Hordes WIP – Striders and pureblood warpwolf

Finally got down to do some painting the previous night. I started on the unit of striders that have been sitting on my table collecting dust since forever, while Stella started on her Pureblood Warpwolf. Still WIP, but its some good progress we’re making towards our goal of having a fully painted army by summer.

Lone Strider with base coats done. This will form the shadow layer when the lighter coats go over the skin and the cloak :

Unit of Striders, the front guy with the sword having his skin tone completed, the rest just base coated.
Stella hit the armor of the Warpwolf with bronze, and the recesses with a yellowish green to go with the whole colour scheme of her Circle army. Flesh is grey for now, but will be lightened to a near white as time goes by. One of the spikes have fallen off during handling, but will be glued back very soon.

Until next time. Watch this space.

Musings in the rain

The rain tonight made it a lot more inviting to head down for a jog. Been trying to keep up with the exercise regieme so that I can finally get healthy again and lose a couple of inches. I think it would also prepare me for the physical strain that I will have to undergo getting around Vietnam in May.

So the next week will be the final one for class, and we’ve got 3 deadlines to meet. Bao’s essay, Kim’s squib thing, and a presentation on the final day. Once all that is over, it’ll just be the usual studying for exams and taking the exams. I think it’s reached a point where I’ve done too many exams to be nervous about it. Who knows? this might even be my last exam ever.

On a more geeky note, I’ve been thinking of miniatures gaming non stop. It’s almost become a daily obsession and I don’t know if it will go away, or if I want it to go away. Frankly for me, it’s more about painting than gaming, although I’m sure I’ll enjoy the game just as much too. While my game of choice is definitely Hordes, I do like the sight of a battalion sized army painted up, even if it stays on the shelf. Oh well. Constantly dreaming of painting a Lizardmen and an Eldar army.

Something Keane dropped in this morning

Think the roleplayers would enjoy this.

More geekiness

You know that I’m stressed out at school when all I think and write about is about gaming. Thinking of running a Cthulhu game soon, and perhaps a dnd4e on the go as well. Been looking out at the 4e stuff, and the products that Wizards is putting out has been really promising, from a non-hardcore dnd player’s point of view (heck I’ve never even run a game before, cept for AD&D more than 10 years ago). Think it would suit Stella and some of my other friends pretty well for a night of monster bashing.

Had the most amazing sandwhich yesterday with Stella. Damn, that was good.

Shipment for Hell Dorado and my Size 0 Kolinsky Sable brushes arrived, but got bounced over to the postoffice as I wasn’t at home to recieve it. Been aching to paint something other than black and white Hordes stuff, so I just ordered something fun from Malestorm.com.

People unbox electronics, we unbox toy soldiers:

And finally, a work in progress pic of Samael from the Demons army of Hell Dorado. Looks like an interesting game with fantastic sculpts, but I’ll just paint the minis for the fun of it. Gives myself some practice before I do the Hordes ones.

Need to geekify my table

Probably need to extend a usb hub onto my table to make use of the ports at the back. hmm.

When the geeks get interested in politics

Damnit. This is incredibly geeky.