Flying Saucer

 Picked up this Flying Saucer based on the one in Plan 9 from Outer Space at my favourite Hobby Shop in Ottawa, Hobby House.  I hesitated to buy it at first as there was no scale on the box and I figured it was likely 1/72, but some online research revealed it is 1/48. This means it should fit in with my heroic scale 28/32mm Martians from the Mars Attacks game.

 

Polar Lights Plan 9 Saucer kit 1/48

 

I believe this was originally a Linberg kit and was reissued by various companies including Atlantis and Polar Lights.

 

OMG Christmas Stargrave game December , 2021

 Stargrave Game at OMG December 17, 2021

This was the club's annual 2021 Christmas game with the usual delicious Indian feast. This was my second attempt a Stargrave, a Sci-Fi skirmish game, basically Frostgrave in space!  In this scenario my Santa's Elves fought Jeff's space Orcs on an alien planet. The 3D printed  terrain provided by Jeff.

I will let the pictures tell the story.

Preparations - Cangames was 2020 now 2021 - Let's Get Hitler

 Preparations: "Let's Kill Hitler" Scenario for Doctor Who the Miniatures Game

Update: April 3, 2020

Sadly due to the Covid-19 Virus (Coronavirus) Cangames 2020 has been cancelled and will not be held again until next year in May 2021.  I have been informed the theme of "Portals / Lets Get Hitler" will remain the same for Cangames 2010 so my scenario will also remain the same with a new target date for mid-May 2021.  On the bright side it gives me more time to work on the buildings.

Covid-19 Virus

 

Cangames 2020 - Let's Kill Hitler Game plans: March 16, 2020

My original plan for Cangames 2020 (May 15-17, 2020)  Doctor Who game,was to run a continuation of my game from the 2019 Convention where the Sea Devils captured the Naval base, this year the Human forces would attempt to retake  base from the  Sea Devils.  However my plans have changed, and I will join in with other members of the Ottawa Miniature Gamers Club to run a series of connected games with the themes "Get Hitler" and "Portal". 

The game will be very loosely based / inspired by the Doctor Who episode "Let's Kill Hitler" featuring the 11th Doctor, Amie, Rory, River Song  and Hitler.

Publicity shot for Doctor Who: Let's Kill Hitler

Godzilla

Godzilla circa 2004 by Playmates

While shopping at Walmart on February 25, 2020 to find some wire / cable clips for the LED lighting in the cabinet I am working on I came across this model of Godzilla from the 2004 movie.  It is large at 11" high.

Godzilla

Mars Attacks

Inspired by a friend's idea last December that Martian's might make a good "enemy" in my Christmas game versus Santa's forces I took a look on line to see what was available online. It would be too late for Christmas 2019 but it was worth looking into for Christmas 2020 or other games. As a result I  bought some Mars Attacks figures I found online, I now have 18 Martian figures (10 grunts, 5 Marines, and 3 Martian characters).  I enjoyed the movie and the figures look well detailed and accurate.  Even thought the Martian figures are made of box game type soft plastic I think they will paint up well based on pictures and videos I have seen on line.  They should make for a fun game versus opponents such as my: Copplestone Men in Black, modern U.S. Marines, modern British Marines or even UNIT troops.  Not sure why Mantic stopped producing the Mars Attacks game or if I will use their rules (which I found as a PDF online) or some other rules like: Pulp Alley, Gaslight, Future Wars, INEPTT or DWMG.

My collection so far.

Doctor Who: Battlefield - Cangames 2013

Catching up on some AAR of games prior to my creating this Blog.  Back in May 2013 I ran my annual  Doctor Who game using the Doctor Who Miniature Games (DWMG) rules at the Cangames 2013 convention in May of that year. This game featured  the 7th Doctor  (Sylvester McCoy), Ace (Sophie Alfred)  plus Morgaine (Jean Marsh) and her dimension shifting Knights that was based on the TV episode and book "Battlefield." A summary of the TV episode with pictures can be found here:

 https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Battlefield_(TV_story)

                  Above: Morgaine's knights, figures by Alternative Armies: Iron Age Retained Knights