Ironbreakers Pt. 3

I finished up my last 5 ironbreakers last night. Overall, they turned out well. I really messed up on the first banner and ended up doing it all over again. 

I am still not fully pleased with the banner. Eventually I will add some runes to it once I figure out which work best for my army. I was also disappointed with my lack of cleaning when it came to the face of the hammers. I should have cleaned them much better. 

Ironbreakers Pt. 2

Here is a very quick picture of 5 of my Ironbreakers. I haven't finished the bases yet since I am not sure how I will do them. They will likely be simply bases, possibly even just black. 

Warhammer Dwarfs: Ironbreaker

So this weekend I took a break from Malifaux. A friend of mine is leaving Korea very soon and last weekend was his last weekend. So we decided to get together and play a few games of Infinity against him. We each took a round against him and overall, it turned out to be a pretty good day. 

While I was at the shop, I started lingering. This brought me to the Warhammer Fantasy section. I had started putting together an Orcs and Goblins army some time ago, but I never really stuck with it. The shop I go to rarely stocks the orcs I need and I never really wanted them badly enough to order them. 

But I have been thinking about starting a different faction for a long time. Wood Elves certainly appealed to me, but after hearing about the way the current game is now, I don't think they would be much fun. I also thought High Elves looked kind of neat. I have always liked the idea of highly organized and disciplined ranks of warriors. I just couldn't get over the fact that they were elves, though. Sissies. 

I mules over a few other factions and sadly the only ones that seemed neat to me were either useless or played heavily by friends. I don't like using armies others play. 

But then I noticed the new dwarfs. I had no idea they were coming out. I don't stay current on GW news. About two years ago, I had started a dwarf army in Canada. I thought they looked awesome and fit my play style. Nothing materialized from that investment and I just simply painted them and stored them away. 

Now, however, I am playing games much more than I did in Canada and the new dwarfs seem to scream at me. BUY ME!

So I did. I ended up walking away with a box of the new Ironbreakers. These models just look fantastic to me. 

I love painting metallics, which is another huge plus to me. 

Here is the result of my first night. 

I am super happy with how he turned out. I also had a lot of fun painting him up. I will likely finish up another 4 tonight and get to work on the next 5 later this week. 

Perdita vs. Tara

Last Sunday, I was a little sick. I have been sick all week in fact and really haven't gotten much painting done at all. 

Since I was sick on Sunday, I only managed to get one game of Malifaux in. I played my first 50 point game as Perdita against a Tara crew. 

My crew consisted of Perdita's standard family plus Sidir from the Relic Hunters box and also the Warden. I added these two models to simply try them out since their wave two card were released just a week before. 

The first round of the game consisted of us just moving forward. However, the Tara player's last turn was the reactivate Tara and rush her headlong toward my crew. 

I then spent all of round two unloading all of my ammo to try and take Tara down. 

She did eventually fall, but it took a lot of effort. She basically stole my second round. 

My opponent then used the rest of this turn to move in. 

It was on turn three that the game swung in my favor. I managed to get Papa Loco into the middle of about 60-70% of his remaining army. 

Loco lit the fuse on his dynamite and blew himself up, crippling much of my opponent army and his control hand. 

The game carried on and because of a careless move by me to bring Perdita in close to my opponent, we ended up tying. My stupidity allowed my opponent to Deliver a Message to Perdita. 

Overall, the game was a blast and our ending scores were 6-6. I could have won the game had I done a few things differently.  I don't think I was thinking as clearly as I could have been due to my illness. It was still super fun and a great day overall. 

Making Bases

I decided to try my hand at making bases. 

Typically, I have always just used mud or some kind of dirt for my bases. I have also used static grass before; but when I used that grass in the past, I usually just covered the whole base. 

This time, I decided to try and make some stones out of some putty stuff I bought as a substitute for green stuff. 

The putty I used wasn't hard and pliable like you would imagine. Instead, it was the consistency of white glue that was about to dry. So as I applied it, it was a little tricky to move around and shape as I wanted it. 

Instead, I just let the putty smooth out naturally on the base as it dried. After a few hours, I took a file to it and carved out stones as best I could. 

I then painted up the rocks and applied grass to the base. My idea was to make it look like the grass was growing up between the rocks in an overgrowth fashion. 

Unfortunately, the PVA glue that I used definitely shows with a weird shine. Other than that, I am happy with the results. 

I learned a lot from this experiment and I am excited to try a slightly different approach next time. 

My Riddler Wastrel

My mornings have been quite productive painting wise this week. I woke up early and got a jump on this character. 

Yesterday, when I was looking at some pictures, I couldn't help but think that one of the Wastrel sculpts looked an awful lot like The Riddler. 

So I slept on it and this morning I decided to go for it. 

I originally messed up when gluing him down the first time. I glued it so his two feet touched the ground instead of the pickaxe. I realized my mistake and had to correct it. 

I don't have a lot of experience free hand painting, but I think the ? on his back turned out fairly well. 

Overall, I am happy with how this model turned out. 

Sidir Alchibal

I spent about 2-3 hours on this one model yesterday. 

I recently made the decision to take my time with each model and not to rush them as I had been doing recently. One big issue I have had is with my color choices. 

This time, I decided to do a bit of research on the model before I started. I also came up with a game plan before starting to paint. 

The end result was a better than it had been recently. I am actually really happy with how this model turned out.  I have since noticed a few things I have to touch up after examining this photos. 

This guy is from the Relic Hunters box set. I bought the set because I thought some of the models would work well with Perdita or Lady Justice. 

Hopefully I will get to try this guy out with Perdita this weekend.