Finally, after painting non-stop, I have finished painting my entries. I will be entering the Khorne Lord and also a Nurgle Dreadnought. I will take some pictures during Gamesday and post up either on Saturday night or Sunday night. I wonder how I'll do, but either way I am very happy with the turn out of my models. As I tried new techniques that I am not used too, this will be very interesting to see compared to some of the other models there.
If you get a chance while at Gamesday, stop by the table which is being run by Jawaballs and Fritz. I'll probably be there building and painting some mini's :)
Also now that GD entries are out of my mind, I will be back to painting and building all sorts of mini's and posting them up to show progress.
Lastly, for those in the NY area, if you haven't heard already...BFS located in White Plains is hosting a tournament on the 30th of May. 40 players are signed up so swing on by to check it out.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
GD Entry Update!
Well, it's time to push for the finish line! GD is just around the corner and I have ALOT of work to still do. Below are some pictures of my still WIP Khorne Lord in Terminator Armor. I'm hoping that I just place top three with this model as it is the one model that I have spent the most time on and lots of lovin'. Maybe over 16+ hours so far and still some more to be done to finish. If I don't place...maybe an honorable mention or best of forgeworld would be nice :D
Anyways, enough yapping by me...I gotta get back to painting. Leave a comment pls. I love to read them and respond.
Anyways, enough yapping by me...I gotta get back to painting. Leave a comment pls. I love to read them and respond.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
I know I know....it's been a long time. But I was really busy with work, moving to a new home, and steadily painting for GD....I just didn't want to be bothered with taking pictures while I could have been painting. After awhile, time passed by faster than I could have imagined. I mean, there is only 1 week left for GD and I need to still be painting 27/7 to make it in time. Anyway, for you long wait, I just posted up some teasers as I don't want to post the entire model until after it is done. I hope you enjoy.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Black Matt's Black Legion
Just a shout out for you guys to check out a fellow club members blog. Another great player and painter at our local club 'Battle for Salvation'.
http://chaos-space-marines.blogspot.com/
http://chaos-space-marines.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Slow progress of GD entry
Well, here's a small update on the status of my GD entries as of now. I am currently busting my butt to finish off the armor on the khorne terminator lord. That way I can start working on the NMM and face. IMO he is about 20%-25% done. As for the nurgle dreadnought, I put a couple of coats of rust on him and going to finish off some of the skeleton sections. Dreadnought is about 85%-90% done. As for squad, the ork stormboyz are all primed and one model has base coat skin...alot of work still needed. I just hope I can finish in time this year with my entries.
I decided to drop the librarian vs sorcerer idea because there is just too much to be done and too little time to finish it. Some more thought and work needs to go into this piece to make my vision a reality and I don't want to make it look like crap trying to rush it.
Well, anyway, the pics below are of the khorne termi lord. pics do not do it justice IMO. some of the club members agreed that the blog is not showing the blending as it is in real life. but enjoy regardless. As usual comments and suggestions appreciated.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Another GD Update
So I'm still working on the nurgle dreadnought, but I also needed to start on my single entry. I will be painted up the forgeworld khorne terminator lord. I thought the model was just jaw dropping....literally, like the khorne lord himself. I decided instead of my usual blending technique that I always use, I was going to try out using 'juices'...or in other words, glazes of paint over and over and over again to achieve seamless (almost) blending.
I start with a mid-tone color instead of the usual base coat then highlighting with lighter paints. One the mid-tone has been based on the model, I use a mix of 1:1 base and a highlight color and water it down ALOT. I apply the glazes over and over until I like the color. Then I start on the shadow with is 1:1 basecoat and scorched brown. I don't use black because it tends to be too cartoony looking and not realistic. I think the brown tends to give it a warmer shadow. If I really really need, I'll use a very little bit of black and mix it with the shadow mix to darken a tad.
WIP so far on the glaze in the pic below. I took this pic before I threw on a few more glazes or shadow. I still need to do an extreme highlight and extreme shadow....2:1 ratio or 1:1 with a bit of black or white.
Comments and suggestions appreciated. Especially this is my first go at glazes, those that know better, please critique...the more critiques, the better overall piece I will have for GD. :D BTW, sorry for the bad pic.
I start with a mid-tone color instead of the usual base coat then highlighting with lighter paints. One the mid-tone has been based on the model, I use a mix of 1:1 base and a highlight color and water it down ALOT. I apply the glazes over and over until I like the color. Then I start on the shadow with is 1:1 basecoat and scorched brown. I don't use black because it tends to be too cartoony looking and not realistic. I think the brown tends to give it a warmer shadow. If I really really need, I'll use a very little bit of black and mix it with the shadow mix to darken a tad.
WIP so far on the glaze in the pic below. I took this pic before I threw on a few more glazes or shadow. I still need to do an extreme highlight and extreme shadow....2:1 ratio or 1:1 with a bit of black or white.
Comments and suggestions appreciated. Especially this is my first go at glazes, those that know better, please critique...the more critiques, the better overall piece I will have for GD. :D BTW, sorry for the bad pic.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Update on GD pieces
Nurgle Dreadnought so far.....pictures don't really show the blending I've done. Looks better in person IMO. I'll probably do another stage or two of highlighting and shading on the dreadnought armor on the base. As for the Nurgle Dread itself, I've got 2-4 more stages of highlighting and shading to do.
I'm going to dirty it up a bit more and make the contrast between the light areas and dark areas a little bit more extreme due to the horrible lighting conditions at GD. I think the sharper and more intense contrast will show better in the hall with the lighting. As for the arms, still a WIP, but getting there. ONLY 1 MONTH LEFT.......grrrr....need to finish this piece up soon so I can work on the other models I want to enter.
Comments appreciated. Suggestions more then welcome.
I'm going to dirty it up a bit more and make the contrast between the light areas and dark areas a little bit more extreme due to the horrible lighting conditions at GD. I think the sharper and more intense contrast will show better in the hall with the lighting. As for the arms, still a WIP, but getting there. ONLY 1 MONTH LEFT.......grrrr....need to finish this piece up soon so I can work on the other models I want to enter.
Comments appreciated. Suggestions more then welcome.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Nurgle Daemons vs Fritz Harlequins
So to start out, we began with a list of 1,750 points a piece. My list consisted of:
Ku' Gath
Epidemius
3 units of 14 Plaguebearers
2 units of 3 Flamers
2 Daemon Princes with wings
I won the initiative and gave Fritz first turn. He deployed his entire of into the corner as the mission was Annihilation. I believe he had Eldrad, 2 units of snipers, 3-10 man units of Harlequins, and 3 wraith lords. He packed everything into a corner....hmmmm....gonna be tough to kill his units as I was hoping he would spread them out a bit for me to pick them off one unit or two at a time.
Turn 1:
Fritz deployed everything as mentioned...packed into his corner...hiding like cowards...or was it just another eldar trickery?
When my turn came along, I rolled my die to see if the Nurgle gods favored me and my champions, but alas it was not meant to be. My second group would DS in....not what I had planned for. But it somewhat worked out for me since I had both my flamer units in the second group and Fritz had his army packed in. Along with my 2 flamer units, I had 1 DP and 1 unit of PB deepstrike in. All but the DP materialized where I needed them and the DP popped up in the open and not behind a building like I had intended. The flamer units scorched the earth and the tricksters. The first flamer unit was decieved by the Harlequins trickery and must have flamed the wrong area as only 1 Harlequin perished. The second flamer unit paid no attention to the false images of dancing aliens and flamed them to death. All but 1 sniper survived and ran off the table.
Turn 2:
Fritz would begin this turn by moving up 2 Harlequin units and shooting at the flamer units that popped out of the warp. He managed to kill 2 flamers from each unit. His wraithlords and second sniper unit would take aim at my lone DP hanging out in the open and causing 2 wounds on the mighty prince. Come assault phase, the harlequins easily dispatched the remaining flamers back to the warp.
I knew my flamers would bite the dust this turn. So I needed some good reserve rolls......blank, blank, blank, and only 1 unit would come on....DOH! So Epidemius and his unit of plaguebearers would materialize in the open on Fritz's left flank. No shooting and no assault for me. :(
Turn 3:
Fritz had moved his units closer to the plaguebearer unit on his right flank. Hoping that my high toughness would see me through it, I didn't mind the imment attack much......what i fool i was. Fritz began firing his wraithlords and snipers and finally took down my DP which was a big threat to him. He assaulted two units of harlequins into the plaguebear squad and totally cut them down.....my downfall was that he cast doom on them allowing for any failed wounds to be re-rolled. Though I though my high toughness would help, it didn't help as the harlequins rolled 6's (he needed only 5's and 6's to wound) to rend and I would only get my invulnerable save. And Fritz must have used some eldar trickery with image altering powers or something because he rolled a crazy amount of 6's.
Finally on my turn the rest of the army would appear....I'm thinking a tad too late by now. I decided to be bold and take a chance. After destroying the right flank of plaguebearers, the harlequins were kind of packed together. So I unleashed Ku' Gath on the left flank and threw a nurgling bomb at him.....what a low point of the game for me. He hit 3 harlequins and rolled triple 1's to wound them.....grrrrr.....then for fun i saw what i would get if i rolled again....triple 6's!!!!! why do the gods of nurgle hate me so......anyways, with that epic failure to do any damage there i knew the game would end soon.
Turn 4:
Fritz's unloaded shots in Ku' Gath and he took 4 wounds. He also inflicted 1 wound on the second DP. In the assault, Fritz took out the Greater Daemon and his right flank. He charged my second plaguebearer unit with two harlequin squads....same story as before....with doom on my unit, i lost all but 1 plaguebearer. He swung back only to miss and vanish back into the warp with his tail between his legs.
On my turn, I had to atleast redeem myself and take out 1 more unit. I flew my DP behind the harlequins on his left flank and marched my last plaguebearer unit forwar. No shooting. Charged both PB and DP unit into the Harlequins and won combat. Fritz failed the morale test but unfortunately for the Harlequins, the DP caught them while they turned to run and cut them down.
This is where we finished the game as I called it as there was no way I would be able to continue and put pressure on his units. All in all, it was a great and fun game. My thoughts are that what hurt my the most was 1) Doom on my units 2) Evenly dispributing my groups 3) and lastly, placement of my units when they come in the game. But at the same time I feel that if I were playing against marines or IG, there would be no rending and only 1 model with a powerfist or powersword that I would have to deal with....not a full unit with rending and re-rolls to wound on top of that. I will continue to tweak my list and play a few more games before really trying to make a fully competitive list. Maybe I'll go the local tournament being held end of April to see how the nurgle list does.
Ku' Gath
Epidemius
3 units of 14 Plaguebearers
2 units of 3 Flamers
2 Daemon Princes with wings
I won the initiative and gave Fritz first turn. He deployed his entire of into the corner as the mission was Annihilation. I believe he had Eldrad, 2 units of snipers, 3-10 man units of Harlequins, and 3 wraith lords. He packed everything into a corner....hmmmm....gonna be tough to kill his units as I was hoping he would spread them out a bit for me to pick them off one unit or two at a time.
Turn 1:
Fritz deployed everything as mentioned...packed into his corner...hiding like cowards...or was it just another eldar trickery?
When my turn came along, I rolled my die to see if the Nurgle gods favored me and my champions, but alas it was not meant to be. My second group would DS in....not what I had planned for. But it somewhat worked out for me since I had both my flamer units in the second group and Fritz had his army packed in. Along with my 2 flamer units, I had 1 DP and 1 unit of PB deepstrike in. All but the DP materialized where I needed them and the DP popped up in the open and not behind a building like I had intended. The flamer units scorched the earth and the tricksters. The first flamer unit was decieved by the Harlequins trickery and must have flamed the wrong area as only 1 Harlequin perished. The second flamer unit paid no attention to the false images of dancing aliens and flamed them to death. All but 1 sniper survived and ran off the table.
Turn 2:
Fritz would begin this turn by moving up 2 Harlequin units and shooting at the flamer units that popped out of the warp. He managed to kill 2 flamers from each unit. His wraithlords and second sniper unit would take aim at my lone DP hanging out in the open and causing 2 wounds on the mighty prince. Come assault phase, the harlequins easily dispatched the remaining flamers back to the warp.
I knew my flamers would bite the dust this turn. So I needed some good reserve rolls......blank, blank, blank, and only 1 unit would come on....DOH! So Epidemius and his unit of plaguebearers would materialize in the open on Fritz's left flank. No shooting and no assault for me. :(
Turn 3:
Fritz had moved his units closer to the plaguebearer unit on his right flank. Hoping that my high toughness would see me through it, I didn't mind the imment attack much......what i fool i was. Fritz began firing his wraithlords and snipers and finally took down my DP which was a big threat to him. He assaulted two units of harlequins into the plaguebear squad and totally cut them down.....my downfall was that he cast doom on them allowing for any failed wounds to be re-rolled. Though I though my high toughness would help, it didn't help as the harlequins rolled 6's (he needed only 5's and 6's to wound) to rend and I would only get my invulnerable save. And Fritz must have used some eldar trickery with image altering powers or something because he rolled a crazy amount of 6's.
Finally on my turn the rest of the army would appear....I'm thinking a tad too late by now. I decided to be bold and take a chance. After destroying the right flank of plaguebearers, the harlequins were kind of packed together. So I unleashed Ku' Gath on the left flank and threw a nurgling bomb at him.....what a low point of the game for me. He hit 3 harlequins and rolled triple 1's to wound them.....grrrrr.....then for fun i saw what i would get if i rolled again....triple 6's!!!!! why do the gods of nurgle hate me so......anyways, with that epic failure to do any damage there i knew the game would end soon.
Turn 4:
Fritz's unloaded shots in Ku' Gath and he took 4 wounds. He also inflicted 1 wound on the second DP. In the assault, Fritz took out the Greater Daemon and his right flank. He charged my second plaguebearer unit with two harlequin squads....same story as before....with doom on my unit, i lost all but 1 plaguebearer. He swung back only to miss and vanish back into the warp with his tail between his legs.
On my turn, I had to atleast redeem myself and take out 1 more unit. I flew my DP behind the harlequins on his left flank and marched my last plaguebearer unit forwar. No shooting. Charged both PB and DP unit into the Harlequins and won combat. Fritz failed the morale test but unfortunately for the Harlequins, the DP caught them while they turned to run and cut them down.
This is where we finished the game as I called it as there was no way I would be able to continue and put pressure on his units. All in all, it was a great and fun game. My thoughts are that what hurt my the most was 1) Doom on my units 2) Evenly dispributing my groups 3) and lastly, placement of my units when they come in the game. But at the same time I feel that if I were playing against marines or IG, there would be no rending and only 1 model with a powerfist or powersword that I would have to deal with....not a full unit with rending and re-rolls to wound on top of that. I will continue to tweak my list and play a few more games before really trying to make a fully competitive list. Maybe I'll go the local tournament being held end of April to see how the nurgle list does.
Monday, March 23, 2009
GD Entries
Ok, so I'm still working on the Nurgle Dread...no pics up yet since I want to finish up a little bit more and make it look nicer :).
I'm also throwing in a unit of Ork Stormboyz for the unit entry (see pic below). I think I'm going to do a unit of either 5 or 6. Another few pieces I recieved in the mail is the FW Inquisitor Rex and FW Khorne Lord. Which should I do for single and which should I toss into Open? Your thoughts and comments as to why will help me out IMMENSELY. I'm also debating about doing a Tyranid model for the large model category, but not sure yet....I'll wait until I'm confident enough that my other models are mostly done first.
I'm also throwing in a unit of Ork Stormboyz for the unit entry (see pic below). I think I'm going to do a unit of either 5 or 6. Another few pieces I recieved in the mail is the FW Inquisitor Rex and FW Khorne Lord. Which should I do for single and which should I toss into Open? Your thoughts and comments as to why will help me out IMMENSELY. I'm also debating about doing a Tyranid model for the large model category, but not sure yet....I'll wait until I'm confident enough that my other models are mostly done first.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Nurgle Dreadnought GD
Ok....so it's been quite some time since my last update...I've been pretty busy with work and all, but i figured it was boring to post up putting together models and all. Anyway, I started work (finally) on some of my GD entries for this year in Baltimore. Usually I procrastinate until the last two weeks or so, but I'm being good this year :)
I decided I wanted to do the Nurgle Dreadnought because 1- it'll help me finally put together some nurgle pieces for an army, and 2- I think the FW model is just fantastic and filled with detail, which I like alot.....if you haven't noticed by now, I get into the detail part of everything.
The first few layers are drybrushed on, but once i give it a wash, i'll be doing to painful task of painted each armor plate, maggete, pus, etc. with highlights and shadows to make each part pop.
Pics of progress so far......BTW, for some reason while working on this model, i felt a bit of pain in my left pointer finger, and you'll see in the pic why......so wierd.....This shows you the power of NURGLE....lol.
I decided I wanted to do the Nurgle Dreadnought because 1- it'll help me finally put together some nurgle pieces for an army, and 2- I think the FW model is just fantastic and filled with detail, which I like alot.....if you haven't noticed by now, I get into the detail part of everything.
The first few layers are drybrushed on, but once i give it a wash, i'll be doing to painful task of painted each armor plate, maggete, pus, etc. with highlights and shadows to make each part pop.
Pics of progress so far......BTW, for some reason while working on this model, i felt a bit of pain in my left pointer finger, and you'll see in the pic why......so wierd.....This shows you the power of NURGLE....lol.
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