Tale of Four Gamers Part 7 : The Burgeoning Cannibal Throng

So this month I knocked out another thirteen ghouls. I really enjoyed painting these carrion-eating wretches as I kept up quite a pace while doing so. There's a mixture of middlehammer Morley in here as well as some of the classic Night Horrors range.

Here they are mixed in with ghouls I painted back in month number one - which now feels a very long time ago!

Although collectively thirteen ghouls are 104 points my total so far in the challenge is 1074 which puts me well over the 1050 I needed by now. Just another 426 to go!

Tale of Four Gamers Nerves of Lead Part 4 - Happy New Year!

While Matthew and thansants knocked out their entries well ahead of me in the month despite all the free time I've had recently, I still find myself submitting my entry last minute and on New Year's Eve no less!

This month we have a Level 10 undead hero (69 points) with a magic sword (Parrying blade), heavy armour and a shield strapped to his back. The miniature is from Tim Prow's Diehard miniatures.

Accompanying him is a Wight (100 points) from Citadel's hallowed Night Horrors and Ethereals ranges which long term followers of the blog will know are an obsession of mine.

And with that all that leaves for me is to wish you a Happy New Year. May it be a good one! (let's face it 2016 was a bit crap really?)

Halloween Night Horror 2017 Diorama Competition

Another year and we limp towards the evil aura of that most dark of festivals...call it All Hallow's Eve, Sahmain or all Hallows Eve, you'll be lucky to survive it with either your life or the thin thread of your sanity.

Over on the Night and Gothic Horrors Facebook page we're running a competition to create a diorama themed around one of the classic Night Horrors range from Citadel designed to chill your bones and get your heart thumping in your chest. If you follow this blog you'll have seen me blog about the miniatures from it numerous times.

A classically inspired horror scene with victim prey to an ancient menace or a B-movie slime monster about to consume the teen who went out by himself if this sounds like it might interest you, come and join us!

Dead containers

Ah coffins and sarchopaguses. Ordinarily the domain of the recently departed but in the hands of the necromancer they can become a box of nasty shocks.

Hello handsome!

The miniature is very old Grenadier ('83 I think) - I like the cheeky chap inside.

Some more pics and angles...

In the spirit of some more dead containers, a couple of classics from the old Citadel Night Horrors range (my own personal obsession). The coffin can either hold an ordinary corpse or a mummy however you deem fit - now that's flexibility!

All of this is intended as scenery for a homebrew game for myself and my partner. More to follow on that....

Earth Golem

Earth Golem from the classic Citadel Night Horrors range. (Apologies I just realised the original post did not have the picture in it!)

Halloween Horror Painting Challenge

Over on Facebook I run a group dedicated to the appreciation of the classic Night Horror and Gothic Horrors produced by Citadel Miniatures in the late eighties and early nineties. It's Halloween soon and in the run up to that I'm running a painting challenge for the best painted miniature of one of those ranges.

Best of all there's a prize of old lead for the lucky winner!

To enter you need to be a member of the Facebook group - 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1611509909078469/

THE RULES

1. The mini must be newly painted and from one of the Citadel ranges Gothic Horrors or Night Horrors. Links to these ranges are referenced at the end of the post. ( from the Stuff of Legends website). If you're not sure check the links and as I'm not all-seeing and you have found a reference to these ranges I have missed then PM me.
2. Entrants should be submitted from the 4th September to 16th October 2015. A picture/picture(s) of the entry should be posted to the group clearly indicating it is a submission for the comp and the entrant should be a member of the group.
3. Once entries have been submitted the admin will set up an album of all entries and all members will be allowed to vote on one entry to win (members can't vote on their own entry)
4. Voting will finish at midnight 31st October.
5. The winner will be announced on the 1st November and the prize will be sent to them.

http://www.solegends.com/citc/c18nighthorrors.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citgothic/index.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citgames/mummy/index.htm
http://www.solegends.com/ci…/numbered/le03gumshoes/index.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citgoth/goth85/index.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citgoth/goth87/index.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citgothflyers/index.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citcat1989/cat1989p036-02.htm
http://www.solegends.com/ci…/cat1991bp310nighthorrors-02.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citca…/cat1991bp311ethereals-02.htm

(note: there is a large crossover between the Night Horrors and Ethereals range and because of this these minis are admissable)