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.