tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55021017879697757112011-07-08T03:18:38.829-07:00Sean O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095506020376455168noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502101787969775711.post-50246355506070594142009-09-07T06:25:00.000-07:002009-09-07T06:42:34.294-07:00It has been around a week since my last update and I've been busy. In that time I have managed to glue together all the models I have, so far, for my mechanized Khorne army.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv150/Sean_Art/Mech%20Khorne/DSCF4647.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 640px; height: 480px;" src="http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv150/Sean_Art/Mech%20Khorne/DSCF4647.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Assembling these models took an absolute age to do. I mean the landraiders themselves took over and hour each, and the eight man Berzerkers squads where just fiddly and annoying. However, once I had completed that I moved onto the mold lines, which are now, 99% away. The only ones that are left are the ones too small and fiddly to get to with my hands and scalple.<br /><br />Now the fun shall begin as I can now move onto painting!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5502101787969775711-5024635550607059414?l=d6gamer.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Sean O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095506020376455168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502101787969775711.post-81375569446135087722009-09-02T08:16:00.000-07:002009-09-02T08:34:32.665-07:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">I have entered in a friendly competition with some friends over at a website known as </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.thepainteddragon.co.uk/">The Painted Dragon</a><span style="font-family:arial;">. This is a very friendly community that is filled with a bunch of table top war gamers, like myself. With the age of everyone being from as young as 14, right up to people in their 40s and the such.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The aim of the site is to help people show off their hobby skills and improve upon pre-excisiting skills. I like the place as it gives me inspiration of improve my painting skills and to try and make more unique models. Who needs yet </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >another</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> standard pose Space Marine staring across at them from across the table?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">So with that in mind one of the Moderators on the forum came up with a Challenge Anthea type deal, where people would have come up with a game legal army (of any system) with a minimum point value of 1500. Also you would have to come up </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >either</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> a piece of terrain or an objective marker (last one is mainly for Warhammer 40k), this is to help promote the idea of the challenge.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The name he decided to called it: Challenge Gareth (the name of the moderator who first came up with the idea.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Now this competition is for fun and bragging rights only. There is </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">no</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"> prize. If anything this is purely a way to kick people up the back side to actually complete the army the started. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">God knows how many models I've started on a proposed list and gave up after the first unit as I just couldn't be bothered any more!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">So for my entry I picked a list for a force I have wanted to do for an absolute age: A mechanized Khorne Berzerker army. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The list I entered looks like this:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Kharn 165</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">8 zerks champ PW 198</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Land raider 220</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Dreadnaught - Close combat weapon, Heavy flamer - 110 pts</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">5 termies 4 pairs of LC, 1 fist, 1 H-flamer, Khorne 240</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Land Raider</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">8 zerks champ, PW MB 203</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">rhino 35</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">vindicator 125</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Total 1496</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This list gives me an army under thirty models. Which to me doesn't seem very fair or sportsman like, so I am going to up my list to 2000 points. I still have no idea of what I am going to spend the extra 500 points on yet, but at the very least I'll add another set of 8 Berzerkers in a rhino to give me three troop choices.<br /><br />Enough right now, I'm off to get assembling!<br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5502101787969775711-8137556944613508772?l=d6gamer.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Sean O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095506020376455168noreply@blogger.com0