Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Skull Cannons


Ok, So I have an intense dislike for Skull cannon model. Design schematic below.



Apart from making me want to scoop out my eyeballs it's spurred me into thinking what else I can do. I was thinking of attaching a Juggernaut to a Chaos warrior Chariot and mounting a greenstuff cannon with skulls attached onto it. Formula for greatness follows.

Chaos warrior Chassis
Juggernaut
28mm skulls

Green stuff


How's that for a plan? Pretty cool. I know, right! They should give me a job designing miniatures. However I love the Tzeentch Chariot and Drones.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Miniature Progression (lots of Ol Skool pinning)

On Saturday had a pinnning and painting session. Pinning a lot of my old daemon stuff and painting Ogres for commission.

Keeper of Secrets I got on trademe. It was missing a hand and a head, so some tentacles and daemon prince and it's an improvement on the original

Keeper of secrets

Slaaneshi Herald BSB riding an old Steed of Slaanesh.


Rackham Figure posing as a Beast of Nurgle

Azazel was missing a lot of pieces, so Daemon prince wings have been added. I still have to kitbash and sculpt a right leg and right arm. but he's probably going to end up as a slaaneshi daemon prince for a warriors of chaos army.

Ol Skool Daemon Prince, he was missing a sword but nothing a minotaur hand can't fix. He's going to be EOTG Daemon Prince for Warriors of Chaos army.
Ogre Tyran Commission with 1 layer and Inking done.

Bragg the Gutsman commission 1 layer of paint

Firebelly commission 1 layer of paint. I love this miniature.

Converted Ogre into BSB for Commission. Only first layer painted.

Reaper Ogre is gonna be the Slaughtermaster. She looks like she'll fit in.

Ogre BSB conversion, Chopped his double handed glave in half added the bull standard arm, a Bretonnian banner and the Ogre standard top and bob's your uncle... er... Ogre.

Friday, February 22, 2013

Soulgrinder WIP

Assembled my Soulgrinder (Chaos Sapace Marines Maulerfiend) last night for my Natcon list. He's going to have Daemonbone claw and Baleful torrent. I like him with the 6 legs so he's had the bits from both configurations put in. I've rested him a lot more higher. He needs a bit of greenstuffing for extra musculature but I'm painting him up similar to my Bloodcrushers. Should look good.



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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Kapiti Krushers come in 8th at NZTC

Finished the Tournament and we came 8th, giving the Von Trapps 57 points in the last round to take out 1st. I finished on 2 big wins, 2 big losses, 1 moderate win and 1 minor loss. Hamish did about the same as me and Herman (He's got better pictures) and Nick faired worse.



Nick had terrible luck with not getting foot of Gork at all on the first day and facing 3 Empire armies.


14-6 win over Ray's Shooty Dark Elves (Grumpy ol' men)
Was not happy to be facing shooty dark elves. Things kicked off to a great start when his level 4 decided to blow himself up and a unit of crossbows fled early in the game. It basically went downhill from there. Ray did bring it back from the brink of massacre.



8-12 loss to James Shooty High Elves (team Omen)
I fluffed deployment on this game. But turned out to be tight until the last turn and failed to run down his dragon after it rolled 6 to flee. Killing blowed both his general and BSB in the last round was the highlight and I could have turned it into a 11-9 or 12-8 win if I rolled 2 points higher to pursue.




1-19 loss to Joss's K'dai Chaos Dwarfs
I deployed wrong and should have just eaten his giant gribblies with my letters, Instead I spent the whole battle moving across the table which was annoying.


20-0 win over "All the toys" Tomb Kings (capital crusaders)
This was a fun game with a fellow Aussie. He rolled very badly and I rolled very well. It was a tough game for him as I was taking light magic with high weapon skill and initiative and just took out all the small threats first.




19-1 win over Cody's Shooty Wood elves (Cut the Mustard)
Cody exposed his flank in the 2nd turn which allowed me steam roll through without taking a breath on one of my letter units. Highlight was rolling boxcars for winds on last turn and flickering fire on BSB and 48" boosted banishment on general who decided to hide on other side of the field. (Forgot to take pictures)

3-17 loss to  Pete Dunn's Conservative Ogres (Von Trapp's)
Spent first 3 turns dancing around and a bloodletter overrran cost me a whole bunch of points. I should have just marched up and killed his deathstar with my Bloodletters and redirected his flankers. He didn't even misfire the whole game with both cannons. Brainfart on my part. I was too busy watching what he was doing to mind what I was doing.



It was my first tournament in about 10 years and 3000kms removed but finished with 65 points for myself. Which is better than average. I learnt a lot and gained a lot more discipline in my play style by the last game. You have to be alert 100% of the time especially against some of the opponents and know your rules and sequences of play.

Light magic was awesome, the utility of the law is fantastic. The horror bunker performed well especially when I was able to get them into a building. I was casting mostly magic missiles all weekend to cut down chaff and try and cause panic tests in small shooty units.The augments were threatening. Pha's protection was great as well. Saved my bacon a few times with that extra -1 to hit)

3 bloodletter hordes maybe too much, opponents don't like them (this tourney had little comp and no sports) and they just get in the way of each other too much, luckily I'm painting and assembling a soulgrinder.

Screamers - I failed with my screamers almost every game. I need to hold back and move them over later on or get timewarp on them so they can do a 40" fly.

Bloodcrushers faired a lot better than I thought they would. If they had slightly better armour they woul

Fiends as always did very well. I might end up taking a large unit of these to get across the battlefield fast and hard.

Furies - meh. So wish I had some sabretooths.

As for the tourney it was umpired excellently, venue was good and most of my opponents were great guys. It needed to be 3 Games max in a day and slightly longer lunch break, there needed to be a beauty contest, best painted and sports awards.

So I am wiped out after 4 games on Saturday (12 hours of pure warhammer) and 2 games on Sunday. There were some great players I faced over the weekend and I'd like to thank them for putting up with my filthy Daemon list.



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Most of the stuff was recognisable but here where a few new pictures
Beast of Nurgle

Furie with dogface?


Lunch?

Todd?

My Ex?

Raaargh!

Thirsty?

What has two heads and rules the magic Phase?

Pedro is still in.

Writer's block?

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Army Finished. I'm coming for you!

That's a Lot of Bloodletters!
HEROES
1 Herald of Khorne, Firestorm Blade, Armour of Khorne(General) 140
1 Herald of Khorne, Firestorm Blade, Armour of Khorne 140
1 Herald of Khorne,  Armour of Khorne, Battle Standard Bearer 140
1 Herald of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery (Light), Spellbreaker 165
CORE
29 Bloodletters, Musician, Standard Bearer, Champion 378
29 Bloodletters, Musician, Standard Bearer, Champion 378
29 Bloodletters, Musician, Standard Bearer, Champion 378
10 Pink Horrors, Musician 126
5 Chaos Furies 60



SPECIAL
3 Screamers 120
3 Screamers 120



RARE
1 Bloodcrusher 70
1 Bloodcrusher 70
1 Fiend of Slaanesh 55
1 Fiend of Slaanesh 55




TOTAL OVERALL POINTS 2395





Wish me Luck!

Friday, February 15, 2013

Tournament Update: Less than 16 Hours to go

So I took half of Friday off, and I figure I've got just enough time to finish off the army before tomorrow. Here's an update on what I've done.I'm starting to see Bloodletters when I close my eyes, or tha might just be the undersides of my eyelids.

HEROES
1 Herald of Khorne, Firestorm Blade, Armour of Khorne(General) 140
1 Herald of Khorne, Firestorm Blade, Armour of Khorne 140
1 Herald of Khorne,  Armour of Khorne, Battle Standard Bearer 140
1 Herald of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery (Light), Spellbreaker 165
CORE
29 Bloodletters, Musician, Standard Bearer, Champion 378
29 Bloodletters, Musician, Standard Bearer, Champion 378
29 Bloodletters, Musician, Standard Bearer, Champion 378
10 Pink Horrors, Musician 126
5 Chaos Furies 60



SPECIAL
3 Screamers 120
3 Screamers 120



RARE
1 Bloodcrusher 70
1 Bloodcrusher 70
1 Fiend of Slaanesh 55
1 Fiend of Slaanesh 55




TOTAL OVERALL POINTS 2395




Points %
Lords 0 0%
Heroes 585 24%
Core 1320 55%
Special 240 10%
Rare 250 10%

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Daemon Update for Tournament: 2 Days to go

So got more work done last night and have some new pics.
My painting table with 40 Bloodletters, just need their skin hardcoat done and eyes and teeth and basing.
Dynamically posed bloodletters posing on a rock, they're ona 50 mm bas so counts as 4 models and looks cool.
Herald is ready to rock, another layer on the armour and face detail picked out and the standad to paint.

Avatars of War Harpies of the Apocalypse posing s a Chaos Furie.

1st Fiend of slaanesh almost done