BoLSCon Pictures!

BoLSCon was absolutely awesome last weekend and I'm so glad I signed up for the narrative gaming track. This was also the first week of school, so it was kind of rough for me to be so active over the weekend and then have to break in over 100 kids, but it was definitely worth it and I'll be attending next year. The models were beautiful, just about everything in every Apocalypse sized battle was painted. The after hours pod racing and gaming were also a blast. To top it off, I won a sweet pile of loot!

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Bloodthirster Finished

Yup, finished my big Bloodthirster. Now I have enough painted points to play with demons this weekend at BoLS Con. I turned in my demons list, but gave them a Death Guard list too in case they need Death Guard for the story line. I have close to 4000 points painted of that, even more if I take nurgle demons out of the demon army to use.

Now I'm trying to get the bases for my Tzeentch Flamers done. They're on completed bases now, but they were done for a different army and look out of place. That and they are the only round bases in the army. I know it's stupid, but yeah, I'm taking the round bases off for 40k. I've decided it's way too late to switch them out, I've put too much work into them, and I have other minis to paint anyway. Part of the reason I play with square bases is that when the fantasy and 40k lists were put out, I fell for the whole "play two games with one army" schpeal. I think the biggest reason though is that for almost ten years, demons only came with square bases for my Death Guard. 40+ plaguebearers on squares, 30 nurgling swarms, and greater demons have always been on squares for 40k. Now I'm supposed to change them? Poop on that.

What I did today....

I assembled these today and got them up to this point painted. The rhinos are mostly finished aside from a few touch ups, but the dreadnought has alot of work to go. I magnetized the arms so I would have a couple of choices and I'll magnetize the old metal dread arms later so I'll have even more. The double lascannon on the dread is kind of warped so I tried the "hot salt on the stove" method to bend it back articled in the BoLS, but it didn't work. Oh well, it's forgivable with nurgle so I'll let it be. I think I'll take tomorrow off from modeling and play a video game.

A battle and some altered toys

I played a very good battle against Mike and his Dark Angels yesterday at BFG. It was pretty rough as he brought 2000 points worth of 6 man squads loaded with special weapons. Not a single piece of armor in the game. To make it worse, we rolled a squads for points game, so he didn't have to move at all, just wait for me to pop in and shoot me back to hell. It didn't help either that my soulgrinder rolled a mishap to appear and decided he'd sit this one out. So my opponent started with a point for free and I was a heavy support down. His downfall started though when he put all of his firepower into Pappy Nurgle, who not only survived, but only suffered a single wound. He then charged Pappy with both of his HQ squads in jetpacks and failed to wound him once. It was insane. Pappy held those two squads up for a full 4 turns, soaking up a full turn of fire then slowly grinding his commander, chaplain, and two squads with them down for 4 points. It got a little knuckle chewing as he lasted 3 combat rounds with a single wound left, but managed all of his saves. Definitely got MVP. Meanwhile, the plaguebearers were soaking up insane amounts of fire while the bloodletters were marching along behind and happily mopping up anything that they could reach. Great game. Enemy 5 points, me 9 points.


I've also been working on stripping and magnetizing the weapons for my Rebel Guard project. The stripping didn't come out perfect, but the magnetizing is great. Here is a Leman Russ tank with one loadout, then a whole new loadout including a vanguisher cannon converted. It's easy, just pop one weapon off and slap another one on. I'll have 4 Lemans done up this way with all of the options before long.

Almost finished....

I finished the model itself and gloss coated it, now I need to base it. Hopefully I'll be able to finish that tomorrow.