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Solar_lion wrote:Good luck in the tourney. Let us know how you come out; what worked and what didn't.

Cheers Solar I'll be packing them tonight ready for the weekend. I don't expect much to work for me I'm a really bad player / army list builder, I just go for models I like the look of. I wont be in for best painted as I've taken the army a few times now, need a new one to have a chance for that which is next years project.

Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:Love that you've done a wide range of chaos, there's just so many choices that you could pretty much go anywhere with it.

Flawless host is definitely one of my favourite ways to do Slaanesh, and Skyrar's Dark Wolves are an army on the 'maybe one day' waiting list.

Reading through from page 1 you can definitely see how you've improved over the years, will be keeping up to date from here on in!

Thanks Ignatius-Grulgor I could spend ages as well just on Chaos, there's so many possibilities out there its hard sticking to one chapter/theme.

Good to have you along on the blog, there wont be much chaos till next year now but it will be back with a vengeance, I have plans to flesh out my World Eaters and Death Guard so they can both do 1750 points each without borrowing units.

Sorry for the lack of updates work has hit in hard and I've had no free time and its not looking great for the rest of the month either.

Got lots of minis waiting to be assembled just hoping I get time before the bad weather sets in, we are already on the rain season so primer time is very precious if there is a break

The tournament ah yes that's where I left you last time, well it was interesting I don't have any photos well there might be one of the first game will check camera later. From a playing point of view it went as it usually does for me.

First game was against a White Scars bike list with Space Wolf allies (thunderwolves). I did ok at the start but started to loose too many models mid game due to bad save's, loosing three terminators from four bolter shots hurts....I think I ended up being tabled. There was no psyker for my assassin to play with.

Second game was against an all tank Guard list with a Knight. I nearly lost my knight in the first turn which was scary, he went down to 1HP but managed to pull through. I killed his knight with one of my Thunderwolf units on his turn one which was cool, but again my low model count worked against me, just too many tanks to take out, and he had no psyker for my assassin to play with.

Third game (now on bottom table) was against Dark Eldar, I basicly ripped their heads off they couldn't handle all my 3++ and 2+ saves and I just hammered them, my knight made it across the table crushing his warlord in combat before it was taken down by flyers. My Thunderwolf units took out so many units they were unstoppable. Again their were no pysykers for my assassin to play with :(

Overall all three games were quite fun best painted still urks me as in many events if you go with lots of friends they vote for your army, bitter yes a tad as it went to someone who didn't even have their name and player number laid out which is how I came to the conclusion that's its a bit of a waste of time. I must admit that to stand a chance I'd need a new army and really have to do something spectacular to get noticed again. The question is do I bother as 40k armies aren't cheap or should I just not bother and continue with other games and more interesting minis.

Hopefully I'll have something for you all soon even if its just assembled minis

Sounds like a tough bunch of games.. Don't be discouraged.. if you had a good time and played some good game it's all good. As for painting, well it alway a toss, but I've noticed that the level has gone way up. It's hard to compete in some of the bigger tourney's when all the armies are 'Pro' painted and not ususally by the owning players.

Paint what you like and keep improving.

 Solar_lion wrote:
Sounds like a tough bunch of games.. Don't be discouraged.. if you had a good time and played some good game it's all good. As for painting, well it alway a toss, but I've noticed that the level has gone way up. It's hard to compete in some of the bigger tourney's when all the armies are 'Pro' painted and not ususally by the owning players.

Paint what you like and keep improving.

Sadly that's not the case where I play, I didn't see one army that had highlights.

Pop down to gosport and have a game

 Miss Dee wrote:
Pop down to gosport and have a game

I don't have a car at the moment so that would be a longggggg walk

Train.

 Miss Dee wrote:
Train.

I live in the middle of no where, sometimes if your lucky you see a bus. A bus would be required to catch said train which would involve changes and not the ability to get back home again once I return to my train station.....Great if theres a zombie apocalypse, they would never find me! As a result I don't get out much

The internet is a god send really

I'm back with pictures this week

Work is busy as usual but I have tomorrow off and plan to get a few hours of painting in while I can, I think the other half of the Bane Thrall unit is up next.

Here's the finished pic of Commander Coleman Stryker, I tided up his base this afternoon and darkened where his eyes are. I'm slowly getting the hang of painting flesh now.



Next up is the Relic Knights Shattered Sword starter set assembled ready to be primed, which I did today. I must they are terrible models, mold lines in places that are just the most pain in the behind to remove and in some cases I just had to leave them. The faces have lost a lot of detail as well oh and you have to glue them with super glue as I found out after finishing them and then bits started falling off when I picked them up the next day



Then we move on to my Nurgle Man O War fleet which is now complete minus one model which is the sorcerers boat but I'm going to try and make a Nurgle version to fit in with the fleet.



Lastly today is my latest supply drop some more pain in the behind Relic Knight models the big ogre guy is quite cool but the Isabeau Durand model has the same issues as the rest including a very poorly face I have an interesting shot I will share with you tomorrow of her next to the Ltd edition Infinity O:I model.

Also another crew for Malifaux as well which gives me enough to play with once they are painted. Oh and a Warmachine mini that I cant recall the name of while typing this for my Cryx



I've now gone past the Xmas present mark so any models I buy now go into my Xmas stash which is quite cool makes it look like I get more than I really do, I've never been given miniature related hobby
stuff for Xmas so decided to do this quite a few years ago.

Just ordered some nice discounted minis from Wayland Games for Dark Age and Dust and I'm still waiting on KS things from Darklands and Wolsung as well, would be nice if they arrived in time.

I'll be back tomorrow

Where do you get your soda pop minis from?

Wayland Games Miss Dee, they take ages to get hold of them though so expect to wait about a month if what you want isn't in stock.

Ok thanks

Here we go Isabeau Durand from Relic Knights vs CSU Corporate Security Unit from Infinity.

As you can see there's no comparison really when it comes down to it. The Infinity mini is just plain better in all ways she has a face and detail and actually looks like a female model should all her assets and curves are in the right places. Poor Isabeau is super skinny and has some weird third joint in her right arm that just looks plan wrong. she did look ok until I put the head and arms on. Just not greatly impressed especially when compared to the model in the advert picture. Lets just hope I can do her some justice when it comes to painting.

I am struggling with putting the Infinity minis together as well, the parts are too small for me to hold, I also got some new glue but its way too thin I ended up getting stuck to the young CSU model at one point





The Bane Thralls have actually had some paint applied to them today as well, my paintbrush is happy again!

You any good at pinning?

I feel like I'm back into painting again, I didn't have to work so pulled out my brushes instead this weekend.

I finished off the second half of the Bane Thralls unit for Warmachine.



As usual for this time of year the pics are a bit poor.

I then started my first Relic Knights mini today, I managed to get all the metallics done on Austrican The Ogre and he's looking nice and shiny. I'm going off scheme compared to the official Shattered Sword look but wanted mine to look like real knights so they are going to be mostly metallics.





Finally some proof that I'm getting somewhere with assembling my Infinity minis, just two more nomads to go and then onto the PanO. The last two will be easy, its where you have two arms that have to be glued together where I have issues.



As the weather has started to turn too cold to prime outside these probably wont be painted till spring now. I'm going to be working my way through my box of primed minis over the next few months, unless I find something thats plastic as I can prime that by hand, metal and resin though have to be done via spray.

Come on, I was just outside spray painting a new Christmas lawn decoration, it's not too cold .

The bane thrills are looking mighty scarey, well done

The ogre/knight is also great work, pure talent.

 Theophony wrote:
Come on, I was just outside spray painting a new Christmas lawn decoration, it's not too cold .

Its currently dark where I am, I'd get more over the wall than the minis especially as I'd be spraying black.

 GiraffeX wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
Come on, I was just outside spray painting a new Christmas lawn decoration, it's not too cold .

Its currently dark where I am, I'd get more over the wall than the minis especially as I'd be spraying black.

only matters if you like your neighbor or not, use their house as a windbreak if needed.

Very true didn't think of that

Just went out to check with one of the dogs but its already frosty so will have to try another time

Hey all back again with another mini for you this week, should be on a bit of a roll over Christmas with lots of time off.

Been a bit busy at the start of the week writing an article for a Magic the Gathering website but thats now finished and published. I used to write weekly but swapped my hobbys round so that comes after my painting now. Also been helping NF09 with his Ork list, just a few more bits left and it should be good.

On the painting front I finished my first Relic Knights mini Austrican the Ogre from the Shattered Sword faction, he's quite cool but ignore the mold lines, something you are never going to get away from with this range.





That's all from me today, should have more tomorrow

Excellent work, the silver and white really work well together!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Excellent work, the silver and white really work well together!

Cheers Git's It's a similar scheme to the one I did on my Warmacine Clockwork Angels ages ago. You've just reminded me that I need to buy some more of those as I sold the last lot

Always, always... the pursuit of new models!

Austrican looks great.
As I heard Relic Knights models (scuplting-wise) sadly not all look as good as this one.

Gitsplitta wrote:Always, always... the pursuit of new models!

Yes yes must have more precious

pfibp wrote:Austrican looks great.
As I heard Relic Knights models (scuplting-wise) sadly not all look as good as this one.

Yeah sadly they are all really bad including this one, I couldn't get all the mold lines off him some are in really bizarre places. But I really wanted to try it so really only have my self to blame

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Today we have another Relic Knights model Quill





More to follow tomorrow hopefully if all goes to plan.

Today keeping in the Relic Knights theme we have some Shattered Sword Paladin's



I don't expect there will be another update for a few days as I have a small squad to paint up next, which should hopefully be finished by end of play Sunday.

Well done on the metallics on the ogre!

 Solar_lion wrote:
Well done on the metallics on the ogre!

Cheers Solar, the Paragon's were done the same way but I failed to capture how they look in the pic

Today I thought I'd have a look at the challenges I set my self back in January and see how I've done

Things that one must accomplish this year.

Make/buy more scenery for batreps. - Pass
Build (and paint) my Eldar army up to 900 points minimum - Fail
Finally start my Exorcists - Epic Fail
Finish painting my khador Man O War unit. - Pass
Paint my Dwarf Man O War fleet when it arrives - - Pass

Things that I would like to do but may not accomplish

Finish my World Eaters army to 1750 points - Fail
Finish my Death Guard army to 1750 points - Fail
Collect the other half of my Skaven fleet where possible and paint - Fail
Become a better painter - You decide
Collect and paint a Cygnar starter force and learn the rules Fail/ - Pass

Well not great really

Some of those will be going back on the list again this year. I'm currently planning next years list at present.

No update today, just wanted to wish everyone a great Christmas. I hope all your wishes for plastic krak, resin and metal, for those who like it old school all come true.