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Well barely any of my units are painted so it seemed a shame to keep him in the box, specially since he is so gosh darn purty. His name is Gorignak. And for the record, he was just as much use to me up in the tower as he has been on the battlefield.

This battle went oh so badly for me. I'm really developing a huge grudge against lizards as I don't think I've beat them yet. The unit of spiders riders on my far left were killed almost immediately by Wolfy's flying things (sorry for the technical term) that dropped rocks on them. In this pic they are hiding behind the trees on the end of the table. The brightest spot of the battle was that my spear chukka's caused at least 2 wounds (possibly 3?) against the stegadon. Unfortunately he then crashed into my unit of orcs and pretty much obliterated them. I did remember my fanatics this battle (yay) but of course they failed to do very much. I believe that I caused one of his spikey lizards to run. I'm with Rover, I haveno idea how you lads remember every last detail of the battles. My wolf riders did sweep up the right flank and got into position right behind his skinks, but that was at the end of turn 3 and thats where we had to stop. I'd like to think they would have done some decent damage to that unit.

In conclusion, I managed a grand total of 160 victory points. Wolfy had in the area of 1000 vp. Well played good sir.

This was my first tournament and I had a really great time. 

The first round I played against wood elves. It was my first time seeing them in action and I really didn't know what to expect. Unfortunately it was also my first battle in a little while and I forgot a lot of stuff, most importantly that my unit of 40 night gobbos held fanatics! They could have done some serious damage to her dryads. Of course, being goblins, its possible the fanatics would have done absolutely nothing anyways. As it happened, the unit was broken. Its really unfortunate we didn't finish the battle, we only finished 3 turns and it was still anyones game.

Looking good! With the greenstuff, I think you meant the guy on the left?

I'd recommend using one of those washes for the ears and noses. They are one of the typical areas for washing. Also, you seem to suffer from the same problem as I do - thick Bleached Bone. Good tabletop quality anyway.

Yes, I definitely meant the guy on the left. What do you do with your bleached bone? Would watering it down ruin it?

For the green stuff, I tried using a tooth pick to make fur lines, but that really didn't work very well. For some reason I did not think to use my hobby knife.

That sounds pretty cool! Wiss and I might be interested in making a day trip and meeting you there. I was particularily interested when you mentioned the shopping at the dealers room and flea market. Do you know if they would carry Warhammer stuff in general or just WAB?

Ok, cool. I think I have the idea. I'm quite relieved I don't have to use a regular drill. Thanks a lot for those pics NomeN. I'll give it a try later this afternoon and let you know how it goes. I'm putting boar boyz together.

Merry Christmas everyone!

That was a really great post Obi and I definitely agree with all of it!

@Karl: You sure have a special touch with those Picard pics. Thanks for making me laugh!

I guess it could depend on the person you're talking to, but I certainly have never considered "Canuck" to be derogatory. I do not know where the expression originated, so maybe somewhere in history it wasn't the nicest. However, there is a hockey team in the NHL called the Vancouver Canucks, so it can't be too bad.

I've started! On two models. I'm almost as slow as Wiss when it comes to getting the gumption up for painting. That being said, I would like to mention that having been in the hobby and signifigantly shorter time than him, I have painted more models than he has.

But yes, your son's color scheme definitely inspired me. I'm not intirely satisfied with my cloak yet, but as soon as I'm done I will post pictures.

Yay! Gorignak looks pretty freakin sweet!!! Thank you. I needed at least one decent model to counter Wiss' stunning little army. He'll do very nicely.

Heh, I noticed Wissenlander has been playing the same addiction I have. But come on man, a 61 BE priest? Do you needa GF or something that bad?

He happens to have a wife.

 

Rufas, your cannon crew just arrived in the mail today. They came through just fine except for a tiny bit of damage to the top of the cannon, those handle thingeys broke off, but thats very easily fixed. They look really really sweet. I told Wiss that he'd have to make them his main cannon unit now. I really love how you did the pants on the crew and the white and grey on the cannon itself.

Wow! That is an amazing paint job for a new painter. I can see why you are so proud of your son! I love the shade of blue that he used on the cloak. My army color for my orcs is blue and I've just started painting my night goblins with midnight blue, but its coming out a bit too purpley for my tastes. Which Foundation blue did he use? I need to go out and get some for myself!