VBCW - Imperial War Museum.

Made a quick visit to the Imperial War Museum in London on Monday. Very informative and interesting day out. Took a few (not particularly good) pictures and thought these ones specifically would be of interest to the VBCW player...

The BUF Uniform.

A Thompson SMG and a couple of Mauser C96 Pistols.

A typical LDV Uniform.

The Standard British Infantry Uniform.

A couple of vehicles from WW1 that may be suitable for VBCW. Note the 'Battle Bus' in the background!

Mystery Solved!

Finally managed to track down the identity of the 'mystery figure' - was looking at the Mega-Minis site as suggested by Jagatai (thankyou) and in a round about way decided I was looking for a Barbarian of some sort. To cut a long story short I found the Lost Minis website and searched for 'Barbarians' - first thing that came up was the 'Barbarian Personalities' set from Asgard, sculpted by Jes Goodwin (who did lots of Citadel stuff) and though there wasn't a picture I deduced he was 'BP8 Aurock Storrirkin' - Stuff of Legends fortunately had pic and confirmed this:

He is the one on the bottom left. Don't know why this bothered me so much but I was on a mission to find out - I am usually pretty good at identifying old minis and was determined to track this one down! Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Mordheim.

Zombie Master of Deviant Design Deeds has recently been getting back into the old school fantasy stuff and has been trying to influence us into dusting off the old figures and getting a game of Mordheim going. To be honest I have never played the game - I used to play Warhammer Fantasy Battle right from the original 1st Edition back in 1983 (showing my age?) and played up to the 3rd Edition in the late 80's. We were always pretty 'freeform' in our interpretation of the rules and tended to make the most of the RPG element of the earlier version.

The amazing 1st Edition of WHFB.

I lost interest in collecting miniatures and wargaming over time and the figure collection, mostly admittedly unpainted, got thrown into a box and shoved into the loft to gather dust! More recently I was actually thinking of selling these but when I started to dig them out and show them to a couple of wargaming buddies I suddenly had a lot of fond memories come back and could even remember some of the names and characters particular figures had. Since being drawn back into the hobby, probably on the more historical side (see my Viking game Gjallarhorn, Colonial and our WWII skirmish games) I have to admit I am gradually getting drawn into the idea of playing a small skirmish fantasy game painting up a small warband. Mordheim looks to be the answer!

Mordheim Rulebook.

Mordheim is a skirmish game; set 500 years before the current time in the Warhammer world, where opposing factions fight in the ruins of a once-great city. Mordheim, once a great city capital of the Empire's most northern realm, was slowly enveloped by corruption. The only beacon of hope and sanity in Mordheim was the Convent of the Sisterhood of Sigmar. Weeks before the end of the year 1999, the symbol of Sigmar himself - the twin-tailed comet - had appeared in the sky. As midnight of the final day of the year approached, Daemons crept from the shadows and mingled with the throng, crying joyously and cavorting with man and woman alike. As the festival reached its zenith, the comet impacted upon the city. Only the Temple of Sigmar's Rock, home to the Sisterhood of Sigmar, remained unblemished. The city burned for weeks, the comet leaving the ruins of Mordheim covered in shards of solidified Chaos, soon to become known as wyrdstone. When Mordheim finally stopped burning, mercenary warbands from all over the Empire and beyond came in search of it, for it was said that wyrdstone can do anything; change your luck and fortune and turn lead into gold. Of course, Man was not the only race interested in wyrdstone, and many other creatures prowl the City of the Damned.

I have decided to go for a Dwarf Treasure Hunter warband as I love 'Stunties' but already am starting to feel I have created a rod for my own back. As tough as these guys are they are damned slow and very expensive! Anyhow - I have dug out a few appropriate Dwarfs from my old Citadel collection and here are a few pics of them...

Names, characteristics, equipment etc are all to be worked out but due to the cost it is unlikely that all of these stout fellows will be able to join the initial warband.

"Mhinz Abier!!" - "Zyor Rond!!"

Mystery Figure...

Can anyone help me with identifying the make of this chap below?

He has a vague 'fantasy viking' look to him and I have searched the web for some clues but still have no idea!

Any suggestions would be well appreciated :-)

Runequest Miniatures.

Runequest Boxed Set 6: Humanoids and Aldryami.

Picked up this from ebay recently. Couldn't resist as I always wanted this set but could never get hold of them back when they were released. I managed to get Boxed Sets 1,2 and 5 but missed out on a few of the others.

Complete list (from 'Stuff of Legends') -

Box 1: Human Adventurers
Box 2: Adventurers
Box 3 (v1): Trolls and Trollkin
Box 3 (v2): Attack of the Broo
Box 4 (v1): Beastmen
Box 4 (v2): Broo
Box 4a: Broo 2
Box 5: Dragonewts
Box 6: Humans and Aldryami
Box 7 (v1): Flying Creatures
Box 7 (v2): Demons

I never got hold of the 'Trolls and Trollkin' boxed set but over the years picked up most of the figures from it. Tempted to actually start painting them now...

A Touch of Fantasy...Brother Thomas.

Decided to add a little bit of fantasy stuff to this blog as I have no where else that seems appropriate to put it! Might dig out some old fantasy wargames notes from my early Warhammer Fantasy Battle days and perhaps even some RPG stuff too.

Anyway, onto one of my earliest Citadel figures from my collection...

'Brother Thomas' is an old Citadel Miniatures chap I have owned for many years. I bought him in about 1982 for 40p and he has graced many wargames tables and RPG's over the years. He has certainly faced far worse things than one or two angry Danes with axes. Battles that spring to mind include the legendary 'Bloodbath at Orcs Drift', the 'Nightmare in Blackmarsh', 'The Battle of Dalion Pass' (the only game I am aware of thats had intelligent baboons fighting on one side!), 'How Red Was My Valley' (regarding the case of the missing Count von Bulow) the defence of the Principality of Francovia and the 'Return of Martin the Liche-Lord and the Wars of Spite'. He was always somewhere on the fringes of the action, even if it was an old dwarven stronghold or a mission near an elven fortress. Other characters involved included the dwarf lords Clando the Bane and Torak Dragonhelm IX (bearer of the Runesword Casmakis), the 'Scarlet Plumes' (a kind of roaming police force made up of Runequest miniatures), Harboth & the Black Mountain Boys (Citadel Orcs before they went really spikey), Mengil Manhides company of Dark Elves and even a Slann raiding party after slaves and booty. Hmmm, last one sounds familiar...anyway, enough reminiscing!

Brother Thomas.

(Re-posting this from Gjallarhorn, my Viking blog)

VBCW - Communist Militia.

Not progressed much with the VBCW project as our Viking and WW2 projects have taken precedence but here are a handful of communist militia advancing through an old ruined famhouse building...

Jack Shelley and his men set up a defensive line in a ruined farmhouse building on the outskirts of Ipswich.

Figures are all from Musketeer Miniatures.