Wrath continued...

Just a quick update. Finished my two Longhorns for Nasier. I have decided to do the Nasier with Japanese Kabuki style masks and in the same theme the others as Oni. Hence these two, one fire and one water. The others will be along similar lines but I cannot wait to get more painted up. The Hadross side are also still coming along. Deepman Kaxes and Guardian coming up next.

Wrath of Kings

As always it's been a while. Life has a tendency to get in the way of regular blogging. However when something new comes along I want to share it. I kickstarted Wrath of Kings a long time ago and have been eagerly awaiting my models. I backed Hadross and Nasier. I've been assembling away and honestly (and I've read some complaints that the models are fiddly and hard to put together) I find that they fit phenomenally well. None of the gaps that you get from Privateer Press (I love their stuff but sometimes the pieces really don't fit well).

I'm hoping to get a few games out as there is a small community of other kickstarters here in Perth, but until then I will continue painting and preparing my force.

To begin with, I've painted up some of my fish people ... well crab people and jellyfish men.

 

 

I will also add that this has been my first attempt at non-metallic metals and I am quite happy with the results. Gives a different look to the models that I really like.

Dice Tower Terrain.

Hey readers, mostly finished on a project I started a while ago and thought I would share. I bought a two pack of laser cut MDF dice towers for $17 and wanted to turn them into something I would like to actually see on a table. Looking around on Combat Company and found some textured plasticard. I picked up a couple of packs of Cobblestone and Roof Tiles.

Basic Dice Tower.

Disassembled.

Using the disassembled external pieces as templates I cut matching pieces out of the plasticard.

 

Cobblestone walls.

 





To attach the walls I had to cut some pieces of my old square plastic rods (courtesy of Back 2 Base-ix) to fit into the corners created when fitting the MDF together. Using some wood glue to hold the pieces together I then glued the plastic rods onto the dice tower.

 

 

Note the two tiny pieces. They will be attached to the plasticard sheeting but don't actually attach to the tower itself.

The tiny piece is in the bottom left.

The plasticard is then glued directly on to these plastic rods. There will be a few gaps along the corners but these will be filled in with a little green stuff later.

The small piece will glue to the plasticard here for the front sheeting to attach to.

Like so.

Continue gluing the sheeting on and soon enough the dice tower will look like this. I already green-stuffed the seams.

Next, the roof. I cut two triangular roof sections and measured out how large I wanted the roof.

 

 

Again, using square pieces of plastic rod and a little green stuff I glued the roof section to the two triangular sections. I also used a small section of roof tile, bent at a right angle, to cap the roof seam. You'll also notice two pieces of plain plasticard glued behind the triangular sections. These will hold the roof section in place.

 

 

Now that the roof is assembled it should fit very nicely onto the dice tower.

 

 

 

Dice Tower without the roof.

 

 

 

Dice Tower with roof.

All that remains now is to get a few coats of paint onto it. Once it's been painted there will be more pics to follow. I hope you enjoyed the little tutorial I put together. Personally I really like the way it looks and I look forward to using it for my next Warmachine game. The second tower is not quite finished but is very close behind.

After looking at the tower I felt it was missing something so I went back and created a small entrance to the tower. I cut out 3 wall pieces, marked and cut out the door, using a figure to get the height correct. I saved the cut out section to make the door itself, scoring it to make it look like wooden planks. I then glued the wall sections together using square rods to brace the corners and cut and glued on a roof as I did to the main tower above. I used a small amount of green stuff to then attach the entrance to the main tower. I apologise for the lack of pictures of the construction process, I will endeavour to save some when I construct the second dice tower. I think the addition of an entrance finishes the look of the dice tower as a terrain piece.

Been a while...

Like the title says, its been far too long since I last posted anything on here. Seeing as a few people asked for pics of my Norse team that has been in progress for a few months now I thought I would lead off with that. As you can see they're assembled, some are basecoated. I'm still a little unsure on the paint scheme but I do like the dark green for these guys. I have also come up with a name for the team.

I give you... The Thor Norsemen of the Apocalypse.

Thrower and Snow Troll/Yhetee.

Blitzers.

Linemen.

Yet more Linemen.

Ulfwerners.

Ulfwerners again!

Runners.

 

 

After seeing some of the teams at this years Sandgroper Cup (amazing weekend of bloodbowl!) I am well aware that my painting still needs a lot of work. Still, the only thing I can do is keep at it and hope people like the conversions. I actually have yet more teams in progress, halfling, lizardmen, dark elves, skaven, slann and nurgle. But these are the closest to being completed so all I can do is keep at it and bring you more pics and conversions as they happen.

Blood Bowl Team begins anew...

Hi all, now I know its only been a few months since I finished my Chaos Blood Bowl team but I've started on another. A couple of others actually. I will still be playing Chaos for the foreseeable future but I have started making a few other teams, mostly because I really enjoy converting them. I have a Skaven, Dark Elf and Necromantic team in the works but today I'll be posting a few pics of the Norse team I've been working on. I recently received an order from Thomarillion for some dungeon accessories. Specifically some barrels and some mugs and bottles. (You may be able to see where this is going). I've been waiting for these because I bought some Chaos Marauders some time ago to convert but I wanted something more ... so without further ado here's some pics of the current work in progress.

The first pic is of my two runners on either side and my thrower in the centre. The second pic is my two blitzers. Famous for being able to carry an entire keg into battle and still manage to play blood bowl. I absolutely love how these guys are turning out so stay tuned for more pics once I start work on my linemen, ulfwerners and of course some Viking cheerleaders.

Play it Painted Sept part 2

Well it's done. I still have the extra magnetised arms for the Avenger to paint up but they're basecoated and on my list of things to finish. I also completely assembled and have started painting a Skaven Blood Bowl team. They're very easy to put together out of a Night Runners box and still have a lot of variety. I also picked up a Rat Ogre off of ebay, a leftover from the Island of Blood kit. All in all they're coming together nicely. The different players all have different looks so it's easy to spot what role each fills on the field. Pics of them to come ... for now here is my finished PiP challenge. Fingers crossed I win something out of this.

Play it Painted September

Well I'm going to take another crack at PIP this month as an excuse to finally get a couple of models I have sitting around painted. This month its Warjacks and Warbeasts ... I just finished magnetising up my Cygnar Avenger/Hammersmith/Centurion so it's a good excuse as any. I also found my Swamp Troll so there's another one I completely forgot about. I'm also going to throw in the Steelsoul Keg Protector, one of the special editions from Privateer Press. Mostly because I like the model and its a good excuse as any. Here's my before pics. Now to wait for the afters...