tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9947664261541594262011-11-28T12:57:57.861+13:00Randomm thoughts about wargaming. Mostly WFB, with some Flames of War as well as others.Philfynoreply@blogger.comBlogger731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-160603725378257802011-05-20T03:26:00.000+12:002011-05-20T03:26:47.705+12:00

Well no... I haven't been quite THAT far although it certainly seems like it. Heading home to NZ in 6 weeks or so after some time on "stranger shores"  I decided to give myself a "welcome home" present of some plasti-crack. Yikes!  Talk about timing!  I log on to Maelstrom to see our "friendly godmother" GW is knocking our nice lil "lets get models at a reasonable price" niche on the head.  Not

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My eagerly anticipated order from Maelstrom games arrived this morning.  I say eagerly awaited because it was something quite different than my usual purchase of late. Having been somewhat less than enthused about the forthcoming 8th Edition WFB release from Games Workshop (thanks to the by and large ridiculous varation of rumours and the frothing at the mouth of certain individuals online about

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Coming up in a few weeks is the annual "North Island Convention" otherwise known as NICon. Like Natcon this particular event moves around the country and this year is being held in Tauranga.Given that I have a few friends over that way, and even a cousin playing in it this year I decided to mark it as a "must attend" on my 2010 calendar. It will be my second-to-last event under 7th Edition WFB

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Continuing on from last night, I've hit the "Fortress Europe" book of army lists to define what models I need to purchase (it paying to always have an idea as to what you want to get to avoid wasting money on impulse purchases etc).Firstly I am working from source material based upon the series of books by historian John Dugdale "Panzer Divisions... Ardennes & Nordwind: Their Detailed & Precise

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Well over the past week or two I have spent more than a few stints of several hours searching through the web and a few other sources of info in regards to the 11th Panzer.It has been interesting reading for the most part, although certains parts of information that I have been seeekinng have I must admit, been difficult to source online, particularly since I am most definitely unable to read

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Unfortunately of late I have been becoming a little sick and tired of the WFB scene. In particular the "comp" argument/bias and perceived/real inequalities between army books. I'm not a fan at all of the "ETC" regulations mostly because I am of the opinion that Dark Elves get away with murder (effectively), although I did find that the Equinox player pack (which used ETC as a basis) had to be

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Equinox is a new event on the NZ "calendar" this year, which is good to see - if nothing else because it is in my wargaming backyard. A novel approach was tried out in regards to composition for this event in that ETC restrictions were taken and then modified Hard Caps wise. Comp scores were modified by tier into a Victory Point handicap that was applied to final scores on a game by game basis (

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In hindsight it has been a pretty hectic last month gaming wise. Dogcon, Over the Top & Fluffycon all in the space of a month - and some rather pressured painting hours on top of a busy workplace to go with. Thats the excuse I'm using for not having even looked at a paintbrush in the last week.Aiming to get back into it tonight with the goal (again) of completing a daemon army. This time for

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Well with Dogcon in Sydney a little over a week away I have been painting like a mad-man in an effort to get the army to a point where I can at least field it "fully" painted. Easier said than done, but thems the breaks. Certainly I am left with the impression as I paint that there are things and parts of the army that I will be adding to or maybe re-doing over the next year or so as I expand

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Well it has been a little while since I posted.Had a game last week vs some Dark Elves. It didn't go well. Or at least the game didn't.It reminded me that I've only played the "new" Dark Elves about 3 times... go figure. It also taught me a few things in regards to how my army works - or doesn't as the case may be.Having dropped the Siren Song from my Dogcon list, which basically means

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Well things are ticking along nicely thus far. Managed to locate (it seems) the 2 bitz I need to complete my Seekers unit (Thanks in advance Tony - you're a legend), and also managed to satisfactorily base my 'thirster.Daemonettes are nearly done... kinda. I've gone with a dark leather colour for their armour. Its fitting and the colour works with the flesh. Not 100% sure on the loincloths

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Well it was a somewhat odd week. Don't know where the time went actually.Losing my glasses on thursday didn't help (was effectively blind till friday... and interesting and preferably not to be repeated experience!). This of course put a bit of a nail into the coffin of working on the army... but I did manage to get a little converting done on the furies and some tidying up of greenstuff on

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Well I managed to get the 3rd highlight layer done on the front rank of the Daemonette unit last night, its a simple highlight of 1/1 mix Vallejo Purple and Vallejo Pale Sand. Being that I'm at work and its getting near the end of shift (which means I have to DO some work), I stopped after the first rank and did the eyes on them. As with the Horrors I'm using a straight Citadel Scorpion Green,

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Well I've been "nibbling" away at my first unit of daemonettes this week. Painting wise that is.As I suspected they are somewhat tricky to paint detail wise, so far I'm happy though. I must say that using Vallejo paints, the paint goes on much much smoother than Citadel paints seem to.The bases I'd already done about a year ago, and so after making some repairs to the various heads and arms

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Well I'm aiming to get in ahead of the boss on this one. Work interferes all too often with my attending tournaments (albeit even if it does enable me to have the $$ to attend them in the first place).Happily so far I have managed to get some confirmed dates on events in the first half of the year, so will get leave apps in earlier than early!Not sure that I necessarily need, or want, to attend

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Well I started fiddling round with a few conversions tonight.Furies. Having done a number of these already (as seen in previous entries), I have now decided to NOT use them as Furies after all. The problem with them hasn't been how the model looks or how the conversion has worked, but rather trying to get them to balance and rank up on their 25mm bases. Its an exercise in futility trying to

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Well things tournament comp wise have taken a turn of sorts. There seem to be more and more events cropping up worldwide using "hard caps" for comp to balance out armies.Everything else aside it has once again gotten me enthused about completing my (obviously) long running daemon army.To do this however some serious effort has to be put in with both painting and converting.To be converted:

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2009 Feb 11 - Photos Update.To be frank I'm a little disappointed at what I have actually painted over the past year. Although I do have another unit of 25 Horrors, GD's of Slaanesh & Tzeentch, & second Herald of Tzeentch all converted up. It has also taken a bit of time to buy all the models and bits necessary for the army.The Bloodletters should be fairly easy to paint, and certainly the

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2009 Feb 9 - Time Rolls On... But Progress Made, and Two Tourneys Ahead!After being busy for some time contract painting a Dark Elf army, which has taken entirely FAR TOO LONG (It was in theory meant to be done for Orktoberfest), mostly due to a combination of me being a fairly slow painter, and a somewhat busier than “normal” couple of months here at work, I figured it time for a bit of an “

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2008 Sep 20 - Tzeentch HeraldAs promised last night, here are some photos of the first of my Heralds of Tzeentch. Not quite completed yet (I haven't actually posted any photos of fully completed models, and unlikely to do so... the FINAL result will be seen on the battlefield). Its not far off though... some extra highlighting to go on the pink areas, and the golden earrings etc etc to finish

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2008 Sep 19 - Time HiccupsWell given that it has been 6? weeks since my last update!!!One of those times where "life" has gotten in the way. Busy at work, a new "she who must be obeyed" and a couple of other things including two tournaments getting in the way of a lot of painting.So all I've managed to do really is nearly complete painting the first of my Heralds. I was going to post a photo now.

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2008 August 4 - Progress? Update...For want of calling it anything else - yes its a progress update!10 years storms and two 110+ hour weeks at work due to it being so busy (including one 42 hour stretch ) haven't helped get much painting done...However I'm just currently taking a break from what I "think" will be the final pink highlight on the first 15 Horrors. I say that I "think" it will be

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2008 July 18 - UpdateWell I remembered the camera tonight...Here are a few "sample" pics.Bloodletters (20 done so far)Daemonettes (20 done so far)As I mentioned in an earlier post, the 'letters pretty much lend themselves to the lizard heads in both look and in pose.The Daemonettes look wierdly alien - a good look for Daemonettes methinks. I don't think the photo does them "justice". They have

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2008 July 14 - UpdateWell I just finished putting the first 20 Bloodletters together. Conversion wise I actually haven't done a lot too them - to be frank I didn't have to! The new plastic 'letters actually lend themselves to having the Saurus heads added, thanks to a back-fin and a scaly already lizard-like appearance and the crouched pose. A simple replacement of 'letter head with a Plastic

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2008 July 11 - Pics update...Screamers x 5! Not likely to field them in units this size, but I'm aiming for 10 in total.Horror Unit 25 Strong! Yes I'm aiming to have two of these units.Here's a few to give you an indication of stages (Very rough - but you get the idea?)This one is as near as "complete" as any of them thus far...For some reason the painting looks a bit rough/thick on this last one

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2008 July 11 - More Progress Made... albeit slowly...Well my boxes of Daemonettes and Bloodletters arrived this morning. I considered opening them right away to have a look-see, but after a long night at work decided that discretion was the better part and went to bed instead! So eagerly opened them up this afternoon to have a look and see if the models in fact DO suit my ideas for converting

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2008 July 3 - Progress report...Well didn't get anywhere near as much done last week as I wanted... mostly due to an entire week of STORMS raging across the countryside ripping the power network to shreds. I got called back into work on tuesday night for 6 hours (normally one of my nights off) and ended up working effectively a 22 hour shift on friday night as well. Happily the weather has

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2008 June 22 - Update"Finished" the second flamer last night, and made a start on the third. As is my wont I also added some extra colour/highlights to the tentacles, and will probably add a little more to that again once I have the third one completed. As numbers "grow" it becomes a little easier to see what little extra touches are needed.Thanks to Brad @ Imperial Games.co.nz I have some grey

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2008 June 21 - UpdateJust about finished my second flamer... And having looked at the speed at which eightlives is painting his... I am both disheartened, and yet encouraged to redouble mine own painting efforts at the same time.That said I am never happy with my own painting, and I don't want to "rush" things.Tried out the new GW washes the other day... hmm not too bad. Annoying that they have

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2008 June 16 - UpdateWell I mostly finished that flamer last night... doesn't sound like much I know but it was one of "those" nights at work.I tend not to paint on my days off - although any converting tends to be done then if I sit down to do some modelling (evidentiary in last weeks conversion spree).I do need to figure out what bases I need more urgently from Iron Halo and Imperial Games...

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2008 June 15 - Paint... To Brush... To Model...Well after making the post this... morning? I managed to get some additional highlighting done on the flames on my first Flamer. Two more highlights to go on that part (will be interesting to see how the difference comes out photo wise for a comparison!)As promised though - I did take a photo of the work done so far! You will see there is obviously

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2008 June 15 - UpdateBeen putting brush to model over the last couple of nights... and to be frank if I continue at this pace then the army MIGHT be ready for Dogcon 2010 Most of the hold-up though was being VERY unsure of the colours I was using and how I was painting the model in question. I started having some serious doubts if I could do the army the justice that I want to do it painting

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2008 June 12 - Keeper Of Secrets... MmmmmmWell I have had one of these models sitting in my cupboard for .... well... a LONG time.I've always liked the model, in fact quite probably the best model I have ever painted (IMO) was one of these. With the cow head of course - I don't like the other one.Now everyone realises (or will after thay have faced one of the four) that Greater Daemons are just..

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2008 June 11 - Herald of Tzeentch - Magical DOOOOOOOMNow of course with all the horrors I am doing (2 units of 20 thus far, and likely to bulk them out to 2x 25 numbers wise), I just HAVE to put together a Tzeentch Herald. It's been bugging me since I first started this army as to what I was going to use.Problem solved!I mentioned somewhere back near the beginning of this diary that I wanted to

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2008 June 10 - Furies,Never go without them!Cheap as chips these guys! 5 model 60 pt throw-away unit/War Machine Hunters etc etc etcI'm wanting to do three units of 5 in total of these models. Although most lists I am considering only have 2 units of 5, I want to give myself "options" when it eventually comes to fielding the army.Yup thats right - I "STILL" don't really have a list as such that I

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2008 June 10 - Screamers Of TzeentchWell as mentioned the other day I made a start on converting some of these to my "possessed/mutated lizard" theme.Its not a "huge" conversion by any means, but I was looking for mostly something to give them that point of difference. So far I have converted 5 in total. Unfortunately I had to stop there - for two reasons:1. Out of Screamers. Must buy 5 more as I

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2008 June 9th - More Conversions Done!Well since completing the painting of my Dragon-led High Elves in time for Tin Soldier and having a rather hard second day there with them (I had been sitting in 3rd spot after the first day - and finished 7th Overall) I rather happily turned my attentions last night here at work to the continuation of my Daemons.Having picked up a good portion of the bases

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2008 May 30 - A Month Goes By...Well it has certainly been a busy month. With everything OTHER than working on my daemons. Touch-ups on my High Elves, work and other inanity (if there is such a word) has meant little work done on the daemons.What HAS been done though is quite an achievement (in my mind at least ).Firstly I have a tentative army list. At least, a basis to work toward. I thought

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2008 - Some Ideas After Reading The Daemon BookWell after having a bit of a read of the Daemon Book I have had some further ideas for the army. In particular with the character models.Whilst it is much easier to get to grips with the new changes etc to the list when having it in a book form than it is having it spread across multiple threads and multiple posts on multiple forums, there is a fair

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2008 Mar 22nd - Some More PhotosHere's a couple of pics... the "command" being WiP...As I think I mentioned in the previous post I have decided to go ahead and convert the rest of the Tzeentch daemons I have before I continue with any painting... With "Runefang" at the end of April, and then Fortunes Of War (Sydney) coming up (NB: I'm looking for a place to crash in Sydney over that weekend -

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2008 Mar 22nd - More ConvertingWell I ended up putting any painting to the side tonight… and instead had another read through the rumours on the Daemon Legion forum, as well as others.I also took some time to put together a “command” for my horrors. Whilst the rumours suggest that Tzeencth Horror units will receive a command component in the new book there isn’t really any other detail than that.

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2008 Mar 21st - Lizard Models Picked Up!My brain hurts! Mucho excitamento though! I picked up the Lizard models from Tony this afternoon, and having got to work I sat down and had a good look through them all.BRAIN EXPLOSION! Sooooo many ideas and options and very cool things to play with and construct!The one that immediately sticks out to me is using a carnosaur to create a converted

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2008 Mar 19th - Something Fluffy.Well I added a little bit of fluff earlier last night - to be found in the first post I made to the diary, and it is there that I will add to it. I have actually written almost an entire page so far adding to the plagiarised fluff I have already posted.I've never actually paid over much attention before to the old Champions of Chaos book, and the characters within

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2008 Mar 16th - Painting, Podhammer & DiaryWell I "was" going to hold off for a while in regards to posting a modelling diary - although I have obviously kept one in mind since I started this army. The beginning of "both" things being somewhat all over the place, but some consistency and coherency is now beginning to be achieved.Tonight I'll be working on painting Horror #3. I have 20 in total

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2008 Mar 6th - Conversion ThoughtsWell the first batch of models arrived today. Still unconvinced that maelstrom took the VAT tax off the total, but as they were 40% cheaper than NZ retail still I'm not worrying too much about it. This time anyway.One great thing to see was that after waiting a week for Maelstrom to get into stock the models I had ordered (fair enough) it only took 4 days for

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2008 Feb 22nd - More Horrors!Well this morning I spent a fair few hours searching the web and reading comparisons between GW and Vallejo paints, as well as learning the differences between the Vallejo "Game" and "Model" ranges. At least, learning the differences as best as one can without actually using them. But given that I have ordered the paints through Maelstrom Games, it is a little

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2008 Feb 21st - Conversions Begin.Actually if I hadn't read a thread on one of the many forums I have been perusing in the past few weeks (there are more of them out there than you may realise) in regards to the "fluff" for the new DL being more based in "reality", and then for Tony to mention during the weekend that his lizard models were up for grabs... then it probably wouldn't have occurred

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2008 Feb 19th - Models Purchased!Having a look through the range in-store today of Lizard models... I think a screamer/cold-one conversion pulling a disk would be a nice look for tzeentch chariots... basically the front half of a screamer along with the back half of a cold one... centaurish in a way. Not entirely sure how possible it'd be to pull off though.Secured a box of skinks and half a

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-27688548248723019392009-11-05T18:18:00.002+13:002009-11-05T19:13:29.556+13:00

As I mentioned a few posts ago I was going to transfer my now some-what LONG term Daemon diary to here. With the forecast of hard-cap restrictions becoming a bit more regular in tournaments next year, and having with these in mind playing round with some Daemon lists, I have now gotten somewhat excited again about my Daemon army (having previously put them aside in favour of mroe comp-friendly

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-74099125073451599442009-11-02T07:44:00.002+13:002009-11-02T08:06:32.639+13:00

Decided on friday night that I needed a break from painting, so put my terrain hat on again. Several Piles of Sawdust and Polystyrene bits later... quite a mess actually.I took a few photos of one WiP (The Three Towers!) and will take some more over the next couple of days.On the worklist this time is:The Three Towers (Don't worry guys, not all to be on the same table)

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-72141300108165236502009-10-25T00:36:00.002+13:002009-10-25T01:05:35.987+13:00

With the sun breaking the clouds at long last, I got up a little earlier today and went tiki-touring...1st stop was GW St Lukes to pick up my GD entries... as I suspected, my WE Mage didn't make it through to the Finals in Sydney... although apparently it was a very close thing... being let down only by there being some minute flash left on the fingers of one of the models hands. Bah humbug!

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Well I haven't actually done much over the past week... wargaming wise at least.With the boss being away here at work, and thereby having a greater workload myself, and re-discovering an enjoyment of Railroad Tycoon... oops. I threw it ontot the computer at home the other day for an idle half hour... and now a week and 10 campaign scenarios later... I think I've had my fill of computer games

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-24967548715985822322009-10-13T19:16:00.003+13:002009-10-13T19:30:37.854+13:00

Whilst I didn't take a photo specifically of the entry I made for single model, I did take a photo of my Horror unit.Finally got round to downloading the photo from the camera this afternoon.And here it is.I think I'm likely to replace the standard at some stage as I'm not 100% happy with it and would prefer a Tzeentch symbol of some sort to be there.Of course the full unit is 25 models strong (

Philfynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-35421480577554014242009-10-12T21:15:00.002+13:002009-10-12T21:34:41.324+13:00

Well I bit the bullet, as the title says, and purchased half of my "Roman" Empire army last night from Maelstrom Games.Wargames Factory produce some nice plastics in the range too, but given that Maelstrom don't stock them I have bought the Warlord Games variety.4 Boxes of Roman Legionaries2 Boxes of Roman Auxiliaries 1 Roman Auxiliary Cavalry Regiment.This will for now give me enough models for

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Well my two Golden Daemon entries made it through the local round to the "regional" finals. Admittedly there was exactly a lot of competition in the WFB Regiment and WFB Single Miniature categories at a local level... at least not that I saw during the short time I was in-store.Still, it was amusing - and thanks to FoB success cost me nothing to enter. I'm tempted to make a more concerted

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I've never entered this before. Mostly because I don't think my painting is anywhere near up to the necessary "grade" and its always a bit of a hassle to get models done and entered.That being said, after the GW Sylvia park manager harassing me about it the past few times I've been in (purely sales speech as I don't think he's ever seen anything I've painted)... and spending my FoB loot, I

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Whoops! I should have done this a week ago, but have had other projects on my mind.What was probably the "premier" event on the NZ WFB calendar this year (and last year, and likely to be next year as well, occured on the weekend of September 26/27. A lot of work had gone into the event by the TO Dave Stent (whom we will forgive for being a "Dave" in this instance as he did one HECK of a job!),

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-53598112380002023462009-09-17T06:38:00.002+12:002009-09-17T06:54:24.992+12:00

Well for the past few weeks I have been pottering around making some WFB terrain... that is USEABLE on a wargaming table. Tree's detach from the bases, hills are molded so that units balance on them, buildings can actually fit troops inside, and that general kind of thing.Why? I have been getting a little annoyed lately (I guess its because I'm using wood elves so my units are actually

Philfynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-75212647022152792102009-08-19T17:54:00.002+12:002009-08-19T18:02:50.979+12:00

Well had my first tournament using the Wood Elves last weekend.Call To Arms in Wellington. Always an event I have enjoyed attending over the years, and was looking to improve on my 6th placing last year.Never being one to recall or remember to note down anything in regards to Battle reports, I "was" able to remember my opponents and scores thereby for once.17-3 Win vs Mike Thorn (Empire) -

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Well my latest Maelstrom order arrived this morning. Still awaiting my Ziterdes Terrain pieces, but they should hopefully arrive this week as well.With my WiP elves still at work I pottered round at my desk putting another unit of Bret knights together - and to my irritation found that its likely I'll have to buy "another" box of them to get all the same horse heads for the final knight unit -

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-16274220946857810302009-05-24T00:35:00.003+12:002009-05-24T00:44:22.733+12:00

I think the Iron Halo bases have certainly helped add to the "look" of the army. I've noticed a fair bit of touching up needed (particularly on the metal models) due to wear n tear of use... but will get round to that.First up is the ubiquitous Eagles Claw Repeater Bolt Thrower + Crew!Supported of course by High Elf archers...Quite happy with my Shadow Warriors... I have two units of these -

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Well since I rebased my High Elves (WiP) and have made a good start on my Wood Elf army... I thought it time to take some photos...I've used a mixture of the Wylde Woods bases and the ummm Swamp something bases (both from Iron Halo) for my Wood Elf army. And have painted them a yellow/orange autumnal flavoured colour. I like the effect.First up is a couple of my WE Wild Riders...And now for a

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Well, given how much things appear to be increasing in price by, and given that what I "need" (as opposed to "want") model wise I thought I'd best jump in and get said things sooner rather than later. Basically models to "complete" my High Elves, Wood Elves & Daemons, and possibly Tomb Kings/VC's as well, although work on those will be somewhat down the track. I have storage space, so might as

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-17097269318596777502009-05-07T22:12:00.003+12:002009-05-07T22:29:03.836+12:00

Well as I mentioned in my last post, I have been mulling over display/carry tray options for some of my armies.The Wood Elf one will be a breeze... no further thought required there.High Elves... hmm after extensive searching through many websites for ideas - or at least pictures of HE themed terrain for inspiration, I ended up at the Ziterdes website (NZ supplier for these guys being our very

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-86024044155825496412009-05-06T06:34:00.002+12:002009-05-06T07:02:14.321+12:00

Well over the past couple of months I have expanded the range of armies in my "collection" quite significantly.Whilst pretty much all of them will require additional models to be purchased to give a complete tourney army with "options", and obviously they all need some paintwork (ranging from the minor to the seriously major). Happily I seem to have of late re-found my painting "mojo" and not

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-45408720479975476612008-09-26T17:47:00.002+12:002008-09-26T18:03:29.100+12:00

About 10 or so days ago I got a message from Doug asking if I was interested in doing some painting work... it having been at least 2 years since I'd done so... I said that I might be interested.Turns out there is a tight time-frame on the commission as well - less than 5 weeks. For an ENTIRE army somewhat of a challenge for me, but given that the "job" was passed round to a few people with no

Philfynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-12656514717644991242008-06-20T00:51:00.004+12:002008-06-20T01:00:11.133+12:00

I started wondering on this earlier tonight on one of my (many) smoke-breaks...There are a few things that brought it to mind.Firstly there was a comment I think in Murishido's Blog - and mentioned again in the thread he started discussing his blog... the comment was something along the lines of "our hobby turning into nothing more than a boardgame".Secondly - with GW in this region at least

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-89827768502089478862008-06-06T05:35:00.002+12:002008-06-06T06:35:13.392+12:00

Well I have just finished putting the final touches to my High Elves for the Tin Soldier tournament being held in Auckland this coming weekend. Okay, not "quite" the final touches as I just remembered that I have two Great Eagles that need a touch-up on the paint and a re-varnish. That however won't take long and I'm unable to do them at present since they are at home, and I am still at

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-36357871474316480802008-05-12T06:41:00.002+12:002008-05-12T07:00:45.735+12:00

Well it has been a few weeks since Runefang and I am happy to report that I managed to place 4th Overall. And it was so very close overall at the top with only a couple of points in it. As to be expected I got hammered a little bit on composition. It strikes me that that in part may be due to having posted the list on WargamerAU where army lists are judged more harshly in regards to

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Well I sent my Runefang High Elf list away on Friday, still painting for it, but that is the case for every tournament I have attended in the last 10 years pretty much. It would feel "odd" to not be painting in the week leading up to it, or even the night before! That being said, as painting is not being included in the overall points this next weekend, I'm not as frenetic as I might have

Philfynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-64970065093472590682008-03-29T21:43:00.010+13:002008-03-29T22:29:20.090+13:00

From time to time over the last few years I have posted some of what I considered to be my "better" painted miniatures on the Cool Mini or Not website. And have had a response to them rating wise that on the whole I have been fairly happy with - although in a couple of cases I think that the actual photography of the model has let me down in that regard.I've always thought that the best model I

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-24480510989901910912008-03-26T23:08:00.007+13:002008-03-29T21:41:25.253+13:00

This tournament is running for the first time ever - and may well end up being a "one-off" although I would like to see it become a regular event.During a rather active discussion some weeks ago via emails and WargamerAU between many of the "regulars" here in New Zealand in regards to the possibility of a "NZ Masters", the topic came up that we don't really have enough tournaments here, or

Philfynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994766426154159426.post-36706130249315359842008-03-26T01:58:00.002+13:002008-03-26T02:14:17.373+13:00

I decided over the weekend, in some ways as a result of being called into work rather than being able to spend the two days gaming over Easter that I had wanted to, that I would attend Fortunes Of War in Australia during May.I finally managed, after a number of years of trying, to attend my first DogCon over in Sydney earlier this year and had an excellent time. FoW looks to be a very fun event

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