Hey all!
Just a reminder to check out the XBOX live game that I made a few months back... it is a fun little tower defense game with a few unique strategy twists NO other tower defense game has ever had. We just put out an updated version with some new stuff which makes the game even better!
Anyway... here are just a few comments from peer reviewers...
Reviewer 1: It's a great game (I just played for an hour and a half while "reviewing")...
Reviewer 2: Nice job. I played this quite a bit longer than I intended to.
Reviewer 3: Hard as heck, at times feels impossible, but I can't put the controller down...
Reviewer 4: Fun little zombie game.
Reviewer 5: Pass. Very nice game
Reviewer 6: very enjoyable... nice sounds... no garbage
Reviewer 7: I absolutely love this game.
And just last week, from a Microsoft game developer who spent too much time playing the game...
You owe me some serious dev time. I was avoiding this because I though I was over tower defence games, but I must say this is my new favourite. The humvie needing to reach the towers to upgrade and pick up innocents is a fantastic stratergy bender and a brilliant twist on this stale genre. More that anything I really love the random map mode (the name escapes me), I will be playing the crap out of this for a long time to come. The story mode was brilliantly done and I found myself lamenting the end of it; The voice acting was absolutely stellar and really added to the atmosphere. Good stuff all around.
Then, from a few "real" reviewers...
"Game of the Month" - Brokemycontroller.com
"Some nice releases in this (weeks) round up, in particular Zombie Armageddon which surprised me a lot... a Tower Defence style game with some nice touches. ... this game looks to be really well made, it does feels cinematic in a strange way." - Gamergeddon.com
"I really enjoyed the new strategic possibilities that Zombie Armageddon offered..." -GayGamer.com
It is only a couple of bucks, and is honestly fun... the "sandbox" version, which is basically endless, is a lot of fun to waste time with:) You can check it out here:
Anyway, would love for some of you guys to try it out:)
Done!
Well, I had wanted to paint this figure FOREVER. From Foundry, this fellow had always been one I had been interested in painting. For some reason he had always held my interest... maybe it was a lifelong enjoyment of the Norse myths, the tales of Loki and Thor that I feel have such a meaty love of life and humor. This guy is a clear homage to Odin, what with a raven on his shoulder, and even has an upside-down mjolnir on his belt buckle.
Now, he is a bit too big, probably to go with the rest of my vikings. I did complete working on them, and even did a movement tray for the bezerkers. It has a dead horse on it, the idea of which I like... but I am not sure the execution will be up to par. 
It will take a few bushes scattered among the bases and trays, I think, to really get them looking right. In fact, I will likely put one on the base of the big boss here!
Hey all, 
First off... yikes. The Foundry Viking boss I got is WAYYY too big. Honestly, too big I think to be a realistic leader for this group. What I might do is, intellectually, I might simply call him some sort of demi-god and leave it at that. I planned to base him with the berzerkers, which I guess is fine as they would sort of be inspired by him, or his most faithful warriors... 
I also went ahead and made two scout-like guys. They have no armor or shields... just a helmet, bow and arrows, and a sword. They will actually be put right in the units of eight... two of the units will have a single scout, and one will get a guy with a horn and banner. While one guy came out fine, I am not in love with the other (the guy on the left.) The arm carrying the bow was just a pain to get on facing the correct direction... I may still cut it off and do some major surgery to have the guy carrying the bow at a lower angle. The bodies, btw, are from the unarmored Celts sprue from Fall In 2010... provided both scouts and my berzerkers!
I did make two regular vikings that will go with the second unit of eight... one is armed with a spear, and the other is taking a two-handed swipe with his sword. Both guys turned out fairly good.
I mounted them both standing on rocks and with bare heads so they stand out a bit from the regular troops... it makes them a bit more imposing. One guy is standing rather calmly, with a large axe in his hand. I may add a horn to his belt. The other guy is pointing dramatically with his sword at the next target. Notice the helmet that is strapped to his belt.
Hey all! 
Whelp, the Vikings are done! I am glad to have these guys done... I really enjoyed working on them! The last piece, which was doing the shields, probably took the longest... however, in the end, they were fairly simple. I did do one guy with a stylized dragon icon on his shield, but I am not sure if it turned out great... still, it is fine. 
I also couldn't find any good references on tattoos or warpaint for the bezerkers, so they ended up without. The dip came out a bit thick in one or two spots (on a leg, on a piece of a shirt) but overall I think they look good. Maybe not A+ amazing, but good.
The movement tray worked out perfect; it is a War of the Rings tray I got, in a pack of 3, when my local hobby shop closed down for about 3 bucks. It was a tight fit at first when I had sanded the base, but that worked itself out.
Hey all!
I got the facial hair and the wood done on the weapons, as well as shoes and a few other details (backs of the shields.) All that is left is the white of some teeth, the gold of the belt buckles, the hilts on the swords, highlights on the hair, and then...