GW

I think I'm done with GW games for the time being. I've taken up Privateer Press' Hordes. You can follow my progress at http://filthy-dirty-hordes.blogspot.com

Daemon Prince

I didn't prime last night as I decided I would wait to get a pair of wings on him. I'm planning on a pair of wings from the Fantasy model the Tomb Kings Carrion

Weekend progess

• Friday night I greenstuffed my Daemon Prince along his gaps.
• Saturday I spent the day modeling. I pinned the arms to my DP and greenstuffed him, built the base, added more greenstuff to the rhino, I think it's done. and tried out a couple more ideas for paint schemes.
• Sunday I sealed the flocking on my daemon prince base (cork, plasticard tubing, and basing material [sand]).
• Tonight I will pin his head and prime him and his base (seperate).

• Still waiting on those catachan flamer backpacks from JC. Once I have them i can finish modeling the Plague Marines in progress.
• My ork capital ships fell Friday morning and broke. I will have to glue them back together :(
• Listening to podcasts really is getting me in the mood to play (especially 5th edition). I'm listening to 40k Radio, The D6 Generation, and This Week In Wargaming
• I absolutely love the new washes. Really making some nice-easy work for me.

5th Edition

Listening to the new podcast The D6 Generation episode 9. They speak with Yakface from DakkaDakka about the 5th Edition rulebook they've had time to look over.

I'm really excited! I thought I would have major issues with a 5th edition after just buying the 4th edition rulebook 2 years ago. The new assault rules sound great with protracted melees being a rare occurrence. I see the Orks as being a powerful force in this new edition, slamming into a unit 30 strong and tearing through it. I also see my Plague Marines as being amazing objective holders with cover saves all over the place and them just being plain BADASS to move off of an objective. Their rhinos will be more survivable running them all over the place.

i'm really excited!

Warmachine

I've been listening to a new podcast "The D6 Generation".
The hosts of it are big supporters of the Privateer Press games (to the point that the first couple of shows sound like "Why Russ Wakelin hates GW").
I tried a demo game with a guy at the Silver Dragon a couple months ago (sorry if I forgot your name, man) and enjoyed it, even though the guy demonstrating it with me was a douche and made a side comment at how 40K is brainless, I really like the mechanics of damage allocation and the focus but I'm not sold on the skirmish level of it.
I play (or try to) 40k because I like having squad A go hide behind that ruined building while squad B runs up the center to do whatever.

My other issue is that I am not sure my wallet can handle another miniatures game...hrm...

BFG Progress

Worked on the BFG fleet last night. Over the weekend I worked on my BFG fleet, I got my Brute Ramships all primed and got my Kill Kroozer and Terror Ship painted. I thought I needed some more detail on those two so last night I went ahead and added some more detail to them with checks on the tail of the Terror ship. I added a white stripe to the underside of the bow of the Kill Kroozer to have dags or more checks. The ships are almost solid colors with metallic weapons and launch bays. The Terror ship is red, the Kill Kroozer is blue. I think the capital ships will be solid colors like this and my escorts will be more metallic with color highlights.

Naming the fleet:
In nautical lore it's bad luck to have an unnamed ship, so I wll be naming my ships.
Flagship - Hulk - will be named the "Waaagh!mato"
I am thinking of orkifying some other ship names for my fleet:
SS Minnow, Nautilus, Orca, Red October, Argo, Octopus,
Also orky words:
Dakka, Zap, Boom, Waaagh!, Grim, Gork, Mork
Ideas:
Jolly Waaagh!ger
Noah's Ork
No, Siriusly

Minor work

So I'm still working on this stuff. What's on deck:
1.) Plague Wing - may be changed to Sons of Mortarion, thinking of changing up composition. Still modeling the basics, HQ, troops and such. Waiting on some Cadian flamer backpacks to mix into the rest (skull+crossbones=awesome).
1a.) Modling daemon prince, attached right leg yesterday, left leg going on tonight then going to greenstuff the holes and seal it better.
1b.) Rhino needs more greenstuff work, TBD.
1c.) Need another rhino.
2.) Battlefleet Gothic - Started painting my Ork BFG fleet. I like the look so-far, but the limited pallette is not quite right, i think i'll add in some more orky looks tonight, checks, dags, etc.
3.) Aeronautica Imperialis - I'm hooked and I haven't played on game yet. I'm trying to get some fellow gamers to place an order with me to Forgeworld and have the order shipped to one place so we can save on shipping. No luck yet, if I don't hear from them by 7/4 I'll place my order without them.

Long time, no post

Sporadic posting.
Little work has been done on the army. I've got my Daemon prnce in the works, I've got my Rhino in the works, I've got a box of Chaos Space Marines which I haven't touched. I've got a fleet of Ork BFG ships in the works.

Just got wrapped up with World of Warcraft (see blog).

I have a houseguest until Tuesday 4/1, but after that I'm going to try to set a daily goal of spending 1 hour modeling/painting/whatever.

This army has not been abandoned.

Keep looking back for more progress.

Zombie Nurgle

I think possibly I will use zombies as Plaguebearers (lesser daemons) in my army as they can be fielded without taking up a slot.

B&C Thread - "Zombie Themed Nurgle Army?"

I found pictures of the conversion of Zombie parts + Marine parts that look cool and relatively simple. if i was to do this the list would look similar to this:

Chaos Lord - MoN, Plaguebringer, Terminator Armour
Plague Marines x7 - Champ, PFist, Plas guns x2, Rhino, Icon
Plague Marines x7 - Champ, PFist, Plas guns x2, Rhino, Icon
Lesser Daemons x7
Lesser Daemons x7
Lesser Daemons x7
Lesser Daemons x7
Lesser Daemons x7
(insert something to take out tanks, termies w/combi meltas, Drednaught, Bikes with Meltas)

Gametheory - MathHammer 2/6/08

I was reviewing an older post about mathhammer and my orks vs plague wing and was curious about what the new orks would do to plague marines.

Orks are now striking at +1I and +1S on the charge.
Still 2 base attacks, +1 for 2 hand weapons, +1 for charging.

1 Plague marine strikes 3 time on the charge @ I3 (1 base, +1 for 2 hand weapons, +1 for charging)
WS4 means 3 strikes @ 50% to hit = 1.5 hits
S4 means 50% to wound = .75 wounds
Ork 6+ save is 16% to save = .63 unsaved wounds
Meaning that 2 Plague Marines (46 points) are needed to kill 1 ork (6 points).

on the other hand...is a different set of fingers...

1 Ork strikes 4 times on the charge @ I3 (furious charge) (2 base, +1 for 2 hand weapons, +1 for charging)
WS4 means 4 strikes @ 50% to hit = 2 hits
S4 (Furious Charge) means he's wounding on 5's, 33% to wound = .66 wounds
Plague marine 3+ save means 33% chance to miss save = .22 unsaved wounds
4+ Feel No Pain then drops that 50% more to .11 wounds
Meaning 10 Orks (60 points) are needed to kill 1 Plague Marine (23 Points)

Rhino #1

I started on my first Rhino ever. It seems to be going smoother than my Leman Russ for my orks. I didn't foul up the tracks, however the floor of the vehicle almost got fouled up hardcore. i couldn't line-up the roof after attaching the floor and there were all sorts of gaps.

so i tore it apart and clipped off the four tabs on the floor to get it to fit. i fit in the wall between drivers and passengers and the roof and front panel. i rubber banded it together as i went to bed, there will need to be some conversion work on it, pustules, buboes, etc. i think it needs a nurgle icon on the front panel just below the viewing slits.

for paint, i think catachan green and rotting flesh will work well on it. some of my rust on the tracks.

Mental note

Follow the lead on using plasticard to make a cool plague marine power weapon.
Albreck's DG army paintathlon @ The Bolter and Chainsword

New layout

So, as I stated before I was having a hard time with the HTML layout as i didn't want to hand-code all that bullsh*t like i did back in the day. So I went back to the xml layouts. I used the mot dumbed down layout i could find. got sick of looking at nothing last night so i changed it up, i googled "closeup fly" in google images and found the pic you see in the bottom right. then i googled "how to add a picture to the background blogger" and found the code i needed.

i'm much more happy with it now, granted it's not the HTML layout i used before (with that fly that looked so badass) but i can manage this one.

Paint tests

So I've been working on my paint tests since Silver Dragon has been sold out of Chaos models for a while now. I've been able to paint there and give advice and receive some as well.

My paint tests, as I posted these are the results of my test paints. i'm happy with the armour, not sure how i feel about the trim and not sure how i feel about the backpacks/guns, weapons. i am really unsure about the skin on the models whose heads show. this is tough because in my next wave of chaos space marines i convert i want to add some Zombie arms and make them look all rotten.

anyhoo, here's my pics of the test paints.

More painting

Well,
went back to the Dragon yesterday to paint some more. Met with the resident paint guru, Mike, who gave me some advice on the rust i was trying to paint.

Paint scheme for rust:
Watered down Fiery Orange 1:1
Drybrush Dark Flesh
Ink Wash Brown/Fiery Orange/Water 1:1:3
Drybrush Tin Bitz

For Armour Edging:
Bestial Brown
Snakebite Leather
Graveyard Earth

Mike also wanted me to try for the "glowing eye" effect. I tried it on a couple of models. I'm not that good. but here's the progression:
Drybrush Dark Angels Green - this goes out the furthest, touching armour, weapons, shoulder pads, etc.
Drybrush Goblin Green - this comes in a bit, leaving the Dark Angels Showing
Drybrush Scorpion Green - This comes in even further
Drybrush Skull White - The tightest, this should only be in the eye and around the socket of the helmet.

I need a lot more practice and perhaps a better brush.

Paint scheme...chosen

So i've decided on a paint scheme for my plague wing.

back up...

the store i'm using now, Silver Dragon Square sold out of Chaos models a few weeks ago and has not been able to get a new shipment of GW stuff. In the mean time i've considered an Eldar Saim Hann army and a Dark Angels Deathwing army because he has the models in stock...gah! But methinks my wife would kill me for that.

i resorted to buying a 7 man unit of chaos bikers from ebay (7 models retail for $15 each, paid $39.99 shipped) they will probably only be used for BIG games (more than 1500 points)

well yesterday at the Dragon, I went to paint and play WOW TCG. i sat down with my metal plague marines (hate those models) and devised a paint scheme for my Plague Wing.

Plague Marine Paint Scheme
Prime Black
Heavy Drybrush Skull White
Drybrush 1:1 Skull White/Catachan Green
Light Drybrush Catachan Green
Light Drybrush Rotting Flesh
Ink Wash 1:1 Dark Green/Brown Inks
Ink Wash Brown

I think i want to do something different for my Terminators, perhaps a more pale color scheme for them (like the Deathwing)
Backpacks, guns, etc, i'm trying out a rust effect:
Watered down Fiery Orange
Drybrush Dark Flesh
Alternate Blood Red and Fiery Orange (the GW website where I got this doesn't give the technique for this, i am going to assume it's stippling.

Sick of the HTML layout

on the search for a good layout in XML for the new blogger system as it is much easier to work with

Long time, no posts

So, i've been ignoring my blog and my army for the holidaze.

1.) A new store has opened to compete with Sunshine. the owner is not as creepy. the store is bigger (yay! no more rubbing butts!)
2.) i've come to a conclusion with my Plague Wing army: i will be modelling the army then paint all at once.
3.) i think i want to have Typhus as my HQ for bigger games (even though I have an aversion to special characters)