Normal Saturday Post!

Today will be a normal finished model Saturday post. Because of the nature of what I was working on and how I was working on it, the last few missed posts would have been pretty much the same. 

Last Saturday was a crazy day. Between being out on the day that the temperature dropped like crazy and the fact that the city decided not to salt the roads, it was not a good day. Almost every bridge in the area had to be shut down due to icing and accidents. Add to that was all the traffic back up from people having to turn around and take detours to get to where they wanted to go. I just happen to be out in this trying to get to the downtown area to meet up with someone.

So with that and all the sameness of the Blood Angels that I was working on, I did not post last Saturday and Wednesday. I've decided that if that happens again, I will post a retro figure so at least there is a post.

Blood Angels!

I've gotten the Blood Angels from the Space Hulk box pretty much done. There are a few things here and there that I'm seeing, but every figure can use some more work on it. These were a little bit of a pain since there were so many details all over the mini. I ended up having to go back and paint other things out of order because I missed them.

Out of the ones I've been working on there are two that are not here. One is a guy with a power sword that I want to work on some more and the other is a guy holding a Tyranid skull. I wanted to save this for when I was working on the other Tyranids.

I absolutely love how these guys turned out. I think they look awesome and the steps I followed worked great! I have another client that has Blood Angels, but I was unsure of how to paint them so I've been doing other stuff for them. Now that I've done these, I really want to paint more. 

Like I said, the hardest part about these is getting all the details in one shot without having to go back over them later. They also took a good bit of time, but I have another week to finish the Tyranids and since they are very organic, they should go quick.

I will have the other two Blood Angels finished for Wednesday and some Tyranids for the work in progress part.

Till next time!

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A Different Kind of WIP Wednesday

The workload that I have this week doesn't really make for very interesting WIP. I'm doing all cleaning, assembly, and base painting. I've got all the Genestealers from the Space Hulk box finished, and they need primed. I also have all the Blood Angels, minus the blue guy, base painted up to step 3.

So instead of posting some meh pictures of stuff that isn't painted, I've decided to post pics of an older guy that I did. I'm not sure where I got this figure, but this is one of my first attempts at non-metallic metals. I did both a gold and a blue steel color on this guy and I think he turned out amazing. The gold is many layers of mixed browns, yellows, and purples. 

Quick post this week, but I should have more Blood Angels for Sunday.

Till next time!

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Unfinished Blood Angels - Epic Sad

This week I had planned to get the Blood Angels from the Space hulk box done, but after getting the four from the WIP Wednesday to a certain point, I had an issue. one of the paints that I substituted from the tutorial just doesn't look right. So, I have to head to Phantom of the Attic tomorrow and grab that paint so I can finish them finally.

Here are the awesome guys from Wednesday! They are currently stuck at step 14 since I need the Games Workshop Fenrisian Grey. I had originally wanted to use the Foundry Night Sky Light, but it isn't light enough to layer the way I want.

Here are three more guys ready for the color craziness. Right now they have the first four steps on them.

Short post because of the paint issue and World of Warcraft expansion stuff.

Till next time!

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Blood Angels WIP Wednesday!

Currently I'm working on the Blood Angels from the Space Hulk box. These guys are plastic and there isn't a lot of cleaning that needs done on them. They go together fairly well and the only issue that I've been having is the priming part. There are a ton of crevices on these guys and I don't want to over prime them so I'm having to do a ton of light coats to get the black prime everywhere. If I had the red primer from Army Painter, I would've used that instead.

For these guys, instead of taking a ton of time to figure out which paints to use and how to go about painting each part, I found an awesome tutorial online. Tale of Painters has an incredible step by step tutorial and there isn't much that I can do better as far as the steps and paints needed. I have changed a few of the paints and the steps as I paint, but otherwise it's perfect! They also have the Genestealer step by step that I'm going to use.

This is a pic of the first steps on these guys. A layer of GW Mephiston Red and a wash of GW Rhinox Hide mixed with water. While I was working on the Rhinox Hide bit, I put the wash down and then wiped the top parts with a tissue to remove the extra paint on top. This really just got the paint in the deep parts and left the top mostly alone.

Here are the four guys I'm working on at the moment. I try to work on units in 2 and 4 figures at a time. This time I'm working on the steps with 2 figures at a time and then switching to the other 2 and doing the same steps. This way I won't burn out on the same painting. 

These are some close ups of the two that are the furthest along. I'm currently on the 13th step with these two and the 10th on the others. I have some touch ups to do, but otherwise I love how these are turning out. Considering that these are only like my third attempt at some Space Marines, the first being a single Grey Knight and the second some Dark Angel bikes, they are looking good.

This is kind of an early post because the new World of Warcraft expansion comes out at 3am tomorrow so I'm going to be busting my butt to finish these 4 today. I should have these 4 and probably 2 to 4 more on Saturday completely finished. I'm also going to try and get more of the Genestealers cleaned and ready for priming. It would be nice to paint some of them at Phantom of the Attic on Sunday.

Till next time!

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Single Minis Saturday!

For this Saturdays post I have a couple single Reaper Bones figures. These were painted fairly quickly and the schemes were simple, but I liked how they turned out. I have to say that though I prefer the metal Reaper miniatures, the Bones plastic ones are not bad. There is a bit of lost detail and the mold lines are a pain to deal with, but the cost of the figures are perfect for people playing a tabletop Role Playing game and need a quick figure to represent their character.

This figure is Astrid, Female Chronicler. She showed up earlier this week for WIP Wednesday and she turned out very nice from where she was.

This last figure is Terezinya, Bonepander Wizard. This mini has some wicked mold lines that run over her hair and over parts of her face. There was also a good bit of flashing in certain spots. The two toned hair color and blue eyes was chosen by the client and I used the Gunmetal Blue on the sword this time. Fairly basic paint scheme like the one above, but still a good character.

Alright! This week is going to be a little crazy. I'm going to have to work a ton on some Space Hulk guys and then the World of Warcraft expansion comes out this week. I said I wasn't going to get into it this year, but I love the game and the people who play it so much, that I'm going to be there at launch with everyone. So, I just have to watch my time and not spend all day playing.

Till next time!

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Small WIP Wednesday

For this weeks WIP Wednesday I have this Bones figure from Reaper. 

This is Astrid, Female Chronicler and she is sort of a bard type character. This is one of two Bones figures for commission that I'm getting done this week. The person that I'm doing the commission for didn't give me much to go on. Other than the brown hair, green eyes, and the Vallejo Gunmetal Blue color that they liked, everything else is my picks for color. So far I'm happy with this and I mainly have to do a little more highlights and the washes. I will probably do several layers of washes on the larger leather pieces to get a nice finish.

I figured that I could do a couple of single minis and maybe even get a few of my own finished while I'm working on the large amount of Space Hulk figures for another commission. That is going well so far and all of the Blood Angels are assembled and on their way to priming. 

Till next time!

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The Awesome Halloween Event - Nagash and The End Times

Awesome extra post for the week and super wordy! 

Sunday's post was pretty long, but I still wanted to talk about the great Warhammer Fantasy Halloween game that we had. 

The story behind the game is that Nagash is trying to take over the world and kill everyone during the End of Times. He has been super beefed up and has brought some pretty nasty Vampire Counts to his side.

For this game, the forces of the living are fighting against Nagash and two of his leuitentants, Neferata and Krell. The forces of the living include everyone that isn't Tomb Kings or Vampire Counts. So for our game we had a wide range of armies that wouldn't normally fight on the same side. There were 7 players on the forces of the living side and the armies brought were: Lizardmen, Nurgle, Scaven, Orcs, Bretonnian, and 2 Warriors of Chaos groups. 

The players were allowed 1 unit and 1 leader totaling 400 points. They were not allowed spellcasters or anything that gave them a magic phase, and the units had to be either infantry or monstrous infantry.

On the forces of undead side, we had Nagash, Neferata, Krell and a Master Necromancer. During the magic phase we were able to cast several spells as well as summon units to fight like a standard undead army. Also, there were several terrain pieces on the board which, at the end of the magic phase, would summon a unit nearby. 

The board was set up on three 4x4 tables with the forces of good on one side, Nagash on the other, and Neferata and Krell in between. The forces of good had to move through three tables and travel nearby several spawning terrain pieces in order to get to Nagash.

Rewards were given based on kills and progress down the tables for the forces of good.

Overall I think this game went pretty well. The forces of good made their way down the board and when they encountered an undead unit, they were either tied up for a bit or killed them immediately. They were whittled down and only a few made it to Nagash. In the end, Nagash and his forces of the undead were left standing, battered, but alive (sort of).

I was in charge of Neferata, the Mortarch of Blood, and the units she summoned as well as any units that spawned by the mausoleum on my side of the table. For most of the game my concentration was on dealing damage to some of the larger units with my awesome Gaze of Nagash spell, and attacking the Brettonians and Khorne Warriors of Chaos who were in front of me. Both of these armies eventually made it almost all the way down to me, but were stopped by several units of Spirit Hosts and Ghouls. 

On the other side of the board, lots of the forces of good concentrated on Krell and the Master Necromancer. Since Krell was standing very close to a spawning Mausoleum, there were a ton of undead units to throw in front of him and the Necromancer, but in the end they were taken down by the horde of Lizardmen skinks and kroxigar. The other armies worked their way towards Nagash, killing everything in their way, including several summoned Bone Giants and a lot of Bat Swarms. 

Then the other Warriors of Chaos player, who only had their leader left, made a statement about how their guy was either Lysander or Lysander's ancestor. All I heard was the Lysander part and with that, all three of the players on the undead side immediately switched to that guy and fired several spells at him. Eventually, after a round or two, he was killed! 

As a group, we don't particularly care for the Lysander character in the Warhammer 40k universe, since he is over powered and pretty hard to kill. I've only seen the guy in one other game which was a 50,000 point 40k Apocalypse game. Tons of points were spent trying to kill him and after many rounds and attacks we thought we had him, but the guy has some crazy Eternal Warrior stuff and survived! 

So, now it's sort of a running joke and as soon as Lysander is mentioned, we have to kill him. Oh well! He shouldn't have said anything about Lysander.

The Scaven unit was one of the first to make it down near to Nagash, but the leader of the unit carried a weapon that did awesome damage to both his opponents and to himself. He was eventually dealt one too many wounds and killed himself, while his unit was taken out on a later encounter.

Finally several units made it down to Nagash, diminished, but surviving. Nurgle managed to get their charge off first and engage Nagash in close combat. The other unit that missed their charge, the Orcs, were right in front of Neferata so I had her summon some extra units of undead and on her next turn she charged in to challenge the Orc leader. The Nurgle were joined by a lone Lizardmen Kroxigar against Nagash and after getting Nagash all the way down to only 1 wound, the Nurgle were killed. Several blows were exchanged between Neferata and the Orc leader while the extra undead units I had summoned charged the unit the Orc leader was in and after dealing more wounds than they took, the Orc unit ran. Neferata pursued and they were destroyed. The lone Kroxigar managed to survive against Nagash for a bit, but in the end was unable to get that last wound. Nagash finished him off.

The Bronze Award went to the Orcs, who were the only ones to deal any wounds to Neferata, but sadly ran and were pursued to death.

The Silver went to Nurgle, who dealt the most wounds to Nagash, but failed to kill him in the end and left him with one wound.

And finally the Gold went to....

The Lizardmen! They traveled along the side of the table, encountered a ton of undead units, made it to Krell and the Master Necromancer, and killed them both. These were the only major kills in the game for the forces of good and therefore earned the highest reward! Go Lizardmen Skinks and Kroxigar!

This was an awesome game and while it did take a good bit of time (at least 5 hours) it was still fun for everyone. I got a ton of figures painted and off my project list and had a good time! Woohoo!

The next Warhammer Fantasy game that we're having is going to be in January and will be either everyone against the Chaos, or everyone against just Nurgle. All these new incredible Nurgle models are out and we want to play with them! I will be playing my Lizards which is awesome, since I don't have to actually paint anything if I don't want to. Leaves me more time to paint other stuff!

Till next time!

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Saturday's Post on Sunday!

Super big update!

We finally had our Warhammer Fantasy Halloween game today and while there were victors on the side of good, the side of evil won overall.

Bwahahahaha!

First up is the main lady, Neferata The Mortarch of Blood.

We have the front and back sides where you can see the overall figure. She is painted mainly to the box color scheme and done for tabletop. I might go back in when I have more time to highlight and tint a few things here and there, but I am super happy with this model.

The model itself went together fairly well. She is a little bouncy because she only has two connection points to the base and they're both towards the back. Also as far as assembly, I would advise to put the base, ghosts, tail, hips, and connecting leg together before painting. I did most of these pieces separate and when I went to put it together I had issues with properly positioning the leg that connects to the ghost. This leg is part of the stability of the figure and needs to be correct. I would also think about modifying it a little to make it more stable.

Otherwise, she is pretty nice and the figure held up through a long game with arms moving and dice being thrown.

Here we have some awesome close up shots of the mount and Neferata herself.

Next up are the Spirit Host and the Banshee that were part of the game today. I've posted this WIP shot before and finally got to finish them completely for the game.

Here are the completed figures! These guys were actually much older figures painted several years ago that I wanted to repaint to go along with the newer ghosts. Their original scheme was a camo green layered with bone, but the repaint is the newer spectral scheme like the Grave Guard.

Lastly, we have the swarms. I had these older Games Workshop minis sitting around unpainted and unbased, but finally got to get them done! These guys were super quick and I got 5 spider swarms and 5 bat swarms done in less than a day.

I've decided that instead of a really long post about all the finished minis and the game from today, I would split the post and save the game for either Monday or Tuesday. 

Till next time!

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Moving Saturday's post this week

I still have a ton of stuff to get done for the game tomorrow, so the usual post for today will be postponed till tomorrow evening after I get home. 

I should also have some awesome pics of our Halloween game to post as well as the finished Mortarch!

Till next time!

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