We have Liftoff! Moving on to Games Day!

Sorry for the delay folks!  We didn't even get back to the house until 1am, and I found myself falling out of the chair when I tried to process these images. :-)  So, I had to wait until I recovered to get tho them!

It was nice to finally see everything put together for the first time!





I got a chance to see just what the lights could do, and if people would actually take the time to look at everything and read the story, etc.



You can see that I had the story placed on top of the army board, and it was still difficult to get people to notice it, much less read it.  Since it is a bit vital to the understanding of everything on the board, I will have to find some way of rectifying that.  I may have to do some kind of blurb on another piece of papaer with a small illustration, kind of like the inside leaf of a book cover (or movie preview!) to draw people in.

We arrived at the store around 10am, with the voting to begin at 5pm.  I had counted on having some time, so I sat down to work:




I decided to hit the Ushabti, since it would let me get them on the board to see what they would look like.









I am looking forward to having more of them out on the board, as well as all the skeleton guards.  The Necro Knights and additional chariots will really chew up almost 80% of the open space you see in the photos.





Once the voting was done, I put the titan on the board to give folks an idea of what is coming...




You will continue to see lots of updates here, all the way through July.  There will be other Games Day projects as well, such as the Great Taurus, the Hobgoblin wolf riders, LOTR stuff, a Decimator, and other random things!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Now I must get to all that!

Into the Eye of the Storm... judgement day part one

Lots of storms today, including this shelf cloud that everyone in the area snapped pictures of... then it travelled about 1200 miles to Washington DC!  Wow.

Well, I have been painting continuously since around midnight.  Now it is close to 7am, and I need to start packing up the painitng stuff to bring to the Bunker!  Sorry for such a miniamal post.  Hopefully there will be loads of stuff to share when I return! :-)

Here is a pic I shot while I was painting the glyph on the back wall of the tomb...

Charging towards the qualifier! Armies on Parade

I am not sure how many more posts I will be able to make in the next 24 hours, so here is the most cohesive batch of images I know I can put together!  Lots of work as a hammer away at this project all night long (cue Lionel Richie).  Since it has been just about sunrise when I crawled to bed over the last month or so, this may not be so unusual! :-)

My goal with every skeleton, on horse or on foot is to have no two alike.  Just like the Terra cotta soldiers that guarded the first Emperor's tomb in China, this force is supposed to be as unique as possible from one to the next.  It also makes it a lot more fun!

Prince Apophas, Armies on Parade final countdown!

Well, time is just about gone for qualifer prep.  One last big push!  I guess I am looking forward to seeing this all together for the first time.  Even I have only seen the same bits and pieces I have shown you.

I will try to take as many pictures as I can on Saturday!

Meanwhile, here is Prince Apophas.  I used him once in a game.  I think he survived a point blank blast from grapeshot, only to purse fight with the Gunner captain for 2 turns...

More images:








It is fun to see the upper level get another step closer to completion!

Sneaky Snakes... Stalker WIP for Armies on Parade

Yesterday I spent a few hours painting the Stalkers.  There is lots more to do, but this gives you a good idea of what they look like thus far!  I also painted the other four pillars at the same time...





Here is the sculpting WIP, for those who may not have seen it...


And some individual shots:








More horses next!

Giddyup! Save a horse, ride a skeleton...

Here is a color test figure for the horse archers.  I have been itching to paint the armor section of these guys for a while.  I had been painting on the horses and riders to this point.  It is fun to see one finished!

This image gives you an idea of the armor that I sculpted.  I did the armor in sections, and then made moulds of each part.


Each piece was cast, and then placed on the horses.
  I used sheets of tin foil as a backing, so that the green stuff would not deform or collapse.

Run out to your local store and vote!

The qualifier is just days away.  Yikes!  Let's just say that it is quite a frenzy here in Wappelville. :-)

These guys were an important part of the story of this display board from the very beginning.  I was very glad to be able to include them. I will be doing more on these lads in July, but at least they are out on the board now!






Here are some shots of just the miniatures:


And back to the board:




More to come!