lonelymonk

BigK – Update 15 – Launch Aborted

When last we spoke, I had the Devastator build in such a way that the elbow armor would not fit…..

So I ripped the bugger apart.  Ripped it into many pieces.  Body, legs, hands, arms and elbows.  I spent some time removing glue from the pin and post connections between the hands and body.  A royal ... 

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lonelymonk

BigK – Update 14 – Good news/Bad news

Good news first, I got some painting done at home.  Stuff happens, I didn’t get as much done as I want.  Stuff happens.

I glued on the hands/arms.  I came back later to attach the elbow armor.  I didn’t have the arms positioned properly.  The elbows hit the shoulders.  So, I tried to bend ... 

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lonelymonk

BigK – Update 13

Time to be honest.  I had a picture in my head of how I wanted the jacks to look.  I wasn’t sure I could make the model look the way I wanted it to…

Travel, illness, work and a hundred other excuses be damned.  Just do it!!!

Monday night at the Whiz.  The usual crew, two epic ... 

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lonelymonk

Painting Skorne – the devil is in the details

There are a lot of little things that make the model look so much better.   Look at the hand on the left.  Just a simple black was brings out the details in the hand.

The Black inside of the skirt.  I took a little Coal Black and Menoth White Highlight to lighten up the ... 

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lonelymonk

Painting Skorne – Gold first

I have used this to paint Skorne for a while.

I was travelling for work, so I had four nights in a hotel.  No distractions.  So I pulled out the new Morghoul 2011.

Here is a how I put him together and painted the Gold, Black and Red.  This can be used with other colors.  The skin ... 

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lonelymonk

Since last time……

Have you ever had the feeling you had a cold coming on…..

I had that for about a week, no energy, blah…..  It just seemed to get worse and worse…  I got extra sleep.  Ate my vegetables, enough orange juice to…. Well, let’s not talk about that…

Then the flu hit, sick in bed for three days, I ... 

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LoadedDice

Unbound with Minions

I picked up both the new NQ and a unit of Slaughterhousers today. I played a game of Unbound against my buddy Colton. I took 25 pts of farrow under Carver, 75 pts of gators under Barnabas, and 50 pts of Skorne under Xerxis. Colton took Baldur, Krueger, and Kromac.

Opinions of the game type? ... 

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LoadedDice

My Obsession With Gators

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted in this space, but the end of the semester can really sneak up on you, what with its menagerie of term papers, finals, banquets, and award ceremonies. My almost feverish obsession with the Blindwater Congregation certainly hasn’t helped. They were almost impossible to find ... 

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lonelymonk

BigK update 12 – Is there such a thing?

No, not Big foot or such.

Is there such a thing a painters block?

I have heard the the term writers block.

I have had the desk set up and ready to go and I just can’t get started. I know what I want to do, what colors.  I just don’t do it.  I even sat at ... 

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LoadedDice

Gators!

I finally laid my dirty little hands on some gators…I have Barnabas, Calaban, two Blackhide Wrastlers, Wrongeye and Snapjaw, and a min unit of Gatormen Posse. A Croak Hunter, Totem Hunter, and min Bog Trog Ambushers are on their way and should be here Thursday. I’ve played a couple games at 27 pts ... 

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