Hobbycraft, March 5 2008

Got to finish my Alessa Raincross as scheduled. Well, maybe not 100% finished. Looking at this pic, I think I need to touch up more on the blackline between her face and the cloak that covers her mouth. Looks too black. Plus that base needs some grass.

Ah well. On to the next one on the work table (grass is easy to glue later).

Hobbycraft, March 4 2008

I managed to spraybomb the sizeable lot of Anima Tactics miniatures at home last night. With the AT spraybomb I included some of Lesther's Circle Orboros and my Alten Ashley as well.

Looking at the Tsubasa Kurokami and the Takanosuke miniatures I have, the proportions on the necks/heads are a bit off. I'll be grinding off a portion from Tsubasa's neck peg so that his head would fit more natural-looking.

I did get to slap some paint on my Alessa Raincross. Maybe she'll be the one that I can finish by tonight.

I decided to paint her up in her default colors. Well, at least as close as I can get. Too bad the people at Anima Tactics haven't included a painting guide as to what colors they used on their miniatures (since I'll be painting the stuff at home in their default colors anyway). So she has leather gloves after all! In her card, her gloves looked like the same color as her red top. I used a Bubonic Brown approach on her skin, Ultramarines Blue on the blue stuff, and P3 metallics on her legs and pistols. Hopefully I can take pics of this so I can post them soon.

Anima Tactics

Last night, I took the four blisters I had left - Tsubasa Kurokami, Jiang Pao, Faust Orbatos and Celia - and assembled their general parts together. I decided to leave off several bits like Faust Orbatos' large cape, Celia's arms, Jiang Pao's arms, Tsubasa Kurokami's head and arms for the meantime. It would make for easier handling when I glue on sand on their bases and also for painting the inside details, too.

Hopefully I can start spraybombing them later when I get home. Much of the sand was already dried when I checked them this morning before I went to work.

2008

New year, late post. What else is new? LOL!

I got to play two games using epic Butcher the past week. He did not disappoint. Plus I got to play with two of my warjacks, too -- the Behemoth and the Kodiak. The Doomreavers, being Orsus' elite cadre, delivered problems to Kei and his Grim Angus. I got to win Killing Fields via objective because of the Doomreavers' elite cadre ability. Against Fred's Iron Lich Asphyxious, I got to his caster in Mosh Pit with two Doomreavers and the Drakhun with Feel The Hate! I will be painting him up as soon as I finish Larkin Vain's Sea Dogs.

I also plan on applying for Press Ganger this year. I'll either be getting the Cryx starter or the Merc starter. Arvin says that we should get the Menoth and Cygnar starter, as was also posted on the Privateer Press site. Well, that would depend on what I'll be working on this year.

I'll be demo'ing and playing Anima Tactics as well. The stuff is already on its way here.

Me and the boys are still looking at Flames of War and Heavy Gear Blitz. More on this soon!

Luigi has been pimping a lot of the new Vampire Counts and it's getting tremendously hard to resist! I guess I can wait for the army book to be released first before getting anything. Zombies suck now. Unless you get that awesome new Corpse Cart. Temptation... strong...

Tiny also started with a Dragonlance campaign. Kei is playing a human rogue, no surprise there. I'm playing a human fighter (again no surprise) but with two daggers. I was hoping to go for the assassin prestige class later on, but found out I have to be evil to do that (and I have little inclination to veer off my true neutral alignment). Fred got to join on our second week as a half-orc barbarian. More updates on this soon!

Lots of changes at work. Most of it not fun for me T_T I'll just have to keep myself busy.