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They said it couldn't be done. That it shouldn't be done. But I knew... knew what could be. What could they know, they who had never gone so far, who had never pushed the limits as I had.

And now... now I look back and the days when their words held meaning seem as far behind me as my childhood, my schooling. My innocence.

Perhaps I have pushed too far, experienced that which man was never meant to. I look upon my hands, fingers burned and scorched by in pursuit of my goal. Are these the simple wear of the dedicated, or the marks of something more sinister. More decadent.

No... if man was not meant to know this, not meant to revel in the power I have drawn forth, I do not wish to bend to whatever being decrees such! They said I could never go back, and only now do I realize that I would never wish to! Returning to my innocence... returning to that time before... before...

COFFEE BRITTLE!

When will his madness end?? Wehrkind must be stopped!!

(Hey, happy holidays and new year, man. On the girls, I had no idea that they were so nekkid ... I was just thinking about their out-of-scale-ness (and I suppose their nudity too), but is there any sense in not painting them like they were alive? What if the girls are statues, to which is affixed the billowing flag? They have a lot of dynamic flowing things which could be painted as cloth, but what about painting them as brass (tarnished if you like, though that's not a big part of your army) or some other metal, or perhaps marble or another statuary stone? And of course you could make it simply and paint their cloth or whatever as the same material, with just the flag being fabric. With the drummer freak and the flagellant attendants you'll have quite a bit of flesh + woad action going on, and treating the chicks as statues may help justify the scale and the scantiness - recall that we Westerners are fine with nudity in Classic statuary, while perturbed by the fleshly kind. Anyway, a thought.)

- Salvage

Th...th...the war shrine!!! I want this war shrine!!!

Where did you get Fatty and Drummer? Are these Hell Dorado models?

Lovely looking army and that shrine is gonna look fab when it's got a bit of colour on it..

You have no idea... coffee brittle is perhaps too mighty for mere men. Sweet Slaanesh's syphilis, it was fantastic. I will whip some more up for Dakkacon; nothing like coffee beans boiled in butter and sugar to keep you playing all day

As to the shrine, there is a certain irony in the fact that my best model is like 20% built All that potential... I hope I don't disappoint!
The idea of making the nudist giants statuary is an interesting one... I will have to really think of that. I had been planning on magnetizing the lasses and flag to the chassis for ease of transport and removal when the random person across the table doesn't like the look of them anyway. A bronze idol though is a really cool idea... if I don't do it on this shrine, it will be the basis for my second shrine. Some pagan god drawn by horses would be awesome.

Hyena Joe: Fatty and drummer are also from Raging Heroes. I picked up their preorder of the first 3 figures they did, which is partially why I am not their biggest fan. The quality really wasn't up to snuff, not for what I paid for it at least, but fatty and drummer are pretty good actually.
Funny you bring up Helldorado though; now that the Warstore is carrying them I am going to be really tempted to pick some up if my tuition assistance goes through

Wehrkind wrote:You have no idea... coffee brittle is perhaps too mighty for mere men. Sweet Slaanesh's syphilis, it was fantastic. I will whip some more up for Dakkacon; nothing like coffee beans boiled in butter and sugar to keep you playing all day

OMFG! another way to increase the cafein permanently running in my blood that I have not already used!

Wehrkind wrote:Funny you bring up Helldorado though; now that the Warstore is carrying them I am going to be really tempted to pick some up if my tuition assistance goes through

If you can grab some then go for it, many former Rackham sculptors went to work for Asmodée after R started its long agony. There are some amazing models in this range and I think you may find your happiness there.

Update tiem! (But first, I will chat while my pics load)

Those are dead sexy; that maralinth will need to be added to my collection. I knew I rather liked Hell Dorado's stuff, but I didn't realize it was the Rackham artists' new home. That explains a lot. Mrs Wehrkind is currently using the gift cards we got for Christmas to pay bills, but maybe I can find someone who wants to buy a ton of Imperial Guard and pick up some more

Ok, pictards!

First Banner Fella is mostly done, just need to get his sword pinned to him and touched up, and maybe a little detailing here and there that I missed:



Sorry for the glare, but you get the idea.

Otherwise, it has been a lot of construction this week. 30 more marauders, pinned, based and green stuffed, with some priming and base coated skin to boot:



Speaking of which, I know I bitch and moan about how annoying these spindly little bastards are to put together, and they are, but man, when they go together, they look great. Much better than these pictures can easily portray.


Also, not nearly completed, but magnetized and partially done, the warshrine!



I intend to add some edging on the platform and sculpt a pile of pillows and such on top, mostly to hide the seam where the girl's base sticks to the platform. Lots to be done...

Looking lovely, really coming together well!!

So ... I think the BSB looks great already, and the banner looks quite nice as is, not sure I need blue woad all over it. There is something vaguely disturbing about the apparently animate 3D lion on it, with its mouth and teeth painted in ... but I certainly dig overall.

Annnd 'grats on the continued hard work getting those big blocks together, your assembly line work is always impressive to me Wehr.

- Salvage, who has 17 models to paint in as many days and might not make it

Digging it too!

I put the 3d effect down to quilting and/or some form of mega stumpwork embroidery, Boss.

nice looking army there eric.

question. do you have all the bases, cards and cardboard counters that came with all the rackham stuff? i play confrontation and could use them if your not going to.

lmk

Studder: I have a CRAP tonne of bases and cards, as well as all the little tokens and rule books. I would love to turn them into something more useful, just let me know what you think is reasonable. I was unaware anyone actually played Confrontation out our way. Or anywhere, really

Salvage and Chibi: Yea, the banner is a little weird; I am trying to think of it as somewhat possessed, like it will reach out and bite you. Painting it as a 2d picture just seemed really off since it is pretty thick 3d on the model, the bloody banner weighing more than the lad on foot about. I dunno, some sort of bound spirit thingie... OMG LOOK OVER THERE! GIANT NAKED CHICKS! :-P

I am actually a little behind these past 4-5 days on my painting. I need to grind some greens out on the lads today, and I have been screwing around and getting next to nothing done other than playing with the warshrine a bit. I figure the chopping block order is:
1: Sorchimera, since she isn't in the 2000 list
2: Warshrine, because christ that's a lot of work
3: Marauders, because 30 half painted men look like hell
4: Wolf/knight shield detailing, because who will notice?

Shameful how I plan to fail

let me know what you want for them, we can meet up at the portal sometime. dont need the rulebooks, but the rest is always handy. how many of the cards are english?

Well... whew. Sorry it's been quiet 'round here the past month or so. I have been dedicating basically every moment that I could hold my hand steady enough to use a brush (and some where I really couldn't) to getting the last lot of marauders painted, and the entire army based, by Dakkacon.

And here, the morning of January 22, the Friday of Dakkacon and 5 months and 6 days after I started this blog, the first true army of 2000 points stands before me on my (entirely inappropriately terrained) gaming table. My eyes and nose burn from inhaling WAY too much baking powder snow and Testor's Dullcote, but mother fether, they are DONE.

LOOK UPON ME SLAANESH! CAST YOUR DARK GAZE UPON MY CREATION, AND KNOW I OFFER IT UP TO YOU FOR YOUR GREATER GLORY!

Now... just make certain I can get to Dakkacon tomorrow without dying so I can take some really nice actions shots instead of this crappy picture from my basement, which for some reason destroys my camera's ability to take clear pictures.

Looking awesome! Those ogre thingies look really good as a unit, and fit in really well thematically with your marauders. And I'm still in love with your marauder horsemen.

You are making me feel really bad at not getting a lot done
not even straight forward no conversions Skull Pass Dwarves.

Great stuff! Triple gratz on a job most excellently done!

Whew, ok, Dakkacon came and went, was awesome, and then I went into hibernation from hobby work. Theoretically this was to get other stuff done, but so far there has been little stuff moved to that category. I am recovering from my strange coma of the past two weeks or however long it has been, and popped open the camera. (I also built a base for the sorchimera and primed her, but that is hardly worth showing.)

So, shots from Drunkhammer the day before Dakkacon. This isn't a battle report, because I have ZERO idea of what happened. I don't think we even took pictures after turn 1.

Wolf priestesses looking suitably... I dunno, naked and stranded on the flank?


Deployment. Note the awesome terrain. I couldn't convince Salvage to just let us use all my 40k ruins and buildings and say we were fighting in the ruins of a fallen civilization. So lego trees and little statues with Christian slogans I mean to make into proper Imperial icons at some point...


Awww... we are taking pictures of each other's stuff!


I see you. You're next.


Yes... smile evil man. God might answer prayers, but he didn't answer any of mine.


Turn... 2... maybe? I dunno, just know that I got hung up on the impassable. Can't just flow around it. Great job, moron.

Anyway, that's all I got. Hope you enjoy, and I should have something decent to show later.

drunk-hammer? sounds like fun - is this an official event or do you just play warhammer and bring a bottle or two along

Well, it shouldn't have been probably, but since Mrs Wehrkind and I drink like old ladies, Salvage and I did have to make a special run to the store to get some booze to drag down to the basement. I would like to claim said drunkenness is why we didn't take more pictures (and I didn't realize "drunkenness had 3 Ns in it) but if we downed more than 4 girl drinks between us, I would be surprised. Though my dice finishing a 6 pack might explain the rolling over the next 2 days...

lol
"drunkenness had 3 Ns in it" all depends on how far gone you are at any given moment. Possibly a lot of P's as well?

Not sure if booze and gaming are a good idea, but i guess you could double the amount of points on the table without having to buy and paint half the army.

Looking fantastic on the table.

Must have been a massive feeling of satisfaction to field that army painted to such an amazing standard! Hope you got plenty of compliments?

I think RiTides used the word "Beautiful" more times in one day than he had previously in his life, so my ego was sufficiently stroked

Speaking of strokes, I didn't actually have one, just have been focusing more on school prep and the like lately. I have, however gotten a little painting in this week, and have Wulfria nearly done as well as the Sorchimera and Butter Detail Ashara started. The warshrine is languishing a little just because I am blanking on what I want to do with it exactly, and I like painting more than building. Poor shrine :(

Other news, there was a sale at Dick Blick (or Dick Brick, as my wife likes to call it... makes it sound like a really disturbing verb, like curb stomp) and so I picked up materials to make about 9 bottles of Les Bursley's wash recipes. I will probably mess with them this coming week and let you all know how they turn out, sort of a appendix to his thread in the modelling forum.

I also got a big wet pallet, which not only kept my paints fairly usable from Monday night till Friday night, but also provides a very large target for me to drop my models into. Twice, so far Friday alone... maybe I did have a stroke.


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Ok, I was feeling kind of silly assuring people that I had painted something without showing pics... so here we are:


Wulfria, with skin and hair detailing needing done, as well as some work on the sword and cloth. Well, any work on the cloth for that matter. And base. Yea, not done


And Wulfria next to the Sorchimera, who isn't even base coated yet, and her base needs dirt etc. glued to it, but it's a start. And good lord, she is big.


Sorchy next to the warshrine so far. Still need to sculpt some pillows (dirty pillows) on the thing to cover the join tween the twins and the cart proper, and figure out how I want to do the chains and add some details on the base. So lots there :(


The Raging Heroes Ashara model with it's melty detail. Every time I see the card for it I get a little cranky, but I think I can turn a decent piece out of it, and since Slaanesh's Lore is so cool I am fairly inclined to try.


And finally, the token I am using for the Slaanesh spell "Titillating Delusions", a free model I got from Ramshackle games with my last order. What, you use bottle caps or quarters for your tokens? PIKERS! :-P

very cool collection of models there!

Super cool!

Whew... been a while since I posted anything. Been a while since I painted anything, for that matter. But today I did take about 40 minutes to sit and do a little brush work! Pleasingly enough, my wet pallet was still wet, and some of the paint was even usable, though for the detail work I was looking at I put in some new and thinner paint.

Long story short, I put some of the detailing on Wulfria, with some woad (that I am increasingly thinking I need to touch up more) a bit of work on her hair (which I kind of want to retouch somehow) and her cloak (which looks rather bare to me now.

So really, I did some painting, and am now thinking I need to do a lot more, but I just don't know exactly what. Thanks brain.

She looks nice, good clean paintjob. Maybe simple free hand line to the bottom of the cloak to give it some detail.

Came our beautifully, seriously, well done.

I demand better pics of the army. This is such beautifully selected and honed army Wehr! Bravo!!

What comes next? (apart from a promise of a proper photoshoot )

Deminyn: Thanks man, glad she looks good to others! I am rather looking forward to her exploding a few enemy characters!

Metsuri: Yea, I am thinking some embroidery on the cloak, along with the muddy/snowy stippling after I do the base, will tighten it up a little. There are almost too many folds for it to really be easy though, so partially I am just wussing out :-P It shall be done!

Migs: Thanks man, glad you dig the look Your TWAR actually was a big inspiration for these, strangely enough, in the sense that I wanted the models I wanted (damnit!) and I wanted a toned down, weathered army of various forms tied together by their details.

And yes... I will break out the photo booth here soon and get some proper shots My wife's selling activities slowed to 0 with the uptick in activity in her classes, and so the booth is tucked away somewhere instead of living on the table

Next up, after Wulfria gets basted and tweaked, is the final sculpting on the warshrine, then painting that and Sorchimera. Maybe also the Slaaneshi sorceress/lord on foot. I am hoping to be unemployed this summer with the exception of piles of school a week, so I am looking forward to getting a LOT done during the week. (That's a weird sentence, content wise.)

Quick update: mostly pissed around with bits for my centaur army, coming up with this for now:



The white tack is kind of a mess, but since I am still uncertain as to how I want to do the arms I was leery about hacking things apart.

2 issues:

1: Using the Rackham male torsos really limits me to spare/resin Rackham arms I have around or using shaved down WE arms. The marauder and beastmen arms are just way too big. I don't know if I should change over to beastmen torsos instead. Need to get one or two and try.
2: I need some shields and spears in general. I have enough spare Rackham arms that should fit males/females pretty well that I can do weapon swaps on, but I need to make a purchase of spears and greek shields here soon. Getting some more of the Micro Art Studio bodies and heads, so that can probably be added on. Alternately, anyone know of a company that makes plastic Greek hoplite type guts?

Side issue: I made the mold for the naked female torsos and it came out well, but I am having issues with the resin. It might just be getting long in the tooth, but it is coming out of the mold kind of sticky and soft, even well past the 2 hour cure time. Alternately, it foams up like crazy. I am going to stop trying for now, and this week collaborate with Smooth On and listen to any advice they have. Maybe there is even a new edition of the two part resin I can use. If nothing else I am going to get more of the faster drying stuff. So that part will have to wait for now.

Plus, I put paint to model today for the first time in a while, which was a nice change of pace:

Still have a lot to do, but hopefully my Slaaneshi Sorc lord on foot will be done for Dakkacon2.