Another Gent for the Club

Yes indeed here is another gentleman for the club and this one is a preacher type. Armed with a bible and a saw off shotgun he plans to convert his way through the whole of the Empire of the Dead. Also I plan to use him with my VBCW Witchfinder General force i am creating. He is going to be the younger firebrand preaching brother to the Witchfinder General himself. He see it as his God given mission to save British to the excesses of the past two decades that have caused the downfall of the Motherland and the civil war. Together with his brother he has signed up with General Wynd-Gator to "save" Britain and bring an end to all this foolishness.

He is a lovely sculpted figure from the Artizan Designs Cowboy range and is was a real joy to paint. Here area couple of other pictures of him.

The Gentlemen's Club is Slowly Growing

Just a break for the illustrations, more will be coming along I promise, I have gone back to painting the next chap in my Gentleman's Club for Empire of the Dead. I love this chap who is actually from Artizan Design Cowboy range, but I thought that he would make a great Club member or city gent. I have gone for the look the the BBC used in Ripper Street and I can not believe that they have gone and cancelled this, with the bright colours and plaids, and hopefully got that Victorian Man About Town look. I have to say i am enjoying this little Victoriana trip I am on.

The Victorian Vibe Continues, okay Its Deadwood and One Man and Brushes Give Away

Some years ago I got into the Legends of the west and build some houses for it but then I moved to Leicester and away from my old wargames club in Milton Keynes and the buildings sat in my study for the past five years collecting dust and waiting for me to paint them. Now after BlogCon and playing Dave Doc wonderful game Blazing Dice and Empire of the Dead has got me thinking well I really should finish those buildings. Now these building as actually all scratch built by me and where the first building I every really did and I was quite pleased with them. Now that they have a lick of paint on one of them it actually looks pretty good and I just need to put the sign on it and it is total finished. So here is my first western building.

And talking of Dave Doc he is having a great give away for reaching 100,00 views so please go over to his blog One Man and His Brushes and join in the fun.

The Victoriana Carries On

Yes indeed the Victoriana fever that has stuck Château PK lately does not seem to stop and another figure is finished. Again after raiding my cowboy box, and I know that sounds so wrong, I found again wonder Artizan Design figure and this time he has a big gun. I guess he is some kind of hunter but I thought what a great sniper/hunter for a Gentleman Club or even for the Wuflen Jaeger for Empire of the Dead. I could even use him for a cowboy game I guess too. He was a dream to paint and I rather like the sculpt. Now what will be next?

Here is the latest on the Mov for Movember and I have to say I think I should stop watching Deadwood. Besides it making me look and feel a hundred years older than what I am, it has that Deadwood look.

Until next time

I'm Back and I am With the Witch Finder General and trouble with PC World

Yes I am back after a bit of an enforced break, mainly due to my PC's motherboard deciding to give up the ghost and partly due to PC World messing me about, but more on that later. Firstly I would like to say a BIG Thanks to James at Exiles Painting and Loki at Lokis Great Hall for putting on Blog Con, it was a real blast and it was nice to meet up with some fellow bloggers and I am hoping that next year will be even bigger.They will be more on this coming shortly.

Now after playing Dave at One Man and His Brushes wonderful Blazing Dice Wild west game, which you can find out more at Trouble in Serenity, got me to dig out some old Artizan Designs figures I have had knocking around for ages and thought to myself now I really like this figure. Having been bitten by the Victoriana bug of late, see Michael you have made me do it thanks to your wonderful blog, 28mm Victorian Warfare, I have couple of new ideas that can work for both Victoriana and VBCW. So may I introduce the Witch Finder General.

This chap is a rather over religious man who is carrying out God's work during the Very British Civil War. Basically he is bringing justice to the heathen masses in the trouble times of the civil war and administering justice and peace where ever he goes. Though he thinks of himself of a part of the Anglican league the League have gone to great lengths to dissociate themselves from him, though he does prove useful at times.  Hailing from a missionary family in India, he returned but to Great Britain at the start of the Civil War with a group of followers including some tribesmen from the North West Frontier, as Christians should not kill another Christians but these Godless heathens can.

He is a lovely figure and a joy to paint. I have tried a different way to paint the black and i have to say I am rather pleased the results. The touch of Burberry lining is to add colour to the figure and makes him useful for both VBCW and Victorian games. 

Now there are things which with hindsight you know were going to go wrong but I thought "It would never happen to me". Well it did. My PC died on me and I rather stupidly took it into PC World for them to have a look at and see if they can repair it. A simple enough thing I thought so on the 22nd October I took it in and they said that they would have to send it away for the tech guys to look at it and that they will contact me within the week and I should have it back by the 6th November. Well a week when past with no contact and I looked at the note that the young assistant had given me and realised that my telephone number was wrong. So I contacted them and spoke to a rather disinterested chap but he stated that he would update the system with my correct number. Another week passed with no contact and checked online where I found out that they had been trying to call me and I once again called up and they stated that they had been trying to call me by the repair, I asked which number they had and it was the wrong one and the chap again stated that he will update my number and I paid for the repair. Any a week passed with me checking online for progress of my repair and in the end I emailed them two with no answer but them got another message from online stating that they need to talk to me about my repair. So once again I contacted they, all this on a 0844 number, and yes you can guess it they had been phoning me on the wrong number and no one had updated my number and they stated that i had not paid for my repair. I advised them that I had and they stated that they could see this and the repairs would go ahead and i should head from them shortly when to pick it up. The day next I checked online and yes you guest it it stated to call them again which I did and they said once again that I had not paid and they after I pointed it out I had they said "oh yes" and the repairs will go ahead. If fact I actually got them calling me the next day on my phone, well they did change me number after all, stating that, you are not going to believe this, that I had not paid for the repairs yet. Once again I pointed out that I had and the day I paid and once again they said on yes you have. But guess what happened on the next day, once again I had a message to call them and you would be believe it but it was about the fact that I had still not paid for the repairs. By this time I just wanted my PC back but once again I pointed out that I had paid for it and a couple of days later I got a message stating that the repairs had been carried out and I pick it up in the next couple of days which would be Thursday or Friday. I actually got my PC on Sunday where the store tried to change me for the repairs but I pointed out once again that I had paid and I got me PC back and a extra hard drive which no one knew what that was about. I had home and my primary hard drive was wiped clean, luckily I had all my artwork on the secondary hard drive which was fine and I have just spent the last 24 hours installing all my programs back on it, but have lost all my emails, contacts and resource material. I tried the another hard drive thinking maybe its on them for some reason, but no and that hard drive doesn't work. So I think it will be the last time I will be using PC World for repairs and I would advise anyone else to keep well clear of them.

BlogCon and the Victorian Lady

No this is not the next title for a Mills and Boon book but rather what has been interesting me over the past few days. Firstly is the Victorian Lady. Now this figure is from Ironclad Miniatures and it is a lovely sculpted lady wearing a typical 1880s style clothing. I have go for the artists James Tissot look was strong contrast of colour which I think i have got. This is a dream to paint and now I am a little worried as I think my interesting in Victoriana is on the rise.

Secondly its Only five days to BlogCon and I am really looking forward to it and chatting with fellow bloggers. I hope to see you there.