Orks? I didn't know you had Orks!

Well, yes, I do currently have some Orks.

Over six years ago now, in late 2007/early 2008, I painted up 1,000 points of Orks for the 40K Team Tournament at AdeptiCon 2008 (Team Kung Fu Grip FTW!). I painted up Goffs, John Shaffer painted Deathskulls, Chopper painted Bad Moonz, and we drafted a fourth player from Chicago late in the game (my apologies, but his name escapes me right now).

Anyway, these Goffs saw battle in four hard fought games. Unfortunately I was very ill at this particular AdeptiCon ("writhing on my bed in agony" ill), so I wasn't able to play all the games in the Team Tourney (despite trying my best to). Instead, I needed to pull in a ringer for game three. In stepped a friend of mine, Phil Kelly - author of the Ork Codex at the time, who pushed these very models across the table : )

Nobz mob in 'eavy armor - four power klaws and a painboy.

A Tankbusta mob - the bomb squigs were quite fun.

20-boy Shoota mob - Nob in 'eavy armor and two big shootas.

20-boy Slugga mob - Nob in 'davy armor and two big shootas.

And my kitbashed/scratchbuilt Battlewagon - at the time the very cool GW battlewagon had not been released, so this had to stand in. Converted from a Chimera, with loads of plasticard and trukk parts, it also rocked a truncated Earthshaker as the big gun on the rear.

And yes, if you take out the big gun there's plenty of room for 20 boyz!

Why am I showing you all this? Well I've been cleaning out my basement and decided that these boyz have to go. With the new Ork Codex just showing up, it seemed like a good time to move them on to someone who'll use them, rather than letting them languish in a case.

So, is anyone interested? Send me an email at tanithtaylor at gmail dot com with your most reasonable offer. I'll give it until July 11 before I put them up on eBay.

WAAAGH!

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

Well, it's been a mixed bag...

I realized last night that it had been almost two weeks since I'd taken a photo of anything I've been working on. Well, It's been a mixed bag of stuff. On my painting desk at the moment I have six or seven different projects I'm working on. No wonder I can't get anything finished...

Anyway, work continues on updating my Grey Knights in preparation for sale. Above is the Grey Knight Librarian I built from the new plastic kits. Below is the first Paladin unit I've been working away on. A little more work and I'll have that banner finished off.

I got a little bit of time to mess around with the base for the Black Kraken. I'm painting this up for the cool charity raffle at Adepticon next year - Celebrity Dreadfleet. Click here to check out the blog! I used the GW recipe, which was quite interesting to see come to life. I'll have a post up soon on the CD blog about that experience.

Back in July, at Games Day Chicago, my friend (and crazy awesome painter) Todd Swanson handed me a very cool base. It was a cast of the base he used on his Golden Demon-winning entry (seen here). It has been kicking around on my desk since then and last weekI finally got the urge to stick a model on top and get painting. I've added the Ghoul King from the Zombie Dragon kit (I bought that kit to add the wings to my Jabberslythe conversion) and I've started painting it up. I'm thinking I'll paint him up as some kind of underhive mutant or possibly daemonhost. Let me know what you think.

And finally (for this post) here's the first model I'm starting on for my Warriors of Morr army. It will be crewed by a bunch of Corpsehandlers who'll be pushing and pulling it to war. The smartass in me wants to call it a Morrtar ; )

Cheers
Dave

Grey Knights - Soon up for Sale

Back in 2003 (I think it was) when Codex: Daemonhunters was released, I painted up an army of Grey Knights and Ordo Malleus Inquisitorial support. With the release earlier this year of Codex: Grey Knights, I figured it was about time to pick up some of the Grey Knight plastics, update the collection of models with some of the new equipment, then sell them on.

Above you can see the first updated squad, a unit of Purifiers, which of course were not in the original codex. These guys are equipped with a Justicar with Daemon Hammer, 3 with Halberds, 2 with Falchions, 2 with Psycannons, 1 with a Warding Stave, and 1 with a Sword.

Although the paintjobs are reasonably basic, I have made sure that each model has it's own personal heraldry. Below is the top hatch of the Purifiers' Rhino.

So my big question for you all is, with the army to include the following:

Draigo, Librarian, 2 units of 4 Paladins, 2 units of 5 Terminators, 1 unit of Purifiers with Rhino, 1 Strike Squad with Rhino, 1 Interceptor Squad, 1 Dreadnought, and 1 Land Raider.

Should I sell it all as one big lot? or sell it as individual lots?

Cheers
Dave