Interesting Projects

Just a quick post to share a couple projects that I noticed over the weekend.  I will definitely be backing both of them as will many Warhammer Fantasy players out there.  

Kings of War Kickstarter Project

Avatars of War Dwarf Army on Indiegogo

Bull Ogre Bruiser (or Gorebull) BSB

Today I finished up this beefy fella. The conversion work on him was detailed here: Gore Bull BSB Conversion.

Paint-wise, I tried to make him consistent with the rest of the Minotaurs I've done. The skin tone was a new one for me, but I used the same basic palette. I really like how that turned out. It contrasts really nicely with the black fur.

Custom Basing 2: Advanced Techniques (ApoxieSculpt Slate Sheets)

This tutorial builds on my first basing post, found here: Custom Basing 1.

The techniques used here are a sweet, and rather easy way to build custom stony/slate bases.

The first thing you need to do is make the ApoxieSculpt slate pieces. I've tried a few different mediums for this, and by far the best is ApoxieSculpt.

Midwest Rampage Results 2012

Going Stag, bro.

Finished up the girls for Midwest Rampage. Very pleased with the final result!

Custom Basing 1: Concepts & Simple Techniques

One thing that makes a model really stand out is a sweet custom base. Anyone can purchase some fancy premade resin bases, but at some point even those are going to get repetitive across an entire army.

Here's an example of a very old base that I did. Despite my best attempt to spruce it up, it still ended up looking rather flat.

I find that building custom bases is a really fun exercise. Once you get the hang of it, you can come up with an amazing variety of interesting things. The possibilities are limited only by you're willing to experiment with.

Midwest Rampage Coverage

Midwest Rampage is behind us and you can expect lots of tournament coverage over the next week from the bastards that attended (there were 6 of us there).  Congrats to Hastings for bringing in best overall.

As I was playing I didn't get a chance to take as many pictures as I would like.  But here are a few of the ones I was able to snag.


Some of the boys hanging out.

One of my desert tables that I brought to MWR9.

Brad "Dwarf Stomper".

Another fantastic table.

Best General Greg Dupuis went 5-0!

Another one of John's victims.

Another shot of the great venue.

Here is the "kiddie" room. 

Hastings riding Domus to best overall.

There is a Ginger Budah in all of us!





Empire Table

With Midwest Rampage in the rear view here are a couple of pictures of the finished table table  setup and ready for battle.    

Failed Projects (Plastic Crack Addiction)

This post will be a warning about getting yourself in too deep. I will also include some examples, and a hard won tip that will save you time, effort, and money.

Every once in a while I get really gung-ho for an 'awesome' new army idea that I have. The first thing I usually do then is run out and buy several hundred dollars worth of models and supplies.

I work diligently for the first few weeks or even months on the idea. Then the motivation starts to fizzle out. At that point I putter along on the idea for another few months, until eventually all progress ceases. This usually happens right around the step where everything is built, and very nicely based.

Man of Intrigue WaaaghPaca 2012

So being my fist post on here I figured I would post up some pictures of my last project. I took a lot of pictures so I will post them in chronological order.

So I had contemplated doing a unit of Slaanesh Chosen.  After some searching I decided on basing them off the Dark Eldar Wrack models. I used the Man of Intrigue for WaaaghPaca as my test subject. Here are some pictures of him from progress to completion.

 

Eldar Farseer

I did this guy up to test my talents a few years ago. It is rare that I do a 40K model, but I couldn't pass on this one. I think it's an absolutely gorgeous model.

I recently went back and redid some of the purples, and the whites. That's also really rare for me; to do more painting on something that I consider finished. There was just something about the cloak that didn't look quite perfect to me.

He won me a gold in the Adepticon painting competition when I first did him (I think it was in 2009), and now I believe he looks even better.

Wood Elf Hellstag - Part Two

This fig will be used as the special characters Naestra and Arahan on Gwindalor (an eagle), so it needed two riders. It took a bit 'o fiddlin but you can see from the pics that I found a way to pose both riders in a way that was natural to the model.

Empire Themed Table - Part 9

With Midwest Rampage coming up next weekend here are the final two pieces of terrain that I've created for my Empire themed table.  First up is the Wizards Tower.  I started with a hard foam tower that I picked up at a clearance sale many years ago at my LGS at the time, Brookhurst Hobbies.  While it was a serviceable paint job I wanted to spruce it up a bit for a while.  I added some terrain elements from my bitz box and cleaned up the bubbles and gaps using Apoxie Sculpt.  After priming I painted it up in various shades of gray.  I broke up the gray by applying a number of washes sporadically over the surface followed by wiping up the excess with a towel.  I used greens, reds and browns and focused my attention to the undercuts and below the windows.  I got a chance to use a number of the new GW Shades and I really like the new greenish brown Camo Shade.  Anywhere water would potentially run or pool I added some discoloration,  basically water staining. 

The Third Reikland Ogre

Sorry for the bad vibe in the post title there. It was somehow unavoidable.

The third Reikland ogre is done! He's intended to be a unit standard bearer, for an Iron Gut regiment.

Once again, I think he turned out pretty sweet. These are some of my favorite conversions that I've ever done. The theme is great, and they're super characterful. Let me (yet again) reiterate how fun it is sculpt kewl facial hair on ogre models.

His hat was taken from the Empire General plastic box set. Then combined with a mob of GreenStuff. Size-wise it works really well. The grossly large feathers also fit nicely on the ogre scale.

Wood Elf Hellstag

WIP for Midwest Rampage.