Painted Storm Strider

I've painted this model for a friend. He has some issues getting the model and I felt I've owed him for a lot of what he's done for the last few years. I've painted it up for his scheme and now it is ready to be given to him.

I've left the base alone as he'll be buying a DragonForge base for it. The blue wasn't highlighted as I don't really know what color to highlight it and I want to give him the option to make it match his army more.

Animantarax Preview

Privateer Press has given us the final battle engine from Domination, the Skorne Animantarax. This thing fills the base. It is really wide and looks to be pretty tall. They did a really decent job on the armor of the monster. The details on the model are really neat but I don't think it looks all that agile of a monster to swing that tail around fast.

I just wish the rules were a little better for it so that it didn't feel so unfocused.

Painted Celestial Fulcrum - Finished

I spent Sunday night finishing off the Celestial Fulcrum. I'm very, very happy with how it turned out. The model is so detailed and just looks amazing. It is really a centerpiece for my army. I can't wait to get to play it on the table! Right now, I'm preventing myself from playing Baldur the Stonesoul's Theme Force until I finish all the models for it. All that's left is the Lord of the Feast, a unit of Druids of Orboros with Overseer, and two Gallows Grove solos. I'm very happy with how the army looks together. A very neat looking Stick and Stone force.

There isn't a good way to take pictures of this model, but here's my best attempts!

Painted Celestial Fulcrum 2 - WIP - Now with more moons

After LGS night last night, I decided I could spend some time getting the moons in shape to be glued onto the Fulcrum. Mind you, I still have plenty of detail work to do on the model. This model is really shaping up to be something special for me and I'm happy to have been working on it.

Painted Celestial Fulcrum - WIP 1

So I've been painting my Celestial Fulcrum since Sunday, trying as best I can to get it done. I've decided to build it in parts as they'll be the easiest to paint. I put together the base, the druid holders, and the holder for the orb itself and orb. I then painted this part. It took a long time due to the amount of detail as well as the size. I realized afterwards that doing it this way was a bad decision as I had a lot of difficulties painting the bottom part of the orb due to angles of the brush to the orb. If I was going to do it again, the orb would be a separate piece. After finishing those parts, I worked on the remaining two pieces of the main orb as well as the three smaller orbs. The three small orbs didn't get done in time for the pictures.

Painted Wraith Engine - Final

Well, I finished my Wraith Engine. It needed to be done by Saturday, but I managed to knock it out in one night. All I really did was add a fence and a dead Menite to the base, to make it more interesting than just a blank base.

Painted Wraith Engine - WIP 3

After this, the Wraith Engine will be finished. I got the cloth painted and drybrushed and all the metal washed. Now all I need to do is to do the base. I'm adding a fence and a dead Menite to the base, along with flock and ballast. I think it'll look alright.

Painted Wraith Engine - WIP 2

Here's more of my progress on my Wraith Engine. I need to finish the bone, the cloth, and then base the big guy for a painting competition this weekend. I like him and it is a very interesting piece to paint.

Painted Wraith Engine - WIP 1

Here's the beginning of my Wraith Engine. So far Bane Base and Bane Highlight for the armor plates, Pig Iron for the hoses. It went surprisingly fast for those parts, but I still have a ways to go!

Project: Weird Science

My friend Michael and I came up with a crazy idea: field an army of all Stormsmith type models. This was prompted by my purchase of two Storm Striders, Privateer Press' newest battle engine. They are wicked cool, and I can't wait to field both in the army.

The first iteration of the idea wasn't strictly Stormsmiths, I had the following list. It was just a generic attempt to utilize the Storm Striders in a pair, at 35 points.

• General Adept Nemo
• Firefly
• Stormclad
• Squire
• Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team
• Storm Strider
• Storm Strider
• Stormsmith Stormcaller
• Stormsmith Stormcaller

Michael suggested then to drop the Black 13th for more Stormsmith stuff, so we generated the following 35 point list that is the idea of the Project.

• General Adept Nemo
• Firefly
• Stormclad
• Squire
• Storm Strider
• Storm Strider
• Stormsmith Storm Tower
• Stormsmith Storm Tower
• Stormsmith Stormcaller
• Stormsmith Stormcaller

Now that list has more delicious electric goodness! It also looks like a blast to play!
I then wanted to make it 50 points just in case someone decided to challenge me to that type of game at the store.

• General Adept Nemo
• Firefly
• Stormclad
• Thunderhead
• Squire
• Captain Arlan Strangewayes
• Storm Strider
• Storm Strider
• Stormsmith Storm Tower
• Stormsmith Storm Tower
• Stormsmith Stormcaller
• Stormsmith Stormcaller
• Stormsmith Stormcaller

Sure, the list has some terrible matchups (an all electric immune army, which would be similar to this one, would be sucky to play against). It just looks like a ton of fun to shoot that much lightning around!

Here's a picture of the list in progress. I own everything, just didn't have it all with me when the photo was taken. The second Storm Strider is still in progress of assembly.