tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50386766575244165532024-03-12T23:32:14.467-07:00modeling DFGStarAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-88924260411003612582014-11-02T15:50:00.001-08:002014-11-02T15:50:01.572-08:00Lord General Coleman Stryker CommissionThis figure was finished a couple weeks ago but I kept stalling on posting about it. I was originally waiting to post about this one until after Strategies held its annual Immortal Brush Painting Comp to ensure nobody saw it until the actual judging! I think this is a safe way of getting the best results in a competition where the judge doesn't know what to expect. You're more likely to get sick of something the more you see it!<br />
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The first comment I'll make on the figure itself is I underestimated its complexity. Complexity is something I've been debating and getting better at judging lately. I intuitively know complexity by picking up a model and painting it but explaining it to a customer interested in a commission is a completely different ballpark. The best explanation I've come up with so far is "I price models based on complexity, quantity, and overall size where complexity means how many surfaces I have to be CAREFUL about basecoating and blending." An example of super complex would be ANY skorne infantry figure or beast where I would first paint the red armor and then need to carefully coat the gold trim without "going out of the lines" on to where I've already finished. An example of simple would be a Space Marine or Retribution of Scyrah figure. These models both have large smooth surfaces without much detail on top of the armor itself. A Chaos Space Marine, however, has trim EVERYWHERE and would drive me bonkers!<br />
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That being said, take a look at this figure now and tell me if it's simple or complex:<br />
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Most have probably already guessed complex as hell. I think I got excited about how much blue there was without gold trim (when I'm used to painting Skorne I was pretty damn happy) but then after the blue was finished I realized how many other odds and ends were scattered all over the model including things like leather straps, lightning nodes, silver gears and details, etc. Needless to say it took me a lot longer than I expected.<br /><br />As for the finished product, I'm pretty happy with it. I entered it in the competition at Strategies as I mentioned earlier and came out with 1st place in the Fantasy/Historical large category. I particularly enjoy the facial expression that Stryker is sporting. My favorite part has to be the flag and just the pose itself. It's a really cool sculpt that I otherwise would never have painted for myself so I thank my client for the opportunity. Of course the client is happy as well as he now owns a competition winning entry! </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-19422473948382666602014-09-16T19:43:00.002-07:002014-09-16T19:43:43.139-07:00Attack-X 2014 "Sage Brush" painting competition On Sept 12-14th a few friends and I made the 4.5 hour trek to Kamloops from Vancouver to attend a gaming convention, Attack-X. I played Warmachine, of course, but did pretty damn poorly so we don't need to talk about the gaming! But the painting, on the other hand, I will do some talking about!<br /><br />I took a few pictures of the entries relatively early on the Saturday of the con so unfortunately I may have missed some entries that were put in the case later on in the afternoon, so apologies if I missed your figure! (I'm certain there were a couple I missed that were there the next day sadly).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Really spectacular dwarven battlegroup with tons of weathering, nice OSL on the visors and an excellent display base to make it really stand apart from the other entries. I believe this one was by Karim Sadik</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very interesting chaos dragon. I'm not sure if this is a conversion or if its an actual Forgeworld model but either way it was well done with nice little freehand scales on the wings (similar to something I've done in the past).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's a pretty cool Kraken that was almost certainly inspired by Todd Mcneal's Kraken with the pink color scheme and mud streaking down the hull. This one added some really nice water effects on the base which I actually prefer to green goo but both are fitting for the model for sure. This entry ALMOST confused me into thinking it was Todd's at first but the blending is not QUITE up to par with Todd's though its nothing to sneeze at.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a terrible picture with bad glare because a door was open facing the cabinet. Overall this was a pretty cool take on a Cephalyx monstrosity. I liked the blue/grey skin that was well blended.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In this picture we have a few entries that I couldnt get closer pics of due to the layout of the cabinet. This picture mainly shows off Todd Mcneal's Pandora crew from Malifaux. Some very nice bright ghostly green on these dudes. My own Tiberion sits in the upper corner.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This masterpiece is all Alex Yuen. After talking to him about this one I discovered this was disqualified from Gottacon's painting competition for being X rated. I think its pretty funny personally but I can understand it's not for everyone. Good job and very creative Alex.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Dave Brereton's (I hope I spelled that correctly) big ass Woldwrath. It's always impressive to see these huge models in the display case at painting competitions and this one was quite well done with real life made into the pose as if its lumbering forward. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's a picture of my Trollblood battlegroup I entered into the squad category. I'll have better pictures of these in a later blog post hopefully. Behind these guys and really hard to get a good picture of is an excellent chaos sorcerer/lord on a manticore. It had some great blending going on with the manticore's skin and the rider's cloak. This was one I can tell probably deserved more than it was awarded but thats my technical eye speaking.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Centered here are some sweet looking Legion figures with an alternate color scheme that fits quite well with the models. Had the blending on these ones been slightly better I think they would've had a very good chance of taking the prize as the painting was generally clean and the models had a nice balance of cool and warm.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are a whack load of different entries. My Xerxis is sitting there along with some great freehand on a Mercenary warjack. A really nice turquoise dwarven Tactical Arcanist squad sits alongside a turquoise Scaverous boasting some NMM gold trim in the corner. The Scaverous belongs to Will Hellebrand and was actually painted to the same style and recipe as some of my older gold NMM (I wrote an article on Handcannon Online quite a while back). </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First place for large base - Glen Tarbet<br />this is one in particular that I didn't get a closer picture of because it was added later on in the day. Glen has consistently smooth painting along with brilliant colors and professional, non-sloppy use of Armypainter Quickshade. Great job Glen!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Annnnnddddd... not to toot my own horn but.. I'm the PAINT MASTER!!!!! (I went around all Sunday informing as many people as I could that I'm the PAINT MASTER!!!!!!) Very cool trophies thanks to Nathan Bosa and Lukasz Kruszewski for making and providing them. Thanks for the Sage Brush painting competition - I hope more tournaments and cons have this opportunity in the future.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-82289248531157543052014-08-29T20:39:00.000-07:002014-08-29T20:39:10.007-07:00Painting your heroes and center piecesWith life advancing ever onward, I've decided to start selling my skills for money. I could use a second job after my day job and practicing painting at the same time is always a bonus. It's been a little while since I've done anything for anyone else besides myself which was a much needed break but I'm leaning towards the conclusion that I get more done when I'm painting for someone else under a loose time line.<br />
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What will I paint? Not armies thats for sure. I will paint single models, large models, heroes, monsters, small groups of models but NOT an entire army unless I'm going to be compensated handsomely. I don't mind working a few hours a day for what usually works out to be >$10/hour on a model I ENJOY painting but completing an entire ARMY at that rate is just not in my interests. Like I say, there are always exceptions so it never hurts to ask just don't expect a cheap price because armies are TONS of work and hours.<br />
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<b>Contact Info: anichol88@hotmail.com</b> please label the subject as PAINTING or COMMISSION, thanks!<br />
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Here is something I've completed for a client. It's a Forgeworld Minotaurs Chaplain (Enoki I believe?). This guy has sadly made me excited to paint space marines.. a really unwanted distraction at the moment! For how horrible GW is at making a balanced game system for competitive play they certainly do make some cool models. <br />
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I particularly enjoyed painting the black power armor on this guy. I'm not often happy with highlighting black but I think I've found just the right amount of blending required to make it look well shaded but still black, not turquoise or grey. Lots of bone details all over this model were fun to work on as well, specifically the bone handle of the crozius as well as his helmet and ribcage. Overall I'm pretty excited about how he turned out. I hope you like him.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-64236725615982145952014-08-27T15:57:00.002-07:002014-08-27T15:57:39.592-07:00A long break from the blog<pre><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">***Disclaimer: my copy+paste function was acting up and I realize some words aren't aligned correctly but I'm far too lazy to re-write the whole article so.. fml***</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a while hasn't it? I haven't been posting projects on here so often lately due to multiple reasons (lack of time with a kid, not wanting to show off models I plan to use in competitions, no good photos etc) but have found without posting stuff I don't motivate myself enough.
Here is something I've finished recently: Tiberion. I had this guy assembled and base coated for a long time but only got around to completing him now. This is the first Skorne model I've painted since last year I believe and I've made an adjustment to my NMM gold recipe.</span></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found my original gold color was too dark for my liking and a little complicated to achieve - using paints from multiple different manufacturers. I wanted to find something brighter colors and ideally colors from one company (I find the same brand paints mix together easier than trying to mix different brands and this is probably due to the colors sharing the same ingredients?). I went with my favorite, P3, and I'm really liking it.</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I start off with a base of 50:50 Bloodstone and Rucksack Tan. I'll then have my 2nd layer be pure Rucksack Tan. I'll now go back a couple stages (something I'm really starting to get into after attending Meg Maple's master class) with pure Sanguine Base as a shade. The red shade makes a great, dark but still warm contrast with the pale sand color I finish off with. After playing with the shade color for a while I'll start highlighting again with 50:50 Rucksack Tan and Moldy Ochre. I'll then do a layer of pure Moldy Ochre. Finally I'll finish off with an extreme highlight of 50:50 Moldy Ochre and Menoth White Highlight. I found one of my favorite things with this recipe to be the huge contrast between the dark red/purple shade and the bright off-white highlight.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-72033445943427159832014-03-16T21:42:00.005-07:002014-03-16T21:42:57.189-07:00Foodmachine charity figure donation: Lord Exhumator ScaverousFinally finished this one for Shawn Leblanc, 2nd place winner of Foodmachine at Connections. <br />
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First of all I have to say this model is very cool. I normally dislike undead figures (mostly because everyone else seems to love them - I'm a hipster like that) but this figure is just large and imposing with a great sculpt and a menacing look.<br />
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I wanted to make him a little taller, so I started by adding cork to the base. I glued the figure together completely and that was my first mistake. After priming him (pretty terribly to be honest), I picked up the model to apply the first few layers of paint and subsequently dropped him on the work table, smashing him into smithereens... I then decided it would be good to pin the crap out of this model - something I should've done from the get go. I did, however, keep him separated in two major parts: the legs and body, and the arms and weapon. I don't normally do this due to pure laziness and the idea that "what is covered up I can't see anyways so why paint it?" but I decided to try something new. I don't regret painting it in pieces.<br />
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Other than that, I pretty much knew what I wanted to do for this guy. This was originally intended to be a Gottacon 2014 painting competition entry but I didn't finish it quite on time. With the competition in mind, however, I wanted to throw as many silly gimmicks into this figure as possible. I'm not one for "special effects" on figures, but I know judges sure like them (I'm looking at you Kelly Kim!), though I am a huge fan of technique. Thus, I added NMM, which I wasn't originally intending to do, OSL, AND some silly airbrushed cotton fire just to <i>really</i> cake on the cheese!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-48107997857045028142014-03-11T20:01:00.003-07:002014-03-11T20:01:56.943-07:00My experience with thinning paint for use with the airbrushI'm working on a commission project for Beautiful Warfare Studio of some really cool Forge World Pre Heresy Night Lords raptors and a couple vehicles. <br /><br />For the main blue cote of these figures I want to save time by airbrushing it instead of hand brushing. The biggest problem I've found with doing this is that after using my Vallejo Model Air paints to base a figure I have difficulty blending via hand brushing afterwards. Sometimes the jump between airbrush to hand brush blending is too obvious for my liking or sometimes I want to go back to that base color to find that VMA blends in a completely different way than the normal P3 paints I tend to like using.<br /><br />I want to use P3 blue colors for the Night Lords because, as I've said in the past, P3 just <i>works</i> for me and my method of feathering. These paints are so silky smooth and, to be honest, have a little wiggle room for mistakes or imperfections here and there. It's just their nature. <br /><br />In order to avoid past problems with VMA-P3 / airbrush-hand brush situations, I decided to do something I'm a little nervous about: thinning the P3 paint and pumping it through the airbrush in the first place. I've never had much success with this kind of thing yet (probably thinning the paint down TOO much to avoid dreaded airbrush clog) so naturally it's not something I'm confident in. I HATE having to take my airbrush apart and it happens all too often with me. I even keep the air flow continuous such that my index finger often hurts after a decent airbrush session but the brush STILL ends up clogging somehow. I really need someone who knows their shit about airbrushing to sit beside me and give me some pointers about what I'm doing wrong. I've kind of learnt everything on my own thus far...<br /><br />At any rate, I took the P3 Exile Blue, added some Vallejo airbrush thinner and then by accident dropped a whole bunch of water in the mix.. So then I added more paint and a little more thinner and got something akin to what I expected: a not too thin but not too thick mixture that covers well and doesn't clog the brush.<br /><br />I used the Vallejo polyurethane white primer to first coat these figures. This is a strange primer and I'm not sure if it's ideal for use outside, or maybe just not for the climate of Vancouver? It tends to spray on to the figure messily with easy to identify "drops" all over the model. After a couple of these cotes the problem fixes itself I guess but I'm still not sure if I'm using it correctly.<br /><br />I added some of my Exile Blue mix and it went on poorly at first but after a second cote really saved me a lot of time. I still clogged the airbrush, however, though this might have been due to some primer getting stuck (the primer is a tad on the thicker side itself). I really get frustrated airbrushing. I sometimes wonder exactly how much time I'm saving when it seems at least twice a session I'm taking the needle out of the brush and wiping it down... sigh...<br /><br />The 5 raptors are all very blue now and quite solidly at that. All the detail has been retained (though I don't usually have a problem with this in the first place). For the vehicles I plan on going even further with my airbrush experimentation and doing something I've always seen done but have never experienced myself: extreme blending with the airbrush. To be precise, I mean starting with a light color in the 1st quarter, corner of a panel, then using a few mid tones with the airbrush in the 2nd and 3rd quarters of a panel, and finally using the darkest color (in this case Exile Blue) in the 4th quarter of the panel.<br />
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I will have some pictures of the project when I deem them suitable for photography... Until then, let the trail and error commence!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-36127569111489352342014-01-03T15:45:00.000-08:002014-01-03T15:45:22.319-08:00Happy New Year!It's been a while since my last post. I started work again after a SWEET nine month parental leave so I've been slowing down the progress on miniatures a little (that and the holiday season created some hiccups in my productivity).<br /><br />Been back at it now though! My goal before 2014 was to finish my Pureblood Warpwolf I had been working on. I did so with a few hours of 2013 left to spare! I'll include some quick pictures of this model at the end of the post.<br /><br />Something else I'd like to share is that I kept a tally of every single model I completed in 2013. I want to start doing this every year so I can look back at how productive the year was and if I can beat my completed model count for the next year.<br />
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Dominar Rasheth
Paingiver Beasthandlers x6
Basilisk Krea
Nekima, the Dark Sibling
Lord Arbiter Hexeris
Mohsar the Desertwalker
Cyclops Raider
Mortitheurge Willbreaker x2
Paingiver Taskmaster
Warpwolf Stalker
Archidon
Druid Wilder
Molik Karn
Archdomina Makeda
Celestial Wizard
Saan Dragon
Kaymayuk Priests of Zerex x2
Bright Wizard
Steam Tank
Master Engineer x2
Battle Standard Bearer Captain
Cherek Hunters x4
Demigryph Knights x9
Halberdiers x47
Archers x10
Great Cannon x2
Helblaster Volleygun
Knightly Orders x10
Timor Dragon
Shifting Stones x6
Stonekeeper
Agonizer
Khorne Daemon Prince
Druid Gone Wilder
Terrax
Totem Hunter
Knights of the Realm x6
Kaymayuk Warriors x6
Warrior Priest on Barded Steed
Battle Standard Bearer on Steed
Kaymayuk Chieftain
Corbrulo, Hellion of the Deep
Dwarf King on Bear
Saan Power Marks x3
Eye of Kyran
Kaymayuk Priestess
Kaya the Wildborne
Woldwarden
Minotaurs Terminator Captain
Gorax
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Norse Bloodbowl Yeti
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The color of the scales were the biggest debate with this figure. I'm glad I decided to paint them last so I could get a proper sense of the overall finished scheme before I committed to a scale color.</td></tr>
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It's okay and actually encouraged to go over the lip of the base. In my opinion it creates more of a surrounding atmosphere to the model; you can easily imagine the rocky, uneven terrain in the figure's environs. This admittedly sometimes conflicts with practicality and ease of playing a game from time to time.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-2845510770614210342013-11-25T21:23:00.000-08:002013-11-25T21:23:00.380-08:00Drexoll League Tournament Battle Report Write UpOn Sunday November 24th, 2013 I attended a Warmachine and Hordes tournament at Drexoll games on West 4th ave near Arbutus on Vancouver's West side. This is a brief summary of the 4 games I played using 2 50 point Skorne lists detailed below. The tournament was run by Douglas Duncan, a newish press ganger in the area who did a magnificent job and sacrificed not only his time to run the event but various donations for prizes as well (including an Army Transport bag and some models out of his own collection!).<br />
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The 2 lists I used were:<br /><br />Dominar Rasheth tier 4 chain gang:<br />Rasheth +5<br />
Bronzeback Titan -9<br />
Titan Gladiator -7<br />
Titan Sentry -8<br />
Titan Sentry -8<br />
Basilisk Krea -4<br />
Gatorman Posse max -9<br />
Paingiver Beasthandlers max -3<br />
Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew -1<br />
Paingiver Taskmaster -2<br />
Agonizer -2<br />
Agonizer -2<br />
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Lord Arbiter Hexeris +6<br />
Bronzeback Titan -10<br />
Titan Gladiator -8<br />
Titan Sentry -9 (bonded beast)<br />
Basilisk Krea -4<br />
Gatorman Posse max -9<br />
Venator Rievers min -5<br />
- Venator Riever Officer and Standard -2<br />
Paingiver Beasthandlers min -2<br />
Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew -1<br />
Paingiver Taskmaster -2<br />
Extoller Soulward -2<br />
Mortitheurge Willbreaker -2<br />
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<u>Round 1:</u> Opponent: Andrei (Khador) Caster: Sorcha 2<br />
Sorcha 2<br />
Conquest<br />
Beast 09<br />
Winterguard Infantry max<br />
-Winterguard Infantry Officer and Standard<br />
Great Bears<br />
War Wagon<br />
Kovnik Gregorovich<br />
Sylis Wyshnalyr<br />
Thank goodness he chose this list. His second list was a Butcher 3 list who I'm totally uncomfortable playing against because I've never had the opportunity to face him before nor do I like playing against infantry swarms (which was pretty much was his list was). I ended up choosing Rasheth in the hopes that he would play Sorcha 2 because I have 2 agonizers that could shut down his jacks no problem as well as having 4 titans to deal with a colossal if need be. The game basically came down to some poor terrain situations for my opponent because he had 2 huge bases that were hard to maneuver around the board. I had a turn 2 charge on his battle engine with one of my sentries and LUCKILY didn't kill the thing. This created choking problems with his bases and I got a nice breath of corruption off in the space where his winter guard pretty much HAD to advance through. They advanced anyway for the Motherland and many a Khadoran did die in that noxious cloud. The next turn I got the jump on his jacks with agonizers and suddenly wasn't afraid to advance in to threat range of them. The gladiator charged the damaged battle engine to finish it so my sentry could charge Beast 09 and rip off his ice axe and take out his movement. In his next turn he tried in vain to use Sorcha's feat to put some hurt on my titans but after Sorcha herself charged my bronzeback, she epicly missed all of her attack rolls! What poor luck for her. The great bears charged and did a ton of damage but failed to take out any of my elephants. The next turn I got my gladiator to do a boosted headbutt on the iron flesh'd Sorcha who was then knocked down for my bronzeback to beat her into the dirt even further. Assassination victory for Skorne.<br />
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<u>Round 2:</u> Opponent: Jeremy (Legion of Everblight) Warlock: Vayl 1<br />
Vayl 1<br />Proteus<br />Carnivaen<br />Angelius<br />Succubus<br />Blackfrost Shard<br />Blighted Ogryn Warspears min<br />
- Warspears Cheiftan<br />Blighted Ogryn Warmongers min<br />
- Warmonger Chieftan??<br />
Forsaken x2<br />
Spell Martyr x2<br />
I think my opponent may have made the wrong choice in lists here. His second list was Saeryn which would have been scary but not unbeatable for Rasheth. I took Rasheth again obviously, for he is such a great matchup for hordes factions in general with all his debuffs and feat stacking nicely against living models. He caught me off guard a little with a spell martyr running up turn 2 to rampager one of my sentries way up the field and then shot the sentry with Proteus' dragging tentacles. Through all the chaos and 2 beasts focusing on the sentry, my opponent's beasts failed to get the job done and left him with enough hitboxes to strike back in my next turn. My next turn was pretty bad for my opponent, with my feat going off and gators charging his angelius at +2 strength from the taskmaster and taking it off the field. I ran a gobber to a nice location and with one nicely placed breath of corruption killed his succubus and all 3 of the blackfrost shard! I rammed titans down his throat and hoped he couldn't deal with all the armor and hitboxes under -2 strength from Rasheth's feat and -2 to damage rolls from my double agonizers crying in the back. In his next turn he feats and kills the damaged sentry but doesnt achieve much else. His cat and mouse shenanigans leave vayl protected by her two remaining heavies. In my next turn I killed his carnivaen who did not have spiny growth on him at this time and then decided the assassination on vayl was good to go but of course i forgot about dark sentinel... lol. so after Proteus moved and took out the mind of my sentry attacking vayl i gave up on that and just killed Proteus instead. I removed both his forsaken and all his warspears at this point with my krea scoring some objective points out of the action. In his next turn he vainly tried to do some damage with vayl and 2 remaining warmongers but then called the game after his efforts were futile. Skorne victory via.. Assassination I guess?<br />
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<u>Round 3:</u> Opponent: Zach (Circle of Orboros) Warlock: Kruegar 2<br />
Kruegar 2<br />
Ghetorix<br />Warpwolf Stalker<br />
Gorax<br />
Tharn Bloodtrackers max<br />
-Nuala<br />
Druids of Orboros max<br />
-Overseer<br />
Shifting Stones<br />
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Shifting Stones<br />
Blackclad Wayfarer<br />
Viktor Pendrake<br />
Gallows Grove x2<br />
Oh boy.. I just played against this warlock in a practice game the night before but luckily that list had more heavies to contend with my beef than this list did. I used Rasheth again, purely for his awesomeness against hordes and the fact that in general circle has trouble dealing with that much armor in many circumstances. I was trying to be smart the first turn by arm locking my own beasts so he couldnt forcebolt them up the field but my sentries said NO GET OFF ME! and didnlt allow either of my open fist beasts to successfully lock them.. sigh.. so in Zach's 2nd turn he pulls the gladiator probably a net 10" upfield between forcebolts and telekinesis. Ghetorix shifts with a unit of stones and starts a swingin at the gladiator.. and fails to kill him with 1 box. And then Zach fails to kill the gladiator through various other attempts including spraying with the blackclad, charging with viktor pendrake (lol really!?!) and then forgetting to attack it with his bloodtrackers who instead shot at their prey target - the gators. In my next turn I didn't get a whole lot accomplished other than killing pendrake and advancing upfield a bit. I charged a druid with a sentry and managed to also engage Ghetorix doing some damage there as well. Kruegar feats on his next turn and primals Ghetorix to do some damage to the sentry and kill the gladiator. The stalker also comes in to try to beat on the sentry but fails to kill it. Now i have a good opportunity to kill the stalker and not worry about ghetorix for a turn because he automatically frenzies. I manage to make it in melee range of the stalker with 2 sentries even while being -2 SPD from kruegar's feat. I kill the sentry and do some more general attrition by removing some infantry and moving farther upfield with titans. Rasheth has feated in the turn previous to mitigate damage and both agonizers are still crying away at -2 damage rolls. In his next turn he turns my titans around with telekinesis and kills an agonizer from a frenzy attack with Ghetorix. Kruegar is in a vulnerable spot. My last turn I enrage the bronzeback and the sentry and have rasheth throw Carnivore on the bronzeback (mat 9 bronzebacks dont miss!). the bronzeback then tramples for free toward a druid, casts trainwreck on himself, kills the druid and moves an inch engaging the stonekeeper, kills him advancing an inch toward kruegar, and then proceeds to beat kruegar to the ground with a fury point to spare. Skorne assassination victory.<br />
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<u>Round 4:</u> Opponent: Ralph (Menoth) Caster: Kreoss 2<br />
Kreoss 2 Tier 4?<br />
Fires of Salvation<br />
Exemplar Errants max<br />
-Exemplar Errants UA<br />
Knights Exemplar<br />
Knights Exemplar<br />
Daughters of the Flame<br />
Daughters of the Flame<br />
Exemplar Bastions max?<br />
Bastion Seneschal<br />
Menoth Dragoon solo (forget the name I never see it)<br />
Errant Seneschal<br />
Wow.. what a swarm of dudes. I chose Hexeris 2 naturally for both of my opponent's lists featured many an infantry model. This game basically consisted of me backing up with most of my stuff while I cast ashes to ashses, black spot, and hellfire at his stuff. I'll spare the details but the game came down to me having hexeris 2, my bronzeback, 1 venator reiver, my extoller, 3 paingivers, a taskmaster and my willbreaker. I was down to 48 seconds left on my deathclock! My opponent was dominating a zone with nothing but kreoss 2 left on his side of the board. I hastily ran hexeris at full camp on to an objective so i could dominate it, and then ran the bronzeback toward my opponent's destructible objective, and ran the 3 paingivers, the taskmaster, and the willbreaker toeing into the zone to score and prevent my opponent from dominating. in Ralph's final turn, he had to dominate to win or I would win on control points the minute my turn started. He managed to clear the infantry I had in the zone using every last point of his focus and dominated to win the game! what an epic battle! This game was probably the best game of warmachine I had played. <br />
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Results: After it was all counted up, Ralph came in 1st place due to the amount of control points he had scored throughout the day. He had a total of 15 while I had 12. He got to take home an awesome Army Transport carrying bag and I got a $40 gift certificate to Drexoll games. The rest of the prizes were given away at random to the attendees of the tournament. What an exhausting but fun day of Warmachine! I'm looking forward to my next warmachine tournament at Strategies in the new year.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-2585925213260639242013-10-29T18:10:00.002-07:002013-10-29T18:10:38.067-07:00Immortal Brush Painting Challenge 2013Immortal Brush Painting Challenge is an annual competition held at Strategies Games and Hobbies on Main and 23rd in Vancouver, BC. It's a fun event that I always enter and have been quite successful in in the past. I took the time to take some pictures of the highlights and winners of each of the 6 categories. This year saw some truly awe inspiring entries, especially featured in the 'diorama' category.<br />
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Lets start with the best first, because I like to be different.<br />
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What. The. Fuck. This is absolutely incredible. Not only is it well built, sculpted (yes the marine with the power first out front is almost all custom), but it's also well painted to boot - utilizing NMM and splendid blends to great effect. If it's not at first obvious, this is a zero gravity diorama, with space marine corpses hovering instead of hitting the deck. The blood splatter is epic, though my one critique about the whole thing is the small droplets of blood next to the chaos marine getting punched look a little like red pins on the floor but hey we get the picture. This is based off of the book cover art from the Horus Heresy novel: Know No Fear.<br />
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I think it was perfectly done! If any readers could kindly pass me this gentleman's name that would be much appreciated because he definitely deserves some creds!<br />
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This Leman Russ variant (can't recall which one it is) was done by the same fellow who did the epic diorama above. This guy was just killing it! He won best diorama, best scifi large, best customer vote, AND a door prize I believe. Nice! The tank was great and a really good choice for winner (beating Kelly Kim's Rhino tank and my Khorne Daemon Prince no less!!). Big congratulations to this guy he really deserved it. Would love to get his name next time. Shoot.<br />
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These Sisters of Battle were done by Kelly Kim. The classy guy that he is, Kelly almost always (from what I've seen) makes great use of display boards. They can be simple, like this one, or thematic, like the one he used on his Rhino, but all push the models that little tad further to show that the modeler truly cares about the ground their models walk on! Some nicely blended reds on these figures, as well as great facial features, a cool power sword and some free handed awesomeness on the banner. Great job over all Kelly! <br />
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Some nice German Panzers here. I like the natural weathered look to them. Again no name for this guy unfortunately. Really, it's hard to make these models look any better than this guy did. Nice job all around, well deserved win.<br />
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This category was debatable on who I thought would've taken it. The judges were talking about this Kraken that won, or a Nurgle Great Unclean One. I thought the Great Unclean One was okay, and this Kraken was a bit better, but I also thought there were a couple other entries that were nicer than both of these. A really nice LOTR Mordor Troll was in the case painted by Dave Clark (an old GW area manager) but I think had been entered already in a previous year at Immortal Brush. I really liked the paint job on it, but the judge didn't. It seems there are always incidents where perhaps personal preference comes in to play when judging and I think there may have been some of that here but theres no way to know for sure. The Kraken was pretty good, probably winning because of the weathering and scenic basing, but as far as technical painting goes there were atleast 3 other entries that I felt deserved the win. Either way, good job.<br />
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I saved the worst for last this time. What the fuck again. I think the judges were on crack for this one. Maybe the slime and penises on these Bile Thralls really captured the judge's attentions but this is just plain table top quality in my opinion. Did they not see my Bretonnian Knights? I didn't really want to ask why these won, because I knew I wouldn't like the answer, and I don't really like bragging or defending my own models but seriously this was a little bit of a kick in the pants. Perhaps the judges just don't like Bretonnians (maybe the color scheme isn't uniform enough? maybe my bases didn't have slime?) but my technical painting skill far surpassed these models. The skulls look like they're painted Bleached Bone and washed with Devlan Mud. The kaki colored bodies looked washed and drybrushed. I really don't get it. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-37483515612087109272013-09-12T21:53:00.003-07:002013-09-12T21:53:44.997-07:00Totem Hunter CommissionTotal War: Rome 2 has been destroying my life. Enough said.<br /><br /><br />On to things hobby related. I got the wonderful opportunity to paint a Totem Hunter from the Minions faction of Hordes for none other than Trevor Christensen of the Warmachine/Hordes podcast: Chain Attack! I'm a big fan of Chain Attack and frequently listen to their show when I paint. I got the chance to meet Trevor, Jay and Scott this July past at Lock and Load in Seattle and now I've had the chance to paint something that Trevor will be using to "kick someone's dick in" with in games to come!<br />
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Trevor was looking for a "custom" Totem Hunter. This made me a bit uneasy as I'm not a confident conversion maker or re-poser. After doing some research and figuring I decided I wanted him jumping off a cliff/rock/wall, using his spear horizontally for balance. The default pose for Totem Hunter is a little awkward with him leaning forward a bit too much for my liking. I was a little nervous about changing his arm position with the spear but I was satisfied with what I came up with. It was pretty easy; pin the arm horizontally instead of vertically and green stuff some cloth wrapping to fill the gap. The condition of the arm pieces where they join easily adapted to my vision. With the repose, he truly looks natural leaping off a ruined wall to smite his enemies!<br />
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When painting the Totem Hunter, I knew I wanted to have his skin color a little different. I wanted free handed scales on the flat top of his head with a tawny skin tone overall. His armor I decided to do teal (a color I rarely paint) with dark blue/blue gray for the scale armor. <br />
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Unbeknownst to me this made a really great color contrast that I didn't expect. It was a beautiful accident. Something that helped smooth the colors over and give a nice matte appearance was multiple layers of mid-tone, thin glazes on both the skin and armor.<br />
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The metal trim was probably the most tedious part of the project all together and least enjoyable. I went with a true metallic metal simply because Trevor's army was already painted with a true metallic, and the recipe for my gold NMM is a little too similar with the recipe for Totem Hunter's skin.<br />
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I'm pretty happy with the finished model and I really hope it gets to Trevor in one piece. I probably took the most time out of any previous project to pack this thing safely, utilizing techniques that Trevor himself suggested: taping the model to the bottom of a small box, and wrapping it in bubble wrap - then putting the small box inside a larger box stuffed with packing peanuts and taped up tight.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-38909477517857107952013-08-23T23:21:00.002-07:002013-08-23T23:21:57.937-07:00Khorne Daemon Prince (40k)It's been a long while since I've painted anything 40k for various reasons. Firstly, I'm really not happy with the state of the game, mostly because of the crappy book that Chaos Space Marines were dealt (all those Word Bearer CSM with Rhinos I painted won't be used now that Cultists are an option and CSM have to pay for things they used to have for free- like a chainsword for example, and not being able to charge after disembarking from a Rhino). Until I actually play in a tournament for 40k I'm under the impression the game is quite dull with most strategy being revolved around list construction, how many long range high strength guns you have, picking what to shoot at, and massing cheap troop choices to claim those objectives. The game is less about positioning and tactics (being very forgiving in this department, especially if you have a 48" range gun!) and more about just rolling lots of fucking dice and killing space marines. Close combat got nerfed hard, now when my CSM try to charge something they get shot up first and 3+ saves just dont cut it with all the AP3 or high volume of shots coming at you. Blah!<br />
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All that being said, I felt it's time to start painting my 'new' CSM army a bit. I started with one of the new plastic Daemon Princes that I've included in my list. He's got the Mark of Khorne, power armor, wings, and the Axe of Blind Fury. This gives him a whack load of attacks at Str 7 AP2 and he's quite hard to hit while flying.<br /><br />The model is great. I really like the wings and the axe is pretty cool. The one thing I was definitely not pleased was with the heads. They all look goofy to me; the teeth are just atrocious on every single one of them. I had to do something about that. I decided he needed a faceplate to cover up his lack of braces when he was a child and made him a metal 'beard' out of some chains and a skull I had lying in my bits box. You'll never guess the piece I made the faceplate out of - it's the optional back of the cowl from the Empire Battle Wizards box set. It just so happened it was the piece in my bits box that perfectly fit around his ugly face, and painted right would look the part too. I sculpted some straps that are barely noticeable anyways just so if anyone cares to look for the detail they can see the mask isn't just suspended in mid air over his face.<br />
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I started painting him the usual World Eaters red scheme. After completing the red I really took a long time getting inspired to further progress with the model. I think the wings were intimidating me with such a large surface area needing to be highlighted up to a bone color from a dark brown. This took quite some time and was really putting me off. With the deadline for a competition looming, I knew I had to bite the bullet and force myself to sit down and focus. I sporadically worked on different areas, base coating some while doing the first few layers on others and eventually I got the idea of how things were shaping up and what the final product would eventually look like. This was the drive I needed; in one fell swoop I finished the NMM gold and the wings all at once! I completed the black details and the steel NMM the next day. Static grass was added. Hopefully Kelly Kim hasn't entered anything in the same category or else I may have some stiff competition!<br />
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<br /><br /><span id="goog_150706640"></span><span id="goog_150706641"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-51094938168650947942013-08-05T16:06:00.002-07:002013-08-05T16:06:41.169-07:00First Attempt at YouTube Battle ReportsI'm a huge fan of watching battle reports on youtube. My kind of battle reports are ones that are tactically motivated games between two competitive lists with nicely painted armies. These could range from Warmachine to Warhammer Fantasy or from Warcraft 3 to Starcraft 2, as long as you could learn something from watching the games. If I'm to watch tabletop wargames battle reports, I prefer to either watch a well-known competitive player or games straight of a tournament themselves. The reason being is (somewhat obviously) most people take the best shit they can in competitive matches and watching them is how you learn to defeat them. <br /><br />I decided after watching various inspiring YouTubers all the time that I'd try my hand at making a report as well. Having this channel leads to much more than just battle reports but to painting tutorials or showcases that I'd be interested in exploring at a later time. If everything works out as I hope it will, there will be tons of content from (hopefully) many different sources other than myself about gaming, painting, and hobbying as a whole.<br />
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My first report is the first game that I played at Wet Coast GT 2013 against Peter Davis and his Lizardmen. Unfortunately it was a loss for me, but my opponent is probably one of the best WFB players in the area so much could be learned from him. There are still plenty of things to work on for my videos such as taking better and more detailed pictures, going over deployment, initial thoughts of the game, army lists, scenarios, and even pictures of the painted armies. I'll be keeping all these things in mind for future reports. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p7I3TR67WA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p7I3TR67WA</a><br />
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Hope you enjoy, if WFB isn't your thing, there will be plenty of WM/H games to come I'm sure. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-31776357909946837242013-07-26T21:04:00.002-07:002013-07-26T21:04:38.553-07:00TimorThis will have been the 2nd dragon I've painted for Action Games Miniatures' Drake game. The Timor dragon of the Mountain Lords (formerly Garrick) faction is a monstrous mass of flesh, muscle and bad attitude. While not as physically large as the Garrick dragon himself, the Timor is no less fierce in melee and damage potential.<br />
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The model is really open for an artist's interpretation. It has wonderfully sculpted smooth surface areas of muscle and wing tissue with some minor detailed spines on the back of the neck progressing into larger spikes down the back ending in a clubbed, stegosaurus type tail. The face features some spines jutting from the cheeks and ram's horns curling forward. After a brief color scheme talk with Ben, AGM's director, I decided I wanted to have a pretty simple 'backdrop' to the flesh of this model done exclusively with the airbrush with free handed, brushed on scales in various places that draw the eye to key points of the model and break up the monotony of the smooth airbrushed flesh.<br />
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I started by priming the model Army Painter's grey primer. I then applied VMA Light Brown to the entire model except the horns, spines, and base. I then shaded the model with VMA Medium Brown until satisfied with the results. I went back with VMA Light Brown to hit key areas I wanted to be lighter. Simple!<br />
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Now on to the fun part. I started with P3's Umbral Umber and 'penciled' in where I wanted all the scales to be. I focused on areas around the existing, pre sculpted scales on the back of the dragon's neck, shoulders, thighs, head, wings, and back. This took quite a while as you can imagine, especially considering I did about 5 layers on EACH scale. The finished product is quite something though.<br />
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I slowly shaded every scale starting with pure P3 Sanguine Base followed by pure P3 Skorne Red followed by pure P3 Khador Red followed by pure P3 Khador Red Highlight. I found that with such a small area to work on like an individual scale you don't necessarily need to do any separate stages in between pre manufactured colors, so no mixing involved. <br />
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It was about this time when I had an epic brush fail x2. I recently decided to crack open a new GW brush because after finishing my Empire army I wanted to throw away my previous brush that I'd contaminated with metallic colors used on armor plates. However, the brush I opened was horribly frayed and would NOT shape back together to my annoyance. I decided to put it aside for now as time was a factor and I opened a 2nd brush I had sitting around. This brush ALSO had the same problem. I'm wondering if the factory forgot to put on the gum arabic to shape the bristles or what. Not having any gum arabic lying around at home to use, I had to head to DeSerres and ended up spending a bunch of money on a Windsor & Newton brush. I really forgot how awesome those brushes truly are.. so impressed. It seems before I took them for granted.<br />
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At this stage, I was debating painting the horns the traditional bone color but thought it may be too similar to the skin tone so I went with a stark contrasting black highlighted up with P3 Coal Black and P3 Trollblood Base. Simple yet effective. As for the base of the model, it has some nicely sculpted rocky areas and some areas that are assumed to be dirt. I did a couple layers of drybrushing greys and browns and ended up with something I felt was dusty and natural enough. Some premade static grass clumps from army painter were added and 'she' was done! I had to quickly take pictures in my crappy little light box before one of Ben's men came to pick it up for photographing. It was nice knowing you Timor! By the way this model is fucking HUGE! Airbrushes are definitely suggested.<br />
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My next project is for a friend. It's a Dwarf King on Bear from Scibor miniatures. Pretty excited to paint this as its a pure awesome model and it'll mean back to NMM for a bit hurray! <br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-66226567585854880432013-07-21T23:41:00.001-07:002013-08-17T18:21:20.452-07:00Wet Coast GT 2013Just finished playing at Wet Coast this weekend and what a time it was! I'll do a very brief overview of my games and summary of the event overall. I will, however, first say that I won a 'medal' for best Empire General (out of 2 players YEAAAHH!!) and a $25 gift certificate to Imperial Hobbies through a raffle draw.<br />
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Game 1: My opponent was Peter Davis from Chop with Lizardmen. I liked his conversions he did for his army, some of which included some funny googly eyed chameleon skinks and saurus in the middle of bringing down some bretonnian knights of the realm. His army wasn't too scary as far as Lizardmen armies go, with the worst part of it being 2 scar veteran heroes and 2 slann magepriests with one having the becalming cogitation (opponents discard 6's when casting spells) and the ability to gain a 'free' dice for casting a spell. The game really came down to one scar vet walking through my entire artillery line at the back, and his 2 slann sitting in a building becoming virtually untouchable. I beat up his army pretty bad, and forced him to flee with most of it, but unfortunately I just couldn't roll high enough to catch him in most situations and didn't manage to take off as many points as I would've liked. I feel I did a lot better than the points tally showed at the end. Loss for me game 1.<br />
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Game 2: My opponent was Iain Edgar also from Chop with his Dwarfs. Iain was a brilliant opponent to play against and such a good sport, he got my favorite opponent vote. His army only had a couple warmachines, yet he had an anvil of doom which really is hard to predict. I basically played the fleeing and setting up to shoot the piss out of his army type game and actually ended up tabling him in the end. He did get my steam tank though with his slayers. Win for the Empire.<br />
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Game 3: My opponent was *Ryan* McKinnon from Vancouver Island's "Greenskin Nation" gaming club. He was one of the 9/33 players that brought Warriors of Chaos. I felt horrible in this game because turn 1 I cannoned off his level 4 daemon prince. however, similar to a common theme during this tournament, even when a couple tough melee units got through my guns they managed to wipe through a warmachine or two and an engineer in the process. My opponent conceded after one of his Slaanesh Warrior units was obliterated off the table by a nice round of volleygun fire. No harm no foul there. Empire Win.<br />
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Game 4: My opponent was Andrew Muirhead with his Ogres. Andrew and I actually played a practice game with our exact same lists a couple weeks prior to the event so we knew how the game played out pretty much. It didn't go well for the Ogres but was probably better than the first time we played. I ended up tabling him as well, only suffering the loss of a cannon to a misfire, a unit of chaff knights to a maneater unit, and a helblaster volleygun and my archers were taken off from a couple rounds of combined leadbelcher and ironblaster fire. My steam tank managed to get into his big horde of ogre bulls and held them up until demigryphs could charge their REAR. bad news for ogres. Empire win. (poor Andrew, I don't think he likes playing me haha)<br />
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Game 5: My opponent was Alex Harris with his Orcs and Goblins. This guy was a real 'joy' to play against. Starting off by taking a march move back after going through dangerous terrain with his wolf rider chaff unit and rolling 3/5 1's for his DT tests, he decided he didn't want to move AFTER the result... I let it go because I don't enjoy making a scene or calling people out on rules (although sometimes I should stick to my guns and call people out). The game progressed and I cannoned off a couple stone throwers and killed some chaff wolves etc and basically the entire time he was bitching and whining about how awesome my dice were and how broken my shit was... really not fun at all. He was complaining about every 'horrible (horribly average) ' roll he was making and every 'good' roll I was making. He killed my steam tank, he basically walked through my entire army yet still I could not get an ounce of cheer from this man. Really lame sauce. After fighting a unit of his trolls with my demigryph knights, getting 9 wounds in total, and him passing 8!!!! out of 9 of his 4+ regens, I thought this would be the last time he complained about how awesome my dice were.. yet nope!!! He kept wanking off about how everything sucked and at this point I tossed him my hand to shake and say GG because I was fed up with how he was acting. I told him I really didn't enjoy the game and all his whining (even though he was still winning). Normally I don't mind a bit of complaining but this guy was just an asshole about it. I have no shame in saying it was my least enjoyable moment from the weekend and I hope I don't end up drawing him as an opponent in future tournaments but you're always going to run into people like this I suppose. Loss for me (and too bad the event had to end on that note!)<br />
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Summary: I went 3-2 which I'm pretty happy with, coming in 15th place after everything was added up which is in the top half of the field. The tournament itself was very well run by a fellow named Dan Miner who frequently does these kinds of events. He's a great guy who really does us all a great service in organizing these tournaments. There were TONS of prizes to be raffled off so it seemed everyone got something which was also great. There was one bit of drama that happened between a couple players (someone walking away from a game angry) that I won't go into but nothing else major as far as I heard. I'll be signing up next year and if you're in the Vancouver area and play Warmachine, Hordes, Malifaux, Flames of War, 40k, or Fantasy I suggest signing up as well as the event now hosts all those systems.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-43873202793259379312013-07-06T19:50:00.001-07:002013-07-06T19:50:19.393-07:001500 PTS Premier Tournament @ GW HighgateToday I had a sort of warm up for WGT coming up in a couple weeks. I tried out a 1500 pt Empire list for WFB at the local GW (somewhere I haven't been gaming in ages). My main game being warmachine, many of my opponents from that game DESPISE GW stuff. I think it's a bitter attitude (one that I once shared at a time) for people who believe they've been slighted by GW. If you look past all the bullshit GW constantly does, which is sometimes hard to do, you can see a light hearted game with great looking models and most of all pretty awesome and fun people who play (WFB at least.. 40k night probably smells bad haha).<br />
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I wanted to use some of the Demigryphs I've recently painted so that was a must. I also wanted to practice redirecting and fleeing more, so I took a small group of Knightly Orders with musician to help out with that. I took some guns to shoot stuff dead and a Celestial Wizard Level 4 to improve their damage output with the Harmonic Convergence spell.<br />
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General: Celestial Wizard Level 4, Earthing Rod<br />
Battle Standard Bearer Captain, Standard of Discipline, Full Plate Armor, Shield<br />
Master Engineer, Light Armor (I had 1 point leftover)<br />
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Halberdiers x32, Full Command Group<br />
Detachment Archers x5<br />
Knightly Orders x5, Musician<br />
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Demigryph Knights x5, Musician<br />
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Game 1: I faced off against my good buddy Kiel! Who ta thunk? I signed up for a tournament to face someone I regularly play. The scenario was Blood and Glory, leaving me with 4 fortitude points and Kiel had 5 I think. Kiel brought Beastmen with notable threats being a Cygor, a horde of Gor with two hand weapons and a couple characters inside, 1 being a BSB and 1 being a level 3 bray shaman on lore of Beasts, and a big block of 25-30 Bestigor with great weapons. It turned out there was a huge piece of area terrain in the middle of the damn table that meant Kiel's force wasn't going to be steadfast in combat (though i dont want them to be there!) but also meant I was at a -1 to hit modifier with all my guns. The short of it was I spent a couple turns shooting his stuff, taking off the Cygor turn 1 with a single cannon shot, and mowing down about half of the Gor with helblasters. There was a turn where my knights were in the rear of his Gor, my block of halberds in the flank, and my poor helblasters in front. This ended up with me eventually grinding him out, breaking him, and winning then and there with more than half his fortitude destroyed in 1 unit. The DGK also had a bit of fun breaking the bestigor who were out of BSB range, and had also failed their hatred check. I didn't end up catching them, however, though it did not matter. Empire victory.<br />
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Game 2: I faced a dwarf opponent who was named Tanner if i recall correctly. The scenario was Battle Line. I was really hoping not to face either of the dwarf players, as I knew it would be a 'cannon-off' and fortune would favor whoever didn't roll 1's and misfires. Tanner's army had a LOT of scary guns: a grudge thrower, an organ gun, and 2 cannons (1 was flaming). He also had a horde of dwarf warriors with great weapons and a BSB hiding inside, 10 thunderers, and another 25 man block of dwarf warriors with his general. Tanner finished deploying first, most things camping the corner in true dwarfy fashion, but I still managed to win the roll off for first turn even with his additional +1 to the roll. This pretty much set the pace of the game from the start. My cannon took out his organ gun, the main threat to my demigryphs, while my helbasters advanced up in to range (I actually forgot but my gracious opponent let me move them after the fact!). My knights marched off toward a cannon that eventually killed itself with a misfire before i got the chance to get to grips with it, and my demigryphs were actually successfully baited toward the bearer of the Rune of Challenge. Tanner's general was holding that rune, and really caught me out. I ended up failing a BAD charge putting me in a horrible position that was in direct cannoning line straight through all the demigryphs. luckily Tanner's dice hated him this game and he only managed to hit and kill 1 with the ensuing cannonball. after a couple more rounds of helblasters in the face and chain lightning bouncing between his units, all he had left was his horde and Tanner, unsurprisingly and unashamedly conceded the game. It's never fun getting beat up when there's really no hope anyways, at that point it would just be me rolling dice. It was quite the kicking and I felt kinda bad. I really enjoyed Tanner and would definitely play him again in a deserved rematch. Empire Victory.<br />
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Game 3: This was up against Allen's Vampires. Allen had a metric ass ton of models in this list, with the biggest threats being a vampire general in a block of 30 or so graveguard, 2 units of ethereal fast cav, and a tomb banshee. we were playing battle for the pass which i thought was going to give me a huge advantage, my army being shooty and all. However, I had NO idea that the ethereal fast cav were indeed fast cav, and therefore could vanguard. I had a +1 for the roll for first turn yet still failed. This was boding ill. Allen vanguarded directly in my face with stuff 99% of my army cant hurt! awesome! During my turn, I looked at it and figured I could probably charge the close unit of ethereal cav and beat them out on combat res alone. They don't have many attacks, with 1 apiece, and there were only 5 of them. After shooting some graveguard and crypt ghouls with helblasters and cannoning off a few more graveguard, i charged in with my halberdiers and my archers also had to charge just to get out of the way. luckily for me, his cav didnt do a SINGLE wound, and I managed to wipe them completely due to combat res. Allen's next turn saw the beginning of a horrible spell haunting me the entire game: Curse of Years on the Halberdiers. I couldnt dispel it in his magic phase, nor my own magic phase, and finally in his NEXT turn I got rid of it. My knightly orders fled a charge from crypt ghouls after beating up some dire wolves, and that flee reaction panicked my DGK, almost sending them off the board! The game came down to my halberdiers grinding out a big unit of zombies with the banshee inside, my helblasters almost tabling the graveguard from persistent shooting, his vampire walking through the helbasters, and my DGK destroying the graveguard and getting the vampire down to a single wound. We were the last to finish, and counting up VPs, I had won! Allen was another excellent opponent and good sport and there was really no whining or complaining the entire day (probably because I won all 3 games, I'm the biggest whiner after all!). Empire Victory!<br />
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I had tons of fun and would like to thank the staff at GW Highgate for running the event. I think the overall consensus was that it was a fun event with no real problems. my friend Kiel ended up winning on sportsmanship/soft score. He went 1-2! Congrats Kiel, people love you apparently!! I gave Kiel my best sportsmanship vote, as well as a vote for best painted, alongside Jonathan's excellently painted vampire army. Kiel is really good for taking a dick kicking and still keeping in good spirits (for the most part =P) and is just generally a fun and funny opponent to have a game with. 2nd place goes to both Jonathan and I. Yay us! I've already signed up for their next tournament, which will be 2000 points sometime in November most likely.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-35386838838908916632013-06-26T23:38:00.001-07:002013-06-26T23:38:46.459-07:00More figs for Drake and some random Hordes gamesI've been busy painting some more figs for AGM (Drake the Dragon Wargame!). These bad boys are Cherek warriors (or possibly hunters?). They serve the mighty Garrick - the largest dragons of Dara. They are mostly a tribal people and as far as I know lack cities in proper but tend to gather in small villages in the mountains. They are ab humans, tall and lanky and have a decent fighting skill that is matched at range as much as it is in melee.<br />
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For these guys I somewhat followed a previous scheme that was used to paint other studio figures but decided to spice it up a bit with some interesting patterns on the cloth hanging at their waists. I was originally thinking Zebra-like patterns but chickened out and went more of an antelope style instead with black lines in various spots. The zebra idea may be something to try on a different batch. Since these guys are somewhat primal it gives me an excuse to google animal skins etc to draw inspiration from. <br />
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Another thing this project gave me an opportunity to practice is darker skin tones. I pretty much followed a tutorial I saw a while back on Bell of Lost Souls found <a href="http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2013/02/hobby-practicing-skin-tones-with.html" target="_blank">here</a>. However, I wanted to emphasize the darkness of their skin (is this sounding racist?!) and only applied highlights sparingly whereas in the tutorial the artist seems to have exaggerated the lighter colors more. I really like how it turned out and plan on using this skin tone for various Circle of Orboros models (Tharn in particular) at a later date.<br />
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As for the models themselves, they are a work in progress. There will, of course, be additional poses coming but this is the prototype for multipart infantry. These 4, as opposed to their original renditions that are already painted and on AGM's website, videos, etc, are not a single piece; the arms are pose-able! I tried to showcase this as best as possible, but it's still a relatively static pose. Look forward to more variation in the future! They are well sculpted though and I'm really digging the 'true scale.' I like the ridges on their heads, and the definition of their lanky but muscular frame in particular.<br />
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I've been stepping up my Warmachine game lately, and trying to practice more at The Connections against good players. Even though I'll most likely get stomped, I'm always learning from my mistakes. I've had a couple frustrating losses lately where I was clearly in the winning position but either my dice failed me or I got assassinated in an 'all in' goofy matter. All that aside, I have been winning against various opponents at Connections that I've constantly lost to in the past, so that's saying something about my skills improving. I'm focusing on 2 lists in particular that I'll hopefully be taking to a tournament at Connections sometime. They are as follows:<br />
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Archdomina Makeda (Makeda 1)<br />
Molik Karn<br />
Archidon<br />
Bronzeback Titan<br />
Titan Gladiator<br />
Aptimus Marketh<br />
Nihilators max<br />
Paingiver Beasthandlers min<br />
Agonizer<br />
Extoller Soulward<br />
Mortitheurge Willbreaker<br />
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Dominar Rasheth (Tier 4 Chain Gang)<br />
Titan Gladiator<br />
Titan Gladiator<br />
Titan Sentry<br />
Bronzeback Titan<br />
Gatorman Posse max<br />
Venator Slingers max<br />
Paingiver Beasthandlers min<br />
Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew <br />
Agonizer<br />
Agonizer<br />
Paingiver Taskmaster<br />
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Here are some random pictures of some games I've played lately:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a game I played (today actually) at The Connections. This was an enjoyable game in large part due to my gracious opponent and his nicely painted army (a rarity at The Connections)</td></tr>
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Now back to those Demigryph Knights... Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-49742316512688508392013-06-25T01:32:00.002-07:002013-06-25T01:32:43.992-07:00Empire Army and WetCoast GT update!For those 4 people that follow me (lol) you may have seen one of my first posts about an Empire army for warhammer fantasy that I had to work on for a tournament coming up... well that tournament is next month and I have actually signed up for an ADDITIONAL tournament even earlier (less than 2 weeks?) that also has a painting requirement. Luckily it's not as many points therefore not requiring as many painted models, but still what a good inspiration to get my shit done. I took a bunch of quick photos of the progress i've been getting, and it's coming together quite nicely although I haven't spent as much time on individual models as some of my privateer press stuff but thats to be expected of GW systems requiring tons of figs. The pics are pretty bad and taken quickly but there will be better ones coming when everything is complete.<br />
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I'm currently working on my demigryph knights. these models are soooooooooo cool. when the new empire stuff came out I bought 2 boxes of these guys directly. I didnt see the rules for them until after the fact, but thankfully they are ridiculously good anyways, not to mention with the latest errata of the 8th ed fantasy rules, they are now T4! <br />
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A group shot of all the demigryphs. I'm having fun painting the red armor. These demigryphs dont follow the same scheme as the rest of my army as they are a detachment of the Knights Griffon knightly order (red and gold).<br />
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I have 2 units of knightly orders, this one I've airbrushed the horses white with smokey extremities and muzzles. I'm quite pleased with the result. <br />
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Similar to my demigryphs, these knights don't match the rest of my Nordland army because they are a detachment of the Knights Panther knightly order. Ever since I was a child and looked at pictures of Empire knights, I always loved the Knights Panther the best. Finally I get to have my own! These will be the last things I complete probably. With under a month to go, we'll see how I can do!!!<br />
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I completed this last night actually. My trusty BSB. Carrying the standard of discipline, this guy will ensure (hopefully) that none of the Empire's brave soldiers flee in the wake of the enemy! I decided to do something different with the grim reaper other than the typical black, and I wanted the colors to be different than my blue/bone scheme so I went with red, off red, and blue/black. meh haha <br />
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A small detachment of halberdiers to hide all my pathetic human characters in.. hopefully this unit will never see combat. I used army painter's quickshade for these guys. pretty simple and took barely any time at all. I suggest a tricky method like this for any huge block of infantry.. in particular core infantry. you just base the model with a bright color for each different surface, dunk em in the quickshade, wipe off the excess quickshade, and matte varnish.<br />
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Celestial Wizard. <br />
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I wanted to do a star pattern on the back of his cape, and I made it into a somewhat half assed constellation of the Heaven's Magic Lore symbol. Maybe hard to visualize with this crappy picture.<br />
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Bright Wizard. <br />
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I realized I did the flames backwards to what I had originally intended. Usually I paint the brightest part of the flame in the recesses but i think it works this way as well. I totally spaced on that.<br />
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I've had this old faithful warrior priest painted for many years already. At one point, I was even trying to sell him :O!! Good thing nobody wanted it. This is my general, he does NOT have a great weapon. Hopefully nobody is going to whine over him not being entirely WYSIWYG<br />
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A tray of halberdiers. this is a block of 40 (39) that will be the anvil. actually I hope they will never see combat either hah<br />
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I'm really happy with this steam tank. I painted it in TWO days I was that excited while working on it. it has been a LONG time since I've drybrushed any metallics, and I gotta say it was damn fun. When drybrushing ANYTHING I try to paint in small, circular patterns. This gives a weathered look and ensures all angles are hit with paint evenly, instead of just hitting it from one or two directions. This guy is my true anvil and he will Bline it directly into the enemy's fightiest combat unit.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-4185797699471228962013-06-20T02:02:00.003-07:002013-06-20T02:02:47.179-07:00NMM "old gold" or dark gold (crappy) tutorial!While I was painting my Lock and Load entry, Molik Karn, I decided that I'd do a stage by stage tutorial on how I do the darker gold non metallic metal shown on all my Skorne figures. A few people on the Privateer Press forums ask me about it regularly when I update my Skorne thread, so here it is.<br />
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I start by base coating the entire area that will be gold with Citadel Dark Flesh. This is an OOP paint, but an equivalent based on a quick google search is the currently produced Doombull Brown. Sometimes this requires a couple coats, in fact almost always it requires a couple coats!<br />
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The next stage is simply applying a layer to the gold area with P3's Bloodstone. Dark Flesh and Bloodstone have small enough of a difference between them that no blending in between is necessary; applying Bloodstone straight over top of Dark Flesh creates the first transition from light to dark. Try to apply this while leaving the darkest areas Dark Flesh. I almost exclusively use a technique called feathering which involves pushing and pulling the thinned down paint in a direction to achieve a smooth blend. I suggest looking up a feathering tutorial on youtube or google to know exactly what I mean.<br />
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The next step is probably the most inconsistent step out of all of them and varies from project to project for me. Usually I try to mix 50/50 portions of Bloodstone with Citadel Vomit Brown (again, OOP. google search says the new equivalent is Tau Light Ochre). You can see I'm always leaving behind a remnant of the previous shade. This eventually will make a stark contrast between light and dark, selling the NMM effect due to the color choices and 'dots' of reflection that will come later. When I'm deciding what areas to make dark or light, I try to imagine a halo of light coming from directly above the model. Again, make sure your paints are watered down because thin paint is more forgiving when making mistakes (it can be wiped off without drying as easily) and creates a smoother blend when applied patiently in multiple layers. If this stage is giving you problems, try dividing it into 2 steps instead: 1:2 Vomit Brown to Bloodstone followed by 2:1 Vomit Brown to Bloodstone.<br />
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Well what do you know? Without remembering it seems I did exactly my last suggestion. This is another layer done with mostly Vomit Brown in the mixture. You can really see a transition starting to form. This is when painting becomes extremely fun for me, when I begin to see my progress and know I've only got a couple layers left. It's results like this that reward you for your patience and diligence in making a smooth blend with watered down paints over many layers.<br />
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Starting to apply things sparingly now, we go into straight Vomit Brown. Wow, you see that sheen of what appears to be metal starting to form? Don't overdo it with the lighter colors. For every surface of NMM, with a few exceptions, I would always pick one edge/corner to be dark and one to be light. Make your plan before you even apply the first highlight. Map it out in your mind where you imagine the light to flow. Of course there is a perfectly correct way to do it, but just because something is incorrect doesn't mean it doesn't look cool, know what I'm saying? If something doesn't make sense in reality, it doesn't make it WRONG to paint on a miniature - this is a fun hobby and you should really in the end go for what looks cool! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise...<br />
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This final highlight may be hard to come by. It's Bronzed Flesh by Citadel, and it was OOP 2 generations of paint ago. The only current, in production way to get this color is going with Vallejo GAME color's Bronze Flesh. From my understanding Vallejo Game Color was originally made for Games Workshop so long story short all of their colors are more or less copies of the old Citadel colors. Apply this layer extremely sparingly, it should only be in the most bright parts of the metal.<br />
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The last part is probably my least favorite and something I won't continue to do on other armies (though I'll do it for Skorne because thats what I've done on every model so far, for consistency's sake). I think instead I would mix Bronzed Flesh with this color, Menoth White Highlight, for a further layer instead of applying dots of reflection, as shown here. They may be hard to see, but thats the point. You want to imagine areas where the glint of the sun/a light/ a muzzle flare would be hitting the shiny surface of the armor. Sometimes I place this in the brightest parts of the armor, or sometimes I'll place it in a transition stage between light and dark. Don't overdo it as always, and avoid putting dots too close to eachother. I really have no good way of suggesting how it looks right/wrong... just fool around with it and see if you like it. It's definitely not always easy to achieve.\<br />
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I only found out about Drake the Dragon Wargame (<a href="http://actiongamesminiatures.com/%E2%80%8E">actiongamesminiatures.com/‎</a>) the day after their Kickstarter project funded! I didn't have a chance to order anything, but I found out that the creators are local (and later found out that they are basically my neighbor!) to Vancouver so I thought maybe they could use a hand painting some of their models. One thing led to another and BAM I have a Dragon to paint along with a special Summon Chant and a couple infantry models.<br />
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Drake is a skirmish miniatures game, not so dissimilar to Warmachine and Hordes on the scale, maybe fitting somewhere between Malifaux and Warmachine. The bases are similar, the models are sweet, and the game is ALL ABOUT my favorite fantasy monsters - dragons. Drake incorporates a Magic the Gathering-like feel to a miniatures game by allowing the player to not only build their army but their Chant (spell) deck that their powerful dragons can conjure. I have yet to try the game out, but hopefully I'll be able to get a demo in soon. It looks super fun, and on Drake's Kickstarter page you can find a full battle report video of how the game is played (minus scenarios). From my understanding, scenarios are quite unique in this game as well because you have to manage action points on interacting with objectives versus destroying your opponents versus defending your own models. Clearly there will be some strategy involved.<br />
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The first model I was given (just last Friday at that!) was the clever and cunning Saan Dragon. This dragon is a cross between a pterodactyl and dragon, kind of like the Skorne Archidon but different. It's lanky and boasts scrawny limbs yet makes up for it's apparent lack of physical strength by being the best Chant(er?) of all the dragon races. Saan dragons have adopted some traditions and culture of a people that worship them: the Kaymayuk. The Kaymayuk are Aztec in design, hence the makeup on the Saan dragon. Most of the themes around the Saan are water and Aztec related. I wanted to make the dragon a cool grey with black hands and feet and a striking yellow accent to a black bar of makeup across the dragon's face. These ideas were gathered from looking at Aztec warpaint and armor. It really suited the dragon, I was pleased. After finishing painting the skin, I realized it was kind of flat and boring, so I broke up the monotony by speckling some spots in various areas to make things more interesting. The base was done with an airbrush, probably the only decent way to achieve the water effect in a pinch.<br />
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My second and third models were Kaymayuk Priests of Zerex. As of yet, I don't know much about what Zerex is, but I'm assuming these priests are mainly responsible for overseeing worship of the Saan dragons, perhaps even being the few that are allowed to converse with the dragons themselves. These guys I painted in a DAY! WOW. I was very proud of myself for how well they turned out given the time I had. I generally kept in theme with the Aztec design, noticing that Aztecs seemed to sport primary colors in abundance; red, yellows, and to a lesser extent blues are all present. I added some black zigzag patterns (another common theme on Aztec apparel) to the cloth worn on the bottom of these figs. I think the yellow could stand to be a stage darker, but thems the breaks.<br />
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The pictures below are actually not the most recent pictures of the progress. Although the model is essentially complete in these photos, I changed the base a bit to add a black rim to match the other dragons as well as repainting the water and tail because when I was speckling the brown patches onv the dragons skin, some paint inevitably found its way onto the base -.-<br />
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I started with priming this model black, and then on a 45 degree angle spraying it with some grey primer. Finally, i used an airbrush to hit certain key points of the model where I figured light would pool and would create interesting contrast.<br />
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Tints basically leave any solid colors underneath where they are applied in tact, but change the tint (hence the name) to the desired color. I used Fresh Blood Ghost Tint and covered the entire model except areas around the 'nodes' or 'spheres' of energy, the sword, and the arc node. These areas I airbrushed with the Plasma Fluid Ghost Tint, and then after that dried I went over the spheres themselves with a small spray of white with the airbrush, creating a glow effect in a pinch.<br />
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The model isnt done yet, but I've got the majority of it done and spent about 40 min tops on it. At this point I'll go in and pick out some metal bits and paint the base. This is a quick, cheating way to create something to a table top standard or possibly better? I won't claim to have invented this method however; I got this idea from Les Burley of AwesomePaintJob.<br />
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As for rating the Ghost Tints, I have yet to figure out any other great use for them. I think their main application will be in easy to achieve, basic OSL. I'll have to try out the other colors (already had a fail attempt on something so far that we won't go in to!) before I give a solid rating. <br />
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The Epic Thagrosh won Best Overall! <br />
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Todd's Kraken won the trophy for Best Large!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-45085446570716847392013-05-20T00:04:00.003-07:002013-05-20T00:04:52.290-07:00Druid Wilder and Drexoll Games review I finished my 3rd Circle model, though it's not officially part of my Mohsar list. I've been keeping up with my don't buy any more models rule well enough. Next is stones. <br />
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For this model I tried a skin tutorial from Bell of Lost Souls that was written about some Kingdom of Death Survivor models. I think this is the brightest skin I've painted in a long time (skorne skin is more tanned). It was good practice and I think works for females; males I like to have more of a dark to light transition because their features are more chiseled and sharp. Females look better with soft and unnoticeable transitions from mid-dark to light. I'd like to practice different skin tones eventually, including more ethnic ones. I think tharn bloodtrackers suit darker skin tones, so that is the plan. <br />
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Another thing new about this model is doing reddish hair (also from the tutorial on BoLS). I'm actually happy with hair for once. Sometimes I just want to drybrush hair because my normal methods for painting it are kind of sloppy I find with highlights inevitably running into the crevices and all that nonsense. I was extra careful this time though and managed to avoid any running.<br />
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The gold NMM on this model is not as precise and sharp as the warpwolf stalker but thats for 2 reasons: 1. its on a smaller sculpt and harder to make look clean, and 2. it's not sculpted sharp in the first place; many edges are smooth not hard and therefore you kind of have to fudge a line with your brush directly instead of just following a nice sharp edge highlight. Those are my thoughts! <br />
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I had the opportunity to check out a not so LGS thats on the other side of town: Drexoll Games. Overall there were tons of people and it seemed like the press gangers were very involved and dedicated to the crowd at their store. They had about 6 or 7 tables set up and they were all full with some people even waiting to play still. A few people I invited out also showed up and had some games against people they don't normally play which is always a good change of pace. It seems like most players there are not so serious about the game and play for pure fun which is good and bad. I guess I feel like this store is the complete opposite of Connections; it has players who (IMO, I don't at all know them but this is what I gather from observing a few games and looking at lists) are just getting into the game and haven't seen everything thats out there (for example I was the first skorne player to attend a game day at Drexoll) where as Connections makes you want to bash your head into a wall because most attendees net deck and power game the shit out of their lists. I feel Strategies has the perfect balance of competitive people who really know the game and people who are just having fun and people who are just getting into the game. Generally I would prefer to play against someone of Connection's caliber to start but if I get absolutely smashed I'd like to play a player who just wants to have fun for my 2nd game of the day.<br />
My opponent today was one of the press gangers who is a really cool guy and I would play again any time. The game was unfortunately not the most fun game I've had. This is because I felt like he had no idea what my army did (even after explaining to him briefly and helping him try to make decisions on how to best face my list) and I kind of rolled over him without much competition. Frustrating for him I'm sure and no challenge for me = not very much fun. He was trying a new list with a fairly new warlock (Grim 2) which also played a big part in why he didn't put up as much as a fight as he would normally. I was using Morghoul 1 with a bronzeback, a gladiator, and a mammoth. We played Incursion because I wanted to practice that scenario with Morghoul who I think isn't exactly good at holding 2 objectives (especially when they are ALWAYS on the left and right flanks!). Also, after a really drawl game at Connections last Wednesday against my friend's Circle Orboros and losing on objectives really sloppily I felt I needed to win this scenario to make up for that shameful loss! <br />I would consider going back to Drexoll, though it is far. I can see myself going for tournaments especially but hopefully I can get a game in against a nasty list that will just kick my ass and teach me a few things about the game. The table space was a bit cramped and my butt was constantly rubbing other people's butts as we moved past the aisle between tables. Also no chairs. Not a big deal I guess. One other cool thing was they were fazing out their Games Workshop stock so everything GW was 30% and if it was in an old package it was 60% off! I picked up an Island of Blood that was for some reason priced at 89.99 instead of the current price of $120 or so for an extra 30% and an empire cannon and high elf archer regiment both for 60% off! In total, the Island of Blood, Elf archers, and empire cannon cast me about $100! Deal!<br />
Overall, everyone was friendly and if you're in the neighborhood I don't see why you wouldn't play there. As I previously mentioned, I think it's just young and people need a little more practice to develop into truly competitive players that can achieve the balance of having fun/enjoying the hobby without winning every game but also putting up a mean fight. Here are some pics of a couple tables that my friends were playing on:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-69030192583856734752013-05-10T22:30:00.001-07:002013-05-10T22:30:24.873-07:00Archidon, list ideas, and testing the Mammoth/Incindiarii This one was pretty quick all things considered. Most of the work was done with the airbrush anyways. I tried an oil wash for the first time on this model and I'm having mixed feelings about whether it truly added anything significant or not. I feel like most of what the wash did could have been achieved with paint and with more control. I'm telling myself its really just my inexperience with oil washes however. It seems kind of gimmicky to me but I've seen people make it work to great effect. Maybe it's just not my style. The skin didn't need much in the way of brushwork on it, aside from further shading a bit and some edge highlights here and there. The muzzle/beak I painted a little darker for some interesting visual contrast. The NMM was obviously the most time consuming part, but overall I don't think it's terrible, just not my best. One thing I dislike about the Archidons is that their wings need huge amounts of putty work and of course knowing my luck I was driving home from teaching a friend some painting techniques and had my Archidon in a bag on the seat and somehow (unsurprisingly) one of the wings broke so now all that putty work is not so subtle and there is an obvious gap where the wing connects to the body. I craftily did NOT take a picture of that side ;). <br />
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Working on Molik Karn and finishing the Archidon has prompted me to stark painting Archdomina Makeda. I made a list I quite like for denial tactics (extremely my style) and would use against forces like Menoth or Khador who don't have huge threat ranges at the best of times. Menoth in particular I think would struggle to catch this list in melee and if they relied on shooting they wouldn't have many turns of opportunity for that tactic to have great effect. To be honest, I think this list would do well against most factions besides Cryx and maybe trolls (because tough is hard to account for).<br />
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Archdomina Makeda +5<br />
Molik Karn -11<br />
Archidon -7<br />
Titan Gladiator -8<br />
Bronzeback Titan -10<br />
Aptimus Marketh -3 <br />
Nihilators max -8<br />
Paingiver Beasthandlers min -2<br />
Agonizer -2 <br />
Mortitheurge Willbreaker -2<br />
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Another thing - I tried the Mammoth and Cataphract Incindiarii out the other day. I'm not too sure how I'm liking the Mammoth. I think its an awful big points investment for something that in both games I played did NOT make it's points back. Perhaps I just need more practice, which is true, but I'm thinking the Mammoth may not be my style. I played it in my first game against Cygnar and found that its really not a great beast in that matchup. Cygnar has ways of ignoring blast damage (foxhole, arcane shield basically nullifies it) so where I initially thought my crazy awesome gun would do some serious hurt on infantry, it literally did nothing but damage a heavy jack a couple times. I ended up using him in melee more than I did at range (which isnt necessarily a bad thing) but I had built my list around making his gun work and getting a ton of shots. I find that E. Hexeris is also not very thrilled with things like foxhole and arcane shield (I was playing against Siege). He loves to fight infantry, but not ARM 18 stormblades or DEF 18 rangers in a foxhole. I found I used my feat to cast hellfire a bunch of times at stormblades but thats really not a good FURY for model trade, nor a good use of my feat. In the end, I only had a gladiator and Hexeris on the table, he had Seige, a minuteman without a cortex, and an inert stormclad. He was running out of time so instead of camping on the objective and winning in 2 turns by dominating the flag, i stupidly decided to charge his caster who was defending an obstacle with Hexeris and failed an assassination. great. GG no RE. My second game fared better for me. We played the Hardcore scenario and I used P. Hexeris against probably the best cryx player (best warmachine player in general) in my province. To be fair, I wrote this list in particular to counter cryx infantry spam that I always see in people's lists at tournaments. I figured with P.Hexy's feat, eyeless sight and magical weapon on a stick, AOE's everywhere, soul slaved razorworm, access to farstrike and puppet master on whats important, I could take out the most annoying things in any Cryx arsenal (warbitch sirens, pistol wraiths, necroseurgeons, banelord tartarus, bilethralls, etc). Long story short, his dice were pretty poor this game and he didnt kill the mammoth with his kraken and failed an assassination on Hexeris, leaving the kraken to be taken out by the mammoth and hexeris and Asphyxious 3 exposed so in the final turn hexeris managed to clear a spot for the mammoth to land and the mammoth trampled over some stuff to get into melee with Asphyxious and stompy stompy. Lucky game for me I think, my opponent is miles better than me at this game AND I think Skorne struggles in this matchup in particular. For fun, my list was:<br /><br />
Lord Tyrant Hexeris +6<br />
Mammoth -20<br />
Cyclops Raider -5<br />
Razorworm -4<br />
Cataphract Incindiarii Max -9<br />
Nihilators Max -8<br />
Paingiver Beasthandlers min -2<br />
Extoller Soulward -2<br />
Extoller Soulward -2<br />
Mortitheurge Willbreaker -2<br />
Mortitheurge Willbreaker -2<br />
50 Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15391143440892467502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038676657524416553.post-23447693342349042202013-05-05T20:14:00.000-07:002013-05-05T20:14:02.840-07:002nd Circle Model finished - Warpwolf StalkerSo I had a terrible accident recently with a paint bottle. It was a vallejo model air Gold and it was pretty clogged in the dropper and I decided instead of being smart and poking a hole through the clogged paint with a wire rod or paper clip i would squeeze the dry paint out. This ended badly. Gold paint exploded all over my clothes, all over the table, all over the chair, the floor, and my models.. a couple of which were already finished!!!! GRRRR I was so mad at myself. Oddly enough, it only hit my circle models and my skorne stuff was completely missed. It got on my warpwolf stalker that I had finished the NMM on basically, and on mohsar who was completely finished. After smashing my palette on the floor (i really needed to throw SOMETHING) I cooled down and just fixed everything up. Because of this whole incident, I will push extra hard to finish models on my painting table to avoid paint spilling on them again.<br />
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I'm really happy with the warpwolf stalker. There aren't many parts of this model that I think aren't done to my best ability. I think the NMM is done almost perfectly, both gold and steel. the one thing im not sure about is the black spines. coulda done them bone colored but thought this might clash with the leather and gold nmm. I really like this sculpt now that ive held it and painted it. the only thing i dont like is the little spines that are practically his eyebrows. they seem out of place and come out of nowhere; his skin is unbroken where they are projecting from his brow. weird.<br />
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I can now buy another circle model and paint it (keeping up with my only buy a model if ive painted what i have for an army) though i need to paint a druid wilder for Matt Kotovsky from youtube and the PP forums. He makes awesome battle report videos from big warmachine events and I really appreciate his tournament coverage so would like to give him something in return for his efforts. It will be painted in a winter/blue scheme according to Matt's army.<br />
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