I won a lot of Squats off eBay! I'm going to tool them up as IG and I hope the little buggers bring me more luck than my regular IG armies. I'm probably going to have to run them as a mech/veteran list because these guys are getting pretty pricey on the auction market. Now to pick a paint scheme...

The Thor model I painted is in a painting and modeling contest and was featured on the gallery image for a couple of days. I picked up a couple of hundred likes on the gallery image, but only a few dozen on the actual image itself. While it's not my best work, it's one of my favorites. He's made from all GW bits, including the chest plates which came from an old sprue. One poster flamed me for the cork base though. He's right, it doesn't look good anymore. However, I think we'll be laughing at our airbrush paint jobs in two more years.

Needless to say, I had a blast at WargamesCon 2013. I hope I can make it again next year! I went 2-3 but I tied for 1st in sportsmanship and tied for 4th in painting!  My first game was against a heavy ambushing Beastman list. I was able to hold my own and pick apart most of his units because I was fairly mobile (despite playing dwarfs) and I could pick my fights. He nearly sacked my Anvil of Doom though, but I managed to make a lot of ward saves and never meet a beardy end. I lost my second game against a very nasty Ogre Kingdoms list. The player looked uncannily like my friend Kyle, so much so I caught myself talking to him like he was my buddy and not another player in a tournament. Along with his nasty list, he had a nasty paint job. He explained to me that he hated painting and used spray paint to get the job done. (Photo from the fine folks at BOLS.) I enjoy painting so much that I can fathom why someone would do this, but to each their own. The back story is how ...

I'm in Austin playing in the WargamesCon! This is easily the biggest tourney I've played in; it's huge!

Last weekend I played in a 40k tournament with my Space Wolves. I wanted to do well so I built just about the nastiest army that I could. I spent the better part of a week prepping my models and gluing together the components that I would need for the tourney. I made things harder on myself by choosing to re-paint my army. I've always wanted an air brush so I could mimic some of the better paint jobs I've seen on the web. After looking at a lot of other well-painted models, I found a really cool army that used a much darker shade of gray than most Space Wolf armies used. My army had actually been a much lighter shade of gray and I thought an air brush would be the ticket to getting an army done fast. After some research, I found that air brush compressors for hobbyists are expensive. The most basic models appeared to start at $150 and quickly skyrocketed from there. I did some more digging and found that there are other kinds of air brushes offered, not to ho...

Ever since I pulled the trigger on the decision to go to WargamesCon 2013, I've been hard at work painting up my Dwarf army. I'm beyond excited to pit my belly-draggers against some of the best Warhammer players in the country. I'm getting close to completion with about 20 or so models left to paint. I'm giving them a fairly decent paint job, nothing Golden Demon or Crystal Brush level, but a nice paint job that I'm not ashamed of. I could just slap the minimum three colors on the model and call it good, but I'm always a believer that neatness counts. The core of my army is a 50 man hoard of scouting unit of Long beards with great weapons. These guys will set up within 12" of my enemy and charge in ASAP. My Anvil of Doom will allow me to charge in the movement phase (I still can't go first, scout, then charge) and really put a hurt on anything they run into. Here is my Battle Standard Bearer (BSB), a half-painted miner musician, and a...

The Douglas Adams joke goes something like this: The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42. Which is Paradise. (Nay, pair of dice. All of the dots on a pair of dice add up to 42.) I find this maddeningly funny and clever. What's not funny is my ability to roll dice. I'm cursed. I'm jinxed. I can't do anything about it. If I need to roll 11 or less on 2d6, I'm rolling box cars. You could probably make a lot of money betting against me. I've had units of terminators fall to a fist full of "ones." I've failed stubborn leadership when victory is all but assured. Want to go first? Odd say it's a 50/50 split but I'm guessing you're going to go first. That's an awfully pessimistic view, but what can I do about it? Roll more dice! My friends joke about "Dusty Dice." Roll playing games, board games, mini games; it doesn't matter. Dusty Dice means you'll roll the wrong way....