Tweeked Astromancer's Lair

Exterior View main tower

Double Hex tower set added to main housing

MWR9: Tower

 My new Tower assembled for MWR 9's Terrain project.  I will be doing some interior work to this.  This is the Astromancer's Lair from Games Workshop.  Plenty of small bits will be added to the base to give the medieval battle effect.  Interiorly I will be adding stairs, ladders, chests, doors, weapons racks, and skulls.

Main housing with add on exterior evil pool of skulls from original tower set.

I have done further work on this terrain piece but wanted to feature it before the table of terrain is due next month, stay tuned until then.

Adepticon 2014 How You Use It 1,000k AM Featured Armies

Some of the Featured Armies from the Morning 1,000 point tournament Lombard, Illinois
40 person event
Warhammer Fantasy

http://www.adepticon.org/?page_id=8645 Acon AM Results

Bretonnians



Dwarfs



My Warriors of Chaos



Slannesh Warriors of Chaos



Lizardmen

Character from above

Waaagh Aerie Number ?? How you Utilize It.

 

Waaagh Aerie how you utilize it.

Adepticon prep.

We had a 10 man 1,000pt tournament on Jan. 15, 2014 at Gryfalia's Aerie just a few weeks ago.  This is a few pictures we took during the event.  Featuring unstable dice podcast and Waaaghcast in attendance we had Joe from Waaaghcast take Best overall with Empire, Ryan win Best general Lizardmen, Steve win Sports with Empire, and Calvin win Best painted with Brets.  We actually got in 4 rounds with a max. score of over 60 battle points.  Using VP to determine winners and Battle points to help spread out the overall scores.  Some battle points were killing wizards, bsbs, or generals just to add some flavor. 

 

Ryan(Liz. on Right) and Ray(Dark elves Left) set up during a round on Table 1

Playing on the ODT Battle Board John from Unstable Dice Podcast sets up against Joe from Waaaghcast during round 2, Table 2

Steve(Best Sports) setting up his Hand gunners in a tower, in the tower scenario versus my Warriors of Chaos(I played the filler army), on Table 5

Wood Elf 'Sisters' Forest Dragon: Comission

Wood Elf Dragon

By ODT Gaming

 

A small fast assembly of a dragon in 1 week and painting in a couple hours.  The basing was left to the owner to match his current WE scheme.  standard washing and highlights were used with it.  The two 'Sisters' riding the dragon are pinned by their feet in the neck of the beast.

 

 

Prior to assembly each joint took 1-2 pins

Full view, tallarn flesh and green with black and green highlights

sisters were generic White cloak and black cloak.

The Dragon's Eye

The Halfling Army Project: Halfling Demi Cock Riders

 

Halfling Demi Cock Riders

By: ODT Gaming

 

These 2x3 units of Demi 'Gryph' Cock riders are usable in my upcoming Halfling army.  They were scratch built from rubber toy chickens and roosters and combined with Empire bits, metal halflings, and bretonnian peasant and knight bits.

Bits were taken from the Demi-Gryph Empire set to make the armor



Green stuffing armor was also used



This unit has lances and added on Bretonnian bits



Saddles were custom made and my cork basing used to

 

This is the link to the previous post regarding the assembly of the Demi Cocks:
http://odtgaming.blogspot.com/2014/01/half-humans-halfling-army-demi-cocks.html

Half-Humans The Halfling Army: Demi-Cocks

Halfling Demi-Cocks

 

So the idea here taken from a previous Halfling army was to convert some model chickens into demi gryph knights.  The effort to find the models took a couple days and then waiting for them to arrive another week.  The bases are cut from 3"x24" wood from hobby lobby which I got 12 bases out of for $2.99.  The Rooster and chicken sets were about 6 a piece on ebay and the demi-gryph box was bought for msrp, so all in all more expensive in the long run for these kid conversions, but they are fun.

Yes Demi Gryphons and Demi Cocks being hacked out!

Comparison of the Rooster(rubber mold from ebay) to a WIP Halfling!

12 wooden bases for my Cock Cav.

The 10 final bases I put cork on, sanded, and added bits to, priming next.

These images below are the Wip images of the wooden bases with cork glued on them and the chickens with Demi-gryph bits on them, empire bits, and bret armor.  Green stuff has been added and used for molding the armor.  Three of the demi gryphs have been chopped up and armor, heads, and legs added onto the chicks.  Additionally trophy heads, look at the top middle rooster,with chains have been added to each monstrous cavalry rooster.  Further conversions will be added to the riders, from battleforge, with green stuff, weapon swaps, and skulls.  



Bases and Demi-Cocks being worked on.

Year End Review: 2013

Year End Review

Battle Report Summary

Overall The breakdown is I got to play around with 4 races in 2013, Chaos Dwarfs, Warriors of Chaos, Ogre Kingdoms, and Orcs and Goblins). In all the armies and placed high in at least one of the tournament.   I got to Play at Capital City Games in Springfield, Illinois, Midwest Rampage in Peoria, Illinois, Gryfalias Aerie in Bloomington, Illinois, Invasion of Kenosha in Kenosha Wisconsin, Merry Mayhem in Madison, Wisconsin, and Adepticon in Chicago, Illinois.  Of those I got to go to 9 Tournaments out of a possible 12(1 per month) and  totaled 31 tournament games.  I did manage a couple awards Best Overall at a Adepticon, Best Painted at Midwest Rampage, and a Pod winner at Invasion Kenosha.  I did manage to get more games in overall though in years past.

 

 

I totaled 81 games during the course of the year.  Point ranges from 1,000 pts to 3,000 pts for tournament and friendly games.  My W/T/L was(as pictured above) was Chaos Dwarfs went 14/7/1, Warriors of Chaos 21/11/0, Ogre Kingdoms 3/1/1 and Orcs and Goblins 7/2/2.  You can figure the math but games were about split. 

My hope next year is to try and attend some of Adepticon, Midwest Rampage, Blood in the Sun, and Merry Mayhem.  Between all the chaos we'll organize local events at the Game Store and other local events as much as possible.  Remember its always Over Da Top!