Impossible

Ok, I'm throwing in the towel early. The Impossible Dream Challenge is impossible for me. I simply do not have the dedication to work on infantry so fast. Bah!

But instead of just stopping where I am, I am going to just dial it in sharply. Things left to finish before the challenge ends officially:
Druids of Orboros + UA
Stone Keeper
Blackclad Wayfarer
Stoneward

That means the pieces I have given up on were:
Mohsar
Krueger
Wolf Riders
Bloodweavers
Reeves
Wolves

Notice that this is the lion's share of my model count.

Other things though, we are planning to hold a Battlebox "Bring or Borrow" tournament here at the end of January. We have so many battleboxes amongst our group, we wanted to get people in and trying the game out. So, with that in mind, after this set of Circle stuff here, I plan to work on painting my variety of battleboxes. I like painting casters and jacks/beasts. This is going to go much better, I'm sure.

But on the path to doing that I am trying to also become a Press Ganger. I sent my application today. This involved pictures of two painted battleboxes as well. Guess what? I'm gonna' share those here now too! Yeah, I speak a lot of the painting and show very little. Well, here ya' go. Snapped today before the rain rolled in.


Here is the Cryx box. It's been a while since I painted these and I'm not exactly pleased with the end results. But I don't field these too terribly often. I also have the new plastic box set waiting to be painted too (and thus add another battlebox to my list for the upcoming event). But that one is a bit lower on my list right now since I need to get the Skorne box painted first. Followed by a Menoth box once I can figure out a scheme I like.


And here is my second box, Gorten and his jacks. I really like the Gorten model for some reason. I noticed after I snapped the picture that there is a mold line I missed on the top of his hammer. Bah! Oh well. Still looks good on a table top. I don't think I'll ever build a real army out of these dwarves, but I do enjoy their models.

And that's it for now. I'm actually really impressed with my phone's camera so I guess I'll be putting up more pictures in the future.

Painting update

The Woldguardian, Megalith and Woldstalkers are done. Well, nearly. They need something done for their gems but I have no idea what I wanna' do. Otherwise, done.

Lord of the Feast is sitting next to me on the painting table drying right now. He's gonna near a few highlights on his sword and hair followed by some blood for his sword and the hand in his sack. I need to figure out how I wanna' do that too.

This brings me to 47 pts done. I still don't feel too good about that. See my previous post about infantry. They will find me one day completely mad muttering repeatedly about wolves and reeves and cannibal girls. I will be committed immediately. Maybe then I will be safe...

Another week

So, another week has passed. I sadly haven't gotten nearly enough done. It's the infantry. It's always the infantry...

I have been enjoying getting some painting in while I play d20 with my friends on Thursdays now. It gives me something to do with my hands while we play. Last night though turned into a movie night (hey, Pandorum is pretty good. Also, "Sex Galaxy" is one of the most ridiculously hilarious movies I have ever had the joy to see. The overdubbing of old movies is amazing!), so very little got done.

And before that, I spent Sunday through Tuesday back home with the family. I got nothing done those three days. Wednesday I got nothing done except play some Warmachine that night. As far as how that goes, let's just say my ARM 47 Venethrax just doesn't die. Oh, and Gerlak pacman'd through 16 models (10 Winterguard, their 2 man UA, 3 Rocketeers and Strakhov's Wardog. Oddly enough, dogs have souls. Who knew?). Between this and his performance the week before, Gerlak has FINALLY done something for me! YAY!

So what have I gotten done? The Lord of the Feast is almost done. The Woldstalkers, Megalith and Wold Guardian need a little work on their ropes followed by a wash to finish them up. I haven't decided if I'm brave enough to throw some glow effects on any of my Wolds, so for now I'm going without. So long as I don't varnish them, I should be able to add it later without disturbing anything like the base.

And that's really it. I still have 22 Wolves/Reeves staring at me accusingly. And 11 Tharn ladies (five of them with puppy mounts!). Yeah...this is not going to end well.

Cassius spoilers have gone up. Seems to be rather interesting. In short:
6 Fury
Interesting spell list, including a spell to move his tree and the best anti-infantry spell in the game
A forest creating feat that makes Tough models grumble (And hey, anytime I make a troll unhappy, it's a good day!)

The problem seems to be the shared health with his stationary tree. Skip Cassius and kill his tree. Hm. Gonna' have to see him on the tabletop before passing final judgment. Good thing I have him on preorder for the end of this month!

Honestly, the most interesting thing about him to me is his feat, because it causes models caught in his forest to take 1 pt of damage if knocked down. Ok, kind of situational all on its own, but I really wanna' play a two caster game with Cassius and Blood Barnabas. Get Wurmwood up into the enemy army via Cassius or Shifting Stones, pop feat, hurl Barnabas up, pop his feat, watch infantry die in DROVES. If they don't have Tough or multiple wounds, they will die immediately. Even Incorporeal models will bite it because this IS a feat causing the damage.

Man, I really, REALLY wanna' do that. If I get to wipe a large number of models from the table in one go, it makes me happy, regardless of whether I win or lose the game after that. Hell, I'd take this to a tournament and play this combo all day until I got it off just so I could go home happy having wiped 50% of someone's army from the table in the span of four activations, two models, and just about no way to save them.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHHAAHHAHAHA--*cough* hahaha *hack* ahem.

Where was I?

Oh yeah. Nowhere.

So that is really it for now. I need to pick up the pace. November is almost half over and I do NOT have 50 pts done even. Even if I generously give myself the Guardian and Megalith as complete, I'm at 42 then. But that is 42 pts in five models out of...ok, I don't wanna' think about that.