looking good!

As I also intend to be playing around in the lower orders (I'm taking Bretonnia) I might be getting a closer look at this army...and with that firepower, ASF and S5/6 attacks you're packing, it might be only a short look at that...

wildcard wrote:looking good!

As I also intend to be playing around in the lower orders (I'm taking Bretonnia) I might be getting a closer look at this army...and with that firepower, ASF and S5/6 attacks you're packing, it might be only a short look at that...

Well considering that I'm going to have to be angling to make sure I get the charges on the tonnes of lance formation knights you'll probably have, in order to make sure you don't get your +2S, you may have more of a look than you'd otherwise think.

I also note that Brets are in the next band down from HE so I've got an extra 250pts of knights to handle.

Oh, and the fact that I've never played against Brets before...

3 bolt throwers, non-stealth cheese!

Good to see you've got an army pulled together, been enjoying reading your progress towards this event.

I am meaning to post some pics of my Lion Chariot and BSB if I get round to taking any tonight.

After playing my first ever open air game of Warhammer Saturday morning (would have been extra ace if my opponent wasn't having a go at fielding more than 1 block of Empire troops and needed some paper proxies which started to get blown about by the wind as we got past midday) I've spent pretty much all weekend trying to finish off the chariot and painting the BSB.

Have decided i'm going to have to try and finish my shields at work - just got to hope I can do fine enough brush control without my magnifier.

Here's a pic of the BSB:



(Unfortunately the wife's camera was refusing to focus on the Lion chariot, probably due to the lighting in the room).

As with pretty much all the models I'm taking to the Incursion, he's by no means finished (hence the lack of any static grass on the base), but should be good enough for the day. If I have the time before I go I might do a bit more on him but its doubtful at the moment.

Again, as with a few of the models I've painted over the past couple of months, especially the various horses and lion chariot, as I was most of the way through painting him I found a few mould lines I missed.

Originally I wasn't planning on building this guy for the Incursion - I was just going to drill a hole in the base of my Korhil model and stick a bit of brass rod in and use him as a temporary BSB but when I was having difficulty getting hold of my friend Andy who I'd leant my hobby drill and bits to, I decided to build this guy as a failsafe and then decided to carry on and finish him.

Had I known I'd end up painting him I'd probably have tried to put some thought into the colour scheme on the banner and shield beforehand, specifically with regard to how to paint yellow. Basically I've used Sunburst Yellow and it just doesn't look that good on the model (it might look a bit better in this pick than it does in the flesh). I'm not sure if I managed to contaminate the paint I was mixing on my palette or not but it doesn't look as yellow as it does in the pot.

I'm also kicking myself for having to fall back on using the dark blue as the outer colour on the banner - again it probably looks better in this photo as there's more light on it (you can also differentiate the difference in the shades on the phoenix on the banner a lot better in the pciture) but if I'd been planning in advance I'd probably have done something different and lighter.

Well, my last day of preparation before the tournament.

I've just been doing a last few bits of touch up by painting horses hooves, as well as sticking shields to models.

The final thing I'm doing is painting some of the worst freehand banners you've ever seen in your life. I'm so ashamed about how poorly I've painted them I'm not sure I can even bring myself to show a photo of them.

Just putting the last models into my box now they've got the not very good banners stuck on. Pregnancy brain strikes the wife as she spots the BSB who's currently sitting on one of the trays:

Wife: "Ooh that one looks really good".
Me: "That's because that's the pattern in the plastic!"
Wife: "oh"
Me: "Did you think I went from that," gesture at BSB, "to that" (gesture at the crap banners).
Wife: "Oh"

Just a quick update on what I've been doing since the Summer Incursion.

Well, I've not got round to doing anything to the models I took. The lion chariot didn't stay stuck to its base, which is just as well as it had to come off anyway but I'm not sure if the other bits will come off as easily.

I've not been able to get any painting done at home as the wife has suddenly decided to get on with painting her Dark Elves and has been monopolising the painting table, although it has to be said I've been trying to catch up with all the gardening I didn't do trying to get stuff painted for the Incursion.

Instead I've been working on cleaning up a load of spearmen models that I'm going to be turning into Sea Guard with the aid of some bows I got from one of the bits sites. As I'm not sure how many Sea Guard I'll be wanting I've started with two units worth at the minimum size I think I'll need.

I have been carrying on painting my Phoenix Guard at work. I've now got two coats of paint on the cloaks and have started highlighting (after resurrecting my paints which had dried out quite a bit). I did take some pictures but was using my mobile phone so the results were even more useless than they looked on the phone itself.

To quote James May "Oh cock".

Left some spearmen (metal command and plastic RnF) in some acetone free nail varnish remover to strip paint as I have done before. Only I forgot to take them out after half an hour and about three days later the plastic spearmen and the bases that went in the tub as well have melted. Very annoying, especially as I'd only put most of the RnF spearmen in there to try and clean off some remnants of paint that were on them when they arrived and which I could probably have got away with just undercoating over.

In other news, after some rather unsubtle hints from the wife, I finally got around to sticking her Hydra & Beastmasters, Dreadlord on Cold One, Bolt Thrower crew and Assassin to their bases (pinning the Hydra and Cold One as best I could). Also ordered some different sized stone bits to use to decorate the Hydra and Cold One base.

At work I'm now in the process of updating the paint scheme on the Archers that I'd still got in white paint as I've now done highlights and shades on the cloaks of the Phoenix Guard. I'm still rather undecided on what list I'm going to be running for 8th (I don't even know if my regular games are going to go up in points value or not) so I don't know what I'm going to be working on next once I've sorted out some replacement Spearmen

I'd say just keep going at 2250 for now, until people get a proper handle on the rules I see very little point in changing it yet.

Bugger on the spearmen, that's why i use flash multipurpose cleaner on plastics, doesn't work great but will take any thick paint off with a decent scrub after a 24 hour soak. I generally don't paint well enough to need a perfect model to start from.

Dark Elf vs High elf should now be fun, everyone gets rerolls!