Legion of EverSkorne

Hey, I play Skorne now. Just picked up some stuff (32 pts and 2 warlocks) a couple weeks ago. It was just before the mangled metal tournament. I was thinkin', hey, I should play Skorne. I mean, they're desert-dwelling, domineering samurai with battle-elephants and cyclopes (not to be confused with cyclopses, which are fictitious even in fictitious settings). Anyway, how could you go wrong with that. So I picked up a base box, a shaman and a cannoneer and threw them all together into a 25 pt claw and fang army (not to be confused with tooth and claw, which is not fictitious, just horribly inappropriate when used in this game). Then I bought Hexeris a few days later, because he's awesome-sauce. So, if I post some very un-legionlike models and claim them to be mine in the future, don't be alarmed; this is how it should be.

Stryker

Well, I seem to have finally finished Stryker. It only took me 4 or 5 months. Honestly, I have no idea what's wrong with this kid, but I just can't paint him, although he did turn out pretty good once I did. It just took me way longer than it should have. Part of the problem was the 'jack that he's standing on. Other than that, he's just hard to paint for no apparent reason. Well, that's all done now. On to a unit of Runeshapers. And some of my stuff that still needs to be painted.

Shreddin' Willie Complete

Argh! I be done with little Willie at last. He be all paited up 'n' put tagether. Now I just be havin' to send 'im in to the Privateers themselfs.

He turned out to be a pretty good'n, despite me fears o' all o' the green-stuffin' I had to do to 'im. 'Is eyepatch be over 'is left nostril, although it be a wee bit hard ta see. Now maybe I can get to paintin' up ole Stiker.

Shreddin' Willie Part 2

Ahoy there, ye lubbers! I bin workin' on Shreddin' Willie since ye last visited this 'ere blog of asesome-sauce-ness.

I made 'is base, out o' some popsicle sticks...

And he be all put tagether. Now I just need to be paintin' 'im and puttin' a birdy on 'im.

Shreddin' Willie

Avast! The No Quarter challenge for this issue be to make a model look piraty. So, I bin thinkin' to meself, what little metal fella have I that be in need o' some sea legs, and I thought, why not one o' them wee little dragonspawn what likes to call themselfs shredders? (Note: Everblight and his minions actually call shredders Akriel. Shredder is a term coined by his enemies, referring to the way they shred bodies, dead and living). So I got me one o' these little beasties and took 'im apart.

(Not the actual shredder I used. I had already dissassembled him at the time this picture was taken).

So, first I took 'im apart and cut off one o' 'is wee little legs...

and made for 'im a wooden one. (Not actual wood).

And then I gave the blighter a patch over 'is... well, over where one o' 'is eyes would be if Everblight 'ad seen fit to give 'is little critters a decent set o' peepers.
(More upcoming).

Reaper Assassin

Ahoy! I got this model to use as a D&D fig and enter a Reaper painting contest. The model's pretty awesome-sauce, but I wasn't too satisfied with my paint job. It's not bad, but I've done much better. Maybe it had something to do with me painting most of it the day of and the day before it was due. Anyway, our adventure takes place in the frozen north, hence the frosty color scheme.

Absylonia, Terror of Everblight

I just painted this for a gift exchange, so, although I do have one, this one isn't it. I played her just last week and she is phrygian amazing! I had her, 3 heavy beasts, a shredder, a couple shepherds, and a forsaken. I put an upkeep on each of my heavies and upkept them for free because Absylonia's Awesome-Sauce! Next turn I killed one of his 'jacks and hurt the other one pretty badly and killed some of his unit. The turn after that, my beasts weren't in too great of shape, but that was okay because I used my feat and completely healed them. It was then that my opponent put on his incredulous face and gave up. Awesome-Sauce! Anyway, she's pretty cool for a blighted abomination that spontaneously mutates herself and her beasts.

Scrappa Sorehead

I painted this dude for a friend and entered it in a painting contest some time ago. The model's pretty Awesome-Sauce. After all, it's hard to beat a mad goblin on a pogo stick. He turned out rather well. I haven't been very consistent in my blogging lately. I have 4 or 5 models that I haven't posted yet. I don't even have pictures for many of them. I should paint and blog. Argh.!?

Krueger, the Stormwrath

I recently painted this angry old man and entered him into a painting contest. I ended up getting first and last place (Krueger got last and Vlad got first). I did this one for free, since I was going to enter him into the contest, and since the guy that had me paint him let me use his truck to transport certain furniture items. Anyway, if I did all of my paint jobs for free, I would probably get more business. Just a thought. One that I probably won't listen to. Well, that's what kappens.

Vladamir, the Dark Champion

So, I just painted Epic Vlad for Adam. He's pretty Awesome-Sauce, more so than normal Vlad, I'd say. I like my paint job, as well as the sculpt, more. His sword is a lot more glowy and it reflects onto his hair and armor and stuff like that. Anyway, I have this out of the way now, so I can focus on my two models that I'm painting for competitions, one for a local contest run by Paul and Dallas, and the other the No Quarter Challenge.

I Don't Know What to Call This Post

Adam and I have decided to play a string of games with an underlying storyline, creating special rules and scenarios to fit, and blog about them, writing mainly in story format. So, here is my first attempt:

Points: 350

My list:
Thagrosh
Angelius
Typhon

Adam's list:
Sorscha
Beast-09
Juggernaut



The thing that was once Ogrun marched across the tundra, still reveling in the slaughter of the weakling Menite scout party. Thagrosh had thought everyone dead, but an anxious sensation from the mind of Typhon told him otherwise, and he knew to trust the beast's senses above his own eyes. He had planned to rejoin Lylyth and Vayl soon, but where there were scouts, there was likely a larger force waiting for their information, and The Messiah's bloodlust was far from sated.
A few minutes later, he spotted two warjacks led by a diminutive female caster with a large hammer. One of the 'jacks had a massive ice axe in one hand and Thagrosh knew it from past battles to be Sorscha's pet, Beast. Thagrosh imparted to his Angelius, as yet unseen by the enemy warband, to wait behind the small copse of trees to his right, as he and Typhon marched around to the left to meet them head-on.
Thagrosh sensed a magical energy eminating from the warcaster before he saw the storm erupt from her outstreched hand. He braced himself, but was nonetheless brought to his knees by the tempest, as was his three-headed monstrosity. He saw the unidentified 'jack, probably a Juggernaut, move out to his right, and realized it's mistake immediately. Now! he mentally screamed to his assassin lurking in the shadow of the woods. The Angelius shot out of the trees and impaled the Juggernaut's arm, rendering it useless. Thagrosh saw and felt it die as Beast-09 ran to it and cut it in half, but he wasn't done with the beast yet. "Rise," he commanded the dead thing, and to the visible astonishment of Sorcha, it did, the seemingly dead body mending even as it got up and flew toward its master.
The distraction, however, cost Thagrosh dearly. He look to his left and saw Sorscha standing not ten feet from him. How did she slip past Typhon?! His question was answered as he looked to the dreaded beast, now covered in a thick layer of ice. He tried to rush toward the enemy caster, but was stopped dead in his tracks as he, too, was rapidly frozen.
Helpless, Thagrosh could only look on as Beast came up and rammed Typhon with the full force of its body. The three-headed dragon was severely wounded, as was the Angelius, crushed under Typhon's might bulk. Beast ended the might dragon with his frozen axe just before the Juggernaut slammed into Beast and sent him careening toward Thagrosh himself, but the big 'jack fell short and Thagrosh was unharmed. Sorscha then appeared behind the Angelius and finished it off.
Enough, I will end this myself, thought the dragon-Ogrun monstrosity, quickly thawing as he moved around the downed Beast and engaged Sorscha.
" I am Everblight. You cannot escape me!" he roared at the woman as he brought the Rapture, his massive double-bladed sword, to bear. The blade came down and cut deep into her shoulder. Thagrosh raised it again for a killing blow, a look of pure ecstacy on his face at the thought of cleaving this puny human in half. The sword came down, but hit nothing but air. The warlock half turned, a confused expression on his face, but then a heavy blow landed on his head and he knew no more.

Escalation Tournament: Week 1

I didn't plan on playing two games in the first week at all, but we did, since the 350 should only take half an hour or so. Anyway, I won my first game, largely because I was on the board with a big line of forests diagonally across the board. Here's what kappened: I was playing Bryan (Cygnar). We both deployed. First turn: we both advanced toward the middle of the board. Second turn: Bryan peeks Thorn out from behind the forest, uses him as an arc node to hit one of my shredders and not really do anything, I charge Thorn through the forest with one of my shredders and move the rest of my models into the forest. Third turn: he kills the shredder and can't really do anything else because I'm hiding in the forest and shooting him just like an Everblight son-of-a-crapper :) I move my seraph out of the forest to get a shot at Stryker and promptly get counter-charged by Ol' Rowdy. My seraph is a flying bloody pulp now, but Rowdy is in charge range of my carnivean and gets ripped apart (hooray for big draconic monstrocities!). Fourth turn: nothing really kappens. Bryan kills a shredder then feats and I can't do anything, time is called and I win by victory points.

Second game, I faced off against Mike O'donnell (Cryx). We both deployed and he went first. I have a cankerworm nearly in my face that I'm scared to death of.
We both kind of moved up a little, he moved Deneghra and all of his 'jacks over to my left and feated. I then couldn't really do anything and ended up killing the cankerworm and 1 or 2 bile thralls. Next turn, he shoots Lylyth with his pistol wraith, kills my seraph, which was engaging his nightmare, charges Lylyth with said nightmare, and beats her face in.

Shepherd

Shepherds are Awesome-Sauce! They're wee little elf women and die easily, like most of my army, but the accelerate beast healing, extend my control area, make my beasts frenzy, and control said frenzying beasts. This is one of my best paint jobs, second only, perhaps, to Vayl. Well, only 2 solos, 1 unit, and 2 UAs to go!

Shredders!

These are my lesser warbeasts. Everblight is awesome-sauce in that it has warbeasts that cost 1/3 the points of other factions' cheapest beasts. These rabid little monsters run about the field eating things, and eating each other if they frenzy. 'Twas Paul who convinced me to paint them different colors. You may have noticed that one is painted like my Typhon. Typhon has a piece of athanc in him, and thus, I think, could (and should) spawn a beast. That would be Awesome-Sauce! It could be our next character beast. All of my tourament beasts are painted

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Seraph

This is one of my light warbeasts, and one of my first models. I've had it for two and a half years, now, and have finally finished painting it. I spent a lot of time simply experimenting of color schemes for the wings. The seraph is a ranged warbeast and very awesome-sauce. I am now one step closer to my goal of a fully-painted tournament army.

Tournament Painting

So, I've decided to have my entire army painted for the upcoming tournament on the 24th. This is a lot of stuff to paint in two weeks, though I won't actually need some of it until the second and third weeks of the tournament. As my list stands right now, I have to paint 1 light warbeast, 3 lesser warbeasts, 3 solos, 1 unit, and 2 unit attachments, which I don't have yet and thus they are not shown in the picture. The beasts are almost done, so they shouldn't take long. Everything else I don't need until week three, except for 1 shephard, which I need on week 2. As I said, this is a lot of painting, but it will be awesome-sauce when I win the tournament with a fully-painted army.

Vlad-My First Commission

I finally painted something for someone. This is Vladamir, Dark Prince of Umbrey, a warcaster for Khador. Painting a Warmachine model was somewhat different, what with the massive power armor and what-not, but, all-in-all, it really wasn't that hard and I did about as good a job as I have on any of my own models. I ended up spending twice what I earned painting this guy on paints to paint him with. That's okay, though. I have a larger paint selection now. With any luck, I'll be able to paint more stuff for people, so having lots of paint is good.

Vladamir, Dark Prince of Awesome Sauce