Wardancers are done. I learned a lot about painting skin with these guys. I felt that I got much better from painting the first to the last. I bought a dropper and am watering paint down now, then I go back and highlight. Also, you can see my pink chair in the background.

Dryads are done.

Karl Franz

Karl Franz and Deathclaw the Griffon came in my Empire Army that I aquired. They were both broken up, so I put them back together, and created a little rocky outcropping for them to go on. I don't know if I want to keep this or try to sell it. It looks pretty decent, but I don't think I would ever bring it in battle. The griffon is just too easy to kill.

Kind of poor lighting on the pictures... but oh well. I aquired an Empire army through Seth Richter a few years ago. In my opinion, its paint job was pretty nasty. When Anderson took it to the two tournaments last year, I had repainted some of the models. This year, I plan on taking it and I have recommitted to the new paintjobs. It is going well so far.

Empire

I put together a bunch of scraps to make an Empire War Altar. I did some decent conversion on the guy. The magic item that I gave him in the game is called the Mace of Helstrom, which is super powerful, so I wanted to try to paint it up like the hammer in the Mark of Chaos video, where the guy prays and the hammer gets charged with the energy from heaven. Didn't do too bad

Snow Day Production

I finished painting my unit of Eternal Guard today. I love not going to work because of the weather. Oops - its snowing out - Jesse doesn't have to go to work. So anyway, I just have to put the snow on the bases and this unit is done. How sweet is the magnetic base? This way d-bags that splash the pot with huge casino dice won't piss me off. Well, they will still piss me off, but at least they won't send my models flying. For the main base, I put down a layer of that magnet tape, and then each guy has a little 'rare-earth' magnet on his base. It's a pretty tight hold - any tighter and it would be difficult to remove the model.

Recent Production

This weekend, I didn't have anything going on - so I got back into painting and modeling. I got all 12 of my Dryads painted to this level - not sure if i will do more highlighting or not. I need to pick up another box somewhere to complete my list. Also, I started doing the detail work on my High Elves (used as Eternal Guard Unit.)

It gets easy to lose the desire to sit around and paint this shit. Today's distractions included some decent movies on Starz - Captain Ron, The Rock, followed by American Gladiators Finale, and Knight Rider season opener. Its amazing I got anything done at all. I hope to play some WH in March - and then May starts the summer tournament routine.