Painted Ironback Spitter - WIP

Here's some pictures of the model I'm working on now. It is the Ironback Spitter. I didn't realize before I started painting this how many scales this monster had and it is draining me painting them all. Hopefully I'll finish him up tomorrow.

Who's The Boss December 2011

This last weekend I played at the Who's the Boss event at Misty Mountain Games in Madison, WI. The concept of the event was that you make a 50 + 5 warjack/warbeast point list with a minimum 10 points in your battlegroup with no warcaster/warlock. Before each round, you spun the wheel to determine which warcaster/warlock was your leader. You couldn't get your own faction's warcasters/warlocks. It was amusing with some of the combinations (Trollbloods with Stryker1 for example really were INVINCIBLE!).

Painted Barnabas

Here's my painted Barnabas. As I'm working on Gatormen for the Journeyman League, I figured I should paint the star of the battlebox. He's got three hours of work and is currently dipped. Final pictures soon.

Goals for 2012

Instead of painting aimlessly in 2012, I've decided to try to come up with some goals for next year.

• Paint 75 models next year, from any faction (1.4 models a week)
• I finished 53 models this year to date, this should be doable
• Finish at least 1 unit I have half done (off the top of my head, I have a 11-woman Satyxis Raider unit or a 12-man Exemplar Errant unit to finish)
• Blog 12 battle reports
• Finish two Theme Forces at 50 points, Tier 4
• Extra Credit for finishing a Theme Force that has no painted models currently
• In the competitive environment, only play painted models
• Leagues and trying stuff out is ok to be unpainted
• If I play a model for more than 6-10 games, it goes on the painting list
• Paint at least 5 warcasters/warlocks
• Build a city Unbound table for Adepticon in April 
• Paint Ogre Army for Fantasy that I purchased this year
• At least finish Ironguts and Ogre units

I know this is a little early, but it is better to have goals before the end of the year.

Any suggestions on any other cool goals?

Painted Gatormen Posse

I finally got around to finishing up my Gatormen Posse unit. They aren't that hard to paint, and I think they turned out really well. I went with the Strong Tone dip from Army Painter and it worked wonders on the crevasses on the models.

As it worked out well on these models, I'm going to try to crank out a few more of the models before league ends.

Journeyman League - Week 1

The Journeyman League started at Hobbytown USA. We have 10 players so far and a bunch of new faces. I'm very excited for this slow grow league and having the new players play more.

In picking a faction, I looked at a few things. I wanted something I didn't already know well. I also wanted something I could paint relatively easily. I also needed to have a relatively fleshed out collection of the models or know that I'd be able to purchase more if needed. After spending some time looking at my collection, it came down to Minions, Farrow vs. Gators. The Minion faction is splintered in the Journeyman League by making you stay within a contract for the entire league, which I'm honestly happy about. In the end, it came down to the number of models to paint and the Blindwater Congregation had less. I'm hoping to get a majority of my 50 models done within the subfaction.

Domination Event Terrain

I'm running a Domination Event this Saturday at Hobbytown USA in New Berlin, Wisconsin. For that, we needed to make two 6" x 15" mountains and 6 50mm diameter boulders per table. I've limited the event to 6 tables because I don't have enough insulation foam to make more mountains or boulders (plus my hands hurt from cutting it all).

Here's some WIP pictures of the mountains, being painted by my FLGS owner because he likes to work on terrain.

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!

Painted Erebus

I finished Erebus up today. After I did that, I spent some time gathering supplies for a DIY light box, which I'm happy to say is setup and providing me much better photos that previously. Here's the model.

Painted Erebus - WIP

Here my current work on Erebus. I'm quite happy with how the armor came out. It is Bane Base with a drybrush of Bane Highlight over it. My FLGS owner likes it so much he's got me mostly convinced I need to do it on all of my warjacks. I'm mostly inclined to believe him on it so my next Defiler/Ripjaw will feature that colored armor rather than black.

Upcoming Events

On October 29th, I'm running a 50 Point Coin Event at Hobbytown USA, in New Berlin, WI. This event will feature coins for each faction from the Wrath and Domination kits if we get over 9 players.
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On November 12th, I'm running a 50 Point Domination Event at Hobbytown USA as well. This should be a blast as the book will be out on 11/9 hopefully! I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of Hordes models on the table!
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Painted Lord Exhumator Scaverous

I've been working on Lord Exhumator Scaverous for about two weeks now, in an attempt to get him finished for Lost Hemisphere's Paint the Target for September. I failed to finish it then because he has a crazy amount of detail.
Today, the bug bit me to be painting while I watched football, baseball, and then more football. So here he is.

Unbound Game 2

I got together with three friends (Konkel, Dave, and Danny) to play a big Unbound game. It would be my second game and everyone else's first. We decided that we'd determine the scenario and teams randomly before the game (this won't happen again). We ended up with Protectorate of Menoth (Dave) and Circle Orboros (Danny) against Konkel (Khador) and myself (Cygnar this time around). Talk about teams that hate their teammates!

We ended up playing the Scorched Earth scenario. Konkel and I were the defenders, Dave and Danny the attackers. In hindsight, I'm always choosing to be the attackers going forward as Konkel and I had the choice.

The game ended on turn 3 with Danny and Dave destroying three buildings to achieve victory. Konkel and I just didn't have the speed to cope with their lists. Well, this lesson with just remind me to play Cryx and play fast stuff.

Each player brought 100 points to the table. List and photos of the start and end of the game after the break.

Painted Slayer

So I've finished another model, this time a Slayer Helljack. This completes my latest Theme Force, Master Necrotech Mortenebra's Infernal Machines. I still need to base the model, but I'm hoping to win some Dragonforge bases to do it with. This model was pretty simple to paint as it is the basic helljack of the Cryx forces.

Painted Harrower

As we last saw here, my Harrower was about 2/3rds of the way done. Tonight, I managed to get the painting bug (and infect a few of my friends with it) and got the bad boy done. Hell yeah! About time too because I need to get a Theme Force done for Lost Hemisphere for the Vox Populi Clash painting. I'm currently working on my Mortenebra Theme Force as it is one of my favorites. Without further ado, the finished Harrower (except basing).

August 27th Wrath Event in Chicago

August 27th (when I should have posted this) I attended a tournament run by my good friend Felix in Chicago (pokeminiatures). I ended up taking first and winning both the Champion Coin and the Cryx Coin.

For some coverage of my games, here are some relevant links hosted by my friends:
http://losthemisphere.com/blog/?p=15934
http://pokeminiatures.blogspot.com/2011/08/wrath-release-event-thyra-vs-everyone.html
http://pokeminiatures.blogspot.com/2011/08/wrath-release-event-winnas.html

I got to play my good friend Mike (PG_Seraphsong) and ended up losing a really close game. My Cryx will avenge me next time against him. ;)

Here are some of the pictures I took.

Terrain Work - Trenches, Part 6 - Command Trench Finished

Jeff at Hobbytown USA helped me finish my trench after I finished building it. Here it is in all its glory. I can't wait to play games on it tomorrow at the Wrath event in Chicago. I get to visit my friends in Chicago and get to play my first game ever against Seraphsong! This will be a great time.

Terrain Work - Trenches, Part 5

Continuing along with my Command Trench from Part 4, I've added Sculptamold to the sides. It was interesting to work with it for the first time on a terrain project, but I'm going to be using it for anything that needs dirt on it because it does so well with adding depth with no real work. After that, I put more ballast on the sides. I need to clean it up a bit and glue more ballast down, but I think I'm at a good spot at the moment. I have to figure out what I want to do for painting next

Terrain Work - Trenches, Part 4

I'm working on new trenches for the Wrath event and the Unbound scenario that requires them. The first one I'm working on is a 5"x8" trench with two open sides. I've also made a 5"x8" trench that was fully surrounded, but I haven't planked that one yet.

Battle Report: Cryx vs Skorne

I ended up playing Warwitch Deneghra vs Void Seer Mordikaar at 50 points last night. The main consensus I can get from the game is that my opponent can't roll dice and that Warwitch Deneghra's feat is just cruel when it hits the entire army. I ended up getting Nightmare on Mordikaar under Mordikaar's feat turn, still did some damage, but couldn't kill him. Deneghra's feat prevented any retaliation from anything in his army. He placed his warbeasts too far apart and on the flanks while my army just moved in on the weak side of his army. Gorman di Wulfe died to protect Nightmare from a possible charge from a Bronzeback. I'm not sure if the Bronzeback could have still made it with Beat-Back and Rush (not in that order). We played Revelation and my army pretty much swarmed Flag #1 to keep my opponent from scoring. I ended up winning because I scored one point and had a free turn of attacking Mordikaar with Nightmare with Mordikaar not having any fury.

Painted Warwitch Siren

This is my third painted Warwitch Siren. I own three specifically for Unbound games and Warwitch Deneghra's Theme Force Witching Hour. That army requires 3 for the list I made, so I wanted to make sure I had them. By finishing this model, I finished the Theme Force (which will be another post later this week).

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.