Wooster Shooster AKA Best General AKA Pussy Slayer

You've all seen it, but I'm a cocky bastard so...

I have been prompted to post on here, since the blog was becoming a bit too bastillodon themed. I've got a mish-mash of on the go projects. Unlike Jake I can't seem to stay focused on one thing, I keep jumping back and forth between projects, then leaving either my models or paints at that Darkster's place.

As it is though, I have a bunch of shit worth putting on the internet.

Is anyone there? Is anyone alive?

Fuck you guys, I'm debating renaming the blog "bastillidon painting progress" so that I don't have to title my posts anymore.

Recently in my various high seas adventures on the internet I came across this glorious paint conversion chart, it converts paint pots across a large number of different companies by name and it includes the old gw paints. Super fucking usefull, I can buy more Midnight Blue from Vallejo.

If my compatriots are in fact alive, they should get their collective asses in gear and paint something. For soon, I shall become the supreme hobby lord and henceforth be incontestable in all affairs pertaining to warhammer.

Progress Update

More progress on the bastillidon. I've done the first two coats on the scales and the two orange coats in the cracks. All I have left is the grey and black for the scorch marks and the yellow line in the cracks

Scaly Skin 2+

Now that all this tournament mumbo jumbo is done I'm finally free of my moral obligation to paint Tomb Kings and I can move onto painting and general hobby for my Lizardmen. Not only am I free of guilt but I'm also back at school so I'm finally reunited with my hobby desk and all its sweet fucking tools and vices..... for science.

So I started by doing some detail work on the cold one calvary which has been halted by my lack of Dheneb Stone so I will have to visit the local filth hovel (aka GW) before they can be finished. In the mean time I have started to tackled my bastillidon mixed with some skink painting seshs. So the tide of scales is finally starting to green up a bit.

So I've decided that I don't actually like myself because I have chosen this as the paint scheme for the armour plates of my bastillidon. It is going to be an absolute bitch to paint the whole thing like this but it'll look fucking epic if I do.

The process I use to get to this look for the scales starts with a base coat of black. I start by slopping a coat of Wild Rider Red into the cracks, followed by a layer of Troll Slayer Orange. I use a calligraphy brush to paint the thin Yriel Yellow strip down the center of each crack. The plates themselves start with a thick coat of Skink Blue over the whole surface. The scorch marks start with a thin layer of Dawnstone which fades to drybrushing as it moves inward. Then a very thin drybrush of Chaos Black on top of the Dawnstone.

I still haven't decided how to finish the legs but I figure I'll ponder this when I visit GW to pick up some paints.

This is a pile of skinks in varying stages of completeness. The skinks are pretty simple to do, as always start with a black undercoat, then cover the whole lizard in Incubi Darkness. Then a thick layer of Sybarite Green, followed by a washing of Coelia Greenshade. The scales get a light drybrush of Skink Blue and all thats left is picking out weapons and jewelry.

Ccbb list breakdown

I think this includes my list, so add a skaven, a dark elf and a single tomb king. Looks like lots of vamps, ogres and lizards, which I like.

Back from Gagetown

As you may or may not know, I have been in Gagetown, NB all summer doing army things. The following picture pretty much sums it up.

Fortunately I have returned with success under my belt, relatively uninjured, and prepared for war gaming. Some interesting things happened while I was gone, most notable of which is the new Ork Codex for 40k. I haven't got a hold of it yet, but I promise you that when I do I'll have much to say.

The thing the other 4 guys seem to be excited for is a Warhammer Fantasy tournament coming up. I won't have a fully painted army to participate with, but I do have some plans for an empire steam tank army. And by plans I mean we have all the models except the steam tanks which are ordered. I'm really looking forward to grinding some puny elves underneath the steel treads of progress.

Finally, the Darkster and I played a game of FOW, America 4th Armour against some Russian Infantry. It was a fair fight meeting engagement. Here's a picture of us halfway through.

The game ended in a stalemate. My preliminary wave of tanks was fended off, but I caused many casualties and destroyed almost all of his anti-tank capability. I didn't feel like I could press forwards into assault with so few tanks, and he didn't want to run into the defensive fire of so many MG's. The last turn we played saw very little movement and only a handful of long range shots exchanged. We decided to call it a draw: the first team to get further reserves from higher would be able to break through, but this battle was indecisive.

Tourmanent Prep

Tournament musings go!
Lists are due Aug 17. This is what I'll be bringing, hoping you folks could give it a look over before I submit.

Characters

lvl 4 sorceress (shadow probably, maybe heavens...) with horse, talisman of preservation, earthing rod (310)

BSB on horse with sheild, hail of doom arrow, helm of the hunt, flaming arrows (with +1 to wound evil) (168)

core (610 = 25.448%)

10 eternal guard with shields, champ, musician (140)

2 x 15 archers with no modifiers to shooting, musicians (235 + 235 = 470)

Special (724 = 30%)

5 poison scouts, banner (122)
9 poison scouts, musician (122)

3 treekin (135)

5 wild riders with shields, command, banner of eternal flame (180)

5 bitches of anraheir, lichebone pennant, musician (165)

Rare (585 = 24.406%)

8 waywatchers (160)
5 waywatchers (100)

2 eagles (100)

treeman (225)

total: 2397

Notes: No I cannot afford a 9th waywatcher. 14 poison shots might not be enough: 70% chance to take out a bolt thrower in one go, 42% to take out a cannon crew, but so far it's been going well.

Oh ya, and I totally changed my mind about taking chaos. I would have had to paint that war shrine and I think that may have killed me.
Such indecision.

Other things:
There are points to be had for display boards, I'm thinking of just grabbing one of the 2x2 table sections.
There are also bonus points for writing a page of fluff for the army. I'll be fleshing out my iron town/princess mononoke theme and I'll post it here for edits beforehand. I'm thinking that iron town will be an empire city just outside athel loren, living in reasonable harmony up until now, the men of iron town have spread into athel loren to get wood for the forges, thus inciting the wrath of the wood elves, and so on. I would choose bretonnia but they don't have black powder, which is crucial to the story.

I might post my 3 colour painted models.