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Tank looks good. I like where the building is going too.

Did you and the wife like the hobbit movie? I'm still not sure how they crammed 3 books into 3 moviesbut the hobbit needs three by itself. Been a long time since I read it though.

 GrimDork wrote:
Tank looks good. I like where the building is going too.

Did you and the wife like the hobbit movie? I'm still not sure how they crammed 3 books into 3 moviesbut the hobbit needs three by itself. Been a long time since I read it though.

We loved it. I thought it was the best of the three by far.

Happy Birthday to the blog!

The tank looks good, I really like the simplicity of the colour scheme.

I agree about The Hobbit, it was an amazing movie (for my money, the best film made since Return of the King). Shame GW have yet to produce any minis for it that are decent/reasonably priced.

 Paradigm wrote:
Happy Birthday to the blog!

The tank looks good, I really like the simplicity of the colour scheme.

I agree about The Hobbit, it was an amazing movie (for my money, the best film made since Return of the King). Shame GW have yet to produce any minis for it that are decent/reasonably priced.

You're right, GW has really just given up with the franchise. I actually like the lake town militia minis, but I think they're 24$ for three of them, and I can't justify that. Oh well. I imagine I will eventually be able to find them cheap on eBay.

Great work on the scratch built terrain, it is nice when you have the vision to turn something you would otherwise throw away into a useful item. Good job.

So I got it a game today with my IG. We played doubles to practice for the upcoming tournament. We randomly picked teams. I was teamed up with Orks against Tau and Necrons. We played Maelstrom missions and while it was pretty close, my team ended up losing 11-8. Had a blast and thought I would put a few pictures up of some of my newly painted Guard in action.

This is the start of the game. They have 4 units in reserve.



After the first turn. One of my chimeras exploded... boo.



My vets killed the Necron warlord on his chariot. Huzzah!



After killing the Necron overlord (whose chariot you can see in the background) my Vets assaulted and killed these Tau battlesuits as well.



And one more pic for good measure.



I had a blast playing, even with the loss. Will get back to painting tomorrow. Thanks for looking guys and feel free to comment.

Looks like a good time!

Sweet thanks for sharing : ) It's always nice to see gamers having fun chucking dice

So I've been working a lot on my Guard. Mostly on infantry and I figured I wouldn't bore people with more Guardsmen.I've also been working on some of the scenery I showed earlier, but haven't really gotten it to a place where I'm ready to show any more. But I have also been working on my Vampire counts army and got a few models done this evening. I figured I would throw a few pics up and see what you guys thought.

First up are my hexwraiths. These are just some Bretonnian knights errants I got for free. I stuck some VC shields on them and painted them like ghosts and BAM!! Hexwraiths.





Next I needed to get a paint scheme for my ghoul unit. I have 40 of these so I needed something quick. I think this will work just fine when ranked up.





And thats all I've got for tonight. Gonna try to get some more work done on my guard army tomorrow night. Fri day I have to work from 7am to 9pm so there will be no hobbying. Saturday is the tourney. I'll take a few pics and post them if you guys are interested... and probably will anyways if you're not. Thanks for looking and feel free to comment!

I like the ghost knights, looks solid.

Ghouls seem fine too.

Good luck at your game!

The use of Knights as Hexwraiths work really well. The small addition of the Vampire Counts shields also adds an unusual point of interest.

The Ghould scheme seems clean and hopefully quick (I am a big fan of quick) but I think the photo in front of that big yellow/orange background makes them look a little anemic, but as undead that may be your plan.....

Look forward to an update after your tournament and good luck.

Nice job on the hexwraiths!

Some nice hex wraiths there squall. Nice work!

Good stuff! Everything looks nice, clean and simple, which is all you need for ranked-up Undead hordes!

Good luck at the tourney!

Thanks guys! I really like how the hexwraiths came out as well. I've seen the idea a lot of places but I got my scheme from one of the girls in our group who has been building her own end times VC army. Nagash and a lot of those models have ghosts on them, and this is how she painted them. So I stole it.

@Archer, you're right about the pictures. That yellow box you see in all my pictures is just my hobby knife box. I think I'm going to break down and build a light box in the next couple days. I've been taking crappy pictures for over a year now, its probably time to step up my game.

I don't think you necessarily need a lightbox unless of course it interests you. Just maybe get a different color box for certain photos?

I have been taking crappy photos for ages now and don't intend to change......but thats because I am lazy on that sort of thing.

I see the Enforcer scheme now. Looks good.

So I got to play in our gaming groups second ever tournament yesterday.It was a doubles tourney. Everyone brought 1k at we teamed people up at random. The one catch was, we had a lot of inexperienced players want to play (the new store in our area has brought in a lot of fresh blood) so we teamed up new guys with vets. I thought it was a great idea. I got teamed up with a Necron player who had a heavy armor list like mine, so our lists worked well together. Anyways, I took pictures of the first two games, but forgot in the third game, as it was pretty intense. There were ten teams there (so 20 people) and my partner and I came in second. I have come in second in both of the tournaments we've had, so I guess thats pretty good. Anyways, enough of me talking. On to the pics!

Game 1 IG and Necrons vs Tau and Dark Eldar. The Tau player is an old college friend and the guy who got me into 40k. He also won the last tourney we had, so I was not happy to draw him in the first round. It was a tight game, but we pulled off a tie on the last turn. I was just fine with that result.

Enemies starting deplyoment. They have a lot in reserve.



Some of their reserves coming in.



And the end of the game. We were both pretty content to sit back and shoot, so thats why there isn't a whole lot of stuff in each other's deployment zone. We did got line breaker on the last turn by flat outing a necron skimmer. That is what tied the game for us.



The second game we played against the TO and his partner. They played Tau and space wolves. We got a major victory in this game. I feel like we played well, but it also seemed like everything just went our way. I'll take it. Also, take a look at this awesome table one of the guy's made just for the tourney. He made all the terrain you will see in the following pictures.

This is after our first turn.



Action shot! These guardsmen will survive being in the middle of the table most of the game, H2H with space marines led by a wolf priest (they were saved by the necron overlord) and they make it all the way across the table to sit on an opponents objective. That's why they're vets!



The left flank during the middle of the game. This goes pretty well for us.



This is on the right flank. The riptide kills Pask, but the vets hold him up the rest of the game without losing a single man.



Finally the end of the game. Took a pic of those vets I was talking about earlier,chilling on an objective with some scarabs.



The third game we played against Grey Knights with an Imperial Knight and Eldar. We killed everything but the knight, but we were still down by 3 objectives going into our final turn. We were able to score 4 points on the last turn and pull out a minor victory which put us in 2nd overall. Sorry I didn't take pics, but I was way too into the game.

Overall, I had a great time. Thanks for taking the time to read all my blabbering and feel free to comment!

Nice! Thanks for sharing, always makes me happy to see gamers getting to play I've been in that 'too tense to take pictures' place, but thanks for snapping those photos you did!

Looks a fun day!

A few more pictures that the store owner posted on his site. After this I'll be back to painting, I promise!

Tau deep striking behind our lines.



Better picture of my second game. There I am to the left in the blue shirt.



And this is the only picture there is of my third game. At least there's one! That me back there in the blue shirt again. They also kept most of their army in reserves, which is why you don't see much of their stuff. This was the board after the first full turn.



Ok, I'm going back to paint now. For real this time. The question is, Guard or Vampire Counts?

Guard! I guess? Those knights are smaller than I thought... Still large though.

The photos are great as is the terrain and boards. Congrats on the 2nd 2nd place. Love to see some guard doing well.

 GrimDork wrote:
Guard! I guess? Those knights are smaller than I thought... Still large though.

Still just over 10inches tall Grim, a fairly large model.

They're big sure, I just had some misconception that they were larger than they are.

Check out the Knight Castigator and Knight Acheron at FW

So I lied about making a light box, but it is on the agenda. Promise.

So my gaming group has decided to play kill team for our games day in February. I wanted to do something a little different and work on some converting. So I have a few boxes or orks from the stormclaw set, as well as some other odds and ends, so I figured I would make my kill team from those components. Started on the Gretchin tonight and got the first two done. Also got some killa kans built. I'm gonna throw one in my list, but not sure which of the three yet. Here are a couple pics of the finished gretchin. So TLR the blog is gonna be very ork heavy for the next few weeks.





Anyone have any thoughts on the ork skin tone?

The gretchin look great.

Congrats on 2nd place in the tournament!

I like the skin tone, so long as the Orks are darker again.

Looks good to me. Looking forward to hearing about kill team.