Icy Cold Freshness

Jed made a snow table awhile back, and although I've not yet played on it I'm pretty pumped. I was biking a few weeks back after an intense wind storm here. I was wheeling my bike around a fallen tree when I noticed it was covered in...tiny trees! Well actually little spines but they look pretty much like skeletal trees. Hot-glued to pennies and then dipped in white paint, probably one of the fastest terrain things I've made. Could use some of that snow flock when I get back though. These plus the pine trees/frame-trees probably gives us enough trees for a winter forest map.

A half-painted StuG on my desk for comparison. Pointy ends clipped for minimal rage causation.

As Jed can play Easy Company, I can play the corresponding Volksgrenadier/Panther defenders, and we have a sweet winter table, I challangene Jed to the "Attack on Foy" scenario (followed by a potential Band of Brothers marathon):
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=3634

Treeman status: Complete

Hooray! Everybody has posted, some several times, in a flurry of impressive hobby-ing. This afternoon I've put the last touches on my treeman and am excited to show him off. It's not 100%, more like 97% complete since there are little details I would like to add. I like the idea of a birds nest, and he needs a few little spirits on his back. That aside, the model is totally painted, which is most important.

Front

Close up on his ugly mug. There are 5 colours in the eyes, which is more than any other part of the model.

But what is this blue tail you may ask?
I know this is a point which may be met with opposition, but I have deliberated with myself enough to know it's for the best.







The army derives certain amounts of inspiration from Princess Mononoke. Not usually anything substantial, just to help make colour and theme choices. For example I painted all of the little spirits white, and used the Iron Town colours on my banners. Here what I've tried to do is simulate the forest spirit in the movie that transforms into a huge blue elemental beastie.

For comparison, there's what I did on the tail, and what it's supposed to mimic. It's just the back leg, since he is in between forms.

This means that the challenge is essentially over, but that is no reason to post and/or comment any less. I quite enjoy seeing cool models, and it's more exciting to see ones I may ever actually see in person, as opposed to just perusing the internet. Plus we can plan games and talk rules and shit like that.

 

Also did up these movement trays while I had all the browns out. The dead boar is another loose reference to Princess Mononoke.

Incoming!!!

I've finished painting up my 15cm howitzers for Flames of War. I had significant motivation for this one since I didn't glue them to the bases before painting and the guns were taking a beating in a pretty crappy travel arrangement. I'm really glad I decided to drybrush these guys as opposed to highlighting, drybrushing was so fast and came out really well.

The battery of four 15cm sFH18 heavy howitzers. Empty shell casings are bits of the spray-stick that comes with WD40.

The officer class doing some math and enjoying some ersatzkaffee. Pretty much boiled, burnt acorns. Gross.

My main concern with drybrushing was obliterating the detail of those rivets, but they turned out fine.

These guys are furious in game, no gun shields is pretty much their only downside (and they're a hefty price in mid-war lists). They're easily capable of pounding infantry out of their hidey-holes from corner-to-corner on a 4x6 board provided I can range in on them...which is iffy. Thus why I clearly need like 12+ bad-ass armoured cars to go a-scoutin'...

Look like this summer painting challenge is going well for all. I'm again at the status of having all infantry-base models in FloW painted which just turns my crank, frankly.

Ohhhhh Shhhiiiit!

Ohh Yeah look at this sexy beast. Wooster's tree monster better watch the skies, because this Dakka Jet is so badass it'll switch universes and fuck shit up. Dakka. Dakka. Dakka.

Rawr. This robot bird/dragon monster has teeth. This fly boy has spruced up his jet with scary decals.

Enclosed cockpits are for pooooo-saaaaays. A real Ork wears stylish sunglasses

DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA

From this angle the inefficiencies of the Ork engines are clear. The excess heat energy has cooked the paint off!

So basically what this post is saying is that "you's guy's are's chumps" I still need to do some highlighting and tweaking so I'll put on a couple more pictures next time I post. Hopefully Woost Shoost posts soon, in all seriousness I want to see that tree monstro done; It'll be pretty badass. I'm also excited to get my dice, that is, unless The Darkster has already cursed them with his Witchery.

What is next on my list you may ask? I guess you'll have to wait and see!

O.K. So you won't have to wait that long. I've already started sculpting a Phoenix from a different bird. I'll post within the next couple of days about that.

Dasvidaniya 

So I've been a little delayed...

But I'm finally ready to join in on this deluge of posting.

So I've been working on my dark elf infantry and ended up finishing all of my Blackguard. This is kind of an accomplishment for me because I don't really have the patience to finish a whole unit before jumping to something else.

Leading the unit is the Master in Crimson. This roving Druchii swordsman swaggers from Lord to Lord, disregarding all vows of loyalty and coldly mocking the sanctity of duty. His unparalleled skills in single combat and his complete, unwavering devotion to murder have recently earned him a favorable place in the household of the Balewind dynasty, where he takes his place at the front of the most unrelentingly cruel troops in the army.


The model is a Reaper mini, but it looks so much like a Dark Elf it couldn't not make it into my war-host.










Ive also painted a little of my cavalry force, including several more Dark Riders and the first bits of the Cavalry Master. Ive got an entire unit mostly completed. The bases need more work but i still have to find a style of shrubbery I like...








I also doodled the Crimson Swordsman in MSpaint and thought Id share. This shit is what I did instead of painting his unit.

Edit: I also just received an interesting package in the mail...

Whats inside, i wonder? Will I open it before its owner gets back to my house?


















Of course I will.

Sneaking up on the Competition.

Oooh. Look at this. I'm catching up.

Hopefully Shoost is distracted enough not to finish before I get the chance. Its hard to see from this distance so I'll fill you in on the painting details. I based it green. I know this is very atypical but I'm much too lazy to paint an entire model green after painting it black. I then washed all the stuff I'm going to leave green with black. I'm then gonna do base colors for specific parts followed by a wash for those parts. Last step will be taking lighter colors and highlighting.

As you may have noticed this is not your typical Dakka Jet. With some very simple conversions I turned it into a more A-10 Warthog-ey aircraft. By cutting the fronts of the bombs and putting on some nozzles from something I added two more engines (for more fastitude). By flipping over the wings and putting them on the wrong side I made them slope down (just because it looks cooler). I pushed green stuff in the holes for the bombs to hide them. I left some Rokkits on the top of the wing because, even though they're not playable, they are super cool. I don't know how many guns the model is supposed to have, so I just shoved them all on in true orky fashion. In short it is a crazy beastie.

Also In the background you can see my new mechanical keyboard and gaming mouse. That's also pretty cool. 

Harvest Fleet Incoming

I've become a little bit sidetracked from what was the main project at hand, and finished painting up 1500 points of necron fleet for battlefleet gothic. When I heard that GW was dropping the specialist games I had to quickly come up with a reasonable sized list and get in an order for the remaining models.

I was just able to pick up another pack of escorts to round out the fleet, plus using the death ray from the night scythe kit as a shroud class cruiser.

 

Also, we recently has a facebook conversation about getting magnets, and last time Molgrimmarr and I were together he showed me a pack from primal horizon of very tiny little rare earth magnets. I was right in saying that was the kind the Nexus carries, and picked myself up a variety pack.

So if anybody was thinking of ordering magnets online, I can get them at the nexus if you would prefer.