tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49955855775252511242012-02-26T18:10:04.187-06:00Painting SanctuaryElbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.comBlogger1191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-61793536384242295582012-02-26T18:10:00.000-06:002012-02-26T18:10:04.198-06:00

I've painted a number of Warmachine and Hordes figs the last few years, even a reasonably sized Cygnar army... but until last week I hadn't actually PLAYED the games. I finally decided to paint up an army for Warmahordes, and settled on the Protectorate of Menoth. Bought the Prime Mk II book, Wrath, and finally the Forces of Menoth book. As well as purchasing templates, tokens, and the unit card

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I've painted up Thyra, a unit of Daughters of the Flame, a Repenter, as well as a Revenger over the weekend. Luckily I did, and I'll get pics of them up soon, but today... well... lets just say my luck hit again and suddenly I have some delays. This is a pic of the cause of my delays for this week. While helping my father out today with removing some old flooring from an apartment he's

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-23112176386542954952012-02-16T21:59:00.001-06:002012-02-16T22:00:40.503-06:00

Having purchased some Privateer Press product in recent months, I finally opened the Protectorate of Menoth battlegroup box, and a Exemplar Cinerator box. Now, up until today I have had nothing but awesome come out of PP packages, unfortunately today I had the misfortune of some weird luck. The battlegroup box is supposed to come with: Kreos, 1x Crusader heavy warjack, 1x Repenter light warjack,

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-66502142796463088352012-02-15T06:27:00.000-06:002012-02-15T06:27:19.650-06:00

I've gotten all the armor and tabards finished on the Sisters, and the flesh and eyes and lips. Of course, my best tiny tiny spotter decided to curl on me tonight... after a year of sporadic use... I shall lament its curling..... right up until I get a hobby knife and cut the curl off! Mwuahahaha! At this point I'm debating how what way to go with the symbols. I know they will be grey, but I

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As my last post covered, I've decided to go monochromatic with my Sisters of Battle using red. Overall this color scheme is coming out very striking, and different than many SoB armies I've seen over the years. At first I worried that it would all end up blending together, but the contrasts have helped keep it from happening. I got more work done today on them, and here are some more WIP pics.

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-42191364131951884342012-02-11T23:05:00.001-06:002012-02-11T23:06:20.125-06:00

(Note: My camera is ticking me off, I take no pride in the quality of the pics here... gotta figure out how I borked the camera, now onto the post) Taking a break from the buildings. So here I am looking at my semi-worked on Sisters of Battle and decided to get back to work on them. At the start of yesterday they were all black primed, and some had blue tabards. But today after about 10 hours of

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-61643901561514561492012-02-09T01:22:00.001-06:002012-02-09T12:12:01.438-06:00

The basing of the buildings is coming along well. With the only real hurdle being the time it takes for the glue to dry, as well as shaping hills and such. But during the 'downtime' I decided to start work on some walls as well. Pink insulation foam I had from a previous project was cut up and used to form the hill. I filled the gaps with wood putty. I realized that the hill wasn't quite the

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-44122790791522309952012-02-05T00:20:00.000-06:002012-02-05T00:20:51.710-06:00

A few days have passed since my last post, and today I got a lot of work done on the current oriental village buildings. Detail work finished, and painting finished. At this point I'm thinking of how to base each of the buildings, and I keep thinking of putting the 'tea house' on a small hill. Overall this has been fun work, and when it came time to paint them I decided to keep to a very small

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-81155140879964584372012-01-30T23:06:00.002-06:002012-01-30T23:09:35.320-06:00

Lately I've been working on more design ideas for the oriental village build, but something occurred to me yesterday... a project I want to do that I have neglected for a few months. But before I get into that I've found a few blogs that I find have good content, tips, tutorials, wip, or other things that make them well worth reading and following. Legion 9 Studios. Recent posts on a Wolf Lord

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-54185365246913503232012-01-27T22:43:00.000-06:002012-01-27T22:43:37.242-06:00

Had a bit of a hobby stall for a few days as I worked on some school and family things, but came back with more progress. I've primed 2 of the buildings, and have the third ready for priming. I'm still working on some issues with detailing, but overall the progress is satisfactory and back on 'schedule'. Before I show the progress on the buildings, a picture of one of the things that held me up

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-47565812951527871862012-01-22T03:08:00.000-06:002012-01-22T03:08:45.930-06:00

Welcome back to the progress on the oriental themed village. I've been a bit lax this week in my progress, but there 'has' been progress. Took a few days off to look over new sources for ideas, and to decide on how to deal with a detailing issue on the buildings. And it has paid off. I've decided to mix between Chinese and Japanese style roofs on the buildings, all oriental after all. I've also

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-20559694902789188022012-01-16T14:32:00.000-06:002012-01-16T14:32:49.997-06:00

Having watched The Last Samurai again, as well as the anime Samurai Girls, I realized that my smithy isn't really right. So that building will become something else in the village. The weekend was a bust for work, due to an unexpected overnight stay by my kids friends, as well as having to read 8 chapters for my university class. I plan to get back to work on the village tomorrow, just a bit more

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-392273587417278172012-01-13T21:16:00.000-06:002012-01-13T21:16:13.301-06:00

It's been a few days, and there have been a few delays, but I now have the first 3 buildings well under way. Keep in mind, I am not going for any specific countries feudal/medieval era buildings, but buildings falling into the 'oriental' theme using aspects of a number of feudal oriental designs. So far things have gone well, and the tea house, smithy, and a farm home are in the rough stage

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-83427003468201968422012-01-11T15:35:00.000-06:002012-01-11T15:35:26.819-06:00

Tuesday should have seen me get a good start on the village pieces. Unfortunately my oldest boy decided to spring the 'I have a project due tomorrow at school, help me' card... needless to say I ended up working on that with him for most of the day so no progress. Today is my first class of the semester for my university program, so no progress today. Good news is that I will be working tomorrow

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-11685540906918223752012-01-09T20:13:00.000-06:002012-01-09T20:13:41.570-06:00

Well, I couldn't clean up the scan enough to get anything worth posting from it, so I opened up Photoshop and doodled out part of my current design sketches and notations. Things to keep in mind when doing Oriental themed buildings and terrain is the overall use of wood, natural fibers (rice paper, rice/grain thatching, rope), and use of space based on a set measurement scale. Japanese buildings

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-26209257009356445792012-01-07T02:24:00.001-06:002012-01-08T16:37:24.670-06:00

I'm putting together plans for constructing an oriental village. This will be constructed from foam core, bass wood, balsa wood, onion paper, cut up bath towels (we got new ones), and other useful materials I have on hand. Over the course of this weekend I'll be scanning a few of the plans I have come up with, and post on the preliminary work (which begins Monday) on the construction. Of course,

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-27013363095015314522012-01-02T21:09:00.000-06:002012-01-02T21:09:36.339-06:00

Happy New Year everyone, hopefully you had a great holiday season. Over the course of the last few weeks I've had a lot of interesting things going on with family, and thought about some things in general as well as related to gaming (wargaming, roleplaying, computer gaming... etc). This lead me to thinking about New Years Resolutions and how they can be part of Wargaming. New Years Resolutions

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-75172973231629735272011-12-23T15:09:00.000-06:002011-12-23T15:09:56.590-06:00

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year a little early... since I'd probably forget otherwise hehe. Be safe, and enjoy the holiday this weekend. Hopefully I'll have WIP pics by the middle of next week, I have finally gotten things moving again now that my back is healed up. Progress has been slow, but it has been happening. Now onward to... well... the next post, which

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-56745290326935945972011-12-17T12:47:00.000-06:002011-12-17T12:47:27.989-06:00

Gotta say, totally addicted to both of these games. But it hasn't stopped me from finding the most INCREDIBLE remake of a video game song... Malukah's remake of Dragonborn Comes from Skyrim. She is totally amazing, and I love what she did with the song. http://www.youtube.com/user/malufenix#p/a That's a link to her youtube page, and it's available to see and hear there. Well worth the 2m2s it

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-48243898526567957852011-12-14T17:34:00.002-06:002011-12-14T17:34:12.496-06:00

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The title says it all... pulled muscles in my back. So now I'm semi-stalled on painting, since I can't get more than about 30 minutes at a time sitting to do the work. Frustrating. But I have had time to work out details for finishing up the IG before I sell them. I'm going to sculpt and build some bases for the heavy weapons teams, and go with a basic sand + static grass on the infantry. Trouble

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-22810484098510034092011-12-10T16:22:00.001-06:002011-12-11T02:34:40.873-06:00

Update: Had to put off posting up what follows until later today, forgot to charge my camera and needed to get things sorted. As noted in a previous post, I bought a ton of stuff to work on in recent times... unfortunately for me, but fortunately for others, it was just too much for my work space and storage. So I'll be posting up not just one painted army, but two tonight on eBay (look at my

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-22562324478829881202011-11-25T23:38:00.000-06:002011-11-25T23:38:30.866-06:00

I'm sure most people have those situations where they don't really have an answer to something happening, so they fall into a 'when in doubt...' answer. I know I do at times, like Thanksgiving. Knowing that there would be 20+ people in one house, I took my paint station, some paints, and a few figs to work on. When in doubt... paint. Of course, this brought on the family 'why did you bring that'

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-44320590068285537052011-11-17T03:11:00.000-06:002011-11-17T03:11:45.017-06:00

Saturday my FLGS (Capital City Games) is holding an 1850 point tournament. And I'm a bit torn on what to take, as I have a few options. I can bring BA jumpers + dreads + storm ravens, or build 2 more land raiders and a pair of baal preds and go with a meched up list (3 LR available, plus rhino/razors), or my still being worked on SoB force... If I go with the SoB I'll be bringing 2 exorcists, 3

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-49820137639032476492011-11-15T02:33:00.000-06:002011-11-15T02:33:27.897-06:00

With the Slaaneshi Guard project moving along very well, I have started work on a Sisters of Battle force. I'm waiting on the delivery of 2 Sentinels and 2 Basilisks for the guard project, they needed some fire support after all. And I'm looking into how to scratch build at least one Exorcist for the Sisters. Currently I have an Immolator, as well as the parts to scratch build another Immolator

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-90912325333230953092011-11-12T22:12:00.000-06:002011-11-12T22:12:29.805-06:00

This update puts the main infantry force of Slaaneshi Guard at about 90% finished. And the addition of Nurgle Guard auxiliaries into the mix. Having recieved a squad of older plastic and metal storm troopers (at least I think they are... but honestly it doesn't matter), as well as another Leman Russ and a squad of Heavy Bolter weapon teams.... Well it was time to diversify a little and add in

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-58873512834526976032011-11-09T01:59:00.001-06:002011-11-09T03:16:01.856-06:00

Things settled down a bit today (Tuesday... I know post is on Wednesday), while yesterday was trying and today was full of a not at all happy boy hurting from his surgery. Once he finally got to sleep around 9pm I got back to work on the Slaanesh IG. Which at this pace will be finished up in about a week or so. Just in time to get working on a couple of projects coming my way. First step to go

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-36528874432715207942011-11-06T23:28:00.000-06:002011-11-06T23:28:44.863-06:00

Here are pics of some of the things I've painted in recent months. Including the Iron Kingdoms gunslinger fig I have nearly finished in 3 hours of work (from priming to what you'll see). I would have taken the night off, as my youngest boy goes in for surgery to remove his adnoids and tonsels in 6 hours... but I had to keep busy. So the gunslinger that had been sitting on the desk for 5 months

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-56396443597891677812011-11-04T02:13:00.000-05:002011-11-04T02:13:13.370-05:00

Started another project a couple days ago, having received a large number of IG figs (a mix of Vostroyan and Steel Legion). And since I already had a Leman Russ Vanquisher, which I had repaired, but hadn't started the conversion work I had planned. Well, a new idea formed and I got out the airbrush and finished up the tank in record time. Okay... not 'finished' persay, but I only have detailing

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-35489529812125817292011-10-31T16:06:00.000-05:002011-10-31T16:06:16.354-05:00

Got out my Cygnar figs this weekend and over the course of about 10 hours painted them up. Can't say I'm fond of the Stormblade figs at all, they have some issues with negative spaces. Overall they came out quite well at a high tabletop standard. Once finished and sealed I put them up on Ebay. So anyone looking for a 32 pt force to build from, check it out. I priced it pretty reasonably.

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-14260817387165112182011-10-28T12:28:00.000-05:002011-10-28T12:28:08.852-05:00

After the work on the first Dreadfleet box I decided to finish up Astorath. Then almost immediately came down with a nasty stomach/throat bug. But I still worked a bit on it during the times I wasn't feeling like absolute garbage (just total garbage). I also realized that the Blood Angels I have to finish up are only needing a bit of work before I sell them, and not nearly as much touch-up as I

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-24520113715805296372011-10-26T02:31:00.000-05:002011-10-26T02:31:49.632-05:00

Finished painting and sealing the Dreadfleet figs/terrain, and put it up on Ebay (for those that might be interested). Going to take a break on painting ships before I get back to working on my personal Dreadfleet box again. So I've gotten down to brass tacks and am finishing up work on Astorath and touch-up work on a Sanguinary Guard unit. Once I get finished 3k+ points of Blood Angels will be

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-54866460826542930742011-10-22T21:06:00.000-05:002011-10-22T21:06:20.646-05:00

I've been working this week on a few projects, Dreadfleet being the priority project. To this point I've nearly finished the ships, and have begun work on the terrain, cogs, and other bits. Here are pics of the ships, which I have just to go back and get the detail work and a few fixes done on. These pics are pretty good, but I have to get into my camera's menu and adjust settings

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-71974453410439344852011-10-16T19:11:00.000-05:002011-10-16T19:11:05.143-05:00

If you're like me, you've attempted to make light boxes to get better pics. And if you're like me then your attempts have likely had mixed results. I finally got tired of redesigning the silly thing, and looked for a reasonably priced option for a light box. And in the end the results were great! My new light box is on the way, and I'll be putting up a lot of update pics next weekend/week. This

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-86294306336437669082011-10-13T23:48:00.000-05:002011-10-13T23:48:12.437-05:00

I can say that I enjoy giveaways as much as any person. Free swag and nifty stuff is always a good thing. So HotPANDA at The Chaos Manifesto is having a giveaway due to reaching his 100th post. Shall I give up the tale of what is up for grabs? Nah. But I will give you a link to it so you can find out for yourself what the good Panda is going to give out! http://thechaosmanifesto.blogspot.com/

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I've been working off and on for the last 4 days on a number of the ships and terrain pieces from a Dreadfleet box set. Overall assembly went well... except on one ship... The Bloody Reaver. That ship gave me fits. It was constantly springing apart while the glue dried, and in the end has a sizeable gap in the central section of the ship. This made it nearly impossible to mount correctly on the

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-62175385204560982242011-10-10T17:13:00.002-05:002011-10-11T03:17:17.863-05:00

After opening up the box I found myself impressed with the materials included. Dreadfleet is an all inclusive game, with everything you need to play included. The cloth playing surface is very cool, and the game mechanics are definitely well thought out. The ships are very detailed, and the terrain and other bits for the game are equally detailed. One thing that was annoying though was that

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-29194166381388678272011-10-10T02:11:00.000-05:002011-10-10T02:11:40.193-05:00

It's finally hit. The blog has been updated to a newer, friendlier, less eye hurting mess of a blog. Let the clapping begin.... and end. Thank you. And with this update we also have an update on current projects. With my receipt of a pair of Dreadfleet boxes, I've begun the process of painting up all these lovely ships. I'll be posting tomorrow with a review, as well as some picks of WIP.

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-46078512064924287422011-10-02T07:15:00.000-05:002011-10-02T07:15:18.815-05:00

Well, it's been far to long since I posted. 'Ardboyz came and went, and I didn't place locally in the top 3. But I had fun, even if I found Grey Knights to be seriously over the top to play against. All my projects have been on hold as school ramped up for me, and now I'm nearly finished with my first Bachelors program class in marketing. A project I've had on the mind for well over a year is

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-21082418028924116802011-08-01T00:19:00.000-05:002011-08-01T00:19:56.257-05:00

Since my last post I've gotten a little headway into my 3 'main' projects. But I've also been finishing up some major reorganization and clean-up. Which put me behind quite a bit. The good news is that it is pretty much finished, and I'll be getting real work done on my projects, with updates and pics of them, in the coming weeks. I'm a bit annoyed about things not related to my projects... such

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-61733094840921304232011-07-18T17:44:00.000-05:002011-07-18T17:44:38.586-05:00

Just noticed how busy I've been with non-hobby projects lately, a month or so since I last posted. Well I've finally cleared my schedule up somewhat and getting back into the swing of things. I have a couple smallish projects lined up, and some finishing work on a couple, but those aren't too important (the first is the second isn't). So in the next week I'll be getting to work on a conversion

Elbrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609599302380972439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995585577525251124.post-14732169994927977442011-06-08T12:45:00.000-05:002011-06-08T12:45:30.258-05:00

Munchkin. You know the term, it's those min/maxing, rules loophole living, WAAC roleplayers. Well, sometimes that is. This last weekend I finally purchased Munchkin, as well as The Good, the Bad, and the Munchkin, as well as several of the booster packs for the Munchkin game. Steve Jackson Games came out with this game a number of years ago, and I had played it several times. It is a card game in

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I'd have gotten these up yesterday, but blogspot decided to not upload any of my pics due to maintenance... so... here we go again! To start I have a couple of the boards that I liked. The City Fight board I LOVED... a lot of people didn't like it, but I wanted to be placed there every match! This board was brought in by omegahobbies.com it was very interesting to see, and the test game I

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DieCon and the Gateway Grand Tournament are now over, and much fun was had by several hundred people. The GT had 45 people in it, and a large variety of tables, with terrain ranging from snow to jungle. One of the boards was a really good city fight board, another in the second day was snow and ice with a river with moving ice flows. There were a few issues brought up about some scoring, but

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With only the addition of foliage clumps (grasses and ivy) as well as matte varnishing left to do, this is the display board I've been working on. This board was a situation in which the theory 'Less is More' really hit home for me. I limited the palette of colors to browns, greens, and grey. Overall it came out quite nicely, and the longest part was waiting for glue to dry. I used non-diluted

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I'll be posting a bit tonight about my final prep work for the DieCon GT this weekend. One of the things I've been working on the last few days has been a display board for the army. Since I got a REALLY good deal on some Luan (pricey plywood for those that haven't heard of it), it became a must do on the display board... hard to pass up $1 for a 2'x4' sheet of it, since it's $15 local for a 4'x4

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A word to the wise, when it comes to getting an airbrush name brands tend to be quite a bit better constructed. I made the mistake a number of months back of buying a cheap airbrush from some company in China. It worked great for the first week... then became a huge pain in the butt to work with. So I just dealt with it for a few months, until I reached the 'what was I thinking' point and went

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With DieCon only a few weeks away, I've completed finalization on my Blood Angels list for the GT. At 2k this list has given me so many headaches it's silly, far to many ways to go at that point level. But, in the end, I've settled on a DoA list with Mephiston. 2000 Pts - Blood Angels Roster - Meph DoA 2k Total Roster Cost: 2000 HQ: Mephiston, Lord of Death (1#, 250 pts)    1 Mephiston, Lord

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Well seeing as I have just a 'touch' to much in the way of miniatures/models... and limited storage space... I've put a bit of it up on eBay today. In the next week as I go through everything I'll be putting more up for sale there. Today saw the introduction of an OOP Catachan Jungle Fighters Army box w/6 additional Catachan Mortars (including crew arms), as well as a Gaunt's Ghosts box with an

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Things were going so great, then suddenly I somehow strained my wrist. So my productivity went right into the toilet. Can't work for more than 20 minutes at a time without major pain, which is extremely annoying. Though there are some upsides to this lack of painting/modelling... Dean's List at the University again, and a Summer off to work on hobby/business things before I get going on my

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I've been having this series of ideas for a 40k project. Something a bit off the beaten track, and not at all the usual thing for 40k. A lot of the idea revolves around pirates, old time river transportation in the USA, and how things like that could work in 40k. This idea is starting to gel into the basis of a fandex and hobby project. Though, this isn't going to be your typical fandex, as it

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Deboxing has happened... now I'm debating whether to attempt to paint on the sprue (has some advantages) or desprue and partially assemble for painting. At this point I'm thinking partial assembly would be simpler in the long run, so I'll likely go with that. I've also begun work on several furiosos. One metal furioso (which was a pain to gap fill), and very likely 3 more (1 furioso box, but also

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Took the time yesterday to get the bases nearly finished (minor touch-up to do) and based 10 of the 30 assault marines. Got some nice pics of the WIP from early in and near the end to share. I started the bases with a base coat of grey primer, over this I used P3 Battledress Green for the areas of earth, and Fortress Grey on the stone tiles and piece of broken column on the bases. Over this I

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These are pics from earlier that I finally got around cropping and such. I'm basically down to final detail touch-up, faces/hair/eyes, and basing at this point for the 30 BA assault marines. Overall I've spent 37 hours total so far (not counting replicating bases), and I feel it's been worth every minute of it. Here are the pics of the WIP from earlier (which doesn't show some of the current

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Since my day off from working on miniatures has gone so well, I decided to put off taking the pics of the current WIP until tomorrow (Saturday) morning-ish. So at some point tomorrow I'll be posting up pics, and hopefully I'll get out of the workspace and get a game or two in at a LGS. Later!

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Once I get the pics taken, I'll be posting updates on the Blood Angels assault marines. At this point I'm nearly done, some minor touch up work and basing to finish. Unfortunately that means getting out my resin and casting the bases, so tomorrow I'll be doing that most likely. Otherwise I'm taking the day off from painting, maybe I'll actually get a game in this evening, that'd be a change of

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Things are going well on the Blood Angels. I took a day off from painting yesterday, but came back with a vengeance today. Today I redid all the purity seal ribbons, as well as doing a version of non-metallic gold for all the wings on symbols. Also all the skulls have been redone with a leather through white layering. Later tonight I'll get back to touch-up work as well as doing work on weapons.

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Having posted earlier (well a few hours ago at least) my eBay sale of a Space Wolves army, I figured it was time to put up some WIP pics of my Blood Angels. Overall I've been spending a LOT of time on the Assault Squads... all 30 guys of them. And at this point I'm at what I feel is 75% finished with them after roughly 23 hours of work. Luckily when I finish them up I only have 20 more marines to

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The following pics are of the Space Wolves force I had been working on, which I'm putting up on eBay tonight for sale. The blizzard theme is helped along with use of snow powders on the armor and bases. I did this army in a reasonable table top quality, so don't expect to see award winning work. But this force also includes some well weathered drop pods, which I showed and explained the way to go

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Well, Adepticon is in full swing, and I didn't go. For a number of reasons, but lets just say that one car in a family of four is a big one... So I've been working my fingers to nubs on BA asm jumper figs, all magnetized for swapping in normal packs to foot slog. I'd post up pics, but my wife disappeared to visit family and took the camera (with the memory card holding a few dozen pics of WIP

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Seeing as I have 2 months until the Diecon GT, I realized I need to get working on lists and testing lists. It is a 2000 point tournament, and I'll be using my Blood Angels successors, so I have the basics for working on this. I have two ways I can go with this, actually three, but I'm leaning towards either Deepstrike or an Armored Spearhead. I could go hybrid, but for the first lists I'll be

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Well, being sick didn't help, but finally finished the Wolves force I've been working on. Pics pics pics... and me bemoaning my need of a good lightbox with every single shot I took. Luckily some of the issues could be dealt with in photoshop... but the quality of the pictures is still in the middlin' range. I do have a lightbox in the design phase right now (materials are on hand, but I haven't

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Posting is delayed until next week, some kind of bug hitting the family has my time totally blown so far this weekend. So Monday I'll be back in the saddle with posting. Be well all.

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Unfortunately my post updating the finish of the Space Wolves I'm working on, as well as my tips/tutorial on weathering (with pics) are delayed until either tomorrow (Friday) or Saturday. I've run into a bit of trouble with my camera, as well as having spent 12 hours today working on helping my wife get her new business going. So, tomorrow I'll have things going smoothly again. Until the 'morrow!

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Many people seem to see weathering of miniatures and models as some arcane science practiced only by those with a lot of skill, or a lot of time. I'm here to say this isn't the case. Weathering can be a very simple process, but you need to know some of how to go about it. There are hundreds of techniques covered by as many or more blogs about weathering. Many go on about weathering powders, which

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Having found that last night was a tiny bit optimistic in finishing the drop pods (due entirely to trying to watch a movie and falling asleep), I've gotten more done today. In this post I'll show the current progress, as well as a bit of explanation on the weathering process thought process. And expand upon upcoming work on the pods (upcoming as in tonight). When last we left the pods, they had

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The work is coming along steadily, with a number of steps towards completion finished. I started with a shade/weathering layer of black, then stippled it with beastial brown and a leather brown. Over which I sponged a fair amount of masking fluid. This will allow me to use blue tac to remove the paint over the weathering, leaving the weathering exposed, after I've worked up to the highlight layer

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Okay, the weekend got away from me, family and such suddenly taking away my free time. I did get some work done, nearly finished the detail work on all 33+ wolves, and assembled, primed, and initial shading on both drop pods. I'll have pics later today, once I get things finalized. I'll be doing the wolves with a mix of resin cast (by me) bases, and flat bases, with a mix of snow to make them

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Having totally forgotten that my youngest sons birthday dinner was postponed to this evening, my schedule got a bit messed up. I did get some work done, but it was basically putting together 19 space wolves in PA and 5 wolf scouts, and getting them primed. So no pics, just a little update blur for now. I will be getting some pics and things up tomorrow as a part 2 of this update.

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Lets be honest, everyone has likely run across a player that doesn't bother to even try to paint their miniatures. It happens for a variety of reasons. I personally don't mind it so much, but lets look at the effect painting your miniatures can have on how they are used in games. Keep in mind, this is entirely my opinion, but I believe I'm reasonably correct in my theories. When you see an army

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It's easy to see that Comp is a touchy subject for a lot of miniatures wargamers. For many reasons people are either for or against it. Personally I'm against it, for what I feel are well thought out reasons. I've been looking at arguements for Comp, and I think I can finally list the main reasons people feel Comp isn't bad. For a number of reasons many people feel Comp helps 'balance' armies

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Tomorrow I'll be starting on the next 19 PA wolves and 4 termies. Tonight I'm finalizing detail work on the 19 wolves I have been working on the last few days. Also I've gotten about 30% done with Astorath, mainly because I needed a break from painting blue/grey heh. One thing I've found is useful in painting a number of troops is keeping to the same palette of colors, any changes throws the

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To keep myself doing regular posts I've put together a schedule for my posting. This should help keep me from taking weeks off from posting, and keep my project updates flowing more regularly. As of right now I'm nearly finished with the first 14 space wolves figs, working on details now. I'll be starting the next 23 tomorrow (4 of them terminators). Then on to the 2 drop pods. I've also begun

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Having finally received my air brush and compressor, I decided it was time to get some work done. All told I normally with a brush would have taken somewhere between 4 and 6 hours to do base shade, mid tone, and highlighting on 14 figs. With the new air brush it took me 45 minutes, including color swapping and cleaning between colors of the air brush. Seriously this is by far the best investment

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As I'm waiting on my air brush and air compressor to be delivered, I decided to start putting together figs and getting them primed in preparation of the delivery. Here is my current progress on 30ish Space Wolves, they will also have 2 drop pods and a rhino when I finish them up. The rough priming, including the grainyness, is on purpose. I plan to do these SW figs in a snow theme, with snow

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Got a bit done on the salamanders project from late last year, should have it finished this week. Also got a Stormraven about 85% finished, with 2 more to assemble and prep. Here are pics of my current progress. Salamanders Rhino (Nearly finished, at detailing stage now). I've added green stuff lizard hides to this, and only need to do final highlights on them and finish the 'flesh' areas and

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Session is almost over, my Saturdays are about to free up again, and I have a TON of figs to paint. Currently I have the following to work on. 1x Astaroth the Grim 1x Mephiston 2x Blood Angels Battleforce 3x Stormraven Gunships 1x Drop Pods 1x Land Raider Crusader/Redeemer 2x Furioso Dreadnaughts 1x Siege Dread 1x Venerable Dread 1x Sanguinary Guard squad 1x Death Company squad 1x Baal Predator

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Well, it's been a busy month. I've gotten a lot less done than I'd like, and have had to trash can 3 attempts at initial sculpts on my turtle themed pred turrets. I do have a plan of sorts, which I will be using to get things rolling smoothly again by the end of next week. Been tough putting aside time for family, university, and miniatures work (account and macroecon at the same time... yeesh).

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Whichever holidays you celebrate this time of year, happy holidays to you and yours. Be well, drive safely, and I hope you get the presents you asked for. Now on to other things. I recieved a unit of Stormblade Infantry and bought a unit of Arcane Tempest Gun Mages for my Cygnar Warmachine force. Brings me up to a 25pt. battleforce to learn the game with, and leaves me plenty of room to grow

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Been a somewhat busy week, though productive, as I've gotten some GS work done on a Rhino... and finished Drakon Tu'shak for my Star Drakes (counts as Space Wolves) Chapter. The Star Drakes are a hybrid of Nordic and Mezoamerican cultures from their recruiting world on a mixed jungle/badlands deathworld known as Crall VI. A planet which for several millenia was one of a cluster of worlds held in

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Okay, I admit this has nearly nothing to do with the RPG/Miniature gaming hobby. So what? This has been a movie that has been on the must see list of many for months (if not years). Most gamers have seen and enjoyed the original Tron movie, its a classic after all. And I've been a Tron fan for decades now. So when the opportunity to take my family to see it in Real 3D, it was a given that I'd

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I recently had the chance to see the new Ultramarines movie. And without including spoilers I will be giving my impressions of the movie. Overall the quality of the 3d animation was excellent, and attention to detail was obvious. Of course I would have prefered they not use the Ultrasmurfs as the main characters, but GW and their 'smurfs are the best' mentality guaranteed that wouldn't happen.

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Well the weather is pretty crappy here today. Very cold, snowy, and VERY windy. So I didn't get out of the house, but I did get a few figs nearly completed today. Just a few minor touch ups to do and they will be ready. First up is Colette Du Bois, of the Arcanist faction in the game Malifaux. The pic doesn't do her face justice, I can't seem to keep from getting really grainy pics lately. But

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I missed WD 365 and 366, so I totally missed the spearhead expansion rules. Anyone that has them and would be willing to scan me a copy I'd be ever so greatful. It's annoying that with 3 LGS not a single one has the issue with those rules left... the ones before and after those issues yes, but not the specific issue. Then GW being tools and only putting the formation part on their website...

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The first post in this series had a serious problem... I forgot example photos. So this post will have example photos and cover some of the shortfalls of single/dual material flocking. The photos from part 1 showed a selection of flocking materials that are typically used in basing miniatures. Each has its good points, but today we talk about the downsides of each example. First lets talk about

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Everyone has their own take on basing. Some use nothing but resin bases, which they paint, others use sand, etc. etc. etc. Many start with basic 'flocking material', you know the stuff, green, a slight breeze (or a sneeze) and it gets everywhere, and it never matches any gaming surface (except maybe felt cloth). Others get some hobby sand and use it, painting it, or not. Well I've gone through a

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I actually finished the paint several days ago, and sometime today will be flocking their bases and hitting them with a final layer of matte sealer. But I felt it would be nice to get a pic with them all in it, then I took a few more, several including projects at various points of completion. The rhino may seem 'dusty' in the pics, but that has more to do with how I finished the model as

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Today I want to talk about painting leather. To some this will seem like a basic concept, but to others it may just click that 'oh, yeah' area of the brain and help them with a project. Painting leather starts with deciding if it will be a polished leather, or a dull more natural or worn leather. Polished leathers tend to be 'shiny' with more obvious highlights than worn/natural leathers. The

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I see green people... Salamanders, my current marine project. Which I have been working on for several days now. They are interesting fluff-wise, as well as in painting and figuring out minor conversions or adjustments to make them more unique than you can typically get with just a Battleforce box. Dipping into my bits box I have pulled out some minor variation parts, arms, weapons, etc. But

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Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and if you had the 'good fortune' of Black Friday shopping got what you were trying to get (I know I did). I'm elbow deep into working on the battleforce box minis. I've tossed out several chapters and settled on Salamanders for this force. Mainly because green sounded more enjoyable to paint than yellow (sorry Imperial Fists, yellow isn't hard, but it is

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So I'm finally getting into the current age of technology, and adding a new widget. This is a preview of it.

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I'm looking into a new lighting rig or bulbs for my current primary light. I'm thinking daylight bulb would be cheapest to go with, rather than a full lighting rig. As I'm finding the bulbs I currently use give a yellow cast when taking pictures, which I then have to adjust levels in photoshop to fix the pictures. I believe the flourescent bulbs I'm currently using are also adding to the blur

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I know it has been a while since I last posted, but I do have progress to report, and pics to show! I've just completed several figs for sale (going up on eBay). As well as a fair amount of work on several others which will be sold. Also I have finished work on a personal fig, and gotten a fair amount of work done on four others I will be keeping. Problems have arisen on one sale project though.

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Sometimes a load of projects come along, happens to everyone at one point or another. So how do you deal with it? I know that over the years I've come to find that I need to make a list, and set an order of priority to the projects. Prioritizing helps minimize snags in projects, as well as get the things done in a reasonable order and timescale. This post is about my method of prioritization, so

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This last week was rather annoying and good at the same time. I've expanded my miniature inventory to work on by quite a bit, with more on the way. A number of Hordes and Warmachine minis just arrived. A Space Marine battleforce and razorback are getting ready to be worked on (with a large number of minor conversions), a Space Hulk game is begging me to open it and get to work on the minis inside

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This last week took up all of my painting and sculpting time, as it was finals week for university classes I'm taking. I did get a little work done, but overall nothing worth taking pics of. Ran into some issues with my shoulder pad molds, and I'll have to make new molds. My RTV is having 'issues', but I know how to fix the problem with air pockets. Soon I'll be placing an order for some 30

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With a day off today, and looking like tomorrow I got out the paints, green stuff, and sculpting tools. Getting down to work finishing up the main points of my Knight of Bal Timorea, as well as sculpting several Space Marine shoulderpads. Having decided on the final colors for the knight, I got to work. Starting with the darkest shades on the armor, and the medium tones on the clothing. I then

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Having looked through the Killzone rules BigJim put together, I've realized it would be great to roll into my Deathwatch Killteam project. A small team tasked with inacting the will of the Ordo Xenos, and defending the Emperium from its many enemies. Now that I have a little more of a 'background' for my project with this idea, I expect it will move a little more smoothly. The only trouble I see

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The one thing I didn't want to have happen while I waited for my business start up cash to arrive... my primary PC has died due to a heat sink pump failure.... Which means I have to go buy my 4th liquid cooler for my PC in the last 2 years. From personal experience, I will have to say, do NOT buy the Domino liquid cooler systems for any PC. I've had nothing but trouble with them from the

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Having taken up the challenge of making a Knight of Bal Timorea, I've gotten to work. Firstly I decided on a main color scheme, yellows being the predominant binding color in the scheme. I've decided on the field for the heraldry, a split black and white field, but I'm still working on the rest. The knight will be riding on a grey/white horse. Yellow caparison, and main color of the cloth, is

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