that,
of course as well. Big pardon in, in illustrating
that the, the sense that you, you know, you of the world and
that kind of thing. I, I think they, they did a
wonderful job. Martin McKenna especially I
mean, he did an enormous amount of work for one role play, the
supplements, not so much the main rule book.
I think that was mainly Tony Ackland.
I think that did a lot of work for that.
But yeah, that Martin Mckenna's staff had a very distinctive
style and it, you know, gave this very, very unique feel to
it. It was unlike anything else that
I'd seen anyway. Maybe.
Yeah, Yeah. But you know, my my extensive
history with role-playing is very limited.
It is essentially just that is one of a fancy role play and AAD
and D second edition that that's it for a very brief window of
time because. Again, I'm, I'm much more of a
miniature gamer painter. You know why I'm always my
thing? It was, you know, making
painting armies and playing that.
That was really my, my cup of tea.
Role play wasn't that was more like interested in the stories
and and reading books and stuff like that more than actually
playing it as a tabletop game. That's why I love advanced hero
quest because it's got a blend of the both.
It's it's your your role-playing.
Well, semi role-playing in a 3D environment.
I much prefer that than a theater of the mind kind of
thing, but will have a fantasy role play to its credit.
You know, did, did incorporate tabletop play where you can
actually have miniatures. And one of the, the, the
wonderful images I've, I recall from the, the first catalog
catalog I had was those four people sitting around a table
using the dungeon floor plans with their miniatures and
they're playing a session of why have a fantasy role play?
And that, that image I really love because that's how I want
to play role-playing. You know, that's, that's how I
envision role-playing to be. You still have the miniatures on
the table. You still, you still do a bit of
theater in mind and, and all that kind of stuff.
Of course, you can't represent everything physically in, in
miniature form. And I totally get it.
Matt's done a great job with Mega Ham because he's got a kind
of a very vast array of terrain elements and miniatures that he
brings to his sort of, it's got like a white gridded table that
he uses. So he can, you know, you can
mark out the, in this case it's inches that you move in just
like in regular Warhammer to resolve combat and and all that
kind of ranges and all that kind of stuff.
So yeah, I really enjoyed that a lot.
So I think it was too, yeah. Because yesterday we played the
session. I think it was, I think it was
last last week sometime. I can't remember what day it
was, but we got to actually play our first adventure.
Now I'm I've taken a dwarf because dwarfs are my favorite
character class, you know, or race, I should say, not a
character class race. He's male.
His name is Belaga Flint. Now, luckily now one of the one
of the great strengths about one role play is that you roll up a
class. You don't choose what career you
get. It's all random, so you could
eventually be you. I could have been a dwarf jailer
with my fleas and rough bottle of wine or whatever, but luckily
I rolled up a soldier, which suited me perfectly because I've
got a male shirt, which is brilliant.
So I've actually got some armor. I think it came with the shield
as well, and a helmet, Brilliant.
I've got Strike Mighty Blow, which is effective offensive
combat skill, adding one to my strength, basically to my
attack. I did get the chance because
when you take a, when you, you have to roll all these stats and
see, you know, how proficient you are in certain areas.
I mean, he's pretty good in weapons skill.
I mean, it's going to he's generally going to hit most of
the time, 4040% of the time. And now 50% because he's
upgraded, because he, he, he leveled up in the last session,
which is great because every hundred XP you get, you get to
take one of the, one of the stat increases.
You get an advancement basically, depending on your
class or your, yeah, depending on your career class, it will
tell you which stats you can increase.
And you can only do it once. And doesn't matter what and,
and, and unless you take another career path, which you'll,
you'll want to do anyway, because you need to find
something that increases another area of your, of your stats of
your profile. You only get to do it once.
So I've, I've increased my attack to two.
So we've got 2 attacks, which makes him a nice sort of beat
stick and his weapon skills now 49.
So now he's going to be hitting 50% time, 50% of the time twice,
which is nice. So he's he's definitely the
fighter of our group of the group so far that I've seen of
the characters I've seen so far. So I've described him as being a
graph hard faced battle where he bastard.
He's got a fellowship of 16. So he's not the most likable.
You know, he's not the person person you want to delegate or
do any kind of diplomacy of any kind.
He's just a soldier, you know, he's just a hard faced bastard,
you know, and I love him. I've I've fallen in love with
this guy, old Belgar. He's on with an axe.
He's got a crossbow because that's one of the things you get
when you're a soldier. You get a, you get a range
weapon. So chose between a crossbow and
a bow. Definitely crossbow doors don't
use bows, but they do in the old hammer role play and he's
Blizzard skills 28. So that's another advancement I
can take to get it to 38 in the future.
So I might do that, but he's much he's far better off using
an axe, getting a weapon and getting in there and getting
stuck in. He's got toughness of four,
which is good, which is not too bad.
But you'll you'll find out if you've never played one fantasy
role play. This is not this is not DND.
This is not that you will die at the drop of a hat.
You know, you could be like a giant rat that takes you down
like it could be a goblin. And we did.
We did face some Scaven because there were rumors of these rat
men around, but they're like just a they're just, they're
just that they're just a rumor or they're just like a
fictitious race. Everyone's in denial of them
being then that they exist. But we did come across them for
the very first time and we dispatched them.
That was me and Ruhrich. Ruhrich is a rust dwarf from the
north. He's got a Russian kind of
accent, maybe Russian accent, and he's my companion on our
quests at the moment. And, and we dispatched several
scavenged sofa and, and Ruwick's been cutting off their tails and
taking out their innards to appease a witch in the local
town because that's what she asked him to do, find these
ingredients so he can, she can make some kind of sort of
concoction with them, some kind of horrible brew that must smell
incredibly for some poor bastard to drink or find it in his food
at some point. I don't know.
So we have all these characters with intertwining kind of
storylines and objectives or personal kind of motivations or
what have you. It's all run through the now
this is the unique think about thing about it.
So if you haven't listened to the interview, check it out
because it's quite ambitious what Matt's trying to do.
Because basically, if you zoom out, it's the mighty empires
campaign. So you've got the text, the hex,
sorry, hex tile map territories that you've, that you've
generated stronghold cities, all that kind of thing.
And when you move around the map, you're basically using the
tables and charts in Mighty Empires to generate encounters
and all that kind of stuff. I don't know much about, I've
never played Mighty Empires myself.
So I'm sort of kind of new in Matt's kind of, you know, he's
taking the reins of everything. He's, he's running the whole
lot. So I take my hat off to him
because it's, we've managed to put quite a few more people in
the group. So he's got quite a lot to
handle now and manage. So I hope it goes OK.
I'm I'm for him that he can cope with everything.
But so far it seems OK. And you so you can sort of jump
in and jump out. So at the end of yesterday's
session, you know, he says, OK, what do you want to do?
You want to rest? Because we were down to 0
wounds. We had an encounter with some
giant spiders which kicked our ass and, and we managed to get
out of that at the end and make our way back to camp, pay to
heal, to heal us up a fraction of our our wounds.
And then we decided to rest for two weeks.
So you're sort of doing that in real time.
That's another interesting thing about it.
So we say, OK, we're going to rest for two weeks.
So that that equates to so many days of healing time and
resting. And then, you know, you get back
up to four wounds and then we'll jump back in on the 15th and go
again. So it's really interesting that
we all. He also has the 3rd edition
fantasy rules for doing mass combat.
So at some point when armies are involved, if we're like as
characters going to partake in a battle, let's say one of the
Earls or one of the Lords has a dispute with another territorial
Lord or whatever, and they want to conquer their empire.
They might request our aid being, you know, somewhat heroes
or, you know, befriending the where some somehow indebted to
the this Liege Lord to to do his bidding.
Maybe we'll be involved in some kind of confrontation.
How big? I doubt they'll be very huge,
but you know, there might be like, you know, 20-30 models
aside or something like that playing a third edition battle.
That'd be awesome, you know, So he's got those 3 game systems
because they're all integrated anyway.
If you've ever played third edition, all those books are
integrated some way, in some way.
They're all interlinked. So that's wonderful.
It's been really good. I'm really enjoying it and like
I say, thanks to Matt, this is all possible.
So that's been really fun to do. So that's the news on Mega
Hammer. Really enjoyed that.
I am currently painting some old hammer.
I've been really immersed in it. Actually, I've been really
enjoying it. I found some goblin models
because I, I did get a party of people together to do advance
your requests. So that was Matt and Tarkin and
Tom Mason, who's like a miniature designer who wasn't
it. This is Tarkin, Matt, Tom,
Mason, and Nick. That's right, last Nick.
So I know I knew Nick would enjoy that.
So we've got our 4 characters. We've got a dwarf.
Nick rolled up a dwarf and Matt rolled up an elf.
We we tried, we tried to break the mold that the the the
stereotypical, you know, dwarf elf into humans, But we we
managed to roll those up because we rolled those as a jazz as a
random generation. I'll go into more about the
advance here requests stuff we're doing that's kicking off
next month. I will record them and upload
them here onto Patreon and I hope to do with the second
camera, a second phone camera that is record snippets of it
and put it together as a like a YouTube video to continue.
Well, not continue, but basically well, you know, just
just have some more extra content because I love advance
your request. I love it so much and I just
cannot wait to get it back on the table again and play it with
the guys. So we're going to face some
goblins and orcs in the first one.
And it was funny because I was like, oh, OK, well, I really
want to use the old hammer models.
And I found some stuff that David Conley sent me for like an
old boss guy type guy, like old hammer models, you know, and and
then I thought, hang on, I've got some here request stuff the
here request goblins, here request orcs.
So that saved me a lot of time in doing anything like that.
So I'm going to use those in it as well, of course, because
they're they're perfect, you know, absolutely perfect for
that. We're going to, we're going to
do like a little quest 1st to get things running just like A33
tier layer as one of the quest ideas in the main rule book is
to defeat an Org warlord. And I thought that's perfect.
Let's do that as I do have all models and stuff like that and
and and in the meantime, I'll get ready for the quest of the
Shattered amulet. That's going to be the the big
one. I've never played it.
Matt never got to play it. I don't think Nick's ever played
it and Tom hasn't played it either.
And Timothy never got to play that.
I think it's Tarkin. He never got to play it either.
So we're going to, we're going to tick that box basically this
year and actually get that quest done.
So I'm really looking forward to doing that.
I've got some stuff here for David to paint for Scaven.
So I'm going to include those in the in the models as part of
that quest and get that done before I send it back to him.
I hope I'm collecting my own stuff now.
And I mean, I don't think I'll ever have my own 3rd edition
armies and that's that. That's OK.
I don't that's not a big concern or a for me.
I much rather have a collection of models that I can use in
advanced tea request or won a role play and her and I remember
a guy I used to go to when I went when I first, you know, saw
my first or visit. My first game store was a comic
shop and the guy who was running it, the young guy called Rob.
And I went to his house one day and Rob wasn't a gamer.
He was more of a comics guy, but he liked the miniatures because
I sold them there. And he painted just he had like
his huge collection of really nicely painted models of just
like a blister pack of dwarves, blister pack of owls, blister
pack of this, that, whatever. And I thought it was a really
nice way of doing that. You know, you just grabbed a
blister pack of something and painted it up and put it on on
in your in your shelf collection.
And so he had amassed all these different models of Citadel and
water miniatures in his cabinet. And I thought that's a really
cool idea. I might attempt to do that
because I had all all those scape models and I wish I
hadn't, I wish I hadn't painted over them.
Now I wish I still had those because I'm beautifully done.
I really like those how they're done in a more of a naturalistic
sort of painting style and painting a dwarf that Owen sent
me actually years ago. And I'm really enjoying that,
but not non metallic metals and making the yeah, the colors a
bit more sort of old hammery, natural looking colors, not
bright and vibrant that you'd see on the on the hero hammer
stuff. So it's a lovely little
departure from what I normally paint.
I hope to do a video today on that as well as like an update,
an old hammer update if you like another more talk video for the
YouTube channel. So I hope you guys can enjoy.
I'll look at the miniatures. I mean painting stuff I'll look
to paint for the advance here request stuff.
I've started doing the elf. It's now commissioned thanks to
Nick That will be going to Nick's Nick's hands once I
finished doing all those models and he'll have his own 3rd
edition wood elf army. So thanks again, Nick, for that.
And and I hope I look really, I really look forward to painting
them and getting on the table and playing third edition
fantasy. I'll be definitely taking I'll
probably taking orcs, I'd say, because if there is one third
edition army, I can of course, I can take dwarves as well.
But if there's one army I can do, I can do orcs because I've
got the cross women, which are third edition.
The Archers are third edition and I need twenty of those,
which I have. And all I really need are the
orcs, like just getting some 2020 like old hammer orcs.
And I don't think that's a fit, you know, far cry from
happening. So I could essentially do an orc
and maybe goblin old hammer army.
But I've also always got my dwarves to fall back on my
beautiful dwarves to use 1/3 as a third edition army.
I've got my wizard here that I really look forward to doing.
I'm almost thinking about doing that as a as a video on YouTube
painting it because it's been one of those things I bought
years ago and never had the the chance to painting.
I thought what I'm going to use probably from advance your
request. But, and yeah, so I really look
forward to painting that one up very soon.
So that's what's been happening there.
And I'm now wrapping up the gathering of mighty Painters.
My my Empire hand Gunners, almost finished.
I'm going to try to finish painting them, get the painting
done, then do the basing and then have some photographs up
hopefully by tomorrow or so for those guys.
They're looking really nice, very handsome in their plumes
and puffy shirts. What else has been happening?
Well, this weekend, and I can't remember if I mentioned it, but
Nick and Wellington and Justin are coming up to play Warhammer
and maybe some hero quests as well.
Two days. It's a sleepover.
Really looking forward to that, seeing my friends and playing
some games together. It's going to be another big
Empire versus Orkin Goblin game. This is the closest thing we
come to the gathering of Might campaign.
This is the last one we'll have was was huge.
Well, for me, it was big. You know, I really enjoyed that
that that evening of and day of gaming.
That was a lot of fun. So we get to do it again.
So those wonderful people are going to entertain me again to
do that. So really looking forward to
that. Of course, I'll take some
footage of that and you know, it will either just be a Patreon
video as always or I might even make it a a YouTube video.
Who who knows? We'll see.
We'll see how the how the night progresses or the day
progresses. So they'll be busy with that and
just painting as always really guys got some commissions to do.
I've got some teaching to do this week.
To wrap up another month, I can't believe it's almost the
end of January. It's insane.
And yeah, I hope you guys are having a really good week so
far. I've had some, I've had some
troubling and difficult times this weekend, I must say.
Some some things that happened in the background.
Maybe I'll, I'll talk about those later at a different
point. It's to do like family stuff.
I may have to make a an emergency trip to Australia.
We'll see Me and my wife are talking about, you know, flights
and stuff like that maybe in March or sorry, May.
I think it was going there for about a month.
So we'll see, we'll see how how things pan out.
But yeah, that's that's been sort of troubling this weekend.
But keeping positive about all that.
Again, I won't go into details because it's a it's a family
matter, but I may have to may share shed light on that later.
We'll see how we go. But to distract me from all of
that, I've got these wonderful miniatures in front of me, which
I'm going to get start get stuck into now and get this dwarf
finished. And again, I hope to have a
video up today focusing on my old hammer stuff.
I've got a Talisman second edition box set.
I like to go through with you on a video.
I've got the Warhammer Army's book.
I like to go through with you guys on a video and advance
here, request stuff that I'm working on.
And I've started doing the elf Spearman video and that's the
first unit that will come up as like a as like a painted
completed unit to do. And then I'll do I'll probably
do the scarlock arches after that as the second one.
So guys, hope you're having a great week.
And I look forward to engaging with you in the community
section here on Patreon or on Discord and and keeping in
touch, keeping in touch with you that way.
So until then, have a great week.
Hope to see you in the next splatter Nutter and I'll talk to
you later. Take care.