Update 9/30/14 - Nurgle

Well I finally took some time to paint.  Did I paint my witch hunters?  Nah.  Touch-up the DoA?  Nope.  I decided to put one color on some Nurgle BBers.  I have been interested in techniques for rotting flesh.  I had some extra color on the palette so I painted a couple areas on a Nurgle warrior and a Pestigor as well.

The one I wanted to try was the flesh on the rotter.  I put down layers of VMC Germ. WWII Beige and followed it up with a sepia wash.  It will be dry by tonight so I should get to do more tonight.

Rotter

Pesty

Nurgle Warrior

These pictures are more to refresh my memory as to what I'm doing.

Storytime - Mordheim - Getting My Feet Wet

"It's time boy.  You ready?"

"Let's do this."

The oaken door opened onto a dark, dark night.  Kihot is leading us to the western ourskirts of thecity.  Our group has no formation, no rank as we take the long walk toward the trouble.  There have been reports of strange happens beyond the farm lands that surround this area.  Missing livestock, dried up wells, diseased fields.  It is unknown what exactly is causing it but we know it must be stopped.

Brat Khresti raises his hammer as a signal to stop our movement.

"There" warns Khresti.

He motions with the hammer in the direction of a large barn off in the distance.  (How can he see, it's pitch black out here?)  There's no moon to light the sky and our torches make it impossible to see that far.

"They're coming this way. Extinguish your torches."

The darkness is now upon us.  As my eyes adjust in time to see the door of a small, nearby hovel close.

"Slesh, secure that building." commands Kihot

Vtrara and Palomnyk take up their positions at the sides of Kihot and Brat Khresti.  Fanatyk, Oderzymi, and Synyak head out to the left of the order.  And finally, Chayst and myself head to the right.  The fight begins now.

Get to Work!

Oh time, time where did you go?  September has gotten away from me on the hobby front.  I did take part in the US Blood Bowl major, Chaos Cup.  It had record breaking attendance and I wish I could say record breaking play from me.  But, oh well, 2-2-2 is okay I suppose.

Before that some storms decided to roll through the neighbor leaving us without power for three days and then giving me three more days of glorious yard work to complete.  Now things are back to normal so I’ll be able to start more painting.  I also really need to get to build my table, too.

I played my first game of Mordheim with my Witch Hunters against my friend Randroid and his Undead.  We tied in objectives but he knocked all of my Flagellants and one hero out of the game.  So he did much more damage to me.  I haven’t finished painting up the warband so that will be the first painting task.

Here is my To-Do-List (This should last me at least until the end of the year):

• Finish my warband
• Build 4’x 4’ table
• Touch up my DoA
• Build my human team
• Fix a friend’s Undead/Necro team
• Re-paint a Nurgle team that was painted by someone else
• Misc (just on here to justify wasting time on unimportant stuff)

That is more than enough to last me.

Mordheim Update 8/26/14 - Zealots Almost Done

Zealots

It's been more than a week since I last posted on here.  The fact that I did little-to-no work on my warband is a little disappointing but I got stuff done around the house.  In all this time I didn't get to work on my table idea or terrain either.  Last week was a blur.  Oh well back to some hobby time.

I was able to get an outstanding hour and a half in last night.  The majority of the work actually went into doing the final touches on the green-stuff cloaks for my Witch Hunters and their captain.  I'll put some pics up on that probably tomorrow.  I also finished up the cloaks on the three flagellants.  But this post is dedicated to the almost-done zealots.

I wanted to try a few things on these guys and all-in-all I'm pretty happy with them.  The story goes that they were former soldiers turned, well, zealous.  This meant I wanted their uniform and armor to appear broken down and dirty but to hint at former glory.  Not ambitious at all, I know.  Here's what I did.  Before I primed them I went crazy on them with my hobby knife.  With the base coats I painted them up pretty bright with yellow and blue uniforms and metallic silver armor.  Then I used multiple brown washes to "dirty" them up.  I wanted to give a sky-earth feel to the metal but wasn't sure enough of myself to do NMM.  Instead I used brown washes to give the earth feel and mixed up some blue, white, and tan colors with allot of medium to make up my own "sky-wash."  Here are some pictures.

The sky earth feel is a little heavy but it works for a first try.

I think they are sufficiently dirty.

I just need to finish up their bases and do some small touch-ups and they're good enough for me.

Mordheim Update 8/15/14 - Flagellant Accent Colors

Alright!   I made a whole 25 minutes for painting last night.  I decided to glaze the other two flagellants.  Until I get them finished they won't be giveen their proper names so I'll refer to them as red, yellow, and green.  Red has an orange accent.  Yellow has a green accent.  And the green one has a red accent.

Red doesn't have a front accent

... to the back

If I get some time this weekend maybe I can finish these three.

Storytime - Mordheim - Dinner

I am utterly exhausted.  I thought I was more than prepared to take on this task.  All I want to do is rest.  Right now the bare rocky ground would be welcomed.  My eyelids are so heavy, my muscles are so sore.  We enter the building.  I don’t have a room of my own to slink into so I shuffle toward the great room.  That makeshift cot is there.  Ah, sleep.  Brat Khresti has left me to go to his quarters.  I open the door daydreaming and yearning for the approaching sleep.

Oh man…

The disappointment was evident on my face.  Eight sets of eyes look up at me.  I think I’ve interrupted dinner.  Dinner.  Yeah, yeah, I am hungry.  I pull up a chair and reach for some bread.  The eyes that looked up at me now pierced my skin.  Just the weight of the stares stops my hand.

"Hungry?"  Kihot questioned.

"Yeah."  I said sheepishly

"Do you think that's for you?"

"Uhm..."

"What did you do to earn that?"

"Nothing"

"Do you still think you should do that?"

"I need food.  I can go get some bread from my bag, I can pitch in."

"I don't think you can."

The fearful look on my face was now replaced by a look of confusion.

"That is the bread from your bag.  It's a treat for us. No mold.  We couldn't resist."  Kihot chuckled.

The confusion was replaced with relief.

"Dig in!"

Mordheim Update 8/13/14 - Red Flagellant's Accent Color

I squeezed in about 20 minutes worth of painting last night and decided to do the accent flap on the "red" flagellant.  I decided to do his flap in an orange color.  I used VMC Flat Brown, VMC Germ. WWII Beige, and P3 Khador Red Highlight to mix up different glazes.  I happy with the way it came out.  I think I like how this method turns out but it takes a long time.  The area I painted was tiny.  I added a touch of VMC Off-White to the last layer.  This is how it looks.

20 minutes and all I painted was that little flap

I think it looks sufficiently dingy for the type of life he leads.  His robe looks chalky from the basecoat so I'll try to fix that.   The other flagellants didn't do that so I must have messed up on the colors on him, I don't know, but at least I only need to fix one and not three.