September Wrap-up

Well it's been a little too long between updates. I've kept the hobby going, but with some interruptions, didn't manage to get as much games in.

So I'll just skip through quickly what I've been up to.

Greatest achievement, finishing Azhag :) Very pleased with the result

I also took some full shots of both my armies (Empire & Orcs) that I have completed in the past year

• Orc Army Album
• Empire Army Album

Love how this picture came out

For those keeping track at home, I also have 3 battle reports for the month

I'll try keep up the updates this month as practice picks up for a tournament in 3 weeks and thoughts move towards my next army :)

Practise HoD Game @ Manday

Got a practise 3000 pt game in today and Manday but it was pretty rushed so not enough pictures for one of my +Gommo's Itchy Nuisance bat reps :(

It's my Orcs (with Warboss/Wyvern/Spider build) taking on an Empire list with 2 cannons, hellblaster + stank! I didn't expect to have my Wyvern around for long, he had to stay tight to those trolls.

In the end, ended up 12.5-7.5 win, with my wyvern warboss surviving, but my Spider didn't (2 cannon shot death turn 1 :( )

But my 8 trolls spewed through a unit of 12 Reiksguard, GM/Runefang, BSB, Warrior priest unit! And had 4 trolls still standing. Go the vomit!!

Two weeks left till the tournament so should have my Wyvern finished by then. Skullmuncher is getting close

My horde of savages complete. ... enough for my list at least

Finally got through that savage orc horde. It was a tough slog but they turned out ok.

I'm going to also add another 6-7 as archers that I can replace the front rank with. Hopefully opponents are ok with that if I want to switch to arrer boyz for a game.

If you want to see how badly I use them though, check out my latest bat rep

Weekend Wrap-up #4

Well it's been a good few weeks again since my last update. !! Ooops.

Luckily I have been keeping busy, and plodding through painting more Orcs & Trolls. Four out of nine trolls are complete which is an entire front rank in this unit of 8. (With 1 remaining to act as single redirector)

The trolls are actually quite enjoyable to paint and the style I've gone with is fast yet looks effective.

The savage orcs on the other hand! Aargh, they're a pain to paint. So I've borrowed (stolen?) from Luke Davis and gone with remounting 3 Orcs to 50mm bases. This will cut down on having to paint 4 whole orcs, (Yay!) but makes the unit SO much easier to rank up.

2 of the bases done

Well over half a horde finished!!

I've have 2x50mm bases to still finish, with probably 2-3 individual orcs to flesh out the unit of 40. Once they're complete, along with last 5 trolls, I'll have a good size 2400/2500 list all ready for action.

Then, it will be on to adding some elements to make it a little 'fun'. My current purchases were basically the net list. So I'm looking at adding

• An Arachnarok. This thing looks too good not to paint and have. One thing I miss compared to my Empire, are some center piece items, and this is one of them. Also...
• 1-2 Wyverns. Of course they won't see action every game, but I want to have the option

Until next time...

What's on my painting table?

... Quite a bit actually and I haven't got around to updating my blog :( So what have I got up to in the past few weeks hobby wise?

First up, the plan was to try do a troll a week. I finished a second and then got side tracked painting up some GW fences and building some GW size forests (will post pics of the forests later)

Seems weird to buy something you can make yourself but those fences do look super cool. In addition I got hold of a new Savage shaman model that I started.

Then, I ended up attending a 1 day tournament (last week) so I had to paint up 14 new archers, which side tracked me further :). I finished 5 fully and got 9 others to the washed stage, so know have to get back to highlights and details.

Most recently I acquired a new hellblaster to replace the old metal one I have. (or to field 2 when I want to be douche)

Jeez I have too much on and need to finish some of these!!

Also, you can see my totally lacklustre and frustrating performance from last weekend. Game 1 is up on youtube (see below)

Thanks for reading, and I'll try get back to some weekly updates this week

First paint job on my trolls

I finished up a troll this weekend (well at least mostly) to see how the red/yellow scheme will look and what paint colours to use on it.

I had to grab the War Paint yellow that matches the yellow primer I used, but as usual, it's total crap (as most yellows tend to be). I found mixing a little citadel white in made it useable.

Let me know what you think. I'm hoping they stand out nice alongside the green savages.

Winter Carnage 2014

This past weekend I attended a 2 day Warhammer event called Winter Carnage, held @ Good Games in Sydney.

I've posted the first battle report up, more to follow, and stop reading now if you don't want to see my results.



In the end I only won 2 out of 5 which wasn't great, finishing 14/22.

However, the best news was winning the best painted army prize ($100) which was totally unexpected and awesome. Deeply honored.

It was a great 2 days and hope to get back there in a few months for their next one.