Monday 25 June 2012

Lizardmen reboot

So while waiting to see what exactly this past Saturday would bring in terms of 40k, I invited a couple of mates out to play a game of Fantasy!  As always we took it about as seriously as a circus act!

Now I must say that as of RIGHT now I much prefer Fantasy to 40k ( I still bought the Gamers Edition of 6th!) and I love 8th edition more than just about any previous edition I have played (I started back in 2nd edition, with the High Elf and Goblin box set!).  I am not a serious gamer by any means.  For me the joy is trawling through background, creating any army and then proceeding to play a game and throw a bunch of dice!

I love the narrative that naturally comes out of a game, for example in the Storm of Magic game I played, my friend took Dwarfs and then proceeded to add a Fimir, who did very little, except miscast and blow himself and his fulcrum to smithereens!  Just goes to show that the Dwarfs should have put their faith in the Runesmiths and not tricksy daemon-spawn!

Anyway I digress, after this game my friends and I worked out a few more rules for a campaign weekend we want to run soon, and I began mulling over what army I could take!  I was originally going to take Tomb Kings, but I need to buy a few more things for them and I want an airbrush to finish painting them.

One friend is going to borrow my Ogres, so that rules them out, so what could I take?

Then it hit me!  Knowing we were going to have a great big 4 way Storm of Magic game I could dust off and reboot my Lizardmen!  I always loved Dinosaurs, and have dabbled in Lizardmen since 3rd edition!

Even better, next to nothing was painted for my Lizardmen, as until recently I could have cared less about actually completing an army!  I have enjoyed working with the new Citadel paints and bright colours on the Mondrian Necrons, and wanted to keep going with that.

A quick flick through the army book, new and old and I had landed on doing a Sacred host of Tepok!  Purple dinosaurs! And sadly I just then realised that  I will have to name one of them Barney (sigh)


The frog who went to get the milk, his Palanquin was already done, so I just popped him off and gave him a fresh coat of paint!  I will most likely run him with Light magic, the bonuses to WS and I sounds very solid buffs for Saurus!


Engine of the Gods!!!!  I love this thing, so much potential and takes a few hits and focus away from the Slann!



Not entirely sure how effective this guy will be, but I have always liked the idea behind the cloak of feathers, and a Slann taking over his mind to cast spells!



I haven't got a spot in the list for this guy yet, but a Dinosaur named after the King of the Dinobots? Yes please! At the very least he will see action during the Storm of Magic game!

Still on the bench to paint are 40 old school skinks, 10 Cold Ones, 40 Saurus and 16 Temple guard and an old school stegadon!  Then to get some chameleon skinks and I will be where I am happy to have some variety and choices putting a list together!

And in between all that I will have my "counts as" Executioners Thusla Kane arrive, 6th edition of 40k to pour over and signing up to finally do university (only been a "gap year" of around 13 years in length!)

Phew!

Monday 11 June 2012

Compulsive non finishing!

G'day!

Seems like I have once again started something with all intentions of following through and not doing exactly that!  Oh well lets give this another crack!

I have been busy (ish) since my last post.  On the Marine front, I started painting some Crimson Fists, thanks to the anniversary model, and some Forge World goodness.



Pretty happy with the results and it is a nice easy paint job.  Start with Necron Abyss and then dry bush right up to ice blue.  Follow with a nice heavy wash of Asurmen blue.  I used this technic based on an article I read on Kantor Base.  Hugely helpful!
The bases are from Back 2 Base-ix as I was planning.  These are great quality resin bases made right here in Australia.  I also added some Swamp Tuft from Army Painter that I won in a local Blood Bowl tournament for my Lizardmen Stadium.

I have also added some paint to the man eaters that I showed last post.


The water turned out really well I think, it was simply some sausages of green stuff that I flattened down one edge in a rough uneven manner to try and create some ripple.

Below is a purchase that I would not have made if not for my 5 year old son and his love of skeletons!  Amongst everything else, he told me one day he wanted some "Space Skeletons" and he wanted me to paint them!  How can you argue with a kid who wants you to buy more miniatures??


Painting and theme wise I decided to do something quite different.  I had been watching an episode of Grand Designs Australia and one of the people on there wanted a Mondrian inspired interior.  I determined at that moment to tap into my dutch heritage and do something outside the box.

All bodies in the army will be a nice rich red, all vehicle blue, all weapons green.  Cloaks will be yellow and detail white or black.  I plan on placing them on some sort of tiled base and continue with the Mondrian look on those with nice big white flag stones, black lines between and primary colours on some of the smaller flagstones.

The barge has been painted using only the new citadel paints and they are a pleasure to use.  Each colour I started with Base paint and then built it up through layers, followed by a shade and then a glaze.  The white has gone straight over the top of these colours in practically one layer!

The other thing about the new paints is I have no found a way to the Executioners armour justice and in an easy enough method for my poor painting ability!  Again simply dry brushing starting with Leadbelcher Base and working right through to Runefang steel.  Wash with the new blue shade, and then two covers with the blue glaze and you end up with this:


Bad iPhone picture I know, but you get the idea.  A really nice blue steel look, now to just win the lottery and buy everything I need and I will be good!  I still want to wait for 6th to make any MAJOR purchases for these guys, but may well end up buying some more older mark armour from Forge World.  I figure there will always be Tac marines and a veteran squad of some sort should be fine!

Ok well I think that just about brings me up to date!  I will try and post more regularly from now on.  really I will!