Monday, January 23, 2012

Bad Moons Boyz Test Complete +

All in all, these three models weighed in about 6 hours. Not bad for my slow-painting ways. I would hope that that with practice I can get it down to less than 2 hours a model. The build on the black parts/pants went rally quickly, as I just highlighted it up with a mix of khaki, followed by straight khaki. I have already started on the next group.

I played in a team tournament this last weekend with Tallarn from Still Practicing. It is always a good time playing with or against him. The game table at my house has developed something of a reputation for hating me, well specifically my dice. I am not much of a believer in bad dice. They happen, so do good dice. You will pretty much see what ever you are looking for, luck wise, if your are in the frame of mind that your dice are good or bad. Furthermore, I have a little bit of a dice obsession...
I am sure there are people who have many more. But I have my fair share. I refuse to believe that they all suck on my table. Even still, Tallarn was unwilling to risk my multitude of "bad dice", or the off chance that it was just my table that hated me. When I arrived he handed me these:
I was confused but enthusiastic. I mean they were dice, and I always need more dice. But, according to Tallarn, these dice were unlike any I had, outside of color/design, because these dice were blessed. To hear him tell it, no kidding blessed. Like they were purchased in Germany and blessed at a Belgian monastery before being sent over to him. I am not sure on the logistics, but either way it was pretty awesome.

So how did the blessed dice work? Friggin' awesome! Our poor turn two opponents could only shake their heads as I rolled ten "5ups" on twelve dice. Be it divine, or the fact that is was all BS and I just had the plastic cube equivalent of Dumbo's feather, the dice were going crazy. I am a firm believer in averages, so to anyone out there who rolled a lot of crap this weekend, I am sorry. I was riding the high side of the curve. Thanks for taking one for the team and riding the low side of the curve in order to keep the universe in balance.

Tallarn and I didn't win. We were five points out or something, though I still got a prize.

Thanks for reading,
T

8 comments:

  1. One of my contacts in Europe took the dice to The Abbey of Affligem, where they were dipped in sacred spirits by a jovial monk. When you search for the abbey, you will know the quality of the spirits those particular dice were imbued with.

    After their "blessings" they were sent to me so I could pass them along to you!

    I think with practice you will get into more of an assembly line type painting on the boys and they will go much quicker! The first three look great, now if only I could finish my wolves lol!

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  2. You know what, I really like the bases these guys are on. The light grey ground with the tan grass makes for a very nice look.
    Nice job.

    Ron
    From the Warp

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  3. Thanks Ron. I am just going to goob out for a second and say how cool it is that you have posted here. I have followed your stuff closely for years. Insert Wayne's World "We're Not Worthy" clip here. I was going rounds trying to figure out what to do, especially because of how much the ork boyz models crowed the base. In the end I decided to keep t simple because there was going to be a lot of bases, and to not take away from the model. Color scheme was taken straight from a GW article, something like Back to Base-ics. It is an Adeptus Battle Grey base coat. Khemri Brown dry-brush followed by Bleached Bone dry-brush. The static grass was about a 60:40 mix of Scorched Grass and whatever they (GW) calls their yellow static grass.

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  4. I think the simple basing really works with these guys. I really need to get another color of static grass and blend it together so I get more variety on my bases.

    Ron
    From the Warp

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  5. Your Bad Moonz are looking awesome!

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  6. Thanks Larry! Welcome to the blog. Yours are looking killer as well.

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  7. I dont know why, but all those dice want me to get some new ones!

    im now following you! You can follow me too at
    http://marsekayspainting.blogspot.com/

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  8. @Marsekay- That is how it starts...and then it pitches out of control from there. Welcome to the blog.

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