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How do you folks do it?  This is the first time I've assembled this level and amount of the plastic crack, and it is crazy time consuming.  I'm just building the Stormcast half of the starter box and it is taking forever.  I've worked on them for about 4 hours (not in a row), and I've put together all ten Liberators (minus the shields), 2 of the Prosecutors (minus the wings), and 90% of the Retributors.  I don't intend to leave the wings off but I have to find the perfect time to try to attach them.  I'm a bit shaky.  

I think I'll finish up building the final Prosecutor, the wings, and the Retributors.  Then I'm going to do the extra prep before priming; green stuff, damage, cleaning.

I think I'm going to take a break from building after that.  Painting is much, much more fun for me and I need to keep interest.  I have some Blood Bowl teams in desperate need of being finished and my long forgotten Mordheim warband needs some attention too.3

I haven't had much luck with schedules but I'm going to try some deadlines.

General:  Fridays Post Updates other posts as I see fit. 

Feb 3:  Finish current Stormcast build.

Feb 10:  Blood Bowl touch ups.

Feb 17:  Build Relictor

Feb 24:  Mordheim touch ups

Got A Letter in the Mail

Opened it up, sure enough, they we were arm in arm again.

The box came today.  Guess I need to do some building, cleaning, and fixing.  Then I can wash them and prime.  This is not my favorite task but it has to be done.  I was able to practice my color options on some other models I had.

I opened up the box to see what I got.  I knew what was in it but it was still fun to check it out.

Okay so I'm building the Stormcast so I think I'll start with the "standard" unit, the liberators.

I've watched a few painting videos and it appears that the best option is the leave the shields off  to have better access to the models.    

Here is the first set of builds, minus shields:

1st 4 Liberators

Notes from build:

1. Halo thingies are super fiddle-ly
2. Mold lines

Next:

1. Green stuff
2. Damage with hobby knife
3. Clean
4. Prime

Been a Long Time

My last post was over 4 months ago?  What have I been doing?  Not painting that's for sure.  The last four months have been a bit of a gut punch, but life happens to everyone.  OK, here's to now.

In that time Randroid finally got me to play some AoS... shockingly (not really) I had fun.  So naturally, I needed to pick a faction.  I went into it trying to find the group with the models I like most.  The image I had in my head didn't fit anything I saw on the GW website.  I thought the Khorne models seemed the best of what I saw but the fluff didn't suit me.  I didn't care for the human models as much and I don't like the "cone-head" elf stuff.  But digging through I found some dark elf and wood elf models that didn't have the cones, so I started there.  I use extremely rudimentary graphic skills to edit color options on pictures of the models.  This helped me find a color scheme I liked.  Then I added some Sylvaneth characters and some Stormcast stuff.  I had an army plan!  Then I looked into price and synergy and my idea went up in a cloud of smoke.  They wouldn't work together well without adding other pieces I didn't care for and the price was climbing.

In reflecting on that scenario I was looking for other cheaper ideas.  I stumbled across a picture of a Stormcast Eternal painted in a scheme very close to the one in my head. I didn't are for the golden blob I saw in other pics but these caught my eye.  Also them being in the starter set made them a good price option too.  So that settled it.  I'm gonna be Stormcast.

Here are some of my quick ideas for the faction.  

Lord C

Dray

Wing 1

Wing 2

Ax

Chaos Cup Legacy Vampire

This year's Chaos Cup Legacy team is Vampires and here is my player donation to this year's team.

The figure I used is produced by Willy Miniatures.  He comes with a cape that can be attached or left off. The back is fully sculpted so I didn't need to do any extra work on him.

I didn't attach the cape and drew up an idea for how I wanted him to look.

Here's the final product.

Rounding Out the Team - Part 2

Final Chaos Dwarf - Chaos Cup Legacy team that was missing some positionals.

Colors Used:
Beard: VMC Black/Brown, VMC Flat Brown, Citadel Agrax Earth
Armor:  VMC Flat Brown,  P3 Khador Red Highlight, Citadel Dwarf Bronze, Citadel Runefang Steel, Citadel Carroburg Crimson
Non-Armor Metal: Citadel Chainmail, Citadel Runefang Steel, Citadel Agrax Earth
Cloth/Shirt: Citadel The Fang, VMC Off-White, VMC Black
Outlining/Shadows: VMC Black

Techniques Used:
Wet Blending, Layering, Glazing

Basing:  Black Rim, Flock

Here he is done:

I will be using this team at Chaos Cup 2016, here's a final team shot.

Terrible photography is kinda my thing.

Chaos Cup Legacy Display Base, part 2

I'm very excited.  For multiple reasons.  The display base has turned out pretty well.  I drew up some chicken scratch drawings of how I wanted the base to look.  All-in-all the main features worked out. There was only one feature I wanted to add but it didn't work out.  My goal, with the base, was to add a little atmosphere but not take away from the team.

I added a black and brown wash to the "seems" in the floor and a black rim around the base.

The outside of the block walls needed some weathering.  I've never done any weathering so this was a learning experience and it was fun to see how it came out.

I connected the wall to the base and matte varnished the whole thing.  Here it is with a random figure for size reference.

Okay, here it is.

Chaos Cup Legacy Display Base, part 1

As stated many times previous, I won the Chaos Cup 2015 Legacy Team which was Chaos Dwarfs. This year I volunteered to organize the team.  This year's team is Vampires.  I got slightly less involvement than I expected but there still time to prove that thought wrong. As of today 13 to 14 people have pledged  donations of some type.  The team will have all 6 vampires, 8 plus thralls, (hopefully) some stars or sideline figures, a pitch and a display base.

When I started this gig I stated I would show the display board by 8/22, today.  Now it's not finished but it is far enough along to include a photo just so you can see how it's coming along.

The bottom of the base is an 8" x 8" piece of craft wood.  I covered it with some epoxy putty and added texturing to it with a rock from outside my house.  I used a clay-shaper to mark in the outlines of the "flagstone" flooring.  I then primed the floor and gave it a black base-coat. I use black, grey, and white paints in many mixes to dry-brush the "flagstone".  I built a wall section into the corner to give the base some height. The walls are 8x2 prong building blocks that were covered in filler to take away some of their distinctive features.  The wall was primed and dry-brushed in the same way as the floor.  I made a wash out of some burnt umber acrylic paint ant water.  I slapped that on and then used a cloth to dab it off.

I plan to do more to it before it's done and I will post the final product here too.