Vampire Counts: Black Coach

Long time no post. I've been a terrible blogger, but this time I have the best of excuses. Earlier this year my partners and I began a new business. Business is good; however I haven't had much time to paint. This weekend I took some time to work on an idea I have had brewing for about three years now.

I've always wanted to show a Black Coach transitioning from its corporeal to its incorporeal form. I finished this guy in about 5-6 hrs over two days, most on the first with polish on the second day. He's mostly done, I might do some touch ups a bit later.

WAAAGHshington Greenskins - Victorious!

Terrible about any upkeep on the blog, but THIS YEAR, this year will be the year of miniature wargaming I've always wanted it to be, and some such new years resolution nonsense. I have several projects that need blog posts and pics up.

At any rate, here's an excuse to post up that I won our Fantasy Handegg (read: Football if your are from the US of A) league! Fantasy Football on NFL.com mind you. I still have yet to play a non-digitized version of Bloodbowl.

This was the year for the WAAAGHshinton Greekskins! A damned unlikely event since my record was 7-7 going into playoffs.

The Painting Peg Boards

Twenty dollars and an hour of work result in a pretty nice painting tool. Boards equipped with removable pegs for painting individual models.

Supplies:
3 - 1" diameter 4' long dowel rod
1 - 2" x 6" x 10' board (inexpensive $6)

Directions:
1. Cut the dowel rod down to 6" lengths.

2. Drill 1" holes for desired spacing between rods. I recommend staggering them to take advantage of width of the boards.

3. The two in the pictures are going to be used for priming but I will be making a larger one with smaller spacing tomorrow.

Terrain: Wheat fields on the Cheap!

One of these: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20052187/

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Any standard hobby knife or box cutter.

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A Ruler

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Cheap brown acrylic paint.

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Cheap Wheat Field(s)

August Painting Challenge - Giant!!

So the August challenge is well under way. Challenge issued was a medium-large model with a minimum of a 40mm base. I had a primed giant ready to go...

...and I had wanted to try to airbrush flesh tones on, here is how it is turning out so far:

Airbrushing flesh tones... cheating. Remember my O&G Army has snow bases - I'm going for a pale snow giant look:

July Painting Challenge - Imperial Guard Commissar

Long time no post! My buddy Korwen, who has yet to post on this blog though he is a collaborator, has started our gaming group on a monthly challenge. We started with a single small model. I chose a Commissar to get warmed up.

The challenge is a great way to drive getting some painting done. I had a great time participating with the other 5 folks! Enough chatter, here is my submission for July:

Khador Juggernaut - In Progress

Some pics of my Khadorian Juggernaut I was working on last night! I'm really going for a dirty look here - sooty, grimy metal. Needs more though, and I have broken out the weathering pigments.

Supreme Kommandant Irusk

Started work on my Khador army! I used my new airbrush to get a really bold yellow and red on this model. The result was some great preservation of detail.

Empire!

Alrighty, thoroughly distracted by the new Empire rule book. I have yet to play a game, but I did start work again on some Pistoliers and a kneeling Handgunner conversion!