Carnevale (1) - Rashaar Starter Gang

 Over at Hobby Knockout, we recently decided we were going to do a 24 Hour live stream for charity. This all started because Paul watched THIS video from Goobertown Hobbies about painting a whole start collecting box in 24 hours.

I've always prided myself on speed but haven't ever tried something as specific as this (mostly due to my schedule) and we began spitballing ideas. One of the ideas in particular was to buy, split and paint a 2 player starter set. We mulled over a few ideas including The Lord of the Rings Pelenor Fields set, the Last Argument of Kings Starter and the Carnevale starter. In the end we each decided to do our own project for various reasons but I ended up purchasing the Carnevale box for myself anyway. 

I went with this two player set HERE because the value seemed insane. We're going to do a deep dive into the game eventually but I spent the last week painting stuff from the box, starting with the Rashaar gang. 

Here's the Gang in full

So far I'm super enthusastic about it. The starter sets components are excellent and really make me excited to get some games in. On Thursday we're going to start playing through the "learn to play" campaign and if it goes well I'll replace the card scenery supplied with some of the great looking MDF stuff TTCombat does.

Lord of the Rings: Helms Deep (1) - A Project

Update: I've already decided against printing the whole thing. It's just way too much of an investment at the moment. I'm leaving this up as a reminder to not get too ambitious.

I often find myself starting new projects and not exactly following through. To that end I'm hesitant to even post about this one but I figure if I do end up following through, it will be fun to look back on the starting point.

For as long as I've been a wargamer I've had a love of Lord of The Rings. It was the first game I played on my own, and one of the only games I've played consistently in my whole time as a Tabletop Gamer. As a huge fan of the UrukHai I've obviously had a huge interest in Helms Deep. For me this is the magnum opus of gaming Lord of the Rings. Years ago I found this blog HERE and thought the ever elusive "maybe someday"

Fast forward to yesterday, I discovered the Dark Realms Patreon and was blown away to discover that july's release was an entire 28mm model of Helms Deep.

This is one of those big dumb things I start and then never finish.

After scouring through the comments section across both the patreon and the currently running kickstarter for halfling houses, it appears someone has estimated the build to need somethign rediculous like 17 spools of filament.

I've started printing from the left with just the first part of the curtain wall.

This is easily the largest single piece I've printed and obviously the largest over all project. I can't really wrap my head around how long itll take to complete in its entirety but I've decided to start with the front "section" as it were and see if I can't get a playable "facade"