Safe Priming

The cold weather is here and priming outside is no longer an option.  What you need is a warehouse and a tarp.

Battle Mechanik Officer

Finally finished this guy up, so, for your viewing enjoyment, the Khadoran Battle Mechanik UA!

Painted Algorithmic Dispersion Optifex #2

The second of my two Algorithmic Dispersion Optifex are done. Both arc nodes are ready for battle. I'm kind of excited to use them because I've found I really want an arc node with Syntherion. Magnetic Hold is too good not to cast.

Painted Algorithmic Dispersion Optifex

This guy has a super long name. I normally call him the ADO cause Algorithmic Dispersion Optifex is a ton to say at once. Simple to paint after the Optifex Directive. I utilized a very similar color scheme between them.

This is also one of the few (if only) times I've painted and based a model in the same night. Turning a new leaf, one night at a time.

A Night of Basing

I based my Servitors and Optifex Directive. I needed to get them completely finished. Here they are.

Painted Clockwork Angels

I'm very happy with how these three models turned out. They look so good in person (to my eye) that I know my photos will be garbage comparatively. Only 12 more to do. :P

Basing comes later this week.

Painted Steelsoul Keg Protector

This is one of the models I was most excited to paint for Convergence. The staff painters did an amazing job painted her, the sculptors did a fantastic job making her. She's a great looking model on the table. It is a shame I didn't work to get 2. She's been needed on the tabletop, so I'm excited to get her based and finished for the table.

Painted Inverter

Finishing off the last of the three original heavy Vectors, I have the Inverter done. I'm still not really sure how to use him, but I'm hoping to figure him out soon.

Painted Aurora

I finished Aurora for the same event that I finished Axis with. I'm really happy with how her wings turned out. As the only model with flesh in the faction, I'm glad she's done and out of the way.

Painted Axis

Here's my finished Axis before I received his replacement hammer to finish him. I'm happy with how he turned out with all that detail.

Painted Prime Axiom

He took me a couple of days, but I'm really, really, really happy I finished him. He looks amazing and will definitely be the center piece of my army. I hope to get a bunch of games with him soon.

Prepping For An Event

A local of mine recently asked about prepping for a tournament in a few weeks. He’s a veteran of the 40k tourney scene, but doesn’t have a baseline for Steamroller and Privateer-type events. After spending a little time talking about it with him, I figured the topic would make some decent posts and a few of my other friends also had interest in what I wrote, so here we are.

Painted Monitor

Well, prepping for a tournament really causes you to crank out models. I have 3 left to finish in a week: Aurora, Axis, and an Inverter. I think I can do it, otherwise Legion comes to the event. I'm hoping for Convergence.

Painted Light Vectors

I finished all three light Vectors within hours of each other, so you get all three at once. They are the Mitigator, Galvanizer, and Diffuser. I need these for the tournaments coming up as all three lights provide a lot of benefits to the armies.

Enjoy!

Painted Forge Master Syntherion

Took about 1.5 hours to full paint up. He's on of my favorites in Convergence, so I'm glad he's done. Gotta get the rest of the battlebox done though.

Painted Cipher

This is my first Vector painted. I painted him completely while chatting with my good friends Plumplum and Gdaybloke. I'm happy with him. Gotta continue painting these guys before the new models come out. :)

Painted Convergence Servitors

So, I haven't posted in what feels like forever... A few months of a break to refresh myself, and I'm back with a vengeance. I picked up a lot of Convergence of Cyriss at Gencon 2013. I mean a lot. I still have 40+ models to assemble for them.

The first things I painted up with my 30 servitors. I have 9 Attunement, 9 Reflex, 6 Accretion, and 6 Eliminators.

Painted Exemplar Errants

The beginning of 25 Exemplar Errants have been finished. I finally finished the minimum squad I've been working on for a very, very long time. It has taken near a month to paint 5 grunts for this unit, but they are finally done.

Stay on Target...

Painted Iron Fang Kovnik

Finally got my Iron Fang Kovnik painted up for the Journeyman League that is being run at our shop right now.

Painted Paladin of the Order of the Wall Alternate

My son's nap time was really productive. I managed to crank out the alternate version of the Paladin of the Wall for Harbinger's theme force. With them finished and Vilmon done, I have all the Paladins I'll need to make a wall my opponents will hate.

Painted Paladin of the Order of the Wall

The original Paladin of the Order of the Wall is one of my favorite Prime models. Badass and stoic, this model bleeds the feeling of the Order. I painted this model as a slight diversion from the list of Protectorate models I want to paint and play. Fun solo and pretty easy to paint.

Painted Guardian

Finishing Feora's battlebox, the Guardian is done. It also fits in two theme forces, for Kreoss1 and Reznik1. He's helped my battlegroup out a lot with the Critical Pitch and Arc Node. I just wish he was a little faster, but I'm ok with his abilities.

Painted Dervish

I decided to get the small warjack out of the way first. Next up is the Guardian.

I'm excited to play the Dervish, getting him up to two MAT 8 POW 17 attacks with Side Step or Combo Strike for POW 21. He'll be much better with Ignite and the Choir's Battle Hymn. Very excited for games tomorrow.

My Grand Ambitions

Aaaaaahhhh... the Internet: where hopefully my motivation will live on forever. Here is just a sampling of what I aspire to accomplish in the next month.

The Great Work laid out.

Painted Feora Priestess of the Flame

Feora, Priestess of the Flame is my current warlock using the alternate battlebox for a Journeyman league. She's an interesting warcaster to play. Not falling into the Engine of Destruction/Ignite combo is a bit difficult, but it'll get easier at higher point values.

Painted Nicia

Another day, another solo. :) Nicia is done for my Journeyman league I'm playing in. She'll get added much later, but I figured I should finish her early.

Painted Rhupert Carvolo

Playing a bit of Protectorate lately and I needed to provide more Tough models. The easiest way to do that was to paint Rhupert Carvolo, the Piper of Menoth, wait...Ord. :)

Painting Incubus

I finished the first three Incubi for my Legion. I now have enough painted Incubi  for my Afflictor to run around. Finishing these 3 also put me at 20% fully painted for my entire collection! It is a pretty awesome achievement.

Painted Nephilim Bolt Thrower

This model finishes off the base models for Saeryn's 50 point Theme Force. Booya! I now have all the Nephilim I own painted until the Bloodseer comes out (which I'm super excited for). I really hope the next warlock for Legion does something to bump them up or we get a Molik Karn of Nephilim as a character warbeast. Would be pretty awesome.

Painted Nephilim Protector

Working on Saeryn's Theme Force meant this guy had to get painted. He performed really well the last game I played with him. Against a non-Purification warcaster/warlock, he'll really shine with Safeguard. Really like that animus.

Painted Blighted Nyss Sorceress & Hellion

Finished the first of two Blighted Nyss Sorceress & Hellions. She did so well in my game with her on Tuesday that I figured she should get finished. That way she can rock out harder. A really good model with some nice rules in game.

Painted Warmongers

I finished the Warmongers I started many, many years ago. I want to get some theme forces done, specifically Thagrosh1's and Rhyas' second theme force. Warmongers are also my test scheme for my Warspears, which will be on the painting list soon.

These models also put more over 19% painted. That's currently 438 models. Ugh, that's a lot. I still have a lot to go, but my progress this year has been very awesome. I'm currently 51 models into my 120 model goal for the year. I think Vayl's theme forces will push me over the halfway mark, hopefully before the halfway mark of the year. I'm also 22 models away from having a fifth of my models painted. Gencon is coming up, which is pretty much guaranteed to screw the percentage up.

The Light Box

Well, I finally have a light box and some idea of how to use it. I used my wife's Nikon D40 camera, a tripod and a bunch of lights. You can see my ghetto set-up in the pictures below.  It took me all of a half hour to build, basically just a bunch of wood bracketed together.

Painted Nephilim Soldiers

My two Nephilim Soldiers have been a little more than half painted since December 2010. I decided to finally finish them off tonight. Saeryn's theme force demands it!
They looked like this back in the day: http://pokeminiatures.blogspot.com/2010/12/theme-forces-at-black-sun-games-big.html

Now they look like the following photos.

Painted Thagrosh the Messiah

I finally finished all the currently released Legion of Everblight warlocks with Thagrosh the Messiah. He's a pretty beefy monster in game and I look forward to killing a lot of things with him and his beasts. Manifest Destiny is amazing inside Legion.

Armored Sentinel

Painted Afflictor and Naga Nightlurker

Finished the two light warbeasts I plan on running for Legion. The Nightlurker has a special place in my heart because of Shadow Bind and is a pretty kickass ranged platform too! I'm really excited to try the Afflictor out, I just wanted him painted first. I now need to paint 2 Incubi ASAP for him to infect my enemies with. :)

Painted Succubus

Working my way through the Legion support solos, I've finished the Succubus. She's a good addition to a few of my lists and I can't wait to play with her in my upcoming games.

Painted Forsaken

Here's my 4th painted Forsaken, along with one of the previous ones. I'm much happier with the wings on this one and hope I can keep reproducing that for my Archangels and Afflictors.

Painted Spell Martyrs

I'm just really happy to have these three done. I'm probably going to get rid of the glow effect on the chin if it doesn't grow on me in the next few days.

Painted Blighted Nyss Shepherd

Yes, this is the same model as last night. I have two of them and they both make a majority of my lists. They needed to get painted. :) They are now. Woohoo!

Painted Blighted Nyss Shepherd

Finished the first support solo for the Legion of Everblight army that isn't a Forsaken. I have one more to go after her, then it'll be onto Spell Martyrs and a Succubus.

Painted Kallus, Wrath of Everblight

No post Adepticon slump here! I finished Kallus tonight in a show of effort to stave off any attempts to not paint for the next two months. I'm going to be working on warcasters/warlocks for a bit until I decide to really jump into a faction to paint. This'll be fun!

Painted Vayl, Consul of Everblight

Finished my first model for fun lately. :) I really enjoyed painting Vayl2 and I'm very happy not to be in a painting funk due to Adepticon.

Painted Durgen Madhammer

The final model I needed to have painted for Adepticon 2013, Durgen Madhammer. I used General Ossrum's paint scheme on him, and I think he looks really decent. Very similar to the studio scheme. He painted quickly, in about 2 hours time. I might have to paint Gorten Grundback up just to have the trifecta all done.

Painted Intercessor Kreoss

This is the 2nd to last model I need to paint for Adepticon 2013. I was pretty worried about him because I have a very hard time painting Exemplar models. Turns out, like all new models, he was easier to paint than a lot of the old models. I'm really happy how he came out and want to finish him Theme Force now along with Kreoss1 and Kreoss2. Should be a piece of cake after Adepticon!

Painted Vyros, Incissar of the Dawnguard

With only a model left to paint for Adepticon 2013, here's Vyros2 for your viewing pleasure. I really enjoyed painting the horse. Vyros himself wasn't as much fun because he just didn't feel as detailed. It was suggested that I paint the fin on the top of the horse's head a different color. Suggestions?

Painted Midas

Finished the final Farrow warlock I needed for Adepticon. Midas looks pretty good for me not being able to paint blood or flayed flesh well at all. I want to play Farrow again now, thanks Faction ADD...

Painted Karchev the Terrible

Finally finished Karchev the Terrible up. He's a big model, paints like a warjack, but has a bunch of extra stuff that ate up a lot of my time. I'm glad he's done. I'd be happier if this were Friday instead of Sunday, though. I have 11 more to do in 24 days. Time to get onto another...

Space Wolf Objective Marker

Finally got ahold of some 40mm round GW bases (thanks, twin). Now I can get to crackin' on my 3 objective markers for Adepticon. Here is my first attempt:

Painted Kommander Orsus Zoktavir

First off, I like the model. Second, I hate the base. I rubbed so much paint off of it painting it that I know I'll always be doing touchups on it. :| Really not happy with that. I'm happy with how he turned out, so much that I really want to play his Theme Force soon. :) Gotta buy lots of Doom Reavers...

Painted Forward Kommander Sorscha

Amazingly enough, for such a relatively simple model, it took 14 colors to finish Forward Kommander Sorscha. She's done now and I'm happy my color scheme is working out for Khador. It is the basic scheme with a slight modification to the black. Instead of using Thamar Black, I'm using Coal Black to give it a green tint that looks different than straight black. Very interesting if you know about it.

Mike will be happy I highlighted the base. :P

Bretonnia WiP

Danny traded me some Space Wolf Bitz in exchange for painting some of his knights. Here's the first of 5:

Painted Kommander Strakhov

One of my favorite Khadoran warcasters, Kommander Strakhov joins the ranks of fully painted models. I really like his model. He painted up really easily as well, seeing that he's one of the later models by Privateer.

Painted Koldun Kommander Zerkova

The first of my Khadoran warcasters to be painted, Koldun Kommander Zerkova was picked to figure out the scheme for my Khadorans. She's a pretty easy model to paint and she took about 1.5 hours to crank out. She ended up looking a little too innocent in the face for such a wicked bitch of a woman. She knows her goals and what she needs to do to get them. She's also not afraid to break a few necks to do it.

Painted Belphagor (with updated Bethayne pics)

Finally got around to finishing the other half of Bethayne's soul, Belphagor. Very interesting beast, not that many colors needed to paint him, but a surprising amount of detail. My favorite part is the different inserts into his chest. The open one is ok, but the one with Bethayne in it is freaking sweet! I really like the part where you can see Bethayne's chest piece through the claws. Let's you know she's really inside (besides seeing her legs and arms hanging out...).

Painted Bethayne

Another day, another warlock. This time I've finished Bethayne. Tonight/tomorrow is finishing Belphagor and associated bits.

My apologies for the crappy photos.

Painted Rask

Rask is a pretty cool model. So many paint schemes can be applied to him that make him look awesome. You can easily find skins of Murlocs from World of Warcraft to place onto him and he'd look great. I went for something very similar to the base scheme from Privateer Press. Took only 2ish hours to paint, pretty happy to have him done.

At this point, I'm 75% of the way done with the Minion warlocks. I have Strum & Drang and Midas left to do for warlocks. I still have Lug and Skarath to paint for the Lesser Warlocks, but I'm not worrying about them until after Adepticon.

My plan for Rask's theme force is to paint two units in his scheme, one unit in the default Privateer Press scheme, and a fourth unit in a different scheme I don't have yet. The two units in Rask's scheme will be his personal enforcers and they'll ambush more often than not. The unit in Privateer's scheme will be Rask's bodyguards, the Bog Trogs he doesn't trust. They get the benefit of dying for Rask. The fourth is really up for debate on how it plays, but should be fun. That is, if I can finish the first unit...

Painted Calaban, The Grave Walker

As per my usual lately, finished another Minion warlock, this time it being Calaban. I was a little afraid of this model due to the checkerboard on the mask, but that turned out to be pretty easy as the details were there. For a simple model, he has a ton of colors and a lot to paint on him. Very impressed with him.

Painted Dr. Arkadius

Here's the mad doctor himself. I'm happy with how sinister the model came out. I really want to play Minions now, specifically Farrow.

Painted Lord Carver, BMMD, Esq. III

Finished my second Minions warlock, Lord Carver. I'm pretty impressed by how regal he came out.

Painted Brun Cragback

Finished with the lesser warlocks now. Just have to finish their warbeasts (after Adepticon).

Painted Dahlia Hallyr

Working on the Minion solo warlocks, finished Dahlia Hallyr. I've never really played with her in game, but when I switch back to Retribution, I'd start playing her and Skarath as a flanking force. She's got some pretty good abilities that really get overshadowed and I'd like to see how they work with Garryth.

Painted Major Victoria Haley

I finished the Cygnar I need to for Adepticon for warcasters. Major Victoria Haley is the last model. I needed her for test games of Speedmachine. She runs a Stormwall and a Stormclad with the Stormwall bonded to her for that event. I just need to finish painting the Stormclad and that list will be complete.

Haley was really quick to paint, I managed to paint her in 3 hours. Mostly she's just made up of those robes, so it was really quick.

Painted Caitlin Finch

So this model is a particular milestone for me. It is my 400th painted model. It also finishes off my 50th warcaster/warlock painted. Two very awesome accomplishments. I'm really looking forward to the next set of goals. Here she is.

Painted Artificer General Nemo

Working on finishing the Nemo straight (all the Nemo models), I finished the Artificer General Nemo model. I still have Finch to finish, but she'll get done tomorrow. Here's Nemo, following the same scheme as his other incarnations, in all his electric goodness!

Painted General Adept Nemo

Woot! General Adept Nemo joins the Commander Adept in the completed pile of painted warcasters/warlocks. I'm 22 away from my goal still, but Artificer General Nemo is part of it. I'm also 16 models away from having fully 50% of the warcasters/warlocks that are available painted! That's freaking awesome! I'll be very happy to cross that threshold and never get less than it again.

Here's some WIP and fully painted pics.

Painted Commander Adept Nemo

Finished this guy up tonight. I really like how all the storm models come out for Cygnar. Very happy with the new sculpt for Nemo. The original was awful compared to this one. Now I just have to finish the next two Nemos. :)

Painted Kara Sloan

My work through Cygnar continues. Today, I finished Captain Kara Sloan. I've had good experiences painting Kara Sloan. This is the second time I've painted this model and this one I get to keep. The other was a custom mod'd one for a friend. Very happy to give such a beautiful model away. She paints up really well.

Painted Lieutenant Caine

Finishing off Captain Caine was awesome. Finishing off Lieutenant Caine was just icing on the cake. The models are painted pretty much the same. I'm very happy with how both look. Here's some shots of him alone and both versions.

Painted Captain Caine

So, yes, I need to finish his base, but hell if he isn't the rest of the way done. Very happy with how he turned out. The face, hair, and armor turned out exactly like I hoped for! Very happy to have this guy done! Enjoy!

WIP Caines

I'm working on painting both Lieutenant Allister Caine and Captain Allister Caine. The models are pretty much identical in gear, making it easy to paint one, then paint the exact same color in the same place on the other model. This is two of the six basic colors on the model, not including flesh, hair, or eyes (which add 5ish colors).

Painted Iron Lich Overseers and Scavenger

On Friday, I finished two of these models, the second Overseer and the Scavenger. They finish the Witch Coven of Garlghast's second Theme Force, putting me to a total of 12 painted 50 point tier-4 Theme Forces.

Painted Iron Lich Overseer

Working on the second Theme Force for the Witch Coven of Garlghast means I need to paint 2 Iron Lich Overseers. Well, here is the first. The second, which will match this, is going to be done soon too.

Chooser of the Slain

The Space Wolves have an option in their codex that no model exists for: the Chooser of the Slain.

Painted Ragman

I needed to get my Ragman painted to start playing some kickass lists without Bane Thralls, Wraith Engine, or Goreshade the Bastard. :) I've got some Colossal cracking lists that need some playtime and Ragman gets a front row seat to provide help.

I painted him in about 36 minutes, which is probably the fastest I've ever painted a model. I'm happy with how he came out, he does well for what I'm going for. He's my 390th painted model as well. I'm getting pretty close to 400 now!

Finished Kraken

After my friend Michael convinced me to paint the rivets, I had a swell time doing that. It is the most evil thing anyone can suggest. :P I'm really happy to have finished this beast and can move onto other projects. He's getting a game Tuesday to try him with the new paintjob.

Painted Circle Theme Forces

These are the three fully painted Theme Forces for Circle Orboros I completed in 2012.

Kraken, Bit By Bit.

For the last week now, I've been working on getting my Kraken fully painted so I can play it. I'm really excited to use it more with Asphyxious the Hellbringer but also with Warwitch Deneghra and Pirate Queen Skarre. The Kraken has so many uses and is really versatile in its operation. I'd like to get more playtime with it, but it needs to get painted before it can see any table time (new rule this year).

To paint it, I kept the Kraken in 4 parts. I had the legs, the body, and the two claws separate. The body prevents me from getting to some angles on the legs and the legs prevents the same to the body. The claws/arms prevent access to both. It was just easier to have everything separate and paint it that way. It is a lot lighter as well.

A New Year...

So, I haven't posted in awhile. So long in fact that I didn't really post anything of what was new in December or what I've been working on. What can I say, December was pretty crazy. :)

In this month, I painted Cassius and Wurmwood, 4 Gallows Groves, 2 units of Stonewards and Woldstalkers, a Blackclad Wayfarer and a Scarsfell Griffon. These finished up the 3 Theme Forces I was working on for Circle, Baldur1's, Baldur2's, and Cassius' second Theme Force. Pretty happy to get up to 10 fully painted Theme Forces.

Without further ado, the painted models...