Tale of Four Gamers: Completed!

So we come to it at last, the completion of our haggard army building story. As far as I know, I am the only 1/4 to finish in our 5 month period. So, after more time than I am used to in this army building, Here is the last bunch.

 These are most of the unique wargs, there a couple stock models as well as 3 of the farmer maggots dogs for warg pups. This is the paint scheme concept for some of the wargs, I wanted to have different ones just to break up the unity of 17 of them.

 Dwarf causes some indigestion.

 This brown scheme was again based on my old dog, just to vary the looks on the board. The two rubble bases are going on the inside of the display board. Helps spruce up the home decor of the mines!

So the final list for Arizona's Gathering in the Desert is

Druzhag
Cave Drake
10 Goblins with spear and bow

4 goblins with spear
2 goblins with shield and spear

20 goblins with Shield

1 bat swarm
17 wild wargs

With all the new buzz around new rule books by Gamesworkshop, I suspect most of our old lists will all have to be tweaked. And of course, I choose not to make all these wargs with goblin riders even though I could feel it in my bones that they would release a goblin warg raider....

Now that the army is finished, it is going to be lots of terrain work from here till April with the highly anticipated Adepticon convention looming.

Slow and Steady

So it has been awhile since my last update but here we go. First off, everything is right in the world again with the Patriots dominating win over the upstart Broncos and we are on track again for a Packers-Pats superbowl.

With that out of the way, we can get back to showing off some doggies. With my February 1st deadline fast approaching for finishing this army prep some serious building progress was made this last week.

 Dancing with wolves: these 2 goblins we trying a new stealth tactic against some dwarfs....

 Just playing fetch

The ole classic dog jumping on something pose: I am going for the cute, cuddly approach to these wargs.

These are only 3 obviously, but there are 21 more with about half converted up.

Check back February 1st for the conclusion of my 1/4 Tale of Four Gamers complete with hopefully a finished display board as well as a final recap of the army list before flying out to AZ for the Gathering in the Desert Indy Grand Tournament.

On the horizon is Adepticon and hinted in the past couple posts, there is a powerful terrain piece growing in the East.....

Dogs of War leading Santa's New Sleigh

With 2011 almost at a close, Santa approached the Iron Hands Space Marine Chapter with a his own Christmas letter. He wanted a new sleigh for speedier deliveries, better miles per gallon, fire and forget air to ground rocket pods, twin linked lascannons, and state of the art sensor arrays.

So without further ado, the 2011 Iron Hands Christmas Rhino, guaranteed to deliver presents and enough fire power to obliterate half the North Pole.

 This rocket will be added after painting and smoke trails will be simulated with cotton balls leading back to the pod.

 Adepticon will be here before we know it! With the release of the new Hobbit movie trailer and the completion of my space marine Rhino, I can turn my attention back to Lord of the Rings terrain for the tournament and finishing my Tale of four Gamers and my 17 wild wargs for the rest of my goblin army.

This is the extent of progress on my dog conversions. Almost there...

Goblins Riding the Yellow Submarine

 And then there were two. Our numbers have dropped to 2 participating painters for this monthly installment, just have to keep on pushing. Theses goblins flesh out the last of my remaining goblins for this force, with only the beasts remaining now.

 The head swap shaman is my stand in Druzhag.

 These goblins were the bottom of the barrel in that I was bone dry on conversion ideas, so thankfully they are the last group.

 The goblins of Camelot. These spearmen donned their French infantry caps in there quest to hold the holy grail.

This goblin I think is my favorite. There are a lot of cool ones, but I like the simplicity of this and the final look. I tried a lot of bad Frankenstein body mash ups between dwarfs and goblins and only a couple worked out; this guy and little red riding hood seen above. 

That brings the total up to

Druzhag

Cave Drake
10 Goblins with spear and bow

4 goblins with spear
2 goblins with shield and spear

20 goblins with Shield

I will leave you with these if case you had pumpkin pie disasters at thanksgiving. 

Underground Treasures

 The newly forming goblin hordes decided to take a break from beating dwarves and dug up some truffles for their fine dining restaurant, Mont Moria, located on a peak with a great view of the surrounding forests.

If kitchen rumors can be true, Spiaggia is the #1 importer of white truffles in the US, at $80-90/gram this is a pile of gold!

 This is not all the new goblins, but some of the more interesting ones. Just a head swap for my Druhzag model.

 Was trying to merge dwarf parts with goblins but their physical sizes do not line up, so Captain Khazad and his Monty Python spear support are here to stay.

 Home made GW prowler look alike.

A Tale of Four Gamers: Half Way Edit

With the coming and going of Bilbo's Birthday Bash I am looking to change my allotted 600 point army for our painting competition. I prefer to make and build stuff that has not really been in the spot light a lot and I just feel bored if I took 20 goblins with spear, 20 with shield, and then 20 prowlers. So without further ado, here is the revised Tale of Four Gamers Goblin army.

Druzhag
Cave Drake
16 Goblins with spear
20 goblins with Shield

10 goblins with bow

1 bat swarm
12 wild wargs

November's model build and paint is going to be 

6 goblin spearmen

9 goblin shields

4 goblin bows

1 batswarm

Like always look for updates on this matter at the end of the month.

The Rule of 2s

Two. 2. II.

Recently the rule of 2s has been making it's presence known. The rule of two is the lessor known brother to the rule of 3s in which stuff sometimes happens in 3s; good stuff, bad stuff, sneezes, etc. This just seems to be happening in 2s recently.

It has been real busy at work and I have just been scraping by with my painting quota and terrain builds for the upcoming Bilbo's Birthday Bash event which, again, is under 2 weeks away.

Last week it had been my 2 month anniversary since starting work and to celebrate, my boss and bosses boss gave me a promotion. That was fun.

It is also rapidly approaching the 2nd month of our Tale of Four Gamers and I figure I will give you all a sneak peak at the cave drake.

It is so life like isn't it? I know it is not the actually model, but that is the paint scheme I am using.Some real solid work has been done and I am looking forward to getting this model finished, it paints up pretty easy so far although I have not gotten to the belly and underside yet...

So please stay tuned for a bunch of super cool updates in the next week or so as well as full coverage of the largest Independent Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game Tournament ever held in the US.

ciao

Fright Night

With October comes all those edited for TV slasher movies; so I decided to get my fright on and broke out the hack saw for some slicing and dicing.

 Most of my center pieces contain dwarves getting the snot beat out of them... its a mocking of their defense stat...

 This guys neck really gave me some trouble. The entire model needs green stuff obviously, but I should be able to make the neck look better than a wrung out towel like it is now.

 This is a preview of the goblins "Super Sturdy Travel" Display board. The pillars use magnets, and each of the sides is hinged that collapses like those old micro machine play sets. Place your orders while supplies last!

The Future: War and Flashy Paint Schemes

While painting continues on the goblins of the Misty Mountains, my thoughts wander to the future, where their is only war and flashy paint schemes and our heroic space marines. Using those great marine paint generators out there I have come up with 2 potential schemes for my 10 man movie marine squad.

 These guys are going to be part of the Iron Hands chapter so I had to go with their black and silver base colors but it is way too boring without some highlight colors. Combine this with my previous post on my conversion ideas and I think this should match up nicely. 

I will need to brush up on making black highlights look nice.... and a straight chainmail/mithril silver scheme might need to be dulled with some greys or darker silvers. Obviously they will have their shoulder transfers.

 I would like to play with this camouflage style on some of their shoulder pads or maybe the assault marine conversions. Leaning towards a small sponge brush technique, will have to test that out.

With the movie marine list you can buy a rhino/razorback or use your points for stunt doubles, vehicles are of course way cooler. I love the Valkyrie model but it would not fit very well as it is Guard.

I will be building a rhino + drop pod hovercraft/flyer vehicle. Yes this statline will be a rhino, but it will look cooler as a flyer, which is what the movie marines are all about.

Check back in 6 days for our first months Tale of four gamers completion! Next month should see a big hurt on the wallet with marine box buys, forgeworld, and bitz pick ups.

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