Little Man a week-a-thon. #2

I have been slacking pretty bad at this one a week deal. I blame work, life in general, and Star Wars the Old Republic! Whenever I do have free time I have been using it to play that. If you havent seen it, check it out. Great game.

Anyways, here are two more Kriel Warriors I finished.

Little Man a week-a-thon. #1

Week one:
I just finished my new and improved trolls. This is a Kriel Warrior leader and standard carrier.

Troll Skin deuce

I worked some on one of the kriel warrior trolls. Check the before and after of the skin job (sounds creepy).
The before is the last picture, the one where he has the darker green skin. What do ya think?

Troll Skin

I have been painting my trollbloods the typical troll color in fantasy, flat out green. But im not a huge fan. I started using a lighter color, with only a hint of green. Check them both out:

Now neither are obviously done, so dont judge them by their complete looks, just let me know your opinion on the skin color (while you are at it, how is the tartan?). The green one hasnt been washed or highlighted at all, the lighter one has been washed but not highlighted yet. Im wanting to go for more of a "realistic" animal feel with the colors, more reptile like, kind of. So I was thinking of maybe doing the big beasts in grays like Rhinos or elephants. Any ideas? Any suggestions on colors for the troops? Thanks!

Trolls vs. Legion

This Saturday I pulled out a dusted off my Trolls, and remembered why I love them. They are just so fun to play. I played my friend Brandon who just bought someone's Legion army. This was Brandon's first time playing with legion, and one of his very first games.

If you do not know about the models I would recommend you go to Battle College to read what they do as you read along with this. It will help out alot and is a great way to learn about other armies.

Deployment

 Legion Deployment

Absylonia (warlock in the middle behind the warbeasts)
Angelius (far right)
Carnivean (warbeast in the middle)
Seraph (warbeast on the left)
x2 Shredders (next to warlock)
Shepherd (next to warlock)
x6 Striders (to the far left)
Strider deathstalker (with the striders)

Trollblood Deployment

Grim Angus (warcaster slightly in middle)

Blitzer (the big troll on far left)

Thumper crew (cannon next to blitzer)

Trollkin Champions (to the right of cannon)

Trollkin Champions Hero (fully painted model next to champs)

Alten Ashley

Troll Impaler

x6 Kriel Warriors with kaber thrower (far left)

The fell caller (behind the warriors) was proxy for the Stone Scribe Chronicler

Viktor Pendrake

Turn 1

 

Trolls went first and simply moved. The impaler and alten took cover behind the wall. The cannon moved towards the hill (along with Blitzer). The champs went to fill the gap and the kriel warriors went to threaten the right side. 

The legion's turn, and they also just moved up. They are trying to get settled into the forest. The striders realized they couldnt really see through that rock formation so they are going around, making the warriors very nervous. 

 

The warriors are trying to figure out what they can do with the striders without being gunned down. They decide to run into their faces, with their prayer to give them extra movement. 

Turn 2

 

Like I said, the trolls run into the faces of the striders. Pendrake runs with them to hide behind the wall to pop out at the right time. The cannon finally gets on the hill. Everyone else just sets up to see what Legion is going to do. 

 

The Angelius charges the thumper crew and destroys them. But that is exactly what I wanted him to do. The other beasts tried to do some shooting, not really doing anything. And the striders! THE STRIDERS! Well the tore through my Kriel warriors. The caber thrower was the only one left and fled. 

Im sorry. I also see I missed a picture. This is actually part of part 3 I believe. Pendrake moved from around the building to get away from the striders. He then knocked down the Seraph. Grim did some shot on the Angelius that also knocked it down. 

Turn 3 (or 4)

 

 Alten Ashley shot the angelius doing some damage. The Champs then got pathfinder, and charged the angelius, the seraph, one shredder and the carnivean in one turn. They completely wiped out the angelius and seraph, it was glorious to my eyes. The blitzer moved to the right in order to prepare to take care of the striders if need be. And the impaler moved up. 

The End

The impaler moved forward and got a crit hit on the carnivean, slamming him into the shepard and killing it. The champs charged and killed a shredder (and Grim killed the other one). The caber thrower rallied and attacked the striders who moved up (sorry im missing pics guys), and the blitzer moved in too, killing a couple. Pendrake ran towards the enemy warlock for the hell of it (make her deal with him). And Brandon gave in. 

Sorry I missed taking pictures. My bad. This was my first time to try and take pics during a game. Hopefully I will get better. Also, I didnt write down what happened so couldnt tell you what spells were cast etc etc. Too much work. haha.

 

Progress

I am nearly done painting my Cygnar battlebox. Just a little bit more work on the Ironclad and thats it! So far for Cygnar I have painted fully:
Stryker x1
Lancer x1
Charger x1
Hunter x1
Defender  x1

I have tons more to do. I already have my trollblood battlebox fully painted. Along with the Blitzer and a couple others (cant remember off the top of my head). I will be posting these pics up this weekend. Also, my wonderful wife got me the Khador battlebox for my b-day. So time to work on those. I think I want to do them a drab military green/olive color scheme. I really like how these look! So we shall see.

Look for my pics up this weekend and tell me what you think.

p.s. I need to find out how to take good pictures damnit.

Taking pictures of little men

I have read a few blogs about how to take pictures of your minis. I have always read about getting a light tent, and putting your camera on macro, and then magic should happen. I guess about a year ago I bought a small light tent on ebay. It came with a foldup light tent, and two small lights, and only cost me about $15. Pretty sweet.

Here it is in all its glory. (by the way, you can always click on the pictures to make them bigger). This works great, and yet again, was super cheap. The tent and the lights all fold up in a small package. Perfect to quickly take it out, take some pics, and put it up before the wife ever knew I did it on the dinner table. (sorry hun).

My only problem is I dont seem to take great pics, even with the tent and a nice camera. I have a Canon G11 camera. Me and my wife love this camera. It takes wonderful pictures outside and at events. Only problem is, we arent very good photographers. Meaning, we dont really know how to change setting for certain situations. Anyways, where was I, oh yes, taking pictures of little men (creepy).


Here are some pics taken with the light tent and the camera:

Games Workshop Warrior Priest.

The above pictures are of a mighty Warrior Priest of Sigmar! All hail Sigmar in all his glory. These pictures were taken with the little side lights off. The only light was the ceiling light above the table. Next will be some pictures of the same model, but with the side light on.

Here are the same pictures as above, but with the lights on. Which is better? Which makes the colors more realistic and really shows the model in a better light (ha!) Please leave a comment below and give me your opinion so I will know how to take pics from here on.

Here are some pictures of Grim Angus from Privateer Press. He is a Trollblood warlock. Yet again, there are pictures of him without the lights, and then with.
 

  

Yet again, please let me know your opinions on the lighting. Thanks.