Star Wars Imperial Assault Rancor

So here it is, my first completed (not so) miniature of the year. My Star Wars: Imperial Assault - Rancor.

This was really fine to paint and I learnt a few different techniques along the way. I tried my best to follow Sorastro's painting guide found here.

I'm going to use it for custom mission in Star Wars: Legion too. I found a stat card in the Internet to use with it. Please comment who to credit if you know.

Anyway, enjoy the pictures!

Thanks for reading.

Solo Games For Lockdown

Hi all, with the latest announcement of lockdown III here in the UK, I thought I would let you all know my go to solo play games. These games have kept me sane since March 2020 and they should keep me going yet again! I hope...

So here are my favourite solo play games. I have listed them in order of out of the box play-ability. Some games require an APP or to download and print off content, rule and cards etc...

#1 - Core Space: 

Core Space is a science fiction miniatures board game for 1-6 players. Each player takes control of a band of Traders trying to make a living in a dangerous galaxy, all the while hunted by the Purge, a semi-sentient race of humanoid machines whose sole task is to harvest worlds. It can be played competitively or co-operatively, and missions can be linked with a detailed campaign system.

Core Space is amazing, it tick all the solo play requirements and you can get started straight out of the box. If you didn't know better, you would think it was designed for lockdown.

You can purchase this game in the UK from: www.incomgaming.co.uk

Rancor nearly done

I have made a little progress on the Star Wars: Imperial Assault Rancor. I've completed the highlights and given it a varnish to get rid of the shine the washes left.

I have started work on the base, this will look kind of like a swamp when I have finished. I've been following Sorastaros guide for this mini. His work is awesome!

A few things from my huge bits box has come in handy. I think it will be finished by next weekend.

Happy hobby time folks.

It's Rancor Time

I've cleaned my paint station, organised my paints and I have made a start. Todays post sees the first bit of paint on my Star Wars: Imperial Assault Rancor!

I did have a little bit of a rough start. I undercoated it about 8 months ago and when I went to pop some paint on... Disaster! The oils form the plastic had started to come through, so the paint would not take. I quickly (in the dark) 7pm ran out to the garage and gave it another zenith undercoat. And that worked.

I am following Sorastos painting guide for this. I'm easing myself back into painting and wanted to start with something fun. First bit was the mouth and tongue.

I then spent a good amount of time wet blending the base coat. This consisted of several colours with some Vallejo Glaze Medium to slow the drying time.

Now I just need to wait an age for it to dry!

Tomorrow will see some dry brushing and washes. It does not look like much now, but it should start coming together soon.

Please follow and share this blog... There is more to come!

Happy hobby time folks.

Painting Points Are Back

Yep, as the title said, painting points are coming back and so is my regular blogging, or at least that's the plan.

It's been a long time, a looong time since I did regular blogging about my hobby. I left it for a while, I spent years building up a local gaming club Pork Chop Gaming that eventually turned into a hobby store and club Incom Gaming. But my ties are now severed, the kids are growing up and I find that I may have time to start this again.

I changed the domain address to, from Realm Of Warhammer 40k to Bespoke Gamer. This lost a lot of followers and traffic, but I have stopped playing 40k and moved on to other awesome games, so a name change was in order.

Anyway, I am going to try and paint more! I have a LOT of unpainted minis... Hundreds of them, time is creeping on and I really want to be the type of hobbyist that has finished or at least nearly finished stuff. I also recognise that I have a problem, I can't help buying new stuff. So the painting points will help control this.

If you search (on here years ago) you will find I had a painting point system, where by I painted stuff and each model gave me points, those points converted into ££s to buy new stuff! This also motivated me to get things painted.

I've not worked out all the details as I want to change my system so it's achievable. I don't want to burn out or do mass batch painting either. So watch out for the system to follow soon!

I am pretty surch what miniature I will start 2021 with, it should be a nice one to ease me back in, so that will also be announced soon.

Anyway, feel free to follow this blog and share with friends too.

Have a happy hobby time folks!