Pictures! (At Last) Vol.3

As there seems to be a limit to how many pictures I can upload to Blogger, I am using my photobucket account.

As you can see I almost have my Kommando squad painted, I have Strakhov and a manhunter painted as well.

Now to some more topical comments, Warmachine modles are increadable, they have so much detail, they are very nice weights and they are very dynamic to look at.

What they lack though is simply.. ease of construction, good lord, these truely have been the hardest models I have ever had the pleasure of putting together and painting. The Kommando's alone were almost the limit of my patience with their arms and the flamethrower is lucky to not have met the fate of a pair of tin snips to get that shield to sit right. I have never pinned modles as extensively as these have been.

The Alt. Manhunter has both her arms pinned, and that was an excercise in itself as the pins and drill I have are barely smaller than the ammount of material I had to work with (I have now purchased a smaller drill bit and smaller pinning material for further projects Alt.Manhunter(Lime) for example) but in the end they were done and they all came out looking supperb, I am sure others will say 'They aren't that hard' no they aren't in fact, but when the shields on the Kommando's don't have any markers to show where they are supposed to connect to the hand, and there are no chinks or resting spots for those hands to connect too the shields to allow it to rest while glueing, pinning is the only option.

Enough ranting, I'm planning to have the last of the Kommando's painted by the end of the week, and hopefully the Demolisher Warjack as well. And if I feel brave enough, I'll get Sorscha painted as well.

Pictures! (At Last) Vol.2

Here are more photos.

Pictures! (At Last) Vol.1

As I said, I was going to post up some pictures, though their size may be a little large, I hope you don't mind the downloads, the first picture is of Strakhov, he was also fun to paint. As some may notice I have been using inking and other little tricks as well as the quickshade, matt washes, and pretty much every painting trick I know to bring these modles up to my best standards (which ain't as good as some, but I am happy with what I have so I'm hoping people will go easy on me.


This here is an Alt. Manhunter, she was tricky to pin, this was also very fun to paint. I really tried my best to get her hair to stand out in contrast but not overwhelm the paint scheme.

Pleasant Surprises

Today a package I was waiting for arrived with some paints and Strahkov I got for free with some of the 'cashback' money I earned from Maelstrom games, the paints were 3 bottles of Vallejo paint, one of which being a Matt Varnish. I really wanted this to see what it would look like on top of the Army Painter Quickshade I have on some Grey Knight models that I painted up.. and it looks great, it takes a tonne of the shine off.

Which is exactly what I wanted. I was hoping it would work but, I wasn't expecting anything. So now I know it works I'll be painting up my Assault Kommandos, and dippping them to see how they turn out. One at first, then if it looks the way I want it too, I'll be doing the lot like that.

I've got the paints out and a movie qued up, and the brushes at the ready, the next update will be with hopefully good news about the way the tester comes out.

Paint it Damn it!

I really need to clean house and sit down and make myself a painting station so I can get these mini's all painted. I have to get this done, I am not going to let this army be half painted.

I REFUSE.

With that being said I'm getting on with that today, and hopefully might have something painted, if not tonight, tomorrow.

Learning the Ropes

Well over the weekend I got to play my first real games of Warmachine, 4 different games, getting used to the rules, and learning what does and doesn't work, and picking up on how it all makes things happen.

No wins. XD Well that was to be expected, I was using Sorcha 2x Warjacks and some Kommandos, two words. NO SYNERGY. Trying to run a buffer/combat caster with 2 warjacks doesn't seem to work for me. I want more troops for her. Alot more, and a Behemoth.. or Beast 09. Though I probably would have done better with the 2 Warjacks if I was paying more attention to what I was doing with the focus, I was very distracted with what I was trying to do with the day.. also I found out certain attacks woulfn't have hit her, also if I had her up hiding behind some things other attacks wouldn't have hit either.

But as I said learning it all as we go along. I plan to read more of the rules and learn them. I found out after the fact that the AOE blasts from morters and such once it hits the ground, auto hits what's under it. Sprays need to roll to hit, but AoE's don't (other than the initial roll to hit.)

Next time I'll be a bit more together, I'll also try the Kommando's with Strahkov. Untill next weekend, I'll be reading up on rules, then I'll look into posting up a battle report. (Also planning on getting some new dice as mine failed me all weekend.. well not totally but.. I wasted all my sixes on a series of boxcars that didn't do more than kill normal troops.)

Warmachine - PC Game Inbound

Holy Crap people... this looks awesome, and this is just the first E3 movie they have released, they are still in beta from what I understand.

http://whitemoondreams.com/warmachine/

This looks like it is going to be AWESOME fun!!

I hope they have a release date soon.

Kommando Assault + Winterguard TBA.

Wow.. I am still waiting on my main order, and while I was, I ordered a tub of snow flock, and squad of Assault Kommando's(6) and a Flamer(1) for them, you know because I was going to be paying the same for shipping anyway :p ... and they arrived already.. before I got any of the other units..

Oh well looks like I'll run Sorcha with Kommandos and some warjacks to play my first games then..

Plus I get to paint up a flame thrower, damn I love me my flame throwers.

Also I got to see some Winterguard in action today... they are now on top of my 'MUST HAVE NOW' list for my Khador army. Hell 2 squads even... damn.. they seriously are not what I expected.. I mean.. EVERY modle gets an area effect flamethrower style blast attack.. ALL of them.. MADNESS I SAY MADNESS. So as soon as I get a little extra cash, I'll be grabbing me a full squad of Winterguard + Winterguard Command + Kovnik Joe. The insane combo effect these guys have are just too freaking cool.

I also have a new respect for Cav in Warmahordes. So they a squad of Uhlans are going to be added to the bottom of the 'List'.

First things First.

I got my order from Privateer Press, giving me my rule book, and Khador starter box.

Damn these things are pretty. they are so much fun to build too.

Then I sat down and got to paint one of the warjacks.

I will post pictures of the finished Jack soon, but I really had a fun time painting it. The colours and style really worked well on it, and now I have a set colour scheme it's going to make painting the other warjacks much easier, now I just need to get the colour scheme to work on the rest of the army.

Ideas and plots

I am plotting on what my next purchases will be for my troops, warjacks, and solo's.

I am thinking well first and foremost,

Strahkov,
Kommandos Unit,
Pikemen Unit,
Man-O-War Shock Troopers/Bombadeers,
Winterguard Unit,
Beast 09,
Behemoth,
Kodiak.

That is all I can think of for Khador.

I really want a Legion of Everblight set, but I want to get my Khador army finished first.

Waiting always sucks.

Just waiting on my mini's to arrive, and that's almost as painful as torture can get mentally. I want to paint them up to make sure they look awesome, and to see that the paintjob I want to use will work, and to get some games in and actually play some games...

Yeah .. I'm going to go nuts soon.. XD

Warmachine - Khador - Faction Book Review

To say I've seen a few codex's and source books in my time is an understatement, but most of them pale in the glory that Privateer Press has managed to cram into this book.

FULL COLOUR. Just soak that in for a second so you understand.. not 'colour sections' not 'random colour inserts' no. Every page, every single one is in full colour. The fact it cost me just around $30 staggers me. How they pulled it off for the cost is amazing.

Next is content. It's Full of stories and unit descriptions, and data on all the modles in the Khadorian force. With full colour pictures of all of them. And there is painting guides and other really usefull tips in the back.

The one thing I would have liked to see would have been possibly a couple of pages worth of the unit cards people could photocopy and use ead of the cards that you get with the mini's. (Though you can laminate those cards so I guess the point is moot)

Also a small glossary at the back or front would have helped for a quick reference for the units so you don't have to flick back and forth through the books to find information. Again a small and not nescissarily needed thing, just a personal preference that really isn't needed or detracts from the well laid out and designed book.

This is the best resource book I've bought in years. And is a great pre-cursor to how I am going to feel about Warmachines as a whole. The more imagination a game can draw out of me, the greater I am going to enjoy painting and playing it.. and this one hit the motherload.

Ordered Khaos.

Hello Blogosphere.

I start this off with a great big F*** You Games Workshop.

I have been an avid 40k player for a long.. long time.. Hell I've been playing 40k longer than some of the kids that are playing at my local club have been alive (que me feeling old). I struggled to scrape together my three armies, worked those extra hours overtime, took that extra shift, didn't buy that dvd.. just so I could get my armies up and going.. and finally found places which I could afford to get my armies to the points where they were something I enjoyed playing.. I was about to get a big chunk of cash together to buy the last of my Grey Knights together.. when the GW anti-Online Embargo of every country outside of the EU happened.. and I just.. gave up.. you know what? I don't need my third army.. I don't need GW to make anouther dollar off of me for their profit machine.. I love plastic crack.. but it's time to find a new Dealer.

And I almost imediately found one.. Privateer Press. Anouther of the members of the club I am going too suggested starting up Warmachine/Hordes as a 'Tale of 4 gamers' thing. It interested me ... then the embargo was announced.. and then I looked at the game harder.. the rules look far more ballanced, the miniatures are damn beautiful, and I am a sucker for steampunk.

So I looked over the different factions, they all had something I liked, then I opened the Khador book.. and made a girlish squee noise and fell in love. Russians.. Not the soviet block, it's the old school Imperial Russia before all the communist crap. Not only that, they have really great modles.

So after talking to a few guys, and looking a bit more into it, I ordered myself some stuff.

1 x Warmachine Prime Mk2.
1 x Khador Codex.
1 x Khador Starter Box.
1 x Widowmakers Unit.
1 x Great Bears of biglongnamehere.
1 x Manhunter (alt).
1 x War Dog.
1 x Templates and Tokens.

This is just the starter list of my army. After looking over this stuff.. I plan to have a full unit of everything there is to have.. Well almost everthing, a few of the units I dislike out of just visual thing (Doomreavers look.. and feel wrong). But I'll have most, and I'll look into magnatizing my Warjacks, so I can save a little money that way.

I also chose my colour scheme based on the picture of Sorscha and the warjack on page 41 of the Codex. This awesome looking dirty grey/snow look. I think it's going to look great.. But only time will tell.

So lets hope this will be the start of a great long funtime.