Hosting My First Tournament - A New Age

On the 1st October, on behalf of my wargaming club, OMTS (Otago Miniature Tacticians Society), I hosted the South Island's first Ninth Age Tournament. We had three players down from Christchurch and a total turnout of six. I would have liked it to have been more but it was still a great weekend!

I took some photos throughout the weekend and some of the armies were fantastically painted. My personal favourite is the Sylvan Elves army, made from Lord of the Rings models from Games Workshop.

Enjoy the photos and I should have an update on my Kingdom of Equitaine models soon

The beautiful Slyvan Elves getting crushed by the monstrous army of the Warriors of the Dark Gods 

A New Age

So in a couple of months, I'm running a 9th Age tournament here in Dunedin. I've decided to dust off and repaint my Bretonnia, now Kingdom of Equitaine, for the event.

But that requires a lot of work so I doubt that everything will get finished but I'm going to give it my best shot. So here is my first of my Scottish Knights!

And of course, as with everything in life, you get distracted... so here is a unit filler I'm working on for my Sylvan Elves Dryads, I'm really happy with how it's taking shape and there'll be some better close ups of the details when it's done.

Daith, my Wood Elf Warlock

I have also just started D&D with some friends and I decided to make a model for my character, this was a lot of fun to put together and I'm really happy with how he looks.

 One of my friends has fairly recently started a Harlequin army and he wanted me to give him a hand painting them so I've got 6 of them to paint up and this is the first one done.

And here is the first bit of work on my General, mounted on a pegasus for now (I'll eventually get a hippogriff)


































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Finally up to Date

My new marshal on bike, just got the basics done, need to add fine detail like Helbrecht

 I decided that no army of knights is a
  complete army without the peasants, so here is the first! An hour later and I have a matching scheme for my crusade.

My full 1850 point Southcon 2016 List, consisting of a Black Templar Combined arms Detachment and a Red Templar (Iron Hands) Armoured Task Force.

And last but not least, High Marshal Helbrecht, Completed in all his glory granting me a close 2nd place in the Southcon painting competition!










I did however manage to win a trophy at Southcon. On the Saturday night, the older gamers get together to play the annual Wings of Glory Mini-Tournament and I decided to join in. Three German planes later and I take out the Ace of Aces trophy!
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Where Did That Time Go?

So, my computer died at the start of the year but my motivation to paint did not! I realised this week that I haven't posted for 6 months! That's way too long but here's a recap of my painting projects this year. I don't know if I had said what my new army was going to be so here is my Black Templar army.

 Excuse the head on Helbrecht, I have since replaced it with a helmet and he looks sick! (next post, which will be soon, not in 6 months...)

The first unit completed!

My Warlord; The Emperor's Champion and his retinue, a unit of Terminators

My 1750 point army for Natcon 2016 in Dunedin, Easter Weekend

My two main squads,

Chainswords, Sword Brother with Thunder Hammer, Power Axe and Meltagun. 

And a standard squad with a Sword Brother with Thunder Hammer, Power Sword and Plasma gun. The combat squad was probably my most notable squad at Natcon, single handedly killing the majority of an Ork Horde twice

 So despite my predator being a ten minute paint job, Natcon was a blast and I finished with 4 solid wins and a loss against one of the top two, scoring third place for my new crusade.

Thanks for reading, and all comments will be appreciated.

New year, New Army

Hello everyone! At the store here in Dunedin we are starting a new campaign, which I believe is aimed at getting people into the hobby and/or starting a new army. As I have recently sold all of my 40k, I will be starting a new army, which means, approximately once or twice a month, I will be making up a new unit for... Black Templars! On top of all that and all of my other ongoing projects (I have a wall of stuff to paint), I have just started painting my friends Space Wolves, and I'm painting my brothers birthday present (it'll be a surprise for the 16th because no spoilers). This means I am very busy, and very excited

The Space Wolves Force

I got started on the Space Wolves this morning and after about 4 hours work, I have some progress. I had to start by trimming and cleaning the models; getting rid of the mould lines cleaning up the bits of plastic that holds the parts onto the sprue, and replacing some unworthy or missing parts. After that was done, I primed them white and took a break. (I wouldn't usually call working in the garden a break, but in this case it was a break from painting) I got back into it with several drops of paint and some water and did a thin Wolf Grey coat on as many Space Wolves as I could do, in this case, nine. then, using a small but not tiny brush, I filled in the rest of the details with a basecoat. Then, finally, to end most of today's work, I applied a generous coat of Dark Tone shade (Similar to Nuln Oil, or Black Ink).

Here's a progression of photos, summarising day one;

Basecoating the first nine.

The difference between before and after shade.

The nine after shade.

Close up of the most detailed model after shade.

When I got home tonight, I decided to have a go with mostly finishing a model and here we are. I believe the lack of natural light has deadened the colour of this model though, it is slightly deeper than the previous model. I will show the model in natural light in the next post.



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Christmas Update!

First of all, Merry Christmas! I have had a fantastic week, filled with laughter, cold beaches, good times and family. I finally got around to playing guitar again today and it was so worth it! I Have also been busy at my desk, painting, planning, and making a mess.

 The assassins are still far away from completion but they are now assembled, primed, base-coated and I have started the mission of adding the required detail. You can hardly see it on the photo here, but I tried to add a faint touch of blue to the black armour on this Vindicare Assassin. It needs a lot more colour! I seem to forget often in painting, that during the early stages of trying something new, most things need to be exaggerated... this is definitely one of those times!

My Space Marine project is going along nicely, with nearly two down out of ten! This sergeant is nearly finished, and I decided to go with an icy blue theme for this guy. I think the touches of blue on this model bring a refreshing feel to the otherwise simple white armour, similar to a White Scar Marine.

Here is the finished model, the red and green marine from earlier... as you can see, things got a bit bright and went from the idea of a battle worn, deep, dark red, to that of a Blood Angel, with a bit of a Christmas twist... and on the right here, is a very different, metallic green and purple idea. I wanted something different and here it is, let me know what you think!

To finish off this post, I thought I would show a picture of my first attempt at non-metallic metal! I'm sure my camera is taking out a bit of blue cause there was supposed to be a bit of colour in there... but anyway, here is the dark armour of a knight in my Bretonnian Army. Some black background heraldry is going to happen here, probably with white or red to add contrast.

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