I didn’t get my usual comfortable game in this year using Stuart Asquith’s rules and Italeri figures, I instead played a game of Grimdark Future with a mate actually on Christmas Day. His Sisters of Battle fought against my Eldar from Craftworld Ashon-Sen and as seems to be the case with Grimdark we’re always having so much fun we forget to take pictures.
I hadn’t planned on my usual Asquith game this year anyway, instead going for a fantasy game based on James Atherton’s efforts on YouTube. To that end I slap chopped a fantasy Celt army and started work on an Orc army:
I don’t have any pictures of the Orcs yet, I’m still debating whether I should highlight their faces.
If you’re unfamiliar with James’ work I’d highly recommend you check him out. He’s been fighting battle in his a-historical prehistoric country known as Halfland. Where various hominid species such as orcs, goblins, dwarfs, halflings and humans battle it out for supremacy.
Not only do I like his rules I really appreciate his minimalist approach to terrain, it has very old school wargaming vibes.
My hope was to get the next battle of the rulebooks post up and do a comfortable wargaming battle report with those Celts and Orcs in the coming week, but now I’ve been hit by something flu/Covid related I think I’ll focus on resting.
Deathzap 
There is a very annoying strain of RSV (A common cold/flu virus) doing the rounds, together with a Staph A bacterium. It normally lasts about three weeks (this is not a diagnosis or a prediction). I will have a look at James’ work – it looks fun.
Regards, Chris.
Hopefully not three weeks! But then again if it’s going to eat up my Christmas holiday hopefully I’ll get a little extra time off of work too ha ha.
just hope you haven’t painted the orcs green…
Hi Looks like I can’t find slapchop painting on your blog was there a specific post?
Not from me, it’s a technique that’s been big in the Warhammer world of late and their are many tutorials to be found on YouTube, but essentially it’s – paint the entire figure black, drybrush the entire figure white so you have the figure in quite a high contrast monochrome look, then you apply all of your colours using citadel’s contrast paints or army painter’s speed paints.
Thanks for the info.