Finished Dead Rider.

Took me about 4 evenings work to model and paint this guy, but here he is. I'm pretty pleased with how he came out.

I got in a game with him the other day vs this a**hole. Merv brought a Zoraida/Collodi crew and I learned the meaning of frustration dealing with the latter. He is such a bloody pain to put down. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I lost, badly, but by no fault of the rider. He pretty much held up the entire enemy crew for 2 turns - on his own (while Seamus missed stuff with his flintlock, the gunslinger trudged through a forest and the Belles just flopped around the place being Obey-ed).

On an unrelated note, some of you may recognise the fat and thin Daemon princes in the background in these pics.

Malifaux pre-orders arrived! :D

Wow, it's been a while since my last update.

Anyway, this line is tapped, so I'll be brief (stupidest line from the Matrix, if the line is bloody tapped it means someone is listening - don't arrange to meet under the bridge dumbass). I pre-ordered some shiny new Malifaux stuff last month, and it arrived bright and early (the girlfriend answered the door for it, my precious sleep was not disturbed) on Thursday. Here's what I got:

I think I'll put this chap up as a prize in the Tournament I'm planning next month.

Mr. Dead Rider is currently undercoated black and sitting on my painting station.

Snow Storm is pretty. Very much living up to the hype, Storm's body is cast in resin with metal horns. I checked for air bubbles and only found a few superficial ones on the soles of his feet and the flat areas where his arms connect. Citadel Fineass could learn something from this. Snow is entirely metal, only her hands need to be attached, they'll need pinning and possibly a small drill bit to do the job. I reckon a paperclip is the right size.

Dead Rider is entirely metal. There was very little flash, and besides the scythe arm being a bit tricky he was pretty easy to pin, about an hours work altogether (while watching an episode of Dexter). After pinning I used a tiny bit of green stuff to blend in the joins. The rocky part under the steeds right hoof is actually part of the model, so I built up a rocky outcrop out of thin cork tile.

I'll post up some pics when I'm done painting him.

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Pretty-er toys.

I have to do a post on this mini. I'm a fan of simple well executed colour schemes on models, but this one really takes the cake. And I thought I did well painting some Onryu with only 5 different colours...

In other news GW is still promoting their flying toaster. One of the lads from out LGS has one painted up. It's actually very nice in the flesh.

image belongs to Wyrd miniatures and EricJ. Obviously.

Pretty toys.

Ok Forgeworld, you did bad in the past but after this I'll forgive you. Now that's the quality we expect from the price tag.

Wyrd posted some pics of their February releases today and once again they do not disappoint. Check out the paint job on the Lost Love! I want to do my spirits like that now.
As regards sculpt so far Nix seems to be a crowd pleaser (and I must agree) though I think the rats and Stolen ooze character.
Special mention on the release of the Malifaux rules manual. Now I can't comment on the content besides the fact that it claims to contain up to date errata'd rules for the game, so I guess that's what it'll contain, but I can say the cover looks nice. Which is the main thing.

Would ya look at that!

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Latest from Forge World. (Mini rant)

Seriously? What, you're serious Games Workshop? Tyberos The Red Wake is the best you lads can think up? Look at his bloody hands. Damn that's ugly. I can just imagine the board meeting;
 "Guys, guys!"
"What?"
"Y'know what'd be cooler than a power fist, lightning claws and chainswords...? All of them! At once! Combined!"
"... Incredible. We'll do it! It totally won't look stupid and our unwaveringly loyal customers will want to spend a mint on it for sure! This is totally the best idea we've had all week since the revival of the S-shaped monster's no-one liked. Quick - think up some bullshit reason for it."
"Uh... 'ancient relic-gauntlets'...?"
"... Wow! Someone's getting a promotion!"


And Jesus wept.

Christmas Marines.

Very quick post before turkey and ham. Here's a link to a post and some pics from Stormy's blog of some pretty festive season themed toy soldiers from our LGS. I have to find out who did these sometime so I can credit them.
Merry Christmas!  Ho ho ho... (click here to go to the post for more pictures)

image shamelessly stolen from touchedbygreatness.blogspot.com

Army pics; Mergoths Daemons.

Hi again! Today I'm going to share some pictures of my finally complete Daemon army. So far, this army stands undefeated (touch wood) at 15 wins and a draw (kudos to Stormy for that!).


HQ:

This is my take on Kairos Fateweaver. Because I was damned if my army of Daemonic killyness was going to be led into battle by a giant turkey. Based on the old Nagash model, pimped with a new staff top, a dark pegasus wing and the party hat sawed off and greenstuff skull replacement he makes sure my guys don't die (see the undead reference? Huh? Huh??),. He also dishes out fiery death to all and sundry at range. Sucks a bit at close combat, but turning Lysander into a spawn on a 5+ is LOLZ.

The Bloodthirster is my second HQ choice. His job is to stick to Fateweaver like glue then run at stuff like dreads and land raiders that the rest of the army has problems with. With Unholy Might S9 on the charge is epic win. 


A lot of people seem to dislike his sculpt, but I must say I really enjoyed painting him. The "moobs" people like to complain about are mostly hidden by the classic head, it's when you stick the donkey-thirster head on him you start to question his original gender.














Elites:

This chap started life as a Khorne Chaos Marine lord, but they suck
so he's much better off as a Bloodcrusher with Fury of Khorne.

For my elite choices I always take two units of Bloodcrushers, and oh boy do they rock! With S6 on the charge and power weapons built in they mangle Marines and transports. I always take as many wargear options as I can per squad for wound allocation, rending, and laser-guided deep-striking.

Most of the crushers are a mix of Chaos Knight, Khorne Berzerker, and Bloodletter bits. As well as being a blast to kitbash, I made 5 for the price of 3 of the "official" plastic ones, they're unique, and I had parts left to make more Berzerkers and Bloodletters if I want them. Score!

As an added bonus none of them are sprawled across their mounts like the plastic crushers. Tut tut GW...

This one here's an icon bearer.

Here's one with an instrument...

...and a personal favourite of mine, a Bloodcrusher dragging the mutilated remains of a Dark Angel Marine.

Folks have asked why I don't take Fiends, as they're supposedly better, but I find these guys synergise so well with Fateweaver that I'd really miss the 3+ rerolled armour. Also, in my local playing area people use a lot of terrain, so the Fiends would not be so fast anyway. I might convert some up at some stage and try them nonetheless.

Troops:

Bloodletters. One squad of 8. No upgrades. Put them on an objective and watch your enemy avoid it like the plague. Built-in power weapons and furious charge for 16pts. Bloody bargain.

I like the plastic Bloodletter kit, and they're the only models in two years I've just stuck together with no converting. Needed a break I guess.

One large unit of Plaguebearers with an icon to go in the bad wave and laser-guide the hardhitters...

...and one small unit to sit on objectives and give cover saves to Bloodletters.

My Plaguebearer models are plague monks with zombie and ghoul heads. Didn't need much cutting besides clipping the tail off and trimming. This way I got 20 for the price of 5 metal ones. Yes I am cheap. No I don't care.

My last troops choice is usually a small group of Nurglings. They're not a scoring unit, but have 3 wounds, a 5+ invulnerable save and are eternal. I like to charge enemy walkers or monstrous creatures and tie them up for 3-4 turns.

Fast attack:

Fast attack for Daemons? Haahaahaaa! Moving on...

Heavy Support:

Ever one to capitalise on eternal (Meaning no Soul Grinders for me), I like to take 3 (counts as) Tzeentch Daemon Princes with Bolt of Change and Unholy Might. S6 in close combat is a godsend against AV 13+ and vs Marines. Fluff wise they're Khorne Princes with Kai Guns. 

I built them from the Warhammer Minotaur kit with Killer Kan and Defiler bits (as well as other bits I had lying around).

So that's pretty much my standard army at the moment, occasionally I'll try something different but the core is the same. 

Comments/criticism welcome!

whoops almost forgot! pictures by anna soares (she'll hit me if I don't credit her)