High Elves Army Plog Update #1

With the recent flurry of painting work to complete my Chaos Daemons in time for Chosen and also The Outpost's Painting Challenge, I've been psyched up to complete all the half finished armies on my back burners.

I've dug the High Elves out of mothballs and am going to start chronicling their journey from basecoat to table top.

Heres the army thus far:

Lord choice is an Archmage. For games where named characters are allowed I'd definately go for Teclis.

Next up is a BSB Noble. Am planning to use the banner bearer from the Swordmasters command group to represent him

For my core troops I can choose from  3 main blocks.
a. 20 Archers (to be assembled)
b. 20 Lothern Seaguard

c. 28 Spearelves

Moving on to the Specialist troops:

a. horde of 30 White Lions (much choppy death - 15 done, 15 to go)

b. 20 Phoenix Guard to act as my mage bunker (10 done, 10 to go)

c. 14 Swordmasters (even more choppy death)

d. 5 Dragon Princes

e. Lion Chariot (assembled)

Finally a Great Eagle to round up the rare choice. Really hoping to win this bid on Ebay for the Coolminiornot Great Eagle model. Its an awesome mini!

Will be targeting to complete this army by March or April.

Keep looking for more updates.

Pre-Heresy Thousand Sons

Having finally read A Thousand Sons, I've decided to have a go at making a Pre-Heresy Thousand Sons army. Warhammer 30K man!

Started to put together a list of stuff I needed to convert my minis.

My inspiration

Will be using mainly TK plastics and some Grey Knight / CSM parts to convert the models.

I managed to get these sweet 'Stargate' looking Anubis and Horus helmets which I hope to recast for my power armored boys. The Anubis head will be the Sorceror and the rest will have the Horus heads. (If you remember in Stargate, the chief guardian is Anubis headed. The Sorcerer will carry a Heqa staff and the rest will be carrying swords or halberds with kopesh type blades (from TK tomb guard).

For the Sekhmet or Scarab Occult who are the veterans, I'll be using these resin Terminator casts also with Anubis and Horus heads.

Planning to have an initial 1500 - 1750 point army consisting of :

Ahriman

2 units of  3 Sekhmet Terminators

3-4 units of 9 Rubricae, each unit will represent one of the main cults - Corvidae, Pyrae, Raptora, Pavoni (not sure about the Athenaens at the moment)

Defiler (using a Necrosphinx head and torso on Defiler legs)

Heldrake (suitably modded to look Egyptian / Sphinx-like)

Armour will be in Crimson Red with Gold and White Trim.

Chosen 2012

My first games using 6th Ed rules in a tournament setting, phew!

We got to Battlefront Miniatures just past 9 am and Khairul started by briefing all the participants.

My first game was against Nahri's 'Grey' Blood Angels.

He proceeded to castle in one corner and awaited the arrival of my Daemons. I made some very ballsy deepstrikes and succeeded and taking out his Termies and some vehicles with my Flamers and Screamers but ultimately I was outgunned and he took the first game.

The second game vs Soo Kai was quite interesting also, highlight of the game for me was deepstriking my squad of Flamers onto a tower where his Devastators were and proceeding to roast them all, after that my squad jumped down and barbecued the techpriest and his thunderfire and completed a hattrick by blowing up his Whirlwind launcher, 3 for 3 heavy support choices fried by one squad.

Despite my unnerringly accurate deep strikes, I made a critical error by not wiping out his tactical squad and conceding the 1 KP to lose the game.

Finally my last game was against Faizal Sani and his 'pre-heresy' style Space Wolves. The Vlka Fenryka gunline proved to be nearly impossible to penetrate and by turn 4 I was left with my 2 Heralds and LoC on the table and willingly conceded. However this game proved to be one of the most fun that I played and Faizal was a great sport.

The Winners: Faizal Sani (Best Painted Army), Khairul (Organiser), Joe Soon (The Chosen One), Alvin Khaw (Organiser) and Hassanal (Best Sportmanship)

Incidentally I found out that I tied with Hassanal for Best Sportsmanship (Both of us earning the max score of 9). Now I just have to learn to play better LOL!

The Participants of Chosen 2012

Final tally, I'm suppose to be playing Daemons, Khairul!

Chaos Daemons Chosen 2012 Update #3

We travelled down for the Chosen on Friday and I spent the night putting the last minute finishing touches to my minis.

My final list

Lord of Change all done

The night before, basing done

Taken in better light

Close up of my Screamers

Chaos Daemons Chosen 2012 Update #2

Managed to get some painting done over the weekend. Though not as much as I would have liked.

Earlier on had a bit of a panic as I suddenly realised that I didn't have the Changeling model. Luck was on my side though as a quick shout out on Facebook yielded the model that I needed.

Thank you to the Dutchman in Penang! Now I just have to replace the model that he loaned to me.

So I got started on the Lord of Change and Daemon Prince as these would be the focal point of the army and I wanted to spend as much time as I could on them.

Also managed to basecoat all the models (except the Changeling).

Started doing the chiaroscuro for the LoC, DP and flamers.

Recap for those who missed my earlier post:

1. Basecoat whole model Chaos Black spray.
2. First drybrush all over with Codex Grey using large drybrush.
3. 1st highlights with Fortress Grey using large drybrush.
4. 2nd highlights with Fortress Grey / Skull White mix, using large drybrush, hitting the highest areas.
5. Final highlights with Skull White using a small drybrush, only hitting the highest points. Edge highlighting where requrired.

After doing that I'm left with this:


Chiaroscuro done.
 

Did the same with the DP.

 After drybrushing the flamers, I started to layer in the colour washes.

1. Guilliman Blue glaze 1:3 with water.
2. For the flamers fire, I used Kabalite Green 1:3 with water to block in where I wanted a 'ghostly flame' look - mainly on the hands and the flames around their back and head.

After first few layers of washing. Can't really see the effect on the flamers in this pic. (will try to post some better shots)

This is after 3 layers of blue and green washes.

 The trick with chiaroscuro is to get a nice monotone to set your highlights and shading, then you just need to wash the model in your selected colour. However on large models like the LoC, you will need to take it another step and do some highlighting after you are done blocking in the large areas of colour.

One thing I like about the LoC is the amount of texture on the model rewards careful highlighting. I'll probably need to do some final highlights and glaze over with ink to complete the effect I'm looking for but overall I'm quite happy with the way it turned out.

Added several more layers of blue and started to layer in some Hawk Turquoise on the leading edges of the wings.

 Am looking to have a gradation of colour from an Icy Blue through Hawk Turquoise, to Dark Blue and finally blending into purple at the trailing edge of the wings.

 

Still lots to be done, so I'm going to be painting up a storm over the next 3-4 days.

Wish me luck!

Chaos Daemons Chosen 2012 Update #1

Well, like I mentioned in the last post, I had to amend my army for Chosen 2012.

Managed to finish assembling all the minis last night, except for the Changeling.

Heres the complete army in all its glory.

1.5K fully assembled - Yay!

Closer look at the LoC, Herald and Flamers

Closer look at the DP, other Herald and Horrors. Screamers sitting in the back.
 

Now I just have to complete painting everything (except for the Heralds) before the 15th.

Chaos Daemons for Chosen 2012

Well, in a freak mishap several of the Kabal transports were lost in the warp.

I somehow misplaced 2 Raiders and 2 Venoms when moving my stuff and I don't think I will have the time to prepare new ones for Chosen.

With that, I've decided to change out my list and will now be bringing Chaos Daemons for the tourney instead.

So here's my new list:

Army List: Chaos Daemons 1500 points

HQ – Lord of Change – Greater Daemon of Tzeentch – 290 points

Lord of Change, Master of Sorcery, Breath of Chaos

HQ – Herald of Tzeentch – 130 points

Herald of Tzeentch on Chariot, Master of Sorcery, Bolt of Tzeentch, Breath of Chaos

HQ – Herald of Tzeentch – 130 points

Herald of Tzeentch on Chariot, Master of Sorcery, Bolt of Tzeentch, Breath of Chaos

Elites – Flamers of Tzeentch - 97 points

4 Flamers of Tzeentch, Pyrocaster

Elites – Flamers of Tzeentch – 97 points

4 Flamers of Tzeentch, Pyrocaster

Troops – Pink Horrors of Tzeentch – 100 points

5 Pink Horrors of Tzeentch, Bolt of Tzeentch, The Changeling

Troops – Pink Horrors of Tzeentch – 95 points

5 Pink Horrors of Tzeentch, Bolt of Tzeentch,

Troops – Pink Horrors of Tzeentch – 95 points

5 Pink Horrors of Tzeentch, Bolt of Tzeentch,

Fast Attack – Screamers of Tzeentch – 125 points

5 Screamers of Tzeentch

Fast Attack – Screamers of Tzeentch – 100 points

4 Screamers of Tzeentch

Heavy Support – Daemon Prince of Tzeentch – 240 points

Daemon Prince of Chaos, Daemonic Flight, Mark of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery, Bolt of Tzeentch, Breath of Chaos                                             

Total: 1499 pts.

36 models