Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game…

ANNOUNCEMENT

The blog is going through changes, in recent months I’ve been considering the role of social media and how I want to present content. Right now I have the Blog, Facebook, and Twitter. Each of these has it’s strengths and weaknesses, but each is especially well suited for specific roles. Having said that:

The Blog will continue to be my repository for lists, ideas, and general thoughts on gaming. I’ll be focused primarily on Warhammer but will have other games show up from time to time. I will have less images on the blog in the future, focusing more on finished work rather than wip shots. That doesn’t mean fewer updates, just fewer pictures.

The Fac...

Welcome to Drawn & Quartered, a new segment where I review and discuss my plans on a quarterly basis…

INTRODUCTION AND GETTING ORGANIZED

The first quarter of 2013 was spent getting my final preparations in for the Shiloh Slaughter, which went better than expected at the end of January. The tournament however was the last opportunity to play with the previous edition of the Warriors of Chaos book, so it would also be the last time I got to play with that specific army. I have since sold almost the entire army to the organizer of the Shiloh Slaughter for his own Warriors army (which I imagine has grown fairly extensive). I’ve used the money from that and some commission work to build up new armies and my own Fortress of Solitude...

Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game…

THE BLESSINGS OF NURGLE

The last significant post I made was almost a month ago when I was showing off my first finished unit of Ogres and some characters/unit filler I had made for my Warriors of Chaos. What have I been doing in the meantime? Quite a lot actually, that last post was made at the start of Spring Break. I was excited because it meant a week with my wife home. It turned into a miserable couple of weeks as everyone in the house was sick, even the baby. Now, it’s weeks later and we’re all back to normal. The end of the school year is rapidly approaching and I’ve started yet another army.

In fact, I’ve done a lot of plotting and planning with regards t...

PROLOGUE

Sometimes you have to stop, look around, and reassess the whole scene. Sometimes, it’s time for an UPGRAYEDD. My time is now…

SUSPENDED ANIMATION

Recently I decided to take a break from the models, I know – heresy! The reason for the break? My office looked like the environs immediately outside the apartment of Frito Pendejo from Idiocracy. When my wife and I moved to this house, I had originally planned to share the office space with my wife. It wasn’t long however before we decided that just wasn’t necessary, or even a good idea – probably. The computer was moved into the corner in the living room, and I began spreading out in the room I had claimed as my Fortress of Solitude. Therein lies the problem, the room was first intended to be split...

PROLOGUE

Normally I would talk about my hobby today, but in light of recent events I would like to take the opportunity to talk about one of my favorite cities, Boston…

A CITY BY THE SEA

When I was a boy, my father married a woman from Massachusetts. We took several trips to Boston to visit her parents and the rest of her family, and I will always remember the place and the company fondly. When you mention Boston, or even just Massachusetts there’s usually an unflattering preconception of potato eating drunkards, of bad accents, and violent behavior. For most of the people I’ve known throughout my life, their only connection to the city was through school books, television, and movies. The city features prominently in action movies and dramas like Boondock Saints and Goodwill Hunting...

THE BOOKS OF THE NORTH

BOOK I: CHAOS ASCENDANT

FORWARD

In the snows of the northlands there is a place by the sea where a murder of crows can always be found wheeling in the sky. Amongst the tribes of the northmen, it is called the Abode of Ravens. This is the story of the men who call it home…

CHAPTER I: SINS OF THE FATHER

In the year 2294 a boy was born in the city of Praag. He was the son of a blacksmith and a skullery maid, the earliest years of his life were happy. The years passed and the boy grew in ways to please his father, for one day he believed Brom would take up the hammer and anvil after him. Little did he know that the unblinking eyes of a god had fallen directly on his family already.

Time passed and in the year 2300 the family received their first visit from the Chaos G...

Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game…

THIS WEEK

It’s Spring Break, that means my wife is home for the week. Home life is good, my son is now five months old and growing more independent. Also, with Spring Break here I can finally get outside and start thinking about summer. With that said, I’ll be turning my attention back to my armies in earnest. My goal is to get 1-2 units finished per week. There will be a fair amount of back and forth between the Warriors and Ogres, as I’d like to get them both painted up pretty quickly. And after this week, I’ve got only a few models left for the Warriors to be finished – so I’m feeling good about that.

MALEVOLENT CREATIONS

This week I put the finishing touches ...

Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game…

THIS WEEK

I’ve been all over the place this week, both literally and figuratively. An old friend died over the weekend, so I spent the early part of last week out of town to attend the funeral. I got home and slowly got back to work, in the past two weeks I spent a little time on all three of my armies. It’s about time to focus though, I need to get an army in fighting shape, it’s just a question of which one. We’ll see where the dice land…

MALEVOLENT CREATIONS

As stated earlier, I did take my first shambling steps with the Vampire Counts army...