WhY!!!!!!!

Why did I make it if I wasn't going to update??? Haven't painted or written in so long... I've had lots of fun and there have been lots of distractions.

It's about desire and newness. Newness? Anyway... The desire to paint has diminished a little. I haven't played Warhammer in so long that I'm not excited about it right now. My plan was to complete the High Elf army because I was jazzed up about playing them on the battlefield. I even have a 225o point army that I'd really like to take to tournamentz.

But then my friend Mike came along and we decided to play a reverse game where I use his orcs and he uses my dwarves. We built lists and played a game in which I totally massacred him cause his Uber Anvil of Doom blew up on turn one. We planned a rematch, same exact lists. Said rematch came and I got my green behind handed to me and a rubber match was planned... but it has yet to happen.

During this time I found myself getting all excited about Orcs, happily chopping up my 40K bits to start my own 500 point army all the while ignoring the Elves wasting away on my shelves.

But time started going by and I didn't have time to play full fledged battles so I started planning a skirmish tournament for when you only had an hour or two to spare. Again I planned it mainly around Orcs because I had WaaaaaGH!! on the mind.

Of course that all went out the window when my nearest hobby shop held a tournament (which I sadly could not participate in) but that got me excited for my High Elf list again. And then Games Workshop decides to put out some awesome new Orc and Troll models and I find myself back where I started. :P

So I have no one to yell at but myself. I have to calm down, take some deep breaths, and paint ONE army. Don't give in to temptation and jump around all willy nilly. Here is my new goal. There is a Warhammer doubles tournament that I wish to join at the end of may. My goal is to have the 1000 points that I will bring to that completely painted in time. I must get together with my partner and find out what strategy we would like to use and whether or not I should field Dwarves or High Elves.

So there it is. I don't know if anyone is still reading this since I haven't posted in months, so "Self", if you are reading, don't fail me. Good Luck.

Brother Leroy

Brother Leroy , a metal worker of the moon Balamoor IXV, was tricked into killing hundreds of innocents by the nefarious Dr. Reman. Rumors had spread of a Zombie Plague spreading through the civilians and Leroy assisted Reman in detonating 5 buildings. In the aftermath Reman escaped and Leroy was captured by the Inquisition and tried as a heretic.

He faced certain death but was saved by a Librarian of the Space Marine Legion known as Emperor's Tears. To this day he pays for his sins by serving as one of their Terminators.

No new pics but almost done

I've gone through a lot of tedious steps with my terminators. From black I coated them with Codex Grey. I then gave them Armor Wash cause I wanted to darken them up in the recesses. This left them mostly black again. Then I painted them Dark Angels Green and I really liked how they looked like that. However to shake things up I decided to give them a wash of Blue Ink... which left them mostly blue. >:X

I was feeling a little stupid at this point and didn't touch them for a day or two but once I did I saw that the blue had faded a bunch when they dried and looked a very cool green color with dark blue/black in the deepest parts. I then proceeded to dry brush/over brush/stipple all of the armor with Snot Green. This is where I'm at now and I like how they look. I just have another dry brush session of Scorpion Green, maybe another wash (watered down) of Blue Ink, and then on to the dangly bits which only need a dash of Bleached Bone and Dwarf Bronze.

Hopefully I'll get some time to paint tomorrow. :P

Coming next week: Dragon Mage!!!!!!

Evolution of style

My first army was Dwarves for Fantasy. My first paint job was green, orange, blue, yellow, brown... this was a lot of colors to be putting on each mini and I soon became bored. Nobody played. The pieces were packed away. Years later they were dug out as we all became interested again.

I'm all about story when it comes to my armies. The story for my dwarves for that previous scheme was that they were warriors of light (think Children of the Light from the Wheel of Time book series). I was even going to paint sunbursts on their shields and helmets. I'd gotten some new minis since then and I no longer felt that this story reflected their look. My dwarves were gritty, dirty mercenaries who weren't afraid of embracing a little chaos in order to get the job done. I abandoned my idea of a Lawful Good type army for one of Chaotic Neutral, not necessarily good or bad. Just surviving. Around this time I was big into the Firefly tv series so chose my main color to be brown. Quick and easy. A little brown, a little metal and my dwarves were soon on there way.

My passion for converting came out around this time and I was snipping plastic and metal in order to achieve a certain look that I wanted for my force. As game after game was played and my storyline grew bigger, the conversion projects grew bigger as well. My 8 barrel organ gun/tank. My boar giant. My half dragon half flame cannon combo. My tree dwarves that would represent Longbeards. My zombie dwarves. I even had plans to make an all Lustria themed Slayer force at some point.



All of these projects still remain unfinished, unpainted, and in pieces. I jumped from one project to the next so fast and was only concerned with putting things together so that they all became difficult/impossible for me to paint without getting frustrated or getting a new idea and moving on.

Which I think brings us to the present. The only army I am currently working on are the High Elves that I bought off of a friend (with the exception to the Space Hulk pieces. I don't consider them to be an actual army.). I played the dwarves for so long and absolutely long to finish them but for now I've traded my beard and cannons for pointy ears and magic.

Trial and error has led me to now paint my pieces before gluing them together. Hopefully I've learned to be patient, and not just run from one project to the next. I completed a Lion Chariot last week doing this method and enjoyed it. I could hit all those hard to reach places that just can't be accessed with the paint brush once the model is put together.

I now paint the places you can't see. :P :P :P

Week One: Space Hulk

I've been laboring to get my High Elf army painted and am working on 2 Dragon Mages right now but I'd realized I've had Space Hulk for a few months and have barely looked in the box let alone put together and painted the miniatures. I felt I'd start the year and the blog off by painting up 4 of the Terminators. I'll do a fifth if I have the time but they are very detailed and I'd like to spend a little bit of extra time with them.
Not being all that much of a Blood Angels fan (I lean more toward Dark Angels) I'm going to paint them in original colors. I've got a rough idea as to what these are but I'm not completely sure yet :P. To keep with the iconography I will title the Chapter Tears of the Emperor. They are a small elite force mainly used in boarding and special missions.
Here are some pics of the first 4 marines primed up black. I chose the Librarian, the two heavy weapons guys, and the one with the chainfist. Dynamic and fun!!!


Let's hope I can stick with it.

2010: a brave new year

I've been a gamer my whole life. From video game to table top I just can't seem to get enough and I've found that most of my friends enjoy the same passions (who wouldn't, tons of you gamers out there). My friends and I have destroyed each other on many a different battlefield throughout our lives. Strategy is in our blood. We move to a new game, master it, and then get caught up in the excitement of a new game. And the cycle continues... until Warhammer.

We've been playing Warhammer and Warhammer 40K for a few years now and although I have multiple armies for both games, none are anywhere near being fully painted. Which is the purpose of this blog: Motivation.

In the past I've made New Years resolutions about gaming more and I feel that I've achieved those goals. I try to get a game in weekly, though sometimes that doesn't work out. Life happens, we all know this. The point is I'm tired of playing with half painted armies. I'd like to start attending the Games Workshop tournaments and it would be nice to have a painted army :P. And so I propose for myself a painting resolution. Get something around unit strength 5 done each week, and post my results. Projects will be in fantasy, 40K, even Space Hulk. That's about the gist of it. I'd like to type more but let's face it, I have some painting to do.