Week 47 - Mad Dash for the Finish Line

With the year wrapping up I have launched into it, painting up 28 elves and 3 robots. I'm pretty happy with how the robots are progressing, they aren't what I intended (Non-metallic metal gold) but they also don't take forever and I really want to finish all my Dreadball this year, before Xtreme ships. The elves didn't take long either and I have another 40 or so to work on this week, which will just about cover what I need to do for the year with the rest of my Dreadball stuff.

I would really like to finish my elf dragon before the year is out which shouldn't be too challenging. I played my first game of Mars Attacks this week. I played as the Martians and Knightwolf took the role of Humanity. I lost but it was a great game and quite close despite the first scenario being weighted to the Human force. I have 10 Martians lined up to do before the year ends, all things going well at least.

Day 327
313/327 Painted/Days passed
313/414 Painted/Bought
Goals:
Build a permanent gaming table.
Build a Kings of War army for playing with.
Complete my entry for the terrain competition.
Build and paint a set of Deadzone battle groups.
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew.
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs.
Finish painting an Infinity group.
Make some headway on my Warpath fluff.

Week 46 - Kings of War and Painting Targets

No photos this week I'm afraid, I've been a bit busy. That being said I played in the Kings of War tournament yesterday, it was great. The game plays very well in a tournament setting and the last few weeks of practice was enough to have a good handle on the rules (with the exception of a couple timing related things) and I ended up 7th overall out of 12. I played against three Kingdoms of Man armies and Knightwolf (upholding the long tradition of travelling across the country to play against the guy you travelled with.) and ended up with one win, two draws and a loss.

I've started doing some work on the robots team, my last incomplete Dreadball team. They are likely to be the last painting goal I can get done before the year ends. I really want to finish Dreadball off by then. I have 6 weeks left to finish 83 models if I hope to keep up the 'one a day' goal, which would be nice. I will almost certainly have to paint more elves to pull it off though!

Day 320
282/320 Painted/Days passed
282/414 Painted/Bought
Goals:
Build a permanent gaming table.
Build a Kings of War army for playing with.
Complete my entry for the terrain competition.
Build and paint a set of Deadzone battle groups.
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew.
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs.
Finish painting an Infinity group.
Make some headway on my Warpath fluff.

Week 44 - If the Price is Right

A short post this week. I finished up the commission work today. It was a bit of a challenge to remember my old colour scheme (even with the unit examples provided) especially since most of the colours I used had either dried up or been used up. I think I got them close, hopefully the client is happy. I also kind of hope that he doesn't need any more done, trying to mix specific colours (most are now out of production too, darn GW) was not worth the effort in my opinion.

I also received my second Arcade Block this week. It contained a Half-life T-shirt, Mario plushie, Bowser cart racer, Portal key cover, Ken Street Fighter block set and a pair of Zelda magnetic whiteboards. Pretty happy with the contents, the Wife hates the T-shirt though so it is up on Trademe.

If you are interested in the shirt my Trademe is here. I've also got some terrain and Warmachine stuff up right now if you want to check it out.

Day 306
282/306 Painted/Days passed
282/414 Painted/Bought
Goals:
Build a permanent gaming table.
Build a Kings of War army for playing with.
Complete my entry for the terrain competition.
Build and paint a set of Deadzone battle groups.
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew.
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs.
Finish painting an Infinity group.
Make some headway on my Warpath fluff.