That looks great Ice!

Thanks. Here is a shot with another piece.

Very nice. The color is even better when you zoom in. What color did you use to drybrush it with?

All this wonderful terrain is making me feel guilty about the stacks of terrain I have unpainted...

D

Those two ruins were dry brushed with different colors actually. The one on the left was done with a dark brown dry brush first. The one on the right was done with balor brown first which is more of a yellow. After that both were dry brushed with solar macharious orange. Then white.

Nothing to fancy but I think they turned out pretty good.

Thinking I'll repaint the buildings to closer match. I'm not liking how white /bright they turned out. I think the Mephiston red markings against the white/ snowy color makes them too cartoonish.

Nice ork buildings! Very spiky.

Great looking terrain!

Thanks guys.

Painting on the last primed ruin is under way. I hoping to have it done this weekend. Then it's on to the green gun emplacement.

I think it's needs an appropriate ork name. Suggestions?

More ruins!

Very ruiny!

I like .. work progress's on the Ork ruins. I'm repainting to more closely match, though it won't be exact.

I dig what you're doing with those buildings... Not only the ruins, but the Ork buildings as well !!!

Thank you very much guys. I started up on the ork turret today. I think I finally agreed on my olive green. Once it dries it'll be time for some damage and rust and lots of washes. I'll keep you posted, per usual.

Looking forward to seeing it.

Here are some updated WIP pics. My plan is to get the first few layers of paint down on everything, then go through and paint on the damage, then wash the whole thing a couple of times.

Thoughts so far?

Very orky in an Ice Angel kind-of-way.

Thanks. I think.

Oooh, I like the orange additions you made. Always a fan of the bright colors! I do worry a little that the main green might be too bright, but the washes should take care of that.

Looking great!

That orange does remind me a lot of your astral claws are you going to name your orks the Astral Klaws now?

I managed to get a small game in today. We played a sentry game. He had four killa kans protecting the ork turret. I brought in a team of specialist to disable it. The alarm was triggered (thanks kvothe) and the reinforcements began to arrive. Time was short. The elite team applied some serious damage, but was it enough?



These were the final moments before the ork horde arrived. Mortifex and plasma cannon jaska kept them at bay but the marines were forced to retreat. 7 hull points were taken away from the turret.

We shall see if it will silence the deadly device once and for all.

Nice story for a little game.

Nice terrain. Nice orky gun. Nice battle idea.

In conclusion. Very nice.

That Ork emplacement is looking great .

D

Excellent.. like the gun turrent

Nice terrain!

Thanks guys. It was a lot of fun. I think we are planning on playing the same scenario again but with some more refined rules. I'll keep you posted.

GAH! Where did the time go?

Despite my lack of posting the work has continued. Not necessarily on the turret, but instead on a group of carnifexes that recently arrived at my house. I need to pin some arms and then prime them. First I need to find a freaking paper clip in this house! Pictures will soon follow. My carnifex brood is now up to seven, ringing in at around 1100 points. Mostly dakkafexes but a couple others to spice things up. As effective as dakkafexes are in game, they have to be the least attractive of the lot.

I have manage to play quite a few games lately, not of 40k, but of xwing. I do really enjoy that game. I keep telling myself that i should repaint some of the ships, but I think to myself. I already have a ridiculous amount of things that need to be painted, why repaint something that is already painted. Any ways, I hope you are all doing well. I have really been loving the new Tau stuff, good thing I sold my Tau all those years ago. When the new Tyranid stuff hits the shelfs though, I may get in trouble with the wife when the boxes start arriving.

Same mixed feelings with my X-Wing stuff... :\

Ice pasted me in X-Wing Wednesday.

X-wing really appeals to me as a game, partly because the prepainted ships won't interfere with all my 40k hobby....

Are the x-wing ships really shodderly painted then? I know I shouldn't expect much from prepainted, but...

@evildrcheese I wouldn't say that the xwing miniatures are painted poorly. I would say that they are painted to the same standard as the average toy or game piece, BUT compared to what we see here on dakka or in the world of our hobby, they pale in comparison to even what I could accomplish.

@Moonpie hmmm yes, yes I did.

@yggdrasil would you agree with my above statement?

If I may chip in, I would say that X-Wing minis are better than other prepaints (eg attack wing, heroclix), but Ice is quite right that they pale in comparison to what we're "used to". However. they're very satisfyingly quick to repaint.

Fair enough, I guess all I'm really after if a fall back game for when I can't get a game of 40k at the club so could probably live with the pre-painted models. Maybe I'll just add details as special accolades when some thing cool happens.

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
Fair enough, I guess all I'm really after if a fall back game for when I can't get a game of 40k at the club so could probably live with the pre-painted models. Maybe I'll just add details as special accolades when some thing cool happens.

D

It is a great fall back game. Easy to learn, easy to play, lots of options and doesn't take too long to get a game in. Pick a faction, get a couple ships that look cool and you are ready to go!

I do like the idea of adding special accolades. That is a good idea. I should add tally marks to each one of my scum ships that destroys a vessel of moonpie's. Yep, that may have to happen.

Here is the collection of Nids primed and ready for paint.

Is that 7 Carnafexes?!

D

That's a good looking bunch of bugs, new enemies for the ice angels

evildrcheese wrote:Is that 7 Carnafexes?!

D

Yes it is!

bigfish wrote:That's a good looking bunch of bugs, new enemies for the ice angels

Thanks. They should present a lovely challenge against my Angels. I just need to figure out how I want to paint them first.

Well the rainbow theme is already taken.

Yesterday was a great day and very productive. I helped moonpie for awhile. He needed help packing. It was. ...... a unique experience. Late last night we had a three way, three hour xwing game. I played scum and villainy and i was victorious.

I also managed to cut some wood.

Which allowed me to continue work on my ruins

Very awesome looking ruins man!

I added more stuff to the base along with my special collection of sand and grit. I added a couple figs for your viewing pleasure.

Thoughts?

You added the large, primered tyranid for my "viewing pleasure"???

YEP! You're welcome.

I was going to comment on the unpainted Nid as well

Back to ork gun emplacement!


Ignore the fact that it is on a battle wagon for a moment. I have an important question. Cannon casing, green or some other color? Discuss............

Here is an earlier picture of the cannon side of the turret.

Excellent, excellent! Glad to see you back on the greenskin band wagon!

MORE WIP pictures. Next on the agenda is to finish up the missiles, do some odd bits, then stare at the cannons to figure out how I want to do all of that.

Amazing. job on the gun.emplacement.

Wonderfully orky Ice. Very appropriate!

Thanks guys. I think I have finally finished up my gun emplacement. Check out these shots. Please tell me what you think.

Damn Ice, your getting plenty done!

The ruin looks great, the ork emplacement is totally awesome.

Now you just to get cracking on those 'fexes!

EDC

Excellent work Ice. You should be proud of that one.

Thanks guys. I am really happy with how the emplacement turned out. It may be my favorite ork conversion yet. It has also put me in the mood to paint more orks.

Yeah, stunning piece of crap mate! Most awesome.

Thanks Graven! I appreciate it.

So the ruins have taken over my painting time as of late. After the priming came a lovely blue on the ground and brown on the top. Then came another level of blue with an orange and purple up top.


Then came the first layer of white.


Next we hit the ground with another level of white and select spots of white on top. Then we go back and get all the fun details on this bad boy.

Very very interesting Ice. Really looks like a building neglected and blasted by perpetual cold.

Very nice.. what are you using for a base material?

The base? A very thin wooden board. It comes in 8 x 4 sheets. I then cut down to size.

To celebrate Star Wars I am going to be having a large game of Xwing on Monday.

Any of you guys have any ideas, tips, or suggestions? I have never played more then a couple hundred points and this game could be more then double that very quickly. As far as I know there won't be any epic ships but who knows what may show up.

Thanks guys. I hope you are all having great holidays.

Sounds awesome. I played a tester game of X Wing a couple of weeks back. It was a blast, seriously considering getting into it.

Take pics of the big game!

EDC

More than 300 pts without epic is pretty unmanageable, just so you know! I guess up to 400 is feasible but it's a bit unwieldy. @EDC it's awesome - do it!

Okay, here is the scenario as it stands.

We both start with 200 points on the table. The table is much larger then a standard game size. There will be plenty of asteroids and debris. There will also be some satellites. We will each have two more 100 point squads that will be brought in as reinforcements. Every so many turns we automatically get our next wave of reinforcements. HOWEVER, if you get one of your ships to land on one of the satellites and you forgo making an attack that round you may remove the satellite from play to boost your signal. Meaning, your next wave of reinforcements comes in one turn sooner. The waves that arrive will be randomized to see what arrives next.

Game victory is determined by total points left on the board after a set number of turns.

Here is my only question, how many turns? In xwing you can play a TON of turns, they go by pretty quick. Should reinforcements be every 10 turns? 5 turns? Should the game last for 30 turns? I need to think about it. What do you guys think?

Okay, before getting back to our regularly schedule program. Here are a couple pictures of the big game from yesterday.

Here is my Imperial Force. Back row is wave one at 200 points. The other two waves were 100 points each. One of the problems I ran into when making this list is that I really don't have enough Imperial Ships. I ended up over equipping a couple of them.


Here a couple of action shots from various turns.





Overall we played for about six hours total. We stopped at dinner time. When we did, he had more hull / shield points left. He was declared the winner. The satellite idea worked well. Bringing in waves of reinforcements kept the game turns consistent in length. The game was fast paced and well played by my opponent. His Han Solo was the bane of my existence. His K-wing with its SLAM drive was also a nuisance. Those two ships probably caused more damage then the vast majority of his force. By the time we had stopped they were both down to one hull point but his other remaining ships were still rather fresh. Mine on the other hand were becoming wasted space debris. My biggest lack luster units were my Firespray and my Shuttle. Whisper also got his butt kicked by some dismal rolling on my part. My MVP's were my two Interceptors. Kir Kanos and Carnor Jax, the two of them were very effective and lasted substantially longer then expected. In fact, Kir Kanos was in wave one and lasted the entire game. He had an amazing strafing run on Han Solo earlier on and rolled 6 evades in one turn. Overall, I don't think I would change to much other then borrow some additional imperial ships so that I don't end up with extra expensive ships.

Or you could... pony up the cash for a couple of extra ships... cheapskate.

Looks great! Firesprays are tricky ships. I still think the best way to run them is Scum, tbh (Kath, Andrasta, all the Bombs) much as pains me to say that! Interceptors are glass cannons so that's pretty impressive. Me, I love the Defender.

Looks and sounds like you had a blast. I finally cracked and picked up the starter set, just deciding on which version was tough.

My X Wing career hasn't got off to the most successful start, talked my wife into playing the tutorial game with me, and she promptly whipped me.

EDC

Gitsplitta wrote:Or you could... pony up the cash for a couple of extra ships... cheapskate.

Yes thank you Gitsplitta. I will end up with more of them but typically I play Scum or Rebels. I do really want to pick up a decimater, it is such a cool looking ship.

inmygravenimage wrote:Looks great! Firesprays are tricky ships. I still think the best way to run them is Scum, tbh (Kath, Andrasta, all the Bombs) much as pains me to say that! Interceptors are glass cannons so that's pretty impressive. Me, I love the Defender.

I agree 100% with everything in that sentence except the last part. I like defenders currently. When Imperial Aces 2 comes out, I will then Love Defenders. Currently though they seem a bit over priced. In this game I brought Rexler Brath and he only took shields or did critical hits so he never actually got to use his ability.

evildrcheese wrote:Looks and sounds like you had a blast. I finally cracked and picked up the starter set, just deciding on which version was tough.
My X Wing career hasn't got off to the most successful start, talked my wife into playing the tutorial game with me, and she promptly whipped me.

It is a great game. It is currently filling my hobby time. My wife and I play a lot and she often does well. Ask Moonpie, she pretends to not understand the game then she swoops in and destroys everything. X-wing and pathfinder are the reason there haven't been any actually painting or modeling posts. Sorry guys. It'll come back around though.

Merry holidays and new years of Happiness to you ( read in your Yoda voice )

I had a nice little battle today. 1000 points. Easy lists orks vs ice angels. I don't play nearly enough any more so we kept the lists very basic just to have a game without making it to complicated. Here are some pics of the battlefield and game in order.




My guys running through the ruins trying to get a meltagun into range of the battlewagon.

Him return firing. Both of us did NOTHING to one another.

His battlewagon rounding the corner before it disembarked his warboss and boyz. My terminators had just landed in that street moments ago.



The game was a blast and an absolute slug fest. Around turn 6 neither one of us had much left. By turn 7 this is all that was left on the board, a wrecked battlewagon, a handful of boyz, his warboss, and my four tactical marines. I had a drop pod on the other side of the board as well.


On his turn he was 10 inches away. He decided not to charge to try and keep my overwatch from taking effect. On my turn, I gunned down his warlord due to his awful rolls and saves. We ended the game here.


For funsies we reset this last instance and we played out him declaring the charge. I missed with all of my overwatch, not a single 6. He then rolled a 10 which would have got him into combat. It was a great game with a couple great moments. We also managed to play the whole game in only about 2 hours.

Cool. The 1000pts level is oft overlooked,, but it's one of my preferred game sizes.

Great pics.

EDC

That looks classic fun, no silly strings attached. Board looks great.

Thanks guys. It was a blast. I am already looking forward to round two.

I just love games that come down to only a few figs on each side. They're just so much more epic feeling. Looks like a really fun game there Ice. Glad you had a chance to get some table time in.

I agree completely! I have so much going on right now but after just one game it fills me with the feeling that I need to back to painting and building. Or writing, more importantly.

Where is the ice man!!!

I am still here. However, I am not working on any Painting or Modeling projects at this time. I will let you know when I do.

Ok just let us know

Hang in there Ice... we can be patient.

Ditto. RL comes first.

Thanks guys.

I do have something 40k to look forward too. I am getting a special shipment tomorrow and it looks like I will actually be partaking in a battle next week. Pics for proof will arrive!

Patiently waiting bud, no worries, but interested to see what the package was.

This is the awesome collection of terrain that Solar_lion brought me. I can't wait to have a game with it. I was planning on having a game today but other things came up and we didn't have the time. I almost want to set up my table just so that I can take some pictures and share with you guys. I have Wednesday game night tomorrow, perhaps I can convince some of those guys to help me set everything up really quick. Then pics on Thursday.

Yep, that may happen.

I like the way the ork buildings look like giant ork faces...

Worth waiting for, they look amazing. And can't wait to see them used in anger. Well OK things being used in anger about them.

Glad you like them. They really are just basic and based off the generic terrain I built for my FLGS. I think they will need to have a bit more detail based off the current terrain Ice currently has; a possible touch up re-paint to match his stuff.

Got to see his Orks in person and they look great in person. Very nice work indeed! Look forward to the pics.

Great buildings !!!

Hey I thought I'd see some battle pictures by now. Time to get back in it.

The battle fell through unfortunately, but it will be had and there will be pics.

Meanwhile, this week is GenCon. I am super amped, as always. My P&M blog probably isn't the best place to talk about it. Where would you suggest I start up a thread about it?

Dakka discussion is prob the most appropriate spot.

Yeeeeeah!!! GENCON!
Better come by the OTL booth and say hi

Have fun .. either place I'll be tuning in.

You coming to Indy, Ramos?

Consider it a date!

I'll be the one yelling KHAN! at random intervals.

Also, you are now officially press ganged into my search for OOP Empire models.

Because I need more empire, for um...reasons.

GenCon 2016:

GenCon finished up yesterday. It was an amazing few days of cluster gaming, visiting old friends, and spending a lot of money. Instead of the occasional recap throughout the week I figured I would just dump all of it at once. Please let me know if you want me to elaborate on any of the games I played or demoed. Here was the break down of my several days of gaming.

Thursday: Open day of GenCon. My wife and I got to the Con really early, mainly because my wife had a trade day pass. Which means she was already there on Wednesday at seminars and meetings, but more importantly it means she gets in an hour early on Thursday. SWEET! While she is waiting at the early gate I wandered to check out some of the other halls that were already open. In the gaming hall they already had thousands of people competing and demoing games with one another. I demoed King of New York. I watched a Battletech match with about 20 people all in their own individual pod. A wide screen was cycling through the action. It was awesome. Eventually I wandered back to the closed doors to wait to enter. By this time my wife had already been inside for about 45 minutes. In this amount of time she bought two games. One of those games, Seafall, sold out before the doors opened at 10 AM. When I finally got in, we demoed 7 Wonders. The game seemed fun but the chick running the demo had NO personality. We then visited an artist friend of mine, Sam Flegal. We chatted for a bit before we began to really hit the demos.

I didn't keep track of all of the games I demoed but there are a couple that really stuck out in my mind. First and foremost, Project: Elite. I wanted to buy this game and honestly, I do not know why I didn't but it was freaking awesome. It is a cooperative game that I demoed a total of three times during the con. The premise is simple, don't let the aliens get past you, but the system is unlike any other game I had ever played. After the planning phase you and your friends roll dice as fast as possible to try and kill the aliens while a timer ticks down from 2 minutes. You have to place your dice to activate your weapons and then you roll damage dice to see if you killed anything. Certain sides of the D6 allow you to move or to search or to activate things and at any time you can simple keep certain dice and reroll others until you get the results you want. One side of each dice makes you move one alien closer to your side of the board. All of your friends are doing this at the same time and it is a frantic mess of rolling and shouting and sudden changing of plans. I loved it.

On Thursday my wife and I played a huge game of Pompei. The board was a rug and the game pieces were cut up pieces of pool noodles. The volcano was two feet wide. It was the best game of Pompei I had ever played and I won! We also checked out Isle of Skye, it is a new award winning game from Mayfair. It had some mechanics like Carcasonne but each person had their own isle to build. Every time you play there is a collection of point systems that go into play at random so in one game lighthouses may be worthless and the next time they may be awesome. Great replay with that game.

Thursday we also check out the "Tiny" line of games. This company makes great quality games, also award winning, and each one is $30. The game boxes are all the same size, slightly larger then a paperback book. We played Tiny Galaxies and immediately bought it. Great little game and a great value. They jam a LOT into this boxes. Thursday afternoon we demoed a firemen game. Shoot, I forgot what it was called. It'll come to me. The premise was to save people in the building and get them out, as you can imagine. The base mechanics were very simple but they had a ton of optional rules you can add as you learn and play. Not really my kind of thing but I felt like it would be a great game to play for non-gamers. It would be a great gateway game, so to speak.

I almost forgot, Thursday for lunch I had the worst bowl of Udon I had ever had, but dinner was the best Thai food I had ever had. Thai Paradise, only a few blocks from the convention center. Hot Duck Curry, AMAZING!

Friday, we checked out probably a dozen games and went to the Concert Against Humanity, which is put on by the Cards Against Humanity folks. We had VIP passes this year which were awesome but the concert sucked. Last year it was the highlight of the CON, they had great comedians and musicians. This year they had several of the same musicians that played the exact same sets as last year and the comedians this year were not nearly as good. We will most likely not go next year FYI. Before the concert we did demo a dwarven drinking game that you would play with real drinks. You legitimately get drunk while playing this game, it sounded like fun. We also checked out Red Flag, which is a sister game to Superfight. After buying Superfight last year I think I would have rather had Red Flag.

Red Flag was hilarious, during your "turn" everyone else puts down cards to explain your date. These cards will be positive things like, very reliable, has three dragons, huge tits, loves to help out, etc. Everyone plays two of these cards. Next, each person will play a negative on someone elses date, like has explosive diarrhea when orgasms, spits bees when speaks, carries a knife for killing kittens, etc. You then have to pick the date you would go on. You of course want your date to be picked so you can get a point. It was simple and a lot of fun.

On Friday I also picked up the Character Trove box for Red Dragon Inn. The newest boss monster expansion that allows the game to go up to 6 players, AWESOME! For dinner we went to Scotty's. The bar played every Star Wars movie on Friday. The Ghostbusters on Thursday. Lots of geeky stuff, it was cool and great food.

Saturday, my wife and I played a game of Pathfinder. It wasn't run very well nor was our group very amusing, not really a great part of the CON. However, before that we played same great games by HABA, they make little kids games so we picked up a couple for my kids, one of which turned 4 yesterday. I demoed Seafall, and later found out that the guy running the demo was the creator of the game and the father of Legacy style games. Neat! That game is so cool I can not wait to start a campaign with it. I think legacy games are going to be a big thing in the future. Seafall is the first game to specifically be built in a legacy style format. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a legacy game is a board game where the results in one game have ramifications in the next. Risk Legacy was the first version of this. In seafall, the game has pages of stickers and sealed miniature treasure chests. When certain milestones occur in the game, you will be instructed to open a chest, certain stickers will be placed on the board. Stickers will also be placed in the rulebook. As the campaign continues more things be placed on the board and the rules will change. Good news, no two games will be alike. Bad news, you only have about 15 plays of the game before you run out of stuff. Either way, the system sounds amazing.

I feel like I am forgetting a lot of things.

Happy Salmon - perhaps the silliest game we played at the con, but a great little game to kill some time.

Sounds like an action packed CON, the closest thing NZ has might be Armageddon (here in October, Yay!) but they don't have a lot of demo stuff.

Funny you mention pathfinder as well, I've just fallen very heavily into listening to Critical Role on Geek and Sundry and my god it's addictive, they use a hybrid D&D/Pathfinder rule set and all the PC's are voice actors. So good so far!

 Knightley wrote:
Sounds like an action packed CON, the closest thing NZ has might be Armageddon (here in October, Yay!) but they don't have a lot of demo stuff.

Funny you mention pathfinder as well, I've just fallen very heavily into listening to Critical Role on Geek and Sundry and my god it's addictive, they use a hybrid D&D/Pathfinder rule set and all the PC's are voice actors. So good so far!

The DM from Critical Role was at GenCon this year. I haven't listened to it before but I should. I have heard good things about it.

Glad you and the Family had a good time. Sounds like a lot of choices to demo as well as hoards of people.

Did Moon go as well?

He certainly did.

I almost forgot to mention, I visited Ramos. We had a lovely chat.


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I just thought of some more games I demoed. I ran a demo of dropship commander. A very fun game. I wanted to pick it up but had run out of funds by this time. It may be a purchase later on. The main box set has all sorts of stuff in it and there is a great deal on amazon. Interesting......

Excellent.. I believe the next year is the 50th?

Glad to see the Wardens get together even if he was afflicted by the plague.

Now lets see some painting, building or a battle report.

Sounds like you had a great time Ice, glad to hear it.

FlashPoint, I'm guessing, is the co-op fire rescue game.

Great con!

So jealous, but really glad you had a good time, sounds so much fun.

And SL is right, lets see some action bud.

Alright fine. I will post something of use.

Brian, I believe you are correct. Flashpoint does sound like the correct game.

Yesterday I actually managed to get a games workshop game in. Moonpie came over and we played a game of Age of Sigmar. We got out the Isle of Blood miniatures. We printed off the rules and the warscrolls and we went at it.

I have to admit, I really enjoyed it. We imitated the silly voices that elves and skaven would have and we went about ruthlessly cutting each other down. The ease of the system and the changes with combat were great. With that being said, my birthday is in two days. A small amount of funds will be sent my direction and I think some Sylvaneth will be purchased. That thought raised an interesting question amongst Moonpie and myself. How would I paint a force of nature on an ice world? Would you paint it realistically or go for something ridiculous, because MAGIC!

Discuss......

One more thing, I won the game.

Well done on the win!

They would look spectacular in natural winter shades.

Sounds like you had a awesome time @ GenCon.

EDC

I'd go with a winter theme.. Whites, Greys with blue or lite green washes ect. Magic..

I had a second game of age of sigmar yesterday. It was awesome. Very close. Btw, it seems there is very little AOS being sold around here. May have to go all the way to the GW store.

Thanks for the color ideas. I think i may have to experiment. Perhaps on some orks!

4 pages of rules and we got half of them right...

It was fun though. I'm looking forward to hopefully more. After all, I've got all the models. It would be nice to put them to use.

As to the color scheme, I would think greys and muted browns. Maybe some blues in there, with flashes of green and yellowy green as interior pockets of foresty magicky power blob light sources.

Trees in winter always look grey to me. And the leaves all over as brown like they are dying seems to make sense.

Or go just Yellow and Pink..Just saying!

That would make for an interesting tree, for sure.

Look! I started something. I gathered all of my age of sigmar things. I put some together and repaired many. I started dusting the old stuff and I based a handful of them. I think the plan is to base them all and prime them. I doubt I'll paint them all but I think I'll select some to work on and just have fun with them.

Look at some pictures of boreal forests and animals... that should give you plenty of ideas. Not everything in the winter is white.

https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/threeSixty/99120204018_KurnothHunters3360/01-01.jpg

This is something from the GW website. Maybe something like this.

I searched Boreal forest and there were pictures of birch trees and evergreens.

The AoS army looks like a fairly big project. Sounds like you've got the right approach with how to tackle that many models (I.e just 'having fun with it').

EDC

Thanks for the ideas guys. I think that all of this is going to require some experiments to find what I like. It may be time to get out some orks to use as test subjects.

I have not been sitting idle the past few weeks. I have been putting together Sylvaneth. Basing the old stuff. It is coming along quite nicely. I will take a picture tonight and post it, otherwise I am sure you will all demand proof.

Sunday is a battle. 1000 points. Three way game. More pics! The ice board will be in use. The river will be dusted and used. I am getting excited.


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Blam! As promised. My goal is to have the Dryads build by Sunday. I have another treelord and wych that may have to wait. Once these are put together, they will be primed. Then the experimentation on some orks will begin. Still not sure where I want to go with the painting yet.

Okay, we had an awesome game today. I got my butt complete kicked but it was a lot of fun watching it happen. I have an idea for a little story to go along with this but my wife keeps bugging me to play other games so that'll have to wait. Here is a few pics from the game.


This is set up. I brought 900 points of Sylvaneth and my team mate brought 900 points of skaven and chaos. Our opponent brought 1800 points of High Aelves, (how do we spell it now?)


Close up of my side. Rats on the end. Slyvaneth in the center. Rat Ogres in the river. Lord of Plague off by himself.


This is was the majority of the Aelf situation. 50 archers, repeater, silver helms, griffon, mage, and sword masters. He had Reavers and Tyrion on the far side.

There are not to many pictures of anything else from this game but here was the break down. We ran forward, he bogged us down with silver helms and sword masters, meanwhile his archers DESTROYED us. This is the end of turn two.


You'll notice all 30 Dryads are gone. You'll notice the skaven are basically non-existent. Not only did the enemy kill us. Every time the skaven player took a chance at wounding himself, he completely killed himself. In fact both his engineer and warp thrower killed themselves on the same turn. It was frustrating and hilarious. My rolls were one catastrophic failure after another, but it was still a blast. I did however learn a lot. I learned that I need to be using the rules from the sylvaneth book, not the Book of Order. I learned that Durthu is awesome but still not nearly as effective as a bunch of cheap troops with bows. I learned that playing Sylvaneth is really hard when you don't have any terrain that you can call woods.

That being said, I can't wait to play again. Hopefully in a few weeks. In that time I need to put together another Dryad and a treelord. Then a crap load of priming and to the painting. At some point during this I will also have to figure out how to make some forest looking ice features. I already have some ideas, some really good ideas.....

Nice to see the Ice board in action again .. still alot of Grey on the table!... hummm

There's this little thing called the "boreal forest" that actually covers quite a large section of the planet earth's surface... you should look into it next time you're up for some terrain building.

Thanks Solar! I'm fully aware of the Grey problem.

Gits, when you mentioned it before I started reviewing images and studying the varieties of foliage. Lots of great pictures out there for sure. I have an interesting idea for some terrain though that will count as forest. I have been thinking about the best way to do it. I will share more when I am next on my computer. I want to show you guys some reference pictures.

I do really appreciate the ideas and suggestions as always but I think I want to go for some forests that look a bit more magical.

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These are some interesting plant creatures from the game of magic in the city covered plane of Ravnica. There are lots of cards that use them. Google Ravnica Saprolings and check them out if you want other examples. I really like the idea of these plants being magically manipulated, so to speak, by these crystals. I want to take this idea and put them on my ice board. I want to create these twisting "trees" and have them holding or attached to crystals of some kind. Moonpie and I have been brain storming. I am thinking wire frame, papier maché, foam crystal shapes on removable bases so we have some nice gaming trees.

That is the plan. We shall see how that turns out. Kind of excited.

Progress!

I have primed all of the sylvaneth models I own along with all of the chaos models that I own. While staring at the trees debating on where to start, I grabbed the free khorne slaughterpriest and began painting him. Not sure why, but I did.


I am still unsure how I want to do the hack blade and skin but I got a nice little start on him. I really like the model, especially because he was free. He is the only khorne model I have actually but he has fun rules. I am sure he will see some use. Sitting to my left right now is a box of High Elves that I finished basing the other day. I am thinking about priming them this weekend. Assuming the weather cooperates.

Any ways, have a great weekend everybody. Let me know what think about my white armored khorne guy. CC always appreciated.

Everytime I see that model makes me want it more. Good start.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Everytime I see that model makes me want it more. Good start.

Thanks Cam. It is a sweet model. I am not sure how they justify charging $30 for it by itself, but it is a great pose. Go by the white dwarf and get him for free. He is worth that price, lol.

Progress continues.

Nice start whippersnapper!

Really liking the colors youre getting on that guy- The oranges and blues offset each other nicely

Thanks guys. I am a bit stalled at the moment, unsure of where to go next. Moonpie has suggested blood splatter. I'm not totally sold on that idea yet.

 IceAngel wrote:
Thanks guys. I am a bit stalled at the moment, unsure of where to go next. Moonpie has suggested blood splatter. I'm not totally sold on that idea yet.

When you said ' Moonpie suggested....' I went right to ' candy striper'. How that happen?

Now I understand the look you gave me when I found my Blood for the Blood God and said, "You were looking for this right?"

Apparently, this was my idea.

excellent work ice!

I returned from Adepticon with a small collection of new things and a burning desire to build and paint. During Adepticon I did not play any official events. Instead I decided to just hang out with friends, check out the scene, demo things, and in general take care of all of my friends as they did their thing. Primarily Ramos, because he is a big baby. That being said, Ramos did have the best food suggestion of the weekend. We went to Misoya (sp?) and had AMAZING ramen. Truly, it was amazing.

At any rate, I picked up guild ball after running the demo. I got a dark elf Kahrybdis, that I have wanted ever since the model was released. It has already been clipped, cleaned, and built. I also picked up Rune Wars. THANK YOU SOLAR! I have been reading the rules. I think they have a great game on their hands. I can see this game doing well. It is xwing and armada rules using a fantasy setting. I do find it very interesting that they made the figures easy to put together without glue yet they didn't paint them.

Any ways, during Adepticon Moonpie and I played 5 rounds of Silver Tower, with various people. Thank you to everyone who played. I think we may be playing another round today. That is my hope. It was nice to see everyone enjoy the game despite some preconceived notions. We may have turned a couple Wardens to the game. Next year Moonpie has promised to have every model painted. (yes i put that in writing)

Thanks again to everyone who went. It was great to see everyone and recharge the war gaming batteries. It was also a fantastic con with lots of great vendors and tournament organizers. Everyone we spoke to, even the randoms in the elevators, were great.

Hey Ice. Nice to see you back, sounds like you had a blast at Adepticon.

Let's hope that desire to paint yields some awesome progress!

EDC

It was a true joy to hang out with you and Moonpie again. Really looking forward to seeing you do some painting again too!

Thanks man. I am planning on doing some rearranging to a desk to have a more permanent set up. Question for you guys, what kind of light do you paint under? One of my issues is the small desk light I have. I may want to look for a replacement.

Ice

Right now I'm using two photographic lights on stands. Same ones I use for my photo booth, I just move the stands back and fourth.

You dun good takin' care of me Seriously, man, I super appreciated you running and getting food and meds!!

Really happy you guys liked Misoya. Honestly Im glad it turned out as well as it did- I had no idea what to expect!!! xD And now we definitely know- Takoyaki and CORN CROQUETTES!!!


Silver tower was remarkably fun- Been considering picking up a copy, myself! (though noone to plaaaay with around here D: ) Tell moonpie that now I'm EXPECTING to play with beautifully painted minis next year!! ( <3 Wight King!!)




As far as lights, I have a pair of large fluorescents that light the room, then a desk lamp with a daylight bulb in it. Gets me pretty nice clean white light all around. I use a similar setup with my photos

Despite my lack of posts, i have not been idle. Here are some pics to prove it.

Nice to see you still working on stuff Ice.

You have been busy, the graveyard looks cool a kit I've always wanted.

Creepy..... love it

What is the first beasty?

Dark Elves Kharibdyss.

After doing some priming, on this beautiful day, i broke out more foam to make a fallen spire. This piece of terrain has been in the making for years. I hope you like it.

Very nice. Looking forward to seing the painted version.

Excellent.. Good to see you getting stuff done.

Looking forward to seeing the Dark Elves Kharibdyss painted.

WOW. I had an awesome game of age of sigmar today. We used all sorts of new terrain. I took a picture but it doesn't look that great. The table is black, the models are all primed black. Most of the terrain is bare. It was not an attractive game but it was a blast to play. We created a scenario. We called it "The meeting of minds" We took four different heroes, each from a different subfaction of the Order. Spirit of Durthu, High Elf Wizard, Doomseeker, and a Dark Elf Dockmaster guy. They started next to one another in the center of the battlefield. We then took every chaos model I own and put them on the field 18 inches away. In a turn one of the heroes killed an enemy model, he got to roll a d6 to see if he would summon more troops. On a roll of a 6 a unit would be summoned onto the battlefield.

I would win if I killed the four commanders. He would win if all of the chaos guys were killed.

The game was a blast. It started out very poorly for me. He killed some rats and summoned the Kharybdis right of the bat. My guys got into combat with the dwarf and the fleetmaster dark elf guy. The spirit of durthu got tied up with various things. The Kharybdis ate an entire unit of clan rats in one turn. Things were not looking good. Then, my dice rolling became awesome. My clan rats killed the dwarf. My warpthrower melted the dockmaster. My skaven warlord killed the high elf wizard in one turn of combat. I then got SUPER lucky with another round of firing and my warlord killed Durthu. When the last turn was over, all that remained on the board in the name of chaos was a warpthrower, a mortar, and my warlord. In the next round I lost all three and I was board wiped.

The game was awesome and really bloody. It was also really quick. It took under 2 hours to play the whole thing.

I know many of us are purists, and AoS got a bad press to start, but more and more people say it is a great game, you certainly sound like you enjoyed it even though you did not win. Sort out those pictures bud, to quote the great and the good, "Pics or it did not happen!"

Loving the work we have seen, dwarf is stunning. Love the look of the grave yard.

This is probably the best picture. You can see one of my blocks of skaven.

Age of Sigmar has turned out to be fast and violent. I think my biggest draw is that the rules are simple and straight forward. I don't spend 50% off the battle confirming rules.

Here are some more WIP pictures. My dark elf dock master.

scales look amazing. Love the drybrushing white at the bottom.

Thanks Solar.

What color do you think i should do his hair?

That's awesome ice!

Holy macaroni that's pretty.

So beautiful, really nice.

Thanks guys. I am now working on the hair of the dark elf. I decided to go for a green, turquoise, seafoam kind of color. I'll have pics once I hit it with a wash.

Well, I thought I really liked how he turned out, then I looked at these pictures. Ultra close zoom really points out the flaws. I assure you, he looks great at 3 feet, lol.

In other news, my piece of terrain is currently drying with the first coat of blue. I primed some other terrain. I primed my unforged and cogsmith. I also built a little objective looking thing. Pics upcoming. I also finally sat down and uploaded some pictures from Adepticon. I know many of you already saw the knight fight but I know have an entire folder of knight on knight action. Feel free to check it out.

He looks great Ice, I really like how you did the cloak.

Thanks bud. Im hoping to get him into another battle soon. I think action shots always make the models look better.

Ooh, careful... Dont wanna get cut by his edge...
Seriously love the feel this guy has... the punk/emo hair and the giant collar are amazing xD

Colors look great, too. The seafoam green hair is excellent

Nice work ice. Paintjob gives the figure an excellent vibe.

The work continues, slowly. This afternoon I'm hoping to get some more WIP pictures but i did have one on my phone this morning.

Ever forward my friend... every forward.

Dwarfs?... from Silver tower?

Coincidentally Solar, you are correct but I will be primarily using them for Age of Sigmar games. The back left blue haired dwarf is a doom seeker, the primed dwarf back right is an unforged, and the front brown dwarf is a cogsmith. All of them can be used in both games.

Gitsplitta, you are absolutely correct. Small steps forward is about all I can manage right now, but I have been enjoying each one of them. I really like the cogsmith thus far. I hope to get some better pictures soon.


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Nice touch with the Purple and Orange.

Hairy looks great, and the purple on the dwarf is stunning.

Thanks guys. Im pleased with the results. I may still tinker with the axe but otherwise call him finished.

Next is the unforged, i wonder what color i will make his beard and skin?

Excellent stuff dude. I love the Dark Elford captain dude.

EDC

Your recent stuff is looking great, IceAngel!

Thanks guys. I appreciate the feedback.

Agreed, you've totally raised your game. Fab.

I have scheduled another game tomorrow. This time it will be a three way game. I am super excited. All of the figures are already here. I think I will make up the armies and create a cool scenario.

In the first game, the Skaven were successful in defeating the heroes of Order but the price was the life of every skaven. What should happen next? At my disposal I have a huge chunk of high elfs, (thanks solar!) I have a small group of rats, an equal amount of Sylvaneth, and all of Moonpies Nurgle. I also have some random heroes that I have been painting. That is four armies for me to play around with. How should our story continue?

I am thinking about a much more fluffy kind of scenario, let us not worry about points and things.

Initiated brainstorm protocol DAKKATHINK! GO!

Well can the Nurgle ally to the rats?

They certainly can. They are now all part of chaos.

WIP pics



An objective marker. I slapped it together yesterday, didn't quite finish the painting part but its close. Some touch ups and the little sprite are left. Any ways, after further debate I decided that we are going to fill the board with terrain and make the objective a hidden marker. Heroes can explore the terrain pieces and see if the objective is there. Random turn length. Capture and Hold once the objective is discovered. Should be interesting with three forces.

Story will follow.

Game was a lot different then expected. At the last minute one of my buddies had to bail. The two player game was brutal. I ran with nurgle he ran high elves. The nurgle were slow and tough and fortunately for me his shooting was terrible. I snapped some pics in my battle folder. Here is a fun picture.


The cogsmith fighting back Morbidex. He did rather well and when the game stopped he was still there wacking away.

So don't leave us hanging, how'd the game play out?!

EDC

The game was a bit one sided really. He sent his silver helms and griffon right at me and slowed me down, but their sacrifice was meaningless. His archers rolled awful. AWFUL. Turn after turn the first three groups and a war machine shot at me. I managed to push forward and take out the enemies on my right flank, except for the cogsmith. On the left I took out his war machine and the last of his silver helms. By turn four, which is when we stopped, he only had the cogsmith, two smaller archer units, and a handful of reavers in close combat with nurglings and the remaining plague drone. I still had the bulk of my army.

His rolled awful with his shooting which was his only true advantage. We don't have any high elf heavy hitters so he couldn't stop my advance, because of his awful shooting. It was still fun.

Next time he gets a Wave Serpent. That aught to slow you down right quick.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Next time he gets a Wave Serpent. That aught to slow you down right quick.

Jet bikes .. lots of Jetbikes

Tomorrow at my FLGS an age of sigmar escalation league is starting. I am very excited to get involved. I am a little concerned about bringing my sylvaneth without any trees, but I am just hoping to meet some cool peeps and see what kind of group it is. I am hoping to get a little painting in this afternoon on one of my treelords. I am thinking of going darker then I did on my first dryad. I hadn't planned on it, but i keep referring to him as Oakley.

I should have some phone pics of progress later today and even more pics tomorrow.

More WIP of Oakley. The first round of the escalation league was a ton of fun. Quite a few people didn't show up but I still managed to play a couple games while there. Both were against the new Kharadron Overlords. I won them both. Overall the guys were a blast to play with. I am hoping to have this treelord finished and some more of the dryads painted before the next get together.

Ice

Nice work Ice! I like him.

Looks good IceAngel.

Oakley is looking very nice so far

Fantastic work sir. Looking suitably spectacular. Always like that model.

Thanks guys. I managed to finish him up today. Pics will be here soon. I had a lot of fun with this model. It was certainly one of those models that every time I left and came back I'd notice something that I had missed. A random leaf, a power swirl, another spirit. There is so much detail on that model. It really is great.

In other news my wife requested a game for mothers day, which meant I HAD to visit a game store. I may have walked away with some new duardin. The Arkanaut Company.

What color should I make these guys?



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Here he is. Thoughts?

I think I am going to put some arkanauts together next, but after that I think I am going to hit the Dryads with some paint. I have a pair of branch wyches that need some color. I have three weeks until the next escalation game and I think I am going to attempt to have a fully painted Sylvaneth group. It is a bit lofty of a goal but manageable if I find an easy method to paint the dryads. I think I'll have 30 in my next match.

Awesome .. maybe we'll see an up to date army pic?

That is something that I can set up for you Solar. I also have a lovely squad of Arkanauts put together now. I need to sand their bases and prime them. Something for me to do this weekend.

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Here is the sylvaneth so far. What do you think Solar?

I'm not SL, but I think it's awesome.

I wanted a treeperson army using the tree women from ultraforge and that other company, but after the KS debacle forget it. Love the look of the painted models so far.

Thanks guys. I am glad you like them. It may be hard to tell but there are three dryads that are now painted in that mess. Each one is painted different, but I think the Ancient Spirit of Durthu may be the gray scale version like the dryad. I will try to get a up close picture to get more feedback from you guys.

Fantastic looking army so far, really nice to see such colourful models.

I'M GROOT! ( Solar_lion ) and I think that's awesome. Such a top job on Oakley!

Groot doesn't use contractions.

* Snarf Snarf*

By the way, I put in some work on this guy too. Still a lot to do, but we're heading the right direction.

Very tan. Giant blond hair. Belligerent. Is he modeled after someone who is in the news a lot?

HA!

Very funny. Not intentional, but I may have to give him a name like Dwonald Dwump.

I think he looks fantastic Ice. Great start!

 IceAngel wrote:
HA!

Very funny. Not intentional, but I may have to give him a name like Dwonald Dwump.

Could just go with Drumf. That was supposedly Trumps family name before they Americanized it, but it turned out to be false, but still spread wide enough where people would recognize it.

What do you guys think of the updates?

Started working on a branchwych. Thoughts?

Alright guys, which scheme do you like the best?

Middle.

Middle or left end

I vote middle as well

Middle, nice work btw.

REALLY?! You guys like the middle one the best? Wow, I find that super surprising. Thanks for all of the feedback but I like the middle guy the least. Is there any reason why guys all agree on the middle one? What about him jumps out at you guys?

Maybe its the picture. I am looking at the real model next to me. Perhaps I should get out my camera and see how it comes out, then we can reevaluate.

For me it is probably that it looks slightly more natural and a bit brighter than the rest.

No. 1 is too dark, nice contrast though with the green.
No. 2 is very cool, but I like the life in the others this is dead.
No. 3 is bright and has life to it, nice colour with the yellow accent, could vary the leaf colour through the autumn range.
No. 4 is a bit artificial for me, the red bark.
No. 5 is a very close second for me, has a nice feel to it, colours are good, apart from for some reason I feel it is a little orange, as opposed to brown on the bark.

Now to be completely honest, they all look brilliant and great work all round. I am being really finicky with those comments, I think any of them would make a spectacular army.

 Camkierhi wrote:


For me it is probably that it looks slightly more natural and a bit brighter than the rest.

No. 1 is too dark, nice contrast though with the green.
No. 2 is very cool, but I like the life in the others this is dead.
No. 3 is bright and has life to it, nice colour with the yellow accent, could vary the leaf colour through the autumn range.
No. 4 is a bit artificial for me, the red bark.
No. 5 is a very close second for me, has a nice feel to it, colours are good, apart from for some reason I feel it is a little orange, as opposed to brown on the bark.

Now to be completely honest, they all look brilliant and great work all round. I am being really finicky with those comments, I think any of them would make a spectacular army.

Thanks Cam. I will continue to mess around with these paint schemes. I plan on having a nice mix of colors, as you can see, the only consistent factor will be the green runes. I think the spirit of durthu will be painted more like No. 2, with his giant sword being menacing and green. I may have to try my hand again at No 3. I can't place a finger on why I don't like him. No 1, his brown is mixed with purple. You can not really tell in the picture but it makes the leaves look very vibrant. There will be more of that for sure. No 4, in natural light, doesn't look nearly as red as the picture makes it.

More experimenting is required, and better pictures.

On a side note, this weekend has been beautiful. I will be priming some Kharadron company at some point.

Left two is my preference.

I like the center one. It is the most "real" looking one in my opinion.

I vote the 2nd one from the left.

Nice work btw. I do like the Sylvaneth models.

PHOTO DUMP!
It happened to be a gorgeous day today so I snapped some photos. I apologize for some of the lighting issues that natural light causes but I think you may still get a good idea of what is happening with my Sylvaneth. First up, all of my recent painting projects.


Here is my Branchwych.


Lots of Dryad Pictures. Please give me feedback on these guys. Thanks!
Purple and Red

The whites.


The brown one that everyone seemed to love came out SUPER dark. You can hardly see him. I will try again here soon to have an improved picture. I also have four more dryads on deck, currently being washed. When this is all done it looks like I'll have three "squads, or units, or copse, or hedge?" Whatever, I'll have three groups based on paint scheme to work with. Current Treelord is of the brown variety. I'll paint my durthu spirit in the white scheme. I am not sure I'll end up with another treelord model, but that would cover everybody I have thus far.

Now see that group shot is excellent, all that variety and colour really works for me.

And it would depend on the formation, in line they would be a privot, but in general they would be a shrubbery surely!

I like that Cam, lol.

I had game two in the escalation league. I played Orruks for the first time. I was destroyed but the game was a blast. My local shop wired my table and myself and it was streamed live on their facebook page, which was hilarious. Nothing like people from around the world critiquing your game play.

In new projects, i finished the previous 4 on deck and started another 4.

I really Like the White ones .. My favs so far.

Love the branchwych & the whites especially. Nicely done Ice!

This is the beginning of my spirit of durthu. I figured he would look good in white.

And it does indeed.. I think I like the lighter wood looks aged. This one give a nice dried drift wood look . I suggest having the spouting parts go from the white to brown to the green to show new growth.

Like where your going with this guy!

Today I managed a battle of Age of Sigmar. 1700 points of Sylvaneth and Free People versus High Elves and random forces of Order. The battle scenario was called Places of Power, there were three objectives that only heroes could hold and get points on. Here is the set up.


I am at the bottom. My army consists of about 1250 of Sylvaneth and then a unit of Free People crossbowmen, hand gunners, and a cannon. The other side of the table is a whole bunch of high elves, a doom seeker, a cogsmith, a unit of arkunaut company, and a Khrybdiss. The objectives are in the very center of the board, the building on the left and in the graveyard on the right. He gets turn one. He has mediocre results but did manage to charge his griffon directly at my Spirit of Durthu. He does two wounds to me. I kill him outright.



These pictures give you an idea of the carnage that proceeded the opening salvo. The Spirit of Durthu was amazing as was the cheap Empire crossbowmen. My cannon shot twice every turn and only hit on the last turn in which it killed out right the high elf repeater bolt thrower. On his side of things his Reavers killed one of my branchwyches on the first turn. They then proceeded to harass my flank until my treelord caught up to them. His swordmasters were chewed up on their march across the board but died under a hail of crossbow bolts. My dryads proved to be surprisingly resilient this game, they usually aren't. When turn 5 rolled around he only had his cogsmith, everything else was dead. I killed the smith in turn 5. The interesting thing was that he managed more victory points then I. It ended 10 to 9. He did not have a single model on the board but from what we determined, he won the battle. His cogsmith sat on the objective the whole game and was raking in points while I could do nothing until I got through his screen.

Overall the game was a blast. He did get a little frustrated with some of his rolls near the end as it seemed once he started to loose a grip on the battlefield his rolls seemed to worsen. I think next time he will be a little smarter with his griffon, if he brings him at all. The griffon has a very poor track record in my house for some reason. Part of my goal today was to try out two free people units, the gunner and crossbowmen. They are the same points, they share similar rules. I can't explain why, but the crossbowmen appeared to be leagues better. Could have just been the situation but had you looked at the set up you would have thought it the other way around.

Any ways, enough blabbering. Have a great night guys. Thanks for the comments. I hope you like my small break down of our game. I can not wait to have another one to share.

Oh, one last thing. I ordered some Sylvaneth trees. It is really silly to play a Sylvaneth army without them, FYI.

Really great pics, and nice little batrep. Love that big fella.

These look phenomenal!

This is out of character for me... but I don't see how an army that has been wiped out... can in any way win the battle. Victory points or no.... you've been slaughtered. One guy left? Fine, you're in. But no guys left?? Nope... you're toast.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
This is out of character for me... but I don't see how an army that has been wiped out... can in any way win the battle. Victory points or no.... you've been slaughtered. One guy left? Fine, you're in. But no guys left?? Nope... you're toast.

Seconded!

Agreed, my understanding is: If you are not able to finish out the game then it becomes a forfeit/concede

That is my understanding however.

Im glad you guys liked the report. I did not intend to start a debate on winning conditions. After seeing the pictures again, i have decided that i need to make those unpainted terrain pieces a priority. I have been very pleased with my board over the years and after the trees arrive and the buildings are painted I'm not sure what else my boards would need.

Thoughts?

Wow Ice, now there's frozen trees to marvel at too? I don't know if you're still looking for input, but I myself love the 'dead-tree' looking one from the group of five, thats a direction I haven't really seen with these new models, plus, as in your group shot of the white ones, you can add the start of new life. I think they fit your style the most, personally

You are lucky that in this ruleset that the cannon can't just blow up. In my 8th games, all the cannons blew up always. Dang misfires!

Thanks bbl. Im glad you agree.

Moonpie, i think when the league gets to 2000 points. I'll be bringing an engineer and more cannons to reroll my misses for all nearby cannons. Do you have 4?

MOAR Cannons!..

Nice to hear Moon is still alive!,, Is he playing in the League?

The league and his schedule do not get along. I am really starting to like the cannon idea.

Durthu looks awesome in white! Like SL said, it looks really driftwood-y. Like hes made of dead, sunbleached wood. Really awesome looking!

Thanks Ramos ans SL.

I have a question for you fine gents. My sylvaneth all have green swirls of power. Durthu will too. His leaves will be either be green or purple. What color should i make his glowing eyes and mouth? The same? A contrasting color? What are your thoughts?

You need 4 cannons or 4 engineers?

It would take some building, but yes, I have 4 cannons. I have an updated inventory on the bl0rg.

Great orange. I think the stripes look good, though the shoulder ones could maybe be abit closer/denser?

 IceAngel wrote:
The league and his schedule do not get along. I am really starting to like the cannon idea.

You should take an Imperial Knight..

More progress

Very nice.. now lighten the edges of the headdress.. ie gradient to the tips. The drift wood white is awesome.

The green inner energy was the way to go!

I'd say either keep em green, if the power itself is green and flowing through them. Or if you want a stark contrast, red eyes and mouths. But then they may be called the Christmas Tree Army, so there is that.

Fantastic Ice.

 IceAngel wrote:
Thanks Ramos ans SL.

I have a question for you fine gents. My sylvaneth all have green swirls of power. Durthu will too. His leaves will be either be green or purple. What color should i make his glowing eyes and mouth? The same? A contrasting color? What are your thoughts?

Im not sure how it is in the fluff, but he has such a striking scheme compared to the others I would almost go with a contrasting color to the others. Like maybe even so far as a red or an orange. Make him stand out as his presence looks so unnatural on the field next to the more "living" trees.

Solar_lion wrote:Very nice.. now lighten the edges of the headdress.. ie gradient to the tips. The drift wood white is awesome.

The green inner energy was the way to go!

Thanks Solar. I need to get a better picture. The headdress is highlighted, just a bit difficult with the paint pot background.

whalemusic360 wrote:I'd say either keep em green, if the power itself is green and flowing through them. Or if you want a stark contrast, red eyes and mouths. But then they may be called the Christmas Tree Army, so there is that.

Gitsplitta wrote:Fantastic Ice.

Thanks Guys. I agree Whale, no christmas army. Thank you very much.

Ramos Asura wrote:
Im not sure how it is in the fluff, but he has such a striking scheme compared to the others I would almost go with a contrasting color to the others. Like maybe even so far as a red or an orange. Make him stand out as his presence looks so unnatural on the field next to the more "living" trees.

I will have some other white dryads, enough to have a unit. Let me take another picture for you and I'll show you his friends.

In other random news, here is my 1500 point sylvaneth army.

400 - Spirit of Durthu w/Oaken Armor
260 - Treelord
100 - Branchwych w/ Verdant Blessing
120 - Dryads x10
240 - Dryads x20
200 - Free People Crossbowmen x20
180 - Cannon

When we get to the 2000 point range, as of right now I will be adding two more cannons for 360, a cogsmith for 100, and a fleetmaster for 40. Mainly because I don't have anything else that costs 40. That will give me a nice three cannon firing base that can reroll misses if they all stay within an inch from the cogsmith. I'll have the sylvaneth to be my advancing force and the crossbowmen to be a blob in front of the cannons. The Fleetmaster will be there, doing something. At the time I get my hands on some Kurnoth Hunters, they will replace a cannon.

Top work on the tree man so far.

EDC

That is a truly stunning piece sir.

Just to be silly, what about making the glow a gold or copper. I think you go with the green myself, trust me he stands out well enough.

That last fellow looks wonderful! As do all the others...

evildrcheese wrote:Top work on the tree man so far.

EDC

Thanks bud. Glad you like.

Camkierhi wrote:That is a truly stunning piece sir.

Just to be silly, what about making the glow a gold or copper. I think you go with the green myself, trust me he stands out well enough.

I may test that on a dryad first, interesting thought though. A metallic on an organic.

Aetare wrote:That last fellow looks wonderful! As do all the others...

Thanks Aetare. I appreciate it.



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More updates. This time with his friends.

Here's the army so far. Only about a dozen dryads to go. Should be ready for the next game.

I hope I have said this already, but that is a stunning army, truly wonderful and so interesting, spent ages pouring over the pic.

No idea how they stack up in play, but they will dazzle your opponents.

Very nice and colorful. however it needs more cannon!

Great looking army Ice! How's it feel to be nearly done?

 Camkierhi wrote:
I hope I have said this already, but that is a stunning army, truly wonderful and so interesting, spent ages pouring over the pic.

No idea how they stack up in play, but they will dazzle your opponents.

Thanks Camkierhi, I am glad you like them. I have no idea how they will stack up either but from what I've seen I may have a chance at best painted, lol. I may try to get some in action shots and zoomed in a little more so you can see them even better.

Thanks Solar and GIts! I do need more cannons and I can always borrow more from Moonpie if he finds them all. Second weekend in July is our next game. I'll try to get on the table that streams it live if you want to see them in action!

Okay guys, I've worked through some additional dryads. Here they are in, grouped by paint scheme.

That's a nice collection .. I still think my favorites are the white ones.

Thanks Solar. I would have to agree with you. I am painting the last 6 dryads right now. They are drying from their first wash. After that the only Sylvaneth model left is a wych. Then they are done!

Tomorrow will be my first 8th edition game. I am very excited about it. We will probably play a good small point game. What do you think a good point value would be for a first game of 8th?

Well how did it go?

I would have suggested 10k points just for laughs.

They are looking amazing bud, live the different colours.

I'm glad you asked Cam. It was awesome. We had a blast and for once, in a very long time, it made me want to play more. Outside of special occasions such as Adepticon we just dont play. 7th was too tedious and i was very pleased with how quickly we stopped referencing the rulebook. We had to look up the nee stats but otherwise game play was quick and dirty.

Here are some pics as proof.

50 power points. Orks vs Nids
Set up
Biovore overlooking the stormboyz.


Spore mine and trygon about to feast on my battlewagon



Warriors overseeing their minions.


I greatly under estimated the trygon. That thing is awesome. He underestimated the burnas, which killed his broodlord in closecombat. We got through 3 full turns before we ran out of time. I was dominating in points but one more turn would have destroyed two of my remaining 3 units.

I cant wait for our next game.

Glad your back playing.. 1000 pts is usually a good starting game but most players are doing 2000 pts in order to counter the wide variety of builds. Still even at 1000 pts you can put together a cheesey list.

Liking the POV shots!

Agree with SL, I'm really liking 1000 pts now-a-days. Enough to make it interesting but not overwhelming... and the games get over fairly quickly too. Good to see you back at it Ice.

Moonpie and I just had another game of 8th. He tried out his Harlequins for the first time. It was a 65 power level game. I brought orks. Lots of boys and killa kans. I killed everything he had except two leaders by turn two. He charged right at me and my sheer weight of attacks and fire power killed him. A 20 man boy squad with shootas killed his solitaire in overwatch. My killa kans with Skorchas took out nearly an entire troop in one shooting phase. He was not to pleased with the results but he did not play to their strengths. A learning experience for both of us. Skorchas and mobs of boys for the win.

Why are playing power levels?

Its quicker to build an army using power levels and my orks arent really over equipped. I didnt bring any nobz or vehicles so i didnt have any ways to really abuse the system. Im not sure about his harlequins.

The harlequins definitely had some equipment. I am going to have to figure out how to use them. Ideally they would be charging from behind some cover blocking LoS. I don't know if you have to have LoS to charge. Or I need to lead with vehicles. Or just play Craftworld... interested or Ynarri...less interested.

If they come out with plastic Aspect Warriors I am sold.

I had a great game last Sunday. I didn't pull out the victory mainly because I didn't have enough units to hold four objectives. I also still need those trees. COME ON WHALE!


Here was the first turn after he had gone, he had a lucky charge over on in the right corner. Barkley never moved the entire game.


Barkley fighting with several units of Stormcast before being taken out. He held his own for several turns.


My crossbowmen and cannon put in some SERIOUS work. The cannon didn't hit often but when it did, things perished. The crossbowmen took out nearly 3 times their points cost and were one of the only units left in my army at game end.

The real MVP of the game was Oakley, my spirit of Durthu.

He was not as effective in close combat as he should have been but his ranged verdant blast was awesome. He took out two characters and a unit. He almost took out a third character before he was slain.

Go get some sticks and glue them to some cardboard. Should work for now.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Go get some sticks and glue them to some cardboard. Should work for now.

WM spot on.


Game looks like it was close. Are you in a league? ( sorry if i missed that )

 Solar_lion wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Go get some sticks and glue them to some cardboard. Should work for now.

WM spot on.


Game looks like it was close. Are you in a league? ( sorry if i missed that )

Yes Solar, I am in a casual escalation league. We get together once a month.

I have been working on some random hobby projects as of late. I based all of Moonpies nurgle. I have built my high elf chariot. A forest arrived here the other day, so I have been working on that mess. A unit of Kurnoth Hunters have also arrived. On my desk in front of me I have six dryads and one wych left to paint. The Dryads themselves are completed, there are just random little things left around them, like Owls and rocks on their bases etc. I think the hobby project that is on top of my list is my Ice Angel Fluff. I keep coming back to it in my head. It is so close to be completed, I feel obligated to finish it. I MUST FINISH IT. I feel Knightley silently demanding me to finish it.

I would love to finish it and then figure out a good way to get some Ice Angel Primaris marines into book three. That'd be easy enough. If I didn't have kids and a job and everything else going on in my life. Any ways, back to it. I should be tackling these projects and not wasting time talking to you guys. LOL.

Silently!? Well yes while I'm not vocal on my blog about it, I do open my subscription list with a small dot of hope there has been a new post each day

 Knightley wrote:
Silently!? Well yes while I'm not vocal on my blog about it, I do open my subscription list with a small dot of hope there has been a new post each day

I am having a bit of trouble finding the right mind set to get started. I know what to write, it is all in my head, but every instance in which I attempt to write, I convince myself to do something else instead. I can not figure out why.

One such thing I have been working on instead is a bunch of trees and those Kurnoth Hunters. I have really enjoyed both kits. I went the bow route because I need some more fire power. You can not really have enough.


Next tough question, which color scheme do I use on the trees? White trunks with purple leaves? Brown trees with purple or green leaves? Dark brownish purple trunk with green leaves? Or something totally random and nothing like those? What are you thoughts?

In other news, GenCon 50 is nearly upon us. I have a full schedule. I took an entire week off to enjoy the con and then a few days to recuperate. If any of you guys are on twitter, look me up. It is as lot easier to post there what I am up to so check me out @ulasht Something tells me I will walk away with some amazing loot this year, mainly because I do every year.

One last thing, any one else super excited about Necromunda? I am super excited, not quite moonpie level excited, but excited.

Man I absolutely love the white and purple leaf Sylvaneth absolutely kickass scheme. That's my vote for the trees.

If you want to tie stuff together, you could do that as the majority scheme with one tree out of every three as brown trunk with purple leaves.

Perhaps throw in the odd electric blue leaf as you're going along.

Oh, and Necromunda looks stone-cold awesome

 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Man I absolutely love the white and purple leaf Sylvaneth absolutely kickass scheme. That's my vote for the trees.
If you want to tie stuff together, you could do that as the majority scheme with one tree out of every three as brown trunk with purple leaves.
Perhaps throw in the odd electric blue leaf as you're going along.
Oh, and Necromunda looks stone-cold awesome

Thanks man! The trees have been primed so you may see some paint on them very soon. I have also been busy building other things, I picked up a few more things from my birthday the other day. Here is one of them.

This guy! Brokk Grungsson. It is such a cool model. I was also given the warhammer age of sigmar box set so I have a small khorne and stormcast force. Those have also been built.

While on vacation at GenCon I also picked up a couple games and some other models.

Here are some of the games from GenCon.

One of the games I am most excited about is called Deep Madness. I won some nice resin models after successfully winning a demo with some random other people. Warsenal was there as well and I picked up some neat pieces of terrain. In anticipation of Necromunda I bought a dumpster and some barrels and random little bits. My hobby back log is now overflowing. Time to get crackin. I should have the AOS generals handbook at the end of the week and then I'll be reworking my army. Any one have any favorites stormcast paint jobs? I am going to stay away from the over used gold and silver garbage. Post some favorites to give me some ideas. Thanks!

Good haul! Lava knights? Black, orange, brass bits?

That's alot of new board games! Nice haul buddy.

EDC

Dwarfy fella looks awesome, they really are cranking out some beautiful kits. Nice haul on the Gencon and belated Happy Birthday, and nice haul there too. Do all those games have minis or is there a mixture.

I do not think any of those games have minis. Plenty of meeples but no miniatures. That Deep Madness game would be the only exception.

Lava Knights? I like the idea but i would prefer to avoid having another mostly black army. Any other thoughts?

What about these guys?



ohh, or these guys?

I think they look good in black

They certainly do look good in black but I do not want to paint another black army. The green guys aren't bad. The teal, or sea foam, or whatever that other color is, isn't bad either. I think I need to keep exploring.

I love the stonecast guys that are here on dakka. They may be my current favorites but I do not think i could pull that off nearly as well as he can. I must keep looking.

In a small side note, did I tell you guys I got a new hot blade for cutting foam? Its great. Way better then the stupid hot wire tool I bought all those years ago. It worked, but it was super slow and tedious. The new knife, much better and WAY faster. It also gets much much much hotter then the wire. I may attempt to make a frozen waterfall to have a new starting point of my ice river. Thoughts?

Has anyone done them in marble!

Been thinking of getting a hot wand thingy. Have to let us know how it goes. Like the ice waterfall idea.

Hoping we can get some games of Necromunda in. Be nice to have an additional wardens game to battle at Adepticon.

First tree WIP picture. Needs a good wash or three then some highlights.

lovely looking tree.

Nice purchases too.

How about a photo of this new super knife??

@Gitsplitta You ask and you shall receive.


It is awesome.

Here is also some more WIP of the forest.




Next up we have some random Necromunda bits.

This was a WARSENAL purchase. Barrels, satellite dish, crates, fuel canisters, spools, and ammo canisters. I have been very impressed with their stuff thus far.

I had a small battle the other day. About 1k points death vs sylvaneth. I won pretty handily. My opponent is new to his army and ran at my piece meal, which allowed me to pile in on his guys. We still had a blast. It will be interesting to see how he changes his tactics for our next game.

Glad to see your getting some games in Ice! Looks like fun.

Thoughts on my Stormcast guy?

That looks amazing to me. Really nice colours, and scheme. Well painted.

The colors look fine, but there's nothing tying them together...

 Camkierhi wrote:
That looks amazing to me. Really nice colours, and scheme. Well painted.

Thanks Cam!

Gitsplitta, I am not sure what you mean exactly?

Well, you have brown areas, and blue-green areas with no cross-over elements, just areas dominated by one or the other. It looks odd to me. The two colors have no relationship... not even a logical one. Hammer, sword, shield, helm... it's not a natural grouping. I'd either bring in some brown elements on the blue pieces and visa-versa... or make the helm (and possibly the bulk of the shield minus the picture of the hammer on it) brown to match the rest of the "armor" elements.

I guess the arrangement of colors doesn't seem to make any sense to me... that's the crux of it.

I agree with gits, there's no cross over. Maybe adding a third color to tie the parts of the mini together

What about this design?

I need to really set up a nice light box for some photos. I have completed a stormcast big hammer guy and am pretty close to finishing up my stormcast commander. Moon_pie came over and nearly completed the small sigmar temple in one go. It only needs some fine details to be called finished. I apparently need to invite him over for movies and painting more often.

Any ways, I am out for a few days. I hope every has safe travels and Happy Thanksgiving to those that celebrate it.

Happy Thanksgiving Ice. Give me best to Moon_pie next time you see him.

Thanks Git!

We are having a beautiful day here today so I grabbed a quick shot of my stormcast.


It is a phone pic so not the greatest quality but I think you can get a better idea of where I am going with these guys. I did to back and try to tie in the shield to the rest of the model and I added in a little more tangerine to compliment the turquoise and tan. The triple T color scheme is what I decided to go with. The drake stormcast guy is not far off from being completed. I need to dirty him up and of course do the base.