Sunday, January 29, 2012

The Cost of Our Hobby

So recently my wife got me to do an inventory for our insurance company of all of my hobby things.  As many of you can imagine this made me cry a little inside.  Its bad enough that I have thousands of dollars worth of models and board games, but actually discovering just how much makes you hurt a little.  Particularly when you think about return of investment.  I've seen people sell their armies before but the fact is you will likely never get retail out of an army, even when its painted really well.


To give you an idea of my pain I'll show you the basis for this.  Using my Dwarf Army (the only one I've actually completed the inventory for) we'll go over the cost analysis.  These prices reflect what it would cost to replace the models in today's prices also using plastic models to replace ones that I have which are old enough to be made of metal where available.  Also this is using GW only product.  I only have one model in the army that isn't GW so that's not a big deal.


Characters:
Runesmith - $15.25
Thane - $15
Thane Helga - $15
Thane (BSB) - $18.25
Engineer - $13.25
Engineer - $13.25
Dragonslayer - $15
Thorek Ironbrow - $53.75
Lord on Shieldbearers (converted with on of the Subscription White Dwarf mini's) - $30
*Of course you'd have to eBay the subscription mini at this point so we'll just replace it with the actual Shieldbearer model.
Josef Bugman - $15
Josef Bugman (Bugmans Bar Special, 2008) - $22 ($35)
*Pain is I'm not going to England so this would also have to be eBayed which is more around $35
Character Total: $238.75 


Core Troops:
20 Dwarf Warriors - $35
20 Longbeards (Metal) -$101.50
20 Thunderers - $35
10 Quarrlers - $35
Drunk Dwarfs - $17.25 
Core Total: $223.75
*Problem, the boxes don't come in groups of 20 they are in groups of 16, the idea here is that with 2 boxes of Thunderers/Quarrelers I replace all of them and have 2 additional models left to turn into Warriors.  I'll just short myself the other 2 models for the estimate


Special Troops:
20 Hammerers - $101.75
20 Miners - $49.50
10 Slayers - $49.50
15 Slayer Pirates - $82.50
2 Cannons - $25/per
2 Bolt Throwers - $38/per
1 Grudge Thrower - $38
Special Total: $ 447.25


Rare Troops:
1 Gyrocoptor - $38
2 Organ Guns - $25/per
1 Flame Cannon - $33
Rare Total: $121


Army Book - $33
Total Retail Cost: $1,063.75


Not pretty is it?  Honestly my Dwarf army is a relatively elite and small army.  Imagine an Empire army or a Skaven army.  Well I've got one of those too which I'll be inventorying at some point.  The boon of those two armies is that they are almost exclusively plastic while a big chunk of the Dwarf range, even now is still in metal.


Here's the real kicker.  Even with the price above being super high we need to give ourselves a cost analysis for painting that damned army because it is all painted.  Now I may not be a professional painter but I'm pretty damned good. After looking at about 5 different painting services I went with what I believe was one of the cheapest which is Miniature Painting Authority.  Going off of their suggestion of basic infantry lowest at $4 and medium infantry for the larger models (I'm counting the War Machines here) at the lowest of $7 we've come up with the following price cost to paint the army to a standard tabletop job.

Basic Infantry - 148*$4per - Total: $592
Medium Models - 11*7per - Total: $77
Total Cost for Painting: $669


Adding that to the retail replacement cost: $1,732.75 is the grand total for army replacement.  Admit it.  Somewhere deep down in your soul you just whimpered.  I know some of you reading this. You know your army is going to be worth WAY more than mine.


In the end you have to analyze what your hobby is worth to you.  I know I've spent loads of money on the hobby.  It doesn't honestly bother me.  Its my life and this is one of the ways that I get enjoyment out of it.  The insurance company really isn't going to like these prices when I get them all put together, but that's neither here nor there.  There was a point where I never would have thought about doing this kind of inventory, but now as I've gotten older and collected more and more things I've realized its pretty important.  If my house were to burn down how on earth would I replace it all?  I own three different armies, two blood bowl teams, a set of Warhammer Quest along with a lot of extra material for it no longer available, a full size 8x4 gaming table (a nice one, not just a piece of plywood) a ton of terrain and a whole boat load of paints/brushes/primers, etc...


I'm sure that your hobby is as important to you as mine is to me.  I highly recommend taking a look sometime for yourself.  Getting everything listed out takes a while, and then getting your insurance company to agree to the price list you've given them takes even longer.  Most insurance companies wont agree with it right off the bat so you'll have to provide photo/video documentation to go along with your lists as proof that your product actually exists.  Its hard to get it all done but in the end, should the worst happen its worth it.  Even worse is the fact that insuring large collections will increase your home owners insurance by a bit.  A necessary evil I suppose.


Now you know though and remember, knowing is half the battle.


The All American Hero!



Ryan G. ToFG: BSB Progress...

Well folks, it doesn't look like I'm going to make this month's goal.  I have made some  decent progress though. I got all 6 of my Ironguts done, and my BSB is well on his way. I'm using a Hunter model for my BSB because I had one lying about, and I didn't really see myself ever taking an actual Hunter.
This isn't the best picture, but he is coming along. I'm trying to keep him simple, but make sure that he stands out. I'm terrible with green stuff, so my goal with the big green glob in the middle is to file it down, then put something over it.  I figure that should work, right?  Anyway, just wanted to throw up some of my progress to show that I have not completely failed this month.

Cheers,
Ryan G

Friday, January 27, 2012

Joe ToFG: An Abomination!

I'm done for January, huzah!

Having tonight hit the Abomination with a dull coat he is in the finished pile.  I don't think its my best paint job ever, but I knew it wouldn't be going into it.  I've never been very good at painting up a large area of skin.  Wings, large patches of open area.  They just aren't in my skill set.

I don't think he came out terrible, but I think that a more competent painter could've done a lot more with him.

As far as changes to this model go though.  I removed the little piece of stonework that his hand would be holding, I didn't like it.  I also hated the engine and wheel thing that goes in his butt so I left those out and made a big belt to wrap around him out of green stuff that would hold that piece of armor on his back.  There is a large divot on that armor for the engine which I had to fill in and I stuck a big Skaven banner top on which isn't visible in the picture, but that's it really.  I left off all the mechanical stuff because I really didn't any of it.  So, that said though next month I literally only have to paint a Plague Furnace and my 2,500 points will be complete!

What an Abomination!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

January 8,000 Point Game

So to celebrate MLK day (that is the fact that 3 of the 4 of us were off of work and I took some PTO) the four of us got together to play a game.  Ryan brought his Ogres, Dave the Beasts me with Skaven and our friend Dan with his Warriors of Chaos to round out the 4 players.  We went for a team game and deciding that Ryan and I had the most experience separated ourselves with Dan and Dave rolling to see who ended up where.  I was teamed with Dave and his Beasts while Ryan ended up with Dan's Warriors.

To save on complications and time issues we chose not to run a scenario or any kind of crazy terrain.  with 8,000 points on the table the game was going to take plenty long enough without adding extra rules to it.  We also chose to use all 8ft of the table seeings as our 1,500 point 3 player game saw us with almost not enough room to actually deploy our armies.

With the preface out of the way we set up.



The Skaven/Beast battle here on the left, while the WoC/Ogres are pictured to the right.




Dave and I got the 1st turn and chose to essentially move very little.  We wanted the 1st round of war machine fire knowing that Ryan and Dan with almost no shooting would be looking to close the gap very quickly.  Dave had his 1 unit of 5 Ungor ambushers come up from the right flank behind Dans dogs and Marauder horsemen for harassment.  Daves other Ungor moved forward to nearly mdidle table length while all my Giant Rat units moved forward as well.  My Gutters scouted intot he central tower.

Dan and Ryans 1st turn saw some of Dans Warhounds charging the Ungors at mid table.  Ryan charged his Leadbelchers at the Gutter Runners in the tower, to which I killed on on the way in, lost 4 of 5 in combat and managed to hold on the Steadfast Leadership of 7.  Everything else moved up heavily for turn 2 and 3 combats.  You'll see the left of this picture (Dan's side of the board) that Ryan had a large Ogre unit there and Dan had both a unit of Chosen as well as some Knights that he is moving in the picture.


Me and Dave's turn 2. The Abom. made it to the Warhounds at mid table killing them. The Monks and Gor herd moved up to intercept Knights while Ryans Ogres moved for Hellpit.


I moved my Engineers out of their units into range to use their toys.  The Brass Orb thrown at the unit nearest the tower containing Ryan's Slaughtermaster missed.  The Doomrocket though which was fired at the large unit of Marauders in the bigger picture above between the two houses killed about half of them causing them to panic and run as seen in the two smaller pictures.  My Greyseer teleported behind Dan's large unit of Khorne warriors on the far left.  You can barely see it in that small picture on the left, but I killed about half of that unit with the 13th.


Combat is joined! This is the turn where all hell breaks out. I had brought my Stormvermin in the left picture up to hit what I thought would be the side of the Ogres. Sadly we faced them wrong.


This led to Ryan charging, killing and overrunning Dave's skirmishers in his turn 2 and making it into my Stormvermin which Dan had brought the remains of his Khorne Warriors into giving that unit of Ogres 2 combats for the round utterly dominating my Stormvermin unit and killing them.  His Horsemen had charged the Doomflayer accompanying the vermin and although it died it killed them in response as they fought at the same Initiative.  On the right you can my Slave unit sitting idle on the hill while my Clanrats had on our turn 2 been set up to give the flank charge on Dan's Knights should they charge the Ungor unit which they did.

This picture represents both excellent planning and the result of horrendous planning.  My Clanrats made their flank doing exactly what Dave and I had set them up to do.  The Plague Monks although having lost combat to the Chosen had held as I knew they would.  The poor planning came where the Ogres and Khorne Warriors had slaughtered a full 30 man Stormvermin unit.  It was sad.  At this point I also used my Engineer's who no longer had their toys to plug up the Ironguts to the right of that central tower.  One at a time they moved in, angled off so that Ryan would have to charge and kill and then reform to ever get towards the big units left.  I did this with both engineers separately thus plugging that unit for 2 full turns.  The best use I think I've ever gotten out of them.  Also on the far left you'll see the Abomination finishing off those Khorne warriors in the flank.  Of course it left him wide open for the Ogres but it had to be done.  Also I've never used the Abomination before so I was really wanting him to see combat.

The result from the previous combats, the Chosen have become more heavily depleted while the Knights have fled from a lost combat.  They rallied immediately after though and turned to rejoin combat in the future.  What you really can't see here is that there is a Scraplauncher behind that tower and a little to the left.  He charged my Clanrats which as you'll see in the next picture happily ran away to live another ratty day and he then failed the re-direction into the Gor herd.

This picture shows the true horrors of war.  The last engineer preparing to stuff up those Ironguts.  The Clanrats fleeing from the Scraplauncher and something I did not expect to see out there on the left.  Ryan charged his 5 Ogre's and a Bruiser BSB into my Abomination, at which point the Abomination proceeded to suffer two wounds while doling out a tremendous 10 in return!  The Ogores broke and were ran down setting the Abomination up to go and finish off that Knight unit in the next turn which they actually never got the opportunity to do.

Dave charged his Gor herd into the Knights and succesfully got off Mindrazor.  He handily chopped what remained up and with a combat reform turned to get the Leadbelchers out of the tower.  So before that happens the Leadbelchers fired off a volley and killed the Abomination.  What you can't see out on the right flank here is that the big Marauder unit that had been running at this point had rallied, and those white models just barely in frame are Dave's Bestigor getting chewed up by the Marauders Flails.  My Clanrats had rallied at the bottom and you can see one of Ryan's Gorgers having just completed eating my WLC.

Here Ryan has finally gotten his Ironguts unplugged and between them and a Gorger the Slave unit has disappeared.  His 2nd Gorger has come up and as you'll see in the final picture below finished off the Catapult as well as chased the Plague Monks off.  You can see in the right Dave's Minotaurs completely out of position to kill the oh so tasty Marauders near them as they got sidelined by one of Ryan's Sabertusks using it just as I had my Engineers.




Here we see the final moments of the game.  The Bestigor are dead, my Clanrats hiding in a tower to avoid the charge by Ironguts and Dave's Gor herd doing the same by moving past the tower to avoid the charge.  It was a truly bloody affair.  All told the damages after being added up had Dave and I in the winners circle at about 2,600points to around 1,700.  After a LONG day of playing we clocked in a truly phenomenal game with some great knowledge to take away.


Speaking of that knowledge, I can't say much about the others thoughts but I'll give mien.  The Abomination is something I probably should have been running since 1,000 points.  I hadn't because I didn't own the model and I was pretty sure I just wasn't using the army properly; I also knew it didn't have any hitting power but I had no idea how much the Abomination would fix that.  Turns out, it fixes it a LOT!  I don't want to say the army 'needs' an Abomination, but it is awfully damned helpful.  I also imagine that versus regular Infantry armies it isn't as necessary as I think I'll find it against Ogres.

I fielded two weapons teams in this game and after having tried again and again to use them previous to this I have finally decided that the internet is about as correct as they can be, in the fact that they just aren't worth the points invested.  I threw the Stormvermin away in this game, talk about a lot of points.  However this was my own fault as I'm the one who instructed Dave on how to place them.  It was my own folly not having the Skirmishers placed correctly for the re-direction.

My Warp Lightning Cannon's did absolutely nothing this game.  I've known that the WLC is something that almost needs fielded in pairs just to create the redundancy necessary for them to be effective in a competitive environment but damned this helped cinch it.  In a game where I could've really used them against some tasty it utterly failed me.  The Catapult is another waste of points.  I know I've only fielded it this one time, but literally against the army it seems designed for (Warriors of Chaos) it managed to kill only a 4 or 5 models durign the entire game.  For 10 points less I could take that 2nd WLC.

Well that's it.  I hope you all enjoyed the report.  I'll try and get the others to post here too or in the comments of this thread about what they took away from the game too.  Hopefully you'll all get something useful from the report.  Also, even though Dan isn't writing the articles with us, he is just getting that Warriors of Chaos army going I'm going to drop him a line to get his thoughts on the game as well.

Dave's Thoughts:
First off...  That was a fun game.  Skaven and Beasts made a pretty good team. For me the Gors won the MVP AGAIN!!  Every list I make MUST have a big block o' Gors.  Withering helped them blunt what would have been a storm of death that is 10 Khorne Knights and an Exalted Hero on a Juggernaught.  Dan is really improving, but dang he had it rough a few turns.  I had a wizard with pit and Joe had 13th and some Warlock toys. They never seemed to work on any of Ryan's units, but when used on Dan they always worked to full effectiveness.

What won us the match had to be how we handled our left flank. The Abomination and Gors really did the dirty work and broke it down.  Joe using his characters to effectively block up Ryan's heavy hitters.  Although Ryan stalled my Minotaur bus (like 700pts of Minotaur's).  His Sabertusks totally took them out of the game.  I really should have put them closer to the center of the line and away from those cats!  They have to be the best chaff in the game, and he really knows how to use them.

I need to work on deployment.  Having that many points out of the game could have cost us. Bestigors needed a little more support to be truely effective and it is about time I finish and use my Shard of the herdstone.  All in all, I can't wait to play another big team game.

As far as fleeing in the last turn... I will blame that on the rats!

Ryan's Thoughts:
This 8,000 point game was a lot of fun, but I have to say that it was because of playing it with friends.  Spending 5 hours playing a game this size with random opponents would not have been nearly as fun.  It is always good to get out of the house and just hang out and get a game in.

I really didn't take away anything earth shattering from this game though, just a few little things.  Number one, 8th edition is not a quicker game than 7th.  We kept the game rolling pretty smoothly the entire time, and it was still a long game.  We only looked up the random rule here and there, and just went with our gut and memory on the rest of them.

Next, the Abomination is pretty ridiculous.  I have not read all of it's options that it can do so I am hoping that there are some less than great results that it can get, but it really was a beast in this game.  It slaughtered my unit of Ogres with my BSB with ease.  Joe also did a great job slowing down my unit of 8 Ironguts with the Slaughtermaster in it.  That unit never saw a legit combat.  He just kept throwing little things in front of it to slow it down.  In the end, it killed less than 100 vp's the entire battle.

Finally, I was really disappointed in the Lore of the Great Maw spells.  Since we were playing the full eight foot table, my spells really didn't do much.  Three of the four augment spells only have a twelve inch range so I really could not support the army like I wanted to, even with them being boosted it is still only a twelve inch range.  I don't think this is the lore's fault, but if I know that I will be playing on a eight foot table again, I will most likely take two casters.

Overall I had a great time, and it really put me back into the hobby frame of mind.  I am painting again, and should have the Ironguts finished this weekend, then I just need to finish up my BSB.  Once I get him together I will throw up a picture to the blog.  Also I'd like to add, that during the bottem of turn six, both Joe and Dave chose to flee as a charge response from multiple charges instead of fighting it out.  To that I say COWARDS!

Dan's Thoughts:
This was my 3rd game of WHFB and I have to say that each time I play it gets better and better. A lot of it has to do with the ability to play with friends that know that game and are willing to spend a few seconds to help when needed. The game started great and I spread out all my units I kept thinking to myself that Ryan and I had too much and it was going to be an easy game.  Little did I know that the Skaven and Beastmen together could field so many models and are a huge force to reckon with. The sheer numbers of Skaven and Gors made some issues for my smaller units (WOC Khorne and Marauders). One big thing I did learn is, it isn't a bad idea to play around with different builds. I would honestly have taken more warriors of Khorne and left out some of the unit's I added just for fun. My unit of 3 Plague Ogres really didn't do anything and I could have poured the 150 points into the Warriors or added a few more Knights to my "deathstar" unit. I was really surprised that my chosen didn’t do better.  I rolled the +1 toughness gift at the beginning of the game and thought for sure that high point unit would have done more, but alas a large unit vs. 10 Chosen seemed to just outweigh them by numbers. I also gave them the Plague Banner and forced people to take a toughness test when in base contact with my banner holder. I think we missed it a few times though, and I may end up running these guys as Khorne or just Undivided later on.

Ryan, Joe, and Dave were awesome and able to help me with some of the tactics. I am so used to playing 40k and just putting out armored units and not having to worry about where they are placed. This is totally different and with Ryan's help I was able to place some of my units better than without. I did learn that not all "chaff" is bad.  I really thought my 10 mounted Marauders of Slannesh were more of an easy kill unit and was surprised that it lasted as long as it did and was able to clear out some smaller units. I also learned that it is not the best idea to place your sorcerer into a unit of Marauders. A few hits caused them to fall back and run away because of bad leadership rolls and spent 2 turns unable to cast any of the spells I had. I think in the future I may end up putting the sorcerer in a unit that may be better suited for combat.

All in all the game went really well.  I’m happy and feel like I learned a lot. The downside of this is that some rules questions came up about a few small things and felt out of the loop because it was rulings for a tournament type of setting, but alas that’s my fault because I haven't played in an actual tournament yet.  I do plan on spending some more time reading some of the rules more and going thru my army book to see if I can tweak the army a little. I’d also like to add is some sort of artillery (either a Hellcanon or CD Magma Cannon). I really think having a unit like that may have helped to stave off some of the larger Beastmen units and Skaven blocks.  All said, I can't wait for the next game.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Chuck ToFG: Ironblaster

Well figured I would post the start and semi-assembly WIP and give an update.  This is a dual cannon from the Ironblaster from which I have already partially assembled and painted.  95% of the model is already assembled and about 20% painted.  All parts are glued just not assembled.  It is smarter at this point to piece the model together as the painting is being completed because of areas that are hard to get to.  Hopefully, by the end of Feb. we will have this ready to put on the field.  The Steam tank molds came out ok but I didn't use those in the final product.  Though you can see the Steam engine portion in the front as the driving force of the cannon, replacing the Rhino.


Ironblaster!

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Ryan G. ToFG: Dec. Recap

Good evening to all you Waaagh-ladites out there.  I just wanted to throw up my December report to the blog real quick.  December was an appauling month for me, as it had the holidays, and then I went on a vacation at the begining of January.  I did manage to get 4 things painted though.  I finished my Butcher, Gorger, and 2 Ironguts.

The Butcher which I'll be using as my Slaughtermaster in the 2000 point list.  I tried to  a few things to make him stand out, his Iron Gob and chains of gold instead of silver.  I also went over the blood on his apron with gloss varnish to give it a wet look.  I'm still in the air about the blood, not sure how hard it'd be to correct now that it has varnish on it.  I cut his top knot hair off as I hate that look.  Even with my 40k Orks, I cut them off.



I wasn't sure how I was going to paint my Gorger's since I'm doing an African theme.  After thinking it over, I figured they would still be pale even in Africa based on their fluff, so that's what I did.  I added red to the mix to try and get some definition on them and figured they may get  sunburnt in the process.  I haven't heard much about the Gorger's this edition, but I like them.  I like ambush and unbreakable, but turn 3 combat is rough.  I plan on taking 2 at 2,000.





I quite like how the light grey is contrasting with the dark skin on my Ogres.  The pictures don't really do it justice, but it really makes them pop.  Ironguts are probably the easiest models I have painted so far, as so much of them is just metal.  Overall, I like how things are coming along quite nicely.



I also recieved a Stonehorn/Thundertusk for christmas this year, and was just wondering if any of you had play tested them and which you liked better.  I have not tested either one, but I'm leaning more towards the Stonehorn because it is a better fit for my play style.  Run it straight at my opponent and hope for the best.  Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.



For my 2,000 point army, I'll be upgrading the butcher to a level 4 Slaughtermaster, adding another Gorger, and converting a Hunter model into a Bruiser BSB.  I also got 6 more Ironguts left over from last month that I have to finish painting up.

The above will put my 2000 point list as follows:
  • Slaughtermaster - level 4.  I didn't give him armor as that is against the spirit of the rules, and did not want to be a wonky power gamer. *cough*Chuck*cough*
  • Bruiser BSB
  • 2 Units of 7 Ogres w/full command
  • 1 Unit of 4 Leadbelchers
  • Scraplauncher
  • 2 individual Sabertusks
  • 1 Unit of 8 Ironguts w/ full command
  • 2 individual Gorgers
This puts me at 2000 point exactly.

Also, to Wallshammer who suggested I try out purple wash on my Ogres I wanted to let you know that I did try it, but I like the way the black wash looks better.  Thank you for the suggestion, and I look forward to any others that you or anyone else has. 

Finally, Dan is the other local guy that is not participating in the ToFG, but is joining us for the big battle's at the end of each month so they are more even.  If you want, you can follow him at: http://www.clangclangdie.blogspot.com
 
Cheers,
RyanG


Friday, January 13, 2012

Orc'z is da best!

As I continue plugging away on my WHQ set as well as my Skaven tonight brought me to the finish of the WHQ Orc models.  You can see the hand weapon shield ones in a post below, and here are the ones armed with bows.  Again, no white box; but when I do actually have it finished I will be taking higher quality pictures.


Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Chuck ToFG: Ogre Update

Updating Everyone with my list for January.  I am now pumping it up to 2,000 points.

Total Roster Cost: 1994

Slaughtermaster
      1 Biting Blade
      1 Charmed Shield
      1 Greedy Fist
Bruiser   
      1 Enchanted Shield
      1 The Other Trickster's Shard
Ogres (12#, 407 pts)
   11 Ogres FC +HW, LA
6 Leadbelchers, musician
1 Sabretusks, 21 pts x3
3 Maneaters, bellower, standard, brace of pistols, light armor
      1 Banner of Eternal Flame
2 Ogre Mournfang Cavalry, bellower, heavy armor, ironfist
2 Ogre Mournfang Cavalry ironfist, standard, heavy armor
5 Ironguts, 235 pts = 5 * 43 (base cost 43) + Bellower Mus 10 + Standard Bearer Std 10
10 Gnoblar, 35 pts musician


This is a picture of a trial run with the ogres before I broke up the mournfang calvary into 2 units. I then upgraded the Leadbelchers to 6 and dropped a Ironbreaker to make room.  The large unit of Bulls houses the characters and varies its own formation to maximize attacks or ranks depending on the situation.  My Adepticon list will hopefully see a unit of Gnoblars addeda nd a Large Ironblaster cannon thats a WIP now.  Additionally I am putting the final touches on a large BSB with the Ogre from the IronBlaster Kit.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

WHQ Orcs, Rats and a little something else...

So I said I'd get something up soon and here's what I have.  I'd put up pictures for ToFG but all I've been doing are Stormvermin which are pretty boring.  I have however completed the 6 Orcs with Sword/Shield for WHQ along with the 12 Giant Rats.


 Click for the big picture as usual.  I'm pretty happy with the way the old school shield on the one Orc came out with the read face type emblem.  Giant Rats we're nothing particularly special.  Sorry the pictures aren't better but I didn't feel like getting the whitebox out.


Also I've cast my 1st two pieces for a project I'm working on.  I'm trying to scratch build an Empire War Wagon from back in the day.  Since the piece currently goes on eBay and such for around $150 I'm trying to do it for significantly less.  These will be the sides of the cart.  A lot of air bubbles, but nothing some Liquid GS wont fix.


Saturday, January 7, 2012

Joe F. ToFG: 2,000pts.

Okay, so we all know that December was terribly lackluster in terms of our games/painting/hobby went.  I finished some small things but not a single one of us managed to complete our goal for last month and even worse I think we only really got 2 games in between all 4 of us that we wrote reports for.

Still with all that we are in January now and technically at our 2,000 point level.  I'm about 10 models shy of completing my Stormvermin unit, and in liu of not having time and deciding that I'll probably never use them otherwise I've begun using my 2 completed Rat Ogre as unit fillers to buff the Clanrats up to 35.  Convenient I know.

The best thing about 2,000 points is that I don't have to add much.  This month will see me hapilly adding only 2 models tot he army.  A Greyseer (who I actually painted last month for a tournament) and an Abomination which I have assembled but still need to green stuff some of the line work on and paint.  Give the Abomination Warpstone Spikes and that's 490 points of my 500 points for the month.  Excellent choices!

Keep tuned, I'll do my best to get some stuff posted soon!