Spoopy Table!

Been on a bit of a break since the Abyssal Dwarves were finished so I might as well take care of some back log!  For October I made a spooky swamp board complete with terrain.

Standard 4x8 table with a line to bring it down to a 6 footer.  As usual the board is MDF board primed black and this time plenty of colors put down with a final coat of grey texture paint.  The swampy pools are simple colors with a layer of vallejo water.

The buildings are all Halloween village decorations with a fresh sepia wash to make them look a little older and more realistic.

The Skull-zeebo was an instant must have for this board.

The hills came from the same company who did the buildings and after a few coats of spray cans fit in well.

The new obsidian crypt from reaper is a great buy if you're looking for a cheap and durable piece of terrain.  Paints up pretty fast too!

Obviously there are still armies to paint so here's a teaser for the next project:  Brotherhood!

The Finish Line!

And with two new units the Abyssal Dwarves are done!

 I had to finish out one more regiment of Immortal Guard which were rather boring but it's nice to have two of them now!

Finally in order to end on a high note I did the Berzerkers.  They are doused in blood and standing over their fallen enemies.

and on top of that they have sweet tats and apparently drink lava!

If you want to check out the whole army at once head on over to the complete projects!

Nearing the Finish Line

It's been over two years (obviously off and on) since I started the old chaos dwarf army for the King of the Mountain GT.  Those were my very last warhammer fantasy games (which was an awesome send off) before switching to Kings of War which I happily did.  Those little guys took home not only best chaos dwarf (sure there were only two of us!) but best painted as well and have been near and dear to me ever since.

Now though they are nearing a completed and nearly 5000 point Abyssal dwarf army.  Plenty of mixed models as well as some home brew conversions have made this an insane but fun project.  Anywho here are a few more units to add to the legion:

Had to do another troop of gargoyles since they really are just amazing chaff units.  My only real complaint for these models has been that they tend to be confusing as a tall model that just happens to be height 1.  Of course when they look sweet on the table who cares if it confuses both yourself and the opponent right?

These little beutes came from a friend.  Neither he or I have a clue as to where these guys came from.  Some kind of world war I/II crossover dwarves.  They were super sinister and as much as I would like to use the mantic ones I couldn't resist using these as my dragon fire teams.

Another troop of Half Breeds are finished which means I can do two full regiments of the beasts.

Finally the last horde of Black Souls.  Despite some of them having shields I tend to use them as the two handed weapons version since they have big weapons and HUGE hats!  This was deffinately one of the hardest set of models to get ahold of and since the prices just keep rising on the old big hats I put in a unit filler made of the old metal Deff Dread with a happily maniacal dwarf driving it.

Only another regiment of Immortals and a regiment of berserkers to go now before I stick a fork in it...

More Yu-Jing

I finally have enough for an infinity army of mine own!  I guess I should do some playing of the game now...

Also more terrain has made it's way to the tables:

And yes I'm sticking to some very unrealistic color schemes with lots of wear and tear.

New Army Eats Brains

When I was a wee young lad getting into Warhammer I settled on the undead army as my first army book (yes back when they were a unified book).  That army was long since sold away to someone on Ebay whom I'm sure stripped it and started over (not that I blame them).  Finally though I have a new army with a super fun swamp theme though!

The most time consuming portion of the army was getting more water effects in for the swamp bases because all the ones in the local store were dried up!  I guess I'm the only crazy person doing water effects around here...

The wights mantic came up with are really an amazing model set.  Wasn't sure how they would pull off a large infantry wight but they really hit it out of the park.

I decided to differentiate the revenants from the regular skeleton rank and file I would just make them Scooby Doo style ghosts.  You can really paint up a good 2000 points of these guys in no time since it's a simple set of dry brushing and you're done!

The skeleton archers are a lot better looking than most out there.  Really the only complaint I have about Mantic's skeletons is that they have so much more detail than the old GW ones I was used to back in the way way before time and thus require more time.  Those old skeletons were literally just a wash and a drybrush then pick out the weapons!

The zombies painted up mostly in a single night so it won't be too hard to up them to a legion or even just another horde.

Finally we come to the only two non Mantic models a reaper lich and an old armored skeleton from GW as a revenant King.

Terrain Extravaganza!

Lots of random today!  First up a pile of Infinity terrain.

Outside of the weathering effects all of the painting was done with spray paint making the paint jobs quick and easy.

This giant warsenal cosmica was a major pain to put together but its a super sweet piece to have on the table!

Yes everything is in obnoxious 80s flavor!

Gotta have some walls right?

We now call this the disco room.

Next up is a new board: The Enchanted Rainbow Forest!

Why did I do this?  I really don't know but rainbow river?

 and candy mountain.

And finally I painted up the new Artackle super fast for a friend's salamander army:

The undead are nearly done but I'm still waiting on more water effects to come in as the two I had have dried up.  So soon a new army!

For-T-K?

Yep since we have a new edition I had to paint up a new demo for Warhammer 40k!  I'm still not a fan of it at all but hey other people enjoy it and it's tough to demo a game without a worthwhile demo.  Let's face it the last starter set was a 2:1 points ratio so that was no good even then let alone now.

The new marines are possibly the most dull and un-creative models I've ever painted.   The poses are uninspired (they all look bored) and other than some very minor changes to the armor they are just the same old sculpts blown up in a 3d cad program and re-posed to be less dynamic.

To top it off for me at least the 'reivers' or whatever they are called look the same except they have a little skull faceplate.  Don't worry there is NO WAY that that tiny detail will be lost on the battlefield and just be confused for more giant sized marines.  Seriously GW this is just lazy and frankly boring but others who have never painted marines in the past may enjoy them more.

Whoever did the nurgle sculpts on the other hand did a MUCH better job!  Sure the poses are rather blah but try getting a demonic space zombie to be dynamic and make sense.  The nurgle symbolism is carried throughout the model and there are plenty of little details all over the place.  On top of this since they are nurgle you can go as in depth or as quickly on the paint job as you want and it will still look just fine!  Major props to these guys they were fun to paint!

And these little pox walkers were equally a blast.  It's like painting cultists but instead of wanting to tear your hair out over the boredom experienced you actually get to have a ton of fun painting little bits of tentacles and boils and all sorts of gooey fun.  They also aren't so overloaded on little doo dads and trinkets that they look like anything but a basic rank and file minion so well done again.

So overall I think the new space marines are just another in a long line of 'how do we get them to buy another space marine army' cash grab but the nurgle stuff actually has a lot of soul and attention to details in it.  Always fun to paint nurgle too!