Khador Supreme Kommandant Irusk…

I painted him before I got to even to play test him. I really didn’t like his metal banner so I cut it off and replaced it with a brass rod. I was inspired to create my own 3rd Division banner thanks to Rob Hawkins’ Banner Tutorial. If you know your way around a photo editing program then you won’t have to draw anything yourself. I just used scanned images and cleaned them up a bit a long with the Khador Iron Kingdoms fonts. I am really happy with the results for it being my first time trying this. Although you can’t see it in the photo, there is texture all over the banner itself.

I recently played him a couple weekends ago at a Steamroller tournament and he performed amazing for me. A friend lent me his IFP and IFP Kovnik to try them out. I now want to invest in some Black Dragon Iron Fang Pikemen in the near future. DAMN YOU IRON FANG KOVNIK!!!

Totally his theme song

FOR THE QUEEEEEEEEEEN!!!

1. Army Painter Desert Yellow Primer
2. Base coat colors using Vallejo Game Colors & Vallejo Model Air Metallics
3. Used Army Painter Dark Tone Ink all over the miniature using a big flat brush
4. Minimal highlights (studs, rivets, flesh, etc.)
5. Bases are comprised of Woodland Scenics grass & a Autumn Mix Leaf Scatter
6. I varnish with Rust-oleum Painter’s Touch Gloss Coat (Non-Yellowing & UV Resistant) & then use Testor’s Dullcote to take away the gloss
7. Finally I then attached the banner

NEWS – Lock & Load 2013 Videos & some CoC…

For all those that missed out on going to Lock & Load 2013, you can now live somewhat vicariously through these videos

Privateer Press Staff Panel

Iron Gauntlet Finals (Respect to my boy Brandon!)

Iron Painter Showdown

I recently did a little something something and I was rewarded with some CoC (The jokes will NEVER stop). I can’t wait to start painting them up! I will be trying out oil washes with these suckas. The whole reason why I got into Warmachine was because of the warjacks. I know this force can run 5-6 Vectors (Warjacks) without any problems thanks to their FI (Focus Induction) ability. YAY! MOAR ROBOTS!!!

Mercenaries Reinholdt, Gobber Speculator…

This model has a ton of character as  a lot of the Gobbers do. I still have never actually used him yet but I have some fellow Khador friends that make use him frequently. He was a pretty simple and a really fast paint job. I am really looking forward to the new Gobber Tinker! I can never get enough Magenta hence his pants. If you know about his abilities then you’ll know why I posted the video below as well

Accountant by day…

1. Army Painter Desert Yellow Primer
2. Base coat colors using Vallejo Game Colors & Vallejo Model Air Metallics
3. Army Painter Dark Tone Ink all over the miniature
4. Minimal highlights (teeth & eyes)
5. Bases are comprised of Woodland Scenics grass & a Autumn Mix Leaf Scatter
6. I then varnish with Rust-oleum Painter’s Touch Gloss Coat (Non-Yellowing & UV Resistant) & then use Testors Dullcote to subdue the shine

Khador Vladimir Tzepesci, Great Prince of Umbrey…

Vladimir Tzepesci, Great Prince of Umbrey a.k.a. Vlad3 is finally done. I have fielded him a few times and he’s been pretty fun, but I definitely need more cavalry models overall. He has a pretty solid spell list and can be pretty cool even if you have minimal cavalry when you use a lot of REACH models who can take advantage of DASH. He was pretty time consuming to paint since he has a decent amount of trim everywhere. I did end up chopping off some of the rear part of the handle by the hand since it was so thin and was on the verge of breaking off and pinned it. I don’t know whether I will be fielding him with a mass cavalry force down the road but I definitely want to play him some more using more Doom Reavers units

Strong thighs mean more hands to fight with!

1. Army Painter Desert Yellow Primer
2. Base coat colors using Vallejo Game Colors & Vallejo Model Air Metallics
3. Used Army Painter Dark Tone Ink all over the miniature using a big flat brush
4. Minimal highlights (studs, rivets, flesh, etc.)
5. Bases are comprised of Woodland Scenics grass & a Autumn Mix Leaf Scatter
6. I varnish with Rust-oleum Painter’s Touch Gloss Coat (Non-Yellowing & UV Resistant) & then use Testor’s Dullcote to take away the gloss

Hordes Minions Bog Trog Warlock Rask…

Rask is everything us Blindwater players have been wanting and asking for. His spell list is pretty damn amazing and he is only limited by the few options Blindwater gets model-wise. The model has a lot of little details all over but I was still able to finish him in one painting session. I’ve played him numerous times and really love his versatility. He’s able to create decent threat ranges and harass both Warmachine and Hordes with his ammo choices for his ranged weapon. He also makes the option of replacing your Blackhide Wrastler with the Swamp Horror more viable to do his spell list. Now if we only had access to more magic weapons. DAMN YOU CRYX AND MENOTH!!!

So many ammo types, so little rate of fire…

1. White P3 Primer
2. Base coat colors using Vallejo Game Colors & Vallejo Model Air Metallics
3. Citadel Badab Black wash all over the miniature
4. Minimal highlights (teeth & eyes))
5. Bases consist of mixed grit sizes, Army Painter Swamp Tufts & Flame/Red Mix Leaves
6. I then varnish with Rust-oleum Painter’s Touch Gloss Coat (Non-Yellowing & UV Resistant) & then use Testors Dullcote to subdue the shine

Hosting my first Steamroller Tournament…

I recently had the pleasure of organizing my first official Steamroller tournament at my LGS. My ultimate goal is to gradually bring more of our casual players into the tournament scene since that is the best way to learn about your army in a variety of circumstances when scenarios are in play. Plus their usually just plain fun! Our store is one of the smaller ones in SoCal so we have a limited capacity and I made it only 3 rounds so it wouldn’t intimidate too many of the newcomers. This makes it more intimate plus going 4 or more rounds can drain a lot of people. We have plenty of other stores that offer the “full tournament” experience in SoCal meta so there are options for more serious tournament players. It also makes it much easier for people to attend since they know it will only take up 5-6 hours rather than 8 or more.

One of our players happens to be a terrain master and so I teamed up with him to create custom flags and objectives to give our tournaments a little more personality. Also with the help of some players that attend tournaments more frequently we were able to get enough chess clocks to make it a Deathclock tournament instead of timed turns which can discourage newbies.

All in all it was a great turn out with a decent faction spread. Everyone had a blast and I was happy that several players that attend tournaments frequently told me that it was ran really well and everything went super smooth with the overall tournament time. Most of the players were self-sufficient and I was only needed a handful of times. I couldn’t have asked for a better group of players for my first time. I can’t wait for next month and enjoy the pics below!

Tournament Results…

• 1st Place - Cygnar
• 2nd Place - Trollbloods
• 3rd Place - Cryx

Factions Represented…

• Circle Orboros – 1
• Cryx – 2
• Cygnar – 3
• Khador – 1
• Legion of Everblight – 1
• Skorne – 1
• Trollbloods – 1

The final round on the finals table!

Mercenaries Orin Midwinter…

The first time I ran into Orin Midwinter was a game on Vassal. I thought his different abilities were pretty cool and decided to pick him up. The one powerful ability he has is being able to deter spell casting within 12″ of him. it’s odd because you would think it would be his CMD and this does throw some people off. It’s pretty legit if he has proper backup or something he can hide behind. The model I got had a irregular molding on the staff’s orb between it’s pincers so I decided to just cut it off completely. I know it’s a older model but I thought the need to have separate pieces for his non-staff hand and the back end of the stuff wasn’t needed. I hope to use him in some future tournaments as a sideboard as I have only used him a handful a times in casual games.

The dirty wizard…

1. Army Painter Desert Yellow Primer
2. Base coat colors using Vallejo Game Colors & Vallejo Model Air Metallics
3. Army Painter Dark Tone Ink all over the miniature
4. Minimal highlights (flesh & staff crystal)
5. Bases are comprised of Woodland Scenics grass & a Autumn Mix Leaf Scatter
6. I then varnish with Rust-oleum Painter’s Touch Gloss Coat (Non-Yellowing & UV Resistant) & then use Testors Dullcote to subdue the shine
7. I finally brush on Vallejo Gloss Varnish on the staff crystal