This is El Toro Gigante. The Mad Cow. The Battle Cattle. Daemon Prince of Khorne. This maybe one of my favorite conversions and has served in a number of my chaos armies in both the old world and the grim darkness of the far future.

This past weekend I traveled to Kansas City for the awesome Midwest Conquest Warhammer 40k Grand Tournament. I never had so much fun losing. It's a great tournament and I had more fun this year than last year but I fared far worse on the table top. Here's my army in a nutshell: 2 CADS 1 Chaos Lord on Juggernaut 1 D-Thirster - Bloodthirster 3 Units of Cultists 1 Unit of Bloodletters 4 Heldrakes with baleflamers 1 Heldrake with autocanon My army on parade.  D-Thirster ready for action. Dark Prince Adam. The drakes! I wanted my army to look like a 70s album cover. My plan was to let the heldrakes do most of the heavy lifting. They can zip around the field, go into hover mode to snag objectives, torch Marines and melt through their armor, deny jinks to Dark Angels and various Eldar... the army looks great on paper and fared well in the few test games I was able to get in but did not do well against tournament play.  As I me...

Guess who cashed in some frequent flyer miles for airfare, booked a hotel room, and bought tickets to the Las Vegas Open Warhammer 40k Championship Tournament? I couldn't be more excited! Now, to fine tune my army. Here's what I'm considering taking. 1. My Salamanders. Flame Strike formation with a First Company Task Force. In the First Company Task Force, I'm packing three Sternguard units with double heavy flamers (that are S6) and putting them in drop pods. Vulkan is my warlord and giving preferred enemy to all of the other units packing meltas and multimeltas. This list is solid all around and is great against Chaos Daemons but may fall to heavy shooting like Eldar or Tau. I also have to paint about 30 more Sallies. 2. My Astral Claws. This list features lots of bikes, a Centurion Devastator squad with boatloads of grav, a Skyhammer Assault Formation, and using the Ultramarines Chapter tactics. This is actually my first pick and I think it's the strongest ...

I'm home sick today with a nasty head cold. Maybe it's my fevered mind, but I've been dreaming up Chaos lists for Warhammer 40k. Here's my current Screamer Star list: 1 Fateweaver 4 Harolds of Tzeentch - disks, Grimoire 3 units of Pink Horrors (10 per unit) 9 Screamers 14 Flesh Hounds 1 Soul Grinder I like the looks of this on paper and have it tweaked to about 1,750 points. I could min/max a few things and squeeze in a Portaglyph but I'm not too fond of spawning new units that always seem to get wiped out and give up more victory points. That's something I'm going to have to just playtest and see if it's worth the risk. I've also been working on my converted Soul Grinder. I used the torso from a Tomb King Warsphinx to make a better looking torso than just mounds of meat. I just need to find a spare missile launcher in my bits box and magnetize it to an arm or the hull.

As I was putting together my daemon army, I picked up some second-hand Chaos Flesh Hounds online. I thought they were a really good deal but when my package arrived, the models turned out to plain chaos hounds. The Games Workshop Flesh Hounds are now up to about $10 a figure and buying blindly off the Internet to save some cash turned out to cost me more in the end. Then, on CoolMiniorNot.com, I saw their review of Instant Mold. It's a flexible, reusable molding material that sets in hot water and can be infinitely reused to create molds of small metal and plastic parts. I thought this might just be the ticket to making some "collars" to turn my dogs into Flesh Hounds. Following instructions, I made mold of an extra collar (or fins) from an actual Flesh Hound model. After letting it cool, it looked like I had a nice mold to make a few extra fins. I rolled out some Green Stuff into a little ball and pressed it into my fin mold and viola! As you can ...