Gudrun wip

Hobby time has been a little tight so far this week. My parents came out to see the boys yesterday so I was able to sneak a little painting time while they were occupying the boys. I did a little work on the metals for Gudrun and also started basing a few other items such as the bottle and chest. I was also able to get all the shading washes down on the Boomhowler's skin and metals.

 

Next up for Gudrun will be highlight the browns and finish up the detail items. I still need to decide what to do with his shirt but I guess that will be the last step for him. On the Boomhowlers I need to block in the two different leathers and start highlighting the skins. I think I will go with red tartans on the Boomhowlers to distinguish them from my other trolls but like the shirt on Gudrun the tarts will be last.

With the tourney taking up my day on Saturday I am not sure if I will hit my goal of completing the Boomhowlers this week. I also need to make a base for Gudrun if I intend to use him as a reinforcement this weekend. His footprint is a little wide so I think I will do a cork base which will allow me to have some spill over on the base.

Random Miniature Monday

Here we are Monday again so going to put up another mini. Driving home from work this am I was trying to decide which direction to go with today's pics so I think I might go ahead and do two. The first will follow in the footsteps of last week and be one of my original Warmachine minis the second will be something a little newer.

Here is a Kodiak I picked up not too long after the battlegroup seen last week. This model was pretty old too as he also had the old black and white MkI card. I was taken by the 5th Border Legion scheme and decided to give that a go. I also painted up an Irusk to match but I have subsequently stripped him and he is lying in pieces in a drawer somewhere. At the time my intention was to have 'jacks for each 'caster. Black/red, like week one, were going to be used with Sorscha and Vlad and 5th Border green was going to be Irusk. At the time I was not too interested in the Butcher so I had no intention of painting him. That has changed as I now love the Butcher and have one in 5th Border Legion colors 90% finished who will show up here at some point. That that is mini one for this week. If I had planned this better I would have posted one of my newer 5th minis for comparison but obviously I didn't.

Mini number two today is Mr Grim Angus. This is the first Trollblood warlock I fully painted. this mini was painted in 2010 for an escalation league our Press Ganger was running. The league was designed to get 50pts painted over a 6 week period and was run by our then Press Ganger PG_theblklotus (sadly has moved away). The main intent was to just get stuff finished as he didn't like unpainted armies being beaten down by his fully painted armies :) I attempted to do the classic albino sorcerer troll skin here. It came out OK but I have wanted to go back and touch it up a bit and never have. So there is this weeks RMM

I am going to go grab a quick nap but hope to sneak a little time later in the day to work on Boomhowler and Gudrun. Hopefully I will have some more wip to show tomorrow.

Decisions Decisions: Tourney List Ideas

I didn't really have anytime to work on my Boomhowlers today but with my week off starting tomorrow/today I should be able to bang them out this week and put a done stamp on them.

Having little to no hobby time this week I have turned to one of my other pastimes list building. This Saturday Comix Zone and one of our local Press Gangers is running a modified Longest Night tourney. Our gaming group isn't much for gimmicky events and just like to play regular tourneys and bring the Spite. The event is going to be: 35 point SR2012Beta tournament, 2 lists required: Warcaster/Warlock Characters Restricted,
Divide and Conquer, 7 minute turns + one 3 minute extension.

I have not had a chance to look at the SR2012 beta sheet yet but from what I hear the scenarios have changed up a bit and there is something called reinforcements. In a 35 pt tourney I will be allowed to take an additional 7pts worth of mini to be my reinforcements. These will be able to come onto the table in scenarios that allow the reinforcement rule and are just for show in those that do not. The other major issue is character restriction across the board for SR2012 so I can only bring Janissa in one list.

Seeing as I have been working on my Borka list and really enjoyed it the last time I played it I think the "Family" will be one of my two lists. Right now I am thinking something like this but obviously there is room to change.

Borka (-5)
-EBDT (10pts)
-Mauler (9pts)
-Keg Carrier (n/a)
Boomhowlers: full unit (9pts)
KSB: min unit (3pts)
-SSE (1pt)
Champ Hero (3pts)
Champ Hero (3pts)
SSC (2pts)

Reinforcements:
Swamp Troll (4pts)
Gudrun (3pts)

After this I am really torn on what I want to do. Seeing as I didn't use my girl in the previous list (only due to theme restrictions) I have free reign to use her in my other list. I have been playing with an eMaddy/dygmies of death list, a pMaddy beast brick, a Jarl/minions list, a Jarl/faction list, and seeing as I haven't played him a little while an eDoomie list.
Right now I think I am leaning towards either the pMaddy beast brick or the Jarl/minion list (gators/nyss). I love the dygs but I just don't play eMaddy very well for some reason. The dygs work really well for me with Cally but with 7 min turns I am fearful I will be able to keep pace with a Cally infantry heavy list so she is shelved for this event. Hopefully I get a little downtime tonight at work and I can play with some lists and lock down a second 'lock for the event.

Tomorrow I will be posting my second instalment of random miniature Mondays. I am not sure which direction I am going to go. I might follow week one and go with one of my original Warmachine minis...I will have to look through my comp when I get home and see what I have pics of ready to go.

This week my goals are to finish painting the Boomhowlers and Gudrun. If I can actually get all that done my plan is to work on eBloodsong a little and seeing as my second box of long riders is in at CZ get my full unit of long riders assembled. That sounds like a tall order in one week so if I can just get the painting done I will be happy.

The Blues

This week has been horrific at work so what little hobby time I normally have has been taken up by sleep or just a zombie like state. I was able to grab about 20 min last evening prior to going to work and about 45 min this am after getting home from work (with the help of a Toy Story DVD, markers, and some paper to distract one of the boys).

This time allowed me to block in the blue skin on my Boomhowler unit for the Borka NQ theme force. The more I work on this unit the more I realize how little I enjoy painting full units especially medium base units. I am always happy when they are done but damn the journey seems like it takes forever. Here are some wips of Greygore and pals

Here is a group shot with a couple other wips in the background.

These are a couple close ups on the grunts with head swaps. The head swaps can bee seen easier now that the blue is down. I like the added variety these small changes add to the unit.

This a shot of Greygore and the "standard" grunts from the unit.

There has not been a ton of progress but every little bit adds up. Next up I need to clean up some of the metal sections and add some more decorative metal color. This shouldn't take too long and after that the skin and metal will get the wash treatment. Once the washes go down it should really push the guys much further to the done side of things (but still a ling way to go). I think I will submit this unit for my December PtT over at Lost Hemisphere. I still hope to get eBloodsong done this month so we will see what ends up being my final submission.

Random Miniature Mondays

Well I have been trying to figure out a way to work in some of my finished minis without just putting them all in at once. I decided to post a pic of a finished mini every Monday hence the name. Our first RMM will be were it all began. In my very first post I mentioned my Khador battle group well here it is.

These minis were painted back late '03 early '04 if I remember correctly. At the time these were by far some of the best minis I had ever painted. It is fun to look back and see the progress I have made. This is the battle group I played my first demo game with and how I got hooked into playing WM/H about 2 years ago.

I haven't gotten much done on any of my current projects so no updates there. Tonight starts the work week for me so not sure how much I will be able to get done this week. Hopefully I can get the one long rider box assembled and maybe a little more work on the Boomhowlers.

WIPs

I haven't had much time to put paint to mini since before the tourney Wednesday but I have done a little. I have done a little more on Gudrun. I am running really low on my metal wash mix and I have had a terrible time trying to reproduce it so on Gudrun's chainmail I am trying an alternative technique to see if I can change all my metal that way.

In the background you can see the min unit of Boomhowlers with some of the metal sprayed in via the airbrush. Other than the metal work above and the airbrush work no other painting has been done.

I was able to put to get the last four Boomhowler for my "family reunion" theme and December vox submission for lost hemisphere. I sent in a first write up to Gdaybloke late yesterday so I missed today's vox update but hopefully I can get a few more minis painted before the next update and he can add some more pics. I am not sure if you can tell from the photo but I did a few head swaps using bits from the kriel warrior box. I will need to do a little green stuff work to fill in some neck gaps but I am pleased with the outcome and added variety to the grunts. I also assembled our newest Trollkin 'lock. My hopes is that after putting up the Christmas tree today I can get some priming done on the five minis above. I also want to start cleaning my 1st box of long riders for miss Bloodsong's theme which I hope to have fully painted for a January vox submission.

Domination Tourney III

Yesterday was our final Domination event. We had 8 guys show up this week so not bad just not a good as the 14 for the previous event. The breakdown was as follows:

-2 Cygnar
-2 Legion
-1 Cryx
-1 Circle
-1 Trollblood
-1 Skorne

I was thinking about bringing Circle or Minions this week but I really wanted to play the NQ Borka theme list so despite already having the troll coin I brought them again. My 2 lists for the tourney were:

Borka Kegslayer (*5pts)
* Swamp Troll (4pts)
* Dire Troll Mauler (9pts)
Greygore Boomhowler & Co. (Boomhowler and 5 Grunts) (6pts)
Krielstone Bearer and 3 Stone Scribes (3pts)
Stone Scribe Chronicler (2pts)
Trollkin Champion Hero (3pts)
Trollkin Champion Hero (3pts)

and

Calandra Truthsayer, Oracle of the Glimmerwood (*5pts)
* Troll Impaler (5pts)
* Dire Troll Bomber (10pts)
Cylena Raefyll & Nyss Hunters (Cylena and 9 Grunts) (10pts)
Alten Ashley, Monster Hunter (2pts)
Janissa Stonetide (3pts)

I had every intention of playing Borka in all my games but ended up playing Cally one time. Once again I brought my camera to take some photos but once again forgot to actually do it. So her are a few shots I took this am of part of the family army.

Game one I ran up against Cryx and a pGoreshade army. The game went really well and I cleared the board netting me 41 VPs and grabbing 2 CPs as well. The Boomhowlers really threaten the control areas early and were a nightmare to kill (gotta love 4+ tough)

Game 2 I ran up against Circle. His 2 lists were both tier lists. One was the new eBaldur and the other was a Morvahna. Due to the number of she tharn in the second list I opted to go with Cally and the AOEs. He went Baldur. This game really pissed me off because I managed to snatch defeat from the jaw of victory. I had the game pretty well in hand (of course he forgot a spell on his card that would have been a big help to him) but over extended one turn and left Cally a little too close to the action and got her killed (damn you Scudo)

Game 3 put me up against "the profession" Mr Cash himself. The game was pretty back and forth with a lot of jabs looking for the knockout punch. It looked like I was set up to land that big punch first when I was all set to have a raged up Mauler charge Ol' Rowdy on the feat turn. I could see it all p+s 18 so dice -1 on 3d6, then do it again with 2d6, then the chain attack 2h throw at eCaine with boosted damage 4d6 cause of feat, and finally boost to hit Caine on the throw and with a hit 3d6 at dice....all we needed was to hit but how hard will that be only need 6.....oops 5 on the first roll plan failed. We beat up Rowdy pretty bad but next turn he feat and killed both my beast. I still looked to be OK but the keg was about 1/2" too far away from Borka to get stumbling drunk on my next turn so had to rely on iron flesh. It was at this point "the professional" came to play rolling a 9 on 2d6 with Pendrake to score a KD then the next 2 damage rolls for Caine came out 16 and 18 on 3d6 each...WHAT!?! Good game.

I was a little upset with game 2s results but all in all I had a good time and really enjoyed the "family reunion" and look to play it more. I miss not having Janissa and her lovely wall. I was packing up when the coins and prizes were being passes out not paying too much attention when I heard I won 3rd place due to VPs which was cool. I also traded my troll coin for a circle one so that was also a nice little bonus. I picked up eBloodsong during the event and ordered a box of long riders to do her theme list. Thanks to our newest PG_Z1G1 and CZ for running these event they were a blast.