World of Magic

Roight, a quickie.

Traded some 100 older blue magic cards (mostly commons and uncommons from up to The Dark) with a collegue at work for his `just lying around, not caring about them` World of Warcraft CCG collection.

He said I needed to bring a trolley today.  I laughed.  I`m glad I did bring one though...

5 big expansion boxes, 4 smaller expansion boxes and a binder with about the whole Honor, Drums and Legion series in them...

This is going to be one hell of a sorting ride...

The House of Cards

The House of Cards

Buying to trade away...

Okay, let`s face it, I`m a collector.  And one that likes to collect strange and obscure things just for the fun of collecting those things...

I also have an unhealthy affinity for all things anime and in particular Saint Seiya and Gundam stuffsies, and with the Library of Blue nearing completion, I decided to start collecting some other CCG... but the big question was which one?

I had to love the design, I had to love the setting, and it needed to be a sport to try and get them completed, in order to have that `yesss!` feeling when the goal is achieved.

At first, I thought about completing the Decipher Star Trek game, but there is no sport in that as you can buy whole complete sets rather cheaply on sites like eBay and the likes... then I was looking in my binder of the english version of Saint Seiya, Knights of the Zodiac, which I have every card from... and then decided to collect the complete JAPANESE edition of the game, as it has a LOT more cards then the one set and two starters that made the translation.

What`s more, I`m planning, again mostly for the sport and the thrill of the hunt, to do it by trading missing cards for cards of the more popular CCG`s around at the moment, and am going to buy up bulk collections.

So here is what I offer:


Commons: 0.01 eurocent / card
Uncommons: 0.05 eurocent / card
Rares: 0.10 eurocent / card

Foils, shineys, holos and whatevers we`ll just see about


I`m not buying storestocks or such, but am offering to `liberate` fellow gamers of mostly those tons of commons lying around and all those `crap rares` that you just can`t seem to get rid off.

The catch is namely this... I have a few `resources` (sorry, not sharing, this is a post about me and filling my collections) that are intrested in all sorts of cards, at the above rates, and offer a sort of `store credit` instead of normal payment.  That store credit I can use to get Saint Seiya cards, but also the japanese Gundam ccg cards, from them.  However, they work with a sort of `demand` system, so it`s not like I just can ship off kilo's of cards in one go, it`s all about quota needed and first to fill, first to win... in other words, I`m having a sport with that for the past weeks...  All the rest I`ll have to see if I can get them traded off through more regular channels.


Which was also why you didn`t see much life on the blog at the moment, as I have been sorting all my excess magic cards for 2 weeks going now.  And not nearly near the end...

BUT, on to the actual trading part, these are the card games I`m willing to take of your hands, at the above rates.  You don`t have to sort everything out and such, I`ll do that myself, I have `employees` to do that for me teehheehee.  Okay, it`s actually my girlfriend and my 11 year old nephew... but heck, they don`t know just yet they have been recruited ;)


1. Magic: the Gathering
2. Yu-Gi-Oh
3. World of Warcraft
4. Pokemon (okay, part of those will be to complete my own collection as well, but I ain`t shouting of roofs that I have nearly 65% of all english edition pokemon cards in my binders)

Saint Seiya Custom models: Young Pandora and Baby Athena

Two gems I found on Antwerp Convention, at around 20 euros each, are these custom series models of a young Lady pandora (when she intertwined her fate with Ikki and Shun) bearing the essence of Hades in a babywrap, or alternatively the box that held the essence of the Twin Gods Thanatos and Hypos.

The second, Baby Athena, can either be made with a smiling face and the dagger of Saga (posing as the pope) in an ornate case, or with a crying face as the dagger plunges into the baby.

Both models are labelled on the box `not for sale in Europe, USA and South America` but I don`t care, they have it, I buy it, simple comme bonjour.

They might not be as impressive as some of the mainstream Myth cloths, they sure as hell make nice pieces to spread along between those models to liven up the collection a little...

Past the 50k Marker

It seemed to have happened during the weekend while I was `on other duty`, but I can proudly bump my chest and celebrate the fact that this little blog somehow managed to pass the 50.000 visits marker.

Thanks to all those people reading my ramblings, this personal party is thanks to you all!

The Horde takes form

First completed unit for the 500 points Hobgoblin force, the obligatory big boom War Machine.

I love this force, lots of conversion possibilities and odd-balling can be done with the list (okay, not as much as with a Halfling force, but still). 

I have build the Rokkit Launcha about two years ago and already featured it on this blog, now I finally managed to paint up a third bolt thrower crewman to complete it.  The Hobhounds unit is done as well so far, but that one will be showed after they competed in the next round of the BSL.

And for the ravagers (frenzied wolf riders basically) I`m going to use Heroclix... don`t ask, you`ll see...

The Legacy of Hashut

For those that have been following my blog over the past years, might remember how I dedicated part 4 of the `I am an Anvil` series to Aleeha Travis, a lady in the States known as Hashut`s Chosen and Chaos Dwarf afficionado like me.

However, in recent years she has traded hobbies from Warhammer to dogsled racing, and then the ball started rolling around december 2011... and past monday, I came in possession of this:

Okay cool, a portable generator I hear you say... Well, not quite, let`s have a look what is in that big box now, won`t we

Yep, smaller boxes and bubble plastics!!!!

But what is actually in all that, well, THIS:

It`s her full army, numbering 331 models including some nifty cool conversions.  Surely, storage and travel had taken it`s toll, but is there is one thing I`m rather good at, it`s restoring armies to tabletop standards.  I`m still doing it with my own force, now adding in these blokes, the infamous `Lord Aldades will ride again at the head of a horde numbering around 30.000 points.  Yes, that is 30k of the hard to find, mostly GW metal, 20 year old Chaos Dwarfs.  In Ya Face GW ;-) someone still is giving them lots of love.

So lets get over to sort this bunch and see what we got here...

The pile in front are mostly hobgoblin warriors and wolfless Riders, I`m scouring evil bay atm for some not GW per se mounts, and sprues of the plastic warriors.  Guess I`ll be over a 100 of these guys alone at the moment.

A very cool conversion is this huge Bull Centaur lord based on a Minotaur.  With the discussion still around on how exactly they are supposed to be based, this bloke is going on a 5 by 5.  Don`t care if more models can hit him, we are Chaos Dwarf, we kill everything in base contact!
I don`t know who made the warrior models next to him, but I like their look *a Lot* and will be one of the first regiments to be restorated after the Hobgoblin force is done.

A better view of the Bull centaur lord conversion

A Great taurus / Minotaur conversion, this guy will make a nice alternate `loose` taurus to have flying around in the ranks.  Like a kind of unit champion for the arial brigade I have here (7 Taurus, 5 Lammassu, not all carrying  characters)

This female standard conversion is going to become my Battle Standard after receiving the haul over.  She will carry the name Hashut`s Chosen in honor of the creator.

This simple conversion on the plastic warriors to a more oriental style is going to become one of the units of Infernals in the force.  Simple but oh so cool work... me likeys

Those warriors I told about a few pictures up.  I`m gonna toss in a Hero character with them, and that`ll be a 15 strong unit to protect my war machine train (all FW, 12!!! Earthshakers, 15 Death rockets, 9 Bolt Throwers, and the older war machines, but those will be shown in the future as a quit different thing... you wait and see now)

People who know me know I love Blunderbusses.  Imagine my exileration with this 51 fresh recruits, bringing my total of the venerated hand gunners now to 137 pieces.

So that is in short, the Legacy i received.  Now, how much did that cost I hear you ask?  Well, first promise me you sit down and inhale deeply...


... it costed me 90 dollars in shipping and 125 euros in customs clearance.  That is it.  It was a freebie. 


So Albert, I know your reading this (and probably crying now), but tgive me about a two years and our mass battle will be a reality.  Painting overdrive powering up now ;)

TSA Blood Bowl league 2012 table

The LC has released a current updated league table, with the first 6 teams all having between 5 and 7 matches (enough for qualification to the play offs) and seperated by only 4 points between number 1 (currently `my nemesis`) and number 6 (being myself)

The League table as it stands today: 12/05

Teams in italics are at their needed 5 games to be eligeble for qualifying to the play offs, team in bold is my team teehee

Mummy Road Show (returns)(Undead)[7] - 13 points

The Green Bay Hooligans (Humans) [5] - 12 points

The Bloodweiser Bunnies (Amazon) [6] - 12 points
The Violent Kneecappers(Orcs) [6] - 12 points

The Bad Bay Hackers (Human) [5] - 10 points
Vongalazthag Violators(Dawi Zharr) [5] - 9 points
Feet of Flames(Halflings) [6] - 4 points
Oinky`s Nutkickaz(Goblins) [4] - 0 points
Green Powah (Orcs) [2] - 0 points
Sylvania Sunbathers (Vampire Counts) [2] - 0 points

Da Mad Hakkaz (Orcs) [2] - 0 points

H.A.T.E (Dark Elves) [0] - 0 points
The Green and Red Lightnings (Dwarf) [0] - 0 points
Queen Helga's Double D Dwarfettes (Dwarf) [0] - 0 points

My money for qualifying is on the Amazon, the Orc and both Human teams, with my nemesis and myself `falling over the cliff` to use a Formula One reference.

I fear the other teams are basically out of their chances if they aren`t going to start playing very soonish, so that maybe a suprise can still rise up towards the top spots, but if they aren`t, I guess it`s going to go between the first 6 for the spots in the finales.

The ruling has also been issued that in case of tied points, the following `sequence` is going to determine position in the League:

1. Fewest games played
2. Score difference of TD`s made vs against.  I`m currently at an `impressive` +1.  So I better don`t tie as making goals ain`t the Violators forte
3. Play-in Play-off between both tied teams.  In other words, they`ll play each other for the qualification.

Head coach Dwarf Vha`Dur is just glad the Violators are still in the race though, even with odds firmly stacked against them.

The casts are in

Yups, 1000 (and then some) of the snall huts are now standing in my closet, part of them reserved for Crisis, part of them up for grabs to those that want some.

So that`s how 1000 of those little houses look like freshly packed up.  I also updated the Sculpting Page of the blog with those available and the price to break even, as well as thrown one hundred set of 2 on eBay to see if there is any demand for small scale amateurs fiddling around with greenstuff between painting sessions...

Not Fair - Lead Painter's League FINALE

And so the LPL ends this year as he started, with a defeat but luckily unlike the first half, with a decent amount of vote points this time.

Thanks to Prof Witchheimer and Ray Rivers, this was yet another year of gorgeous eye-candy, and to the 46 brave heroes that had at least the courage to enter this very demanding on timescheme competition.

So what about the objectives?

When I saw the partipants list, I knew the 50% would be impossible, but I`m still glad in the end that I managed to at least gather 2 wins and slipped out of a draw by 1 vote.  Not to bad...

I did manage though my objective of once more gaining all possible bonus points, only the first year I participated I(on purpose) missed out on 10 points cause I wanted to see how my League of Extraordinary Gentlemen did, so this is something I`m going to keep on trying in the next years I enter.

Secondly, I managed the shortest entry name ever in the League so far, with `VF`, I believe the previous record was 4 letters three editions ago. As an added personal bonus, that entry even made the leaderboard header, personal proudness welled up ;)

So here is the final leaderboard, I still ended up a decent 36th place, mainly though thanks to the bonus points but these are a part of the whole league concept as well.

So what do we take away for my next year from this league?  Well, I know i`m not the world`s best painter and an even crappier picture takes, so for the next edition I`m going to change the focus a bit, from instead of painting stuff from all over the place, borrow the system of Blue in VT and Silent Invader, to enter units of an army in building in the non-bonus rounds.  So basically, next year will be distributed along the obligatory anime entry, the obligatory heroclix entry and 5 rounds of Chaos Dwarfs of various series and scales.

And make some decent scenery to display models on...

So that`s the year passed by, now to get rid off the models I ain`t planning on building armies with (anymore) and back to the next challenge, painting about 100 hobgoblins in 1.5 months time...