Steamy Punky Goodness

Back on the blog after spending a bit of holiday in the UK, during which I got myself signed up to host a Wolsung demo game at PolderCon on the first of May.

For those who don’t know, PolderCon is a wargaming event in Utrecht, in the Netherlands. This year there’ll be 20+ different games to play, all hosted by volunteering wargaming enthousiasts.

The day is divided into 4 time slots of 90 minutes, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. For each time slot players can book a spot to participate in one of the demo games. How many spots there are at the table differs from game to game, but is usually something between one and four. This makes the demo’s quite ‘up close and personal’, without the distractions/interruptions of others who’re just passing by.

The clubs I’ll be using for the game will be the Ash & Oak, Inventors and Triad of the Lotus Dragon. Selection of miniatures is based on the contents of the various starter boxes, so there’ll be 2 Heroes a side plus 2-3 henchmen. All the mini’s are already painted (some of my older work, pics will follow), as is the bulk of the terrain. That means there’s plenty of time to ‘waste’ on small details ?

First up is the appartment building, which could use some furniture. The downstairs is going to be a shop, with the upstairs being the living area. All the bits are from one of Mantic Games’ Terrain-Crate kickstarters.

Painting was kept simple, with washes and Army Painter Speedpaint to help creating a little depth. I’m very pleased with the look ‘Hardened Leather’ gives to the wooden furniture on the first floor. Just one coat was enough.

The blue chairs where done with ‘Highlord Blue’, which worked well despite the many flat surfaces on the chairs. I think it did a better job than ‘Ultramarines Blue’ would have done. One thing that did put a spanner in the works is that I was to quick with trying to do some touch ups with the blue paint: apparently the first layer hadn’t dried properly yet and was reactivated by the new layer. This is why the darker chair turned out more blotchy in places – we’ll just pretend it gets too much attention from cats ?.

Here’s a close up of the wooden furniture, plus some street furniture and markers for parcels and packages. Next up is more stuff to put out on the street