Saturday, July 13, 2013

Warhound Titan Ebay Find


I found this warhound titan, while trolling ebay for Eldar. Now, I already own one of these that has not been put together, so even partially built, this gives me a chance to practice building one of these guys and painting it before I tackle my pristine one. I had not taken into account how terribly the legs had been glue-mangled or gluangled(TM). I tried to remove the super glue, trying nail polish remover, super glue de-bonder, and even simple green. No dice. The good news is that the previous owner left the armor plates and the main body alone, so those will be a lot of fun to paint. I foresee a lot of mud and grime on the legs.

I am really looking forward to painting this. Now what Titan legion should this guy come from?

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Redemption of the Fallen WIP 3










The light was really good this morning, so I thought I would snap a few photos of the Land Raider.
The tank is magnetized to make Godhammer, crusader or redeemer variants, though I am only showing two in these photos. Another round of chipping is in order, but only on the green areas. Basically those need to show chipped tan paint underneath. Outside of that I am getting ready to stick a fork in this and call it done.

We are trying to raise money for Doctors Without Borders through the Nova Charity Foundation.  If you follow that link you can enter to win.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Redemption of the Fallen: WIP 2 Landraider Everything Edition




With the terminators well under way, I decided it was time to get some paint on their dedicated transport. The box came with the everything necessary to make every variant, so I went a bit magnet crazy and made it possible to field every variant. While I love magnetizing, it does dramatically increase painting time.

At this point the tracks are on and weathered, but the tank has not been weathered itself. Chipping is next, followed by grime streaks.

As before, you could win this tank, along with the two terminator squads, as well as the rest of the army, by purchasing a raffle ticket on the Nova Charitable Foundation website.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Redemption of the Fallen: Charity Army WIP 1


These terminators could be yours. The special weapons are magnetized, their land raider is magnetized, and the best feature of all, is that they come with a beautifully painted army wrapped around them.

I was lucky to be offered the chance to paint up two squads of terminators, along with an 'anything' pattern land raider to help support Doctors Without Boarders for the NOVA Open Charitable Foundation, and have had a blast painting these guys .

For a measly dollar you could win an army designed by some guy named Mike Brandt, and painted by a diverse group of awesome painters led by Tim Williamson (Tau of War). This really is an all star team and then me. It really is a privilege to work along side these folks, and hope we can convince you to pony up some of your hard earned cash to support a really worthwhile charity.

Now as to the Dark Angel's list...well it is a list. I don't know who this MB thinks he is, but everybody knows terminators should be armed with two heavy weapons. (yeah I know it is not legal, but have magnets will magnetize!)

I wish everyone a happy 4th of July




Thursday, June 27, 2013

Armies On Parade Springfield VA

SITREP: Jet lagged but competing.

I've decided to enter the Armies on Parade competition on Saturday at the Springfield VA store. I had previously decided to bow out after a fire erased my company, and the disaster recovery work overcame every waking hour. On the other hand, I need an escape from fire related tasks.

My trip to nottingham last weekend sealed the deal. I really have to get this army out of the cabinet and into the light of day. It is not going to be my all biker army with Tallarn allies riding mumaks and horses, but I think it looks pretty good. It is kind of interesting seeing the different styles of painting in the force. Some of these models were painted more than two years ago. If you recall, GW changed its paint range immediately after I had painted the first units.

What you see here are all of the contender unites on the display board. I am still torn about the lack of tallarn. Should I find a way to fit in one squad of them with a couple heavy weapon support teams? I was counting on the yellows, greens, and pale blue whites to contrast with the vibrant blue. Alternately I could just go with the all blue force. If I do that I need to paint some more white checkers on my older units to tie them into the new aesthetic.

Regardless of the choice, on of my purposes of this board was to showcase some of the older models, so for ultras those would be two types of predators and the original rhino. The tallarn are all old!

What do you think? Do I stand a chance with this hybrid army, so of which was painted for show, and some that was just painted because it was within arms reach of me when I had blue in my air brush.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Warhammer World



















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Monday, June 10, 2013

Tallarn Rough Riders






I took a break from disaster recovery of my office for a few hours on Saturday in order to finish a couple of Tallarn. I rushed these, but I just wanted to see them based.  I tried thinning badab black with rubbing alcohol, but the results were pretty weird. I am happy with these guys. They provide a dirty yellow contrast to my smooth shaded blue ultramarines. The color combination looks good to me.


Wednesday, June 5, 2013

That Was My Office




I almost never post non-40k things on my blog. It has always been an outlet of pure hobby for me. While preparing to leave work and go home to work on my Armies on Parade entry an employee notices smoke coming in from the hallway. A fire that started in the alley between the large building on the left (ours) and the house on the right climbed up the walls and engulfed our building. I was painting so furiously because I had three major sales trips starting monday. We've worked for 10 years to get to this point, to have these very special meetings overseas. And now we have nothing to show. I always knew there was a risk in having a single facility, but as a boutique software developer, sometimes I had to choose between having something to show, or having high availability. I have not processed everything yet.

There are now so many tasks in order to get new office space up and running. I am overwhelmed.

I have nowhere to go to work tomorrow. Those screenshots I decided not to take today because we were close to fixing a few visual bugs in the GUI are not possible now.

As the guy in charge at the office I have to maintain focus and calm tomorrow morning. I don't want to panic, but I am not ready to go into cool and calculating mode.  I am between feelings.

Sorry for the rant.

This sucks.