Alrighty one and all, I am writing today because with all of the paperwork done and materials ordered I am now able to officially say I am the proud owner and founder of Battleroad Games and Hobbies LLC. Recently as most of you know I was laid off from my job working for the Dept. of the Army. Well I was recently hired and have a new IT job as well as founded this soon to be online gaming supply store. We will pride our business on excellent customer service and fast shipping.
Everything will be below MSRP and I am proud to say we will be one of a select few for distributors of new companies comming out of Europe. Be sure to stay abreast of Battleroad Games and Hobbies as we will be launching our own product lines as well for miniature soldiers(historical) and should be fully operational by mid October if all goes semi well(sooner if flawless but I'm a realist). Thank you again and I look forward to putting out more great news such as this.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
A Day to Remember.
I remember growing up and finding a extremely old paper in my grandparents basement. My Grandmother had said that it was the paper from the day of what once was the greatest disaster in American History. That was until September 11th 2001. She had always said she remembers exactly where she was and what she was doing when she found out that the Japaniese had attacked Pearl Harbor and would never forget it. To this day she hasn't and she is pushing 89.
I was in basic training never expecting that I would be drawn into a war were I would actually use what I was learning. I remember one of the other trainies lucky and him in tears as his father worked at the world trade center. Luckily enough his dad was on a business trip that day but it took him over 3 days to find that out.
Days such as these will go down in the annals of our history and it is said because it is not for some great invention or some beautiful peace of art, it is for death. I was an Infantry soldier and I have seen war. I saw the true ugly side of human nature and I lost friends because of it. I choose this day to remember them and those who passed. I remember those people and pray for them that were on the airplanes that crashed into New York, Washington D.C, and of coarse in a field in Penn. I ask that all of you take a moment to remember them and their sacrifices.
I have been called a hero and even nominated for medals for my actions, but I am no hero. To me those that died truely are, and with that I ask please do not take this day as a holiday, or a day to burn other religions words of god. Take it as a solom day to remember 5000+ heros. Thank you and god bless.
-alex
I was in basic training never expecting that I would be drawn into a war were I would actually use what I was learning. I remember one of the other trainies lucky and him in tears as his father worked at the world trade center. Luckily enough his dad was on a business trip that day but it took him over 3 days to find that out.
Days such as these will go down in the annals of our history and it is said because it is not for some great invention or some beautiful peace of art, it is for death. I was an Infantry soldier and I have seen war. I saw the true ugly side of human nature and I lost friends because of it. I choose this day to remember them and those who passed. I remember those people and pray for them that were on the airplanes that crashed into New York, Washington D.C, and of coarse in a field in Penn. I ask that all of you take a moment to remember them and their sacrifices.
I have been called a hero and even nominated for medals for my actions, but I am no hero. To me those that died truely are, and with that I ask please do not take this day as a holiday, or a day to burn other religions words of god. Take it as a solom day to remember 5000+ heros. Thank you and god bless.
-alex
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Pre-Heresy and Romans.. oh My!!!
Well I have been rather busy since Games Day. I have started on Studio Mcveys Isable and trust me have found his work to be truely a challenge(but fun). She is not even ten percent into completion but hopefully when she is done I will have picked up a few new things for my painting.
Onto the Title of this weeks blog. First off I would like to start with a quick WIP shot of my Warlord Games Roman army. Now this is just one model I am photographing but I love the models all the same so I grabbed one at random. Now this is not even 50% done, but it is a fast paint either or. I am basing the colors around the Brutii Family for this cohort and will do two cohorts of 18 models each to a legion. Now I only use the veteran models as they have the ture feel of a roman army on campaign for me, and thats what I am shooting for. With that Igive you the glimpse of the model in question C&C welcome no matter good or bad.
Now for those of you who don't know I am a HUGE emporers children fan, and with the Horus Heresy novels out I had to have an army of Pre-Heresy Marines. Now in late of 2009 I contracted friend and model master Dave taylor to build me this wonderful army and believe me he certainly deliverd. Though not cheap the army was well worth it and I will most certainly cherish it for years to come. Now I am slowly painting these as I am in no hurry and am having fun. A few minutes here and a few there equal a squad over a week or two. Now be mindfull these are table top but they most certainly took some time to paint and I am rather pleased with the turnout. Anyways onto the pics.
Well thats all for now and with that I wish you all Happy paintings.
P.S: All commissions are now finished and I am open to recieving New ones as of tonight. Email with your intrests at alexanderakers at yahoo dot come.
Onto the Title of this weeks blog. First off I would like to start with a quick WIP shot of my Warlord Games Roman army. Now this is just one model I am photographing but I love the models all the same so I grabbed one at random. Now this is not even 50% done, but it is a fast paint either or. I am basing the colors around the Brutii Family for this cohort and will do two cohorts of 18 models each to a legion. Now I only use the veteran models as they have the ture feel of a roman army on campaign for me, and thats what I am shooting for. With that Igive you the glimpse of the model in question C&C welcome no matter good or bad.
Now for those of you who don't know I am a HUGE emporers children fan, and with the Horus Heresy novels out I had to have an army of Pre-Heresy Marines. Now in late of 2009 I contracted friend and model master Dave taylor to build me this wonderful army and believe me he certainly deliverd. Though not cheap the army was well worth it and I will most certainly cherish it for years to come. Now I am slowly painting these as I am in no hurry and am having fun. A few minutes here and a few there equal a squad over a week or two. Now be mindfull these are table top but they most certainly took some time to paint and I am rather pleased with the turnout. Anyways onto the pics.
Well thats all for now and with that I wish you all Happy paintings.
P.S: All commissions are now finished and I am open to recieving New ones as of tonight. Email with your intrests at alexanderakers at yahoo dot come.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Pro Painted vs Seriously?
Ok so I figured I would talk about something that has been on my mind lately. As usual I have been looking through forums and ebay and all sorts of places at minis as well, that's my hobby! I have come to the point were I really begin to wonder what the hell people are thinking when they post a "Pro Painted" model and charge an arm and a leg for it.
Now to many a true "pro" is a painting master or someone who has won demons, and other painting trophies of note, but for some reason people who have no actual talent claim to be pro's. Now I know a dictionary discribes professional as someone who makes a living off something, and yes their may be some "professional"painters out there that are actually good, but many don't seem to know a brush from a stick, and charge more when they obviously have no actual control in their paiting. I for one do not sugar coat things for people especially on forums. If I think your painting sucks I will tell you why and make suggestions on possible ways to improve. Now to my inspirations I am no where near their calibar, but I hope one day to be. Anyways I leave you with these pics as some of you have requested them. Some are of my Ogres that won me a my first demon some are the phoenix guard that dave taylor built for me. Keep painting people and let me know what you think of what I have posted as I love you critiques good or bad!
A pic of my favorite one of the lot. I threw out the display at games day as I thought it sucked :).
Group shot!
Side shot of the favorite!
I took a better pic of the Sorcerer as asked.
One day the primarch will join his retinue... not sure when. Missing is the banner carrier as he is not finished. These are of coarse table top quality.
Finally a single shot of fulgrims Elite.
Well that's it for this post people, thanks for checking out the blog and I promise next week to have some cool pieces up for you. I just finished building(and fixing) isable from Mcvey studios!
Now to many a true "pro" is a painting master or someone who has won demons, and other painting trophies of note, but for some reason people who have no actual talent claim to be pro's. Now I know a dictionary discribes professional as someone who makes a living off something, and yes their may be some "professional"painters out there that are actually good, but many don't seem to know a brush from a stick, and charge more when they obviously have no actual control in their paiting. I for one do not sugar coat things for people especially on forums. If I think your painting sucks I will tell you why and make suggestions on possible ways to improve. Now to my inspirations I am no where near their calibar, but I hope one day to be. Anyways I leave you with these pics as some of you have requested them. Some are of my Ogres that won me a my first demon some are the phoenix guard that dave taylor built for me. Keep painting people and let me know what you think of what I have posted as I love you critiques good or bad!
A pic of my favorite one of the lot. I threw out the display at games day as I thought it sucked :).
Group shot!
Side shot of the favorite!
I took a better pic of the Sorcerer as asked.
One day the primarch will join his retinue... not sure when. Missing is the banner carrier as he is not finished. These are of coarse table top quality.
Finally a single shot of fulgrims Elite.
Well that's it for this post people, thanks for checking out the blog and I promise next week to have some cool pieces up for you. I just finished building(and fixing) isable from Mcvey studios!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Games Day Baltimore '10 and a bronze win!
Well I want to start off saying sorry for the lack of posts as well I have been utterly busy painting for games day, and all the hard work paid off. With my first demon EVER!!!! I took bronze in the warhammer fantasy reg't category with my Iron Gut Ogres. Now I love ogres no real idea why but I had a ton of fun doing these models. For those of you wanting to see them here is a link to the stuff of legends site.
http://www.sodemons.com/gd210us/06-whregiment/index.htm
I will get some pics this week of my guys with the demon, but as we know.. my pics suck. Until then I wish you all a found adu and grats to all of the other participants in demon and my gamming mates from "The Knights of the Basement", and fellow Darkwald members for being there. They really made this year the best games day I have ever been too and I am rather excited now for next years.
http://www.sodemons.com/gd210us/06-whregiment/index.htm
I will get some pics this week of my guys with the demon, but as we know.. my pics suck. Until then I wish you all a found adu and grats to all of the other participants in demon and my gamming mates from "The Knights of the Basement", and fellow Darkwald members for being there. They really made this year the best games day I have ever been too and I am rather excited now for next years.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Finally a real Update!!!
Alrighty well it has been a crazy few weeks to say the least. Lost the job, my car decided to die on me.. and tons of other stuff but thats ok because when it rains it poors, but after the rain is a beautifull day. Now with all of that said I have been extremely busy as of late. I have been working on a south african boer war commission(pics later this week) as well as my fantasy army and 40k pre-heresy army (built by davetaylor. To say the least add in my romans have arrived from warlord, and I have a brigade(over 200) of seven years war hannoverians to do soon so busy bench... But without further adu here are some pics. Please remember I suck at photography but I hope to improve so any tips welcome on it.
First off is my space marine pre-heresy librarian. Now I run my pre-emp children as slaanesh chaos space marines(as any devot follower would) so he is actually a sorcerer( killed vulkan he'stan without even batting an eyelash).
Now this fella was a blast to paint. He is of course my Slaanesh lord on steed for my WHFB army. I did not like the eyes or the fins but overall it was fun and he is much better in person then on camera.
Now these guys aren't adeptus custodes(someday I hope though), they are fulgrims finest and personal body... thats right the pheonix gaurds themselves take to the field for me. I run them as chosen. Still very WIP but hey why not.
Finally I leave you all with pics of my re-organized my paint desk and cleared out my old paints that had dried out(over 50), as well as since some people were emailing me and a few wondered what I look like heres a pic of yours truely in front of a mobile satellite terminal I work with. So with that I say to you all keep painting, and a fast shout out to Chris Borer who just launched his own personal website http://www.fullborerminiatures.com/ . Let me say his work is amazing and for those of you who don't know who he is CRAWL OUT OF THE ROCK YOU ARE UNDER!!!
First off is my space marine pre-heresy librarian. Now I run my pre-emp children as slaanesh chaos space marines(as any devot follower would) so he is actually a sorcerer( killed vulkan he'stan without even batting an eyelash).
Now this fella was a blast to paint. He is of course my Slaanesh lord on steed for my WHFB army. I did not like the eyes or the fins but overall it was fun and he is much better in person then on camera.
Now these guys aren't adeptus custodes(someday I hope though), they are fulgrims finest and personal body... thats right the pheonix gaurds themselves take to the field for me. I run them as chosen. Still very WIP but hey why not.
Finally I leave you all with pics of my re-organized my paint desk and cleared out my old paints that had dried out(over 50), as well as since some people were emailing me and a few wondered what I look like heres a pic of yours truely in front of a mobile satellite terminal I work with. So with that I say to you all keep painting, and a fast shout out to Chris Borer who just launched his own personal website http://www.fullborerminiatures.com/ . Let me say his work is amazing and for those of you who don't know who he is CRAWL OUT OF THE ROCK YOU ARE UNDER!!!
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Greetings
Greetings one and all I am dropping this post so you all know I am alive and kicking. This past week since getting back from annual trainging has bee a tough one. Due to budget cuts in the Gov't I have been laid off. As such I was not willing to rish starting my own company at this time as I needed to make sure that money went to keeping my family afloat for the next few months. So with that said I am now accepting even MORE commissions. Here are my baseline prices people their is no negoitiation on these so please don't attempt to stiff me.
regular 25/28mm model $10.00(2 coats of paint)$15.00(3 layers very smooth) and show quality ranges from $20.00-$300(depending on what you are looking for).
Horse models add $2.50 to each price.
Vehicles for 28mm and such start at $20.00(plus $5.00 if I have to build it) $40.00(some freehand in use), and anywhere from $60.00-$300.00.
15mm is $2.50 flat rate for troops cavalry what have you with $10.00 per vehicle.
I also charge $1.50 per base if you want me to base your models. REpeat customers get discounts(since well they are repeats). If you are interested or know anyone who is please email me at alexanderakers at yahoo dot com.
regular 25/28mm model $10.00(2 coats of paint)$15.00(3 layers very smooth) and show quality ranges from $20.00-$300(depending on what you are looking for).
Horse models add $2.50 to each price.
Vehicles for 28mm and such start at $20.00(plus $5.00 if I have to build it) $40.00(some freehand in use), and anywhere from $60.00-$300.00.
15mm is $2.50 flat rate for troops cavalry what have you with $10.00 per vehicle.
I also charge $1.50 per base if you want me to base your models. REpeat customers get discounts(since well they are repeats). If you are interested or know anyone who is please email me at alexanderakers at yahoo dot com.
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