Ursine Presents

Well, progress was made on durgen last night, he's not particularly inspiring as a model to paint, very busy and the overall model doesn't seem to want to take my colourscheme and work... we'll have to do something about that. Not to mention the Hammer is the same size as his torso.




However the best bit was coming home last night and finding a box from the good people at maelstrom. Shipped on the first and they arrived on the sixth, thats damn good time from the other side of the world. Cracking open the box, to my delight I find Gudrun and the Bear, I quickly assembled the bear, see if I can crank him out in time for the weekend:


You'll see here how I pin models to their bases and then build the base up under them, It makes it a lot easier IMO. They're a little fragile while theyre only held up by pins but not fragile enough that its a biggie. Once the base is in place they're rock solid.

Definitely looking forward to painting the Bear, if Durgen isn't finished I might just have to put him aside for Beartastic fun times.


Until next time,

Play Like You Have a Pair.

Finally outside of the Box

Well the weekend is over and the Driller is done:


I went with a new technique for the paint chips on the driller, using the sponging method. Personally I think its come up a treat. You really can't tell the difference when looking at the Bgroup from tabletop height so I'm ok with it. I might go back and put a bit more rust on the driller as he does look a bit more pristime but not nearly as much as the rest of the Bgroup I think.

And heres the pics of the finished BBox:


Currently on the Table is Madhammer for a nice break from warjack plates. Hopefully then Thor or the Minions will have arrived and I can crank them out before I tackle the Hammerfall (which PP still needs to swing me some missing backpacks for.

Still not sold on the warning lights for Arc Markings, I have no problem painting Glows, its the fact I'd have to do a lot of painting to represent the light properly as a 2D light would look weird IMO. So I'd have to 3D paint it on every base twice... Thats a bit more work than I'm after.

Until next time,

Play Like You Have a Pair.

Drillers got a Crush on you

As you can see some minor progress has been made on the Driller, the bulk of the highlighting on the model and 90% of the base painting is done. you can see with the rivets and a bit of shading it looks much less gaudy and yellow.


Definitely looking forward to cranking out the final product tonight, then I can touch everything up and call the BBox done. Still having problems with the arc markings despite Ash's good suggestions, nothing seems to be clear enough while still being less loud than the model. I like the idea of hazard lights on the sides but how to simply paint hazard lights baffles me.


Until next time,

Play Like You Have a Pair.

Deal or no Deal?

Done a bit of a total up and through some shrewd purchasing I've managed to get:

Gorten BBox - NZ$30
2 Blasters & Rockram - NZ$40
Thor & Foreguard Box - NZ$70

So roughly $140 so far even if I did splash out on the Forgeguard but they're cool enough models I really don't mind.

For my money I've got a fair amount of customisation in my staring games, I think I'll whip the driller up to painted state this week and play some Battlebox games with it this weekend and then go for a bit of variety next weekend.

I just can't stop myself though, I'm eyeing up Durgen and some Highsheilds but most of all... The Bear (with attached dwarf) who will work for my contract, I'm a menace to my wallet.

I'm so weak, I bought it, all of it plus Gudrun...

Weak...

But Still, BEAR SMASH!

Gorten BBox - NZ$30 (Trademe)
Bokur - Free
2 Blasters & Rockram - NZ$40 (Trademe)
Thor & Foreguard Box - NZ$70 (Maelstrom)
Bear & Gudrun - NZ$88 (Maelstrom)
Durgen & Highsheilds - NZ$42 (Trademe)

Total - NZ$270 (2 Casters, 7 Jacks, 1 Minion Warlock, 3 Solos, 12 Infantry)

And for that I've probably got two pretty good tournament armies.

That had better keep me rolling on the painting trail for a while, the pile is starting to get away from me even with a new army fresh start... I can't resist deals!


Some measley progress on the Driller, pics to appease the picture in every post policy.


Until next time,

Play Like You Have a Pair.

And Aaaiiiiaaiiiee will always love Yoouuu!

What can I say, I've never seen 'The Bodyguard' but I can still make jokes...

Well I said my Bokur was almost finished yesterday and now he's done. The face isn't particulary captured well in the atrocious pics but it is the part I'm most proud of, particularly the expression.

A really enjoyable sculpt to paint and easy to paint into the beaten and worn bodyguard look, I did have to replace the haft of the polearm so that was a bit more work than I was looking for but it would have survived without it. What can I say, I hate having painted models break.



Excuse the smear of paint on the back of the base, didn't see it until I was running out the door for work this morning. Still struggling with an arc marking concept thats bright enough to serve the purpose. I was reminded why I paint bright arc markings this morning when I got a wolf rider in what I thought was the back of a swamp gobber only for the other player to point out little inconspicuous lines on the base that were half off the head of the gobber.

This or this is a real arc marking IMO, something that you can't fail to notice but still looks like it compliments the miniature its used on. Unfortunately I think adding more yellow on the base would only overpower the model.

Bad Jokes aside, fun model. I've scored a 6 man unit of Forge Guard and Thor in a trade so really looking forward to them.

Until next time,

Play Like You Have a Pair.

Bumblebee... B*tchez!

Burning out all the negativity on the blog for the last few days I'm back on track after a few days off over the weekend. Saw Transformers 2 over the weekend ... now wondering if a Camaro fits the Searforge Theme...


Gunners came out fairly well I think, I had the day off yesterday so a Bokur I had left over from an old army got mostly painted in Searforge pride to give me a break from jack panels before I dive into the Driller.

I'm still trying to puzzle out how to mark the front arcs of the bases. Hazard stripes would be in theme or maybe something Industrial? I don't think the usual triangles are enough for this one. Any ideas anyone? I'm fresh out.

I've managed to scource a fair whack more searforge in trades and cheap deals though so the boys are expanding faster than I can paint. They're going to need their own Case Trays soon, better get on that.

Until next time,

Play Like You Have a Pair.

And the owls they were watching

--A gamers tale: post 2--

Well, Greylords have been painted...


...and all the standard possible warrior models have been assembled.



So that’s a little progress, soon I should have a mass of jacks finished (for those who don’t remember, a fair number of my jacks have been almost fully painted for quite a while now)

I am however, failing at determining a good scheme for my Mechaniks, etc... any ideas?



Anyways, back to whats been painted...

Greylord Ternion A

Greylord Ternion B

Greylord Ternion C

Koldun Lord

Zerkova



Sorry the pictures are a little dark, they were taken in a bit of a rush. Paint jobs are done; base markings are temporary - once I decide how I'm marking front arcs they'll get tidied up; and there will hopefully be some snow appearing on the bases, one day.