Templecon Day 0 Wrap Up

All of the guys I was traveling with made sure they had Thursday off so we could hit the road relatively early. Abe met me at my house "around" noon. I say around as he isn't the most punctual :) We packed up my car and drove the hour to Utica to meet up with the rest of our crew.

 The old man of the group Les aka Oxyguy putting the finishing touches on packing the car.

 

Loyal Cygnaran Abe aka Hammy44 

The dirty dirty Cryxian of our car Adam aka BloodyArcane (can't you tell from the smirk he is a Cryx player).

Another follower of the swan Nick aka Naseluk. He is also known to dabble in Skorne from time to time.

 

Well we hit the road and were in Rhode Island in about 4 hours. Along the way we hit one rest stop and happened to run into some fellow games heading to Templecon. I ran into Mr Boots from the Lost Hemisphere crew. After BSing for a few minities we hit the road again. Funny how small the world can be sometimes.

 

I am missing photos for the remainder of the night as I began to partake in the adult beverages and left the camera in the room. We met up with Zack (z1g1) and Andy (the professional) and grabbed some dinner. After returning from dinner we met up with John (Moz) grabbed our minis and headed down to the gaming hall for a few pick up games. The con hadn't even started yet and it was already a blast.   

Another Year in the Books Another Templecon in the Books

Templecon 2013 ended two days ago and I took yesterday (my birthday) off to just hang out with the family and rest. While Templecon is a blast it really does wear you out. I don't think I slept ore than 3-4 hours any night. I did a much better job taking photos this year and keeping notes so I will be writing up posts about each day during this week.

I was able to keep from buying too much stuff up until the last day (last few hours to be exact) but here are the items I picked up:

Here I picked up some supplies and a few new items to try out. I picked up another set of wilderness tufts. I started using some of these on my Menoth army and really like them on certain bases. I don't plan on using them on my trolls seeing as I used standard static grass on my early minis but the majority of my new models will be using tufts. In the middle is a secret weapon resin base. This base is a fairly decent match of my dragonforge bases used form my PoM force. I picked this one up to add a little variety to the bases. Next there are two bottles of VGC sepia ink. As you may recall I ran out of this when I was trying to get my long riders finished for Templecon. Lastly I picked up two different weathering pigments from secret weapon. I am looking to use the violet to shade some skins and the metallic iron from metals on an upcoming project.

Here is the larger purchase I made in the last hour before we headed out of town. Here is a copy of cool mini or not's Zombicide. I will be talking about this more in my Templecon daily wrap up posts. So like the title says another year in the books and another Templecon in the books. Looking forward to Templecon 2014.

Off to Templecon.....Without Long Riders

Well the time has come to pack up the car and head to Templecon 2013. I was not able to get the long riders finished for my hardcore list so I will have to go to a back up plan there. If I stayed up really late last night I could have finished the riders but I realized the bomber wasn't finished to hardcore standards yet so threw in the towel. I was able to get the war wagon finished however and took a few quick pics before putting him in the bag.

 

I was able to get Horthol and the wagon finished up so not a complete loss I suppose. I really liked that hardcore list too :( oh well my painting OCD got the best of me again.

I was also able to put the finishing details on Grogspar so I will post photos of him after Templecon and he makes his way back up to the great white north and Mr Bell. Hope to have a bunch of Templecon photos and post when I get back (of I don't forget to take photos that is. Safe travels all of you heading to Templecon and those that are not have a great weekend.

Templecon Painting Rush

Quick list post before I get back to the painting table. I have been painting like crazy over the last few days trying to get ready for Templecon. I still have a bunch I want to try and get done but time is running out very quickly.

 I know looks kinda sketchy right? No worries just mixing up some of my trollblood basecoat

 OK I see what your are doing.

The final result. No mess, little waste, little effort just the way I like it. Just have to squirt it into the empty bottle.

Here are the minis I have been working on. I have made some significant progress and hope to have final pics soon. I have run into a SNAFU however as it seems I am all out of the ink I use to finish my bases. Seeing as no one sells it locally I am going to have to scramble. Wish me luck and updates soon.....I hope

Chugging Along

Despite being a work week the looming Templecon painting deadline spurred me to be semi- productive last week. I tried to do 30-45min of painting every day and was pretty close to pulling that off. While never seeing any major progress after a session  added up. I got the fennblades nearly to "basic painting" requirements earlier last week week and focused on my long riders after that. The long riders need to meet "hardcore requirements" so are more important. The list I am hoping to play will require the unit to be table ready.

 

I have also did some assembly work in hopes I will finish my other projects and be able to slap a little paint on these guys before heading to Templecon as well. I assembled my third unit of runeshapers, started my forth unit of runeshapers, and assembled my second gatorman witch doctor. I still need to fill some gaps on both the runeshapers and doctor. The runeshapers were a really rough cast and I had a ton of flash and some really bad mold lines....I hate cleaning and assembling minis. I am not too worried about getting paint on the witch doctor as I have no plans for him to be in my hardcore or blood, sweat, tiers lists. I would like to get at least the runeshaper units ready for blood, sweat, and tiers as I would like to play Doomshaper's runes of war theme as one of my lists. I have been kicking around three different lists one requires two units of runeshaper, one requires three units, and the last (not sure I like it) requires four units. I still need to pick a second warlock for this event to compliment pDoomie but nothing has grabbed me yet.

I hope to grind out the long riders in the next day or so but we will see what happens. When I finish the long riders my focus will be to finish the war wagon, Horthol and the mountain king. I have no plans to put the king in any competitive play lists (maybe one) but I expect to play him a bunch in pick up games around the iron arena.

In the Hall of the Mountain King Part 5

Here we are again back to work on the mountain king. Still doing all those detail section which are soooooo time consuming.

After painting up the teeth and nails I was able to glue the head and loincloth sections onto the big guy. He is start too look whole at this point.

Next up.......WHELPS! I then proceeded to highlight the whelps that are on the kings body or need to be attached. This process followed my normal troll progression. I then hit up all the crests and chin/arm nubs with old school GW warlock purple. I need to do their teeth/nails and eyes and they will be done.

As you can see from the time stamp I started this post a few weeks back. Well here he stands currently as I haven't touched him since. Next post will be the finished mountain king. I hope to get back to him before Templecon but as you can see from the previous post I have a bunch on my plate right now. I have gotten some work done on the other minis in my painting log so hope to have some photos on those later in the week. Time for a nap.

16 Days and a Ton to Do!

If I counted my days right we hit the road of Templecon 2013 in 16 days. Looks like our car will be transporting 5 people this year but I won't be driving which is nice. I have been going back and forth on weather or not I am going to go all in tourneys or just hit up a couple and play games with out of town friends and pick up games in the Iron Arena. I also want to get a demo game of SDE in at some point.

I am preparing as if I am playing in Hardcore and Blood, Sweat, and Tiers so I have to paint accordingly. Here is a list of the minis I want to have painted and their current status:

-Full Fennblades: In the last 2 days I have painted the blue skin and gold metal sections. I need to clean up some of the white metal sections and they are ready for a wash. These guys are slatted for BS&T if at all. Once they are washed they nearly meet basic requirements.

-Full Long Riders: I started these fellows sometime ago and they have sat on my shelf in this state for a while. I need to really get cracking on these guys.

-Horthol: Similar to the long riders

-eMadrak: I started this guys a loooong time ago. He has been in this nearly done state for well over a year. I need to finish up his skin, clean up the tartan (tried to paint the pattern on him) and finish his base then he will be hardcore ready (maybe). I don't have a photo on file and he his packed away so you will have to trust me.

-War Wagon: I did get a pretty good start on this bad boy before he got shelved. I took a second before heading to work last night to paint the wood flooring. After a was on the wood and a few sections of metal the main wagon section will be done.

-Grogspar: still need to put the finishing touches on Bell's Grogspar. Photos after Templecon's completion.

I have a few others things I want to try and get done as well such as paint pDoomshaper and assemble and paint (to basic requirements) a 3rd and maybe 4th unit of runeshapers......

Like I said a TON to do. Luckily I have the two weeks leading up to Templecon off from work. Hopefully some updates coming fast and furious over the next 16 days. See y'all at Templecon....