Cleaning Off the Paint Table: Episode 1, The Phantom Paintbrush

Hello Everyone!

Well I have finished up my terrain project (for now) and decided to dedicate the month of November to cleaning up my paint table.  What do I mean by that?  Well, I have a tendency to get a bunch of models base coated with the plan of painting them, only to not actually paint them...

That changes now!

So my plan it to just go through the models I have lying around (Literally, they are all just lying around) and paint through them regardless of army project.

So with that in mind, lets take a look at the paint table!

Okay so going in order we have Prince Apophas (who I already showed you last update). The spider is from Battle For Skull Pass set that I cut up, re-positioned, and painted as a Phase Spider.  He's mostly for D&D, or a Frost Spider for Frostgrave.

The Stormcast I got as a spare miniature from the "Start Collecting" magazine that came out a few months ago. I painted him up to look like one of the Hallowed Knights, who frankly have the best colour scheme. Lastly the Orc...well he's a test model for my Orc and Goblin army.  Hopefully I'll be able to get the rest done soon!

Now to show what I have next on my paint table!

Just a taste of whats next, stay tuned!

-Commodus

Project Battlefield: Phase 1 Complete

Hello Everyone!

It is done!  The three terrain pieces I wanted off my paint table are finally done.  Here's the last of them:

The Eternity stair is complete!  That`s the last of the full GW kits I had lying around waiting to get painted.  So here are all three kits I finished in all their glory:

Sorry for the quality of the photo...I honestly need to make a proper picture taking station.  I have really bad lighting in my apartment.

Now I'm calling this portion of my Terrain project done for now.  I have a few extra bits from kits that I bought off Ebay.  Mostly stuff from the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game and a few pieces from a Garden of Morr kit.  I have a bunch of ideas I want to get to work on but I also want to clear off my paint table.  So without further ado...

Prince Apophas for my AoS Project "The Breaking of the Averholme."   Now that I have my Characters out of the way I must focus on troops, but I got to clear my paint table first!

Wish me luck,

-Commodus

Project Battlefield: Works in Progress

Hello Everyone!

So I haven't been able to get much painted in the last two weeks and it is all my fault.  You see, as I get older I cannot seem to come to the understanding that I cannot dive and roll while playing sports as well as I could when I was younger.  I have been taught this lesson multiple times in the last few years but it never seem to stick.

As a result I dislocated my arm....again....for the 5th time.

So while it is healing I though I would put together a Battle Report!....or at least I planned on that.

It was just a 1000 point game of 9th Age, Goblins Vs Ogres. (As can be seen above) My Goblins are only half done but they were done enough that I figured I could give them a test run against the Hard hitting Ogres.  I thought MAYBE my Ogres would get their first win as I didn't see the Goblins having much of a chance against my hard hitting Ogres.

That is until the above happened.  Ogres really need to get the charge off and, as we can see, being triple charge by a Wolf Chariot, a Scrap Wagon and a block of 30 Goblins is just too much even for the Ogres.  The game was over by turn two as the Giant on the right also ran down the Yetis.

So no Battle Report this week as it would probably be the most boring battle report ever.  I hope to have a rematch soon though, so be ready for it!

In the meantime I thought I'd share something I just got in the mail:

Man I can't wait to get to work on this.  I've been looking for more things to do with my Bones Miniatures and I figured I'd go through the Monster Table and paint them up for a "maybe" Frostgrave campaign in the near future (Once I finish my Terrain that is).

That's it for now!  I'll update again soon.

-Commodus

Project Battlefield: The Forests of the Averholme

Hello again all!

So I'm back with an update on my Terrain project.  Despite my sickness over the weekend I managed to finish up the last two trees on my painting table.  I also managed to get them magnetized to the base to help prevent the trees from falling all over the place....mind you it can still happen with a significant bump, but I still call it a rousing success!

So here it is in all it's glory:

They came out far better then I had expected and I'm happy enough with the results I might just get another set.  Mind you that will only be after I finish up all the other stuff I have lying around.

So now for my next work in progress!

It's all put together and ready for a base coat.  I will probably keep the paint job simple like with what I did to the Dreadfire Portal.  I'm on a roll now!  Hopefully I can even get it done by next week.

-Commodus

Project Battlefield: Work in Progress

Hey all!

So I'm continuing my plan of getting terrain painted up and ready to play.  So I decided to show you my current work in progress as I make my way down the list of unpainted terrain.

So I completed one of the trees for the citadel woods.  I had completed the base for it last year but never got around to the trees themselves.  I honestly dreaded painting them but after putting brush to model it didn't turn out as bad as I had thought.  So one is done and I have two more to go!

I also thought I'd show you some Bones minis I have painted recently.  I decided to focus on all the undead minis I have first as a general theme.  Here's what I've painted so far:

A ghost, a ghast and a skeleton all done.  They look very rough in this picture but they actually came out pretty good for how quick I painted them up.  I'll probably give them a once over just to even them out but they are mostly done.  Next up will be a few more skeletons once I get them all based and ready to go.

Thats it for now!

-Commodus

Project Battlefield

Hello again all!

So I decided to take on a different project this time.  I've been slowly building up terrain so I have a cache of things I can use to play anything really.  You've seen some of it here on my battle report (another coming soon!)  But right now I'll show you a finished piece of my new fall project.

Here above we see GW's Eternity Stair I bought last year.  On it's own it's not much of a piece, so I decided to prop it up on some polystyrene with an MDF base.

Here we have the final product:

I think it makes it a much more imposing piece of terrain I can use for 9th Age, Kings of War, AoS Frostgrave....anything!

So now I'm off to work on my next terrain piece as I also prepare some minis for D&D as well.  Stay tuned!

-Commodus

**Summer Update** - The Darkest Dungeon - Completed!

Hey Everyone!

So I'm back with the final summer update! I've been busy mostly enjoying summer and now the warmth will slowly begin to leave I must prepare a new project.  I'll be getting back to that once I get back to more regular updates.  In the meantime lets take a look at my finished Dungeon Tiles:

I completed the above about 3 weeks ago but I never got around to posting them, mostly because I had started on the next group:

The other two boxes!  The original pledge I gave was for two of the core packages and two of the add-ons.  Now I didn't paint the piles of gold or the barrels that came as extras because I want to put together a bunch of dungeon terrain to go with them.  That may be another side project to my main one, but for now lets take a look at a completed dungeon!

This is me trying to recreate one of the dungeons from HEROQUEST! using my Dungeon Tiles (I expanded it a little with my own take on the Dungeon.  Apparently there is a way to make the entire board using Dungeon tiles (Do I dare buy more?  We shall See!).

And here above we see a (poor) picture of  an expanded dungeon using my minis.  I REALLY need to get some dungeon terrain....

Anyway, that's all for now.  Hope to be back with regular updates soon.

-Commodus