It shimmers! Daemons of the Southern Warpgate v1.0

As my Wisco Boys in the UK post indicated, I did indeed get the Daemons done in time for the South Coast GT. At the event they performed admirably, putting me at 13th out of 180+ players and also garnered the Best Army Trophy, which was awesome!

So, finally, I'll throw out a few more pics of the Daemons!

Midwest Rampage List

Got a tourney this weekend.  3K no grand army, otherwise a no comp event.

I'm pulling out all the stops and bringing one of the nastiest little lists I have ever fielded.  Thankfully, the sportsmanship scoring posted on the website does not include an in game score.  We will see if that is a mistake or not.

I have 2 lofty goals for this weekend.

1) Win all of my games.  I have a capable list.  I just have to use it right and count on a bit of luck.
2) Cast all 13 of my spells in 1 magic phase.  We will see-lots of things have to happen just right for this to happen.

Take the list you want for the result you want...Tournament Preparation, army lists

Not all armies are created equal, fewer tournament games are and player skills are all over the map. The list you bring to a tournament is what you will be interacting with your opponents through on the battlefield. Although players do conduct themselves well, poorly or like a gibbering fool while in a game the interaction of the armies, through army choices and how the army is used can make for entertaining, challenging or frustrating games and sometimes a combination of all three. 

Nerd rage at its finest. Watch this video, it is awesome and made with comic intent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYuF3T7s7XY

Guest Bastard Tim "Flando Calrissian" Flanders

In this post we've got some sweet pics of Tim  "Flando Calrissian" Flanders' Empire Army. He won Best Painted with it at WAAAGH! Paca this year. Check out the pics below with Flando's comments.

How to: Build a River

As BITSIII draws near I tasked myself with building a river not only for BITS, but also for my own gaming table at home.  The table is new and it needs terrain like I need more time to build it.

The idea was to build something similar to what my friend has.  A series of 6-8" pieces that can be combined many different ways to build a winding river.  This is the first part of that eventual goal.

Empire Knights That Don't Ride Ponies

What has kept me from Empire Knights for the past 6 or 7 years is those damn tiny horses they come with. Bah. They look ridiculous next to even the unbarded horses of the pistoliers. Let me tell you, I'll only stand for that kind of irritation for a couple thousand days are so! So I finally bit the bullet and ordered a bunch of  warhorse bits from the War Altar kit. But then, that bland armor just didnt seem sexy enough, and the demigryph knights have those dashing slash and puff sleeves! So the end result will be this:

Its best to glue the torso straight to the horse first, then the legs can be manipulated to look best and rank up properly more easily. Gonna have to grab as many of these bits as I can afford before it becomes harder to find GW bits online.

Orc of the Realm #4 & Orctonnian Update

I've finally finished the 4th Orc of the Realm for the Orctonnian army.

This fella took longer to paint than I'd care to admit, and I think my paint logs may be a bit off.

Work on the Steampunk/Clockwork army intensifies.

So I have been mulling around an idea for a steampunk/clockwork army for a long time. I have horded bits and put together a couple models and bases for it along the way.

At first it was to be a Vampire army but then the new book came out and I had no interest in playing with that book. I had already created some knights for it so I started thinking what army could I make this work for? I still enjoyed playing Warriors of Chaos so I decided to do another themed chaos army.

Right when that happened I heard rumors of a new book. With that in mind I wanted to wait till the book came out till I went full steam at the army. Now I am comfortable with what I would like to run in the army and the bases I will need work has picked up a lot.

So here a work in progress shots of the knights.

Feral Display Board

In this post I will be showing how I went about building simple and effective display board for Jake's Orcs and Goblin army that he was running at Adepticon.  Looking at the board now it could also be use for other armies like Wood Elves too with just the addition of a few trees.

For Averland!

The first trooper for my Empire army. Some changes are going to take place. Im not happy with the base necessarily, and the halberdiers will not end up with shields, but the color scheme is fleshed out here and Im looking forward to mass production, as soon as I make some basing decisions.

Simple Display Board

Here is a quick post showing how really easy display boards can be.  There really is no excuse for not having one these days given the materials we have access to! 

GW Mold line removal Tool

Tried out a new tool this weekend over at Tom McClures house and was pretty blown away by its awesomeness.

The GW mold line removal tool as seen here.

Small Road Display Board

In my display board frenzy for Adepticon I built this simple little display board.  Originally, it was supposed to be for Andrew over at Ohiohammer.  But, as it turned out, this board was simply to small for his Empire army.  Fortunately, Mike Mattox was waiting in the wings with a need for a new display board!  The board is built using a 18" x 24" cork board.  On the cork I created multiple levels and a wide road running down the center using extruded polystyrene foam of several thickness.  Using Sculptamold I then added rocky transitions to the vertical surfaces to add a bit a character.

 

The Gorebeasts visit Adepticon.

Adepticon has come and gone, and I did very well this year. I was lazy and didn't take as many pictures as I should, so I won't bore you with text of game by game reports. What I am going to write today is my impressions of the new Warriors of Chaos Gorebeast Chariots, and how they performed over the weekend!

I finished 3 of these bad boys for my Adepticon list.

Meet Nicol

Amongst an amazing crowd here on this blog and honored to join.  At this stage in the game I feel like the Jack of all trades but master of none.  I'm not as good of a painter as Johnny or the Rodge, I'm a decent sport though in comparison to skullbros, Phaneuf and Domus I can't shake a stick.  Domus and Phaneuf are hobby machines and although I've won a few games I'm no midas like the people's champion, Rodge or Rhellion.  So what do I have to offer?  Well as I stated I feel like I'm decent at all aspects of this game/hobby and I'll try to live up to the hype that is the magnificent bastards.  I can paint ok, convert ok, I sometimes make terrain and I can win more games than I lose...(except at Adepticon 13').

So who am I?