My Cygnar Army

Thought I better up date my painting log. Here is what I have finished so far still got alot more to paint up:

Cygnar:
Stormclad
Hammersmith
Ol Rowdy
Hunter
eCaine
eStryker
Captain Jeremiah Kraye
Captain Arlan Strangeways
Stormblade unit
Stormblade Officer+Standard Bearer
Stormblade weapon Attachment

Mercenaries: 
Greygore and Co
Anastasia Di Bray
Reinholdt
Piper of Ord

So still got alot to work on and hopefully the wife will get her Cryx painted soon so we can game.

The Army

Arcane Gun Mages

Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team

Epic Haley

Sentinel Light Warjacks

Charger and Lancer Light Warjacks

My unpainted stuff. Only got the other Warjacks a few days ago will post pics once I have them done.

OUR NEW HOBBY: WARMACHINE PART II

Stage Two:

Undercoating:
With my wife’s Cryx she wanted a black undercoat. I tried to get a matt finish but ended up with satin. If it gets to be a issue I'll get a de-shine agent and give them a coat.
With mine I usually coat them either white or black. this time I am trying out the a base coat of the main colour. Which for me is Blue.

In this pic you may or may not see I have given the Squire, 1x gun mage and eHaley an ink bath. The blue was ummm well to bright for my liking....
I have given all the figs an ink wash and decided to start on the gun mages first then will go onto the jacks. My Wife has started to paint the Necro Surgen will post pics once she and I are ready for you to see.

Just another quick update beenreally busy with work, and other xmas related stuff will put more stuff later.

OUR NEW HOBBY: WARMACHINE

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Finally got the last of the Warmachine we had ordered. Cygnar for me and Crryx for my Wife.
The Following has replaced the pDenny stuff I originally bought. [NB: The Harrower was missing a shoulderpad waiting on the spare part to arrive. The last big Cryx warjack I had was the Leviathan and that had a leg missing... 2 Cryx warjacks with missing parts.... don't they like Cryx?]

Wife’s Cryx:
1x Harrower
1x pSkarre
3x Brute Thrall
1x Necrosurgen & Stitch thralls
1x Gorman Di Wolfe
1x Madelyn Corbeau
1x Warwitch Siren
1x Satyxis Raider Captain
1x Satyxis Raider Sea Witch
1x Satyxis Raiders [6]
Not pictured: From 1st order.
12x Mcthralls
1x Skarlock thrall
1x Nightwrench


My Cygnar:
1x pack of protective sleeves.
2x Sentinel Light war jack
1x Charger Light war jack
1x Defender Heavy War jack
1x eHaley
1x eStryker
1x The Black 13
1x Journeyman warcaster [Alt fig]
1x Stormblade UA [Officer and Standard bearer]
1x Anastasia Di Bray [not sure if I'll use her now]
Not pictured: From 1st order.
1x Arcane Gun mage Unit [6]
1x Arcane Gun mage UA
1x Lancer
1x Squire
1x Stormblade Unit [6]
3x Stormblade Storm Gunner

My Wife has never taken in an interest in my games [well she did try out magic the gathering and Vampire Masquerade but she didn't "get into it"]
Warmachines is truely the first system she has dived into with not only choosing the faction, units, solos, and warcaster but she has chosen the paint scheme and will try her hand at painting the army as well...

Stage One:
Gluing:
She had alot of fun [more like curses] when she glued her Cryx up. The Brute thralls were a bit tricky with their hoses/pipes coming off their backs.
Below is Lady Grey's 15pts [minus the Harrower which she needs the missing shoulder pad]

My frustrations were mainly around the Stormblades, in particular the one holding his weapon over his head. Big fingers+fiddly parts=$!#^%$^#^%!.... also having the Journeymans sword break off added more %$^!@^%#!!! to my growing list. I was able to re-glue the sword back on but its not the same....
My 15pts plus some extra stuff I wanted to get painted. [15pts = pHaley, AGM[6], 2x Sentinels, 1x Lancer <---- though I may change this by swapping out one of the Sentinels for a Charger]

Well that is for now will post about the Next stage soon….

New Sites: Puppetwars

One of the guys from the Death Squads Forum board mentioned this great site Puppetswar for some conversion bitz he was looking at and what did I find on this site…. well these guys:

 

Plague bears
They come with with 3 different bodies and 6 various heads to make them unique. I am planning on using them as my Nurgle warriors for my Blood Bowl team. They will join the ranks of the “Plague Dolls”.

Once the figs arrive I’ll post pics of them and a size comparison. One thing I’ll mention the p&p to New Zealand was DAM cheap. I shell be buying from them again and again…[I want some of their conversion bitz, those gas masked heads look great. Awesome for Nurgle Imperial Renegades]

I’ll be attending the Greenstone Cup [Blood Bowl] tournament in November [12th/13th, in Auckland] Haven’t had a game in along time so it will be a steep learning curce and I am certain to take out the Wood spoon award [eg last place] But it will be loads of fun and certainly the highlight of 2011 for me.

Thats all for now happy gaming, be good and if you can’t be PURE EVIL !!!!!

one more thing here are the rest of the gang for the new “Plague Dolls” team:

Beast Of Nurgle:

Pestigors:

Rotters:

Head Coach:

Turn Marker:

Customer Orders

If anyone wants any of the following products let me know as I can order them in. If you send me an email with what you want I can send you back the price list. If you mention this: THEGREYKNIGHT10% in your email you’ll get a 10% discount off your order. All payments can be done through paypal. I do orders twice a month I can also get anything from Impact Miniatures for all of your Blood Bowl needs/wants. On occasions I do offer other discounts depending on the size of the order, And Will also be looking at offering prizes to those who follow this blog, some time soon.

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Blood Bowl Team Concepts

Well My kids Master3 and Miss5 both found some old Blood Bowl minis that I had left over from my time playing it.

After many questions I showed them what the game looked like from the many online resources that are there. Miss5 got excited and asked me if I would make her a team. Master3 was not to be left out so he piped in he wanted one to. So here is what I am doing for them and for my new Blood Bowl team.

Master3’s team will be an Orc team but with a Robot theme [Will post his team set up soon] and Miss5 she is leading either a Human or Amazon team but using “Blood Bowl Mascot” minis. These are those limited edition ones from Euc Bowl, or SSB kangaroo Ref, Thumper Bunny Blitzer. As long as its either cute and cuddle or cute and scally [eg baby dragon] she is happy. Not to mention it MUST be PINK & PURPLE.

For me my Team will most likely end up being Purple,Red with green lighting effect [if I can even pull that off ~ mmm maybe not but will give it ago]

As for the lad he wants Blue and Green colours with a large amount of chrome. His robots have a retro feel to them and is going to be a blast to do.

Well that its for now will do another post later on with the list of products I can get in for any local gamers.

Daddies Team

Concept: Necro/Undead, using NON-GW minis.
Theme: Steam punk undead
Minis: Cryx Warmachine range from Privateer Press

Necromancer/Head Coach:


Assistant Coach [with book] and Mummies:


Wights & Assistant coach


FleshGolems:


WereWolves:


Ghouls:


Zombies:


Turn Marker, Cheer Leaders:


Re-rolls:

Star Players:

Ramtut III: [Mummy]


Luthor Von Drakenborg: [Vampire]

Sinnedbad: [undead] just realized I'll have 2 of these so the spare one will be used as this SP.


Setekh [Undead] & Wilhelm Chaney: [Werewolf]


Hack Enslash:[just need to add chainsaw]

A New Game For me

Having a break away from WWII micro-FoW and finally got myself a copy of Space Hulk 3rd edition [off Trademe our local version of ebay] and the new Death Angel from Fantasy Flight Games. Well both of my packages arrived [Whoop Whoop]. The Space Hulk board game had one Jam counter missing, the artifact and one genestealer broken. [the genestealer wasn't an issue I had 5 spares in storage that I bought off ebay awhile ago cause I liked the look of them. just the chalice that bugs me as I need it for a couple of the missions. but good thing the guy who sold it to me is trying to source them for me....]

On to the review of the Card game. I really like this game due to the fact it can be played by 1~6 players. Where I live it is really hard to find any one who games so its nice to find a system that allows us to solo play [oi keep it clean I know what your thinking.]

as for the card game well here is an over view:

The Core box and expansion pack [there is a new mission pack coming soon]

The Contents, tokens, cards, rule book, dice

Back of the tokens

Front of the Tokens. The storm bolters are your support tokens. the coloured tokens are there to help randomize which team you'll take.

Team cards. Each one gives the teams the ability to move+activate, attack and support.

examples of the Grey and Blue teams cards.

Grey and Yellow Teams.

Green and Purple Teams.

Red and Blue Teams.

One thing you should note each team has a specialist in it either that or a sergeant card. [eg Lightning claws, heavy flamer, assault cannon are all in separate teams so each one has pros and cons.]
Well that's the first part of the overview will post pics and more info about the remaining bitz and also what you get in the expansion pack.
once the general over view has been done I'll do a one step process through the turn sequence and basically how a single player game would work.

I had a solo game the other night it was a bit confusing at first to get your head around how its set up and how each card interacts. Once I’ve had a few games I’ll make a post outlining the set and how a turn works.

One other comment keep an eye out for these other great games from Fantasy Flight:

X-Wing and Blood Bowl: Team Manager - The Card Game

Both of these look interesting as far as I can tell X-Wing is Jan 2012 and the Blood Bowl is due out some time in Oct. will keep you all up dated.

Next instalment is going to be about my other Hobby Death Squads a fan based skirmish game set in the WH40k universe. Just started a new squad [got a box of Imperial Guard Cadians for father’s day best present ever beats socks and unides any time] used some old minis and incorporated the new IG. Will post pics of that WIP.

well thats all for now happy gaming…..