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Hello Everyone!

It's the start of a brand new year, and a brand new Decade as well!

Let me start off with a little bit about myself. I'm a 32 year old Canadian living in Calgary, Alberta. I've been playing Warhammer now for about 14 months and in that time have assembled and painted around 2500 points of Empire. I've also been visiting this site for about a year now, and while I may not post a lot I do read most of what is posted here.

The Empire is my first and only Army and I have been absolutely fascinated with it since I started playing. However as I was brand new to this hobby (or anything like it) when I started my modeling and painting skills were far from good. As such while my first Empire Army turned out decently, it alas is not what I realized I wanted and I know I can do better. I have also come to realize that I absolutely hate the 7th Edition State troop models (All of them) and have as a result been amassing 6th edition and older figures for the past 6 months or so.

At the tail end of last year I sat down and took inventory of what I had managed to collect and I was quite shocked at the sheer number of figures! At that point I decided that it was time to stop collecting and get serious about assembling and painting!

Below is a list of all that I have amassed, in no particular order:

14 Flagellants (5th / 6th Edition)
24 Teutogen Guard with Command (Strip, Prime, Paint and Rebase)
30 Halberdiers with Command (6th Edition)
18 Swordsmen (6th Edition)
30 Spearmen with Command (6th Edition)
30 Pikemen with Command (Converted from 6th Edition Spearmen, 6th Edition Command Blister)
60 Hand Gunners (6th Edition)
10 Knights of the White Wolf with Command
10 Knights Panther with Command
10 Huntsmen
10 Pistoliers (6th Edition)
10 Outriders
2 Hellfire Rocket Launchers and 6 Crew
1 Hell Blaster Volley Gun and 3 Crew (5th Edition?)
1 Hell Blaster Volley Gun and 3 Crew
2 Great Cannons & 6 Crew
1 Mortar & 3 Crew
1 Captain of the Empire on a Pegasus (Conversion)
1 Captain of the Empire on Foot
1 Captain of the Empire Mounted BSB (Conversion)
2 Engineers on Foot
Grand Master of the White Wolf
Grand Master of the Knights Panther
Boris Toddbringer
Warrior Priest of Ulric (Foot and Mounted)
Ar-Ulric on Foot
3 Mounted Wizards (5th / 6th Edition)
6 Foot Wizards (5th / 6th Edition)
1 Limited Edition Teutogen Guard BSB
1 Limited Edition Empire BSB
Ulrican War Altar (Finish Converting, Painting and Rebase)
2 Steam Tanks (Rebase 1)


As you can see that is quite a lot of Figures! and it will be a daunting undertaking to get it all assembled and painted. To that end this year I have decided to participate in the 2010 Monthly Painting Challenge and to post this blog of my progress in order to keep me motivated and painting. Also I wish to share my figures with all of you and solicit feedback from the many painting experts who post here in an effort to improve my painting skills.

My general plan is to paint the Army in the State Colors of Middenland to a high standard. All figures will be mounted on custom Resin Bases, painted in a rocky winter theme complete with snow. All Figures will be magnetized and all units will have magnetized movement trays completed in the same rocky winter theme.

I realize that I have set my goals fairly high, and while I am a good painter, not only do I need to improve I also need to learn to paint faster! I am quite the slow painter. To begin with I am planning on completing 12 - 15 Infantry Figures (Starting from on the sprue or in the Blister) each month.

Any and all feedback is great appreciated and welcomed! Please help a brother Empire General on his journey!

On with the pictures! Below are some assorted snaps of my Workspace: (I apologize if the picture quality is not up to snuff, I'm fairly new at wielding a camera for this type of thing)



The Army to be Painted: (That I could fit on my desk anyways!)













Thanks again for any and all comments and feedback!

Cheers,

welcome dude, and from the looks of things your going to be very busy for the next few days ha ha
 

Well work progresses on the Flagellants. I do have to say it's the first time I've tried painting a large batch of miniatures at once and it can be challenging. It takes sooooo long to get through a single color!

So far the Bases are done and sealed. Only the snow needs to be added and that will be the very last thing done. The Miniatures are all pinned and glued to the bases and their Feet and the undersides of their robes are done.

Just started working on the base colors, three down so far 3 or 4 to go. Then it's on to the fun parts!

Very WiP Shots





I apologizes for the quality of the close up, damd auto focus!



When Magnetizing Resin Bases a Dremel and a good Face Mask are your friend!



Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

I love those old flaggies. So much character   

Excellent start on those flagellants.

Looking forward to seeing more here.

Also, can you show us a picture of what appears to be a war altar

once again nice work so fare looking forward in seeing those bad boys finished 

This is a glorious sight.

Excellent start on those flagellants.

Looking forward to seeing more here.

That you very much! I quite like these older Flagellant models, however with all the detail they are proving challanging to paint! I will post another update on Sunday, should be done the base colors and a little bit more by then.

Also, can you show us a picture of what appears to be a war altar

That is indeed my converted Ulrican War Altar which is still unfinished. It's painted to the point where I can play with it though. Basically I have the ass end of the Altar left to convert & paint. I've got some wolves and a banner, but what's holding me up is I need to construct some kind of Altar that will fit on the back end of the chariot to put them on. Aside from that I have the actual Arch-lector model, an Ar-Ulric Figure (using a stand in at the moment, that Warrior Priest Model is the First Hero Figure I ever Painted) to paint and glue on and then re-base the whole thing on a new resin base.

I'll post some pictures of it on Sunday as well.

It's Update time again!

Well thus ends the first month of 2010, with me falling short of my painting goal 

I blame it on having to work a significant amount of overtime this month.

Ah well, seriously though I did mange to complete 7 of the 14 Flagellants and their movement tray.

Pictures:









I guess my February goals will include finishing the 7 Flagellants I failed to complete. It shouldn't take more than a week though as all of the base colors are done already. 

Sneak peek at what's on the horizon:



A cookie to whoever guesses what they are!

C & C are always welcomed!

Arise from the ashes, to show my glories......

It's a new year once again, and once again I aspire with all kinds of painting and hobby related goals for the year.

It has definitely been a long time since I last updated this blog (almost a year) and I have done quite a lot of work on my army over that span. However with everything that happened in last year I've not completed anything close to what I wanted to accomplish. Building a house, packing and moving, unpacking and a crazy work schedule seriously takes a bite of of your free time.

Of course it also doesn't help that I am notoriously slow to paint and assemble models! For example a single model (even rank and file! is about 5 hours work, start to finish)

I've got an inventory of models I have to update, as I never did quite get to the point of being able to stop buying the odd model off eBay and now I definitely have way more models than I know what to do with. Once again I resovle to paint more regularly and updated this painting blog as I can. (Hopefully every 2 weeks or so)

I'll be adding a lot of pictures over the next couple of weeks, mostly work in progress shots of stuff. However until then I will add some pictures of the Army I brought to Mythacon in Calgary last weekend. Everything I put on the table was unfinished and is still works in progress, but at least everything was base coated at the minimum.

Pictures:


Our ill fated assault on a Dwarven Battle Line!


Teutogen Guard, Works in Progress


Teutogen Guard, Side Shot


Crossbowmen, with Wizard


A group shot of most of the 1250 Points I brought. Aside from the Cannon and Mortar most models have Base Coats done only.



All of the pictures from the fantasy event can be found here:

http://s1092.photobucket.com/albums/i416/TheDESPOILER/MYTHACON%20FANTASY%20EVENT/

This event was a 2500 Point team tourney (Each player had to bring a completely legal 1250 point list) and my partner was a Brettonion player. Of the three games we lost the first two 8 - 12 and 7 - 13 in battle points and then tabled our opponents 20 - 0 in the third game. Overall we finished in 6th place out of 14 teams.

The first game came down to a Waaaagh! spell that got through our defenses at a critical time, and the second came down to a mistake that we made. Our Battle line was taking on a Dwarven Battle line (we charged) but after the first round of combat we forgot to combat reform our two horde units into deeper ranks for Steadfast. Needless to say the following Dwarven Counter charge was excruciatingly painful. Ah well live an learn.

I'll add the lists we brought later tonight. We definitely spent way too much on characters........ but it was our first team event and we really had no idea what to expect in opposing armies.

The winning army was a double team of wood elves! In the final game they picked apart a Dark elf list that was about as nasty as you could make it. Double Hydras, Double Hordes, Sac Dagger, a ton of Crossbowmen....... I was shocked to say the least.

The event was well run and I have to give mad props to the organizers!

Excellent army so far. I am looking forward to seeing it completed (as though any army is ever truly completed ).
Some thoughts: I really like the paint job on the bear model. I am planning on painting my bear white. Hopefully, it will turn out as nice as yours. Also, I like the greatsword unit. I am planning on using the limited ed. army standard bearer to fill out my unit as well. Two standards leading the teutogen guard looks good. It makes the unit look more "official" somehow...less like hell's angels.

Nice start but to much machine and fire arms for Ulrics taste