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.

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.

Covenent of Antartica Time Dilation Orb and an Orc

So im going to try out this blogging thing for my war gaming hobby. I started this up as something to do to keep me into painting without getting burnt out. Plus a good friend of mine is also doing this. I am currently playing or have forces for Warhammer 40k (3 Armies), Warhammer Fantasy (2 Armies), Blood Bowl, Dystopian Wars, Necromunda, Infinity, Warmachine, Hordes, Flames of War and Federation Commander. If anyone wishes to see any of the forces or models from a game system I'll post some pictures. I'll probably slowly show pictures of entire forces as I go as well.

Here are some pictures of a Covenant of Antarctica Time Dilation Orb, from the game Dystopian Wars. I recently bought into the game after a long time and decided to go with the CoA because of there alien look. Dystopian Wars is a very fun war game which I recommend. I wanted to go for a watery/icy look, since the CoA are located in Antarctica.So that's why the water around the orb looks close to the orb itself. In person tho the orb is quite a bit whiter than the water.

While I know I'm not the best painter around, I think I'm decent at least. Any comments or criticism is always welcome as I'm always looking to improve. My current painting style is mainly washing and dry brushing with some edging.

Here are pictures of an orc model from Warhammer Fantasy that was painted quite a while ago.

 Cant really tell from the picture due to a crappy camera but the skin as a lot more depth than it looks.

Anyways hope you guys like my painting, if you got any tips let me know.