King Koopa

Libby Repose pinning - green stuff - priming

2010-10-22T09:44:00.000-07:00

Repose w/ pinning:

Green Stuff:

Bugman's

2010-10-11T09:43:00.001-07:00

Well went to Bugman's with Conesy and Paul. Gorgeous early fall drive up there.

I'm actually not sure how I ended up. I went 3-0 but there was a dabacle with points.

I ended up winning best sports and placing either 2nd (by 1 point) or tying for 1st. Either way an amazing feat with the Wood Elves!

Battle Bunker

2010-09-26T09:06:00.000-07:00

Here I am at the Battle Bunker in Chicago IL. This place was awesome, definitely need to go back.

Tournament went well, I went 2-1 with wood elves. Only loss was to a dual hydra lvl 4 sorceress list. Between the horrible rolling I had and just not enough shots to deal with the hydras I got ground down. I just didn't bring a mean enough list to be able to deal with that. But was still a great time!

BSB Part 2

2010-09-24T01:33:00.000-07:00

Got in some more work on the BSB - it is nearing completion now.
Still waiting on some copper leafs to add some additional things and tie up the basing.

Let me know your thoughts!

WE BSB - WIP

2010-09-21T01:26:00.000-07:00

Well to go with my cherry blossom theme I have started up my BSB. I need to do NMM on the sword / pike blades and still need to figure out what to do with the banner. Open to ideas... Also this will be the color scheme I will be redoing my GG in. Still have clean up / finish some blending but I think its looking decent. Still needs work, another wash to tone down high lights and touch up etc.

and once again, photo quality from my camera is poor, taking these guys over to a friends house sometime soon to have him photograph them in his booth

Any comments / critism more than welcome, give me some ideas for the banner!

WE List Contemplations

2010-09-20T00:33:00.000-07:00

I made a few modifications to my 2k list that I've had pretty decent success with. I have tournaments the next two weekends, they are no comp but as my army will be fully painted it should help with the soft score a bit. Two lists below I am considering, one with a treeman the other without any changes, ideas, thoughts, comments I could really use.

My thoughts:

The big differences are list 1 treeman : adds treesing (this would assist in allow the BSB and/or spellweaver who are hidden in the free wood to safely stay in position), a solid addition to combat to crack hordes that gives the BSB added value to the list overall and strangeroots. The scouts would pick up the role of a 2nd eagle and battle line disturbance and add 5 shots (27 shots + a strangle root in list 1) (34 shots in list 2).

List 2 ditches the scouts in favor of a few more glade guard and beefier dryad units and adds 6 warhawk riders, with vanguard and good charge range they will be charging war machines turn 2 regardless, I see this as a two part benefit - a) I feel the warhawks are sturdy enough to take some shooting and still be charging turn 2, with LoLife supporting them to boot. b) The fire drawn by the warhawk riders will be fire that is not going into either of the treekin units who will be used very aggressively.

Anyhow here is the list:

-Scouts are in because I came up 10 points short on core to swing the 2nd eagle. A bit more pricey, 5 extra shots and fill a similar role.. eh I can deal with it.

Noble and Spellweaver will hide in forest while TM treesings to keep it close to where they are needed. Dryads will stay close by in deployment in case one of them needs to look out into them. The rest is pretty straight forward.

1 Spellweaver -General - LoLife - Lvl4
1 Wand of Wych Elm
1 Talisman of Preservation

1 Wood Elf Noble -BSB
1 Armour of Destiny

2x10 Dryads

5 Glade Guard Scouts w/ Mu

10 Glade Guard w/Mu
11 Glade Guard w/Mu

2x6 Tree Kin

1 Great Eagle

1 Treeman

Alternate:

1 Spellweaver General - LoLife - Lvl 4
1 Wand of Wych Elm
1 Talisman of Preservation

1 Wood Elf Noble BSB
1 Armour of Destiny

2x12 Dryads

2x 14 Glade Guard w/ Mu

2x6 Tree Kin

6 Warhawk Riders

1 Great Eagle

Test runs with air brush

2010-09-19T19:56:00.000-07:00

Getting familiar with how the brush works, so just messed a round a bit. Tomorrow night I will get into some more formal "training" exercises.

So far lessons learned:

1. Make sure to schedule at least 30 minutes for clean up when first learning.
2. The suction tube does not have to be in the paint, you can use any amount of paint in the jar.

Treekin

2010-09-19T18:40:00.000-07:00

Well I got the 12 Treekin about 95% done. Minor touch ups and adding some more pink "fallen flowers" is the remaining steps, but I've got them to the point where I can take them to the tournament next weekend anyhow.

Colors:
Dark Flesh basecoat
Devlan Mud wash
Graveyard Earth highlights

GC: Squid Pink
Baal Red wash
P3 Carnal Pink Highlights

They really do look quite a lot better in person, especially the shrubs on the bases... this picture isn't flattering but best I can do with a phone camera.

Status Update

2010-09-13T19:20:00.000-07:00

Getting the blog established again, never really got into it previously but now I plan on maintaining army journals on here.

Anyhow, last month I finished up my dryads, need to get some pictures of those up. I've been working hard to finish up my treekin. I have one test model done the others should be done within the week. This should be a wrap to the army. I have also purchased a Blood Angels army, and an airbrush I fully intend on learning how to use! Stay tuned for pictures, airbrush learning points and thoughts on Blood Angel conversions!

Cherry Blossom Branchwraith

2009-04-25T16:00:00.001-07:00

Dryads - WIP

2009-04-14T11:03:00.000-07:00

Plan:

Dryads will be a mix of the three:

1)Tree
Undercoat: Skull White.
Washes: Skull White + Goblin Green; Black Ink + Water.
Highlights: Skull White.
Bark Pattern: Chaos Black Horizontal lines.
Leaves: Squid Pink, blood red.

2) Ghostwood
Undercoat: Skull White.
Basecoat: Desert Yellow.
Highlights: Bleached Bone, Flesh Wash, Bleached Bone again, Skull White.
Leaves: Squid Pink, blood red.

3)Black Cherry
Undercoat: Chaos Black.
Basecoat: Catachan Green.
Highlights: Codex Grey; Codex Grey + Kommando Khaki.
Leaves: squid pink, blood red

Glade Guard WIP

2009-04-08T07:42:00.001-07:00

The Plan:
Primer: White
Bases: (GC)Squid Pink, (F-GWS) Mechrite Red -> (GWS)Blood Red, (GWS)Space Wolves Grey, (P3)Menoth White Base
Washes: (GWS)Devlan Mud + water
Inks: (RMS) Blast Red
Highlights: (P3) Menoth White Highlight, (P3) Khador Red Highlight, (GC) Squid Pink + White 1:2

4/14 - Finished (minus a few touch ups to bases)

4/9/09

4/8/09

Some of my other artwork

2009-04-08T07:34:00.000-07:00

One of my first sold oil paintings:

A stained glass I did:

I dont like acrylic on canvas... leave it for miniatures!
This is my frustration being taken out on acrylic on canvas.

An attempt at modern geometrism with a bit of comedy... again I dislike acrylic on canvas but keep trying.

(WIP)An oil I've been working on for a few months off and on that I just can't get to look how I want to finish it.

An excerpt from Qingyuan

2009-04-08T06:57:00.000-07:00

Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and waters as waters.
When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and waters are not waters.
But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest.
For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and waters once again as waters.

This really opened my eyes the first time I read it, I try to think of it daily. I hope that it will impact others as it did me.