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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In Soviet Khador, Warmachine plays YOU.

My gaming ADD is not about to slow down because I made a witty blog title, but I hope it helps me feel obligated to follow up with this a little.

As a start I picked up the battle box so I currently have pSorcha, a Juggernaut and a Destroyer.

Sorcha has been primed and has some red on her while the Juggernaut has been primed as well.   The Destroyer is currently pending arms.  I have been waiting to figure out if I wanted to just have the Destroyer, or if I could magnetize the arms and make it an optional kit.  Hoard 'O Bits of course would not have the Ripsaw (and I'm not going to order both piecemeal cuz I want to save on shipping). Cuz its either that, or pick up another Khador heavy jack box. Which would give me everything I needed. That being said, I wanted to actually pick up a Demolisher kit if I was going to pick up another Khador heavy.

The other thing I did manage to get was the plastic box of Khador Winter Guard. 10 ready soldiers of the motherland with 3 rocket launchers.  (A minimum unit costs puts me at 15 points, a solid starting step.)

I'm actually very excited about getting these guys together and ready for painting.

I'm just angry that I can't find the paints needed to do it.  Any suggestions?

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.

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.