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

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.

2014 Hobby Challenge - January Showcase Danger Zone!

Now is the time to put your judging caps on and become super critical about the work of amateur and semi-amateur painters!  Muhahahahahahah!

Just kidding.   But it is time to enjoy the hard work of our fellow players in this game.

First up is the finished work of Jeff  who has been quoted as saying "Needs more Blue" when referencing any space marine he sees.

Jeff's work on finishing up his Ultramarine's Chapter Banner Standard bearer ended up looking very nice.

He explained there are a few last final details he needed to put in but he was very please with the results.  I am too

Next here we have Michael "Da Warboss" 's Ork bikers

Again, fantastic work with both general painting, detailing and even basing.  Michael really set a standard in this hobby challenge. Sadly it was a very high standard.  Way to screw up the curve bud.

Because everyone seems to want to ride motorcycles right now,  Interrogator-Chaplin Ryan  sent in his work finishing up his Sargent on a bike.

Next up we have Tim's Bretonnian Archers!!!!

Tim finished them, but never sent me the picture.  Until he has it updates, This image will sit here in it's place. :)

The Hoffinator submitted these BlackTemplar that he had done last month and actually submitted for another competition. Him and Michael "Da Warboss" won the competition!   Thankfully the Hobby Challenge currently has no prizes other then a "Good job"  cuz I would be worried these guys would take the cake.

Finally I will leave off with my lone Ork.  Changed him around a little with some colors and some detailing.  I still didn't know what I wanted to do, but I did find that the yellow green and blue really just went went with each other. (I should really print out a color wheel for use at my desk instead of always re-discovering these things.

Febtober Hobby Challenge 2014

Oh the month of love has come around  again, it is time for us to put aside our anger and spend some time with romance on our minds. No one knows more about that then the followers of Slaanesh.

I just want to love, and be loved in return... now squeal for me.

This month is the same as last month, only a little bit louder and a little bit worse.

Hobby Challenge for Febtober:

We will have a minimum amounts of whatever you are working on but you can do way more if you want.

• One ten man squad of marines \ xenos (Or if you picked up the cheaper 5 man squad that.)
• One ten man unit of Fantasy troops (i.e. 10 brettonian archers, or 10 skaven warriors)
• Two  Clam pack Hero / HQ choice options   (I put a minimum of 2 cuz… come on.  You can do 2 in a month)
• One 40k vehicle, or Fantasy Large model (think Giant spider or steam tank)
• Any terrain  (but make it look gooooooood)

Note: I reference a lot of GW stuff, but it can be ANY model, from any game.  Just work with the concepts here.

Febtober Bonus Challenge:  Love!

Your bonus challenge is to some how incorporate love, romance, lust, even hanky-panky if you so wish into your modeling/painting.  Any Slaanesh are automatically considered to fall into this category, but lets be creative. Combat campaigns may have a heart as apart of their icon. I can't imagine there isn't an Ork with a heart tattoo that says "dakka" in it.

Be creative.  I'm not going to be critical of anything here, its just for fun.


I will be looking to get your initial picture entries by Friday, Febtober 7th.

Please send your pictures to me at  BadlyPaintedminis@gmail.com  ( look at me getting all fancy).

Just need a picture of your initial model or something showing me you are starting this month. Your name, and how you would like me to refer you as.  (  Jeff "The dwarf kicker" )
This way I can keep all the images together.


I'm still working on collecting the final pictures for January.  It should be posted in the next day or so.

Showcase Danger Zone

Three posts in one day?  HolyCrapSnacks!

I'm trying to setup this blog with what I hope becomes some re-occuring post types.

The normal "look at me, I just painted a bunch of crap that no one other then like 3 people will see in real life" posts.

"Battle Reports"  Where I update the blog with one of my weekly games of warhammer with Tim.

Or what I'm going to call the "Show Case Danger Zone" where you get to see a paint job that either myself or someone else had done that is either very well painted or reaches the "Fucking Sweet" level.

This week we are going to showcase the Arachnarock Spider that was expertly painted by our good friend Drake.  I finally got around to purchasing this big bastard for my Orcs and Goblins army as a centerpiece.
I was showing it to Drake as I was finishing the assembly and he seemed smitten with it and offered to give it a paint job.   As I realized he was trying to take away my opportunity to show everyone how awesome I could paint, I surprised him by practically throwing the critter at him.

"Hey baby, nice tuffit, you got any extra curds or whey? I just need my fix. Last time, I promise."

 

The rampaging spider destroyed most of the 7'th fleet moments later.

The spider was arrested an hour later after trying to flash an undercover police officer.

That is all there is tonight.  Tomorrow we will go over why planning to finishing painting projects the same weekend you are going to try and potty train your daughter is most likely a really bad idea.