Warhammer Leeds birthday bash

So this it's what the last 3 weeks of painting has been all for I headed into my local store.

They had cake

And party food and some author or another was there (David Guymar...... I'm sure he's never heard of me either). But I want there for any of that I was there for the warband competition and the painting competition.

So they lined up my first opponent for me to eat. A slaves to darkness army. We're using most of the path to glory rules but the battles are pitched battle games.

For my general I chose the tomb blade and the red fury command trait for all my battles.

So first game, points of power.

My set up

Slaves set up:

He conceded at the start of turn his 4 having lost most his forces and me having a 12vp to 3vp lead

My next battle was against stormcast eternals using the escalation pitched battle. It was clear from turn 1 I was going to lose but I don't concede and he wiped me out in turn 3 having killed only 2 retributors 

I first to take a picture during set up so here's the stormcasts final positions

My final opponent was an aelf player I especially liked that he was using a Dread Maw with an elf on it as an archmage on a Dragon that was cool. 

We rolled and got the points of power mission again and 3 turns later he was wiped out.

So the final tallies from the games (only 4 of us turned up with warbands) were.

Stormcast eternals 3 wins 0 losses

Flesh eater courts 2 wins 1 loss

Slaves to darkness 1 win 2 losses

Aelfs 0 wins 3 losses

So the stormcast player win the best general certificate.

As the only player with his warband fully painted the slaves to darkness player won the warband painting competition with me coming second

The slaves to darkness player also Won best converted being the only one who had done any conversion work.

Finally I won the best themed warband

So there we have it all in all I'm proud in both how my warband performed and looked even though I'm disappointed that I didn't get them finished. But if you're in Leeds in the next two weeks and in warhammer go have a look at the display case and see my warband.

Going to be taking a short break from painting but when I come back to it is there any of my particular armies people would like to see me handle next?

What should I paint next

Grey knights

Aurora chapter

Dwarves

Empire

More flesh eater courts

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Mission failed

So I didn't manage to get everything painted.

I did so much painting today I lost track of the order I did then on and what I actually did today (the informatics system went down art work today which meant there was very little I could do at work so I didn't the extra time painting.

I finished my brown pubes unit of crypt horrors and this is how they turned out

All in all I'm happy with the way they turned out and I'm starting to wonder if there's anything blood for the blood God can't fix?

So here's my warband 56% complete as a whole I'm happy with the way it looks as a unified force and it will only look better when I finish the other stuff.

So off it goes for its first outing tomorrow..... wish me luck and I'll let you know how I get on.

King Lymphguzzle's war patrol

The Roleplay dwarf

Varghulf and terrorgheist complete

Oh hi I didn't see you there. That's technically true.....

So with my terrorgheist when I took it in to earthshade the staff pointed out to me that the wings looked a little flat because I'd used a different technique to the rest of the model. They weren't wrong. So I've been adding a 3:1 lahmia media to agrax earthshade wash to the wings starting a little further down each time and adding muon oil to that mix a little at a time once I'd got about halfway down the wing. I then applied a harsher highlight as rakarth flesh to the highest bits of the wings and adding a little deathclaw brown each time and working towards the centre.

A quick picture of finished effect:


I also FINALLY  fogged out how to get the blood splatter by blowing sharply over a brush loaded with blood for the blood God:

Back to the varghulf. I applied 2 (I'd like to apply more but I'm short on time) 3:1 washed of lahmia media to seraphim sepia to the wings of the varghulf. I then applied a light drybrush of deathclaw brown to the most raised areas of the fur and applied a nuln oil wash to the fur. I painted the eyes with averland sunset then highlighted with yriel yellow and a final highlight of flash gitz yellow before applying the line of abbadon black. On the exposed muscle I did my serial 3:1 lahmia media carrouburg crimson with a 2:1 lahmia media druchii violet at the edges. Final wash was the 3:3:1 lahmia media, carroburg crimson, agrax earthshade where I was going to be applying blood for the blood God. I then applied blood for the blood God and painted the based (for base see previous blog as I have only 9% battery left.

Today's blog was bought to you despite my baby demanding 3 feeds, 3 nappy changes and exploding vomit all over me. If this was sesame street today's episode would have been bought to by the number 3 and the colour vomit.

Hopefully we'll have more look tomorrow

The Roleplay dwarf

Today's progress. Varghulf courtier and terrorgheist

Good evening everyone, or whatever part of the day it it's where and when you're reading this.

I know yesterday (this morning but I started the post yesterday.) I kept saying with the terrorgheist that I was done for now but if I get time I'll do other stuff to it. Well I arrived at work early today so I applied the blood for the blood God to the areas I said I would

In between painting layers on the varghulf courtier I applied several coats of 3:1 lahmia medium to agrax earthshade to the wings working from the bottom of the wing to the top finishing a little further from the top each time, this is far from finished and still take many more layers.

So to the varghulf. The varghulf is based a similar way as the terrorgheist (resin decals stuck to the base, layer stirland mud with agrellan earth on selected parts) the whole model was then affiliated Corax white.

I base coated the skin and bone sections of the model with rakarth flesh and the fur with mornfang brown. I then shaded the flesh with a 3:1 lahmia media reikland flesh mix and shaded the fur with agrax earthshade. 

The fur was then dry brushed skrag brown. The sections mentioned so far were done before today as I was originally going to batch paint my warband but then I decided my abhorrent ghoul king on the terrorgheist deserved better than that. So the following short section is what I got fine today. keep in mind what I was doing to the terrorgheist today too)

I layered ushabti bone onto the bone sections of the model and then shaded them with agrax earthshade. I then went over the bone sections with ushabti bone again avoiding the recesses.......... and that's it........ No seriously I told you I was a slow painter

Hopefully I will be able to find more time this weekend to get more done. If I do you'll get my end of day update. If not I'll see you Monday.

Thanks for sticking with my slow ass

The Roleplay dwarf