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So I've spent the past few nights painting up Mantic zombies and GW ghouls to a very basic table top standard. Nothing worth posting here. Just block colors and a wash.

But I am gearing up for Paradigm's April painting contest. I have two choices I'm debating between. I have a Baneblade that I'm working on building when I'm not painting. I was thinking about using it and have some converted, beat up guardsmen I have as her crew, a la Fury. My other choice is a sentinel that I have soaking in simple green right now, and using one of said guardsmen as her pilot. The baneblade is a ton more work, and would have to be rushed a little to be ready by the end of the month. The sentinel wouldn't be quite as awesome, but I could spend a lot more time with its details. Thoughts?

Also, NEW AVATAR!!! I saw some other guy around with one too similar to mine, so I changed it to the Ogryn peaking around the corner at you. I painted him, so no one else has this one!

The Avatar works well. I would say do the Sentinel so you can truly lavish a ton of time into it without having to rush.

I also really like sentinels and imagine the pilots turn out pretty grizzled and veteran pretty damn quickly.

I like the new Avatar.

I also vote for baneblade, but the sentinel would be easier to finish in time so that's your call

I decided to just do the sentinel. Still working on building the baneblade, and there is just no way I would get it painted to a decent standard by the end of the month. So here is Captain Jenkins and his Sentinel, "Lucy" of the Baal 111th. I am going to try to make him look like he just came through a skirmish with some Orks, and use the model to learn how to do battle damage better. Thoughts?





I was able to head down to my games store yesterday and got a game of 40k in. My guardsmen got beaten by an Ork horde. Been on a bit of a losing streak lately. Oh well. I also bought some new models. Bought the Garden of Morr, some Empire swordmen, and some of the Dwarf Ironbreakers. Painted up a couple of them this morning. Probably going to make a dwarven warband for Mordheim out of them. Here is what I've done so far.









Will get to work on the Sentinel and pilot this week and will probably keep up some work on the dwarves since I have some momentum. Also, I hate to ask this, but if anyone could go into my gallery and throw a couple votes my way, I would sincerely appreciate it. They don't even have to be good votes. I would just like some honest feedback. Thanks for looking guys, and feel free to comment!

Nice stuff! Those newer Dwarves are pretty pricy if I recall, but do look very neat indeed! The Sent/pilot looks nice, especially the pose/composition on the latter!

I like the pilot's pose, but you know he's gonna get popped in the bean taking his helmet off like that

Dwarfs look good too! I'll try to stop by the gallery but no promises, the kiddo likes to sit with me at the computer and it makes doing computery things hard!

Squall, I'm going to tell you off. Dwarfs look great but the sprue attachment on the hammer... It does catch the eye.

 RobertsMinis wrote:
Squall, I'm going to tell you off. Dwarfs look great but the sprue attachment on the hammer... It does catch the eye.

It does... I'm so bad at cleaning my minis. That one is exceptionaly bad though, and I will make it a point to clean that off tonight and touch it back up.

It was these Dwarfs that nearly swung me towards getting a Fantasy Dwarf force, just a bit too costly for me though. I really like the muted metallics, it gives them a nearly stone like appearance.

As for Captain Jenkins'? Great work, a really characterful miniature.

Been perusing your gallery. You have SO many great looking minis.

 Archer wrote:
Been perusing your gallery. You have SO many great looking minis.

Thanks Archer! I do have a TON of minis, and the sad thing is, I haven't even painted 1/3 of my collection. I always have plenty of options though when I feel like painting. Thanks for the votes!

So my group is having another 40k tourney at the end of May, and I decided I wanted to bring some allies for my Guard. I had some Grey Knights lying around, so thought I may give them a try. With that in mind, I picked up a can of the new leadbelcher spray at my FLGS this past weekend. I was going for a very basic tabletop standard here. I think I achieved that and very quickly with the help of the new spray. What do you think guys?









Going to try to keep going with these for a few weeks, especially at the rate I think I will be able to pump them out. Its exciting being able to get stuff done so fast, this must be what you guys with an air brush feel like ALL the time!

Very, very nice! I may need to look at getting this Leadbelcher spray when I get around to stripping the rest of my GK. I started with Runefang as the base last time, but I'll happily add an extra highlight layer to save time base coating the metal, always the slowest part. Like the bases too!

Got a list in mind for these guys?

Not really, just going to paint what I have and kind of figure it out from there. I just wanted something different to go with my Guard.

Haha, sometimes the airbrush saves me time... sometimes I just shoot myself in the proverbial foot....

Grey knights look fine, I think its a pretty solid effort especially if it isn't taking you long. If you've just got them 'laying around' and intend them to be allies and not your primary force, you should feel totally justified in not breaking your back over them.

And they look solid anyway.

Grim, I think fine is the perfect word for them. I was able to knock these three out in about two hours... which is just super quick for me. I'm usually pretty slow.

Three... those are terminators right? Not as familiar with GKs but yeah those are 40mm bases... anyway yeah three terminators in a couple of hours is pretty respectable and they work fine. May even make their parent force look cooler by comparison by being simpler, they're wingmen

I think they look great when you consider the time spent and the end goal. You can always go back and do extra work of the inspiration seized later on and you have a top quality base to go from.

I'm doing what Archer said myself. Getting solid tabletop out and someday I'm just gonna be in the mood and bust out a boatload of glowey eyes and gems and what have you. The GKs in a good place either way.

Squall: Great looking Grey Knights there. Told you that Leadbelcher was good didn't I?! lol. Best few bucks I've spent in a good while lol.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Squall: Great looking Grey Knights there. Told you that Leadbelcher was good didn't I?! lol. Best few bucks I've spent in a good while lol.

Its my new favorite GW product! If only I played Necrons.

So what process did you use? Did you undercoat first then spray the leadbelcher or is that acting as an undercoat?

@Archer: For my Necrons, I primed them black then sprayed with the Leadbelcher. Comes out very nicely.

Those Knights do for me. As most people have said that is a great base if you want to re-visit them. They will look great on any tabletop, for me anything more than that is a bonus.

So I've been away for awhile. I've gotten super burnt out on warhammer. GW's policies have finally started to get to me, and the lack of balance in the game has made it less fun for me. I'm not quitting, I just needed a break...

That being said, a break from warhammer is not a break from miniatures or from table top gaming. I found Warmachine and have fallen head over heels in love. I have played every weekend for 5 weeks in a row now, and already have a few more games set up. So I've been working on building up Cygnar and Menoth forces. I've decided to play Cygnar at the upcoming Reckoning even at my FLGS. Here are a few pics of what I've been working on.

My Journeyman Warcaster







Some Stormguard





Reinholdt, My Merc





The Journeyman is my favorite. Spent the most time on him. Have a few more minis done that I will post later .Sorry for the long absence. Feels good to be back in the saddle.e Can't wait to see what some of you guys have been up to as well!

I hear you about gw/40k. I stepped off that train a good while back and never have had the impulse to get back on.

Can't get into warmahordes though, the aesthetic just doesn't do it for me, though I've heard it's a pretty tight game and good for competitive play. If I did play, Cygnar would probably be my top/second choice, so I look forward to your efforts

Everything in that vein so far is quite nice, the warcaster and his minions look good!

Models look great. I am keen to see war machines models as I have little experience with it and would like to see it from your perspective rather than try to figure it out on my own. Keen to see more.

Hey Squall! Glad to see you back at it.

I really like your Journeyman. You can tell that you've spent some quality time on him.

His buddies look good too!

I looked at Warmahordes- didn't like the models though. Some nice painting going on here though.
I will soon be receiving (finally) my AvP game- totally excited for it! You could give that a look?

PP models are inferior to GW models in almost every way. The plastic isn't as good, I forgot how much I hate metal, and trying to convert them is very difficult. For those reasons alone, I will be keeping all my GW stuff, and still keep working on it.

But the game itself... its simply magic. Its what I wanted for all the years I played Warhammer and didn't even know it. Its fast, its tight, and the rules make sense. My favorite part about it, is if you suffer a bad alpha strike, or something goes awry early, you don't have to sit there and slug it out for three more hours knowing you're gonna lose. If you're down a significant amount, chances are they get you're caster and game over.

That being said, I'm not going to turn this into a GW bashing blog. I love GW for getting me into this hobby, and for making the best models on the market. I just am gonna play their game much more casually now, and probably stop with the tournaments.

@Angel - AvP has been on my radar. It would be much higher if Prodos had their stuff together. I will probably wait till they release it in plastic, as I don't paint well enough for the difference to be noticable in resin vs plastic, and plastic will hold up better while I'm playing the board game.