Failure of 2010 and Painting Points for 2011

Well 2010 has been a painting and modeling failure. Real Life and video games has totally gotten in the way of the hobby. But with 2011 is a new year and I will have a new army. I will be setting up a painting point system that I have seen on various blogs.

• Infantry = 1 point
• Cavalry or bikes or special characters/true scale (40mm bases)= 2 points
• Monster or Dreadnought = 5 points
• Vehicle or Large Monster = 10 points
• Superheavy vehicle or Gargantuan Creature = 20 points

With this I am hoping I can get myself more on track with my painting and also get some of my friends into it so we can push each other to getting more done this year. My goals are to get 2000 points of Dark Eldar painted, one of my 2 fantasy armies painted to 2500, my 2 malifaux crews, and my necromunda models. This is a big list and I have a couple of other things I would like to do that are not finalized yet.

Gaming has also been a total fail this year when it coming to miniature gaming. So I have built a point system for that just to track how much I get to play year to year.

• Small game (under 1k points)= 1 point
• Malifaux or GW skirmish game = 2 points
• Games Workshop normal sized game = 3 points
• Apocalypse = 5 points
• Store Tournament = 10 points
• Indy Gt Tournament = 20 points

2011 looks be a better year with me and gaming so lets see how it will go. I will be going to Gen con and Adepticon this year with hopes for more. So big plans not to fail this year lets see if I can keep them.

Here at gencon

Well gencon has started and let the craziness begin. Here are some of the awesome things I've seen so far.








Fletch

Location:W Maryland St,Indianapolis,United States

Hydra Dominatus

Today I bring you the Elites of my army. The only Elites I really have are 8 terminators which I run in different amounts and set ups. The most common way is just 3 melta terminators which are cheap and are a force that my opponent has to deal with.

Hydra Dominatus

Posting a lot later than normal today just too much going on. I figured now that I have a light box I'd finally going to get good pictures of all my Alpha Legion models. First up Heavy Support. I really do not have much when it comes to this just a Land Raider and 4 Obliterators. I am planning on adding more to this slot with 3 defilers, a vindicator, and a predator but for now here is what I have so far.

The Land Raider usually gets full of berserkers.

Oblits usually running 2 groups of 2 or a group of 3.

First Malifaux model

Last night I started on my first model for my Malifaux there is a lot of detail on these models so I will be taking my time with this so far I've gotten most of the base coat done. This was my first time doing stripes on a model. I think I did a ok job but they aren't straightest.

The next step is to do a mud wash on it and then do highlights. I'm still not sure how I will base these models either it will be resin bases or I will be making cobblestone myself out of greenstuff. Also this is my first time using the my new light box that I got in last week and I'm pretty happy on how it turned out. I should have this model finished by last week and I'll post the final product.

Life in the way.

Well this last Wednesday I had sugery to remove a kidney stone so not much done on the hobby side of things. But on the good side of things I just got these in.

Best Birthday present ever!

So look forward to going with my girlfriend and taking tons of pictures so look in the future for blogs and happenings with gencon.

Malifaux the beginning.

So I have been wanting to try out a new game to take a break from all the Games Workshop games I have been playing for years. After much reading and listening to podcasts like D6 Generation I finally picked out Malifaux.

Malifaux is a small skirmish game that you have to pick a master from one of the 3 factions(each faction has 3 masters), with a force of a around 4-7 models to go with them. I went for the Arcanist faction master Ramos, he is a caster like all of the Arcanists but can build and buff constructs like steampunk spiders and robots. So I spent around 75 bucks on models to fill out my force with this I got around 75 soulstone(Normal games are around 35 soulstones) worth of models, the rulebook, and a deck( the game uses a deck of cards rather than dice to do the random part of fights).

Most of the models I ordered.

My plan for Malifaux is to slowly paint all the models one at a time between working on my Orc and Goblin army to keep me from going insane with green models. In total I have 13 things to paint with this and I want to do some counters and a display board for the small force. I am hoping to finish this all by next year at the latest. Next week I am planning to post my first painted model for this force keep a watch out for it!