I won something

I won a Liebster award.  A thank you goes out to Scott over at My Little World of Dementia

As part of receiving this award I am to pass this on to five other bloggers, (I'll list the criteria at end)
whose blogs I enjoy......(no particular order)

#1 Land of Misfit Toys-  This is my long time friend and fellow shaved header, Brad, who shares the passion of GW with me.  He owns more armies than anyone I know, and the ideas that come out of his bald brain are quite amazing.  Brad is always a good sport and a great person to play against if you are in his neck of the woods.

#2. The Magnificent Bastards  - This blog has a few authors and I enjoy their blogs very much.

#3 Mr. Saturday's Mumblings - I have been following this blog since he started making his own custom Fimir army.  It is quite impressive and I encourage people to take a look.

#4 The Quiet Limit of the World - Ben is from Durham and a member of the Fancy Ladz.  Ben is the co-broadcaster of the podcast Bull City Wargaming.  Always a good read.

It is hard to have a 5th since everyone I would nominate already has one or doesn't post often, but just check the sidebar to see who I follow.

Lastly here is the criteria for my nominees should you choose to partake

1. Copy and paste the award on your blog linking it to the blogger who has given it you.

2. Pass the award to your top 5 favourite blogs with less than 200 followers by leaving a comment on one of their posts to notify them that they have won the award and listing them on your own blog.

3. Sit back and bask in the warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing you have made someones day!

4. There is no obligation to pass this onto someone else but its nice if you take the time to do so.

They are never too young to start

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  If you read my last post you know ours was quite busy.  I was in a reflective sort of mood and thought about how wonderful it is to see my two year old daughter starting to enjoy certain crafts.  The reason I have been posting more these last few weeks is very simple.  I have hobby things to show to you people.  Anyone with young children understands that one of the hardest things to do is balance life and young children with our Warhammer hobby.  I think I came up with a solution.

My daughter has been painting with me. We put a small apron on her, set up her painting station (really just a an old end table with a towel over it) and head into the basement.  I grab a few old figures from my bitz box and let her go to town with her pinks and glittering greens.  This entertains her for an hour or two.  Daughter is happy, Daddy is happy, and most importantly, Mama is happy we aren't bothering her for a little while.

Here are a sample of her awesome paint jobs.  I must say I am very proud, they still look better than my early days of painting.  The one thing I find amusing is she is very concerned with painting the underside of the base.

I have also been working on my gaming table.  I always wanted a table that I can insert different boards, and this table will allow me to drop in different "worlds" if I want to in the future.  Plus I like having a lip on the edge of the table to keep things from falling off.  Here are a couple photos.  Right now I just threw some terrain down.  I still need to flock sections of the board, but you get the basic idea.  I wanted an 8'x4' table, but that would probably be too big.  I also plan on finishing that section of the basement as well and put some shelving under the table to store terrain.

Enjoy!

The next Everchosen of Chaos

I have a whole bunch of pictures to publish of my Daemons and my new Gaming table, but they will have to wait a bit for the coming of the next Everchosen has arrived this Thanksgiving morning. I predict he will be the next Bobby Fisher of Warhammer!

Finally!

I finished up my first unit of 30 Daemonettes this last week.  I started the first 10 basic troops back in the summer, but I could not motivate myself to finish them.  I found some shortcuts with my painting technique for the Core troops of the army.  Basically, I prime grey, then give a black wash.  Instead of starting with a dark grey and working up like I did on the Soul Grinder.  So I painted 17 of them in a assembly line and went back and lightened the skin tone of the ones I had already completed.

Thanks to Bull City Wargaming Podcast to get me motivated again to start painting.

Here is the whole unit.

My BSB, the only thing in the army that will have a different color than 3 used on everything else.  I still cannot decide what to put on it.  Right now I am thinking about some stitching and some faces peering out.  I am terrible at freehand, so any ideas are welcome.

 Here are some basic troopers so you can see what I have been doing.  Some of the heads come from the Seekers kit.

Enjoy!

Something Fun

Here is something that I have had in my collection for a long time.  It is an Armorcast terrain piece that I think is now OOP.  It took longer for the wash to dry, than to actually paint it.