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  1. I used an old digital camera. I really need to upgrade my set up, I've just bought a new background today as the one I've used for the Sylvaneth is ever so slightly blue.
  2. Thanks for the compliment. I don't really enjoy painting for competition so i've never thought about Golden Demon. If someone commissioned me to do Golden Demon then I'd probably be more interested :).
  3. Last year was great. I painted up a full army, I attended my first and second tournament ever. GW decided to ditch the old persona and began the great process of renewal. My commission painting company grew in clients and painters, all in all things are good. I played more games last year than the past three, but still not nearly enough (there's never enough gaming). After my last tournament I was a little burned out. I cant stress enough I really enjoyed the events I went to and will definitely will be looking to attend some events again in 2017. Matched play is a great way to play and for many fellow gamers/hobbyists it covers all their needs. for me though I found I enjoyed the events and the social aspect of meeting new people, but there's still a little bit missing. I'm a creative person. I love coming up with and reading the background and stories, and really just solely playing matched play games for me is limiting what I want to achieve with my gaming. So new year has come and with it a new project. My goal for the year to come is to definitely start exploring the narrative side of the game. I've recruited and reforged a few anti Aos friends to do a simple slow grow path to glory/1000pts. in the next few weeks i'm going to attempt a small campaign write up, and hopefully fingers crossed my friends will stay focused enough to get some games in. My first project for the year is Sylvaneth. I did technically start this last year, but you can forgive me for having a little break. I wanted to push the standard of this project to something as high as I could without it becoming too detailed and unobtainable. I have been quite strict in what I plan to paint so not to get distracted or overwhelmed. My project is as follows 20 dryads two x ten with slightly different schemes five Tree Revenants Branchwych Treelord Ancient Three Kurnoth Hunters Branchwraith Four Sylvaneth wyldwoods As always many thanks for reading, comments and questions are always welcome. until next time. M Now for some pics of what I've completed already.
  4. Battleine combine! keep battleline restrictions but allow you to combine them into 1-2 units eg, pay points for 3 units of 10 skeletons but can combine them into one unit of 30 but still meet the requirement? Maybe introduce x amount of units that dont break allegiance in matched play I think grand alliance spell lists might be a cool addition. I would really like to see a character creation system done for narrative play using a set number of 'hero' points to spend on stats, abilities , keywords etc. Im still very undecided on the initiative system from my games. it has won and lost me games equally so i suppose that is balanced
  5. The scenery requirement is 4 pieces of painted scenery, luckily I have tonnes so that was no issue. The case i have my GHB in is just an A4 plastic case from tesco (uk), it was only a few £ and it holds my lists and event printouts etc...
  6. Its from ikea. I believe it was full of screws before it was re purposed
  7. I've always wanted to attend an event and often between life, money, and kids it's always been just an idea that's never blossomed into a reality. A few weeks back I was casually looking through the events section on this site and noticed a one day 1000pt event in Leeds. Not being very far I mentioned to the wife that it might be cool to go, not really expecting a response (she often goes deaf when hobby is mentioned) she responds with "cool you should go,". I paused expecting some sort of bargaining scenario to begin, involving me looking after the children for a full 7 days while she spends it with her girlfriends in some tropical resort. To my amazement this didn't happen, and not only did she show mild interest, she even paid for the ticket! it's entirely plausible that this is just to get me away long enough for (insert vocation of choice) man to pop round , but really this doesn't bother me as i'm going to a tourny! Initial preparation began with WTF how do I prepare? Luckily two podcasts came out this month touching on this very subject. I certainly don't have any goals other than just to experience playing at an event. I have my list sorted, though a unit of Dire wolves inconveniently required painting. luckily and probably due to my excitement these have been completed pretty quick. As for other preparations, I've read the rules pack and currently trying to learn the matched play scenarios word for word. The scenery requirement is no issue as I've loads of painted scenery and I've even bought a cheap tablet for the AOS app. Many thanks to the Mortal Realms Podcast as they have produced some DIY tokens which I've just glued to 25mm bases. The biggest question I have now is do I forgo paying my water bill and buy an official combat gauge, and rangefinder, or make do with the basics? Will post soon, probably with a write up of how my games went and how I found the whole experience. Happy hobbying M P.S will this be enough?
  8. You should be pleased, it's a really solid paintjob on your slaughterpriest
  9. Great work! It's great to see halflings still knocking about. I think there's still a place for them somewhere in the mortal realms
  10. Hi peeps decided to show a quick wip pic of my £5.99 slaughterpriest Only spent half a lazy Sunday on it and I have to stress this is a crappy phone pic Started on a Base too M
  11. Still exceptionally busy with work. I haven't really had the time or peace to sit down and do any of my death or Sylvaneth for myself . I have been able to finish these 3 wyldwoods to a standard i'm happy with . I'm unsure as to the amount I will need but I think 3 for 1000pt games is enough for now. I promise I will try to post something interesting soon. M
  12. Looks great Steve! I don't think it's cheating, it's just clever use of techniques to get a great result
  13. I agree with cb-rex keep the bases neutral so it doesn't detract from the minis. I'd be mindful of using a different tone of green on the bases, maybe stick to just the brown tones or only use greens in the same tonal gradient as the green on the dryads. Great looking stuff
  14. I haven't posted for a while as I've been super busy with work and getting married. I've been lucky though and have somehow found the time to get loads of games in with my death army. I've really struggled with motivation when it comes to the death. I do want to add more units and beef up existing ones, but my limited attention span has been derailed by Sylvaneth. I just love everything about them fluff, minis, rules, etc.... So here's a few pics of some test minis which will slowly be added to soon and hopefully I will be able to update the blog more frequently. Happy hobbying M
  15. I finally finished my Mourngul, really struggled with this model due to a little painters block. I'm kinda demotivated with the undead at the moment, possibly due to an upcoming Sylvaneth release . I think its just a phase, as i've done so much using the same palette etc... that I may just need a break before finishing the army. I've still got a few things to paint, Manfred being one of them, so hopefully I get my mojo back and i'll have more to show soon. All the best M
  16. I love looking at your work Tyler. You are truly a hobby megaboss
  17. These are great! who doesn't like orruk pirates.
  18. Thanks for the comments peeps! No gaming unfortunately this week as my local GW is not doing late night gaming. something to do with manager being on holiday or some other excuse. Commissions wise, its been exceptionally busy with some serious late nighters to try and meet deadlines. This has left me a little burnt out, so personal hobby time might just be a cup of tea and a delve into the Godbeasts campaign book. I have some stuff currently being worked on and a few finished minis, hope you like. M 3 More Spirit hosts. I'm really tempted to pick up another 3 as these don't take very long to paint. I missed these off In my first post which is a shame because I think they are my favourite minis in my army. I'm not sure I will ever use 4 tomb banshees, but they'd be great as objective Markers. This big guy is great, cool model and very cool rules. The biggest challenge was removing the dead horse from his hand. Brute force and powertools kids 7 more skellies. I try to do one a day so in a week ill have 30 in total. Finally A nod to the Mortal Realms podcast who put up a free token download (you can also buy laser cut ones). https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/mortal-realms-status-tokens I stuck mine to 25mm.
  19. I have a blog on this site, there's some close ups on there
  20. Yeah I'm painting one up at the moment too, ID have had it finished sooner but I removed the dead horse from his hand which was a very unpleasant hobby experience. Don't forget plonk a garden of morr down and get another +1 to cast
  21. Great results and nice that you used the resources GW has for painting as i think theyre underated. Solid photography too. Well done, looking forward to seeing more.
  22. Hotdropmartin

    After the Rain

    Nice colour combo maybe adding some bright green warpstone to some of the bases would enhance it even more?
  23. Don't just put armour plates on the ogors put orruk heads on the ogors. Like the colours on thecrusha, he/she looks comfortable
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