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.

Warmahordes - Journeyman Tournament - Week 1, Part 1

These post titles are getting longer and more convoluted with every entry.

I failed completely at taking any pictures of any of my games, this is a constant issue for me but i digress.  In lue of actual pictures of the game, I'm just randomly going to find awesome pictures to make up for my failure as I review my games and ramble about them.

In hindsight my list was questionable at best, I took  pThagrash, a Carnivean, a Raek, and a Naga Night Lurker.

Monsters....
Grrr...  
Arrrrgh....









I had all this planned out in my head that I was going to remove defence buffs with the Naga's animus, use the Raek to jump by and deliver the killing blow to the enemy warcaster. My brain of a melting pot of tactical genius.

None of that happened.

My Strategy in action in most cases.

Now mind you I went 2 and 2 yesterday.  All 4 games we really fun, and even if I lost all of them I would have walked out of there happy as a clam.  My main point is "The Plan"  Failed completely. Not my forces, not my game, just what I thought I should have done, simply didn't work.

So lets jump into some of what happened


My first game was against a fellow named Steve M.  He was playing Khador and I believe his list consisted of pButcher, a Destroyer, and a very nicely painted Spriggan

                                                              Model's depicted for reference

I don't know much about Khador except they are tough to deal with, and I also know I don't want to get near any model holding a giant fucking axe who's name is "The Butcher".  It's like Godzilla that one time he came up near some Japanese Giant Hornets.

We can Thank The Oatmeal for this one

But it didn't change the point... I wasn't going to go any where near that bastard. I tried to tie up his jacks with the bodies of my warbeasts and in what I still consider to be a desperation move,  cast Obliteration on him, and just rolled high on the damage. It was a good game, and now I must keep an eye over my shoulder for I fear his vengeance will be terrible.

Next I played against Angelina,  she was rocking  a Circle of Orboros force. eKaya and Laris,  and 2 Feral Warp Wolves.

x2

Angelina's models were painted much better than these.

This game was both exciting and interesting, Angelina was plagued by mis-charges.  Always off by just 2 or 2 millimeters, but she stood firm on her declarations of intent and braced herself for the counter charges. This would end up getting one of her Warp Wolves killed, but  Kaya behind my lines with a little Trick of her pet wolf which lets her teleport to where the wolf is.  

I would like to point out that she had obliterated my Carnivean.  It was DEAD. D E A D, DEAD.   She was so happy to have killed it too, which is why it was so bitter sweet when I popped my Feat and brought him back from the dead.  That same Carnivean would go on to end Kaya's life with a snap of it's jaws. 

I was a good learning game for both of us, still getting used to rules we had to ask a few questions. My victory was in hand now, but little did I know...

I was about to get the shit kicked out of me by another fellow who also went by the name of Steve S.

When I looked at his force he looked down at it as well and said "Yes, I have 2 named jacks, I'm an ass." Which immediately amused me.   I will say that this was the game that got my heart pumping  Not that Steve M and Angelina didn't put up a fight, they did, but from the start of this battle I felt I was on the losing end, and I had to try and prove myself.

Steve was rocking 3 models,  Vladimir Tzepesci, Great Price of Imbrey,   Drago (Vlad's personal Berserker jack ), and Beast-09

When they are all combined they turn into a Megazord of assfuckery.

Steve was awesome to play against, he had massive amounts of strategies in his head and he was more then willing to explain them to me. His force was soo mobile and offensive I was already on the wrong foot starting off. I knew as I watched  None of that would stop him from killing all my warbeasts in One round of combat.  I almost disabled Drago, but you know what they say, horseshoes and handgrenades...

That was an amazing game to show me that there are strategies that I have not even dreamt of yet and that I was not prepared.  Also, he got me a soda, which makes him ok in my book.

Last battle of the night was a rematch against Angelina, which I had high hopes for coming off such a sound crushing defeat.

Low did I know that in the time we played last she apparently because a Circle savant and developed this crazy awesome strategy which consisted of that same teleport trick from before... only as the first move of her 2nd turn.. then she popped her feat, which brought all of her models over by her... btw.. she was only like 2  inches from my warlock.    

pThagrosh promptly pooped himself, and was destroyed by 2 giant werewolves.  It seemed a fitting revenge that snapping jaws would also take him out.

I informed her that she had just created a rivalry, and that this wasn't over.  

Then I went home and passed out.

Was a great time, and I look forward to getting back there tomorrow and playing another few games.

Well this is a nice solid battle report, hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed experiencing it.  

Leave a comment, they sustain me.

This weekend's project progress

So again I present another post with more pictures then actual words. Drake and I went in on a Hordes 2 player starter box.   I got the Legion of Everblight side and he is rocking the Druids collection.

So here is the stuff I have gotten together so far.   I wont lie, I actually hate the lesser war beast  Shreaders (No not the TMNT guy).  They are simple.. just 2 legs... but they don't look right...  so I digress.

Also, I have yet to memorize the names of the different units... i could check the ipad or even use the internet.  But I'm typing right now and do you realize how far away my mouse is from my keyboard?

Look, shinny Pictures!

Still missing its head, but this big old nasty is almost done.

 These jackholes don't look that bad, but what I hate is they have a set of 3 spears that go on their back... and the spears are bent all stupid.   Not amused.  Not sure if I should pick up some metal wire and replace them?  Hmmm

She was the easiest, 

In Trollblood news,  I picked up some rare earth magnets.  I figured while I work on building my collection I could swap out the hands on my primarily Dire Troll Mauler and make him the one that tosses bombs once in a while.   I will pick up another and have it a duel version later.

Also, a little painting progress...

Thanks for checking out the blog again.   Go get yourself a cookie for your efforts.

TrollBlood Progress - 2 out of 5 Complete

I know, you read that and were like. "Is everything ok? Matt is making actual progress on another project?  This.
Changes.
Everything.

But not really. The wife and queen of the home is downstairs sewing a blanking for the boy when he finally decides to come out. She is doing rather well, and with her down there, it makes me want to be down there. So I go down there...  and paint.

In total there are 5 models that comprise my whole Trollblood force.

1 Troll Axer
2 Troll Impailers
1 Dire Troll Mauler
1 Warlock, Madrak

So far the pictures you have seen are mostly an Impailer that I have been working on.  He has been completed.  Then since said wife was down stairs I worked on the Axer next. Progress was swift.  I would say he only took me 3 hours to get where I was happy with him?

First up is our friendly Impailer.  I did a nice turn around on him to show some more detail.

Then we have the Axer, looking all pissed and stuff.

 Grrr

 Yeah i noticed the strap that needs to be touched up... I will get to it.

 In the end I have to admit, I like them.  Simple, not going out of the ordinary.

As always I appreciate you taking the time to take a glance at my progress. Your comments sustain my drive to keep this up so please leave some.

omg Progress!

            So some days I surprise myself by just hunkering down and getting some work done. Tonight Tim was unable to make it to our weekly Warhammer game so I thought it would be a great time to get some painting in.  Lately I have been doing more work on the babies new room so tonight I decided that I could give a few hours on my trolls.

Starting off we just went with a black base primer.  Same kind I use for all my other models.  I primed all of the trolls at once.

I'm planning on going with the basic troll-blood color scheme, Blue skin, red hair/growths on the chin/shoulders.  Its hard to tell with out clicking on the picture, but I liked how the purple/blue wash in the eyes and mouth came out.  Part of my frustration with painting is that I always do all these extra random things, and in the end I look at it and think, 2 layers of blue would have done the same job.   Oh well. 

Here is that finish WarJack I had done before.  I finally got the resin bases in and painted.  

I need to figure out the best way of lighting cuz right now the flash on my camera phone isn't working well, but it does bring out the blue/red of the model and base.

Not as witty today, but at least I'm making progress.

Leave your comments, they sustain me.

WarmaHordes! The start of something new!

Of course this blog is all about miniatures and painting and stuff, so I'm being super awesome and updating it regularly. Aren't I?  ...  right?   /sigh  I need to get better at this stuff.

Over the last 3 weeks or so of not posting I have not only gotten my Warmachine Cygnar Starter box, but also a Hordes TrollBlood Starter box.  Warmachine and Hordes are 2 sides of the same game.  Warmachine is all giant coal driven robots, while Hordes is all monstrous beasts.  The rules for the 2 games are about 96% the same, with only allocation of action points being different for the 2 games.  (Warmachine you give action points to your Warjacks, where Hordes you take Rage away from your beasts calming them down so they keep fighting the way you want them too. )

Here is an Image of all the models together.  In the back you will see 3 Warjacks, and the Warcaster (forgot his name at the moment.)  

The next row is the Trollbloods, you can tell that size they are about the same as the robots. The idea is that they are true blooded trolls vs the smaller guy who is just a trollkin.   I haven't put any of them on bases yet because I had order some nice scenic bases from a website that apparently is on backorder. Just waiting for those and will  start working to get them taken care of.

This isn't the best picture of it, but this is technically the very first time I successfully used my airbrush for highlighting.  As I said before You can't tell, but I kept using successively lighter shades of blue from the top down to give it a "light shining off the model" look.   The big guy on the right is actually fully painted now, and I will update more when I get some time this weekend.

Originally I was going to have some planned posting schedule, but I think thats a mistake, as it forces me not to post when I actually am doing things, and we get situations like this where I get 6 levels of stupid and don't post anything.    Thanks for taking the time to look it over, and don't forget to check out my other posts.