My Menoth army in all its fully paint'edness!

So, here's a few pics of my Menoth army and all that I've painted and finished this far.










Monolith + Holy Zealots and Reckoner and warjacks
(I am very pleased with the stone effect on the Zealots menofix as well as on the weapons on the Reckoner.)











Hierophant and Choir of Menoth
(I think the menofix on the Choir Priest turned out pretty sweet.)










Eiryss and Bastions
(Eyriss cloak was painted with nothing but Thraka green wash, up from a white basecoat.)










Full army shots.
(Pics of the Wracks will be up later, the other cameras batteries went out while taking pictures...)

15p Menoth Vs. Circle

I know, it's getting a bit dull reading about me getting my ass kicked all the time but that's all I can give you at the moment. :C

We tried to go for a quick game, but it took us two hours to complete (still a bit noobish I suppose).

This time we didn't take notes when fighting but my friend took a few pics to show off all of our (... my...) new terrain. It looks marvellous, not even since my older 40k days have I played on such a diverse and awesome battlefield with a wizard tower, two ruins, four patches of forests (a few too many when fighting Circle...) and a hill, all of it painted and ready.











(Please excuse the bags in the background, we had laundry day...)











Thoughts from the battle:

• My opponents feeble double-1 roll on his last Lord of the Feast-attack on my last Bastion. That was _quite_ satisfying.
  Unless you consider the fact that he had just killed the other two Bastions, and then later went on to almost kill my Caster after butchering most of my choir. (Lord of the Feast is retarded awesome, at least on this level.)
• My own feeble double-1 roll during my feat turn while trying to roast his Argos (with it's survival, this critical miss most likely cost me the entire game... Stupid Repenter...).
  
• My opponents inability to roll anything beneath average (except for the above statement).
• He took down my last boxes on pKreoss with his Warlock on his very last roll for his turn. The EXACT amount of boxes. Insane.
• My Repenter survived the attacks from a Woldwarden (for two turns) and one Gorax (for one turn) without any system failures. That rocked. Even though I will never forgive him for his critical miss.
  
• I lost because I have not yet painted ALL of my army. The dice gods do not favour me yet...

... until next time tree huggers, until next time...

Terrain time: Ruins of SvFF

First off, apologies for the crappy pic-quality, I took the shots with my iPhone3gs in bad lighting.

So, I'm currently working on a few wall sections, but got sidetracked when I found a bunch of old 40k ruins (from 3rd edition I think) and decided to make a small ruined building.

I found a few 40k bits to use, and clipped and snapped a few sprue pieces and glued a bunch of small rocks to the base as well.
I found one of the brass sprues with leaves and small branches from the Fantasy Basing Kit and glued them to the side of one of the corner pillars.

At first, I thought I would just turn this into a generic ruin, but after todays totally idiotic decision from the swedish football association (SvFF) I changed one small thing during the painting process.
































I sprayed it black, gave it a drybrush with Citadel Foundation Adeptus Battlegrey, a lighter wash of Codex Grey, and for the floor tiles I used a mix between the old Citadel Brown Wash and Scorched Brown, with a drybrush with Bestial Brown, and after that a Devlan Mud wash.

The point was to make it feel abandoned and starting to get overgrown, and I think it turned out good. :)

Terrain time: Tower of Gargamel

Hello.

After nerd-raging over the swedish football association's latest moronic decision I felt that I needed something else to do, to take my mind off of things.

So, back to the tower I was teasing about a few posts ago, it is now done (might add a few bits when I find my bits box again...).

In case any one is interested, it is made out of a pringles tube, an empty toilet paper roll, loads of cardboard and thin card.
To get the rough surface I used some filler, and also used it to cover the holes in the base where I used cardboard to make the tower feel higher.

I then sprayed it white (using Army Painters White Primer... since it's utter rubbish using on miniatures), gave it a nice greyish wash and drybrushed it with white. The door and windows were painted in gold and then got a Gryphonne Sepia wash.
For the roof tiles I just washed them with Citadels old Blue Wash (not available anymore) as it coats a bit better than their new one.

For the base I used a few bits from GW's fantasy basing kit, just to show that the wizard living in this (tidy and fairly clean) tower is serious business.
In case you can't see it from the poor quality there's a pile of skeletons, a horse skeleton, a chaos star and a broken shield.

Turned out pretty nice I think, could maybe do with a few more "dirty" washes to make it look a bit more intimidating, and also a few more bits to make it stand out better.

(Just another angle to show the lean-out tower top.)
It took me a total of two or three nights to finish, although the nights were spread out with about three weeks in between...

So, usable in WHFB or WM alike. Could probably use it in a "backwards planet" gaming table in 40k as well I guess.

Absence! (... and a tower.)

My apologies for being absent this long, summer time and vacation and trips and stuff came across my blogging, hopefully it will be a bit more frequent now that I'm back!

As a little teaser, here's a WIP of my wizard tower called "Gargamels Tower" (not the sexual wizard tower... Robert...).

Made out of a pringles tube, a toilet paper roll, shitloads of thin card, a few bits from GW's fantasy basing kit (a few really good pieces in it to be honest).

I used some filler to get a nice surface to paintas well as covering up spots on the cardboard at the base.

The most time consuming bit was cutting and gluing all the individual roof panels on...

Gaming Table

Just "finished" mine and my friends' gaming table/s.
We bought a gaming mat off of GW and glued it to 4 pieces of chipboard.
Unfortunately the mat is only 6x4 feet and we needed 8x4, so I "made" an extra with some sand and static grass.
Unfortunately (2) the static grass and the grass on the gaming mat didn't have the same green tone, DOH, so I'll have to fix some more static grass tomorrow and fix that up.

Anyhowz, some pictures of the two pieces I'm gonna keep, showing of a few of my WM mini's as well.

As you can see there are a few lines with lighter green, that was where I "repaired" the gaming mat pieces I glued to the second board.
Looks a little silly but I'll fix it up in no time.

So each gaming table consists of two pieces of 2x4 feet, and you can of course put all four of them together for a really large table (8x4ft) if needed.

(Terrain is mostly from the 4th edition 40kbox, the crashed lander, and a printed and glued house, and a homemade ruin.)



Had to show off my minis on the new table. :)