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Thanks guys. Actually Cam, those are all my doing.

Tournament this Saturday and I've decided to play a genuine wraith host (no fleshy bits). So for my HQ I ordered an Avatar of Khaine. I could never stand the old one (either the GW model or the FW model), but I like a couple of different variants of the new GW model. Need to get it built and painted (decently) by Saturday. It shipped from a relatively local supplier on Saturday, so I hope it arrives by Tuesday. Thus, I'm clearing my hobby schedule. With this army, I've kind of abandoned the idea of trying to win games... I'm just letting my Rogue Trader self run wild and stomp around the battlefield killing things with reckless abandon. It's is tremendously fun and this army has turned out to be tremendously killy to boot! By the end of the games, my opponent's and I are both nearly wiped out... which makes me happy... though they usually have *at least* twice my victory points. I... frankly... don't care. I'm having a wonderful time! Thank God for Arks of Omen. Wouldn't have been able to legally field this army without the new rules.


In other news:
Decided to assemble the last two EC figures for shipment to Mr. Nerdfest. Everything is boxed up so it's just a matter of getting off of my *$$ and getting over to the post office.



OH, and to show you a bit of the young man's work... here is my wraithseer taking on some GK. Keep in mind... all I asked for was the build and a simple paint job. I'll probably re-visit the entire army eventually... but I can't begin to tell you how much fun it's been to just jump in and start playing. Well worth the money I payed to have everything built and painted to playable standards.

Yes blood for the blood god!...err wait??

Yeah... probably not a bad call on your part.

That's a lot of robots. Looking good.

I can't believe you, taking credit for your younguns excellent work!

Joking aside, excellent quality work from all concerned. Must be nice to actually be playing!

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:That's a lot of robots. Looking good.

Not ROBOTS... WRAITH CONSTRUCTS... big difference!

Camkierhi wrote:I can't believe you, taking credit for your younguns excellent work! Joking aside, excellent quality work from all concerned. Must be nice to actually be playing!

It is. Really motivating.


Avatar came in yesterday so work has begun. This is my build. Picked the bits because the best match the rest of my wraith army.


Step 2... skin and flames are done. It's not going to get a real fancy paint job as it needs to be ready by Saturday. However, I hope to do a decent job on all the basics. Please note that I'm not going to attempt any internal glow at this point... that'll come after the tournament on Saturday.

Exciting times ahead!

I wonder if a WL head would fit on the Avatar? Just to make an extra bit stompy flaming robot wraith construct.

Looking good so far. I need to paint more eldar…

You said Avatar.

I came for the hot blue furries but got Blood God for the Blood God.

JK. The flames look cool!

Thank you my friends. Finished avatar pic coming soon.

In the mean time, I spend the day finishing the basing on my CSM (Emperor's Children & associated Dark Mechanicum). So I thought I'd take a moment to show off the models done by the two people who have advanced this project the most... Solar_lion and Nerdfest09. Nerdy has a lot of models heading his way... but he has done a couple of showcase models which I'll show off here. SL has done just a ton of work... really awesome.


First... SL's stuff: Starting with the beasts.
Disco Lord:


Venomcrawlers 1 and 2:



Maulerfiend:


Hellbrute:


Dark Apostle:


"Obliterators" 1 & 2: These are re-purposed Mechanicum models from 30k... appropriate for Dark Mechanicum I think.



Possessed:


"Possessed" 1 & 2: Repurposed Ursurax from 30k Mechanicum.




Second... Nerdfest09's contributions:
Abaddon the Despoiler:


Fulgrim (The Phoenician): Looks like I need to reposition his sword a bit.




So what's left for me to paint?
- 5x actual possessed models that need a slight re-paint and a re-basing
- 5x warp talons cobbled together in the same way my original 5 warp talons were for this army that will get similar paint
- 1x normal chaos spawn

...and a ton of EC that are all going to Nerdy for painting.


Thanks for looking! Thank you Solar_lion and Nerdfest09 for the awesome painting! Avatar and tournament report to come!

You HAVE been busy! Disco lord is a joy. Loving Fulgrim, especially the cape.

Beautiful work by all. Basing is great. Really unified. Well done all.

inmygravenimage wrote:You HAVE been busy! Disco lord is a joy. Loving Fulgrim, especially the cape.

I probably spend as much time on the basing as some people do on the whole model! I'm just lucky I have friends like Solar_lion and Nerdfest09 that I can engage in such painting tasks that carry them off with such excellence. Yeah... the technique Nerdy uses for the cape is really special. I know how it's done, but I haven't been able to actually pull it off yet.

Camkierhi wrote:Beautiful work by all. Basing is great. Really unified. Well done all.

Thanks Cam!


For today then... something I actually painted for a change. And also for a change... something I'm not embarrassed about. This is a 2-day quickie paint job on my new Avatar for the Wraith Host list. It's not finished quite yet... needs blue gems, details on the face, loin cloth and cracks in the body exposing the molten metal underneath. I did however... want to make sure I did not have to re-paint anything because I'd done a crappy job on it. When I was sharing the build photo with Solar_lion, he mentioned that it looked like a Greek god. I agreed, so painted him appropriately. The wraithbone crest and axe blade are to help him fit in with the rest of the army.
Hope you like it.

Nice Avatar Gitsplitta.

Cheers,

CB

I like that a LOT. I agree with Pat, it's got a whole Ares vibe.

Wow, love the work Nerdfest did on the cape and props to SL, those models look beautiful.

You know, SL is right, that Aspect of Khorne does look like something you would find in a Hellenic temple...perhaps Aries. I really like the skin and the overall color scheme. The loin cloth seams off to me until I remembered that your ghost army has a lot of Blue in it.


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Fulgrim looks like he needs to take some blue pills lol.

I agree with you WyFox... the screaming blue is a bit out of place. The problem is there IS blue in the rest of my models, but the technique used on the relatively small parts of the other models doesn't work on such a big surface, so I had to come up with something else. I will be trying to tone it down a little, and I'm hoping that adding a simple pattern to it will help as well.

Love seeing the Avatar. Tempting me to open up the one I was given for my birthday last year and I haven’t even taken the shrink wrap off yet….

Such a gorgeous model. That blue does stand out but it is not glaringly bad. Just a pattern over it should work. I am sure you will work it out.

Just got back from Adepticon. Lots of Bushido stuff going on but I did get a couple of 40k pick-up games in. Wonderful to see everyone again.

Just a few pics below. Finally got to see my avatar doing what he does best. He usually gets shot off the board before he can engage.


Game 1 (Saturday) vs. my good friend Rad's Word Bearers:
My 1000 point wraith host marches out to face the Word Bearers.


Over the course of a couple of turns... the Avatar plows through a couple of units of cultists and a sorcerer who get to close. Support from some fallen marines doesn't help.


The marines get their turn at bat.


After polishing off the small squad, the Avatar moves around some shipping crates and piles into a full squad of 10 marines. It went kinda like you'd expect.


Unfortunately, being fluffy... my friend split his forces to guard the two potential entrances to the table (narrative game), even through we both knew which one I'd be coming through. I should have split my own forces to make for a more even game... but I wasn't thinking and just came in on one end... giving me about a 2:1 advantage.

I have to be more mindful of that in the future.


Game 2 (Sunday): My son Carl, friends Tyler, Justin and I play 2v2, 1000 points each. While we're all on the same table and could interact across the table... we're basically playing 2 different games on the same table (though we're keeping our turns synchronized... so we all play T1, T2, etc.). That way we all got to hang out together as well as having fun, fast games. I even managed to cook up a somewhat plausible story to explain why Necrons, UMs, IG and Eldar were all on the table at the same time.

Once again, the mighty Iyanden Wraith Host marches to war! This time to face the plucky Imperial Guard!


Unlike most armies I've run... this one just marches straight forward and does whatever damage it can without any consideration for "objectives", "winning" or other such paltry affairs. It's actually quite orky. I "own" half of the board at this point... I just don't care & don't have anything sitting on the objectives in the areas I control. My troops are taking a pounding... but they're giving one as well. Here the Wraithseer finishes off a tank in melee.


I think this is the end of T2... My army is just across mid-field. The Avatar has slid towards the mid-table objective... not that he cares about that at all, but there was a 20-man blob of The Ancient Enemy over there that needed extirpating. Tyler's lost both of his transports and one tank, along with a 5-man guard unit. My wraith guard have been cut in half and the wraithseer and Avatar are damaged. You can see the other half of the battle (unpainted UMs vs Necrons) in the background.


The avatar would plow through the Necron horde... taking some damage in the process of course.


This is our gang. Solar_lion is in the orange hat. My son "Thing 1" is sitting on the right with the grey T-shirt. SL ran 3 over-booked Knight Fight games and is getting noticed by the Adepticon organizers for the popularity of his event.


More death and destruction meted out by the Avatar. It's a bit of a slog given the reanimation... but he'll get there in the end.


Near the end the IG decide that *someone* should probably stand on the objective in my backfield, so they drop some heavily armed troops in. My regular wraithlord doubles back to sort them out.


Epitaph:
When all is said and done... Tyler loses his second tank and a bunch of guardsmen. I lose my wraithseer and am down to 3 or 4 wraithguard. My wraithlord and the dropped in guardsmen have nearly done with each other, but are still around in some form. The Avatar... haven taken fire from his faithless Ultramarine allies is storming towards their lines seeking vengeance.

Honestly... it was one of the most fun, interesting, entertaining and balanced games of 40k I can remember playing. We were so evenly matched and had the right tools for dealing with each other... as such... nothing but smoking wrecks and burning bodies remained. Many thanks to my good friend Tyler for giving me such a fantastic experience!

Lastly... the spoils of war!


That's it from Adepticon. Now back to your regularly scheduled Gitsplitta.

Great games and lots of fun (even if overwhelmed :-)) The Wordbearers are looking for a rematch once the general figures out the rules

I look forward to that as well my friend. Great seeing you again.

Awesome father and son event!

I've got to start somewhere, so might as well catch up on this monster blog as you have stayed a regular to my irregular blogs.
I don't know the last time I checked in so I'm going back to somewhere in 2020 and will try and comment on anything that grabs my eye as I scroll through 7 pages of just Gitsplitta posts.

Good work on the tableful of rusty industrial things.

Like the gobsmasha tank.

Good job on matching Weety's painted servitors.

Cool Orky barricade.

Also liking the Big Trakk with cobbled-together supa kannon.

Nice battle shots.

Good job on all the other things I didn't mention.
My eyes are now going funny from all the scrolling.

LOL! Thanks old friend. Good to see you back! You're much more productive than I am. Not sure I've done anything gaming related since Adepticon (including playing games).

Life^TM gets us all in the end.
But we all come crawling back eventually. Just can't stay away for long.

First time I've picked up *any* model in over a year. Repaint of a WalMart toy car for our annual GasLands game at Adepticon. I'ts NOT meant to be magnified this highly as the paintjob was all done by brush (airbrush is out of commission atm). So... imagine this model at arm's length, careening virtually into other vehicles, obstacles, etc. It was fun to do though. I just wish I could've gotten the airbrush working so the base yellow was cleaner.

BTW... the yellow peaking through the windshield is invisible in-person. Didn't even see it until the photograph.

Good stuff. Love a bit of gaslands.

Good to see you painting. Have fun at the con.

Planning anything else in Chicago?