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Monday, May 26, 2014

Armies of Rampage

Armies of Midwest Rampage 9

These are some of the featured armies I saw and took quick pictures of. Of course there are 30+ players and several other armies that looked great. Notably a Bretonnian player Calvin who brought a highly detailed Bretonnian army I wish I got images of. I didn't get a picture of my army, but we'll save that for later.

Dwarfs with a great mountain hold backdrop

Jake Murphy's Dark Elves, great lava and red theme

Greg's Nurgle Demons, this display board is all new I believe.

A very clean painted ogre kingdoms army

Domus's Highly painted, coveted, and converted Wood Elves

Jim's Khorne demon army very nice and clean paint.

Robert Elmer's Hand made Nurgle Ogre Kingdoms army.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

2014 Display Board and working

New 2014 Display board Lava themed Corner Castle.

Built for multiple armies, examples below.

Adepticon How you use it Orcs and Goblins on Display board. Won a painting award players chocie!

Woc How you us it 1k army

Acon team tournament on display board

In the pictures below you can see the display board with towers and skulls in it. The entire board is covered in a thin layer of Spackle! Then layered up twice black latex paint before priming. The cuts were made with a Styrofoam cutter and an upper shelf was then made. I recommend using spackle to fill in all gaps before adding any paint. Its easy to miss deep corners with paint and simpler to stack the spackle up and fill in the holes beforehand.

Acon Display board as a WiP

The back two sections are modular and can be removed for a cover piece of a display board, units can also be put on top of the them. There are several features including statues on the side of and back of them and a rear castle opening with pillars.

Display board primed black.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Half-Humans: The Halfling Archers

Half Humans: The Halfling Archers

The models as described before have been taken from the Dogs of War set The Fighting Cocks from the early to late 1990s. They are a mix of GW models that tie in a common archer theme. The Ogre in the middle ranks acts as a unit filler painted to match in the same way and is the Ogre BodyGuard from the mid 1990s game Mordheim. A custom banner must still be added to the Standard Bearer and more Archer bits will be added once a few more units have been completed.

My Fighting Cocks painted up Green!

Mordheim bodyogre Added to the Center!

Angled view of my 31 Fighting cock Archers with BullyOgre

The custom banner is added here next to the ogre. some eggs added to it with some bretonnian shields matching the colors of the unit. Next some shields with checkered patterns that will be added to the unit.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

AdeptiCon 2014 Warhammer Fantasy TT: Bad Dice Coverage

I get to be on Bad Dice! 5:42 minutes in we got kicked out of the runnings in the first round of the Team Tournament at adepticon! Had a lot of fun though and kicked it the next 2 games!

Half-Humans: The Halfling Army Sword and Board

Half-Human: Sword and Board Battle Forge Halflings

This is a unit of 24 sword and board halflings with a hand painted banner. All details are finished up with eyes, custom banner, and countless layers on all leather, blue, and steel. My usual raised bases as well. Going to be adding some details to the bases if I can like skulls and weapons strewn about.

This is my unit of 24 battleforge Sword and Board halflings

Angled view

Hand crafted nest egg on the front of the banner!

Back view has a hand painted chicken

Back view close up.

Getting these bad boys together was tough all bases had to be altered since they weren't slotta bases, ended up tooling them, then pinning them. Lots of washing and layering. More to come with the Halflings I just have to organize some colors, be prepared to see them at Blood in the Sun 2014.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Adepticon 2014 Best painted GMM Studios: Rise of the Worm King!

Rise of the Worm king Display Fantasy Champs 6.5' tall on antique chair.

This army won I think best painted and best display during the two day GT at Adepticon. Done by GMM Studios out of Indiana. A great piece of work with multiple conversions, hand painted banners, and a custom castle standing 6.5' tall. Additionally, a full scale skeleton built into the Mountain side. Truly brings up the standard for 2015, what will come next?! Things that I caught wind of was that this at least took 1-2 months of continuous work away from Brandon's commissions. He drew inspiration from Old Art and New Art. So never let anything pass you by and always use your imagination.