Khardon North Skull

Shannon and I recently finished a BloodBowl league. We haven't played in years and we thought it sounded fun. So, after finishing a league, we painted some for it. Shannon completed his Dwarf team and I finished my Chaos team. All I had left to do was paint the 5 Chaos Warriors. I'd painted the Beastmen (below) in the summer of 2006.


In addition to models, I finally finished the BloodBowl board that I started, probably around summer 2006, maybe even earlier. It was always destined to be our Chaos field and now it's done.


It's made of 1" pink inlusation foam with indentations for the squares. It's glued down to some hard board and flocked with the same stuff I put on my Chaos bases.


I made the dugouts simlpy by cutting wholes in the foam. Then I lined the sides with popsicle sticks to look like wood retaining walls. The two black boxes are for storage and dice rolling.


To keep track of things, I made these wooden score boards from random balsa and bass wood pieces. They look a little more Orc-y than Chaos-y, but they still work. One side uses blue, the other endzone used red.


Also, to get the lines on the field, I watered down some Fortress Gray paint and just painted with a regular brush right over the flock. It was the last thing I did.

I may go back and paint a logo in the middle of the field, but Shannon and I need to design one first. So for now, it a Chaos field and it looks better than I thought it would. Now I just need to finish painting my Amazon team so we can play another season of BloodBowl.

60 Years

Today the Arizona Cardinals won the NFC Championship game. They are playing in the SuperBowl on February 1st (Jayme's birthday)! Sweet!

Also, I finished painting 3 models this weekend. One is a Space Marine captain (or something).


The other two started out with the intentions of being Black Knights. But after looking at the models (a mix of Vampire Counts skeletons and Brettonian knights) and reading the details on Blood Knights, I think I've made Blood Knights. Now I have a unit of 4, which is the minimum for Blood Knights. Here's one I painted a while ago. And the musician.


I also finished a marsh and a swamp. The difference is that swamps usually have more trees whereas marshes have bushes and other grass type-growth.

I very appreciate it.

This is it. The countdown is coming to an end. Only 3 sleeps left until I can finally sleep in!

Seriously, it's been 14 nights since I've been able to sleep in. Having back-to-back weekends of hockey in St. Louis is a killer.

In other countdowns, only 10 days left in February. And you know what comes in March? The new Vampire Counts. Who's excited? I'm excited! There are so many amazing new models (some with rather absurd pricing) and a lot of rule changes. As far as I've heard, I'm okay with most if not all of them. There appears to be a change in that now ghouls, or crypt ghouls, aren't skirmishers. We'll see. I may be wrong, but if it's true, I don't know if I like that rule just yet. But I'm really excited to paint the new models and play with the new rules! I'm sure you will hear more about the updates in the weeks to come from me.

Spankin' New Naps

I finished painting some models recently. I said I'd show you and here they are. These 4 Wood Elf Glade Guard finish off my unit of an odd 17 (not sure of my logic behind that) (Here's the first 3).

The 6 Chaos Warriors are really old. The models are Shannon's from before I even knew him. I am slowly working on making the unit larger. But they match my previous Warriors (these guys) rather well.