To Infinity and ADEPTICON!!!!!!

Ok so sorry for being so long between posts. For those of you who don't know I am organizing a charity warhammer 40k/warhammer fantasy tourney for here in boston for may of 2010 called the Boston Brawl. This will become a fixture for a tourney so hopefully one of these years you can make it out:). Also my wedding is in less then 30 days s cheers to that:). Now on to the pics. Recently I started collecting Infinity figs as well they are cool as sin. Here is my first one for my army who is still WIP but hope you all like him.


Here is a front view of the sapper. I decided to go with orange for goggles, as I felt they would help the face standout. I still may redo the face, but all around I like were the model is heading.

A side view so you can see the little french flag I painted on him.


Back view to show off the web gear.

Next we have my traitor gaurd stormtroopers for adepticon. I used green, and grey stuff to add shoulder/knee pads as well as create a smoother link from their masks to their packs. I used IG flamer ends cut off and shaved down for the barrels. Hope you enjoy.


This is the first of what will be 2 tanks for the army at adepticon(SPOILER ALERT). I am by no means an expert at weathering, but I figure nows as good a time to learn as any. I painted the model then used liquid mask found at any art supplies store(about 5 bucks a bottle) in splochy(ya totally misspelled) patches on the model. Once dried I painted over and when complete with the layering I rubbed YES rubbed off the liquid mask and painted in Mithril silver into those spots. I then used weathering powders I bought from AwsomePaintJob.com . Cheers all!




As usual any comments good or bad appriciated. Hope you enjoyed and I will update you all further next week I promise.

Tournements and why we love them:)_

So I figured it has been a little bit of time, and I have been busier then I have been in months. This is both a pro and con as it leaves me little time to post updates, but it makes time fly by. Well I thought I would take this time to chat about Tournements and why it is we as gamers young and old love them like we do. This topic is being brought around because I have of coarse been working on my own indy GT for May, but also working on my armies for Adepticon, and Astronomicon.

To start I personally find the tourney scene fun as heck because it is usually a garunteed amount of games that I get against people I am not used to playing. This brings about the social aspect which a lot of gamers are into more then the actual game. Anywhere you look people like to congregate together and chat about similar intrests and it enforces the "Community" in everyone. Now for some of you readers you will get what I am talking about but for others it comes down to competition.

The competative side of tourneys can like anything else be rather nastey in and of itself. This is shown recently as Conquest North West were the winner(not naming names) was caught on camera cheating. His title was revoked, and thankfully he did not get the coveted golden ticket to the Las Vegas GT, but he raised a lot of awareness as to the lengths at which some people will go just to win. This rather saddens me because it brings to light those so called golden demon winners who did not actually paint their entries. I ask you the reader is winning the trophey our rights to say yoru the winner worth it if it wasn't actually earned? Personally I don't think it is as this is not just a hobby but a passion for me and I love to embrace all aspects. This leads into the final part of this disscussion, Modeling.

Yes I know sportsmanship is another topic, but i really don't want to head down that road at this time. I do however want to discuss why some people go to tournies in the fact of modeling/painting. I know most people will spend 3-6 months on average working on an army night in and out just in the hopes of taking that coveted trophey and I applaud these people. Even if they didn't win the next day they will be back at it comming up with a cool new idea just for the next time, and because of this they will learn new techniques to improve their selfs and I think that is really what this is about. I love seeing at tournies the dedication somone has put into an army because to me it shows their passion for the game, and I feel a common intrest with them. Most gamers will love to have pictures and talk up their army because well they earned it.

In conclusion whatever your reason for going to tournies it comes down to common intrest. We all love these hobbies otherwise we wouldn't do them. As such we want to show off the fruits of our labour with others and for that I say "LET THE DICE FLY"

Boston Brawl is now LIVE!

Greetings one and all. I am proud to announce after the tireless and volunteer work of our web designer Brain J. the Boston Brawl Indy GT website is now LIVE!!!! Please visit at http://bostonbrawl.com/ . See you all soon.

Weekly update on road to adepticon.

Well after a very busy week with an even busier one to come I thought I would show everyone a few pics from this weeks works. The traitor gaurd is rolling along as well as finishing up my contest winners prize form my dec blog contest. So to keep it short and sweet heres the pics.

How to traitor Gaurd Armor Part 2

Greetings all, well I meant as usual to post sooner on this but the job can interfear in many aspects of the hobby, but I have made a lot of progress on my adepticon army and will be posting pics in the weeks to come. That said I have also been finishing up the other contest winner from my dec. 09 blog so it has been a very busy week. All this coupled with doing a FOW AFRIKA KORP commission that is also almost complete So without futher Ado the final installment of the how to traitor gaurd armor

If you remember we left off with a wash of Badab Black. Now this will darken the tone drastically so make sure you thin it a little more then you want. This way you minimize the chances of messing up and can do multiple coats.


To finish you will take Mithril silver and paint either in lines or as I like to do in ticks around the edges where ever you please. This is so show ever nicely the chips the trooper would have in their armor. Well hopefully you find this usefull but I decided to add some WIP of the commission contest winner, as well as some pics from my game night last week.





Here's Some pics from game night. Had a blast of a game testing out some khorne bezerkers vs Gil's space wolf drop pod army. Great army great paint job, and was a blast of a game.



till Next time fellow bloggers!

How to traitor Gaurd Armor! Part 1

Greetings everyone, I hope your New Years was a fun and hopefully pleasant experience. I for one had an army buddy and his wife over to the new home to toast the ball drop. I will say that one of my resolutions this year is to start a different page with the blog. Show more work in progress pics, and hopefully increase the readership. With that said I thought I would cover a how-to on doing traitor gaurd armor. This is a very simple tech. that I have adopted from Dave Taylor. He was so kind as to share it on the dakkadakka forums so I thought since I was using it for my traitor gaurd I would share it with all of you. For starters you will need GW paints. Now I am sure you can find an adaptation paint to suite your needs and if you do please share as I would love to check it out. This technique though requires Tin Bitz, Boltgun metal,thrakka Green (wash),Levathian Purple(wash),Devlan Mud(wash), Black wash, and final Mithril Silver. This is the order they will go in as well so remember that with the pics. They aren't the best(hence another resolution is to buy a light box), but just bare with me on these.


Now this is with the model going through the tin bitz which will be applied first as your base coat. The next which can be seen in the pic above is a drybrush of the boltgun metal over the tin bitz. Be sure to leave some openings in the armor as this will help with the end result.


The next step as shown yet hard to see is an application of the Thrakka Green wash. You will want to do this is random spots as it shows almost a rust oxidation to the armor. Adds lots of flavor, and depth.


Our next step after the thrakka is another random application of the Levathian Purple. This is the later part will give off the discolored part that coppers show/most metals when they are rusted from water damage. Yes it is hard to tell with the pic, but this is just for a general idea atm.


The next step is a semi heavy application of devlan mud wash. This will dull down the colors to a more natural tone thankfully, and will go over all the metal.


Our final wash is the Badab black. This will really dark the tone of the metal and in my opinon help you for the final step of the mithril. The washes will help show to light the natural spots that the paint would either chip or be rusted.

The conclusion of this and more tomorrow!

The first contest winners done with updates form the past few weeks.

Alrighty well it has definately been a crazy few weeks with moving, and painting, and the holidays but I can say I am glad I made it through it all. The first contest winners model is done, and I rather enjoyed painting it I must say. He wanted black armor where it would ahve been green and green where black. The rest I was given freedom on and I definately had some fun. As can be seen I made the top flames blue for a multiple of reasons. First off this is THE vulkan he'stan and to me that makes him da man!!! Blue flames also give a lovely contrast that offsets the model on the battlefield. I did this as the eye catcher. Next I drybrushed up the cloak and gave it a wash in devlan mud. Finally I used bronzes up to silver to make the golds as requested. Also to note I did not do the base as I wanted the customer to be able to match the model to their army. This way they can pop it off the base do it up and BAMPH instant gratifacation. Honestly my picture taking sucks and I really need a better camera but hopefully they will enjoy the pics anyways. The next delight is an Eldar pheonix lord and let me tell you I AM STOKED ABOUT THIS ONE JUST AS BAD!!!

These pics are some of my traitor gaurd I am doing for adepticon.

Just thought I would post a pic of a friends roman army he did. I have to say I was quite impressed with one the speed of it as well as the level of detail. As stated my pics do not bring justice to these models.