KublaCon Golden Gargant 2014 Final Standings!

Finally (I know; my fault, sorry) I've got the final results for 2014's Golden Gargant at KublaCon.

It's organized by win/loss record, then battle points. Ties were resolved via strength of schedule. Battle points were added straight into the total. Like the Frontline Gaming tournament system wins are worth 1000 points, ties 500, and losses no-points; I've also provided the win/lows/tie breakdown for the sake of completeness. For those who would like a PDF copy of the rubric you'll find one here.

An interesting note is that our four (soon to get a new codex) Ork players landed in every scoring bracket, from 3 wins down to 3 losses.

Thanks to everybody who came out. It was stressful because of a couple hiccups, but you guys made it an awesome event to run! Also thanks to the guys at Frontline Gaming for including us in the Independent Tournament Circuit, and to them and Powered play for providing awesome prize support!

Cheers and happy gaming!

~ Eddie

Workbench Wednesday - 6/5/14

Greetings! I'm actually making this post on Wednesday! Hooray for me. It has been a very successful and very fulfilling hobby week. After finishing my Medusas I was able to paint my 10 man Tactical Support Squad with Volkite Culverin in Mark4 armor. I have worked out an expedient way to paint my Death Guard, as evidenced by the fact that I finished a 10 man squad in a week! I'm waiting for the bases to arrive from Dragon Forge, after which I'll weather the marines with pigments and they'll officially be finished.

It should be a couple weeks, so in the meantime I'll be working on a 10 man Destroyer Squad with Jump Packs and two Apothecaries. After that will be  two 15 man Tactical Squads in Mark2 armor. I'll also be placing another Forgeworld order this week in which I'll be getting 10 more Mark4 marines to finish the second Tactical Support Squad, 15 Breacher Marines and some command elements. This project is proving to be as rewarding as I hoped it would be. Very inspiring. Hopefully I'll be on track to have a small tournament at the end of the year!

On to the pics!

Workbench Wednesday - 5/28

Greetings! I've had a very productive and rewarding hobby week. I am diving headlong into my Death Guard Legion. I finished my two Legion Medusas, and am really happy with how they turned out. I am really glad I practiced with the rhino and the drop pod. Without further ado, here are the pics!!

I forgot to put the soot on the exhaust stacks, which I fixed earlier today! I posted the Medusas to the Horus Heresy Painting and Modeling Group on Facebook and someone pointed out that I forgot the soot.  Sometimes a fresh pair of eyes is just what a model needs to be finished off.  Like most hobbyists, I'm very critical of my own work, but I just kindof shook my head that I could miss something that seems so obvious!  If you are interested in Horus Heresy miniatures, I highly recommend joining the group.  There are a lot of very talented hobbyists in that group, and I am constantly inspired by their work.

Workbench Wednesday (Saturday) - 5/21

Greetings!! After finishing the Helbrutes and sorcerer, and not being able to attend Kublacon, I've shifted my hobby focus to my Horus Heresy Death Guard Legion. To this end, I painted up some test models, a drop pod and a rhino. I wanted to try out some new techniques, especially using an oil wash for the first time. Neither model will be in my Heresy army, as the rhino isn't a Diemos pattern and the Death Guard rite of war doesn't allow drop pods. I found a tutorial on Battle Bunnies Blog, at it turned out brilliantly!  They're test models, so no transfers and I'm still waiting to do the weathering powders, but the majority of work is done.

After finishing the test models, my attention has turned to my two Legion Medusas. They're in progress right now, and so far are turning out really well. 

Water slide transfers are a total pain in my ass, but I've finally figured out a system that works, and will do a brief tutorial in the coming week, hopefully. I've also prepped a 10 man Tactical Support Squad with Volkite Calivers as my next project. 

I also ordered my bases from Dragon Forge. I normally use Secret Weapon Miniatures bases, but for variety I decided to go with Dragon Forge. They're simply the highest quality resin bases on the market. The downside is it can take 3-6 weeks to get an order as they're hand cast, but it's well worth the wait. They're simply the best. I'm looking forward to this project a lot, and will share it with you as time goes on! 

I also can't wait for the new Ork release!!!! Orks were my first army when I was a kid and the first army I made when I came back to the hobby. I can't wait to see what GW has in store for them! Needless to say I'll be picking up a bevy of new Orks to add to my Waaagh!

Pre shading with airbrush:

Workbench Wednesday - 5/14/14

Greetings! Despite a busy week with the family I had a very productive hobby week!!! I finished weathering everything I've painted recently, and finished all the Scrap Yard bases from Secret Weapon Miniatures. The weathering really tied the models together and gave them the look I'm going for.

I hope this will be one of my last posts from my phone as my wife and I just got a brand new iMac! Yay for real pictures. 

Also, it doesn't look like I'll be attending Kublacon after all as it is a holiday weekend and a busy weekend for those of us in the service industry. Boo. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop working on this project, just that the urgency has faded a little. I am pretty close to just finishing every model I have for this army, which is a rarity, so that's good motivation in and of itself. Still to go are the 60 cultists, 6 spawn and Kazak. And the Chaos Warhound, which will be quite the project in itself. I'm really excited about that project, though I seem to be missing one of the toes. I ordered a tentacle maker from greenstuff industries to make different hoses and tentacles to augment the Titan, and to replace the toe if I can't find it. 

Taking away the minority of my hobby attention will be my Forgeworld Heresy Death Guard. I had a very sizable force but decided to sell them to fix the family car, which was painful but the right thing to do. I am reconstituting them now and am very excited about that project. I'll be blogging the whole army build and painting journey.  I'm going to be starting a gaming group in the South Bay and hopefully running a tournament later this year. 

Anyway, on to the pictures of projects:

More after the jump.

Workbench Wednesday 5/7/14

Greetings!!  I missed last week's post, though I don't have much to report since then. I finished a 'good enough' paint job on the Heldrake and finished painting the sorcerer's corpse cart bike. I've hit a bit of a wall with motivation, and assembled Kazyk the Befouled and primed him. I also have prepped some Secret Weapon Miniatures bases for paint. I think some weathering and basing, thus finishing some models completely, will help a great deal. I'll keep updating as I paint the spawn and Kazyk, after them it's just cultists until the cows come home.

Closer pictures after the jump.

Workbench Wednesday - 4/23/14

So the post is a couple days late, one of the side effects of having a 6 week old daughter! Haven't made a ton of progress in the past week, as I'm pretty uninspired by the Heldrake. It's nearly finished, I just have to go back over all the black another time and do the metals, maybe touch up the OSL around the eyes. Really just need to get it finished before moving on to the sorcerer's cart, which should prove much more inspiring!!

I have a finished Heldrake on the left, WIP on the right. Could have done a better job with the shading but it's good enough. They'll looking intimidating screaming on from reserves, so that's a plus! Also really looking forward to getting going on the bases. My FLGS (Game Kastle in Santa Clara, CA) finally got my Secret Weapon Miniatures Scrap Yard bases for me, so I'll do sort of a review and painting tutorial for them when I get to them. With about a month until Kublacon I'm not sure if I'll finish everything, but will certainly get the core of the force done, barring any setbacks. 

The Heldrake WIP. 

I'd like to take an opportunity to plug a Kickstarter campaign as well. It's the first campaign I've ever backed, and am really excited to see what the rest of the campaign has in store and get my minis around November: Jeremy Glen's Creature Caster

They're huge, beautiful sculpts of daemons, and I'm a sucker for daemons of all kinds, especially big scary ones. I'm going to finish the Heldrake in the next couple of days and hopefully the cart before the next update! Until then, Happy Hobbying!