Mordheim Madness

The City of the Dammed has been overrun by the vile Skaven and the only thing stopping them is the Brave men of the Empire. Under ash choked skies, the factions of the Old World battle for glory and domination over the lost City.

Early skirmish reports, tell the tale of victory for the Mutilator and his minions. In a desperate fight around the Forgotten Tomb, the overwhelming numbers of Rat-men were the undoing of Walter and his Mercenaries. The reward was rich one as the Skaven chased off their beaten foes. A  Incredible bounty of Wyrdstone was the prize, fueling future hopes of Skaven glory.

In the aftermath, despite the rich haul of loot, the seer of the Skaven war band was gravely injured and must spend time healing the wound. While the Empire with it's numerous wounded warriors made out of rather well without loss or other setback. Now each side stands poised to battle once more in The City of the Dammed. 

Official P.Y.T. Birthday Give-Away!!!

Alright, my little gimmick has hit a snag. I completely forgot why I still had the Chaos Lord around in the first place. I have been reprimanded. So, I also must apologize and withdraw it from the giveaway. I don’t think anyone really cares, but that’s the way it is.

So, the “Genestealers Giveaway” is still on. However, to make up for my goof up, I’m going to raffle something a bit more interesting. The only thing I have more of than painted models... BITZ. As you can plainly see the bag is rather large and could contain countless different pieces.

Join the blog before the end of Wednesday, March 16^th and you will be entered into a lottery raffle for this huge bag of random Games Workshop Bitz. It’s that Plain and simple. The Drawing for the Hybrids and Bag o' Bitz will be announced on March Saturday March 19^th.

Once I announce the winner, you will need to email me with a mailing address to claim the prize. You will have until March 23rd. to respond otherwise, I'll just raffle it off again. My email can be found in the side bar of the blog. The package will be delivered U.S Mail and shipped securely. If you happen to live outside the States or Canada, I will try to mail it to you, but as long as it doesn't cost me a cliche.

That’s all I got for today, since the weather is going to be respectable. I’m going to try to go out to the garage and take some family photos of the Dark Eldar army.

Painted Clanrats

White balance is a bit off. I need to start checking my camera's settings now that I'm not using the light tent. I'm still considering a very small amount of static grass for this army, but for now they're fighting on mordheim-style rubble and soot.

Paint your Toys:Two years later.

Whoooo Hooooo!!!

If you don't want listen to me wax moronic skip down to the....

What can be said? March 11th, Two year ago, I started this blog. I missed last year's anniversary; I fell off the wagon for about 4 months or so.... Besides that little hiccup. Since June of last year, I've made it a point to blog and here we are.

Fun Fact: I've been playing Toy Soldiers for almost 25 years, but this whole "Warhammer/Internet" deal is still new to me. Heck, I didn't start reading the "Forums" till around late 07'.

No, I'm not a Luddite; I'm just Lazy and too busy painting my toys.

Why did I start this Blog?

Well honesty, it was just for three of my gaming buddies in three different locations. They wanted to see what I'd been painting and this was the easiest method to do so. Anybody else? Really, I wasn't expecting anyone to take much of an interest, but it looked like fun.

That's it.

No Dreams of Internet Stardom.
No Delusions of Grandeur.

Just Paint.

I'm glad everyone likes the blog. I must offer a sincere and most grateful Thank you to everybody who's taken the time to read/join my blog and who's commented on my stuff. (Google Analytics tells me everything.) I may not have hundreds of readers, but I have the best. They keep my little blog quite lively. I'm very appreciative of this fact. I'm still baffled by the number of people read it.

I know it doesn't mean much, but I do try to comment on at least one blog everyday just show folks somebody's listening. It's my only way of giving back and supporting my other bloggers. I like comments, so I figures, other folks do too. The the best advice I can give on blogging is to be active.

What do I enjoy the most? The "community" that happens to be slowly building as we network across the inter-webs. Some of these guys around the Blog-Sphere do some amazing work that really inspires me. No matter what, I'm very pleased to be part of this experience.

The pictures are all my gaming shelves (pardon the dust) because I couldn't think of anything else to photograph for this post. For the most part, this is all my painted stuff... without the new Dark Eldar. EDIT: I went back and took a few more pictures and added them to the spam post.

One last note: Zealot and I have decided to join forces to better promote the awesomeness that is the all "painted game" experience. Now you can look forward to seeing all his work here in the near future. Plus he loaded up his older content, so make sure to check it all out.

You join blog? Why Not?

Thanks again for reading and stop being lame.
Paint something!

Cross Blog Promotion: SCW's Barter Bucket

edit: you can find all the models on this blog now!

One of my long time gaming partners is cleaning off the shelf this week on Santa Cruz Warhammer's Barter Bucket. If painted Inquisitor stuff is yer' thing I'd suggest you check them out. There is also a Space Marine Dreadnought and a wheelie-popping Tech-Marine.

Do you happen to be one last reaming defenders of Athel Loren? There is a stunning fully painted Wood Elf army that needs a home. Mr. Z is also hiding a huge box of other stuff that you should pester him into posting up too!

On my end of things, I've slowly working on the Battlescape terrain set for the past two days and should have something to post by Monday. Also I'm going to check into getting some magnets over weekend before one of my Raiders break.

Lastly, a humble and respectful Thank You, to the gentlemen at Santa Cruz Warhammer for the thankless job of running The Bucket. I've never used it myself, but it's a awesome idea considering how much it cost to deal with E-bay these days. The fact you "trade" models across the internet is simply genius. It's nice to see the Blog Sphere provides such a valuable service.

Skritch the Mutilator

May well be working on this guy again in the future but I'm going to leave as-is for now. One of my favorite models ever. (Camera died at some point so I took another pic with my droid. Too low-quality for me; won't be using that again.)

More Skaven models completed

Being resourceful (?) with my droid.. Lazy pic style. I'd like to point out that these models are out of control for plastics. Sometimes I look back and think 'back in the day they used to make something this big out of metal... or not at all'. Then I usually change the subject in my brain bc I feel very old for 25 lol

High Elf Phoenix Guard

These guys are as done or should I say done "enough." The fact is I simply can't paint on them anymore. The banner turned out rather well, but I'm not too keen about the rest of the unit. Even more so,  I dread the thought of painting the10 more I need to finish out the unit. For as much time as I put into these guys, they better whoop some @$$ on the table.

High Elf Phoenix Guard WiP.

It has been a slow week. Most of my time has been spent quietly slaving away on the new plastic Phoenix guard. They are really nice models, but they are pain to paint up.  It was my plan to get a full unit of 20 on  the table. After it taking so long to get them up to a decent standard, I'm thinking it would be easier to go with more Sword-masters instead. It might be a little better for the wallet too. Once I wrap up the unit. It will be time for some better photos.

Return to Mordheim pt.3

These are a bunch of photos of the triple-header of Mordheim, that I played last night against Mr. Watson's Beasts of Chaos. The foul horde took all three games with a unstoppable fury, that left the Rozenritter beaten up and bloody. The first one was a occupy 5 of the buildings to win. The speed of the Beast lent well to this type of objective, and they took total control of the board. The battle that followed left 3 of Spearmen dead and Walter Schepkoff  grievously wounded.

The second game was a Chance Encounter that gave the Rozenritter quite a bloody nose. The only shinning moment was when Oskar squared off against the vile Shaman. It was only a minor victory however, as the mercenaries lost the taste for battle soon after, leaving city to the Beastmen.

As luck would have it, The Rozenritters met up with a Elven Ranger, who shared the same hatred for Beast of Chaos. They join forces to face off against the Beast in a third and decisive showdown. The results were the same, as the Beast showed no mercy. In the end 8 of my warriors were out of the game, but all my luck rolled up at once, and every single one lived to tell the tale. Not the ranger though, he was killed for his trouble.

All I can say... More Mordheim, please!