Posted on June 24, 2010 -
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News!
This heat wave is really softening up my brain. A few weeks ago Rob from Spikey Bits blog and formerly of Battle Wagon Bits and the Warstore, opened up a new gaming shop in town. It’s the first new store to open up here for a long while and we are happy to have it.
I haven’t made it out there yet. Like it says in the title, I’m a little slow on the draw this time of year, when my work environment becomes like unto the surface of the sun. It seems everyone else in town has and the peoples on the street say it’s great and from the pics Rob posted, I agree. I’ll try to get down there this weekend. They have a Mordheim league starting up and I’ve got a new possessed warband to blood.
Check out the FTW Games site.
Posted on May 26, 2010 -
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Modeling
Kurtz the renegade guardsman is painted and waiting to ship out on his intercontinental voyage.
Comments and criticism appreciated.
-Skeller
Posted on May 18, 2010 -
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Modeling
This is Kurtz. He’s a renegade guardsman out to spread the glories of chaos. Being a chaos grunt has left him a bit ragged and scruffy, but he has a really big gun, which makes him happy.
He is my model for the Death Squads Prisoner Exchange. A trans world miniature exchange program where participants build a character model and send it off to another participant. Everyone signed up sends a model and everyone receives one.
Kurtz here is now primed and waiting for paint. When I’ve got him all fancied up and receive my recipients address, he’ll be packaged up and shipped to parts unknown. Perhaps he’ll find himself some team mates and become a member of a real cool death squad.
Death Squads is a Mordheim based fan produced game set in the 40k universe. You can download the 224 page rule book and check out the awesome community which has sprung up to develop and support it HERE.
Special thanks to Rob at SpikeyBitz for the conversion ideas and to Mordheimer at Death Squads Game for a great community event.
-Skeller
Posted on May 15, 2010 -
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News!
The back story for our apocalypse game last week at Battle Hymn goes something like this:
Vaustgrad, a long suffering imperial city taken and held by the forces of chaos for over 50 years is under siege by the Imperial Guard and a surprising army of Eldar allies. As the Imperials and Eldar advance, the warp haunted streets of Vaustgrad pour forth the Malignant Host, a great combined army of chaos marines and chaos daemons, to meet them.
Mayhem ensues.
Here is another set of pics from the game.
http://picasaweb.google.com/doomshoes/BattleHymn#
Thanks to Commander Krieg for the fine photography.
-Skeller
Posted on May 14, 2010 -
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Modeling, News!
Battle Hymn 2010 has come and gone. It was a great time with lots of games, miniatures, old friends, new friends, games and some bad food. I know better than to eat at Burger King. We had a great time and our apocalypse game went off with out a hitch. It ran for about 8 hours with a short break for lunch, the aforementioned and much regretted Burger King.
We had a large custom 6×8 table with a quarter of it ruined city, some roads, some trees, and a small outpost town. Daemons and Plague marines vs. Eldar and Imperial Guard. Chaos won by claiming more objectives at the end of the game, but I’m not sure it was fair conditions, even though we set it up as a take and hold scenario. Lots of stuff died and or blew up and then died, so I’m happy. For cinematic effect we fudged some of my bad rolls during the last turn of play and my giant great unclean one, played as the apocalypse unit Scabeiatrax, killed the reaver Titan in the last round which blew up taking most of the remaining Imperial Guard with it, which was a lot of stuff. It was rather spectacular.
Here’s some pics of the other units I finished up for the game but I didn’t have time to post before hand.
Chaos Space Marine Sorcerer of Nurgle.
Nurgle Daemon Prince.
Nurgle Land Raider.
You can see some pics of the 2010 Battle Hymn convention here.
Comments and criticism always welcomed.
-Skeller
Posted on April 21, 2010 -
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Modeling
I finished Ye Ole Typhus last weekend, but he is so grimy and dark I’ve been having a tough time getting decent photos. 10,000 years of scum is serious business. These pics are from the second batch and seem to be the best I can do for now. Guess I need to invest in some halogens.
I was really intimidated by this model for a long time. I mean he’s Typhus, he’s epic, he needs an epic paint job. So he sat on my desk wearing black primer for a long time.
Once I finally dove in I really enjoyed it. It’s just simple one color base coats followed up with about 10 different washes of varying densities. I know I over worked it. I always do. Some day I’ll learn, stop after four, but that day hasn’t come yet. Either that or I’ll have to start priming thing white or light gray.
I’m working on the companion Nurgle Daemon Prince right now with the same processes and feeling good. I’m slowly whittling away all the models on my list for Battle Hymn. I hope I finish on time.
Comments and criticism always appreciated.
-Skeller
Posted on April 11, 2010 -
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Modeling
I’ve finally managed to put the finishing touches on the big guy. I’ve decided to field him as Scabeiathrax, the Great Unclean One Daemon Lord from the Imperial Armor Apocalypse book. He is a real beast weighing in at 777 points, with all sorts of nasty powers and nauseating template weapons.
I basically just detailed up the meaty bits and gave him a few coats of matte sealer and then brushed the meaty bits with a gloss finish.
I must admit I’m pretty pleased with it, all told. He’s a sweet model and cost me nothing.
Comments and Criticism are always appreciated.
Here’s the links to the other two posts about him.
Part 1.
Part 2.
Thanks for looking,
Skeller
Posted on April 10, 2010 -
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Modeling
Now the Plague Marines can ride in style. Filthy, rusty, corrupt style that is. This is another second hand model, I’ve reworked and painted. The build is a bit off on the seams and the plow was glued to the hydraulics upside down.
I added lots of bullet holes and some plastic rod on the plow to look like the hydraulic rams. The doors were missing so I fabricated some myself from plasticard.
I like the left one a lot, but the right one could have used another ten minutes of love and care to get it right. But it all turned pretty good and I’m happy. It looks good on the table.
I’m still working on my photography. Comments and Criticism are always appreciated.
Thanks for looking,
Skeller
Posted on April 6, 2010 -
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Modeling
It’s good to have a plan. I didn’t and this is what happened. I got this defiler already assembled and it wouldn’t stand up. So I broke it trying to fix it, and had to get some new bits and rebuild the poor fellow. I’ve got a bit of a theme going with my other Nurgle guys, but I found myself in a hurry to get everything done for the Battle Hymn Con and so I just started right in on the painting. Now I wish I had mucked it up with some Greatstuff like the other guys.
This guy is finished as far as he convention goes. He’ll look pretty good on the table with everything else and I still have so much to do I need to just let him go.
I will definitely come back and fill in all the details, and put on several washes. Heck, I might even Nurgle him up with some Greatstuff once the rush is over.
Comments and criticism always appreciated.
-Skeller
Posted on March 27, 2010 -
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Modeling
This second hand Space Marine Dreadnought, has been sacrificed to the Great God of Contagion, Grand Pappy Nurgle. Some Great Stuff, some zombie bits and viola!
-The gory triumverate of daemon infused rotted heads form the symbol of Nurgle.
-Moldy Las Cannon.
-Bit of a fungal infection in back there. Better get some cream for that.
-Scratch built CCW. Plasticard and a bit of plastic skewer.
I accidentally splattered some paint onto the model while I was painting it, but it looked so good I did it with three other colors. I’m not sure if it shows in the pictures but it looks nice in person.
I’m trying to speed paint this entire army for a convention in May. I still have a lot to go. But I think this painting style is looking nice and functional.
As always comments are appreciated.
-Skeller
