New commission.

Ok so today in email, I got a new commission to hit the work bench. Sent response of estimate and acceptance was delivered about an hour ago. Models should be shipped early am tomorrow and arrive Friday/Saturday for start of commission. I am happy and eager to start this one as I have wanted to work on some new lighting concepts I have drawn up. This model will be a prime subject for this type of wiring, and can't wait to start! Due to the possible complexity of wiring and then painting the model with lights in it, may take some time and taping will be a must. I hope to have some progress photos up after the model and supplies arrive for this one.

Stay tuned for more details as project gets underway

Update on this project has now "doubled". While taking on this custom build (on the right) my brother opted for me to do some work on his as well. My brother's is on the left which is getting some lighting effects. The one on the right is getting more articulated pose on a custom "fallen shrine" base. to see how i even got the legs this far click to read more.

 

92 degrees outside, i took my DP's for a walk

Not really much to say other than Skarbrand Conversion Comission is complete, and my two personal princes are still going through transistion. I am probably almost done with the imfamous Mr. Blue. i took his wings off for the photoshoot.

It was hot as hell outside, but they didnt seem to mind posing for the camera.

Future skarbrand pic by pci

Sorry for the wrong camera angel, but these picture represent about 4 hours into the new ultraforge model. Please enjoy.

WIP: Tzeentch Soul Grinder

Work in Process: Tzeentch Soul Grinder.

Been Working on this guy for about 4 hours now (over 3 days as real life is being enjoyed in good weather). not bad I think for all the flesh and 9 Layers being used. I enjoyed painting the flesh on this Tzeentch Grinder for my own army, and can't wait to start on all the metal.

The claw (harvester Cannon) i am still trying to think of a good contrast to use. Was thinking on Doin a Bone coloured "claw" but don't know for sure yet. Will wait to see what happens when all the metal is done.

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

New Ultraforge Daemon (Future Skarbrand)

Got to work on this one last night and let me say wow. I have never seen a kit lock together so solidly that there were no gaps to be seen anywhere. The amount of flash to clean resulted in two small areas, one on the wings and one around the crest of the head. Wow, what a cleanly made kit from UltraForge. Te base is made from baked Super Sculptey and cork. There are a few skulls from secret weapon minaitures "Bag o' skulls."

The base was masked off after a round of Primer grey and a khone symbol was cut into the tape. Miniatire innards (red) and pumpkin orange were airbushed on before the tape was removed.

From there mechanicus gray and white were added to bring out the sharp edges of the basing. Finally, a glaze of purple and red were used to warm up the coloring of the base before a small dap of skull white was used to bring back some hillights.

Well ill be painting him  for a couple days to make him worthy of a centerpiece in my friend revitalized daemon army. Look for him making his debut appearance at a table near you.

A note to friends and gamers

We are really booking up with work in addition to our NOVA GT prep for August. We have some LED lighting to do, a small Eldar group to pull off and a few prince conversions to knock out over the next couple of months (BTW i love princes I think i have 13 atm in my own collection). That being said, if you would like anything comissioned up, contact us here on the website or in person to get your turn on the bench.

Realistically, we wont be taking on any big time projects until September. Make sure to get tee'd up before we push our energies towards adepticon 2014.

Thanks and happy painting.

Tip for the day - Read about color theory and get a color wheel. Learn how to use warm and cool colors will make your other colors pop or drop bac into the background. The color wheel has been around for years and is really cool to help you pick your main and contrasting colors as wheel as tertiary colors to make your models come alive.

Origins RTT Tourney Columbus

Origins RTT 6/15/2013   

Went to Origins with my tuned Daemon list to go 3-0. This is the list that was used.

 

Bloodthirster x1 greater x1exalted

Herald of Khorne – Juggy and two lesser axes

Herald of Khorne – Juggy and Portalglyff

Herald of Nurgle – Loci of FNP

Herald of Tzeench – Disk and ML3

10 damonettes

10 damonettes

17 plaguebearers

17 pink horrors

15 fleshhounds

3 sould grinders of tzeench, flamer, flamer phlem

Friday nights games (game 7 and 10 were played)

Friday night seem my daemons list match up against Wayne's "chicken and Waffles" list , and in game 10 was against Arthur's IG list "Too Hott" (read why i nick named it this later)

Game 7: Chicken and Waffles anyone???
This game was fun. to a point LOL. Wayne is a great opponent. we both were helping each other out with moves and rules. In the end the necrons take the relic, first blood, and slay the warlord ofr a total of 21 points. I only took his warlord down, and failed about 30 psychic tests the whole game. all being rolls of 11 as I never took perils of the warp, with LD 10 units/casters!!!!

Winner: Wayne 21
Daemons: 7 (slay the warlord we both took)

Had a blast no matter what. One day wayne I will learn how to beat that army. LOL

Game 10: Too Hott IG of arthur.
Was a another game of the relic. which for a mech unit of guard hiding behind the aegis, the speed and the 2++ of the horror unit (forewarning and grimoired ALL GAME) proved to be to much to pull off the relic. tossing screamers turn one into his deployment zone giving me first blood due to turbo boost (i went second which allowed me to get that far down the table) and he had no choice but to unload all tanks into my lord of change, and screamer units allowing my horror's free reign to shoot at leasure.
Arthur on the other hand during one turn of his shooting, trying to kill my screamers, killed 4 of his own plasma gunners from gets hot!. So he had his misfortune with dice all night. Same as my own dice failed me against wayne. One the league is done. I would be down for a remath anytime.

Did learn that my list is ok, though still needs tweaking. Enjoyed both games and generals that I
faced. Thanks to both of you.

Thanks,
Chris

Grinder Brother Complete 1 of 2

Finished last night and locked in the paint with Valspar Satin finish. Much better and no glossy areas/recesses like Purity seal.

Return of Mr. Blue and additional Tourney Prep

see below

The grinder brother WIP

As they were play tested Last Friday a triple grinder threat, one with phlem and two with torrents, ended up laying waste to some tau. Not only were the av13 very durable, they ran up flamed and bombarded and quickly got into combat. So you have massed twin linked str5 and 6 shots in overwatch? These are your bane.

I will be running these boys at Origins this weekend and have about 12 hours of painting left. This is boy #1, about 50% finished.

Enjoy.

Update w/e 6/8/2013

Well lets see whats on the horizon...

Origins in Columbus RTT - June 15th
Nova - Aug 28-June1
Steel City open at Legions date TBD

Thats really all i have going on and working hard on a few things for others and working towards adepticon 2014. At NOVA i will be playing in the GT (2nd in 8 months) an will also be playing in the trios tourny. Thats about 14 hours of 40k each day. Not sure that i will feel to well after adding beer and funn-ery on top of that.

As far as hobbying, i finished another green stuff plaguensnail and made another one (not painted). Finished a test model marine for a friend in traditional dirty south style. I finished mocking up the first of the 7 deadly sins Daemon Prince. And finally i finished approx 30 Flesh Hounds for my 2013-14 Deamon tourny list.

The final picture show how not to deep strike and win the relic on a Demaon army .... LOL

Game 7. Vs Dark Angels (Skipped due to Real Life scheduling)

Ok all first of all, no pictures for this one (completely forget the digital cam at home sorry all). So here it goes.

MIssion: emporers will (to me the worst 6th edition book mission. turns into a game of hold the line!)
As that was primary, secondary was First Blood, and tertiary was Line breaker.

My list was fairly usual. Great Unclean One (GUO), herald of slaanesh, 2 heralds of nurgle, 1 herald of tzeentch. Full unit of screamers, full unit or Khorne Dogs, 10 man unit of daemonettes, 3 units of plague bearers, i unit of nurglings, Soul Grinder, and an aegis line with a com station.

The DA General took, Azreal with a termie unit in a Raider, and bikes. Bikes, and More Bikes.

Deployment was a DLT mission from 5th edition, Crossed Lines. So he deploys on my table edge and I deploy on his. Meaning our reserves would come on from behind deployment. Weird I know.

DA take first turn and kill 4 daemonettes from shooting. the raider was positioned to screen with its AV 14 for some bikes.

Daemones turn 1, moved dogs up left flank to stop reserves from entering on that table edge due to base size blocking. nurglins move into cover, and PB's move up as well. The screamers move 12" with their herald who case prescience on them, and forewarning. Then they only need 9" to make the charge and make contact with the raider!. Exchanging their base attacks for their "str 5 Melta" hit the raider explodes making azreal and his termies hop out, thus awarding me First Blood.

Turn 2 seen azreal enter cover to take the objective from the plaguebearers and nurglings. The bikes spread and engage the dogs and start to wipe them out (easily even without the hit and run). the screamers take a ton of shooting and then in the assault phase go down, as they were not grimoired, and taking shots from 3 units, and assault from 3 units is devastating.

My Turn 2 was entered disheartened as my MVP for the 1st 3 games is already gone off the table. But GUO has Warp Beacon as the Warlord trait, and then with the comm station PB's with icon and intrument come in and pull in the other PB unit with the same load out, and grab the grinder. All Deepstrike center of table behind bikes. The GUO shoot with his warp Breath upgrade and kills 2 bikers, the grinder shoots his torrent flame and takes out the Standard of Devastation (my 1st goal) so SAlvo is gone for the DA Boltguns. Made my Daemons take a breath of fresh air(with warp dust none the less).

Skip forward to turn 5 (as only thing that happened was bikes shooting charging and daemons dyeing) the last ditch effort to secure victory was to kill a terminator that was within 3" of primary objective. I failed to do so (forgetting some rules) but I can't believe the number of saves Jasonwas making with his Terminator! He made atleast 35 in the last round alone!.

Score was
DA: 14
Daemons: 7

Hats off to Jason as we always have close and exciting games. Using rules we normally don't use (him hit and run missed, and myself deepstriking as I normally don't)

Thanks again Jason for a great game man!