New Dark Elves

Finally, up for pre-order. I'm excited, but... Ouch! $60 for 10 Witch Elves?! I love my Witch Elves, but I may have to work on recasting the old metal ones instead. That's just too much. Even 3rd party versions are expensive. The Vestals from Raging Heroes are $53.50 for 10. Getting them from reseller giving 20% is an option. $48 isn't awesome, but it's better than $60!!

This is going to take some serious consideration.

First Skaven Unit Complete!

Finally got my first unit of Skaven completed. This is a 30 strong unit of slaves.

Dark Elves!!!

There's already a bazillion blogs posting the various rumors about Dark Elves, so I won't repeat them. However, it is confirmed that Dark Elves are getting released next month with a 2nd wave of new plastics to come the following month. And I couldn't be more excited!!

I am doing Skaven right now, but DE are my first love in Warhammer. Preordering will be this Saturday, and I cannot wait!

League Update: Rules are set

So, after designing, and redesigning and re-redesigning my 750 pt army list for the start of the league, we finally got the rules set in stone. First leg is core only and one character. :\ Okay, well, that makes the list building easier. So, some Slaves, some Clanrats, some Stormvermin, a pack of Giant Rats, and of course weapon teams. I'm hoping to get a practice game in to see how the list works before it starts for real (Sept. 18). We'll see.

The Skaven Horde!!

Forgot this in my last post. It didn't take me long to build up my Skaven Horde. This was the last photo taken of the assembly build up. At last count I had about 3500 points of Skaven without any magic items. Although I could only field about 3000 or under since a good chunk of that is tied up in Heroes and Lords.

This isn't even all of it. It grew from this point having about 2 units each of slaves and clanrats. A unit of Plague Monks. More weapon teams and Engineers. Just ignore the Necron Sentry Pylon and the Cyriss Clockwork Angels. :)

Escalation League Update and First Painted Skaven

So we finally hashed out the details of the Escalation League. We're starting at 750 points for the late Sept./Oct start. Increases to 1250 in November, and finally 2000 in December. We have to play 3 games a month with one floating game for a total of 10 games. (I can just hear my wife complaining already) We get 3 points for a win, 1 point for playing. There will be painting point as well, but that hasn't been completely determined yet. Something akin to: you get the points for showing up with the army of the current value fully painted. It's a one time bonus point for the month. So you can get it again the next month when the points value increases. The league ended up with 25 people signed up. Only armies not represented (IIRC) are Dark Elves and Beastmen. There may have been one other.

I also got my first Skaven mini base coated. Mostly because when I bought it it was already assembled and primed. It's a Warpfire Thrower. It still needs to be Quick Shaded, but I may wait on that because I need to put some more liquid greenstuff in a seam to fill it in, otherwise the Quick Shade will settle there and that would look bad. Also because I have nothing else primed yet. Still trying to figure out where to spray. I'm thinking int he down stairs bathroom attached to the room I do my mini stuff in. I can utilize the exhaust fan. I bought a spray mask as well so spraying indoors won't be too big a deal. Also, these pics were a test of a new Macro lens I got for my phone's camera.

Front rat

Back rat. Tuskgor Fur isn't too far off from the Ratskin Flesh color. :/

Warpfire tinged smoke

I did the Warpstone/fire tinged smoke by painting it white, giving it a coating of Wayfarer Green glaze, then dry brushing Abaddon Black onto it in a downward direction.

Also, I finally have my Warplightning Cannon assembled. The old school one.

Can't wait to unleash this! I need to find another of these on Ebay or something. I don't like the look of the new one that's part of the multi-part kit that can be this or a Plague Claw catapult.

Escalation League Build Up: Skaven

As I mentioned in my last post, I am joining an Escalation League at my local Games Worshop store. The deadline for sign up is this weekend, and the rules haven't been hammered out yet. Oh, and I am doing Skaven. So, since my daughter is sick and can't go in to daycare today, I found myself with some time to start putting together models. These are all from my old 6th edition army box I bought when they re-released Skaven for 6th. The models are different than how they model them now (I like the newer incarnation better, but since I already have these). I spent time cleaning up the mold spurs and flash and got them based and put together. Here's what I got so far.

2 Ratling Gun teams

Warlock Engineer

3/12 Storm Vermin

Warplock Jezzail Team. I have one more but have yet to assemble it.

10 Plague Monks

I have other stuff too I have yet to assemble. I have a box of 20 Night Runners which I may see if I can't make them into Gutter Runners. I have a Doomwheel (new plastic version), Warplightning Cannon (metal version), the exclusive Battle Standard Bearer from the box set (partially assembled), a Warlord, another Engineer, a Grey Seer, and I have two boxes of Clanrats. I also have a bunch of stuff from the Island of Blood box set that I split with a friend. So that added a Poison Wind Mortar team, a Warpfire Thrower, yet another Engineer, another Warlord, and about 40 more Clanrats. I also picked up two boxes of Night Goblins to use as Skavenslaves since I will be modelling them as Clan Mors who fight Night Goblins a lot and take them as slaves.

More updates to come. And once the league starts, I plan on posting Battle Reports.

WHFB Escalation League

I signed up to do an Escalation League at my local Games Workshop store. For those not familiar with it, an Escalation League is where you start small -- typically around 500-750 points -- then you add on to it by a set amount every month or so. It's a great way to start a new army, so typically that's what you do. So, I will be starting Skaven. I still have my box set from 6th edition so I have plenty of minis to start. I will report on how it goes. The details haven't been hammered out yet.

Goodies for my Birthday

So, Origins fell on my birthday this year. Got to go for more than one day for the first time in a long time. It felt good. Additionally, when it came to what I was wanting to spend my money on in the dealers room I was both saddened and ecstatic at the same time.

The sad part was that Privateer Press wasn't there. I was hoping to pick up a bunch of the new Convergence of Cyriss stuff for Warmachine. Alas, they decided not to come to Origins this year. I was actually kind of mad about that since I was looking forward to having a:

moment. Heh. But it's okay, since they didn't want my business by snubbing the one Con I could go to this year, I got a surprise that allowed me to spend those dollars. Forge World crossed the pond and was in attendance in the dealer's room!

So I got my Shut Up and Take My Money moment anyway. :) I had pre-ordered the Imperial Armour 12 book the first day it went up for sale. I devoured it when I finally got it. I was excited to see these new, cool options for my beloved Necrons. So, I spent my money there. And boy did I ever! Forge World stuff, as you may very well know, ain't cheap.

My birthday present to myself

I got three things, in the picture clockwise form the left: the Tesseract Ark, the Night Shroud Bomber, and the Death-Ray Sentry Pylon. All in total: $302. For three things. Yikes! I could have seen quite a few hookers for that. (but I'll get more use out of these, lol... that sounded bad, didn't it?) On the bright side, I didn't have to pay shipping from the UK. So at some point, I will be doing blog posts showing progress assembling these things. It may be a bit as the wife and I are in the process of moving. Same city, but it's going to take some time until I have a place to assemble and paint set back up. For those of you who are wondering, Forge World said they'd be at GenCon this year. So you will have a chance to purchase from their line at the con. Save your pennies though. :)

Warmachine: Protectorate of Menoth Crusader

I haven't updated in a while. Been busy with working on the house for an impending move and attempt to sell the old one. I finally managed to eek enough time out to finish off my Protectorate Crusader Warjack. All in all I'm happy with it. I used the Army Painter Quick Shade ink on it, but not all over, just on certain areas. It worked out well. I learned my lesson with the Repenter that got driven into the dirt when I tried to shake the excess Quick Shade dip off. The white went on a little gloppy. I primed another 'Jack in white so I'll see how it goes on that one, but if it still looks gloppy, I may need to find a different brand of paint for my whites. Anyway, here it is in three angles. Painted, matted, and based.