A dark november

So, novembers finally over. It will forever be known as the month I got a PS3 and lost all insperstion for miniatures.

Well thats not quite true. I think about the golden demon every day. But all Privateer Press related is just a pain in tja **s! Hehe

But I have a tournament comming up early januari. So. Buck up, suck it up, get going!!

The Nightmare is done anyway. So all that is in the pipes is a converted Daragh Wrath and a bonejack with a magnitized head. 

 

 And, yeah, this is also in the pipe :)

Checking Out!

Gaming table Done (sort of)

Aaaand Im done. The big river is still somewhat sticky but nothing I will bother with in the near future. Im in a real bad place gamingwise right now where I basicly dont feel like doing it. But now, at least, I have a table I can decide not to play on :)

ork warboss WIP #3

It is nice to do something different. I have found some insperation and have returned to my orc warboss. He got some addinitonal paint today. Nice to take the camere, get some closeups and find the spots that need further work ;)

The model is part of my preparation for next years projects. I will enter a Golden Demon.

I KNOW! It is quite different from the gaming and painting of PP stuff that has been going on lately, but...I have to try it. I do love painting. So, a dash to finish some stuff for my cryx before the new year, then its Games Workshop all the way.

At least when it comes to painting. Maybee. ;)

ork warboss WIP #2

Just an update of the ork

Gaming table and disasters (small and large)

Im all moved in. I do have some boxes left that need to go into the addict, but it is still full of the previous tenants stuff, so they get stored in the kitchen for now.

As I was moving in I decided to get some work done on my gaming table. I knew this project was bound to generate a lot of spill and wast, dust and sand all over the place so I figured might as well (since I needed to clean the place anyway after the move).

A couple of weeks earlier me and a friend had raided a hardware store for material; pink foam, and mdf boards and such stuff. I had also bought a GW battlemat and some resin for water effects. I had a clear plan of what to do. A river going through two 2" by 4" sections of board so that the river could either be going diagonally through the whole board or be in two of the corners not interrupting to much.

This is a picture of one section, almost done.

Some things left to do. I need to paint the sides black, the circle to the left got to get more sand in the edges and I am also gonna sand the edges of matt around the river. The sand is obviously going to get painted as well.

here are some closeups, which will bring me to some of the disasters the title refers to.

Thus far everything looks great. LOOKS GREAT! The bloody resin refuses to cure! It cures almost all the way through but at the surface it is still all sticky and &%#t! Aaargh! So I tested another water effect I had lying around to see if I could cure OVER the surface, kind of a protective layer. It did. It looks like this:

 

So the watereffect did not go well together with the resin. It looks lie snot. WTF!

The other part of the board was a complete disaster. It did not cure. At all! So Back to square one. Tear it all out and start over. I will have to do that to the snot part of board one as well, but I will wait until my second delivery of (very expansive) resin arrives. *whimper*

so, status as of now: 

 

1. Pissed off!
2. Broke!

 Next time this board SHALL be finsihed and maybe I can get some painting done. Who knows...

Till next time!

Big Update!

I have been very productive of late. I have painted loads of stuff and played two tournaments. I been manic almost. But, now I will have a big hooby break due to moving and all the time that will consume. Also I would like to actully play the game some more. And maybe even try to see some people outside the hobby to get, well, some perspective on things.

So, First things first. For the Danish Masters, which I played, I brought a couple of new things. I painted a Stalker (I play cryx), I painted Gerlak (shown him in an earlier post) and a unit of bane thralls with UA and the obligatory Bane Lord. Also the Witch Coven got a couple of Coats.

My Cryx has been nick named "Disco Cryx", "Gay Cryx", "LCD Cryx" and "Pride Cryx" by the locals and I cant really blame them. Also I got a lot of comments from some REALLY good painters in Denmark that maybe I should choose my colors with more care :)

Well, I do know quite a bit about colors and I know how to break the rules (I think). My cryx is insane I know. But they also make me smile. Which is important I think. I hear it prolongs you life or something.

For the tournament this weekend I painted a new caster and a full unit of Mercenary's.

The tournament went well enough. 4-1 and a fifth place. Good Enough.

I Have also been fooling around with some other stuff, green stuff. I have tried to convert the screaming bell rat ogre to make the cut for my Blood Bowl team and am semi satisfied with the result. I will maybe re-do the spikes in the shoulder pads to more of the plasticard ones.

I also made this crazy ass arc node. :D

Later Skaters!

Argh! Almost forgot. Painted a little on a dwarf from Rackham to:

Now Im done! :D

Im never getting...

...my social life back!

Confontation LIVES!!