Kroximagoria

I've been breaking the rules and taking the heat in my attempt to get ready for DogCon 2010. I've been painting Kroxigor. The skin colour I decided to use wasn't as dark as I initally hoped, and some parts came out icky but overall it'll look okay on the tabletop. Only small amounts of highlighting however. I'm aiming for the other two Kroxigor today. Heres the completed one..

Camera 1.

Camera 2.

Update: Kroxigor 2 is done. Pictures will be forthcoming when Kroxigor 3 is done, because without a fully completed base they just aren't as cool.

Hello Hobby 2010

I'm back! This year I have new tools for photography and a big work load with DogCon rapidly approaching. So, without further ado here is my to-do list:

• Slann's Palanquin
• Engine of the Gods, Stegadon, Skink Crew and Skink Priest
  
• Saurus Scar vet (half complete)
  
• 31 Saurus Warriors
• 3 Terradon Riders
• 15 Temple Guard
• 3 Kroxigor
• 5 Cold One Cavalry
  

So busy times ahead for me. Here's a colourful picture taken with my new setup.

Goodbye Hobby 2009

So comes to the end of another period of hobby intense activity. I'm off to Thailand tomorrow evening and as such there will be no further updates for a while until January. In my effort to have my Lizardmen army ready for the DogCon 2010 tournament I have produced one complete squad, and here they are:

Caution, the enlarged photo is a bit big. They were assembled during a hatefully-industrious stage, so feel free to point out and guffaw at the mold lines and other similar mistakes. I'll go over the paint mistakes after I return, particularly the basing ones.

Green and Purple

Yep, I've still been actively working on my hobby. Last night I decided to base my assembled Temple Guard, Chakax and some other stuff. Whilst I was at it, I thought - "Hey, why not flock my movement trays and already based models?". So I went about doing that. My movement trays had previously looked pretty crappy, but I think they look better now. It's my first attempt at flocking, and I'm happy to say I believe it came out alright. I went to the Painting Clinic for help. The Painting Clinic is always an extreely useful site for miniature hobbying.


I've also started work on a certain floaty-chair. Here's a picture of it standing upright, as well as a better picture of my Frog-Prince.


As always, click the image for a larger display. I need to remind myself to add borders to the images like I did with the Rocket Battery Crew in Photoshop.

An Update

That's right, I've painted something. This time it's for the army I intend to bring to DogCon - Lizardmen.

I decided to paint my Slann purple because I'm sick of painting green and orange whilst everything else in the army is blue or green and also because it'll be the only opportunity to use purple in the army outside feathers.


Also on the painting station are the Helstorm Rocket Battery and the plastic Stegadon. I'm pleased that I've rectified its skin tone from a bright blue to a darkened 'Crimson Fist' shade. Painting the scales is as horrible as it had been with the metal Stegadon. Tomorrow I'll start painting the Slann's palanquin and the bone on the Stegadon, because I find using Foundation paints to be tiresome.

On the gaming front I am looking to sneak in a 2000 point Fantasy game possibly this Thursday. I bought a Warhammer Army Figure Case to house my Lizardmen army. It'll be nice to take my army somewhere and have it not break in transit, especially when its an old metal Stegadon or howdah.

I can't hear you!

That's right girls and ghouls, I have been busy assembling. With DogCon 2010 creeping around the corner and the amount of what remains of 2009 available to me for hobbying I have decided to make a start. What do I mean?

As the picture might suggest, I am now the owner of a Helblaster Volley Gun/Helstorm Rocket Battery. For $35, it is a very nice piece of kit which required very little assemble. A motivated assembler would take no more than 15 minutes to assemble it completely, including processing.

The frame of the artillery piece is separate to the Volley Gun and Rocket Battery components which are normally affixed in via a light 'clip' into the frame. What this means that you can interchange the Volley Gun and the Rocket Battery components with ease and magnets are not required.

I found trying to remove the mold lines on the actual rockets to be slightly irritating because of the frailty of the pieces and their prominent locations both above and underneath the tip of each rocket. Aside from that it was quick filing. I've only glued on one set of rockets at this stage so I can paint the rest.


The artillery crew are fun 3-piece models, with nicely detailed bodies that are relatively light on mold lines. The heads are quirky and fun but don't provide much room for modifications as they're all hatted. The Engineer's heads are suitably ostentatious and will find use in my other parts. The Engineer has two sets of arms, one with a telescopic device and pointing arm and the other with binoculars and a sword. In a pinch you could use these and the spare Engineer helm to make a Master Engineer hero.

On the Lustrian side of things, I've assembled some more Saurus warriors with spears and resumed work on my beloved Kroxigors. The latest models look great, but boy are they annoying to assemble. If you aren't a fan of pinning everything together then greenstuffing the gaps, don't get them. I've deliberately chosen an all-plastic Empire army because I fear the longer I work on fiddly Lizards the more likely I am to buy something like a Dremel Stylus. 2 more Kroxigor and 2 Terradon to go.

I probably won't have the opportunity to work on anything more till after my last exam on the 24th, so we'll see how things go in the mean time.

For the Glory of Averland!

Glory for Averland and for the Elector Coun-... maybe not for the Elector Count. I this because in a few weeks I will have 1378 points of raw Empire arriving for me, days before I leave the country. Welp. I've only got 20 hand gunners along the way, so I am thinking of acquiring more, and either a General box or one of those cool web-only Captains/Generals.