Happy New Year!

Just a quickie to wish all my friends and family around the world a very happy (and safe) New Year's celebration, and a wonderful 2012 full of all the things that make you happy.

I'll be back around the 3rd or 4th of January for a "blog birthday" post and recap of 2011, along with some thoughts about hobbying for 2012.

Cheers
Dave

Happy Holidays!

This time of year is for spending extra quality time with friends and family, wherever they may be.

To all of you who have shared with me on this blog during 2011, I wish you happiness and fun hobbying throughout this holiday season and 2012! 

Cheers

Dave

And don't forget you could buy yourself a fully-painted army with your hard-earned Christmas cash: Grey Knights or Lost and The Damned ; )

For Sale - The Grey Knights

The second army up for sale is this Grey Knights force. I painted the core of this army back with the original Codex: Daemonhunters release in 2003 (I think). They've been doing a whole lot of sitting around in the intervening years, but the latest release for the Grey Knights finally spurred me into action. The army was originally very Inquisitorial Stormtrooper heavy, but every non-GK model has been pushed to the side and the army has been fleshed out with a lot of the new models.

Obviously the army lists can be written any number of ways, but this army has anywhere up to 2,500 POINTS! worth of value in it. The power armored squads contain a mix of new and old models, and the Terminator squads are almost entirely the 2003 figs, while the Paladin squads are completely new.

It seems that most folks like to have Kaldor Draigo leading their army, so here he is, complete with detailed force sword. The model is Finecast, the blade is plastic (to replace a Finecast sword that was irreparably damaged at the tip.)

A Terminator Librarian, built from the new GK Terminator plastics.

Paladin Squad number one.

Paladin Squad number two.

Terminator Squad number one, with psycannon.

Terminator Squad number two, with incinerator.

Purifier Squad, with two psycannons, a mix of exotic weaponry, and a Rhino.

Strike Squad, with two incinerators, and a Rhino.

Interceptors, with an incinerator and daemonhammer.

Dreadnought with twin-linked lascannons.

And a Land Raider.

I'm not a big fan of going through Ebay, so I'm offering up this army to a serious collector at US$1200. If you are interested, please contact me via the email address in my contact details in the right column on this blog.

If the buyer is in the US, shipping is included in the price.

If the buyer is outside the US, then shipping will be via UPS, or FedEx, or DHL, so that tracking can be done by both parties, and will be charged appropriately.

Cheers

Dave

For Sale - The Lost and the Damned

One of two armies up for sale at the moment is my "Beasts of Khargor" army that I put together back in 2003 using the Lost and the Damned army list. I've played with this list quite a bit and even took it to the 2004 Grand Tournament in Vancouver, Canada (I have no recollection how I did, so it can't have been too bad, or good). This army also appeared in a US WD Battle Report in 2003 (or 2004) where I beat the stuffing out of Jeff Smith's Space Wolves on a gorgeous table built by Chad Mierzwa.

The next three shots show the army in its entirety.

Back then it was around 1750 points, but of course the LatD list is no longer "legal" for GW GTs. The army has a lot of conversions or kitbashes, using a lot of the Beastmen, Cadian, and Catachan plastic kits. These Big Mutants are a great melange of almost entirely metal kits. A lot of fun to work on.

Two units of 16 Mutants.

Two Exalted Champions.

Eight Bloodletters.

Two units of eight close combat Traitors.

Two units of eight "shooty" Traitors.

Another unit of eight "shooty" Traitors.

One modified Defiler.

Two Leman Russ MBTs.

Two units of eight Warhounds.

And the army commander, Khargor (with a Beast in the Woods).

I'm not a big fan of going through Ebay, so I'm offering up this army to a serious collector at US$800. If you are interested, please contact me via the email address in my contact details in the right column on this blog.

If the buyer is in the US, shipping is included in the price.
If the buyer is outside the US, then shipping will be via UPS, or FedEx, or DHL, so that tracking can be done by both parties, and will be charged appropriately.

Cheers
Dave

New Post up on Guns Of April

Haven't had much of a chance to get too much done on my current projects thanks to the joys of assembling half a dozen pieces of IKEA furniture for my daughter's new "big girl" room, but I did manage to wrap up construction of the British Commanders for our Guns Of April project, thanks to a delivery from Dragon Forge Design and Perry Miniatures.

You can check out that post here.

Cheers
Dave

Proof Of Concept

After almost three weeks with my lights packed away, I finally had the opportunity last night to get them out again and snap a few shots. It has been a while since I've actually made a few "proof of concept" models. I'm not really sure why. I've done quite a few of them in the past.

Anyway, for those that haven't worked with them before (or given a name to them), "proof of concept" (POC) models are the ones you do at the very start of a project, to see if your thoughts and ideas (concepts) will work out in 3D. It's all well and good sketching things out on paper, but I much prefer to sketch things out with plastic and putty.

First up is the Corpse Handler concept (based on the Dave Gallagher sketch below). A Flagellant body and arms (with weapons removed) with quite a bit of greenstuff. The hat is from the Greatsword sprue. I'm thinking that I'll have around 15-16 of these as artillery crew and associated hangers-on.

In the Uniforms of the Empire book there's a Knightly Order shown in there - The Order of the Black Rose. Obviously these guys are devotees of the Death God, and here's my POC model for their Order. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out, and I like the massive bulk of the Chaos Knight horse.

If I end up going with this approach I'll need to pick up a few things, such as a dozen 'skull helms' from the Chaos Warrior sprues, and almost the same number of Empire Lord lances. For these I'll be heading to my friend Alex's revamped bitz store at Battleroad Games & Hobbies. He has recently uploaded around 250 different 40K bitz and will be adding Warhammer bitz very soon. If you are looking for 40K or Warhammer bitz, and a bunch of other miniature ranges, check him out.

Let me know what you think of my POC models.

Cheers
Dave

My oh my, what a busy time!

Thank you to all of you who congratulated my family on our new addition. Things have been crazy hectic, as we now have two youngsters to feed, clean, and entertain. I'm sure that without the help of my mother (visiting from the other side of the world) we'd have completely lost the plot by now, rather than just slightly losing it.

Congratulations to all those other new parents, or new parents-to-be, out there in the blogosphere. Life changes dramatically. I sincerely hope you make it change for the better : )

Anyway, I've had a few moments here and there to post some stuff on the other blogs I'm currently involved in. You can check them out here:

• Guns Of April - British Brigade Commanders
• Celebrity Dreadfleet - Basing the Black Kraken

Cheers
Dave

Sleeping Beauty

Well, she's here! My second daughter, Lucy, arrived on Wednesday to our extreme pleasure.

Lots of sleeping and eating for her, and not much of the same for my wife and I. Wouldn't trade it for anything : )

Cheers
Dave