A New Start

Hi everyone, if you’re reading this you’ll realize that it’s been a rather long time since I updated.  I started this blog last year as a way of trying to show some of the work and modeling projects I was working on.  Unfortunately, life got in the way and I was picked up for a deployment to Afghanistan, so I spent most of the summer 2013 training for and then deploying overseas.  Even though I made it back safely in February, I decided to retire from the military and have spent the last year either preparing for retirement or actually searching for a job. 

Still, I wanted to get this blog back up and working and found that the only thing keeping me from it was the fact that I just needed to sit down and start writing again.  So here we are.

So now that we are a few days from Christmas and the New Year is upon us, I’m getting back to it.

My painting table has three main projects at the moment.

- A new Cryx Army

- A new Dwarf Army

- A new Lotr project

Back in 1984 I purchased my first miniatures game, Warhammer Fantasy Battles 2^nded.  I bought some old Ral Partha dwarf models and my friends and I started our wargaming habit.  Dwarves have always been my favorite but the later editions of WHFB never seemed to be as fun as 2^nd and 3^rd.  Recently though, I've really been wanting to get back to fantasy gaming and have been looking around for something to play.  Thank goodness for Kickstarter.  I bought into the new Mantic Kings of War Kickstarter recently and decided that I wanted to break out all the dwarves I had laying about in boxes and get them painted and back on the table. 

The army I’m planning, will be a mixture of some of my older painted models (stripped and repainted) and models that I never got around to painting. 

Additionally, I decided to do I bit of faction jumping this year and I’ve slowly been putting together a Cryx faction using models I picked up over the last few years from flea markets. 

So here is my first post, I’ll get another post done her in the next day or so and fill you in on the details and status of my projects.

Till next time

Cheers!!! 

Easter Sunday

Happy Easter everyone!

Sorry for the lack of updates lately.  After a rough month of work, I got very sick with bronchitis which I’m still slowly getting over.

However, I have several projects lined up over the next month.  After painting the  most models for our local journeyman league, I’m just about ready to set me Khador on the back burner and start working my son’s Menoth troops.  I also have a 28mm ACW lined up to paint and several new units of Erebor Dwarves for my LOTR army.  Keep checking out this space for more regular updates.

SWAP MEET!!!!

24 Feb 13

Swap Meet Day!!!

 

Huzzah Hobbies, one of our local game stores, hosted a swap meet for all the gamers in the area.  There was a huge turnout and I saw quite a few fully painted armies go for sale.  I brought an assortment of games and figures with me to sell and managed to do both some cash sales and a few swaps.  I had really hoped someone would have taken my Battle Fleet Gothic stuff but I never made the sale.

 

 

WIP….Beast 09 Part 5

18 Feb 13

 

WIP….Beast 09 Part 5

 

Beast is finally finished.

 

I’m going to step through the basic painting process to help everyone see what I did.

 



 

In the News

7 Feb 13

Privateer Press News

There’s been a lot happening on the Warmachine front this week.  

First off, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, Privateer Press announced a new faction for Warmachine.  The Convergence of Cyriss is an all robotic army which should take the game by storm.  I have no doubt that this faction is going to push the game forward in ways we can’t imagine. 

WIP….Beast 09 Part 4

21 Jan 13

WIP….Beast 09 Part 4

With a good black primer on the model I can begin to work on the painting.  I begin paining all my warjacks the same way buy picking out all the medal bits on the model and painting them either gray or brown depending on what I plan to put there.



 

 

New Warmachine League

19 Jan 2013

New Warmachine League

Our local meta’s new league started last night.  It was a fury of games being played.  I didn’t manage to get any pictures taken but managed to play three great games with mixed reselts.