Adepticon 2014

I unfortunately this year did not get to take part in gaming at Adepticon, but was able to make it for a while for the Saturday session. My friend Kevin and I had a blast! We love looking around at all the games new and old and getting to reconnect with some people we haven't seen in a while.

We also got to stop and see a friend of ours that was working there as a vendor his name is Forrest Harris and he is very talented. If you are into Wild West miniature games, or need buildings for your Malifaux game check out his website.

www.knuckleduster.com

We spent quite a bit of time in the 40k hall checking out the team tournament and the vendors. Here are some pictures from the 40k hall.

 

 

Kudos to the gentlemen at Battlefoam for being so helpful. We also checked out the Warhammer Fantasy championship tournament. Lots of gamers and some real fun. There was some REAL fine work at the tournament and below are some of the pictures of the best I liked.

 

 

 

The highlight of the day? Getting to meet Graham McNeill and spend some time talking to him. I love the work he has done and recommend his work to anyone wanting a good read. He has a real passion for writing and you can tell he puts his all into his work. I loved getting his insight on the direction of the Horus Heresy series and how it is developing. Add to my list the upcoming book being released. It looks like a page turner.

Last buy not least, a few shots from the painting competition.

 

 

O&G Rampage Prep Part 2

Progress is continuing on my O&G Army for Midwest Rampage 2014. The tournament calls for 3000 points and as of today I have 839 points painted.

Here is my current progress I am trying to get my Black Orc unit painted up.

 

 

The centerpiece of the unit is a Black Orc Boss being carried by 4 other Black Orcs. I picked this up about 20 years ago in Germany and believe the manufacturer was Grenadier. I thought that it would add character to the unit and be a great unit filler. Here are a couple details:

 

Musician and Standard Bearer

 

Big Boss

 

 

I used a Dark Angels Green for a base coat on the Black Orcs, did a wash of Nuln Oil, layered with Waaagh Flesh followed by a highlight of Warboss Green. I defintiely wanted the Black Orcs to have a much darker tone than the standard Orcs.

Armour was painted with Boltgun Metal followed by a wash of Nuln Oil, drybrushed then with Ironbreaker. The leather parts were painted with Oiled Leather from Reaper Paints and washed with Devlan Mud.

 

Regarding basing which I am doing uniform throughout, I am using products from Woodland Scenics. after painting the base brown I lay down a thin layer of white elmers glue and dip the model in a container containing "Burnt Grass". After this has dried, I randomly place droplets of glue and dip in a a container of rock I chose. This is followed up by a fine green grass. If the base allows for it such as the trolls, I will add lichen to act as small shrubs and add "Field Grass" to act as dead foliage.

 

Now that I have these parts done, I am down to a giant and night goblins for my newer miniatures. Everything else is at least 20 years old and it will be nice to get paint on them and have a very unique looking army. Unit later....

O&G Rampage Prep Part 1

Well Midwest Rampage is approaching on May 17th and I am needing to build my O&G Army up. Painting has begun but has been painstakingly slow. Personal life can really cut into that hobby time.

I am needing to have 3,000 points of my army painted and am determined to get a completely painted army on the table this year. This is saying a lot as much of my army is now over 25 years old. Many of my figs date from the late 80s and have never seen a drop of paint. This makes my army also unique as I have a high percentage of metal figures in comparison to many fellow gamers.

This is my unit of trolls, completely painted and ready to go. I used GW color Rotting Flesh (Old color) as a base with a flesh wash then drybrushing the rotting flesh back on. I then came back and dry brushed with a mix of Rotting Flesh and Bleached Bone. Final drybrush was just Bleached Bone. I wanted to go for a more stoney look than a human fleshy look and I love the effect.

And this is my Mangler Squig. I used the new GW paints on this and the Paint system for Khorne for the mangler color. Base - Khorne Red, Wash - Carroburg Crimson, 1st layer - Wazdakka Red, 2nd layer - Squig Orange, drybrush - Kindleflame, glaze - Bloodletter. this was my first test with the techincal paints from GW and I used the Nugle's Rot on the tongue for a wet effect. I used the Typhus Corrosion and Ryza Rust for a good rust effect on all the chains, etc. I love the effect it gives. I've decided to go with yellow cloaks for the Night Goblins in my army. I love the look over the usual black. I used Leprous Brown as a base on the clocks, a shade of flesh wash, then layered in yellow working it lighter until a drybrush of complete yellow.