More Work on Alaitoc

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In the limited time I have had for painting I have been working on the Storm Guardians. They seem to still be holding my interest, and the paint scheme isn't very demanding, save yellow. The camouflage pattern isn't coming out as distinctly on mine as others who paint the Alaitoc. I think the colors I am using cause it too be more subtle, but I have yet to decide if it is too subtle.

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The yellow is still kinda kicking my butt as well. I forget how much patience is required to make it look nice with really any yellows, but especially the GW line. I have read a lot of really great tutorials on yellow, and it is just one of those things that requires time, one way or another. Yellow just tends to suck to lay down, but huge pay off when done. Also, winter came to Belsbeth II. This should be the last round of our Planetary Empires campaign. It has been a lot of fun and I am getting very good feedback on it.

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From Mars' Project Blog

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Alaitoc Storm Guardian

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I needed a break from power armor. I have always loved the Guardian models, specifically Storm Guardians. Back when you could run Black Guardians, Storm Guardians were pretty cool. Now they have been kind of clown shoes in a lot of my games. None the less, I dig them, and so I have them, and I thought I would throw some paint down on them. I went for Alaitoc because it is a very painter-friendly color scheme. The yellow and bone spot-colors against that dark blue work well for catching the eye. I also friggin love the Ranger/Pathfinder models, and they are kind of Alaitoc's thing. Lastly, I will probably use this force in an upcoming team tournament army in January, and Alaitoc is the Craftworld that seems to intermingle with the other races the most. Anyway, butterfly that I am, I am sure I will be flitting back and forth between this, AoBR, and whatever the hell else I feel like. Here are some closer pics of the finished "test model". Sadly, my sealing coat left him looking really grainy. That is pretty much the nail in the coffin for GW's Purity Seal for me. I will stick with Testors.

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Terrain for the Shed

From Stuff I Have Painted: Planetary Empires

Yesterday was a little tough, so I needed a victory. First off, my Football Club, Arsenal, choked. That happens pretty early on this side of the Atlantic so there was already a bummer by noon. Then, on top of that, my Football team, the Seahawks, spent the afternoon sucking. It was definitely a day for easy and rewarding painting, a slot well filled by terrain. Also, since I was listening to the Seahawks game on the radio, I wanted to do some painting that required almost no concentration. I tend to be "passionate" about Seahawks football, and think it best to not have small, delicate, or crap I wish I didn't just throw, things in hand at game time.

Special thanks to Magnus at Magnus' Project Log for the grip of barricades he traded me for beer. I got the building from a tournament like four or five years ago so I decided it was probably time to get it painted. The colors came from an Antropologies catalog my wife had. I remember looking at the back drops of the pictures and thinking how cool wherever the hell the models were looked. Unfortunately that catalog was no longer around so I had to go for it from memory.

From Stuff I Have Painted: Planetary Empires

From Stuff I Have Painted: Planetary Empires

From Stuff I Have Painted: Planetary Empires

From Stuff I Have Painted: Planetary Empires

From Stuff I Have Painted: Planetary Empires

Sorry about some of the crap pics. The Shed's lighting isn't exactly awesome. Anyway, I was very happy with the way it all came out. I would love to do more like it, but I really hated assembling those buildings so unless I get some already built...I don't like my odds.

Thanks for reading,
T

My Assault on Assault on Black Reach Part 13 and more!

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These guys are due by midnight, Saturday, and I am playing on a team tournament all day SAT. Pretty much got five days to finish them off. "Days" is a little misleading there, I should say five days worth of painting time. I got all the base colors blocked in, so all that is left is shading and highlighting. This deadline is bearing down on me, but it is my own fault. I will prevail! Here are a few more base coat pics:

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From Mars' Project Blog

We had our first round of the Planetary Empires campaign come to a close. In the narrative the planet's vegetation has become hostile, as if it is feeding off the violence raging across the planet. Huge vine-like thickets have begun springing up over night. So to reflect this I put a little flock on the tiles to look like clumps of tower vegetation.

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In addition, I had it so that whomever won the most Cities of Death victories in the first round got to claim the Hive City tile, Halcyon 5. It was a draw between myself and one other player, and so we rolled off. I ended up getting the hive, go Dark Angels!

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Lastly, I implemented a bounty system where in players can place bounties on other players units. The first player to kill them can collect the bounty. Your's truly and his Ven Dred proved hard to kill so a bounty was placed on him by our bug player, Steve. Pat, from this blog right here, collected the bounty in hail of Long Fang fire, and was paid accordingly:

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The brand is apropos I think.

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T

My Assault on Assault on Black Reach Part 12

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I was just getting to the good part on the dred, the highlighting, when I realized I needed to jump ship. Things got a little hectic last week and I was enjoying the Planetary Empire campaign games so much that I kind of blew off painting. Now I have just 10 short days to complete 10 models for our local club's painting challenge. So the dred is going to get shelved while I finish the tac squad, so I got them underway last night.

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About a model a day to meet the deadline. I will shamefacedly admit, this will be a close one...

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T

This Blog Post Was To Be Epic

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But it ended up being a "had to be there". For those that were there, we had a great time with a game day for our planetary empires campaign we launched over the last two weeks.

For the first round we were only playing 1k points, and on a 4x4, so we could have a couple of games going at the same time in The Shed. I meant to take a bunch of pictures of this 40k bonanza, as almost everyone there got in three games, fueled by beer and grim dark dark grimness! But, I was having so much fun that I forgot. So instead you get a few pictures of a few games, and Larry's smoking hot ork boyz mob!

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From Mars' Project Blog

From Mars' Project Blog

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T

Not Slacking, Promise!

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My brushes have been resting as I was trying to build my DA force up to a level where they can be used for a forthcoming campaign and some events.

My hobby time has been filled with knives, files, and glue, as illustrated above. That is all done now, so back to the dreadnought. I should have an update soon.

Thanks for reading,
T