Escalation League Progress: Todd's Beastmen

Living in the same house as me means that he has no choice if I post his Beastmen progress hahaha

Escalation League Progress: FOR MARIENBURG!!

The Marienburg army is making progress...slowly considering it is a heavy infantry army with 100+ models once I am done.

1000 Point 40K Tourney

The second event Kippers' hosted for 2014 was in April, we had a 1000 point 40K tournament.

The rules were simple: if it is legal for use in this edition of Warhammer 40K then it is legal to bring. Items meant for use in Apocalypse were not allowed and I specified that I didn't want to see Warhound and Reaver titans (simply because in 1000 points that would have been no fun).

We wound up with 10 players ranging in how long they have played 40K. We saw a variety of lists and army types, with the closest to duplicates were the two Eldar players (Alex and Alex) but even they had variations due to allies.

It was neat to see a Knight being used, and blown up only two of the five games that day.

Final Overall results from the 1000 point 40K tourney are:
1. Alex Yuen - 25 pts
2. Alex McKenzie - 22 pts (21 +1 Fav Opp)
3. Todd Wittig- 17 pts
4. Jon West - 16 pts (15 +1 Fav Opp)
5. Todd Aspden - 15 pts
6. Marius von Lonhmann - 15 pts (13 +2 Fav Opp)
7. Brennan Collins - 14 pts (12 +1 Fav Opp)
8. Steve Gilson - 14 pts (11 + 3 Fav Opp)
9. Russell Martin - 13 pts
10. Jim Williamson - 9 pts (7 +2 Fav Opp)

Favorite Opponent was Steve Gilson

Here's some pictures from the day.

Astra Militarium...WOW!

So I dabble in 40k these days, learning Necrons of all things, but my husband has an extensive Guard (now Astra Militarium) army so of course that means we needed the new army book.

I am not the only person to cringe at spending $60 Canadian on an eBook version of an army book. But holy crap is this ever the first time that I was truly convinced it is worth it to buy the Enhanced version! Not only is the book full of beautiful pictures, the rules, and unit options but it has a Roster Creator built right in to the book!

So far we have only fiddled a little with it but in my humble opinion having a digital book that had the potential to update itself AND has an accurate roster creator....not only am I sold but this guarantees that I will continue to say "yes dear" when asked to spend $60 when the next Enhanced army book comes out. My fingers are crossed that fantasy books go this route as well.

Loving the modernization of this hobby even if my bank account doesn't!

Last Night Sculpting Session

I sculpted my first attempt about 2 years ago using tradition GW greenstuff making capes for some Grail Knight conversions I was working on.

My second attempt was little bits for Evie (my Bret caster on scooter that is running around with my army) and that time I tried Milliput.

Well now that I am working on this Empire army I got a hold of some models that needed some work and that meant sculpting.

I got this metal griffon or hippogriff model (not sure what, it had spots for wings and a beak) & decided to use it to make the fourth demi grif I needed in the unit. That meant covering ghastly wing hole slots, making a tail and giving the rider a place to sit other than the neck (where the old model would have sat). Because of the width of the body and the leg span of the kit bashed rider I created the "saddle area" could not be very thick and unfortunately would need to cover the entire back. So I settled on a padded blanket.

Now that part has set I am going to work creating more of a saddle area the rider will sit in.

I am certainly not the world's best sculptor, but patience and perserverance is resulting me with some alright results and if I had to make a recommendation: use milliput for sculpting, and make sure you have a good set of sculpting tools. I can't recall where I got this set but I love it and the rubber ends are much easier to use than the metal ones I was using before.

Will post more progress pictures when the saddle is done.