Is this Art??? - Kaya, Chibi style WiP

Well, doctor said I needed to do some relxation thingies without deadline pressure nor stress building, so I finally started my self teaching of drawing anime and the likes.

This is actually a work in progress, I'm going to digitally color it later on (perhaps today, perhaps in the far future), but with the WarmaHordes craze striking over at TSA, I tried making a chibi of Kaya and one of her puppies.

So I present, 'chibi effort very numero uno WIP' or better known as "Kaya's Warpwolf Bootcamp"

Feral Warpwolf

Days without posts, now three on a day... sometimes, you`re having one of these days where paint flows naturally from your brush and focus (or should that be in my faction, Fury?) isn`t lost to all kinds of other things...

The Feral Warpwolf is my big hitter for the start of the Journeyman League, and has to be the only big hitter until the limit is pulled up to 25 points in month 3.

Now, I was quite amazed by how he performed past friday, ripping apart the large Cygnar jack and the smaller shooter one, while severly damaging three other lighter jacks before being beaten to a pulp by Kreoss.

One thing I like is the beasts Forced Warping special rule, as this allows you to get the charge in quite speedily.  Just remember to keep Occulation on him before he is more or less charge range, the Stealth goes a big way in keeping him in one piece before thundering in.

Afterwards, I kept warping his strength, together with boosted damage this tends to make short work of most light, and seriously damage heavy warjacks and beasts apparently, as his relative high MAT coupled with Kaya`s special rule means there is no real need to boost his to hit roll. Okay, unless the dice go freaky on you, your guaranteed to hit with all three attacks, boost one Claw for the charge and regular boost the other two attacks, then buy two more Claw attacks.  Should be a nice package of whoop-ass this beast deals out... and he has to.

Because like all Circle models, he can deal but can`t take damage decently with his low ARM, as DEF is something quite easily negated around, especcially in the Journeyman start period where as far as I noticed are already two Kreoss`s around (knock down) and two Sorcha`s (stationary), each granting as such automatic hits.  And then there is Striker and his Earthquake...

But one handy thing, if you can save up the Fury and not get tempted to follow to closely (like, stay on your 12" command range and try to stay out of things like Lamentation)... after he damages the enemy, Spirit Door the beast back to Kaya, leech his Fury in the next turn... and launch this howling torpedo again!

If you can keep repeating this, not only are you lucky, but your opponent is doing seriously wrong... and will be becomming very, VERY frustrated.

Scratchbuilt contests

Two posts in a day?  Yups, because this is something I might point you people to and you could join in!

Okay, nice, some more chance to liquidate some parts out of my bitz boxes, as there is first of all a new Artisan Contest on the way, this time you have to build a scenery piece or the like would be found `on the way to Zharr Naggrund`.

Details are here at the front page of Chaos Dwarf Online

Now I`m not entirely sure what I`m going to do, but I got some Asterix models lying around, and I spotted a small godzilla somewhere in one of the boxes... those will be the basis me thinks.

Second there is the Deathroller 2000 scratchbuild competition over at Merry Mayhem News to build a deathroller that can participate in a sort of, well, deathroller race.

This might give me the chance to get some heroclix bases gone from all the repaints, but off course, being a TRUE Dwarf the driver will be a Dwai Zharr and not one of those misguided underground slobbers...

Now, off to the all thumbs scratchbuilder that I am, with the olympic thought in mind...

Argus

Argus`, Argus`ses, Argussi... I don`t know, wild dogs wil have to do hehehe.  Last friday still undercoated on the table, yesterday they got their paintjob (well, actually one already friday during the night), today basing and varnishing.

Part of the Starter Box from Circle Orboros, I have two of these puppies in my force.  Now, I know in MkI they where average at best, but since MkII they are quite the handy dual torpedo doggies.

They benefit from Kaya`s rule that all the animals in her control area have their MAT raised by 2, but otherwise I see them as tag-team hunters for light warjacks and equivalents, one using his (boosted) Bay attack to lower the opponents DEF to 7, the other one charging in for the Combo Strike special attack which at P+S 16 does a serious bitey chunk out of their opponents.

Bar that, I also like the models, so I`m going to try and take them in my warband as it progresses anyways, with a nice Fury amount and high treshold rating they are quite feasible to stay in control anyways.  Unless they are in combat, just let them frenzy then lol.

Next on the list, the Warpwolf, then Kaya.  Should be able to do the whole starterset (well, equivalent, I run an alternate Kaya model, nicer sculpt imho) before the kick off the comming friday.

The Lord of the Feast

So I played my very first Warmahordes games in the MkII system yesterday evening, and it sure changed since my MkI days, most notably with LoS and Screening by which I made some mistakes without to much baddies (call it sheer luck, Kaya left with one damage point).

We played a six way battle with 3 players a team, and it turned out to be the Battle of The Sexes, with my team consiting of Lylith, Sorcha and Kaya, and facing of Striker, Kreoss and Grundback.

Yes, it was `starter box` forces as it was the final `get aquinted to the rules` game before the Journeyman League starts next week.  Or first aquintance...

I went for the easiest way to learn rules, and torpedoed my three Warbeast onto the mass of Menoth and Cygnar jacks opposing me, in the end knocking out the big Cygnarite one and two small Cygnar jacks, and as good as reducing to a scrap-pile two lighter  Menoth jacks in a concentrated team play with the cold ass russian gall by my side.

We lost in the end as first Lilyth fell, and then Sorscha, so Kaya choose discretion over valor and left the battlefield with her remaining Argus.  It did take uberboosted Kreoss himself though to finally take out the Warpwolf who made some insane rolls ripping jacks apart left and right... and then be Spirit Doored to safety.  I like Kaya, previously alone for her looks, now for more...

The Journeyman League

So the painting continues on the faction, and the third model after eKaya and her companion Laris has been finished, The Lord of the Feast.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and this `guided infantry slayer` will be the upgrade from my starter box (which comes at 11 points) to 15 points.  Plans are to flunk him into infantry, do his sword combat shennanigan thingie, then with the aid of his Virtuoso skill Ravenshift his ass out of there before retaliation.  Or if there are shooty guys at the other side, raven in and slaughter all muahahahahaha *kuch*

Amd yes, i know I didn`t add the bull skull to the model, but it was fiddly enough when i tried to first assemble the `antler array` two years ago, and as I gave up on that I think the head is *somewhere* in my bitz box... which consists of two large, unsorted, all mixed and matched curver boxes and i ain`t gonna look for the small gizmo in that junkyard.  And he look mean still anyways without it...

Now I`m gonna start painting on the starter box models, as I need to finish models before the wednesdays before a League game, in order to allow varnish to dry and stuffsies.  And I need to pluck out more KR`s to accomodate the big beasts lol...

I`ll enslave your armies!

Or how an idea turns slowly into a regiment...

I like (better said, love) the slave unit entry in the Hobgoblin army book, as it gives the possibility to create a completely whacky unit, and after I had finished the first 50 man `cannon fodder` unit, I decided to slowly build a second one.

This second unit will number 50 strong as well (including the odd unit filler), but the idea is to build it from models of the armies I have defeated since 2012 with my Legions of Hashut (wether them being the Chaos Dwarfs or the Hobgoblin list), in whatever suitable game I played with them.  Warhammer, Blood Bowl, Mordheim, other fantasy games where I can use a force of Dawi Zharr... a model representing the defeated ones will be added to the ranks.

And it is a great way to start liquidating all those odd and end miniatures for RP purposes, from lots and from I don`t know where  that linger my bits boxes without any real purpose uptil now.

The first model is a Dwarven warrior, from my victory over Albert waaaay back in the beginning of the year when I was trying out both 8th edition and the Forge World list.  Albert`s Dwarfs had a very `natural` colour scheme, so I went for a brownish clothing with some pale green details.

Then came the TSA `Fun` tournament, in which I took 3rd place and scored two victories, first against a force of Araby, later against my Nemesis`s Beastmen Horde.  The Araby force was unpainted at the tournament, but as it was made up of GW`s Lord of the Rings models, I scavenged a Flying Carpet Rider from Black Tree`s Saracen range from my bits box and painted it in a Corsairs of Umbar like scheme.  The Beastmen is a standard bearer with his banner cut down to just a stick to hit people with.

Next came the now in apparent paused Blood Bowl League, where out of 6 matches I managed to score 3 wins.  The first one was against Nemesis`s Undead team, and I opted to paint a mummy for representing this as he has been blocking and not getting him off the pitch the now infamous BoB (a Hobgoblin!), effectively tying up the pile of bandages for quite some turns.

The second win was against Patrick from Nelson`s Revenge vampire team, the Sylvanian Sunbathers.  This was the game I really, really violated his team, causing him to have to drop out of the league after the game as I badly hurted / seriously injured / killed no less then 10 out of his 12 players that match... so to represent the aristocracy of the night, who better to use for that then `classic` Vlad himself.  And I recuperated his cool sword for a future project to boot.

Third where the halflings, so I also added a halfling soldier of I don`t know which range to the ranks of the unit.

Finally the 500points tournament from the beginning of july came, and another bronze medal to the list, with two wins out of 3 games.  The first was against a goblin horde with spearmen that didn`t have spears but handweapons, so I rummaged up an old greenskin, snapped his spear so he now is a spearman with a handweapon.

The second win was against a bunch of high elves.  I recycled the Phoenix from my defunct, never going to happen Cathay idea because 1. I had it anyways and 2. the force was build around a large block of Phoenix Guard.

So there we have it, the WiP of the Trophy Unit of Slaves so far:

May Hashut boost these ranks speedily and readily!

Another LunaMaria... and a painting goal finished

First off, let me show the world the most recent Lunamaria Hawk I received last week, sitting in her casual clothings and typical white `leisure hat'

And in the back, a hint of what I am going to start working on once my little `hobby corner` is completed at my girlfriends place ;-)

I also want to grab the opportunity that bar making pictures and mailing them to Clam, I have now finished all models for this years BSL, the next round will be my morally obliged mecha entry (being an anime nut, I owe it to myself to enter one at least in each online painting competition I participate in), the final round has as theme `Chaos Dwarfs` so that wasn`t hard to find models for hehee...

Let`s see if with the current round still running and those two upcomming rounds, I can maintain a spot in the top half, and if the paint gods are willing even aim at a top-5 finish, doubting that though seeing the work of some in there whom I luckily dodged so far...

Saint Seiya Myth Cloth: Saga of Gemini

BUY THIS

Now how is that for an opening of a Myth cloth post.  Saga, poor, schizophrenic Saga, is one of the strongest Gold saints, but has one fatal flaw.  Like the Gemini Constellation, he has a good and an evil side, and his evil side took over in a bid to take over Athena`s pledge to protect earth.

He failed to assassinate the baby when Aiolios stopped him, as he had taken over the role of the Pope from Mu`s old master. 

Finally seeing the light after being nearly beaten by Seiya and realizing the error of his ways, he threw himself onto Athena`s staff, only to be return from the dead in the Hades chapter.  Where his twin brother Kanon also played a crucial part, but that is a tale for another Myth cloth.

Now the model itself, even though being of the older generation, is well worth it`s money, as you get two models actually.  Saga and the Pope, so you can make any combination of evil and good armoured Saga (as I did here, without his helmet for once to show off the possessed look more, and the EX will be in my possession one of these days anyways), an armoured and unarmoured pope version with again both heads, and the `animated` cloth from when the saints entered the Gemini temple.

'Nuff said, great value!  And the throne is also included on top of that!

End of Summer and start of new goals

So summer holiday season has ended, and to be honest, I have been slacking like hell.  I managed to paint a measly dozen of models over the past two months, mostly for need in games I was going to play or are about to play.

Now this also means some changes and late goals for the year are switching. 

First of all, that means the planned 500 points of Hobgoblins.  I didn`t manage to get them done for the 500 pts tournament beginning of july, so I went to battle there with the Ravening Hordes list, and even with that ancient two piece of paper managed to come up third, but now the next TSA tournament has been unveiled.  Probably in november there is going to be a `Duo Tournament` in which each player has a 1000 points at his disposal, so I`m pulling up the `to paint` number from 500 to 1000 and see if I can get it all done before then.

Second is the Journeyman League comming up, in which I will be fielding the Circle Orboros for the comming 6 months.  Players start with the basic Battle Box of their faction, and the force is planned to grow to an army of 35 points, each time in steps of 10 points.  I`ll be adding a goal of xx / 35 to my sidebar for this progress, and as january sees the start of the large forces that means the 35 points need to be done by december.

This will probably mean neither the Gundam nor the Heroclix goals will be achieved...

Game wise it has been rather calm as well.  Apart from the tournament, I managed to play 2 games of Mordheim and one casual Magic event this holiday period, and that is about it.  A combination of not really knowing what to play combined with the move of the girlfriend and an `intresting` work period resulted in not much club attendances lately, but we`re starting to go more again.

The Playstation challenge is now as good as officially lost.  Blame Guild Wars 2 for that...  I`m Mesmerizing my way through Tyria once again.

League wise the Blood Bowl championship seems to have died down, due to the commissar getting a girlfriend and as such not attending often anymore, so it seems I`ll be ending on a clean 5th spot, right outside the play offs that probably will never be, not to shabby for a vertically challenged team unable to pick up a ball.  I will end the League with the records for `Most Caised Casualties in One Game` and `Players Send Off` though, and didn`t had a single casualty over the whole season.  Yay me.

In the Brush Slave League I`m currently around 5th place, with two normal rounds and one theme round to go.  This month, which started today, I`m fielding the first models of an oriental themed Chaos Dwarf warrior unit, next month will be the obligatory Gundam entry.  No idea what the bonus round is, so not much to reveal already about that...

And I`m finally drudging through my own card collections and seeing the end of the stacks I need sorting, be sure to check the House of Cards header of this blog if your looking for cards of the odd game!

See y`all around soonish!