Community Spotlight: Blood & Plunder Battles, Weird Armies & Bolt Action Badassery
October 5, 2018 by brennon
Come and join us for another delve into the Forums and Projects to find the best of the best from the last week or so. We're going to be getting stuck into lots of great looking pieces this week...
...make sure to always let us know what YOU have been working on and share it across the site.
Blood & Plunder Ship Battle by panzerkaput
The first of the projects we're going to be looking at is actually a few shots from an awesome Blood & Plunder Ship battle that was played out by panzerkaput and friends. Not one, not two, but five ships clashed on the high seas!
As you can see it was quite a crazy looking game. Unfortunately, one of the ships wasn't painted but this certainly shows off the flexibility of the Blood & Plunder system to allow this.
"We had an amazing five-way, okay five player sea battle with two Spanish ships, a Brigantine and a Sloop, two English ships, a Light Frigate and a Sloop and a French ship, a Bark. The scenario was quite simple, it was to capture the longboat in the centre of the table and hold it to the end of the game."
It seems like it was all sorts of awesome chaos with ships colliding with each other in boarding actions and cannon fire ripping through the skies and into the hulls of these poor ships too.
You can find out more about how the game went by checking out the project link at the top of this entry. I think this looks like awesome fun and shows off just what you can do with Blood & Plunder. If the themed week hasn't got you excited for the game then maybe this will push you over the edge.
It looks like the English also got a pounding here so next time we need to make sure the English win ok panzerkaput!
Konflikt '47 German Army by wilco92
Next up we're turning our attention to some Weird World War, namely the work by wilco92 on this awesome Konflikt '47 force which he also uses as his German force in Bolt Action.
The slate grey look of the vehicles with those very blocky camouflage patterns is awesome to see and takes these models that little step up beyond just being a Historical force. I really like the attention to detail that has gone into the troopers and you can see just how much effort has gone into making them look that little more deadly.
You could just imagine them coming up against your hero in a game like Wolfenstein. I like that there is also a little nod towards this more Weird World War feeling with their skintones too. That hint of green makes them look like they might have gone through some hideous procedure in order to make them more compliant or something.
A great set and also, great photography. It's awesome to see someone not only take pictures of their army in a presentation setting but also to drop it onto the tabletop and give us some action shots too.
Bolt Action Polish by yoshi
Last but not least we're looking to the WAYPN thread and the work of yoshi. He wanted to create a Project during the Bolt Action Boot Camp but decided to take his time over it but we did get this awesome preview of his work here.
Now those are some awesome looking British soldiers (I think they're British anyway...oops). The attention to detail on their faces is insane as you can see he has not only worked on bringing them to life but also adding extra detail like stubble and such!
They very much have the look of Pulpy comic heroes but I think that's awesome, making them into cover stars in their own right. I can't wait to see just how much detail he goes into during the creation of his project!
What Are You Painting Right Now?
Every week we’re absolutely blown away by the incredible topics that are put into the Projects, it’s getting more difficult to choose Community Spotlights! We love your work and we hope to see a lot more of it in the future!
If you fancy getting your hobby fingers out and showing off your newest paint job, terrain piece or even greatest gaming achievement, we want to know about it!
We don’t mind if you’re a newcomer to painting or a veteran of the brush, everything you do inspires us to create more and more content together!
What do you think of the entries this week?
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Damn more excellent stuff. The K47 is my favourite but its all damn fine painting. I feel a bit intimidated. I was going to try and attempt to get a Golden Button at some point before the year ends but it looks like I mightn’t with such high caliber work!
You can do it 🙂
At least at your speed of painting you’ve got a chance 😉
Love to see some more K47 represented here! I’ve been ditracted for a bit by Kill Team, but am circling back to work on my K47 USMC. Gotta get enough “complete” to get some good group shots like this.
@Yoshi Those Polish paras look fantastic, i missed your project. Better go and get some pointers.
Very nice. Well done.
Thanks there guys I am well chuffed
Brilliant work nice one folk’s.
Golden looking stuff all round!