Road to Adepticon: 2012

Its getting close to that time of year again. My good friend theleadhead and I will be heading to Chicago for Adepticon 2012. This year I am not signed up for any events or classes so I will be able to spend more time blogging about all the goings on. I do plan on being at the Iron Arena a lot so if you want to get in sme games hit me up here or on twitter.

I'm gonna bring my laptop with me this year and actually put up some posts of the eventx while I am there instead of waiting to get home and put up something prettier. I will still do the roundup, but I think it will be more interesting to see stuff on the fly. I think between here google+ and twitter I should have a lot of stuff up at any time.

If you guys would like something specific covered that you didnt get any info on last year or just didnt think got any love, Let me know.


I am funderhammer on twitter and Blake Everhart on Google plus if you want to follow me there as well.

How to: Assembling your Mage Hunter Strike Force

Assembling your Mage Hunter Strike Force:
 I have read over and over that this particular unit is a pain in the arse to get assembled. Worse yet, it seems the crossbows like to break off after you go through all the trouble of getting them together.
I am a big advocate of pinning my models and set out to see if you could reasonably pin the crossbows on. It turns out, you can, and I will walk you through how.

Painting: Kaelyssa Finished and some WIP Griffon shots

Kaelyssa is done! Based, sealed, and ready to KILL ALL HUMANS!
Ahem...

In this post I also have some shots of my Griffon; sadly it's gonna get stripped. The Greenstuff work is rough, I found some mold lines, and I am not happy with how the wash settled in some places. I did some of the work on him under the comfort of something southern. Too much comfort in fact.

Anyway, below are the pics.

House Shyeel Artificer repose

I hated the standard pose of the House Shyeel Artificer but loved the model. So, I did what any sensible person does, I purchased the 20 dollar model and hacked it to pieces with the help of my good friend theleadhead.

Below is the conversation that lead up to me heading over to destroy my perfectly good model.

Painting: Retribution Update

I have the last (no really I swear it) pic of Rahn all painted. Also are some W.I.P pics of Kaelyssa and a Soulless escort.


I also have the base colors on 4 Myrmidons so I just need to start washing, drybrushing, and highlighting.  At the pace I'm going I should have at least 1 or 2 ready by this Thursday.

Anyway on the pics.

Adeptis Rahn 95% finished

So ended up putting some serious work into Rahn fleshing out his paint scheme. It was a test bed for me to practice some advanced painting techniques and really set the stage for the rest of the force. In both of those regards I think I succeeded. There are still mistakes on the model, but I'm just trying to push the upper limits of "tabletop" quality so i wont go back and fix the little stuff.

Kaelyssa is coming along nicely and am still working out the kinks of the new painting style.

I ended up adding some more shading to Rahns armor with brown wash, which really brought things into focus. My glazing ended up muddying up the shading too much and it needed to be fixed.  I had some friendly people on the Privateer Press forums point it out to me. Anyway below are some more pics.

Scyrah Calls

My Warmachine collection has grown with the blessing of the better half. Most notably in the Retribution of Scyrah department.

I love the models and the rules. I've managed to play some games and I am enjoying it. This weekend I want to get some larger games in so I can get a better handle of the rules.


I haven't played a game at the new local game store so I don't know exactly how friendly they are...



On to the Pics

Adepticon 2011 | General Coverage part 2

Part 2:

So the line for Forgeworld was insane. In typical forgeworld fashion, they were slow as molasses. I've been to a few Games Days and they were just as slow there. They sort of make up for it by having things like big massive Titans sitting out for you to look at. Theleadhead and I sat in line FOREVER, but it was nice talking to the BlueTable painting crew who had set up shop at the halfway point of the line. Overall though its a negative experience because it's like this at EVERY con they go to. Respect your customers and bring enough people to handle the demand you know is there.

Adepticon 2011 | General Coverage part 1

 Ok so moving forward past my new bromance here is some general coverage from Apdepticon 2011. Theleadhead and I arrived Thursday well before our first Class with Mathieu Fontaine. I said it previously and I'll say it again, he is awesome. I'll be showing off my new painting skills here shortly and it's thanks to Mathieu's teaching. If you want to learn more about him, his blog is located HERE.

The Crystal Brush event brought mini painters out of the wood works and  the competition level was high. I'll talk about that more in Part 2 and post some pictures of what jumped out at me from the case.

Adepticon 2011 | Privateer imPRESSed

  So I Got back late Sunday night enjoying myself at Adepticon with theleadhead. I went to enjoy all the 40K events and wanted to try some other games. I was however BLOWN away by the Privateer Press showing. First off In my swag bag there was a Protectorate of Menoth box set. That's not a cheap swag bag item, and that by itself would have gone a long way to winning people over.

  They didn't stop there though. The had several demo tables set up with some very cool Press Gangers, that didn't mind showing you the ropes. In talking with them, they convinced me to run over to the tourney room they were using.

Painting: Adeptis Rahn

After trying the  studio white paint job, failing horribly at painting white, stripping the model and starting over. I finished up painting my first Warmachine model.

I found some inspiration for an alternate theme via Doc Kog at the Privateer Press forums. His clubs blog is located  HERE.

 My better half saw the below photo out of many and she liked it. That pretty much sealed the deal.

It has begun!

 I have been wanting to get into Warmachine for a while now, but have resisted. Today I have bit and I put in an order for Warcaster Adeptis Rahn. As someone who enjoyes painting, I have been wanting to paint some Privateer Press stuff for some time.


  
I chose the Retribution of Scyrah because I liked they way the play style is described from various sources and I like they way the figures look. I will need to do some