I'm not slacking & a Crossover with Lost In the Warp

Just so you know, I'm not slacking, just in the middle of building a ton of stuff at the moment as I expand my WAB horizons into a Shield Wall or four.  Below is what is currently on my drawing table, not my Warhammer table which has overflowed. 

And those are just the miniatures that I'm green stuffing, I have whole bin full of assembled Vikings, and getting some movement trays ready...more to follow.

And while on the subject of green stuffing, my friend James aka tkkultist from Lost In the Warp, and myself have agreed to do a blog crossover of sorts.  For those that don't know, James was part of the infamous Team North America:  Primarchs Project and is a multi-time GW Demon award winner. 

James and I share a mutual like of Beastmen, and I can say that I have been a fan of his work for many years.  The crossover will be that I will build a Khorne inspired beastman Gor for James's Beastmen Army, and he will build an anything goes Mutant Marauder for my Warriors of Chaos Army.  Then we will ship them off, and get to paint some cool stuff.  I look forward to doing this, I enjoy building beastmen, and I also look forward to seeing what James creates for me to paint.  So please checkout and keep an eye on James' blog at the following link:  Lost In the Warp  More on this to follow....

And then on Friday, its back to the race track with the kart for some more racing.

Old Stuff Wednesday - May : Khorne Minotaurs

Ah the Minotaurs, lover them or hate them, mine I modeled just plain mean.  I want them big and nasty.  What says big and nasty more than an overly huge axe.  The axe was modeled out of plasti-card and used the normal spiked club weapon as the shaft.

Since I was playing Khorne back then, you need to have trophies on your models. 

So I put trophies all over them.  Made them look lkike they have actually collected all of this stuff on the kills that they made on the battle field.

I used parts from all over the place, Ogres, gors, dryads, zombies, goblins. 

I added the long flowing hair. The big tusks on the belly plate.

I even gave a couple of the models hooves.  They are not the nicest looking models, but I think I pulled off the mean theme.

The Fwamin' 'Eadz Nob

Well this is another figure I started a long time ago and finally got around to finishing.  A 40k Ork Nob.

The Nob is converted.  I created the back pole icon out of plasti-card, sculpted the skull and flames on the shoulder and the flames above the eye.  The axe is also a conversion.

Stitched wound was carved into the plastic and then sculpted the stitches.   Added a Tau head, dislike those little bastards.  I really like how the skin tone turned out and how the browns turned out.

The base is one of Dragon Forge's resin castings.  They are very good looking basings and the castings are good.  Love the buried trench works.  Painting 40k models is always fun.

There you have it, my first Nob in a long long time.  It was good fun, enjoyed painting it.

Avatars of War - Dwarf Berserker Finished

Now I'm normally not a dwarf lover.  I generally dislike all elves and dwarves, but the Avatars of War dwarves I do like.  They are very nice looking miniatures, and heavily muscled. 

I started painting this miniature a couple of years ago.  I experimented greatly with the fleshtones, actually using a purple paint wash for everything in the shadows. 

The purple definitely added a nice cool tone in the shadows of the miniature.

In hindsight, I should have used a different color for the cloth, too close to the goblin.

I think the red hair worked out pretty good.  The bronze metallics got a good weathering, that is about 5 shades of different colors highlighted with a gold.

The eyes are painted, but they are so deeply set in the head.

I like how the goblin head came out.  Love the green.  There you have it.  Entered it in the Adepticon Paint contest, but I knew that if everyone showed up it would not even come close to placing.

My Adepticon Report....

Adepticon 2012 has come and gone.  I had successes, failures, and a great time.  I mad the trek down to Lombard, IL crossing the Cheese curtain that divides Wisconsin from Illinois, picture the great wall, but made out of cheese.  You can always tell you cross the border into Illinois by the horrible condition of the roads, the lack of proper road signs and directions, and the amount of freaking toll booths that I swear have tolls that double in cost every year. 

Started out Friday afternoon by entering the War Ancients Battles big crusade game.  This was great fun, a game hosted by RichN, of the Chicago Terrain Factory, his blog can be found linked at the following:  Chicago Terrain Factory  .  RichN was the organizer of all of the WAB events at Adepticon and filled in on a couple of seminars also I believe, great job Rich, I appreciate your efforts.  Well on to the game, I did not get all of my AoA crusaders done so I borrowed my buddy Jerrod's Normans to fill out my roster.  I found out that Jerrod and Lil' Matt (who's not so Lil'), two of my local gaming buddies, got screwed out of playing the Malifaux tourney that some great organizer decided to change the start time by email on, so they showed up an hour late and did not get to play.  So I spoke with Rich and we added them to our Crusades side since Rich had an extra 1500 pts and Jerrod could play his own Norman contingent.  The good guys team consisted of myself, Jerrod, Lil Matt, Merle, and Nostromo on the WAB forums.  The bad guys team was Mr. Bruins, RichN, Pat aka SoCalWarhammer, Mike Butcher who will be having coverage of the event at his blog at the following link:  The Butcher's Bill .
The Badguys won by a point, probably because Jerrod and I broke Butcher's infantry about a turn too late.  Next time.

Saturday was Warhammer Ancients Singles tourney.  Also a great time.  Prior to the games commencing I got see Mr. Battle Road Games himself, which you can read his Adepticon post at the following blog:  http://akersminis.blogspot.com/ Good to catch up with Mr. Akers, and he was kind enough to present me with a gift, namely the casting of some heads that his commissioned from the Bugman, Navarro found at the following blog:  The Bugman Great looking stuff Navarro did, I believe you can find this on sale the Battle Road website.  So matchups came down from RichN and I drew the ringer in Round #1, otherwise known as Xenite over at the Little Green Monster's and following blog: http://xenite.wordpress.com/  He was playing an Arab army, and I managed to pull out the win with my Romans.  Game 2 was against a veteran in SoCalWarhammer himself and his Greeks.  Now Pat is a very good player with a lot of gaming knowledge, which is evident at his blog:  http://nwhistoricalwargames.wordpress.com/ and he is also the man that does the Historical's Podcast:  http://historicalwargames.org/  This was a tough game and I tried to put up a fight, but quite frankly I was out classed.  So 1-1 and went into the third game with Romans versus Viking Shieldwall with the general being Matt from Appleton, WI.  Now this was sort of rematch of game 3 at our La Crosse WAB Tourney, and the outcome was the same, I lost.  In the end even at 1-3 I was like third from the bottom.  Ouch.  But hey Rich made sure everyone went home with a small prize, so I got another Roman figure to add to my collection.

Sunday was Warhammer Ancients Team tourney.  Well here's the trophy plaque:

Yes that is right, I'm one half of the Grumpy Old Coots team that took home the prize.  I and my crusader knightes were teamed with the afforementioned Mike Butcher and his Saxon Shieldwall.  And as the prize I got even more romans.  More on that later.

Oh and just for kicks I entered the Crystal Brush Painting Competition.  My entries were not in a stacked Fantasy and 40k Singles categories.  No awards there, just not good enough.  Not even close.

Oh and if you go to this event and are looking for good places to eat relatively close by, you need to go to the Patio and catch a game with your food.  Great place to eat.

So there you have it.  Sorry no pics, but checkout all of the blog links I posted up, as they will have some and besides they are great blogs, that I recommend.

Back From Adepticon

Just got back from a long drive home from Adepticon.  Had another great time at the best War Gaming convention in America.  Played WAB all weekend and even brought back a trophy.

More on all the events soon.

Conquest Games Converted Crusaders ... Last unit for Adepticon

Got back home a bit late, spent the weekend with further preparations for racing Tuesday, but the last unit that I have done for Adepticon is a fairly big unit of Conquest Games Normans that I converted up.  I've shown quite a few of the miniatures thus far, below is the entire unit.

I'm pretty happy with these guys.  I think they turned out nicely.  I'm probably going to do another unit of them and hopefully some more infantry in the future.

Their horses have really grown on me. 

I blended the movement tray in with the others and with the bases of the minis.

So that is it for the Adepticon Crusader preparations.  I'll be playing in the Big Crusades Game on Friday with these guys, I'll also be playing with my Roman army on Saturday, and teamed with Mike Butcher on Sunday's WAB Team tourney, so if you are in the area swing by and say hi. 

So now the rest of the week, I'm somewhat freed up.  So with that in mind I'm going to finish up two minis an Avatars of War Dwarf and a 40k Ork.  Then I'll see if I can get a Viking all done for the Adepticon Paint Contest.  I don't really expect to win anything, but you cannot win if you do not enter.  Tuesday night is open track night, and I'm excited and nervous all at once, that competition bug is calling and there is a need for speed.