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Wow, thanks for the updates on the league. Great pics! Can't wait to see more of what you have got done. Oh yeah and congrats on the wins!!

Wow All your stuff and eveyone elses is pretty cool. I especially like your IG tank scheme.

So I cam to thread quite late and I have to say, the work that has gone on at the store you play at is nothing short of amazing. Truly....my hat goes off to everyone that plays there. i am near/next to 3 different Games Workshop stores AND 1 LGS and none of them have that many competent painters. It is very inspiring to see all of that come together and inspires me to go my closest GW store and see if we can't start up a Play N Paint League.

FANTASY UPDATE: Finished first coat on the dogs. The bases are finished on the whole 500pts. Working on the shading the dogs now. These little pooches are a to paint!!!

Wow theres some good stuff in there.Love your imperial guard but i cant wait to see your fantasy stuff.

Legion

P.S Your friend is right when i read the BF bit i thought you meant boy friend

Ok, well fixed the BF to best friend. Think the wife would be a lil upset if rumors like that were running around. Kinda funny. My internet speak is not so great. Ah well, good for a laugh.

love the sentinel

If Roland will let me I'll have him take some pictures of my Wood Elves once they are ready to put up for the PnP Fantasy.

WHFB has been a breath of fresh air from 40K. I love 40K and all but I have a lot of fun with WHFB and really look forward to our PnP soon.

All top of the line.

Soon enough, Ill have finished picks of my Imperial Fists up here. The tanks you guys saw earlier (I'm one of Sha1emade's good friends, and involved in the PnP) are just the minimum 3 colors. I've done quite a bit to them. Also, I think I'm going to change my Terminator bases (too, not terminator'ish). I'm pretty stoked though, I'm bringing Phoenix (using Kantor rules) and Lysander in this next 250 points (Phoenix is replacing the current commander). Woot Woot!!!

UPDATE: Warhounds are at a stage where I can move on. They still have a little bit of work but I need to move on if I am going to get enough paint on the rest to be able to play. I am currently working on my juggernaut. I am mixed at this stage about it. I am unsure if I love it or hate it. I have started over about 5 times so far. I think I am too far to restart. I hope to have him done tonight or tomorrow night. Will post pics when I find some time.

Harkanos: YES please post your new work. I hope to see them in person here soon. But I would love for you to share with us all.

Thanks everyone for the nice words. Sorry few updates. These models are taking me a lot of time. But progress is being made and will post pics soon.

Patience is a virtue.

Sorry it has been so long. I have been painting up a storm and have been more than a little busy with my normal life. The Warhammer Fantasy 500pts starts tomorrow, and I will be returning with the usual pictures. They will be Sunday night or Monday.

I have a good amount done. Not where I would like but as I said, I want everything to look good. Bouncing between 2 paint and plays has been rough. Not to mention trying to learn the game. My friend Bill and I have played some games to help me with the rules. I think I can play now with out too many stupid moments, hopefully anyway. I am excited for tomorrow. However I am not even close to finished. I will have my basic 3 colors on the models but it is a pretty lame way to start the PnP. It is not my style. I much prefer to have everything fully painted. However it just started too soon, and during the 40k paint and play, so it really is the best I could do. I am happy with what I have done. However the photos leave something to be desired. I had to do them quick as today is a very busy day for me. Well hope you like them.

My 85% finished warhounds.



My 95% Finished BSB (Battle Standard Bearer.)






The pictures don't do him much justice but at least I got them shot. Will post more in the next few days to show how the first 500pt league day went.

First I want to begin by saying sorry for slacking on this thread for a while. I have had many things going on and have not had the time to paint and keep you up to date. I have painted a few models and added them to my force. I was forced to add a few of my older models to make things work. I hope to be able to hit the ground running for the next and final chunk.

1750pts complete!! So time again to report on what happened. The attendance was pretty good for so late in the league. I found myself surrounded by Marines!!! Other than myself there was only one other non marine player present and he was the armored company player. It was starting to look a bit scary for my brave guardsmen. Challenges we taken from the bottom up this time. There were a few grudge matches and I was curious to see how it would all turn out.

Paint Judging. (Once again I was not involved but I did get my votes.)

Here are the entries for this month.

Dark Wing (Deathwing and Ravenwing combo)


Black Templars (Our late arrival who has painted with fury to catch up.)


Blood Angles (Still with only one loss!!! But missed a month.)


Imperial Fists (Has really started to gain momemtum both in painting and in games.)


Space Sharks (Curse you sharks!!!! Had a few close ones to them.)


Armored Company (The only other non marine player this month.)


Black Templars (League Organizers army)


Ultra Marines (With only one loss and not likely to slow down.)


So the armored company player snagged the painting award this time, and about time. It was between armored company and the imperial fists but the tanks could not be denied. The fists player has put a lot of time into his army and they are now starting to look like he had always planned. He may take it next month based on how much effort he can put into his next chunk.

My games.

GAME 1. IG vs IG armored company

I was challenged by the armored company. He took one look at the massive amount of marines with rhinos and krak grenades and opted to play paint ball with his IG buddies instead. Our last game consisted of me cowering on my objectives and getting pie plated for 6 turns. I killed not a single tank and i had very little left at the end of the game. With his faithful view of his army, he has no scoring troops only tanks, I was able to get the win last time with 3 or 4 guardsmen cowering on the objective. I was determined not to cower and take the fight to him. He had many more tanks this time but so did I.

The game was 12" deployment and the base mission (one objective each in our respective deployment zones.) I knew right away he would sit back an plate me to death and try to kill me off my objective. What he didn't know was I was going right at him.

Our deployment. (The sentinels were outflanking so I don't know why they are in this pic. )


So I got first turn and pushed my tanks up as far as they would go. Hoping to outflank him and send him on the defensive. Creating a web that if he decided to advance I would have side armor shots galore. With the run of the board I was able to get some side armor shots. Ended in 3 of his tanks not shooting on his first turn. So far so good.
His first turn surprised me as everything he had advanced and opened fire. He concentrated fire on my russes and squad guarding my objective. My moving my tanks 12" and blocked most of his shooting to anything but russes paid off. Few men were killed and the tanks were not scratched.

Turn 2ish


My outflanking sentinels ran behind his vanquisher and managed to kill all weapons but the lascannon. They also stunned and immobilize it. Took 2 turns to do so before they moved on.


So while I was being aggressive he was not holding back. He was going for the tie. About the best the AC can do with out troops. He pushed his tanks into positions to contest my objective. This is where things got strange. We both started to ram each others tanks at full speed!! At one point a russ was rammed from the front by a chimera, to the side by a hellhound and the back by another russ. Nothing happened. Kinda silly. The table became a game of bumper cars.

Highlight: Karskin destroyed a russ with 2 melta guns.


Highlight: Leman russ lines up the karskin with revenge in mind. Yup all died.


Highlight: After shooting the russ to no effect it took notice of the squad on the hill. Lets just say I had less of them. Not to mention I was one guardsman down after I killed myself with plasmagun fire.


Highlight: My makeshift flanking maneuver pays off as he is now trapped and if he makes a run for the objective I will have side and rear armor shoots all day. Sentinels are also on their way to killing or immobilizing a total of 4 tanks.


Highlight: Closer look of the flank maneuver.


So the game was called when I immobilized his last tank. I went from not killing a single tank to killing most and making a few immobilized. The mission played a big part in that however. He was forced to come at me giving me better angles of fire. I was rushing him as well so the game became a strange one. All my tanks survived somehow and I finally got to kill one of his.

This game was so fun on so many levels. So many rams and blocking of driving lanes made it both strange and interesting. The AC player is so fun to play and his army looks so great I was happy to have played him one more time. He has accepted that it is hard for him to win with out troops. Early in the league he would just kill every model and get the victory. Now it is allot harder to do that, with so many vehicles and troops running around.

IG WIN
AC LOSS

Game 2: IG vs Ultramarines

So this was to be the first time I played the Ultramarines. As they have only lost one game and it was at the beginning of the league I was set for an uphill battle. It also had a few people looking in as the first and second place armies were squaring off against each other. I was determined to give him a tough game. His army is perfectly designed , not on purpose, to beat me. So I rolled for the game type. Wouldn't you know it, Kill points. I was a bit discouraged but figured if I could keep him at arms length I would stand a chance, not much of one but a chance. Then we rolled for deployment. We got night fight and table half's. I just smiled and shook his hand. The game was over before it had ever began. We both laughed as we both knew I didn't stand a chance in hell.

I was still gonna try and make the best of it. Long story short. He rhino rushed me and was all over me with few losses on the way in thanks to night fight and his ability to be halfway across the board. A dread in a drop pod landed behind me and popped my demolisher 1st turn. I was able to knock off all the weapons and immobilize the dread but had to ignore it for the rest of the game as I was being rushed.

I got stomped and never stood a chance. It was still a fun game but lacked the mystery of how it would end. I might have a chance if the mission and deployment would have been different. Hell if even the deployment had been different I might have stood a chance. So I took my licks and we both agreed it would have been more fun if the game type had been different. It was a bit anti climatic. Perhaps we will try again next month provided no one challenges us.

IG LOSS
UM WIN

So that concludes this month. Next month is actually gonna be in 2 weeks. I will be spending some time painting and might have some pics before the next battle. The next one will be the last month of the PnP. After that I might start a new painting workshop thread or a blog thread. More to come...

Looking good buddy. I need to get my army pics setup. so i can post them.

Sha1emade wrote:I got stomped and never stood a chance. It was still a fun game but lacked the mystery of how it would end. I might have a chance if the mission and deployment would have been different. Hell if even the deployment had been different I might have stood a chance. So I took my licks and we both agreed it would have been more fun if the game type had been different. It was a bit anti climatic. Perhaps we will try again next month provided no one challenges us.

I think your opponent had a lot more fun than you are portraying.

Wow! This is a crazy good thread! You IG painting is simply awesome and I like them better than GW's as some of the previous posters mentinoed as well(GW's are kinda flat in terms of color, and yours are realistic but also "pop" enough to be interesting and vibrant).

Great dedication on your part for reporting this and sharing it! Good luck with the final rounds of the 40k version and the fantasy league!

Meph

Harkainos- You may be right on that one. He probably had a blast beating the hell out of me. He did admit that it would have been a better fight if the set up was different. Please take the pics and post them. It would be nice to see some pics that others have taken.

Mephistoles1- I'm flattered that you think they are as good as you say. Thank you for you kind words.

Also had to put this in. I forgot to add it to my last post.

This happened on one of the other tables. Didn't you roll this Harkainos? It was a pretty crazy looking cocked dice. It stopped on one of its points. As far as I have played there I have never even heard of this happening. Thought you should see this as it is very rare and few people have a camera near by.

Tzeentch says no.

Yeah. I rolled that die (dye,dice?) it didn't even spin, it simply landed like that. The weirdest and coolest thing i've seen live.

Sha1emade wrote:

So, technically Harkainos rolled a 9 with a d6...

Reminds me of that scene in Terry Pratchett's The Last Hero where Cohen the Barbarian has to roll a 7 with one die.

Very cool!

Im with everyone else, those are nicely painted. Looking good

Update: So the next 40k paint and play has been pushed back to May 3rd. The organizer will be out of town. So I might post some of the things I am working on till then. Mostly guard stuff but possibly some space marine stuff as I have been jonesing. I may do some fantasy but as it stands I am not sure I will have the time to do the work on the fantasy stuff.

Also adopted this little bugger. Kinda pointless and cool at the same time. I hope he grows to be khorne. If not he will be made fun of at parties.


Level up Daemon!


Level up Daemon!

Ya just click him to level him up. Simple. Anyway will post as it comes.

Ok, so I had Sha1emade help me with the pictures. One thing I noticed is that I am very sloppy. Geesh, I need to slow down when I paint. I have found that I am always trying to take 'shortcuts' that end up making them look aweful. I thought these 2 were done, but seeing these photos... I have more work. Here are my 2 HQ's.

Here is Chapter Master Taran Phoenix




Here is Captain Darnath Lysander




If you wanted to see more of my stuff you can follow this Link I dipped the tacticals (big big big mistake). But the rest use the same techniques you see in the pics above. C&C welcomed and encouraged.

where are pics of the sweet sisters

slann- The sisters appear on Page 4 of this thread. In the bottom 1/3rd. My pics did them no justice but I assure you they are very nice. One day I will try for good pictures of them.

Wow, awesome updates! I love this thread. How many more rounds are left to go?

We have one more round left to go. It got pushed back. We will have completed 2000pts. I can't wait for the next one. I will probably bow out of the Fantasy one for many reasons. But will do the next 40k one when it starts.

UPDATE: I decided to make a drop pod for my DA. It is a tricky bastard. Also working on a Librarian, chimeara, 2 sentinels, Ogryn, basilisk and a dreadnaught. These are what are in the pipeline.


QUESTION: I am thinking of renaming this thread after the last round of the PnP. Was just thinking of it as a all purpose thread / blog. As it already contains the things that I would start another thread for. Like tournaments, gaming, painting, modeling and other things. I was gonna start another thread but other than the time frame set for finishing models, it will be the same. Don't know what to rename it to any ideas?

Yay, you came back! Stuff looks awsome as usual. I would just use this same thread unless you really want to start another one. Can't wait to see the last report and keep us posted on the other stuff you are working on!

I wish you hadn't taken that pic with my Rhino in there, that thing looks horrible the way it is D: