tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67326375068196769572024-03-10T20:23:16.190-07:00one inch warriorsAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-66395593274867611902012-11-25T09:24:00.001-08:002012-11-25T09:24:56.986-08:00Death World Basing Kit Unpacking & ReviewOver the weekend I picked up GW's new Death World Basing Kit and since the product description on their website is on the vague side I thought I would post a more complete break down of what's in the kit. First off, the kit comes in a sturdy plastic case with an easy to remove lid and compartments for the components - a thoughtful feature.
The set's real selling point is the sheet of brass Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-91931881380597814662012-11-19T15:13:00.000-08:002012-11-19T15:13:35.978-08:00Golden Skull Painting Contest 2012This past weekend Games Workshop's L.A. Battle Bunker (which is in Orange County) held their annual super-hobby-gasm weekend, which included the 3rd annual Golden Skull painting competition. It's like the Golden Daemon, except that people like me actually have a chance to win a prize. Speaking of which, my Saurus Calvary won first place in the fantasy regiment category and my Albino Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-10631582239721520662012-10-10T19:16:00.000-07:002012-10-10T19:16:30.771-07:00Finished Unit Filler; Other Odds and EndsA semicolon in a post title, edgy. Finally finished a unit filler that I started a horribly long time ago, but only now had the time to finish because everyone at the one inch warriors home base has been ill with a stomach flu, which wreaked havoc amongst social calendars but generated hobby time/baseball postseason viewing opportunities.
I also finished an odd Kroxigor I had Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-72327988343484677182012-08-30T18:52:00.000-07:002012-08-30T18:52:17.470-07:00Unit Filler #2 - Appeasing the Lizard GodsOne of my ongoing Lizardmen projects has been building unit fillers for my Saurus regiments. One of my ideas was to construct a small statue of an ancient, long dead lizard god festooned with trophies taken from the fallen enemies of the Old Ones. After sketching a few designs, I realized the best way to make the idea come to life was to sculpt the statue out of Sculpey clay. I Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-28089652115789886692012-08-01T21:35:00.000-07:002012-09-14T14:33:04.535-07:00Wargaming Anecdotes - The LandOne quirk of wargaming that I have always found mildly amusing is how the uninitiated relate to the hobby, particular in terms of the vocabulary.* Someone who's never seen this stuff before and who wants to engage you in conversation about this very strange pastime will likely not know the proper terms for all of our hobby paraphernalia.**
One of my favorite all time examples of this is Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-85929596079702390412012-07-24T16:05:00.000-07:002012-07-24T16:05:02.954-07:0040k Sixth Edition Test Run & 2 Years of One Inch Warriors!After breaking down and buying the new 6th Edition rulebook (I always tell myself I'll just wait for the small one to come out with the box game...) I took the new rules for a test run in a small 1,000 point game of my Orks versus my buddy Justin's Imperial Guard. Afterwards we concluded that we didn't get the full 6th Edition flavor in the small game we played, but I figured it'd be worth Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-80099809785125819512012-07-08T22:23:00.002-07:002012-08-03T15:25:36.333-07:00Product Review - Secret Weapon Leaf Litter
A little while ago From the Warp had a great post about putting together woodland themed bases. The concept is equally applicable to jungle bases and Ron's post got me thinking about how I could punch up my Lizardmen. I've been using static grass and clump foliage, but that doesn't quite give the impression that my army is marching through a dense Lustrian jungle. After doing Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-65850496872021969322012-07-04T09:43:00.000-07:002012-07-04T09:43:21.158-07:00Slann & Temple Guard Family Portrait
If you're gonna put down a unit that costs 700+ points, you want it to look good. I'm fully anticipating that in the next game I play with these guys, freshly-painted-model-syndrome will kick in and they will die a horrible, agonizing death.Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-57332757622619830042012-06-16T14:52:00.000-07:002012-06-16T14:52:03.191-07:00And now more Temple Guard
See, hockey playoffs end and I get back to painting minis. I normally love combining two of my favorite pastimes by painting minis and watching sports simultaneously (usually a third pastime, drinking beer, gets involved) but NHL playoffs are too intense and there would be an extreme risk of me knocking paints and figures everywhere when something exciting happens like Kopitar or Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-720662734226986482012-06-12T09:19:00.001-07:002012-06-12T09:19:14.608-07:00This Just Happened...
...so now I can go back to painting toy soldiers in my free time.
Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-27098465739687610672012-05-23T16:21:00.000-07:002012-05-23T16:21:56.466-07:00Please Enjoy this Video...I am *this* close to finishing my Temple Guard and have been so for about a month, but my attention has been hijacked, and rightly so, by the L.A. Kings' glorious run towards the Stanley Cup. Neither have I been able to finish one of the half dozen or so half-baked posts lingering in my blogger account, but I'm in a really chipper mood today (thanks to the Kings), and I feel like sharing a Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-66498952424717632192012-04-15T12:07:00.000-07:002012-04-15T12:07:24.919-07:00Albino Saurus Hero FinishedManaged to sit down an wrap up this model over the weekend:
The only thing interesting about the final steps on this guy was that I played around with Lahmian Medium to make a few glazes and washes. It pretty much works as advertised so I won't pontificate on it. This stuff would have been nice to have when I did the washes on the skin since my usual soap + water + paint technique Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-12401823186671966122012-03-30T14:01:00.002-07:002012-04-11T15:23:01.174-07:00Field Report: New Citadel PaintsOn my lunch break today I was able to hit up a local GW store and try out some of the new Citadel paint range. When I first learned about the new range I was pretty curmudgeony about the whole deal, but that's mostly because the names of the colors are so horrible (Exhibit A: XV-88...), but now I'm more optimistic about the whole thing.
The store had multiple paint stations set up with about 15Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-8605595337851583462012-03-25T20:22:00.003-07:002012-03-30T15:10:00.082-07:00Albino Suarus WIP Part 2 - Painting GoldThe next step in my little painting experiment is trying a new technique for gold. I encourage you to read Luaby's post on this technique since he's far more knowledgeable about these matters than I am. For those of you too lazy to click the link here's the gist of what I'm going for: gold paint in general stinks because it lacks opacity and thus does not provide good coverage, but Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-84172467660389246662012-03-19T13:55:00.003-07:002012-03-30T15:10:34.665-07:00Albino Saurus Lord WIP & New Paint Brush ReviewOne of the casualties of last year's hobby-hiatus was the plastic Saurus hero that I bought to experiment on with some new (to me) painting techniques. Armed with my new Winsor & Newton Series 7's and needing a break from painting Temple Guard, it was time to get back to work on the Saurus hero.
One of the things I wanted to try with this model is a method for painting a "cool" black Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-65787304048890011672012-03-17T14:32:00.003-07:002012-03-28T10:08:37.014-07:00More Temple Gaurd Finished and New BrushesOver the past week I put the final details on eight more Temple Guard, including the command group. Eight more of these guys to go, and the whole unit will be done.
I might need a break before moving on to the final eight models. Temple Guard are time consuming due to their level of detail. From start to finish, this is what needs to be painted: green skin, black scales, stoneAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-807758088917566092012-03-02T08:00:00.000-08:002012-03-02T08:00:42.686-08:00Old Stuff Day 2012 It's Old Stuff Day - it's just like shopping at thrift store, which I've done in the past because I had no money in law school, not because I'm a hipster... Anyways, not like one inch warriors has been super productive since Old Stuff Day 2011, but I've combed through the archives to give you some links to awesomeness. First, my best post from the last 12 months was about painting Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-9395792240004687732012-02-16T20:45:00.001-08:002012-03-23T11:37:15.735-07:00A Note on Painting Wooden Weapon ShaftsI've always been a bit beguiled when it comes to painting weapon shafts - you know, spears, flails, etc. It's easy to do a simple highlight but with that large amount of blank, cylindrical space, I always felt that a wood grain texture gives the model more life. The problem I've had is finding a way to paint such for a 20+ figure unit in way that looks good and is efficient - the Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-31610206329229837972012-01-22T09:41:00.001-08:002012-03-23T11:37:46.723-07:00Where the *bleep* did one inch warriors go?What MacArthur said about old soldiers is also true about blogs - they don't die, they just slowly fade away. For a while I was content to let one inch warriors fade away into the depths of the blog rolls, never to see site traffic again... although apparently I've still been getting tons of hits from bizarre Google searches, but that's probably a result of the images I've poached to Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-70219169661693739232011-09-12T18:58:00.000-07:002012-01-13T11:36:06.088-08:00Saurus Unit Filler WIP & Other Odds and EndsI like to be frugal, whether I'm shopping for groceries, pet supplies or hobby goodies. This is why unit fillers in WFB appeals to me. My two Saurus units presently have 20 models each, but I want to expand the units up to 24. Inexpensive solution, take the 8 unpainted models I have and turn them into unit fillers. After sketching out some crude diagrams on post-it notes, Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-32481815948475377712011-08-28T20:25:00.001-07:002012-03-30T15:19:10.032-07:002011 Golden Skulls Painting ChallengeThis weekend the L.A. Battle Bunker held a "Hobby-Pocalypse" - a non-stop 33 hour event filled with painting competitions, mega-battles and mini-tournaments. The festivities included their 2nd annual Gold Skulls Painting Challenge, the store's own version of the Golden Deamon.
Last year my Slann won 1st place for Fantasy Large Model and my Saurus hero won 3rd place for single fantasy Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-66369705331660865782011-08-25T09:29:00.000-07:002011-08-26T16:23:16.145-07:00New Plastic Saurus Hero PictureI'm usually not in the business of posting about new and upcoming releases (yes, I did it for the Tomb Kings, but that was to prove a point about the direction 8th edition is going) but for the first time in a long time, we're getting a new Lizardmen model:
Courtesy of BoLS
The new plastic characters that we've been seeing over the past few months are very exciting, even if they lack any Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-68591977182650965072011-08-19T08:33:00.000-07:002012-01-13T11:35:09.247-08:00A Quick and Dirty Finecast ReviewPrior to our last big game of Warhammer Fantasy, my friend Justin picked up a Citadel Finecast Rock Lobba to add to his goblin army. He just bought it the night before and he needed to assemble it before we headed down to the Battle Bunker to, um, do battle. I haven't bought a Finecast model myself so I was interested to check out the assembly process.
Assembly
Pricing and qualityAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-62267114319200321632011-08-15T22:08:00.000-07:002012-01-13T11:35:31.435-08:00Night Goblin Theory-Hammer: the Many Layers of the OnionMy best-warhammer-buddy Justin's Night Goblins and my Lizardmen have been seeing a lot of each other on the tabletop. We've also been discussing ways to make the goblins more effective. His army is not intended to be a super competitive face smasher, but it still needs to function well. The army is primarily composed of big blocks of night goblins with fanatics, lead by SkarsnikAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781884145968640186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732637506819676957.post-5564494486139990232011-07-27T18:14:00.000-07:002011-07-27T18:14:51.857-07:00one year of one inch warriors!Well loyal readers, my little blog has managed to make it past the one year mark. I have no super spectacular clip-show style post planned as a celebration, so I'll leave you with a picture of something random I pulled out of the good old storage cabinet in the garage. Enjoy yourself.
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