Battle Hymn and the Malignant Host.

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Skeller

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

Battle Hymn 2010: Richmond’s Gaming Con is coming.

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Skeller

Battle Hymn is a good time. The kind of good time where you don’t want to go home at the end of the day. Scott Craig and company, do a great job organizing this convention and this years event should be the best one yet. Goblin Mini-mart’s Commander Krieg, myself, and the rest of our crew will be there running a big narrative game of Apocalypse 40k, which I will be posting more about as it develops.

If you’re in Richmond, VA, or feel like taking a drive, come check it out.

Get all the info at their myspace site.

I hope to see you there.

-Skeller

Dave Taylor’s Blood Pact Tattoo Contest: Winner Announced.

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Skeller

When world famous modeler Dave Taylor’s blog following reached 500 members, Dave decided he needed a new tattoo to commemorate the event. So he held an online contest with sweet prizes. He received a ton of incredible entries and after much deliberation I’m sure, today he announced the winner. Congratulations Robert on your win. It is an amazing design, which conjures up all sorts of sinister blood pact imagery in my mind. I love it. You can see the winners announcement here.

Here are the designs I submitted for consideration.

I wanted to get a carved into the flesh look while keeping a simple black line tattoo style, I’m not sure if it worked. But I had fun doing it and really enjoyed the contest. Thanks Dave. Maybe this will end up on one of my renegades banners some day.

-Skeller

New Plastic Deff Dreds and Killa Kans.

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Skeller

STOMP! SMASH! KILL!

I’ve been waiting for this release for a long while. I haven’t settled my opinion on these new models yet, I need to let it sink in a bit. But my initial reaction is good.

I think, I really like the Kans. Too bad I already have a ton of them. Three more won’t hurt right?

Images copyright Games Workshop.

Pic of the Day.

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Skeller

We can’t stop here. This is bat country!

I submitted a silly picture of my ork trukk to Bell of Lost Souls pic of the day, and they posted it. The trolls didn’t like it, but they hate everything, and can’t appreciate art. I think it’s pretty funny and some of the captions people came up with are priceless. So I’m posting it’s sister pic here. Because it’s even funnier when there’s two. See Mom, I didn’t waste all my time at art school.

Enjoy.

-Skeller