( Blackhide Wrastler conversion project )

( burnout & next up )

(Vaguely relevant image amuses me.)

( Can has a painted Gatorman army? )

This was meant to go up a little earlier. Finishing off painting and basing the core of the gatormen army kinda delayed sorting out the images...

( Painting and modelling technique in 2011. )

( My 2011 in gaming )

Going to try and update this thing a bit more regularly. I'm going to start trying to get words down, even if there's no pics to accompany them. I'm going to pinch ideas for articles off other bloggers, as well as writing about painting and modelling thought processes. (Don't expect anything world shattering, just random meanderings, that will hopefully not end up being "I played this, I painted this".)

Quote of the week:
"Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes."
"But sir, their faces were only washed and drybrushed!"

( And... Go! )

Progress, and plenty of it.

( Gatormens! )

( Bloody Barnabas )

( Blindwater Congregation pact army )

All of these were painted last autumn/winter, but I never got round to photoing and blogging them.

Apologies for the quality of the photos. I thought I had enough sunlight, but I didn't, so the lighting's all a bit messed up.
( Welsh Guards Armoured Recon )
( Other stuff - Lost, Farrow and Titans )

( Lots of paint... )

In playing terms, I've been learning to play both of these forces.

The Leveticus crew, while very complex in some ways (Levi kills himself and respawns every turn, for starters), is very simple in that you pick enemy models in turn and remove them from the table with heavy hitting ranged attacks and magic spells. I'm doing well with wiping out all the opponents' stuff, but then losing the game because I've not been doing anything to complete the objective(s). I tried using Killjoy as well as the Desolation Engine in the 3rd game, and that worked pretty well. I'm going to try using more fast moving stuff in the next games and see where that gets me.

The Gators, on the other hand, I'm having less success with. I got pulverised by Felix with his eDoomshaper list, unsurprisingly. But, then, I ended up losing badly in two three-ways. The three-ways don't suit these guys as I need to keep my stuff aimed all in the same direction, as otherwise I just don't have the number of attacks needed to deal with units of infantry. It may be just that I need to use less of the heavies (the third game I used all four in a 35 point game) and more of my own infantry. More test games are needed.