Crimson Hunter Completed

Completed Alaitoc Crimson Hunter

Today, I put the finishing touches on the first of two Eldar flyers, the second being an already primed Eldar Phoenix (which will have a lot of yellow).  The Crimson Hunter is one of two flyers in Codex: Eldar and an Aspect Warrior.  In the army list, it is also an Exarch.  Since the last post on this model, it has mainly been detail and build-up work.

Suprise Project and another Marine

ALCON,

 
So my buddy Gil and I have initiated another challenge competition between the two of us for the end of April.  We have to each have 500 points of an assigned army built and painted with a 100 point Regiment of Renown list internal to it.  He was given Vampire Counts and I have Tomb Kings to work with.  Above is an initial work shot in the build phase.  I'll be working them alongside my other post Legion project...the Death Company army.  Attached is another newly completed Death Company marine.

Legion Complete

ALCON,

Completed the Legion List today. As posted earlier, here is the complete Army List and pictures.  Painted using a Gray base with Blue Glaze overtop then Black wash.  Finished off by paiting yellow and white on the beasts, and the same plus some silver and leather for Thagrosh.

Caster-
   Thagrosh the Messiah (+5 pts)

  

Current Projects

As promised here is a run down of my current projects. In order of how much thought I have put into them

1. Wood Elves: My oldest and still not complete army. Admittedly in part due to rumors of an April 14 codex release, which caused me to stop buying to see what might be released.
My intention is to own a 2250 pt army. My theme hasn't changed, just a glade of elves "defending" themselves from outsiders. The army is composed of:

Wood Elf Lord: Spellweaver

Lords:
1 Highborn (WIP)
1 Spellweaver (Completed)
Heroes:
2 Wood Elf Nobles: one BSB and one Assassin (WIP)
Special:
6 Treekin (WIP)
Core:
24 Dryads (WIP)
50 Glade Guard/scouts (16 completed, 5 WIP, 29 still need to be purchased)

This collection also provides a ton of options for lower level games.

New Dwarfs & Regiments of Renown

Exciting weekend of Warhammer Fantasy!  Got in three games of Regiments of Renown (2-1) and picked up a box of the new Hammers/Longbeards and ordered the Limited Edition Dwarf Army Book.  This meant late last week I was busy updating some older dwarfs and even starting up some Slayers (pictured).

Howarth's Bar

The last of the Legion.

Finishing up the last of the Legion list, with what is turning into a 3 day project to get the last Archangel done.  Some pictures of the work in progress for this post.  A lot of work with the GW glazes went into this list and I look forward to finding applications for it, potentially on the eldar, but definitely on future models...may try a red variant of the blue skin on the forge world Blood Thirster I've had for years and never done anything with.  Anyways here are some Archangel WIP pictures for the masses.   I'll take some semi-pro pictures of the army and all its components once its all sealed and done.  Enjoy.

Warhammer Escalation League #1

The Park Plaza Games Workshop store is having a Warhammer Fantasy League in which Tess and I plan to participate.  She has already put together her Regiment of Renown and will be working on getting them painted this week. I need to spend some time on a what my Dwarf regiment will be and paint up those that are not already painted.

Cobble Bases

 Not a model but this is related to a current project. So I thought you might be interested in my first attempt at green stuff bases. It all started because I found myself with a set of bases, like the one to the right, intended for models that where not on a stand designed to fit in the slot. I am really irked when I see finished models with what can only be described as an unnatural hole at their feet.

Slow Progress on the Crimson Hunter

Last night, I put in a few hours of painting and for the first non-base layer on the Crimson Hunter.

Top of Crimson Hunter

Gents (and T), here are the projects on the coming agenda for me...

-Just finished up basing the first of 2 archangels for my Legion Of Everblight list for Hordes.  2nd one to go  then 50 points complete.

Thagrosh Work In Progress

- 3 Marines and a dreadnaught done in the 2k blood angel list another18 Death Company, 18 vets a chaplain and 2 drop pods to go on the list.

Once those are done I'll be in full swing with the Iyanden Eldar list, whose first (of 2) wraithknights is built and will be the test bed for the paint scheme. I also have the seer for the list to test colors on.

We'll see where I go from there.  Maybe the 2k Brets I've had assembled and unpainted for 3 years now.  To sum up here are the lists that fall into current ops in North Carolina.

Craftworld Eldar: Alaitoc & the Five Hexes

For the past several months, my wife and I have been working on a Craftworld Eldar army.  After reading the Eldar background, my wife decided upon Alaitoc as the army's Craftworld.  With the heavy ranger emphasis and the background's discussion of the importance of the Path to Alaitoc as a starting point, the list started to form.

Purpose!

Unintended reader, you have happened upon a blog about modelling, painting, and playing miniature wargames.  The writers of the blog entries are also the expected audience for each entry.

The original idea for the blog came from a discussion either between my brother, my wife, and I or between a friend and I.  We wanted a means to share and encourage each other to model and paint the myriad of models we own.   Hopefully, between the initial set of hobbyist, we can manage ~3-4 post a week!

This will hopefully be one of the few post without any pictures.  Now, get to modelling, painting, playing.