Lizardmen VS. Vampire Counts(Orcs and Goblins Style)

So as a number of my friends know I've been looking at a new army that I have been dying to get my hands on. Its vampire counts but with a orc & goblin twist, via a 3rd party modeling company called Titan Forge. They make a line of models that are basically undead orcs and goblins. Which here is a shot of some Zomblins :

Now the rest of the models are pretty badass, and they have ideas for most everything in the Vampire Count army book. So right now I fully plan on doing at least a small force or them just for fun. Since I currently own around 8000 points of regular orcs and goblins(which i got for around $250 because of an awesome deal). I could easily convert some non painted models into undead models. Along with using some regular Vampire Count models and these undead orcs and goblin models. The army would mesh perfectly with my orcs. Plus it would look fantastic together in a team game.  But after seeing the video below I was sold on a full scale army project.

But hereis my dilemma, I currently own 2 fantasy armies being Orcs & Goblins and Lizardmen. Lizardmen were the first models I ever collect and the first army I ever played so they have a special place in my heart. I only want 2 armies for fantasy since they are so expensive to collect and time consuming to paint. But after seeing this video:

I was in love with the models and wanted to collect them all. But that would mean dropping my lizardmen if I wanted to go full bore into this army.  So I ask of you, people who happen to read my blog which isn't many since most people don't care about my painting or what I do for fun. Which do you think I should do. Keep it to a small force of 1500 or less, and keep the lizardmen? Or sell the lizardmen and make an amazing custom Vampire Counts army?

As a comparison of pictures you can go to this LINK to see some pictures of the lizardmen army. I love the story of the lizardmen and the models as well. So hence why I am so torn. I love both armies stories and both of the armies models. Play style isn't that big of a deal to me but will play a role in my decision. Help me decide readers, post a comment on what you feel I should do. You dont have to follow me to post just post anonymously.

CoA Sky Fortress

 So its been a little while since I've had an update. That doesn't mean I have not been at work painting though. I just painted up 10 more night goblins (90 to go) and the last 5 savage orcs. I didn't feel the need to post another set of pictures of models that you have already seen for the most part. After that however I started working on my CoA Sky Fortress. Which like I've have already said while the models themselves are beautiful and detailed. Once you start painting them they are almost too detailed and overwhelming. I procrastinated quite a bit while painting this model since I didn't want to do so much detail. But I slowly worked on it and did the details that I thought would be important enough to paint. 

Showing part of the bottem.

Top View

 Overall I think it looks quite good and I am pleased with the overall result of the model. As a last detail the two turrets on the bottom are actually magnetized in so they don't fall off and that way I didn't have to glue them in. I don't know why they put the turrets on the bottom it seems like a design flaw, but they do look pretty cool.

Either way I will continue to post more pictures of my work, and possible soon my thoughts and ideas on the new 6th ed of 40k. I'll try to get some other interesting models that aren't orcs posted, even though half of what I'll be painting will be orcs and goblins. As usual if you like my work leave comments and if you want to follow me.

Infinity Morat Soldiers

As per request from my good buddy over at War Teacher, I finished my morats from Infinity. It is 3 morat vanguard infantry and 1  daturazi witch soldier. I really like how they turned out, I went with a more urban color scheme since we will mainly be playing in city terrain. Well without further stalling here are the pictures of my Morat forces in Infinity.

Front shot of the 3 different poses.

Back shot and showing that its more than just grey on the armor.

The witch soldier, who looks badass. Even though his face looks blotched together in the picture its much better in person.

Other side shot, you can't see it but he has a knife in the left arm and is holding a large axe in the right arm.

 Overall as you can tell a number of grey colors and whites with a wash of badab black over everything. Then a brown pack and a blue grenade, the hair is a blueish grey with a black wash and then a blue grey touch up to show some highlighting. The face was done the same way but with red. I really want a urban-camo look with the armor and I think it cam out quite well. The guns and blades are silver or shadowed steel with a black wash to add some grit to them and dull the shine. They look a lot more metallic in person.

Overall they came out exactly how I wanted them to. If you like them post or comment on tips for me to improve upon. Ill keep posting more painting projects as I go, since I have enough stuff to paint for the rest of my life.

Tiny fliers and Orcs

Well a painting update, over the past week or so. Ive been painting up my CoA tiny fliers and some orcs. Ive finished the last group of orcs today and took some pictures. So first up are the CoA tiny fliers.

While I do know that they look like a squad of tiny dildos. I found out while painting them that my friend Austin was right they are a chore to paint. They arent hard at all to paint but its  annoying doing the same thing 3 times for each base.

Overall I wanted to keep the green and ice theme, at first I had no clue what i was doing so i tried stuff out and eventually came up with this scheme. Which generally I like and its really easy to paint which is nice.

Next are the orcs, I have some hand weapon shield orc boys for you and some 2x hand weapon savage orcs. I like the HW&S boys since they are cheap and somewhat durable for there points. They can also hit pretty hard in combat. I have a green skin with a leathery outfit look and a few metallic bits on them. The savage orcs are pretty easy to paint as well the only difficult part is after the skin is done you need to paint the outfit. Which is far more detailed than the rest of the body with a number of ropes and different plates. Luckily there are washes that make it all so easy. I love to wash things with devalian mud or badad black these days, it gives a shaded and depth look to it without much work in turn. I know the savage orcs dont have any tribal tattoos that is something I might still add on later after they are all done.

Ive noticed in the pictures the full skin detail doesnt show at all. It just looks like flat green, which it isnt. there's a wash under there with a number of dry brush layers. The skin itself is actually quite good looking in person.

Anyway im off to paint some more or play some video games. Any tips or comments are welcome.

BloodBowl and a Bloody Battle

So  on Friday I had a chance to play as my CoA, against a large Prussian force with my buddy Gigawatts. I had to proxy some models and there was much in the way of unpainted things so there are no pictures as it would have been an ugly mess. I promise to get some Battle Reports on other stuff.

Other than learned a few of the new rules for dystopian wars that have change. I learned that the CoA are pretty badass. While we are a bit slower and have less fire power than Prussian ships, the CoA Medium class and up come with a shield generator for free and have an upgrade that allows 1 re-roll of a shield die. While is pretty amazing in my book for being a bit slower and having a tiny bit less fire power. That however is not true on the larger models, they have the generator and what seems to be the same firepower, and speed for the same cost. But the key difference is the Particle Accelerator, which is an amazing gun. For those who don't know you chose a target within 12" and get 12 dice, all misses including exploding 6's are put to the side. Then rolled on the next target in a line until there is nothing left. I shot the gun once since I had to leave early, and that one shot killed 3 Prussian frigates, wounded 1 more Prussian frigate, and then killed a FSA frigate. While I can see that the gun is extremely effective against small models since you get a large number of dice and get to hit other models, I'm curious to see how good it is against medium and up.

Now its GAME TIME, here are some shots of a blood bowl lizardmen team that i painted up a year or so ago. My team is called the Huatl Thunder-lizards, they are based off my actual lizardmen army which is the Host of Huatl, meaning I will repaint these guys after i repaint my Lizardmen army to match them.

The squishy skinks

The big guy, hes never let me down.

Some Saurus.

More of them

The team roster is 1 Kroxigor, 5 Saurus and 11 Skinks. I enjoy playing them since they are a good mix of speed and strength. I usually work on just picking the ball up and running it rather than throwing, but the skinks are damn fast so that's not to difficult. The kroxigor and saurus are pretty fast as well so they can keep up with the skinks to assist them.

Goblins and a Dreadnought

Time for a painting update, I've been working on 10 Night Goblins and a CoA Dreadnought. As usual post comments if you like my painting or if you have any tips to improve my painting.

Here are 10 Night Goblins, sadly enough this isn't even close to me getting done with the goblins. As my friends know I like to run an all Night Goblin fantasy army at times. Which is very hit or miss but its always a blast to play. After this group of 10 I am still left with 100 more to go. I probably wont post much more of the night goblins since they are a quick paint and not very cool.

10 down 100 to go.

They are a simple paint scheme, with black coats and a grey dry brush. Then its mainly all paint and wash. I don't want anything complicated with them since generally they are in large blocks and I have a 100 more to paint. My whole orcs and goblins army is going to have a redish scheme to tie it all together. Since they are the Blood Riva Boys.

Next up is the Dreadnought, which I never realized home much detail is put on the Dystopian Wars models. I must say they have done a fantastic job. The amount of detail on the models, is almost overwhelming at times. I tried to get as much as I could done without it looking to over the top. I wanted a sleak yet striking look and to be able to blend with ice but not that something is dangerous. Hence the green used to weapons and the particle accelerator and the overall icy look.

Angled shot with some extra turrets.

Side Shot

Rear shot, showing the particle accelerator contraption.

Also the green on the back isn't nearly as bright as it looks in the pictures. It blends quite well in a nice contrast effect between the light blues and greys.


As before leave comments if you like or dislike, just let me know how to improve if you dislike. Otherwise I'll work on some more orcs probably and either tyranids, infinity or more CoA. If you guys have a preference of those 3 let me know in a comment.

Rats and Templars

So I am going to take the advice of my buddy that has a blog named Teacher by Day War Gamer by night. To show some more of my stuff, so I'm going to post a few pictures of my Necromunda gang and Black Templar's.

First up to bat is the Necromunda stuff, I play as the Ratskin gang. Which is actually a very fun gang since you always get to use hazardous terrain rules and they don't affect you at all. Which in the beginning can give you a slight advantage, which is actually quite helpful since generally they are one of the weaker beginning forces. The ratskins excel in Close Combat but are only so so in shooting due to kinda crappy guns and no heavy. Later on, if you are playing a campaign and leveling your guys up using the necromunda rules. They can be extremely deadly, I played a campaign with my Ratskins and ending up being the top army since I could easily take out 2-4 guys on the first turn without much resistance.

My gang of 16 guys I know there isn't 16 guys in the picture, I accidentally cut out a shotgun guy on thr right and a pistol/cc guy on the left.

The guy on the left was cut out of the top picture.

My first ever attempt at doing eyes, I kept them despite looking back since it makes him look extra surprised.

 A Spirit warrior, which is probably one of the best CC units I've seen in necromunda.

Next up is my Black Templar army. I decided on these guys solely based on there fluff. I really enjoyed the fluff and really have fun playing them. They are the smallest of my armies that I'm mostly done collecting for, only around 4000-4500 points.

A zoomed out shot of the entire army, if anyone wants a list of exactly what I have I'll get one. Otherwise its mostly all CC stuff with a few shooting elements.

Good old undying Grim with his little servitors. Behind him you can see some of the little bit of shooting I have.

A powerfist guy that looks like hes going for an uppercut.

The High Marshall himself, I didn't like the original standing pose. So I made it look upright by adding a large rock that hes walking up.

His sword is magnetized so I don't have to worry about it breaking.

Some Terminators and a land raider, they go together like PB&J.

 A few shots of the army, if anyone would like more I'll post some more. I didn't want to many pictures in this post so I left a number of shots out. A large portion of the army is magnetized, such as my Marshall and dreads. I run mainly CC when i play and i always have a blast playing them. While my meltaguns don't actually ever blow anything up, they are just about unkillable. In every game I play I'll put 7-8 wounds on them before they actually die.
   
While I have a smaller Necron army, that is a project that I'm working on and slowly collecting stuff for, so i don't count them. My true army is my 10,000-11,000 points of Tyranids, which I never fully stop collecting. I'll post a picture of them after I finish painting my new tervigon's and tyrannofex's.