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So, I'm at my parents house waiting for my siblings to arrive so we can start our trek. (We're driving from North Carolina to Pennsylvania )

My mom gave me my graduation present. Pretty cool. Now I REALLY want to paint.

The colors...the colors...man....

Very useful present. That set looks big enough to have a great deal of what you need but small enough that it wont be full of colours you never end up using. Can't wait to see how you use them here.

adamsouza - The colors! I know! I'm pretty excited.

carlos13th - I think you're right, it's a good number of colors. The full 100+ range would be wasted but this seems like just enough.

I won't get to paint until Monday at the soonest. That such a long wait with these paints sitting here looking at me.

I have a bunch of colors in my 84 part minitaire set that I haven't used much. I may... someday. I probably should diversify a bit more... But yeah, just enough colors is a good thing. Especially with being able to mix up stuff in between in a pinch.

 EyeamRai wrote:
adamsouza - The colors! I know! I'm pretty excited.

carlos13th - I think you're right, it's a good number of colors. The full 100+ range would be wasted but this seems like just enough.

I won't get to paint until Monday at the soonest. That such a long wait with these paints sitting here looking at me.

Could always take a look at some colour theory stuff and work out how you are going to use them while you wait.

I'm sure if I had an 84 set I wouldn't use all of them either. I have some GW colors that I haven't used very much.

My boss at the shop sold me a random box of Bones for $20. There were about 30 minis in the box. I'm going to paint those up in colors that I don't normally use. That should be pretty fun.

carlos13th - Good call on the color theory stuff! I will definitely do that. Thanks for the idea!

I just posted this sketch over on the current LoER blog.

It's my final sketch for the "what went wrong" competition.

I have a bunch of Sculpey clay that you have to bake and then a decent amount of another brand of air dry clay at the house so I'm going to try using clay.

I don't think it's going to turn out well but it will be a learning experience for sure!

I think the Easter Island style goblin head will be super cool if I can manage to make it.

Now to go image search those statues...

Looking forward to seeing your results! Clay is one thing I've never really worked with.

I finally got Sorcha done! I'm pleased with how she turned out.

My big battle got moved to Thursday. I dug out my giant and he's looking pretty rough. I started working on him ages ago lots of mold lines and such.

I'm not stripping him down just to deal with mold lines so I just finished painting him enough to call the project complete.

I have him glued down rocked back on one of his heels so he looks like he's about to fall over.

I think it looks pretty cool, especially since the giant is always in danger of falling over anyway.

If I do anything else with him, it will be to pin his foot to the base to help keep it from breaking off. I'll just wait for it to break off on it's own to do it.

I still haven't gotten all of my 1750pt list pulled out so I'll probably do that tonight as well as think about the final 2000pt list so I can see what needs to be done.

Looks good, and the falling giant is pretty amusing

Thanks Grim!

I like the placement of the arrows. I think he needs some more though, isn't that usually how people kill giants? Launch wave after wave of arrows at them?

If I had 40 gobbos shooting arrows at the giant, I'm pretty sure 3 hits is accurate.

Haha true... Just gotta get more goblins Math him to death.

I hope he doesn't get Mathed to death on Thursday!

The skinks may try to multi shot him.

Meep! Well... if the giant goes down, you know a *lot* of firepower didn't go at other units!

That's the hope. Draw fire with the giant on one flank and the warboss on gigantic spider and a small unit of spider riders going after the other flank.

That leaves the two units of night goblins and two units of black orcs to come up the middle.

That's the current plan. We are fighting over the center hex on the map. There's chaos-y magic stuff happening all around us, so we will see how this works out.

I've got my battle today.

It's 1750pts. Here's my list:

Lords:
Skarsnik and Gobbla

Night Goblin Great Shaman - lvl 3; Dispel Scroll, Ruby Ring of Ruin; Talisman of Preservation

Heroes:
Goblin Big Boss on Gigantic Spider - lt armor; shield; shortbow; Dragonhelm; Sword of Striking

Night Goblin Big Boss - Battle Standard Bearer; lt armor; enchanted shield

Night Goblin Shaman - lvl 2

Core:
Goblin Spider Riders x7 - Boss; shortbows; spears

Night Goblins x42 - Full Command; spears; fanatics x3

Night Goblins x20 - Musician; Standard Bearer; shortbows; fanatics x3

Special:
Black Orcs x10 - Boss; Standard Bearer

Black Orcs x10 - Boss; Standard Bearer

Rare:
Giant

I'll definitely take some pics. Hopefully I can get some decent ones.

Wish me luck! I'm going to need it. This guy is a WAY more experienced player than I am. Even if the random acts of chaos only effect him negatively and me positively, I'd still be at a disadvantage.

Should be fun either way!

Ooooh excited to see pictures G'luck!

That was a CRAZY battle.

I should have taken notes. I'll have to do that in the future so I can actually tell you all about what happened.

The board was pretty insane terrain-wise. Every single terrain piece was magical.

We had:
a river of light
a venom thicket
a wild wood
a wizard's tower
a temple of skulls
a blazing barricade
a sphinx house
a sorceress portal
a tower of blood
an anvil of vaul
and a magic circle

There was a convergence of chaos magic in the center area of the board. At the end of each turn, we rolled for each unit in the center area and some effect happened and then if the unit was still alive, you got victory points. So you wanted to be in the middle but it was dangerous. I got really lucky and actually rolled no effect for all of mine except 2. I got the rust effect so my saves for my spider riders got -1. One of my units was sucked into a hurrican and hurled 4d6 and a scatter dice. I rolled really low (7) and in the direction I was trying to go so it wasn't any big deal.

The Lizardmen had one guy in a unit turned into a chaos spawn, the spawn charged the unit it was in and won combat! It ran down one of it's own units and caused one unit to flee. I can't remember the other bad thing that happened to him.

The giant did his job. He kept a stegadon with skinks and a giant bow thingy on top from eating up my flank. He didn't manage to kill it though. On the final round when it had to auto flee from the charge, I only rolled a 3 so I didn't over run it and it managed to stay on the board. That actually cost me the game. It ended up as a draw in my favor.

I only got a few pics. I need to write TAKE PICS at the top of my cheat sheet so I can remember. It is always my intention but then I get all caught up in what's going on. With so many magical effects, there was always something going on during this game.

Giant V Stegadon, I like how the giant is artfully dodging his foot out of the way

Thanks for sharing, sounds like you guys had a fun and interesting battle! And it doesn't sound like you flat out lost either which is pretty solid

I didn't lose! I can't believe it.

The last time I played this guy he tabled me.

Your army is really bright and colourful I like that a lot.

Also the falling over giant kinda looks like he about to boot the guy riding the steradian square in the jaw.

Always love battle report pics. Glad to see the Giant do well. I've always had luck with mine so I always bring him along.

Giant vs stegadon wins the battle of the pics

Carlos - I'm in the process of repainting the whole army in that brighter scheme. I'm glad you like it! That's 1750pts mostly painted and I have probably another 3000pts maybe more that need be either repainted or painted for the first time.

Squall - This is the first game I've played with the Giant. He was the main part of my upgrade when we moved to 1750pts. As we move to 2000pts I know I'm adding two spear chukkas but I haven't decided what else.

Monkeytroll - the giant vs stegadon is my favorite of the bunch too!!

how are the earster island gobbo heads/stone going? any WIP shots?

Hey Gawdam! I really need to get cracking on them. I haven't done anything since I determined that I needed to start over using a framework under the clay.

I've distracted myself with starting to put some paint on the GW terrain piece called the Deathknell Watch or something like that. I primed it months ago and I had this idea that I wanted to put bright colors on it and then I would paint it up normally and the bright colors would show through in different spaces.

Yeah. I don't know what I was thinking.

Well, I was thinking that it would make it look magical and not like some mundane building.

Right now it is looking like quite a mess. I want to get a few more things blocked in and then do a wash. Once the wash is dried I'll decide whether or not I'm going to strip it down and start over.

I'll take some pics of it so you guys can see the mess that I have made. It probably won't be until Thursday though.

This cold weather has me completely unmotivated.

I haven't painted a thing or worked on my terrain piece or anything useful at all.

I really need to get myself in gear!!

I dug around and finally found some skewers so I can make the framework for the standing stones.

I cannot promise that I'm going to work on them today though. So. Cold.

Seems like a nice day to snuggle up with the wife.

I hope everyone is doing well.

I will get back to the grind soon.