Quick Update

Yeah, I just couldn't do it.  I tried so hard to stay focused on Warhammer Fantasy, but with knowing the world is dead, so is my focus on it.  I will work on the models as I can but very likely they will sit in a box for a while before the pain subsides... its still just too soon.

That said with Warhammer 40k's 8th edition release a ton of people I know are either getting into it for the first time or getting back into it.  

So I decided I would get back into it as well.

I will post some Ork stuff soon.  :) 

Thanks again for your time.

Vampire Counts Army Project - Pt:2 Dire Wolves

Edna was angry, she was angry at her papa for scolding her infront of Sven. She was angry at her mother for not standing up for her, and she was angry at Sven for running home like a mut with his tail between his legs when her father had found them out by the barn. After the embarrassing encounter with her family she ran.  She started heading towards the shack by the lake. She knew no one had claimed ownership of it in several seasons and she would often go there during the summer just to unwind and get out of doing her chores. She could still hear her family yelling her name, it was just after dusk and she didn't have a lantern with her.  She knew the route well enough she thought.  After close to an hour of travel she started to have her doubts. The trail continued through the forest but she wasn't seeing any of the land marks or fields that told her of her destination. A slight breeze passed through the trees and on it came a smell of rotten meat. She started to turn around, and admit that maybe she will deal with her family's scolding over the darkness when she heard it. The growling of a dog. She picked up a fallen branch that was just off the trail and started to slowly walk back the way she came. The clouds which up to this point had kept the night dark started to thin allowing silver beams of light to give her a better view of the animal which had startled her.  Her heart pounding in her chest she looked back only to see nothing there was no dog, she was about to tell herself that she needs to stop letting the darkness get to her when the rotting smell blew past her again, this time it was almost overwhelming.  She took a few steps backwards and that's when she bumped into something.  It was those last few moments when she saw the glowing green flame in the eye sockets that used to hold the cunning eyes of a predator that Edna wished she had simply stayed home.

Across the lands of the Old World giant wolves roam the country side, these beasts almost as large as horses  prey on travelers and small farming villages. While large hunting parties are put together to destroy these beasts, the dark magic near Sylvania allows for no soul to rest for long before they dig themselves out of the pits the hunters bury them in. As they did in life, these newly risen Dire Wolves find the strongest beast to which will lead them, often being a Vampire.  

In times of battle Vampires command these monstrosities to run around the enemy's flanks to harass their artillery or find a weak flank to clash into.

Now that you have a little bit of an idea on what exactly Dire Wolves are in Warhammer, here is the set of models I have been working on for my army.

This was the unit, and where it was in completion when I started this project.

No basing beyond the stones, many portions of the wolves were not completely painted. ( I in general work on the 3 foot rule so often it if looks good far away I stop working on them. )

Since then I have put a few more coats of paint on these beasts, finished with the basing and even added some leaves which I have picked up to help add that "little extra" to my VC army.

Though its not much to tell from the images above I never said I was going to be completely re-doing these units.  I just wanted to polish them a little more.

I think it turned out rather acceptable. 

Let me know what you think, and thanks again for visiting.

Vampire Counts Army Project - Pt:1

Velcome back to my blog!  I vant to paint my vinatures!

That was terrible, I should be beaten for that.   As you can tell based on the title of this post, I'm aiming to finish my Vampire Counts army.

When I first started into the hobby I was pulled in with Warhammer 40k, but then the sleek looking skeleton models cam out from GW, and I fell in love with the Vampire Counts.  I have always enjoyed the myths that comes with vampires and werewolves. None of that  "sparkly" bullshit, but the kind that honestly hunted you for sport and fed on your fear as well as your life. So as they continued to build the range of models it continued to grab my interest.

It was when I picked up the starter box, and my friend picked up the dwarf starter that my drive into fantasy really began. So it is fitting that I'm going to take steps to finish this army and officially call it "Done".  I though that I would never actually reach that point, but with GW destroying the world and game that I have grown to enjoy for all these years I see more and more of the armies getting canceled. When I say canceled, I mean literally no longer making models for them.  I wanted a box of Brettonian Men-At-Arms because the theme of my army was to be an undead Brettonian feel.  I can't find sprues for Brettonians to save my life.   I have a box of Brett Knights and checking ebay they are going for $100 already.  I swear on I saw a website trying to sell 5 grail nights for $400.

I guess its true, its worth more when you can't get it anymore.
Thankfully my undead seem to be safe for now.  Though I need to finish my Dwarf army asap...

On to the stuff!

Here you can see the planned pile of things.  Last night I spent time taking each model out of my foam cases, and sorted them into groups that I can start to work on.

Skeleton's need to be finished, and based for the most part.
Worgs need to be based but are done.
Zombies need to be touched up and based
Ghouls need to be finished getting put together, based, primed and painted.
Corpse Cart needs to be based and detailed.
and the list goes on...

What I'm going to do is treat my blog as my own little check list of completion and also provide some fun information on the units and history of what they have done.

I will post updates and images of what I have gotten done, and then move to the next unit till everything is finalized.

I have some fun ideas, but I'm always open to suggestions so as we go through these posts please feel free to give me any ideas you can!

Thanks for taking time to read my blog.

All the things, seriously i want to do all the things.

Like normal, the spring, summer and fall months find me doing things that are over all a little more focused with the family and friends. Now that Winter has fully come into full swing, I want to start working on this aspect of my free time a little more.

Mmmm Stock google images for summer actives...

That said I figured I would post a basic update on what I HAVE been up to, what I want to start working on before the end of the first quarter of next year ( I figured I would give myself a good number of  months to work on things slowly.


Firstly I have a German Bolt Action army that I have been so lazily building for over a year.  Like I haven't even gotten the infantry together yet.  I just have a hard time putting them together.  I think over the years I would rather not have the tiniest guns in the smallest hands to glue together

Mmmm Stock cover photo

In looking at the Warlords website I totally got sucked into Black Powder, and Hail Caesar.  I picked up the box for the French Napoleonic army.  While its on my shelf, I haven't even started to monkey around with it.

You can almost hear it cry to be used!

I did have a single box of Roman infantry, so figured I would put them together.
So this is what I got done so far.

Very simple paint job, just to get some color on it

Beyond that and putting some Tanks together for Bolt action all my time has been consumed with Star Wars: Armada, and X-Wing.  After that I got Fallout 4 and World of Warships for my PC (Hence my desire to try and get more focus on the table top stuff. )

My Imperial Fleet got an unexpected hyper-space rear flank.  The next turn we took out the corvette.  Was a fun game over all.

I will be working on getting smaller projects done, so hopefully I will get some more updates soon.

Thanks for reading!

Firestorm Armada: Dindrenzi starter fleet. (Pt 1)

Today's post is about another long forgotten game that has been in my collection. Firestorm Armada.

About 3 years ago I had picked up a starter box for both Firestorm Armada, and Dystopian Wars, I picked them up when my friend Drake and I were on a "gotta get every game ever" tangent. (That happens often)

So not sure which one he was more interested in I picked up both because I figured, why not?  Everything I needed in one box, and when he gets around to it we can play.  Sadly he never fell in line with either game, but no worries though they get added to my collection and I get something to work on when I have free... er.. time.  Ha, cuz that happens.

So our friends over at The Game Store have started to create some buzz about the game, I watched a demo game in-between getting my Star Trek Attack Wing league game in for the month and it seemed like everyone was having a blast.  So the itch started, I got home and looked around for the starter box that I had. Sure enough there she was, barely touched.

I put it on the workbench, an obvious sign that things would get worked on soon.

Yep, I'm sure it was literally the next thing in line...

Two weeks later I ended up back at The Game Store for another ST:AW tournament they were hosting and once again it was mentioned in passing by other people chatting away. (That tournament had some time to waste)  So again, more pressure on my mind about it.

So finally Adam, the general manager over at The Game Store created a facebook group for it and once again I find myself split between like 6 games.
Over the course of several days I got the ships assembled.

I'm not going to lie, I think that the big one is simply Megatron in gun form.

Then I promptly put them back in their box.  This wasn't my primary objective, I had actually written out a whole extension to this post on how I painted them and dry brushed them.  Just waiting for me to do it and take a picture.  Never got to that.  A few days later I had spoken to  Adam at TGS  and he convinced me to pick up the brand new Battle for Valhalla box set, sans the Terran faction. So of course that happened.

So now I have basically the same ships only they are new ships and more details models. I can already tell that my older ships are going to be regulated to flanking attacks or suicide runs. I'm a model elitist at heart and if one model looks better than another, the one that doesn't look as good will be considered 2nd class.

I plan to get to putting the new ones together in the next few months. In the mean time all of them are still sitting in their fancy box on the shelf with 40+ other boxes of stuff that still need to get put together.

Yay having vices!

I'm going to work on Pt 2 when I can break out the new starter models and really give them the attention they deserve

Wait.. what just happened?

So its January of 2015...  Did you get July's Hobby challenge completed?


Hell, I didn't even get it done.  So what should our hobby goals be this year?  Yes you loyal reader who has been sticking by my blog for months, help me figure out goal for this year as my motivation for the hobby in general has been lacking.

I would like to once again change that, get creative again and post the results of my mediocre painting and hobby talents.


Where have I been the last few months you ask?  Well, no there.  I simply got sucked back into World of Warcraft.  Yeah, that happens from time to time.

I know this is like 3 expansions back... still the best one though.

"So since July you have been playing WoW?"
Well not totally, but a lot of it.

Also been getting in a good amount of World of Tanks. Very fun game, with a learning curve.  Can't just run out and shoot things. Need to angle the armor, hull down, aim for the enemies weak spots. Deal with kids telling you how terrible you are, even though you are doing your job better than they are and stayed alive.

My wife is awesome and ordered the Star Trek: Attack Wing  Borg Cube for me.

This is the cube, Cube meet NCC-1701-D. I'm sure you two will have no resistance in being besties.

I'm currently also trying to digest the rumor mill about the upcoming Warhammer Fantasy 9th Ed, and how thats going to affect how I invest in all 6-7 armies I haven't completed.

Do I drop a few? Focus on the ones I really enjoyed?  Keep collecting knowing I can always just keep playing 8th (most likely) and treat 9th as a mostly different game?    Some of the rumors say that the older 8th edition books will still work, but will simply not be focused for the new game style even though the rules aren't changing that much.  We will see.

I will review that later.  Maybe. I might also have ice cream after dinner tonight.  Maybe.

Most likely not.


As always thanks for taking time out of your life to read my ranting.  I promise I will do more when I can. :)   Any questions, suggestions, complaints, or just want to talk email me!

July Hobby Challenge

First few days of July and oh the joy of another month of painting models and showing off some sweet sweet skills.  At the end of this month you are going to see some of the most magical paint jobs your internet-addled mind could imagine!

Lets be honest, with a blog called Badly Painted Minis you should be expecting much from me....  Which is EXACTLY why I ask my skilled painter friends to submit their work as well. So you don't need to deal with just my stuff and can actually be Inspired!

As always the rules are simple.

1) Put something together or Paint something
2) Take a picture
3) Email it to me with your Name ( Click Here )

Bonus fun for anyone looking for a challenge
+  Being the 4th of July, incorporate Red, White, and Blue. Into your paint job.
+ Incorporate Freedom into your modeling / Paint Job
+ 'Murcia

If you think that it isn't really possible to do this I think you need to put some more Freedom Flakes into your breakfast because it has been done in some really awesome ways.

Such as this Ork  (Source)

Its all in your story, and how you want to apply it.  'Murica.

Or even my own Federated States ships.

 


As always have fun, these challenges are just to get you to sit down and make progress on that HUGE collection of models you have that you have been slacking on painting.

Khador VS. Khador Pirates?

This last weekend I found myself playing my first 50 point game of Warmachine.  I built up 50 points of Khador in all their empiric glory and walked out to the field of battle with nary a plan in mind other than "VICTORY!".  Most of my smaller point games have been with pSorcha or pVlad, but this day I fielded eIrusk.

System: Warmachine
Faction: Khador
Casters: 1/1
Points: 50/50
Supreme Kommandant Irusk
* Destroyer
* Spriggan
* War dog
Man-o-war Shocktroopers (Leader and 4 Grunts)
Widowmakers (Leader and 3 Grunts)
Winter Guard Infantry (Leader and 9 Grunts)
* Winter Guard Infantry Officer & Standard
* 3 Winter Guard Infantry Rocketeers
Winter Guard Mortar Crew (Leader and Grunt)
Iron Fang Kovnik
Kovnik Jozef Grigorovich
Manhunter
Widowmaker Marksman

The goal was to advance the Iron Fang Kovnik forward using his special action to give other units in "Shield Wall" +2 SPD.  They will act as a meatshield while the Winterguard run behind them and shoot through them because of Irusk's Martial Discipline.  I put the Widowmakers and solo in there cuz you should always put them in there. Its like 5 free dead targets a turn. Uncle Joe for support of the Winterguard. The Mortar crew was actually one of my favorite units of the game. It never did not kill something.

Using the Destroyer for the AOE shot, and the Spriggan for everything else.

Mind you I don't actually have a lot of experience making lists, and put this together mostly based on the models I own. The idea had merit I would like to believe.

My friend Bryan on the other hand, not only had a great synergy in his force, but a great idea.
PIRATES lead by none other then a very angry Butcher!

System: Warmachine
Faction: Khador
Casters: 1/1
Points: 50/50
The Butcher of Khardov (*6pts)
* Conquest (19pts)
* Sylys Wyshnalyrr, the Seeker (2pts)
Gun Carriage (9pts)
Press Gangers (Leader and 9 Grunts) (6pts)
* Koldun Kapitan Valachev (2pts)
Sea Dog Crew (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
Doc Killingsworth (2pts)
First Mate Hawk (2pts)
Harlan Versh (2pts)
Kell Bailoch (2pts)
Lord Rockbottom (2pts)

He got the unit of Press Gangers buffed super crazy at points in the game, +3 STR, 4+ Tough saves, boosted everything with Pathfinder and I think the only thing he was missing was a Parrot buff. The Conquest had me constantly worried, he was shooting over and over and over and because of it Irusk ended up down to like 6 HPs.

We were playing Steamroller 2014 scenario rules because I wanted to get more familiar with something other then "kill everyone".

     What started as a bumbled deployment as shortly after I deployed (in the fashion described above) I moved the Winterguard to the left and the man-o-wars to the right. I found myself feeling like I was doing what I should have been doing for the most part.  After several turns the MoWs destroyed the Gun carriage and I was successful in killing off his pirates. My problem was that I had no REAL answer for the Conquest.  The Butcher just totally trashed the Destroyer, and in the most mockingly way ignored the last of the Winter Guard and walked away from them as they could barely do anything to him anyways.   I used the MoW as a screen so that the Conquest couldn't just charge my caster.

     You can see him in the lower right as him and the Spriggan had just toed into the control area netting me a 5-2 scenario victory by this last final turn. (Brian didn't claim any victory points, but there was a full turn that he had Harlan Versh and the carriage and I didn't have anything.)   If this game was a meat grinder mission I would have been dead a long time ago.

Not Pictured: Mortar Crew, lower left  Note: The Conquest is doing the "Moon walk cuz my arms are in the way" action.

In the end Irusk managed to win by controlling the area where the Butchers ale was being stored in.  He promptly stopped attacking, turned off the Conquest and sat down to have a pint (all the while forgetting that he just lead an army of pirates to their death for no real reason).

All is well though because it still counts as a Khador Victory!!!!

The game was awesome, and I wanted to thank Brian for playing it with me, even though it took way too long. (2 1/2 hours-ish?)

The 2014 Steamroller Rules can be found HERE.
I used the List builder from  ForwardKommander.com to build these lists.

May Hobby Challenge Showcase!

Nothing.

Yep. No one sent me anything. To my own credit, I managed to get some stuff painted. Small steps, but as I have nothing else to report for the last month and a half it will have to do.    As we did last time I only got to posting mid way though we will leave the rest of June as a "whatever you want to do" for the hobby challenge.

Below are all the updates I have gotten done

The powder keg is magnetized so I can swap him between being a Bomber and Mauler

I have since corrected the orange smudge.

Working on the Black 13th, Still bothers me that they are a different size then every other model.

eIrusk,   Just adding to the list of things I need to paint.

The Stormblades, Manowar shock troops, 2 LE Journymen warcasters and assorted other things.

eMulg, so now having an all warbeast Trollblood collection isn't SO terrible.

Closer view.  Not much done at all.  Any suggestions on how to help bring out more detail?

For the most part things are getting done.  My biggest problem is staying focused.  I want to get things done, but I just get so easily distracted.

For the rest of you who are interested in posting for July's Hobby challenge (yes July cuz its a little late to do June)

As always just message or email me your pictures to BadlyPaintedminis@gmail.com.

Thanks again for checking out the blog.

May Hobby Challenge / Blog Update

             So all of you loyal fans (come on, one of you guys has to check this once in a while right?) may have noticed a lack of posting.  This is not a technical glitch, I have in fact not been posting.  I know, its crazy.

Yeah, about that excuse...

        I have been creating some article holders to fill out later for ideas and experiences that I had in the world of gaming and hobbying. Right now though I have put much of my time in to studying for my MCSA 2012 exam and have tried to limit my gaming amount.

It's just 1 book, but about the same number of pages.

I would like to prepare May's Hobby Challenge,  I know that I am partially a driving force behind a few of you when it comes to getting your hobby projects completed.  So now that we had a little time off to relax with the hobby lets take this month to get back into the swing of things.


May's objective = 1 model.   I don't care what it is. Anything. Lets get some nice before/after pictures.


Please send your pictures to me at  BadlyPaintedminis@gmail.com or you can message them to me via facebook.

Remember the goal of the hobby challenge is to help encourage you to work on your models. You have no obligation beyond completing your own projects and getting it posted on the internet on a professional blog. (Sound legit right?)   Besides, its better then that one picture you posted on the internet... you know which one I'm talking about.

It seems like such a good idea at the time.

Upcoming Posts:

Star Trek Attack Wing: Review and events I have participated in.
Warhammer Fantasy: Dwarves Models / new book review
FireStorm Armada: Dindrenzi models

2014 Hobby Challenge - Febtober Showcase Danger Zone!

As we tip toe into the month of March lets take a second and marvel at all the work that has been done over the last 28 days with another Showcase Danger Zone!

       I know many of us are excited to see how well I painted my Khador Winter Guard.  Well I didn't.  Not at all.  I got them out and put them in an order of which I PLANNED to paint them... then I got sucked into a Dwarf Orgy of which there was no return from.

Here is Ragnar Ironbeard  (Yes, I name all the heroes/lords of my armies, don't judgement the bible tells you not to.) This is actually the new named Dwarf lord, but he is such a dynamic model I needed to pick him up.  Once I did that it was like poking a hole in the damn.  Now I have 1000+ points worth of dwarves and I'm trying to figure out an acceptable stopping point.

Short or not, its always best to stretch before smashing the skulls of  your foes.

I enjoyed making the blue gems on his armor shine up.

This dwarf is mostly done, but is still in need of some finish basing, and I think I want to go back and touch the Brassy Brass with some gold/yellow highlights. Also debating going in with a fine tip blue sharpie to add some detail on the silver, but not sure if I want to jump into that yet.

          Next on the list is our lovely lady Kelly who has been slowly working herself back into painting. During the month of February she had finished up 3 of her Convergence Attunment Servitors.
Kelly had sent me both her before and after shots at the same time so I will just put them here.

Drake submitted a number of Grey Knight Terminators all ready to remove the daemon filth from the universe.

Jeff managed to finally finish up his Honor Guard giving Marneus some drinking buddies!!

Jason got in his great looking Epic Thagrosh.  I like the molten look to it.

I know some of you are still working on getting pictures to me. I will update this post as I get them.

In the mean time, keep painting.

Febtober Hobby Challenge 2014 - Submissions!

SUBMISSIONS!
As my obvious title states here are all of Febtober's Hobby Challenge submission Images.  At the end of the month we should have a collection of finished submissions.
Now while having a "Before" picture is encouraged (so we can see where you started from) its not required. Only thing is you need to have finished it this month.


Our First submission is from Ryan located all the way out in Europe.  He is on mission for the military, I think he is trying to over throw a government or something.  Last month Ryan submitted the Dark Angels Bike Sargent.   I can't wait to see what he does with this bad boy.

Next is our friend Jeff who has submitted 2 more Ultramarine Honor Guard, he is well on his way to finishing up his estimated 4500 points of the militant smurfs.

Tim is continuing to knock out his Fantasy Armies one after another as he puts paint to metal with a 25 rat squad of stormvermin.   I can't wait to see those across the table from me.

Sorry for the blurry, just try to squint.

Next on the list is from Jason, he is submitting our first Warmachine model of Epic Thagrosh

This model should look sufficiently awesome by the time its done.

My initial plan was to do one GW box a month there by giving myself the illusion that I wasn't spending massive amounts of money.  This has failed already.  So for this month I'm going to try and finish a project I started months ago by actually putting PAINT on these bad boys.

Obviously your reading this so you know I have posted it, but unlike last month I will not be re-posting the link to my FB (where many of you jump from to read my blog) as more people submit entries.  I will be accepting submissions all month, and wont penalize anyone for not be able to get me a picture. I just don't want to annoy my friends and family who don't care to see this pop up over and over.