tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40688189723872349632024-03-04T22:30:07.908-08:00Akers MinisLooking at wargamming and the differnt levels it holds!AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-89425451403358264922012-11-07T15:24:00.000-08:002012-11-07T15:25:10.052-08:00Former Armies<br />
So recently somone asked to see some of my old army works so I thought I would post some quick pics of the Blood Angels I did a while back as well as the Grey Knights. Enjoy and soon I will be announcing about the grand REOPENING of my webstore all new and improved:).<br />
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So Real quick there they are enjoy.<br />
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Greetings fellow Bloggers, for once I come to you on
bended knee as I am part of the "Guns of April" team that plays historical games
at Adepticon. Last year we did the Battle of Salamanaca and some of you may have
seen it in the Aug. issue of Wargames Illustrated. This year we will be doing
Gettysberg and are very excited for it, but as a team we decided to add some
extra elements to our event. We wanted to do a charity fund raiser and settled
on Movember which helps raise money for Prostate Cancer research. This is a very
important cause and I am proud to be doing this, but their is a side wager going
on amongst the team. First off the side that raises the most money will be given
first move at our game this year at Adepticon, further more the opposing faction
will be required to buy a round of drinks. Now Dave Taylor is on the Union side
and I would sure love to make him buy me a drink, but in the end this is a
harmless side bet butttttttt I would sure love you all for it<img border="0" src="http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/a/c944477abc92c1c101da485e07ff06d8.gif" />. <br /><br />Either way please
donate and help out as this is a serious issue for all Men and this is a great
cause. I have attached a link to my page on the team so please donate anything
you can spare as you never know this money could help save your life someday.
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AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-1206686608907397892012-10-21T12:37:00.000-07:002012-10-21T12:37:15.402-07:00NEWCC 40k!Greetings My fellow Bloggers and blog readers!<br />
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So yesterday I had the joy of playing in not only my first game of 6th edition WH 40K but also my first tourney of it as well. NEWCC has been going for a few years now and is a club challenge open to any clubs in the North East as it rotates on location to the winning clubs choice of host locations. This year it was WH40k and it will flip between 40k and WHF every year so I definately look forward to some fantasy for next year:). I am very happy to say that though my club did not take home the trophey we did take home best sportsmanship as well as best painted so to me that was just as good:) (if not a little better as I don't have to plan out all of the details for next year). <br />
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Here's some pictures so enjoy people:):<br />
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Here's a couple of the armys I took quick photographs of. Both of these belonged to the winning blub and actually the top one was two seperate players. Each list was required to be 1250pts with a minimum of 1200pts (cough this blogger cough). <br />
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Here we have some of the players, the two in the last picture were of my team :).<br />
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A couple shots of my Necrons in action against well... Necrons. I only took pictures of the first battle as I needed to concentrate a little more then I was as this was also my first outing with my Necrons!<br />
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Here's our Gracious host Keith who also does a wonderful job organizing and running the Temple-con 40k GT. As you can see he is preparing for the winter by letting his face warmer grow in!<br />
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A picture of the revolving trophey, I wish I had held up a ruler or something as this thing is honestly not that small.<br />
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Finally our new NEWCC Champions the Cold Steel Mercs! As Alex made abundantly clear it seems next years event will be held in Conn. which is a far closer drive then Penn(sorry NE Big Gunz) so I look forward to it.<br />
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All in all it was a fun event that and I enjoyed myself immensely as good people, clean atmosphere (importantly as I utterly hate dingy stores) and several very nice looking armys. Though my club placed last that was fine as like I said we took home half of the awards anyways and we had no major plans going into it to win just to have fun and throw some dice. I will say Cheers to all of those who competed and grats to the C.S.M as it really was a great event.<br />
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AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-75245244644267314452012-09-09T17:51:00.002-07:002012-09-09T17:51:46.557-07:00I shouldn't have to say this.So I have removed a inapropriate comment from my last post as I have said before I will not tolerate that type of behavior. I am open to critiques and comments but discussing sexual parts in the most crass form is not something I will accept or swear words. With that if the shoe fits wear it and if it doesn't disregard. AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-82104623447344376022012-09-04T14:41:00.000-07:002012-09-04T14:41:28.620-07:00More work to my Studio Mcvey stampyOk so no his real name is not stampy but it is more of an omage to the Simpsons for those who can remember that far back to Barts pet Elephant. I have not been idle on this model as I do intend for him to be complete by Febuary so as to enter him in the CMON Comp at Templecon. I have broken him down into sections since he is 90% skin and plan to work on his back next. I generally save the face/head until the very end of the model.. not sure why but just do. Anyways here is the pictures of where he's at atm as I am pushing around 20 hours on him so far.<br />
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Here is a front view. I really enjoyed workign to bring out the siz pack on the model but the chest took a while as I wanted a nice smooth tone to it and to really show out the muscles on him. After all he is a Giant 54mm Rhino weilding a stone axe!<br />
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Here is his back left arm. As you can see I push the contrast a lot as for me I wanted more of a choatic feel to the model and though many would choose the warmer tones I wanted something... darker.<br />
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Front right arm, I completed this part first so as to set the tone for the whole model. My skin colors are very simple. I use GW Dheneb Stone as the base, then P3 Sanguine Highlight, Sanguine Base, and Black as the shadows(in that order). And simple GW Skull White as the highlight.<br />
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The next step from here is to work more on the back. As you can see I already did a little work to it to start my basic definitions. For those interested in one here is a direct link to Studio McVeys page where he sits. After shipping it works out to between $50-$60 USD but as you can see the model is soooo worth it. <a href="http://studiomcvey.highwire.com/product/smm22-kifaro">http://studiomcvey.highwire.com/product/smm22-kifaro</a> Well with that keep painting and if you have any question please feel free to ask.<br />
-AlexAkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-53482713323050024632012-08-12T15:54:00.000-07:002012-08-12T15:54:17.743-07:00Confederates and Giant Rhinos, OH MY!Hello Fellow blog readers,<br />
So I have not been idle since my near defeats at Games Day this year, yes yes it is sad no demon tropheys though accoarding to the judges who came up to me it was close and being I never asked them I will take that for what it's worth, but I decided as soon as I got home to get working on several other projects that needed my attention. First and foremost I am extremely happy to say I have completed my first Regiment of Confederates for the Guns of April group and I am actually happy with the results. They took a bit of work as tons of different uniforms and so forth but I think the end justifies itself and I am pleased, for once, with the outcome. I am just going to link over to the blog as you all should go and subscribe.. I mean check it out!<br />
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Secondly I have my entry for Adepticon and such and this one is so far from completion I am almost hesitant to post anything but hey why not.<br />
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He had a minor accident and fell the other night, and thankfully I caught him though his right ear had to be fixed and I used a paint on primer over it, so once the face is ready for painting I will fix that. Well with that thank you for reading and Keep Painting!<br />
-AlexAkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-29814965750569795172012-07-07T11:51:00.000-07:002012-07-07T11:51:13.754-07:00Happy 100th post and Guns of April!Well for starters this is my 100th blog post and sorry to say not much in the way of pictures but in the end thank you all for reading and I hope you have enjoyed the posts. Being as demon is fast approaching I have been hard at work on my entries in the hopes of having more then one or two done. As my mentor Mathieu Fontaine says though work on one entry and if you get it done worry about that entry. This way you never get truely bogged down and you can create something far better then trying to enter 9 categories with 9 average pieces. With all of that though this means no pics till either just before GD(if I finish stuff on time) or after I return.<br />
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All of that aside I come to the next point of this ever so short yet monumental blog post which is the Guns of April 2013. For those who saw, or will see soon in Aug issue of Wargames Illustrated, last year a few of us meet to play out a what if scenerio for the Battle of Salamanica which took place during the Penninuslar Campaign of the Napoleonic wars. We decided, after 4 hours of cheerful play and drink, that we would do another such event at Adepticon 2013 except this time we would be doing a "What If" of the first day at Gettysberg. Being we will be coming up on the Gettysberg 150 anniversary this was a great chance for me to paint some rebs as I have for a long time been a fan of ACW. With the Unions Leader David Pauwels kicking off this years post I will now direct you all over to the blog. Stay tunned as I will be posting pictures of my confederates after Games Day as I begin the trek to painting my Brigade of the good guys.. I mean Southern Army...yeah! Until then keep painting and I hope you all had a delightful 4th of July. <br />
-AlexAkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-72722385163034799332012-05-24T08:38:00.001-07:002012-05-24T08:38:23.768-07:00WAB closed for goodAs taken from GW's Warhammer Ancients website itself <br />
"We can no longer accept any further orders for our products<br /><br />We would like to thank our customers who have purchased our publications over the years and hope you will continue to get many more years of gaming enjoyment from them<br /><br />If you have any queries regarding orders that have been placed with Warhammer Historical please<br />contact the Forge World Customer Service team"<br />
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I am honestly extremely disapointed though not to suprised in this regard. WAB was a great system and I am glad I own a number of books from it as now they are out of print for good, but saddly their is not much that can really step up in it's place so this is rather disconcerting to begin with. In the end it's another bad choice in a long line of bad ones for GW and really does show it's the beginning of the end.<br />
-AlexAkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-41865429714053533522012-05-02T15:08:00.001-07:002012-05-02T15:10:59.086-07:00Macedonians for SaleSo once I get these sold and out of the way I will finish up my adepticon wrap up. ATM I need to affoard major surgery for my wife so as such that means sale. I am selling my Macedonian army I used at Adepticon. All of the models are Wargames Foundry and painted to exceptional levels. I even took home a crystal brush for some of the Peltasts. I don't really want to part with this army but family first so as such I am looking for a total of $1100 for everything. The price even includes the shipping!<br />
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Here is also a link to some of the peltasts <a href="http://crystalbrush.coolminiornot.com/cbartwork/index/id/265">http://crystalbrush.coolminiornot.com/cbartwork/index/id/265</a><br />
All told their is 48 Painted Armored Philangites, 32 Unarmored Painted Philangites, 8 painted archers, 10 painted Companion Cav. Unpainted their is another 10 companion cav, 8 archers,3 command on horse, 24 unarmored, and 8 armored command If you want everything else painted with the order to match the army I can do that np but it will cost and I can't get started until the beginning of August. Payment for that must be made though when purchasing. To finish painting everything I would throw in a deal at an additional $500 and that includes the shipping as well. If you are interested in this army let me know at alexanderakers (at) yahoo dot com.AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-86826410286818198232012-04-25T12:41:00.000-07:002012-04-25T12:41:01.843-07:00Back From Adepticon Part 1Fast overview of the trip as tons of pictures and lots to discuss. Starting off a local friend of mine and I decided it best to drive.. yes DRIVE to Chicago from Boston. Now I have made this trip numerous times so it wasn't as bad for me but being Sams first and being he decided to drive the whole way it was far from enjoyable I must say for him.<br />
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As you can see lovely weather not much to complain about.<br />
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Hrmm NY!!!! Personally not a fan of the state on the whole but to each there own.<br />
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I had an amazing Pulled Pork Cuban at a BBQ place called Dinosaur BBQ in Troy NY while we waited on our third passenger to get off work. It seems he screwed up which day we were leaving and had to rush around to fix it. Also I must say the waitress was eye candy worth waiting on but thats a different type of picture we just don't show on this blog!<br />
Now a trip is not a trip until you see a Biker Chick rocking these on the road.<br />
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I will give her credit though as not much of a looker herself the restored Harley made my mouth water.<br />
Saddly Dinner was of the more famed variety :(.<br />
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So after 18 hours we finally arrived in Lombard IL at 2am on Thursday morning. After 6 or so hours of sleep (less for the roomate as I had forgotten my alarm was set and woke him up at 7am) I decided to grab the camera and start taking pics. Mathieu had to finish working on the models for his classes (which he so graciously donated all of the proceds to charity) so I decided to go walk around.<br />
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And of course the main man of the hour Hank Edley who is one of the lead organizers for adepticon. He is enjoying.. heck if I know but just before the madness begins.<br />
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Finally I sat down to start painting to end out my Thursday.<br />
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And a fast shot of my crystal brush entry which didn't even place :(.<br />
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He was no where near done at this picture but it was a good pic so why not. So ended Thursday thus bringing an end to day 1 of Adepticon 2012 for me. I will post part 2 in a day or two as I have to do a lot of work atm but until then keep painting.<br />
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<br />AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-10387320438146855852012-04-11T12:41:00.007-07:002012-04-12T20:39:10.913-07:00Out with the old in with the new.So with Adepticon comming up I decided to clear out the closet of all of the old stuff so I could have some spending cash for new toys:). As such here's a big sale to clear out my personal closet and open up some room. <strong>If you want to buy any of these please email me at alexanderakers (at) yahoo dot com. I accept Paypal and credit cards.</strong><br />
All of the prices are simple, price as is plus shipping. On smaller stuff shipping is $5.00 and bigger is $12 as these are flat rate shipping boxes.<br />
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UPDATED to whats left!<br />
Perry Miniatures American Civil War 2 Boxes $30 for the lot.<br />
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Warlord Games Crimean War $60 for the lot<br />
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Warlord Games Plastic British WW2 infantry $40 for the lot<br />
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Warlord Games WW2 Chindits 3 Boxes $50 for the lot<br />
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Warlord Games WW2 Screaming Eagles group $50 for the lot<br />
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Warlord Games British Warband $15<br />
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-alexAkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-53463810875072427132012-02-07T15:39:00.000-08:002012-02-07T15:39:54.050-08:00A big Thanks and Overview of Onslaught GT 2012!First I would like to start this post with a major thanks to my friend Dave Taylor. His help in directing people to me for the sale of products has helped take a good chunk out of several bills that the wife and I were not sure on how we were going to pay. I have insurance mind you but my copays start adding up and it makes things difficult. At this time if anyone would like to purchase the lot as a whole btw I am making a great deal on it all. $250 and that includes shipping world wide so first person to email me about it will be my huckleberry at alexanderakers at yahoo dot com. <br />
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Now for the review of the Onslaught GT 2012 held at Templecon in Rhode Island. I like to break these down into event direct, venue as a whole, and other:<br />
Event Direct: First off this was the Organizers first time running something so big. It is a daunting task mind you to run any tourney but when they spread several days it gets to be a major hassle and is very exhausting as a whole. Keith did a wonderfull job though and his prep was just fine with no flaws that I could see. Unlike the "Da Boyz GT" the scenerios were straight forward and not hard to comprehend but not so much that they would cause major unbalances either in final points. The terrain was perfect for the tables minus a few gripes from a few but thats honestly going to be the case no matter what. As far as awards they were rather nice looking plaques which personally I love more then tropheys, reason being trophies tend to break easily in moves etc. where are plaques sit nicely and look pleasant on the wall. They were from the convention itself so no overly large but still very nice and again unlike the "Da Boyz GT" at least there was awards as oppossed to product. Now there were no swag bags but for me this was actually rather nice because it took me back to how tournies used to be. Minus the minor personal quip of not having a best painted I understood the conventions reasoning on it as there was a comp outside with the coolminiornot people. There was players choice but this can get rather finiky as I noticed a bunch of people were forgetting to even walk around and look at others armies as is often the case, and will just write whoever down. Normally I have several negative but really not on this. Like I said the minor issue is a personal thing but didn't detract from the event for me in the slightest.<br />
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Venue as a Whole: All I could say is WOW. First off the hotels food was by no account crappy, nor was the bar and the drinks...mmmmm whiskey. Suprisingly I found the food well above average and you could get a great filling meal for under $10 if you went to there restaurant, or buy from the vendor etc. Lots of parking so no issues there, and even with thousands of people they kept the place damn near spotless and odor free.. we all know of gamer funk people! Also Templecon is heavily into Steampunk and let me just say... THANK YOU!!!! Besides the fun of the costumes the actually attractive women in them made one hell of a show. To the fat women PUT MORE CLOTHES ON!!!!! Overall the venue was honestly as nice if not nicer in other respects to Adepticon and far surpased my last gt in Oct... wait for it... "Da Boyz". Yes I am no longer a fan of the Da Boyz!<br />
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Other: Honestly I am extremely picky about tournies and often take a firm approach to whats good and bad as I was spoiled on the west coast with great events in Seattle and such, but this one really did an outstanding job and I am very happy to see people stepping up to the challenge of running these big events and what's more doing it well! My hat is off to the organizers Keith, and the terrain man Sam Butler you all did an outstanding job and I for one plan to return next year.<br />
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Overview: Out of 5 pts<br />
Event: 4.9 as nothing is ever perfect but this was damn close<br />
Food: 4.5 great prices and well done just I am biased towards Chicago sorry<br />
Tourney as a whole: 4.9 This one is one to watch as I see great things in it's future!AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-990430185124803842012-01-17T10:53:00.000-08:002012-01-23T08:33:40.773-08:00Up for Sale!So I am selling pretty much everything personal atm as I need to raid money to cover some medical bills I am accurring. As such I am pricing everything to go big time so if you are interested then either email me at alexanderakers (at) yahoo dot com or call me at my business line at 508-251-0397. I can take payment via paypal or over the phone and I am willing to wheel and deal so the more you buy the more you get off!<br />
First up is OOP Metal blisters. All of these are really recent but with the change to finecast all metal blisters are OOP. Each blister is $7.00 but again the more you buy the better I will deal.<br />
40k Blisters:<br />
-DE Lelith hesperax x2<br />
-Eldar Avatar x2<br />
-DE Urien Rakath x3<br />
-SM Chaplain x2<br />
-Eldar Farseer x2<br />
-IG Ogre Bone'ead <br />
-Dark Eldar Archeon <br />
-Castellan Crowe <br />
If somone wants to buy the whole package then I will sell them all for $200 That would save you $59<br />
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Fantasy Blister:<br />
-Skaven Packmaster Gnawtooth x2<br />
-Chaos Wulfrik the Wanderer<br />
-HE Prince Althran x2<br />
-Khorne Chaos Champ<br />
-Skaven Tretch Craventailx3<br />
-Skaven Warlord Spinetail x2<br />
-DE Boltthrower<br />
-Skaven Ratling Gun x4<br />
-Skaven Ikit Claw <br />
-Svage Orc Great Shaman on warboar x2<br />
-Champion of chaos<br />
-Ghorros Warhoof <br />
-Wurzag <br />
-Skaven Greyseer<br />
-Sorcerer of Chaos<br />
- Skaven Warlock Engineer x2<br />
-Skaven Warlord x2<br />
If somone wants to buy this whole batch then I will sell it for $250.<br />
Buy all of the blisters for 40k and fantasy $400.<br />
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-Rare Limited Gamesday Archeon on foot x2 $35 each<br />
-2005 understatably rare 54mm wood elf GW with certificate of authenticity (it was the employee xmas gift to select managers) $95<br />
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-SM Dred left arm assembled and cleaned $13<br />
-SM Dred cleaned right inferno flammer arm $13<br />
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- I will be posting pictures of my GK army that is over 2k as well in the next post but I am asking $950 for that plus shipping. For an extra $50 I will throw in the battlefoam x-board I converted to fit the dragon forge bases.AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-32344980530386635602011-12-25T15:37:00.000-08:002011-12-25T15:37:06.382-08:00Seasons Greetings too one and All!So I am feverishly working on some British Pennisular Light Regt for a pot in a few days, amongst other things, but I thought I should just drop a line and say seasons greetings to you all my loyal readers. The reason it's seasons greetings because some people celebrate Chanukha or Xmas and as such I don't want too single out anyone. As such thank you all for your readership of this blog and over the next year I should have some really fun posts comming as Adepticon this year is going too push me too new limits painting wise. I have a 40k army too finish painting and building for Feb. and I also have a 1250 early war German army, Macedonian WAB army, and several show models I need to finish in time for Adepticon! So as such it will be a crazy kick off to the end of the world year but damn it I will make it count (btw the end of the world thing was a joke so no run offs on that).<br />
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Also DON"T FORGET TO SHOP AT BATTLEROADGAMES.COM for all of your bits needs!AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-65678733832931200662011-12-06T18:16:00.001-08:002011-12-06T18:16:56.845-08:00Battleroad Games and Hobbies Launches bits section on webstoreGreetings Fellow Dakkites,for those of you who know of Battleroad Games and Hobbies LLC we are a Hobby Retail Webstore. As such we are further striving too bring you the gamers what you want at great affoardable prices. As such we have switched our full ebay operation to our webstore and after a lot of work I am happy too announce that our bitz section will be launching this Friday on Dec 9th. As such we are starting with just the 40k and will be adding in Fantasy by the end of next month. Reason being it takes time too switch everything over and we have too rephotograph so that you for waiting as I promise you won't be dissapointed. By the end of Jan you will be able too shop from over 600 different bits up for sale and in the comming months we will be doubling that number too make us one of the most versatile one stop shops for your bits needs. We are also a full fledged web store and sell full box sets as well from over a dozen different lines. Come January you will also see our own 28mm heroic scale bits starting with several sets of heads that you will be able too purchase at extremely reasonable prices. I have attached a sneak peak at the first set recently sculpted by Dakkas own Navarro and he is hard at work on another as well. We have also contracted several major sculptors too do even more sets that we will be releasing in the comming months. <br />
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-Dec 9th launch of the bits section with 40k. <br />
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-Monthly 20% off sales on bits as we have the "Flavor of the Month". <br />
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-Full 10% off retail on all products ordered via the webstore and phone orders. <br />
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-If you don't see it call us and ask, we may not have it up atm or maybe it's something we should add! <br />
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-Finally unlike many other bits sites we will be making weekly restock orders (trust me our distributors already love us) so as too insure if it's out of stock it will be back in within that week. <br />
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So give us a call at 508-251-0397 or shop direct via our webstore at http://battleroadgames.com/ and remember this Friday is the launch so tell your friends. <br />
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I am sad too announce Sam and I did win our final game and we were rather disapointed as damn it we thought we could go for broke. I did however manage too walk out with $90 store credit for having the best painted army and best single painted mini! I promptly used it too get a friend some models I owed him so hey I was a happy camper but more I was happy because of the basic regonition of the judges and several people who noticed the work I put into it. I didn't care if I won anything as I was having fun but it was awsome too win and I promptley thanked the academy for my award and my director... wait wrong speech! Anyways looking around I did see several well done armies but more two fellow classmates of my painting mentor Mr. Mathieu Fontaine. These two fellas were brothers who had taken his classes on different ends of the country but were now back in Mass together and let me just say this. Once those two finish there armies, they are about 90% done I would think by looking at them, there will be some seriously stiff painting comp at rogues in the New England Area. These guys wowed me which doesn't happen alot but I can and will gladly admit when I am beaten and I think these two are forcing me too up my game even more. <br />
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More too the point I had three great games, and Sam and I had a clast and I for once have utterly no critiques. All around just a blast of a tourney and I look forward too more in the future there honestly and I do hope that Battleground branches into small indy GT's because I think they could handle it and run a good show.<br />
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Venue: The event was held in "The Armoury" in Rochester NY and the location though large and open but did not live up to the hype that the organizer lead us to believe about it. My friend and I were both told that the venue had a restaurant attached too it. What this apparently meant was the piss poor bar, that was overpriced and had nothing but well drinks and cheap beer, was grilling burgers and fries and selling to us. We ended up at wendys and don't get me started into the service on that place. Another major problem with the venue was that due to the size of the location it was either too hot or too cold. There was no comfortable medium and this really made for a misserable time alone.<br />
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Organization: Normally if you put out a shedule you stick by it and that works for me. The Fantasy side was on the nose but saddly I was playing 40k and this lead too tons of problems. We were told too arrive at 830am on both days and we would be rolling dice by 930am.....never happened on both days and all this did was fling us into further confusion when it came too grabbing meals etc. The organizers would tell us we would start our next round at 1 even though we just ended at 1230. Ok so I know we have no time too run out and get food, so the problem with this is that would wouldn't start till 1:45pm because they couldn't get there software that did the pairings too work, or the person inputing the data was too slow. Furthermore we ended up playing 4 games on the first day and two on the second. The problem with this is technically that is 10hours on the first day, and that would have been fine if we started early but adding in the breaks etc we didn't get out of there till after 10pm and we were told we had too be there the next morning at 8am. <br />
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Judges: This was my biggest problem for the event because these guys were just awfull. For starters my games 5 was against a 15 year old kid. Now I am a mentor too teenagers and have no issues with children, teens whatever playing and often go into it with a little more give to the game as I know a lot of players are more pricks about it. During the game there was blatant cheating and I started calling my opponent on it, but one of the judges who knew the kid was a local, came up and started calling against me ever step of the way. For example: I took down one of his vehicles with my stormraven, I then used the machine spirit, as the rules clearly state, and choose too fire at a different target. The judge would not allow me too do this stating "you can't split fire it's all at once". IT"S IN THE RULES YOU TWIT!!!!!!! This was only the beginning of many such calls like it. I don't get angry during games but on this one I just got to the "whatever point". Other times during the event I would ask simple questions about time, location, minor rules on the scenarios and the judges would either start talking and walk away, say they have no clue, or tell me to figure it out for myself because they didn't care. Judges are there too help run a event but when I see them having no clue it begs too wonder what the hell they are doing.<br />
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Scenarios: This is the second worst part as the designer tried too add some flair....fail. The judges couldn't even answer questions on the scenarios, and before every game they would have too call the 40k side over too them too try and explain typos. The objectives were unclear and favored the locals who know the ways too play the game objectives. <br />
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Comp: This is a contraversal issue for many, and I personally have no issue with comp at a tourney... if it's done right. Initially we had a rubric we had too go off of that was out of 80, I personally score 70 pts (I took a untooled pure close combat falchions gk army). After this initially submitted rubric that we knew what our score would be the judges would grant up too an additional 30 points of comp. The problem was this was a blind comp decision and they refused too even state how they graded it. I personally recieved an additional 10 points, while another grey knight player took 30 for a full 110pts. He was a local....hrmmmmm but when I asked one of the judges he argued with me saying no GK player recieved max comp. I offered to show him on the list they posted but he refused to look and keep telling me I was wrong. The judges also refused when asked to at least explain to us how they graded the blind comp portion. This pissed a lot of players off and there was many grumbles.<br />
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Event prizes: Now when you go to a GT you go because it is something far bigger and grander then a local rogue trader. A weekend will often come in around 1k in overall costs too get out there, build your army etc etc so that is why you want it too be a cut above the rest in prizes and tropheys. Well the event had tons of prizes but almost zero trophies. More too the point they ran out of there certificates too the people who had won as one of my friends won best table and he got a few cheap scenery pieces. If I wanted to compete for product I would have saved my money and gone too Battleground Games as they put on some amazing rogue traders where you can win hundreds in product, but GTs we are paying for tropheys or plaques but namely something more then just product.<br />
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Overall review: I appriciate you all reading this long winded post but saddly there was no way to make it any shorter. If there was one issue I would chalk that too just bad luck..it happens heck even two I would but when I can find major problems in each aspect of the tourney then there is honestly something majorly wrong. I for one will not ever be returning too this event and that disapoints me as it was 5 years since I did a 40k singles GT and I was stoked for it. I went out of my way too sculpt and cast a purity seal for my army list, build a army full of major conversions and go balls too the wall to go all out. I didn't care if I won anything I just wanted too have a blast. Saddly for the first time I feel like I wasted my time, and money and honestly am really lacking the desire too even play anymore because events like this just destroys your desire for the game. Even several of my friends told me this event made them just want too sell off there GW because it just wasn't fun. So I am sure this negative post will cause some controversy and it sucks because I have tons of pictures I wanted too show and going into it I was really excited but now I don't even know if I care anymore about 40k GT's. Adepticon is a blast but I usually play WAB there so that is out of the question.AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-40272702367483612642011-10-16T16:13:00.000-07:002011-10-16T16:13:56.000-07:00DA Boyz GT is only a few days away!Granted I do not have my usual strand of strong anticipation as I do for Adepticon (I mean who wouldn't for adepticon) but I am still rather nervous as this is the first indy 40k GT I have actually done since 2006!!!!!! I was signed up for one two years ago at adepticon but I fell horribly ill and ended up catching the early flight home. In the words of my friend Joe Orteza " I looked like Nurgles rot!". Anyways I have been plowing away at the army, display board, and army list....wait army list? For those who will face off against me they will recieve my list as a purity seal that I sculpted on a 60mm round real quick and attached some parchment too. I felt it addes a little bit of fun to the whole deal and to thank my caster (who is also my ride to the event) I sculpted him one too for his nurgle. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwE24p6VEDw7faKKA_8Ya_JPStRtcL9hB3mb-odthweeEvGPOu9TkLe8aUNEKXQcyN621VJZoWjTiOd-mCLpp2RXsZXOjU6p2NpW8wm3qJqpqBmaOAG-mTDNv3ri7VsSSYt-ZJbZ1V5jk/s1600/IMG_1497.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwE24p6VEDw7faKKA_8Ya_JPStRtcL9hB3mb-odthweeEvGPOu9TkLe8aUNEKXQcyN621VJZoWjTiOd-mCLpp2RXsZXOjU6p2NpW8wm3qJqpqBmaOAG-mTDNv3ri7VsSSYt-ZJbZ1V5jk/s320/IMG_1497.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Here's a little overview show of the army as it stands. I am working on the squad to the lower front right and the brotherhood champion and should be finished tues night. In the mean time I also will have too paint the xboard that I sanded down and put all of the hex stones ( and other stuff) on as it is too mimic the dragonforge bases of the lost empires. Jeff Wilhelm being the amazing friend he is made me a master mould too create the hexes from and from there my casting mate did up around 340. Jeff believed it would take 500 and I thought he was right..Had I covered every inch in it well maybe but I didn't because it is a ruined temple. I can use this for my Dark Eldar, and Macedonians as it all fits very easily!<br />
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-AlexAkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-56260928812561285172011-08-26T14:41:00.000-07:002011-08-26T14:41:52.403-07:00The Road too Da Boyz GTAllllll righty then, well another few weeks and a few more models painted for the Da Boyz GT that will be at the end of Oct. As such I have been somewhat hard at work on these grey knights. Overall the work on them is easy and requires very little challenge on my part but if you get too see them in person they are far better then the pictures honestly. The lighter colors and lack of heavy contrast does not play well for photography but in person these are a delight and hopefully will do well in scoring at the DA Boyz for painting. After the GK's I am going too break my rule again (of not painting armies) and start work on a heavily converted Dark Eldar army for the Saint Valentines day Massacre in Media Penn. From there it's Macedonians for Adepticon then onto the demon progects for next year. In between stuff here and there but overall that's the shedule. Anyways onto the pics. First off we have the converted Librarian who is teh HQ for the army. Not a ton down sculpting wise minus I replaces parts of his arms and threw on some Dragonforge coils. All in all fun model:<br />
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AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-90030194201601842692011-08-14T20:51:00.000-07:002011-08-14T20:51:03.187-07:00ARD' BOYS!!!!So let me start off by saying that this was the first ever ard'boys event that I ever played in. In the past I have always looked at this event with distaste and annoyance as it was so counter productive I felt too the hobby. I had always felt that a event solely based off battlepoint and not theme,sports, or painting was a bad idea. After seeing some negative gamers in my past I pictured these too be the type of people who would come out with the most disgusting lists and be other pricks. Let me just say that this blogger was very wrong!<br />
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I went with the sole plan to learn the GK's as facing off against people you normally wouldn't is a great way too really learn how too play an army. I planned (or more honestly figured) that I would loose all three games because I knew little about the grey knights play style or really the confidence at playing the army. My first game was against a Demons army...WOOT!!!!..ya not so much. Was his a tooled army as I had always thought I would face in Ard'boys, not in the least. Honestly he had a great play on the lists and was extremely well balanced. The individual was nice and we helped each other through the game and just had a good ole fashioned time. In the end "0" points as I was massacred but hey I learned a lot. Next up I got too play against a dark eldar army. I stole the initiave and surely this guy would be the dick I had envisioned, nope. He had a fun army lots of flying vehicle goodnew (probably close too $600 buck worth if not more) and was a very nice guy. I picked up some info on the dark eldar (something I have been drooling over painting for years) and walked out with...you guessed it "0" points but a tons more knowledge.<br />
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Finally I faced off against a terminator grey knights army..here's the dick right? No, not in the least in fact the game was only 45minutes but was jokes and laughs and just good gaming fun. Just as similiar as my second game I had a great first turn then fell apart. In the end I walked out with "1" point...drat!!!! Damn point modifiers stated if your opponent didn't have a fast attack choice you won the battle point no matter what. This meant I did not reach my goal of "0" points in a tourney. Granted I wasn't actually shooting for that but I knew I wasn't going too win the thing or even place after round two so why not go for broke. So what's the whole point of this as oppossed too showing you all some of my recent painting work well simple, don't ever place a sterotypes on something because you never know what will happen. It was a blast honestly and I look forward too next years (though this time I play too win :)_ ). It was a great store, great people and a great day.AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-78508263472997537052011-08-02T16:52:00.000-07:002011-08-02T16:52:17.524-07:00Grey Knights on the Horizon!!!!!Greetings one and all and welcome back too my blog!!! Now I read something on FTW a while back that says I should never apologize for not posting as we all have real lives and damn it I agree. Things have been nuts with Battleroad fixing some MAJOR mistakes of now FORMER!!!!!! employees. Saddly this has pulled all of my attention and due too the significant losses one person caused my company has forced me too look for a more perminate IT job again. In the past I was doing well with this company bringing it up too 250k a year business (95% off ebay bits sales so that tells you how much work I have been doing). Saddly my business will no longer be focused solely on ebay as I am branching out quite a bit more. As we speak the first sets of my bits heads are being sculpted and in the next few months you will begin too see TONS of conversion bits comming out directly from Battleroad Games. I am very excited and think all of you will enjoy the final product. Jeff Wilhelm from Dragonforge is too be blamed for this as he convinced me it was a better way too steer my conpany. Now without further adu onward too the grey knights :)_.<br />
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So their are a few armies that I utterly love and will always play when it comes too GW. The first is hands down Slaanesh anything, the second is Ogres ( I just love them beyond belief), the third and forth are grey knights and dark eldar (and skaven but don't tell anyone). Now the reason I love this assortment is first and foremost the backrounds and second their close combat abilities. When it comes too my games I love too get in the thick of the fighting quickly and these are some great armies too. As such though I have been collecting some grey knights and will have a 2500pts army built soon for the ard boys though most likely won't be completed painting wise for another week or two after. All told I usually spend between 40-60 hours on an army as an airbrush is a wonderfull thing people!!! Anyways for now I have the first of my razorbacks too show you all today and sticking with my tradition I have named it after one of my friends. The Carasas is named after a former mate of mine from my GW days (hooray redshirts!!!) and he really helped me through some tought times. As such I thought it only right too name this model after him.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIq_FKbwr_condMbNvexjnq8Alpb5SYeRpitIp1bxb_x9teZaInI8_BgOTVMbdNQzSRWFNac9mYVUaqrBxFCpOyxPTGweSA-ufiyrfUKm7zqGrVnyAgKySoZFp9AhjDGglgjPbVMwnaYjO/s1600/IMG_1215.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIq_FKbwr_condMbNvexjnq8Alpb5SYeRpitIp1bxb_x9teZaInI8_BgOTVMbdNQzSRWFNac9mYVUaqrBxFCpOyxPTGweSA-ufiyrfUKm7zqGrVnyAgKySoZFp9AhjDGglgjPbVMwnaYjO/s320/IMG_1215.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>And the front!! Now origonally I was going too have the turret be a burgundy red as the color would have offet nicely... it didn't lets leave it at that. I need too work a little more on my freehand but the weathering is set too the army. I thought about using some of my powders from secret weapons but decided too save them for other things as I am just looking for a overall nice army. Anyways I will have the pics of the squad up either later this week or next, then onto the dreadknight and back too squads. Until then keep painting and too Jordon "You ma boy blue...you ma boy!!!". BTW the dreadknight will be named Le'Fontaine.AkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-28894854127426181542011-07-04T18:38:00.000-07:002011-07-04T18:38:25.936-07:00Boston Brawlcon 2011 Winners!!!!Alrighty so it has been a while since the last post but I thought I would kick off a few more posts over the next few days with pictures from the Boston Brawlcon 2011. This was one of the closest tournies I have honestly ever run and being that I have done well over 50 events that says a lot. Well with that onto the winners pictures!!!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIC6ES-gnZtjhB2wXHEJ4jFyCPnMmmwEAYU9MTcW5GSgryVQNds3OO_J5UUbvQoo41Tda2mPLFNZcAhVMt_X1uwAzBQZKN3575po-kHgjxzNFuO-v4nd2flEQ7a11MPCS2gdjD4cfFDrbr/s1600/P1090227.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIC6ES-gnZtjhB2wXHEJ4jFyCPnMmmwEAYU9MTcW5GSgryVQNds3OO_J5UUbvQoo41Tda2mPLFNZcAhVMt_X1uwAzBQZKN3575po-kHgjxzNFuO-v4nd2flEQ7a11MPCS2gdjD4cfFDrbr/s320/P1090227.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>On the Right we have our overall winner Ben Molie. Ben won no less then $2000 in prizes to include a plane ticket to Chicago for Adepticon 2012 to compete there and to go with it a 2000pts army to match. This was just the prize support from Battleroad Games and Hobbies, and Ben gets even more via Games Workshop...wow is all I can say. Not to mention that Ben is also the Captain of Team America and will be competing at worlds later on in Switzerland!!!!! On the left we have our 2nd place winner, and Best General to include our first ever Volunteer of the year award. He goes by the name Ragnar Arneson and let me just say he is one top notch player and person to boot. Earlier last month he won best Chaos Space Marine General at the Throne of Skulls held by GW in Vegas! Literally the overall and second place was decided by 1 point and came from a last minute favorite players vote. Ben being a gentlemen to of note is sharing some of his winnings with Ragnar and that too me says a lot:).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhydoqM5p4SepkJXSeM5XW0DYNlsCjfjhHxjZBOhLS8EncLliBgsBhBRHO7SX528plZi_lGQmam1SOuk3jMX8efy6OFAN_xx08yCMkJja_GCy5Thbk__5cvIqCOAR_YKCijNn_gPWLHLvjo/s1600/P1090216.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhydoqM5p4SepkJXSeM5XW0DYNlsCjfjhHxjZBOhLS8EncLliBgsBhBRHO7SX528plZi_lGQmam1SOuk3jMX8efy6OFAN_xx08yCMkJja_GCy5Thbk__5cvIqCOAR_YKCijNn_gPWLHLvjo/s320/P1090216.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Next up we have Bill Souza for players choice. Let me just say this fella has one HELL of a converted demon army and it was no suprise that he secured the players choice with no less then 15 votes!!! I am only too sad that some of the pictures of his army didn't come out so well in the end but what I do have I know will put you all in awww. Bill also took a Silver in our Open format painting comp for a lovely changling. I look forward to seeing what bill presents next year for the brawl as I know it will be something to take notice.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz8pCU5OBh5IeoWxZ1qWxLij0xRUdI8cNNrR7fV2NS5r4D5Sdqcc6c0mt1e_jH4jBnKQULFCmv4jUn9lyslag60S9V2Xc1BwRNArgcnUAQhU9TBNfgOwtqUQj-2sxd4tjHB7ZJhzzNo_zO/s1600/P1090116.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz8pCU5OBh5IeoWxZ1qWxLij0xRUdI8cNNrR7fV2NS5r4D5Sdqcc6c0mt1e_jH4jBnKQULFCmv4jUn9lyslag60S9V2Xc1BwRNArgcnUAQhU9TBNfgOwtqUQj-2sxd4tjHB7ZJhzzNo_zO/s320/P1090116.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Here's the only picture I could get to work so if anyone has others of his lovely army please pm me!<br />
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-alexAkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-66798707155672163082011-05-19T18:35:00.000-07:002011-05-19T18:35:29.411-07:00Preping for GD and other events!Wow... over a month since my last post... Well first off I tend not to write anything unless I feel I have something of value either to say or show. Lately since I haven't been that far along on my demon entry (30+ hours only so far on my 40k single) I felt their was little rhime or reason to post pictures.... and I still won't :). I will say that once complete, or even a little further along , I will show pictures of it. Right now I have two progects on the table that I intend to have done intime for GD chicago. Anything further will be gravey:)!.<br />
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Now how does this Demon winner prep you may ask? Well that is the point of this post as every painter is different in how they like to handle things as demon is a top notch and well known comp. To hold a trophy in your hands is utterly amazing (trust me) and the rush that comes with it is one of the greatest feelings I have ever been able to encounter.<br />
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<strong><u><em>EARLY PREP</em></u></strong><br />
So too start I first need to get inspiration as this is an art compatition for what counts. The end choice comes down to the judges of course and doesn't really matter if I agree or not with their decisions as they have the final say. In last years case I knew I would have time for one entry with little in the way of conversion, so I decided upon Ogre Ironguts. I have always had a major love affair with the GW ogre models as something about them just does it for me. In the case of this year I had had my entries built for months as I was waiting for one time but two, and more importantly the knowledge that I knew what I wanted to go with. The first entry had the weapon completely redone as well as the head. A lot of the resin detail was removed as the model was Librarian Severus from forge world. I determined that he would be great as a emporers childred librarian from the pre-heresy era. From here I planned out the story he would tell as Mathieu Fontaine once taught me that a model should always tell a story. In this case his name became "Ty're...Last Loyal Librarian of the 3rd Legion". He will be fighting on the steps of the imperial palace.<br />
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<strong><em><u>Planning complete now the building phase</u></em></strong><br />
Now knowing the direction I would be heading in I set about preping my model for paint. I went through 4 or 5 different heads before Mathieu told me to try a FW one. I found a bits retailer (saddly not me) on ebay who sold forge world, and purhcased several heads to try out. Ending with kor'vaydea's head as I felt it suited him best. Now some of you may be asking why a FW head, well simple. Mathieu pointed out to me that on a FW model only use FW as normal GW lacks the size and defination that are on the model and really detract overall. So with the model built I know was ready to clean and prime... no not clean the mold as I already did that, but wash the model and clear off any extra shavings I may have missed, or get rid of any remaining chemicals ,I won't want on it, from casting. Now came the priming time. Once the initial white layer of primer is down I decided to double check the model and clean any mold lines I may missed upon initial inspection. This resulted in some extra work on the weapon itself and then a reprime.From here I began the painting aspect. On that note I leave you all with this.. the other entry is the Nurgle FW ogres!! You all will love these and as usual keep painting.<br />
-AlexAkersMinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023300139654105140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068818972387234963.post-59726237491760508472011-04-18T15:39:00.000-07:002011-04-20T06:55:18.418-07:00Samurai Army up for grabs!!! Sold<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>Sold</strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTmNSUke7gJ4LMKlZC0Gzp5PvxRDlko4ktz7kEArFL5D-gxwr2MXhjiJd3uEp_RoT4Th7bZOxf6cgkPfp3gRoFhwO8DdlLYoPHE-ifC6utRwO0_Xm6rREmqCWUwS1Q2b7uOylL0CqFKPDz/s1600/IMG_0999.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTmNSUke7gJ4LMKlZC0Gzp5PvxRDlko4ktz7kEArFL5D-gxwr2MXhjiJd3uEp_RoT4Th7bZOxf6cgkPfp3gRoFhwO8DdlLYoPHE-ifC6utRwO0_Xm6rREmqCWUwS1Q2b7uOylL0CqFKPDz/s320/IMG_0999.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>That's right I have decided to clear out the shelves and start some new progects, but to do that I want to open up some space in the basement. So I figured I would clear out the Perry Miniatures Samurai army I have. This army is pretty massive by any standard comming with at over 200+ models of all perry miniatures. My initial plan was to actually build up several warbands of these for large scale games but I just don't have the money or the time to do it at the moment. I am looking for one of several sales for this. Somone can either buy the whole lot at $1050 or buy the painted units at $200 a unit or the unpainted at $2.00 each. I am for the most part sticking on the overall price, but would be willing to entertain other offers if they are reasonable. If you buy the whole lot I will give free shipping to the buyer, and all of the movement trays and stuff. Also for an extra $50 I am willing to throw in the xboard display base. Alrighty people here it is:<br />
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-36 Samurai with katana painted<br />
-72 ashigaru with naginata painted<br />
-1 general on horse with two retainers painted<br />
-1 army standard painted<br />
-1 lord on foot painted with katana<br />
-9 cavalry with katanas cleaned <br />
-8 monks with assorted weapons primed<br />
-11 monks unpainted<br />
-11 models of generals with tokugawa unpainted<br />
-15 civilians with assorted weapons unpainted<br />
-47 ashigaru unpainted<br />
-5 ashigaru with flintlock rifles<br />
-23 sashimo banners<br />
-84 naginatas on sprue<br />
-TONS OF YARI!!!!<br />
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Alrighty people if your interested email me at alexanderakers (at) yahoo (dot) com. Their is minor wear but all in all this army is in amazing condition and won me the overall in the doubles at adepticon this year.<br />
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