If I build it he will come.

Long time no blog! Kinda fell by the wayside so I will try to post blogs again.

So last week I bought my latest Cryx warcaster, Lich Lord Asphyxious or otherwise known as eGaspy. Kinda big with lotsa stuff to attach. I initially brushed the parts to remove any corrosion. Then I cut off the shafting of the weapon because the white metal tends to bend a lot and replaced it with a steel rod. Afterwards I attached both arms and let the glue bond overnight. This is what I started with today:

Last night I had also pinned the head like so in preparation for attaching it to the body:

The pin is attached to the base of the skull. Next I drilled a hole in the cowl where the head is to be attached:

And afterwards, attached the head.

Next I put a pin under the body. I had to do this because as you see from the pics above the base will only attach to eGaspy in a small area. Attaching a pin should go aways in meking the connection more stable.

Lastly, I drilled a hole to the metal base where the pin will go in and also attached the "souls" onto the base.

Next up, will be basecoating the base and then painting it before I attach eGaspy and then finish painting him up which hopefully will be within the next few days.

Until next time!

100 Point Match!

Had a 100 point match vs my friend Jeff Yu last Saturday, It was my first 100 point match in years. The last I played was vs Micheal Ang in Mark 1.

Anyway, here is a picture of my army:

Model list:

Scaverous
Deathjack
Nightwretch
Skarlock

Venethrax
Leviathan
Nightwretch
Seether

Bane Lord Tartarus
Bloat Thralls x2
Darragh Wraithe
Gen. Gaerlack Slaughterborn
Pistol Wraiths x2

Bane Knights max
Bile Thralls min
Blood Gorgers max
Blood Gorgers min
Mechanithralls min with 3 Bloat Thralls
Mechanithralls min
Necrosurgeons
Soulhunters min
Withershadow Combine

The game was Incursion and I got first turn. Basically ran up my army the first turn like so:

Jeff then advanced his army and Epic Stryker Advanced then Velocity-ed forward. At that point, I felt Scaverous had a chance to do an assassination run vs Stryker. Scaverous feated, cast Ghostly,went through the train wreck and Telekinesis-ed Stryker and placed him 2" from his last position. I then cast Icy Grip on him to lower his Defense further. Then Bane Lord Tartarus charged in and Cursed Stryker and Threshed and did some damage. The Bane Knights accompanying Tartarus then finished him off. The turn ended like so with me moving models up further and attacking some more models of Jeff's killing some Storm Blades(?) and Epic Eiryss on the other side of the table.

Jeff's turn he killed a lot of trolls as well as some Bane Knights, McThralls and a Soul Hunter and doing damage to a Bloat Thrall and some other models. Then came his assassination run. Caine killed a Brute Thrall blocking LoS to Scaverous then feated and Gate Crashed into Scavy. Shot after shot until Scavy was down to one hit point with one more shot to go needing a 5 but fate had other plans and the dice rolled 4!

After that it was formality already with Scavy casting Feast of Worms to lower Caine's Armor and boosted the damage roll dealing around 8 points of damage. The Bile Thrall unit came next and you get the picture.

All in all a new experience in Mk 2. Props to Jeff for an excellent game.

Death Couldn't Look This Bad Ass

I now present Scaverous, fully painted courtesy of Edward Fernando:

The detail on the model is amazing. There are skulls in his chest! The armor and weapon have lots of ridges and all. This is officially my favorite model in the Cryx faction, surpassing Venethrax.

He's also a big mother! Here's a pic of how big the guy is compared to Terminus, one of the largest models in the PP line:

Note Scaverous is on a medium base.

Games-wise, his spells are quite nice. This caster is a spell slinger definitely. Between Death Ward, Excarnate, Feast of Worms, Ghost Walk, Icy Grip and Telekinesis, he should give the opponent a hard time.

Hoping to use both Scaverous and Terminus on the tables soon.

Enjoy the pics!

Scaverous, Scaverous would you do the Fandango...

...
Thunderbolt and lightning
Very, very frightening me!

:D

Terminator

I unveil Terminus, Lich Lord of Cryx. One of the earliest Lich Lords of Toruk, he is now at Immoren leading the forces of Cryx in their assault on the mainland. Thanks to Edward "Emp" Fernando for his excellent job at painting him. Here he is in all his glory:

Improbable Dream - Update

Painting for a toutal of 15 and a half hours. Trolls just need to have their bases painted but the figs itself are done except for the armor washing. To wit:

The following models are done except for basing. I'll get to that later but the figs are done:

Resting at the moment. Confident I can field a fully painted army for the Call to Arms 2011 League. :)

Improbable Dream - Painting 24 Models in a Total of 24 Hours

Yes, 24 models in 24 hours total. I am joining the local Warmachine Hordes League and one of the bonuses is playing a game with a fully painted army. I had to paint 24 models the breakdown of which are as follows:

a. Slaughterborn
b. 16 Blood Gorgers
c. 3 Brute Thralls
d. Necrosurgeon and
e. 3 Stitch Thralls.

I focused on the Bloodgorgers first. I initially basecoated them with grey primer:

Then I went to Edward "Emp" Fernando's place for a couple of hours of painting because he had some paint I needed. I used Trollblood Base for the skin of my Bloodgorgers, seeing as they were Trollkin only under the wings of Cryx. They came out like so:

I finished painting the skin while at Emp's place. At the same time, I also painted the body of the Brutes and Stitch Thralls in Thrall Flesh. So total at Emp's place was 3 hours thereabouts. I had to pick up my kid from his school so I continued painting at home, putting Boltgun Metal on the armor of 7 models (Slaughterborn and 6 Bloodgorgers) as well as picking out some details for me to follow the next day. Came out like this:

So today I continued painting the models. The Trolls are almost all complete, to wit:

I also almost finished painting a Brute Thrall as well as did some work on the Necrosurgeon.

Here's a pic of Slaughterborn, almost done:

Basically a total of 7 hours for today. Not bad I guess for speed painting. Anyway, hope to finish everything by tomorrow by finishing the remaining Brutes and Necrosurgeon as well as Armor Wash-ing all the figs.

Anyway, until next blog.

PS Thanks to Emp for letting me use some of his paint.