Building nids on the side

So, I have been working on a nid army on my off time that I am really just building to sell. I started using a alien invasion set of bases from Micro Art Studios then they stopped making them, so.....

my shale alien invasion bases wip

And an example of the bugs that will go on them:

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.....

Finally a full set of pics of my Karchev Block

So, a few moths back I was in a tourney, and, quite frankly, I use thsi list almost exclusively, so. Here goes. This is my Karchev Block

The army itself consists of:
System: Warmachine

Faction: Karchev - Iron Curtain
Casters: 1/1
Points: 50/50
Tiers: 4

Army as a Whole

Karchev the Terrible (*5pts)

Karchev the washed out by the lighting!

* Destroyer (8pts)
* Juggernaut (6pts) - Classic

Destroyer and Old Juggernatur

* Juggernaut (6pts)
* Devastator (8pts)

New Juggernaut and Devastator

Battle Mechaniks (Leader and 5 Grunts) (3pts)

Mechaniks

Greylord Ternion (Leader and 2 Grunts) (4pts)

Greylords

Man-o-war Bombardiers (Leader and 4 Grunts) (11pts)

Bombardiers

Man-o-war Shocktroopers (Leader and 4 Grunts) (9pts)

Shocktroopers

On a side note, has anyone noticed that the Bombardiers appear to have the perfect anti-zombie weapon? I mean it is a Grenade Launcher with a Chainsaw all in one..........

The Devastator has been somewhat modified for a contest in NQ that began when Gnarls came out, you can see the up armoring around the hydraulics as well as the leading edges of plating under the lip over the head to create a super-armored Jack

Also once it comes out finally I will probably be relegating my Destroyer to second line duty in favor of this:

Demolisher

2 Armor 25 Jacks in one list Mwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

really gw?

Welcome to June... The birds are singing, the kids are getting all antsy because schools almost over, time to start getting them into the games stores to spend...... huh?!?!?!? $82.00 for a Stormraven...... $75.00 for a Land Raider...... I don't play marines thank god, and unless you completely change the Tau Codex I think my 6 Fire Warrior Squads, 2 Kroot Squads, Vespids, , hammerheads, devifish..es, and full farsight bomb number of crisis suits, plus a lot of other extraneous Tau stuff should hold me over for a good long time to come. Good luck getting new players to buy in with those kinda prices when they can get into a few other games at a Tournament level for a fraction of the cost of a 40K army.

Dear Games Workshop,
   
     Your department that determines pricing has apparently been drinking on the job.

Thank you
-John Q. Public.

P.S. You can price yourselves right out of a market, its been done in a lot of industries and it is very hard to recover from. That kinda rep sticks.

Sorry, this was supposed to auto post June 1, 2012......

Singalong Time

You can't kill the BattleTech
The Battletech will live on
Warhammer tried to kill the BattleTech
But they failed, as they were smote to the ground

Harmony Gold tried to kill the BattleTech
But they failed, as they were stricken down to the ground
Warmachine tried to kill the BattleTech Ha,hahahahaha
They failed, as they were thrown to the ground
Aargh! yeah! [x2]

[Singing]

No-one can destroy the BattleTech
The BattleTech will strike you down with a vicious blow
We are the vanquished foes of the BattleTech
We tried to win for why we do not know

Harmony Gold tried to destroy the BattleTech, but the BattleTech had its way
Warhammer then tried to dethrone the BattleTech, but BattleTech was in the way
Warmachine tried to destroy the BattleTech, but BattleTech was much too strong
Infinity tried to defile the BattleTech, but Infinity was proven wrong
Yeah!

BattleTechl!
It comes from hell!


Props to  Lorcan Nagle on the BattleTech forums

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.

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