Gondorian Army WIP

I haven't completed anything new in a while, but I have been working on my Gondor force. I converted 12 Osgilioth Veterans out of normal Minas Tirith troops. I green stuffed various cloacks and bed rolls and packs. I also had some extra Death Corps of Krieg laying around so I used their back packs to further distinguish my vets from my normal rank and files. The armored Faramir didn't have a shield so I switched his arm with an arm from a sword and board guy and pinned them.











I'm working on 5 character models that can be used with any Gondor force. I have 10 different poses of Aragorn. Instead of Painting them all the same, (brown and green) I decided I could make other characters out of them. So from left to right we have: The night watcher, a grey haired older gentleman with a torch to keep the city safe at night. The noblemen, Just a high ranking Gondorian citizen. Damrod, Denethor, and Faramir.

Tomb Kings Characters Finished

I haven't had a chance to do much to my Tomb Kings lately. I managed to squeak just enough time into finish the characters I had started. So here is my Tomb King, BSB, Mounted BSB, Litch Priest, and Casket of Souls.

Zombies, Skeletons, and Zombies OH NO!!!

I got a rather large commission last month. It was 88 zombies, 108 skeletons, and around 14 unit fillers. A friend of mine was building a Vampire Counts army and needed them by the Bugeater GT. So another local army painter and I split up the army. I took all the mass infantry and he took all the large models and characters. I decided that I would dip the army. The army was massive and didn't have to be the highest quility but he wanted them looking pretty good. I ended up purchasing Army Painters dip and using it on the entire horde. The turned out great and he was pleased with them. I could go another year or two without seeing a VC model though.











This was my favorite part about the commission. It's a dire wolf stealing the army off of a zombie and the zombie trying to chase him down to get his army back! :)

Game of Thrones Themed 40k Army

I got a commission from a friend in the northwest part of the state for some free hand work on his rhinos. He was painting up a 40k Space Wolves army after the Winterfells from Game of Thrones. He had already painted the infantry and the vehicles he just wanted some free hand work on the tops to further drive the theme home. I was happy to oblige as I'm a pretty big fan of the shoe as well.











I really enjoyed working on these. I wouldn't mind getting to do more.

Bugeater GT 2012

Everyone just got back from the Bugeater GT 2012. What a blast! Friday night all of the north west AR guys and the central AR guys went out to down town Omaha for a night out. I pretty well only remember 3 pitchers and 4 das boots but know much more was consumed.

 

I ended up winning two paint awards for their 'Golden Gobo' and a best of all in the 40k section. I also one sweepstakes runner up for warhammer fantasy. Which was basically their version of 2nd over all.

The Bugeater GT was a fun event and super well ran. Their parring system was very weird. They paired you up with win loss and didn't take battle points into consideration which day two put people with the same win loss record buy off by 20 battle points playing each other. The terrain seemed a little sparse as well. Those are my only two criticisms though. I would easily recommend anyone go to it as it was a great event overall.

I may have time to do some quick battle reports later in the week.

Alatar the Blue

I used the old version of the Sharkey model. That's the fallen version of Saruman at the scourging of the shire. This guy was fun to paint up and as far as rules go I guess I'd just use him as a another wizard and maybe just swap out one spell for a "blue" spell what ever that may be.





This does leave me with a predicament though. I only have 1 of the 5 wizards left. Palando the Blue. I can't think of any other models for him... Is there an alternate version of one of the wizards I can use? Is there an alternate company with similar sculpts? I guess I'll have to figure something out.

Saruman the White

Just got done with Saruman the White a couple of days ago and time to show off the work. He wasn't super fun to paint but he was relatively easy. All his clothes where the same color and his beard was close to the robes color. I'll have to get this guy on his horse and paint him up I'll also be on the look out for some of the older sculpts so I may be able to get my hands on a more interesting version of Saruman.