So much progress!!

In the 17 days since my last post, I have pumped out an insane number of models. While not at the highest quality of my painting career, I think I have achieved a solid balance between quantity and quality.

I even managed to turn on my airbrush, finally. In truth I had been afraid to use it out of fear of damaging to airbrush or a model. Finally my friend Nick convinced me to use it on his Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage. I'm pretty sure he was tired of me whining about being afraid of it. So I turned it on and I've used it for about 6 hours so far. I have learned a tonne in that time, and I'm more excited to paint than ever before. As an added bonus, I get to use the Bloodthirster at Warhammerd.

A quick list of the models completed since the zombies:
-40 Dire Wolves
-35 Skeleton Warriors
-1 Necromancer
-6 Vargheists
-1 Varghulf
-1 Bloodthirster

So much rage!

Got an airbrush? Better do cheesy OSL

So many dogs!

Half and half

Airbrushing is fun!

I actually played a game??

Today I actually managed to play a game!! That never happens! It was a really good game too.

For the last 2 years I have been hearing about the Warhammer'd tournament. In the Calgary area , this seems to be the event to go to because everyone that I've spoken to says it's amazing. After getting the OK from my wife (happy wife=happy life) I'm now getting ready for this event. With 14 weeks to go from this morning, I've got some work ahead of me.

Back to why I played a game. My friend Brad and I both want to attend Warhammer'd, and to try and do our best we've decided to start practicing now. We played a Pitched Battle scenario with 2996pts per side. I took a really mobile army that included a Keeper of Secrets, 6 Screamers, 2 Heralds of Tzeentch on disk, Beasts of Nurgle. Basically if it wasn't core, it had M6 or highers. Playing against a castle up Dwarf army I felt very in control for how the game played out. I need to find a way to make the army hit harder. At the end of 6 turns Daemons scored 831 VPs to the Dwarves 773. I call that a draw!

What I really need to do is decided whether I want to play Daemons or Warriors. Either way, it's Chaos.

So many stunties in one place!!

End of Daemon Movement Bottom of T1

(Chaos Knights as Proxies of Seeker of Slaanesh. For shame!)

So gray! That must be why they're stubborn

Oh look, the Daemons moved so fast!

Left side! Strong side! 

A new year and a new plan

Yes,  I fully recognize that I haven't posted lately. Truth is that I put some much effort into my Daemons and my Marines that I've kinda burnt out a bit. I've also backed off of blogging because I have been trying to focus on what I would like to accomplish in 2015.

1) I want to get my Daemons painted up to 3000 points so that I have lots of options for list building. This includes modelled movement trays and a display board. I would really like to get more involved in the local WFB tournament scene.

2) I want to finish my winter table terrain including 2 centerpieces and some more 40kish terrain. I really need to come up with a snow technique.

3) I want to start and finish the terrain for my Urban Combat FaT Mat. In my opinion, the Urban mat is the best one that they have produced thus far and I would really like to use mine.

4) I picked up a small Beastmen army for less than 7% of its retail price. I spent 6.5hrs on stripping the models and now they're ready for the reassembly. I don't want a huge army but enough for small games that I can use for Megabattles, Narratives, and as a lender army. I expect that they'll be speed painted and based to match my Warriors of Chaos army. Maybe I can play around with some End Times fun.

5) I want to grow the Nerdmas events to have more participants and more fun gaming. We'll be running another one in late February or early March. I realize that this is fairly hard to track but so far our best turnout has been 8 players.

How about you? What are your hobby goals for 2015?

Daemons Ho!

I haven't blogged in a few days, and the reason is 3-fold
1) It's December and real life has been kicking my ass. Apparently kids like more attention at Christmas time, what the hell?
2) I have so many things that I want to blog about that I can't settle on one to start with
3) Daemons and playing games. In the last 6 weeks I have played 7 games, which pretty much ties my total for 2013. I have also been painting and converting like a,  well like a demon.

I finished converting the Beasts and pushed them right into the painting stage. They still need some work,  but they're up to tabletop quality for now. I used a lot of the same techniques from the Plaguebearers.

I started to work on the Skullcannon and quickly realized that if I want to get paint everywhere, it's going to have to painted in subassemblies.

I quickly slapped a Keeper of Secrets together from a Dark Elf Bloodwrack Medusa plus some bits from the Daemonettes kit. And on the topic of Daemonettes, I eBayed some brass butterfly wings to add to their backs and make Slaaneshi Furies.

Oh and Nerdmas 2: Darkness Reigns is on Sunday. I'm looking forward to seeing the boys and getting a few more games in. Plus, maybe I'll convert some of these Squarebasers into dual system players.

What a year in the hobby

As I had previously alluded to, I finished the Hobby Progress Challenge. In addition to that I had also worked like a mad man to finish off my Daemons for games. After the last minute push to complete the HPC,  I took a few days off from hobbying. But you see,  the thing is that I'm now in a routine of daily hobby. I work in construction,  then come home and I'm Dad to 3 kids 5 and under. I don't spend a lot of time sitting down. I have found that if I'm going to watch any TV,  it's either with the wife (0 hobby allowed) or watching Netflix while I paint.

Now,  with the HPC complete,  I wanted to get a shot of all the models that I have painted in the last 6 months. Add to that all the terrain that I've built in the last year,  I feel like I'm cruising through projects at a good rate. Some day soon I will bust out the entire Brazen Fists chapter so far abd get a picture of it.

For now,  it's back to messing around with Green Stuff and making gross looking Ogres.

HPC and some Nurgle Ogres

It's a travesty,  I know. 8 days without a new blog post. I am ashamed. I have been in full hobby mode. The ICs HPC finished on Sunday night at 11:59PM and I pushed it right down to the minute. Are all of the models 100% done? No, but they do look pretty good. I'm really happy with the progress on my army. Since June I have paintes another 2000pts of Brazen Fists, 3.5 gaming tables, and 1800pts of Daemons.

I will come back to the Scouts and Centurions, but for a few days I need a break. Painting every available minute, including waking up at 5am to hobby. A note on the scouts is that other than the sergeant, none of them have progressed to full Battle Brother status and therefore do not have a red glove

To take a break from the Marines, I started messing around with some Ogres and greenstuff. I've got bits in the mail and they should be here in a week or so. This is my first real attempt and seriously sculpting. It's going to take some learning.

Next up is a game for WEDNESDAY NIGHT WARHAMMER! And a game on Thursday Night as well. Once thoseare done the campaign can progress further.

Campaign Game #1

Well,  I actually managed to play a game. At first I thought it would be one of my banners vs Neil's banner with 1 support banner. As it turns out,  I had 1 supporting banner and he had 2. So in less than a week I needed to paint up 560 more points of daemons so that I can continue on with only using painted models. Pics of new units to follow in a nearby blog post. I now have 1760 painted,  but I dropped 2 wizard levels on the prince and a few plaguebearers so that I could try out Colin's Skull Cannon. Here's a note from my WFB CV,  when the Storm of Chaos happened, I bought a Hellcannon the day it came out, in 3 games the first shot misfiredand the hellcannon ate the crew and rampaged. In the 10 years following I have never participated in the shooting phase. For this game I took 3 units of 3 Flamers and 1 Skull Cannon. It was fun and the skull cannon had a few missed opportunities. I blame user error. In the end I made several critical mistakes and it cost me the game. My rolling didn't help me much either, but such is life in a dice game. I managed to get crushed but not tabled.

Oh, and like a noob I forgot to take any pics of the game.

Now it's the waiting game to get a VC vs Skaven game and a VC vs WoC game done.

Daemon Prince completed

Introducing Kul'Gal'Peth the chained,  Master of Acquisition,  bound to Ku'Gath.

This model took on a whole lot more character than I had expected. I am extremely pleased with the end result. I just hope I never need to Google "weeping wounds" and "blood soaked bandages" ever again.

With this guy,  the plaguebearers,  and the nurglings I now have 1200pts painted. Time for some bases.

First Units Done

Do you remember that time when I painted 26 Plaguebearers and 3 nurgling bases in 6 days and less than 8 hrs of painting?  Yeah that was fun.

It's nice to have this core of the army out of the way. I still need to sort out the Icons and a basing scheme. But for now I am calling these guys painted. Thanks to the guy who I bought the first 10 from. He had painted 2 and i couldn't bring myself to paint over his cool looking models.

So now I have 31 of my 32 models painted for our first game!

Daemons Progress Update

As I continue to work away at my nurgle force, I can't help but be amazed at how easy they are to paint. I have spent a lot of my painting time working on space marines, with nice crisp sharp edges. Including the time spent on the two test models, I have invested less than 5 hours on this batch. I will spend more time on the two heralds when I get to them. Still have a fair anount of work to put into them , but I could put these on a table and play without guilt.