Showing posts with label Historicon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historicon. Show all posts

Friday, August 10, 2012

Of models, Historicon, and game stores



Well,

I just wanted to update everyone on my progress on.. well... everything.

First of all I have to say, I had a great time at Historicon. I ran 2 games, both of which were great. I also played in Wicked Day which was interesting. I had never dealt with Car Bombs in BattleTech before. I also played in the Grand Melee. All I have to say is I have fallen in love with the Pariah and I think I will have one already painted and based to try and win the Melee next year.

As for what I am up to now, I am running a BattleTech demo at The Game Vault on August 18th. Basically I'm planning on doing some small basic games, hopefully getting some people interested in the game and see where it goes from there.

On to the painting front.

Right before Historicon I had to finish all my Mechs for Historicon which put everything on hold. Since then I have felt kind of worn out and now on my work bench, I have four different projects I keep switching between so that I don't get bored with any of them.

They are:


Tyranids..... I know..... I have been working on these forever. They are pretty nice even though I really don't care for them. I still have to finish the Hive Tyrant, 15 Genestealers, and a Lictor and they are done. Woot!!!!

Nids Almost Done

Next up on the list is a Khador Army made up of a purchase I made for 300 for tons of Khador stuff. This army I will be selling consists of 2 Juggernauts, a Destroyer, Karchev, PSorscha, a Full Mechanicks Squad, Widowmakers, and Man-O-War Kovnik. They are all being done in a generic Khador Red.

the Khador "Red Army" sans a Mechanik, Sniper, and Juggernaut who are all on the worktable
Keeping with the Khador Theme. I have a worktable covered in my army and my in progress pieces. In the back of the pic you will notice my current army which consists of :
Karchev, p-Sorscha, Plastic Destroyer - who will be converted to Black Ivan, Devastator, Classic Juggernaut, Beast-09, Full Man-O-War Shocktroops, Full Man-O-War Bombardiers, Greylord Ternion, Manhunter, Widowmakers, Widowmaker Marksman, Full Mechaniks.

I am using them as reference for the very large expansion of my army which includes:
2 Classic Juggernauts, Classic Destroyer, Kodiak, Devastator, Spriggan, Man-O-War Kovnik, Man-O-War Drachun with Dismount, Min Man-O-War Demo Corps, Min Man-O-War Shocktroops plus one additional guy, Doom Reavers, Fenris, War Dog, Berserker, pIrusk, pButcher, eButcher, pVlad, Old Witch and Scrapjack, Behemoth, Harkevich, Kayazy Eliminators, Female Manhunter. If you haven't noticed, except for character jacks and new models that weren't built in metal, I'm trying to go as much metal jacks as possible.

The 5th Border Legion Expands......some Khador Red guys at the bottom of the pic.
Alright, now we move on to my final job int he line.... Battletech:
DCMS - Strider, Raptor, Avatar
General Camo - Pariah
CCAF - Men Shen, Phoenix Hawk Reseen
LCAF - Jumping Atlas, Atlas, Arctic Fox, Cyclops
SLDF 2750 - Spider, Hussar, Champion, Bombardier, Exterminator, Osprey, Shadow Hawk Primitive
WoB - Buccaneer, Grand Crusader, Red Shift, Initiate, Initiate
AFFS - Thunderbolt 9NAIS, Hammerhands

BattleTech and the XBox360 games

Finally, I would like to say that I had the pleasure during Historicon of hosting Paul Sjardin here at my house. Great guy, fun to talk to, and has good taste in Chinese food. I hope to have him back here next year.

I would just like to finally end the post in some pics of my game room, a constant work in progress

Wall Art

The table, mostly clean and set up for Warmachine
The messier end of the room
My car collection
Even more waiting to be done.....NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Better shot of the table
Jethro and Captain Jack Sparrow
Augie


Dont forget to visit your FLGS

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Just what I have been up to lately

Just some interesting stuff...

my Kroot Catachan Hybrid I call aKrootachin. I am tryign to put together a squad of 20...

And my painting table..... 30 Gaunts, some Genestealers, Battletech stuff for historicon... a paper mache house I bought from Hobby Lobby for 3 bucks which is just the right scale for Warmachine......Yeah, I am always busy painting....

I guess more later.....

Monday, May 28, 2012

Its all fun and games, till the AC breaks

So, I have finished painting up the 2 units that I will be using in one of my scenarios for Historicon. They are for a scenario called "To Catch a Dragon". Pretty basic what if scenario. I painted them as the 1st Fedsuns Armored Cavalry and a Sword of Light unit. They will be representing the Fighting Urakhai and the 24th Deiron Regulars. The reason I have painted them as the 1SAC and SoL is because sometime in the future I want to use them for something else called Deadliest MechWarrior. Which is the name of the other event I will be running at Historicon. Deadliest Mechwarrior there though will be the 1st Knights of the Inner Sphere and the 6th Lyran Guards.

I digress though.

So I am feeling all proud of myself for having finished retouching or outright repainting half of the mechs I need for July when I notice its a bit warm. I check and the AC is blowing warm. I check the unit outside, it seems dead.

So, now that I have painted half the 'Mechs I am sitting around in a very warm house in Virginia in hat looks to be the start of a very warm summer.......

Oh well. I will be posting new pics of the finished 'Mechs soon, as long as they, the camera, or I don't melt first.

And I might need to see about runing that Deadliest Mechwarrior 1st FSAC v 1st SoL at my local store this June as a sort of run up to the Con.


Thursday, May 24, 2012

Some Historicon Previews

I just thought I would give some previews of some of the models getting painted for Historicon. Lets see if anyone can guess the units they will belong to......
Bushwacker

Argus Mod

Argus Mod again

Rakshasa Mod

Black Hawk KU

Penetrator

JagerMech

K2 Catapult Mod

K2 Catapult Mod Again


Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Getting ready for Historicon 2012

Hey everyone, just wanted to express how excited I am to be running some events this year at Historicon. I have been working on getting all my information put together and my models painted. Hopefully some sneak prviews of the mechs will be forthcoming.