What I've been up to - Mordheim Pit Fighters

I have been in a Mordheim mood again.  Here is my new Pit Fighter warband using the original list, not the list with the different styles.  Here are the Sons of Liberty about to bring about a New World Order.  I picture these guys more Amercan Gladiators and less dirty Conan type.

First is the leader known only as The General.  His upper torso is from the Chaos Manticore Sorceror Rider and his fist spike comes from the Marauder Standard.  All the bases are just cut up hotel keys, masonry sand, and GF9 winter static grass.

Here are his two Veterans Johna and Thomas.  I haven't finished Johna's shield.  They are made with Empire Knight, Chaos Knight, Lizardmen and Marauder parts.

The Troll Slayer Old Ben whose "wisdom" with his axe is very valuable.  The ladies also dig him.

.The initiate Quincy, yes I misspelled his name DOH!  His helmet's flag bears a certain resemblance to the NC state flag.  His helmet top is a Brettonian M@A helmet with the bottom part a Chaos Warrior.

The henchmen Pit Fighters, Mad Son and Jackson.  Empire knight helmets and Marauder flails.

You have to have an Ogre who is bigger than life named Handcock.  Get it :). Helmet is made of two Marauder shoulder pads and some Empire feathers.

Another henchman Pit Fighter Martin with Morning Star and Shield.  Empire Knight torso and helmet.

A henchman as well.  Monroe's shield isn't done yet.  Empire Knight helmet and sword arm.

The Pursuers: Tyler, Polky, Hairy, Millard and Zack.  Eventually they will have shields as well.  Helmets were made out Chaos Warrior and Brettonian helmets with Empire feathers.

Group shot!

And just because I have had this model for years here's everyone's favorite Barbarian Thrud.  He will be a Barbarian Hired Sword.  A size comparison is below.  I really like how his skin came out.

I have been building a bunch of buildings for Mordheim as well which I'll post soon.

And if anyone can help out I need some ideas for a scenario titled The Bear and the Maiden Faire.  Enjoy!

Proxy War Custom Models

I usually don't support kickstarters, but these guys have a lot of potential.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/proxyarmy/proxy-war-custom-3d-printed-miniatures

Take a look, they will actually design and then 3D print you a custom model.  I saw some of their figures at the Launch Party at Atomic Empire and I was impressed.  The detail was equal to anything out there now.  So if you want a model to represent your D&D character or just have a crazy idea you want to see implemented you might want to support them.

It is easy to get a custom model for $25.

Have a good one!

Proxy Army Launch Party

There is a Proxy Army Launch Party on Nov. 5th at Atomic Empire in Durham, NC.  Last weekend at Grail Quest I won a special prize where I get to create my own 3-D Printed model.  That's right, I get to design my own custom model.  Pretty cool, eh!  At first I thought they were into the 3-D paper modeling (which I do not like at all), but no these are 3-D resin models.

Their website is http://proxyarmy.com/

 

Speaking of Grail Quest, I ended up 28th out of 59.  I went 2-3-1 over the 6 games.

Game 1: Matt Irby - Tomb Kings - Tied
Matt has a magic heavy TK list, very nicely painted, and had the upper hand for most of the game.  I could not dispel his magic, and those Tomb Guard took around 6 rounds of combat to take out (even with Mindrazor on)

Game 2: Jason Hunter - WoC - Won 19-1 or 20-0
Jason had a very brightly painted Pink Slaanesh Themed WoC list.  I had a nice triple charge to his main unit of knights early on and the game was pretty much over.  He was a good sport about it, and offered me pink bubblegum which matched his army.  I think my eyes are still slightly blinded from his painting.

Game 3: Joel Flint - Empire - Lost Badly
Joel has a wonderfully painted Empire Light council army with no cannons.  He banished me early and often.  I did some damage at the end, but not enough to pull out a minor defeat.  No Mindrazor which really hurts my offensive capabilities.

Game 4: Shannon Powell - Ogres - Minor Loss
I have a hard time against Ogres with my DoC.  No mindrazor this game either.  I could not hurt his ogres except near the end with a well placed Pit of Shades.  Without that unit dying in one shot, I would have loss badly.

Game 5: Robert Brandon - HE Dragon List - Loss Badly
Robert is always good fun to play against, this might be our 4thor 5th time meeting at a GT.  He usually gets the upper hand, and today was no different.  He was more maneuverable, bigger and faster than my Slaaneshi Daemons.   Again no mindrazor (see a trend) so I had a hard time wounding his Star and Frost Dragons.

Game 6: Drew Snoddy - WoC - Solid Victory
Drew brought a Slaanesh DP with some Nurgle Chariots and a Chimera.  He was winning the first 5 turns, until the Keeper finally saw combat and destroyed his Chimera and DP.  Drew ran a Level 4 Slaanesh DP and his magic neutralized my Keeper for 4 turns by keeping him stuck using Random Movement.

Pre-Game: Tom Geater - Ogres - Loss so badly I am still sore
Tom (co-host of the Bull City Gaming Podcast) kicked my butt the Friday before the tournament.  I even cheated and made my Keeper a Lev 4 and 2nd herald a Lev 1, but he still just beat up on me.  Tom had to back down from our Game 1 challenge to help run the GT. 

Thanks to the Atomic Empire and the BCW Gang for running another stellar event.  I took no photos so you are stuck with my summary.

Grail Quest this Weekend!

This weekend is Grail Quest at Atomic Empire in Durham, NC.  This year it is a 6-game 2-day event run by the Bull City Wargaming Podcast's duo of Ben and Tom.  They run my favorite GT, Brawler Bash, in the Spring.

Info for the event is here: http://www.warnc.com/showthread.php?tid=295

While I was away in SC on business a couple of weeks ago I finally got some painting done.  The photos were taken in my hotel room with my IPhone.

I was challenged by Tom Game 1, but due to circumstances beyond our control, we have pushed it forward to Friday if the planets align.  Here is a photo of the model I made of Tom.  It captures that fierce British bravery.  Notice the Red coat and there is a certain stain on the backside.  The base has since been finished with some grass clumps in the cracks along with the white's of his eyes.

 My Keeper of Secrets has finally been highlighted (took me only 6 months).  I also changed out the base since this photo was taken.  I was told my bases were too bland at BB (Thanks Ian), so I bought a bunch from Forgecraft Games.  Eventually I will have a display board that will match, but that will all have to wait until Brawler Bash.  The base type can be seen below (I add some wasteland tufts in the cracks and barren spaces.

Below is a picture of my Slaughterbrute/Mutalith/Skull Cannon/Spined Beast.  I magnetized the heads for some variety (very easy to do with this kit) and the back piece slides in and out perfectly.  This kit is quite impressive.  I originally was going to use this as a Storm of Chaos Great Chaos Spined Beast of Slaanesh, but I like to punish myself by taking inferior builds so I changed it to a Skull Cannon. 

 Finally, I got around to painting my Fiends of Slaanesh.  No photo of them painted though.  These guys are a pain in the royal rear to rank up.  I had to pin them into their bases and mark the bases or else they would never rank up.

I hope you all enjoy these pics and wish me luck.

Ogre for Hire

Here are some pics of my Ogre Mercenary for Mordheim.  He has gotten more action as a Maneater in my Ogre Army over the last 2 years.

He was a fun model to convert up.  I just kept adding trinkets to him.  His right is from the metal Butcher, and his left arm is from an Irongut.  As with all my Ogres, he has blue eyes.  I hope you enjoy.

Some of my Beastmen from way back

 Since I have been in a Mordheim mood, I decided to get out my classic Beastman Warband called the Headhunterz.  They were based on the Town Cryer 7 list (not the Empire in Flames one) and I used them back in a GW campaign over 10+ years ago.  They went 35-0 and the Leader, Grimlock, became King of Mordheim and still lives on in infamy.  You see, whenever I spoke with Grimlock, I used the 3rd person voice of Grimlock the Dinobot from Transformers.  Which sort of sounds like the Incredible Hulk.  "Grimlock, SMASH!"  "Grimlock eat puny human!"  "Grimlock hates the pointy ears!" "Grimlock King of Mordheim!" etc.  This voice really pissed off some of the tight wads who played at GW, and there was quite a high bounty on him.  It was a great warband to play and I have a lot of great memories with them.  These were painted a long time ago and about 5 years ago I did retouch and rebase them.

Grimlock is here on the right, with Char on the left.  Grimlock stats were basically maxed out.  He had the Strongman skill along with the BM skill which allowed him to use a 2-H weapon in each hand.  He had large horns on the charge, and that combined with 4 (5 w/frenzy) attacks made him a real beast.  He got Frenzy since he was only taken Out of Action once, and that gave him a Head Wound.  Grimlock was based on Krasak(sp?) the One Eye with a Minotaur right arm.

 I forgot my Shaman's name (hey its been 10+ years). 

 Here are 2 of my Gor heroes.  Skar and Mar.

I think these were my normal Gors

All my heroes lined up like proper little soldiers.

Finally, here are my Ungor fonder.  My minotaur has disappeared into the bitz box.  My main tactic was to use them as disposable meat shields.  I would move my heroes up with 1 or 2 Ungors with spears.  Hiding if my opponent had lots of shooting.  Then I would charge in with all my Ungors to tie up my opponent.  I never cared if they died, then I would charge in with my heroes to clean house.  If someone charged me, my Ungor would jump out and intercept.

 

Thank you for coming down memory lane with me.

 

The Comet is coming!

As promised here are the remaining models in my Bretonnian Warband.

 Sir Remy

My two Men @ Arms

 Another view of Sir Riker from the last post.  Notice how the field to each of the knights' shields are different.  Also only the questing knight has yellow trim.

My future Hired Swords Elf Ranger and Halfling.