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		<title>IH: MOVING FORWARD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khaas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game… THIS WEEK Schools (almost) out for summer, and we&#8217;ve had a surprisingly mild winter here in North West Arkansas. I&#8217;ve been told that typically the winters here are bad however, there was only a single snow day this year and that was only barely. So, it&#8217;s busy here. We&#8217;ve got graduation to deal with and taking care of the kids that are almost finished with the year, so I&#8217;ve had less and less time to work on the minis, but I have managed to get a little in. And with the shift in focus, I&#8217;m actually more motivated than ever before&#8230; CHAOS THEORY Since I made the switch from WoW blogging to Warhammer a few things had to change. Obviously, in place of my old Business as Usual segment I&#8217;ve started Idle Hands where I talk about the modeling projects I&#8217;ve been working on throughout the previous week. But, there&#8217;s still plenty of blogging opportunities within the hobby, Chaos Theory will be a new segment where I discuss strategy and tactics for Warriors of Chaos. It&#8217;s also quite likely I will have guest posts from some prominent WOC players when able, this will not be a regular weekly segment, but will go a long way toward a comprehensive guide for WOC players that I want to put together and offer here on the site. So, keep your eyes peeled there&#8217;s a lot of exciting additions coming in the near future&#8230; UNHOLY CONVERSIONS With the shift in focus, I find myself a lot more excited about working on my army again. And with all of the bits I&#8217;ve collected over the past few months I had plenty of conversion possibilities. And believe me, the tourney list presents ample opportunity for conversion&#8230; The Pleasure Seekers My primary redirectors, five Marauder Horsemen of Slaanesh with a Musician. These guys are equipped with Throwing Spears and Flails, so they can hit a flank or redirect like a champ. I&#8217;m learning to love a unit that I&#8217;ve largely ignored since getting back into the game. These along with my Warhounds are quickly becoming all stars in my army. I&#8217;ve written some fluff for these guys that I&#8217;ll have available once I&#8217;m finished writing all of the companion material that goes with the army (yes, there&#8217;s going to be some solid fiction to accompany my guys in their gallery). The Seekers seemed like a natural mount for these devotees to the God of Excess. I had a unit of them laying around from the Daemon army I mentioned above. I also decided to make them all Eunuchs, I used the Marauder head that normally has a top knot. I cut that away and filed the head smooth, I also decided to use Daemonette arms to replace the left arms of each Marauder, along with the Standard that came with the Seeker unit. This will be one of...]]></description>
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		<title>IH: TIME FOR A RETHINK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khaas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game… THIS WEEK There&#8217;s a lot going on lately, first and foremost there&#8217;s the baby. That&#8217;s probably the biggest factor these days for me, as anyone who&#8217;s had a child I&#8217;m sure can relate to. In addition to this, school is almost over. I&#8217;m looking for a job now, frankly subbing really isn&#8217;t going to cut it next year. I&#8217;m also working on getting back into college, I want to finish my degree so I can start looking for a full time teaching position. So, things are busy &#8211; and I&#8217;ve been rethinking my army strategy as a result. Over the weekend, I attended a small tournament at T Shirt Explosion. I didn&#8217;t quite have all of the stuff I wanted to take, it was a 3000 point game. I got about 3 hours of sleep before I had to pack up and leave (unfortunately I&#8217;m about an hour/hour and a half from the shop). I went double Hellcannon, hammer and anvil style. Things didn&#8217;t go my way though really, I was not awake. Even remotely, I almost fell asleep at the table at least once. I had fun, but I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m not going to another tournament until I&#8217;m sufficiently prepared. Obviously, the sleep issue is easily corrected. My father lives about 5 minutes away from the shop in question, so I could easily sleep there the night before the games in the future (which is what I did for the Shiloh Slaughter a few months ago). But there&#8217;s other things that I can improve on and with the baby coming these are necessary changes really. CHAOS THEORY First, I need to just focus on one force. I need a list that should be ready for competitive tournament play, not just a fun themed army. For that, I turned to Hinge&#8217;s Ramblings on the Chamber of the Everchosen forums. If you&#8217;re not familiar, Hinge is a seasoned tournament goers, and a well respected Warriors of Chaos player. His list revolves around multiple small units rather than Horde tactics. This play style favors mobility and coordinated attacks between multiple smaller units against single targets. For me, this is a more comfortable style of play. More like what I&#8217;m accustomed to from my old days playing Dark Eldar. I have most of the models for this list already, and I&#8217;ve started working on the remainder already. My goal is to get this list of models together and painted. After that, it&#8217;s all about getting in games outside of tournament play, I need the practical experience. Keeping the static list will help a lot in terms of real time play, I&#8217;ll have less time considering what particular units and more time to consider my options tactically. The list is also flexible enough that I can sub in a unit now and again whenever I want to try something a little different. And with the...]]></description>
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		<title>VVV: Once Upon a Time in Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khaas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Veni, Vidi, Vici &#8211; where the topic is war on table tops&#8230; RETURNING FROM THE GREAT WAR Long ago, Plutarch and Suetonius recounted the tale written by Caesar, as he returned from the city of Zela and his little war on Pharnaces II of Pontus. There, Caesar famously was quoted as saying &#8220;I came, I saw, I conquered&#8221; thus ensuring no Italian would be quite so quotable until the Godfather was released in 1972. But recently, a local man returned from abroad, he recounted his experience in Italy and a new perspective on gaming. When I first read his post on the Hogs of War forums Monday, I was taken aback. I was moved, and left thoughtful. So no, I couldn&#8217;t write my normal weekly update. Not for lack of anything to write, but because frankly I was taken with the words from sirhelnor, and I&#8217;ve spent the past couple of days reflecting on them , so (with his permission) I decided to offer those words here for you, and to respond in kind. So, without further ado, here is the original post taken from the forums, it reads: &#8220;I have had the privilege to spend the last four months in Rome, Italy and have been able to experience not just the culture of the italian people, but their war-gaming culture as well. I thought maybe I&#8217;d share some thoughts about both american and and italian wargaming as i have experienced them. apologies for the length and rambling if you&#8217;re against those sorts of things. Warhammer in the US seems fundamentally dedicated to the tournament circuit. I know there have been some discussion about it dying out now that GW has pulled it&#8217;s support, but that&#8217;s never going to happen, the culture won&#8217;t allow it. Games in general are constant tweaks of &#8220;all comers&#8221; lists, trying to get the most powerful cost efficient army on the board. Loopholes in the rules are actively sought out to be exploited to one&#8217;s advantage ( i remember a particular match in canada in which a Tau player was claiming to move his hammerheads in 12&#8243; circles, returning to their point of origin and thus without physically moving in space they were still able to fire and had their cover saves). The more prominent figures in the hobby often come off as elitists. Lately i&#8217;ve been listening to 40k radio, and one of the guys honestly said that if a player came to the table with an unpainted army or a few proxies, he would refuse to play him and tell him to go home. (now i know these guys aren&#8217;t necessarily supposed to be role models, but they are some of the major voices for the hobby. most people that fit the demographic he described are relatively new ones. not exactly an inviting statement. hell, i still have to do both and i&#8217;ve been playing for two years). Other personalities such as [certain individuals on certain forums] openly hurl insults at...]]></description>
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		<title>IDLE HANDS: THE BLOODGUARD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khaas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game… THIS WEEK This is going to be coming in a bit late, actually a day later than I&#8217;d originally intended. Sorry, I got side tracked and before I knew it, it was Tuesday and I hadn&#8217;t written anything&#8230; Anyhow, I&#8217;ve been hard at it. I&#8217;m working on finishing my Khorne force so I can focus on Nurgle army. Though I have been cheating a bit, see I&#8217;ve hit a few road blocks along the way and ended up working on stuff originally intended for the Nurgle force. Not that it matters, it&#8217;s all going on the same shelf anyway. One of the things I&#8217;ve been doing is making a whole helluva lot of bases. With my cork technique I can create a lot of individual and unique bases on the cheap. But to fully kit my Khorne forces (and later my other armies) I needed to devise a true assembly line method for getting these things together. Here&#8217;s a sample of some of the bases I put together this week, though really this represents only an afternoon of what I eventually produced&#8230; So, I&#8217;m doing matching bases for my Warriors and Marauders. This can be tedious, likewise I decided to add some filler to the Warriors of Khorne at the last minute. It didn&#8217;t take long, but it did require me to get creative. But the biggest diversion of all was a second Finecast Hellcannon, I lucked into this one. I found it on eBay for $5 shipped! Yes, you read that right. There is not a zero missing. My hopes weren&#8217;t high to be honest, but it ended up being in better shape than the one I previously paid retail ($60) for, with only minor problems that were very easily fixed in a matter of minutes. I made him a little different from the first, but more on that a little later&#8230; UNHOLY CONVERSIONS The big reason I&#8217;m pushing to finish and start on the Nurgle forces are the Dragon Ogres, no I didn&#8217;t buy some of the oop metal ones. I&#8217;m converting them using Dark Elf Cold Ones and Ogre Kingdoms Bulls and Ironguts. Initially, I&#8217;ll be doing 8 of these, 3 with Great Weapons and 3 with Extra Hand Weapons. Each of these small units will have an additional Champion similarly equipped. This will give me real flexibility in how I use my DOs, I can field a single large unit (with whatever weapon choice I want in the front rank) or I can do two groups equipped differently. And then of course, I can always just field one unit up to 4 of whichever I prefer (AHW or GW). I knocked the bases out first, having the &#8220;rock&#8221; established already means I can post the dragon bits as I need to, giving it a more natural look, and allowing the unit to rank up better. I did...]]></description>
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		<title>IDLE HANDS: WE COULD BE HEROES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khaas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game… THIS WEEK So, in the past couple of weeks I got a few pieces done, despite all the real life craziness. Unfortunately, that progress ate through a chunk of my supplies so I had to make a run for more. I decided to take the opportunity to pick up a few things to experiment, namely the Milliput and Ceramacoat. I grabbed a few things not pictured below, a Pin Vise and of course some Green Stuff. I&#8217;ll be using the Milliput of course along with the GS in some conversions that require a bit of sculpting (more on that next week), as for the Ceramacoat, these are 2 oz bottles of paint for $1.25 each. I&#8217;ve picked up 2 shades of grey that I&#8217;ve since used to good effect painting stone on my bases. A great and cheap alternative to my normal GW paints (over $3 for 0.41 Fl Oz) in an easier to manage bottle. I&#8217;ll be talking a little more about alternate paints in the future, as well as the new GW line of paints. So check back later for more on that&#8230; UNHOLY CONVERSIONS Armed with an array of freshly arrived bits I attacked my unit of Warriors, I&#8217;m using 25 in my Khorne force. I decided to convert the command group fairly extensively, I even ended up doing a completely new Battle Standard Bearer from scratch. I ended up much happier with his look in the end than the previous incarnation, which I was never fully satisfied with. Here&#8217;s how they turned out before primer and paint (I&#8217;ve included a list of the parts used below). Exalted Hero (BSB) Warrior Champion of Khorne Musician Standard Bearer And here&#8217;s a group shot of the first rank. Conversion Overview: + Exalted Hero: Legs are from the Chaos Warrior model, with the torso from a Chaos Knight. The head is from a Chaos Knight, with the horns replaced by a pair from a Bloodletter of Khorne. Left hand/standard arm is from a 40k model with a Marauder shoulder plate, the icon is from a Bloodcrusher of Khorne. Right arm and shoulder from a Knight. Chains from the Chaos Lord on Manticore model, and the cloak is also from a Marauder. +Warrior: pretty standard but with a knight shield and a Marauder Horseman head. + Champion: using Warrior body, Bloodletter Champion head and Knight axe. Also has a small Khorne symbol from the Blood Crusher sprue on his right leg. + Musician: used the Champion body (I&#8217;ve only gotten about 10 boxes of Warriors, so I totally don&#8217;t have enough of these Champion bits laying around &#8211; I also do not understand sarcasm). Right arm however is Blood Crusher musician arm/horn with a Knight Shoulder plate to cover the joint. + Standard Bearer: Again, pretty straight forward, though I did do some mild shaving on the arms to achieve a more...]]></description>
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		<title>IDLE HANDS: Once more into the breach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khaas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game… THIS WEEK Well, there&#8217;s been more than a little bit of excitement this week. As I mentioned earlier, we found out that my wife is pregnant. The resulting mania definitely reduced the amount of time I had to devote to the hobby, but I have managed to get some work in here and there. So, sit back and enjoy&#8230; WET PAINT Since I&#8217;ve been waiting on some models and bits to finish my Khorne force, I decided to continue working on some of the other stuff I&#8217;ve got for my Nurgle force. For starters, you may recall my scratch built Nurgle Sorcerer from a previous post. Well, he got a fresh coat of paint. I also started working on my first character, Archaon the Everchosen. Really just need to finish his shield arm and a bit of touch up work for him. But the big thing I did was work on my first Finecast piece, the Hellcannon. I did some experimenting with it and I&#8217;m pleased with the results. BOARD With all of the excitement this week painting just wasn&#8217;t going to happen for any prolonged period of time, additionally I&#8217;ve been waiting on some bits to finish off the army (so I can stop using proxies for my warriors, and sorcerers). So, building on the success of my Hellcannon, I decided to turn my attention to my display board. This is a Battle Foam X Board, a light weight plastic kit that so far has proven perfect for my purposes. The price is a bit of a let down, but you get a quality item for the price. It&#8217;s sturdy and can be disassembled and tucked away in it&#8217;s own carrying case for storage and travel. I used 2 varieties of cork to create the stone mass at the back of the display, I went with a pretty generic approach to the board on purpose. My goal, is to have a board I can use for various armies (different chaos gods, empire, ogres, etc) with a few removable terrain pieces added as needed for each army on display. The board itself is 18&#215;24 with a usable space of 15&#215;21, this could be tight for some people. I could certainly see some armies, large hordes such as Skaven or Orcs and Goblins, even some 40k forces having a tough time getting everything on the board. For me, as a fantasy Chaos player though I&#8217;ve found it should be little trouble. In fact, the only real complaint that I have is the usable surface. The texturing is nice, but I really don&#8217;t like the &#8220;hill&#8221; terrain that&#8217;s part of the surface. If I want hills, I&#8217;ll make my own (and did) but it was a little annoying building &#8220;around&#8221; those land features on the board. Here&#8217;s a quick shot of my Khorne force in progress, the Bloodletter statues toward the back help...]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Knock Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khaas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog for an important announcement. GOOD NEWS EVERYONE Well, first let me say I understand I didn&#8217;t make my normal post this week. I pride myself on my regularity, with regards to posting. However, the real world had different plans this week and I was side-swiped by fate. What happened, well to answer that I need to give you just a little bit of background info first. About seven years ago, my friend John married my cousin Heather. At the wedding, I spotted this little woman and before the summer was over, we were married. We&#8217;ve been inseparable since. We&#8217;ve literally spent a total of maybe two weeks apart since then. Well, the marriage between John and Heather didn&#8217;t last, and in fact about three weeks ago we were getting ready for his wedding, this time to a woman named Joye. John and I joked, I told him that I didn&#8217;t need anymore good luck from him, so he had to stop getting married. He laughed back, and said &#8220;be careful, I&#8217;m up to eight kids now. Being around me apparently gets you pregnant&#8221;. That&#8217;s what we in the writing business call foreshadowing&#8230; See, Brandy was feeling sick before we left for the wedding. She didn&#8217;t think much about it, I&#8217;d been subbing a lot at the Elementary school just before Spring Break, so no telling what I brought home with me. I ended up feeling a little under the weather myself, we just wrote it off as a bug and went about our business. That is until 2 and a half weeks later, when she still wasn&#8217;t better. I took her to the doctor only to find that we almost received the worst April Fools joke of all time, my wife is pregnant. I&#8217;m going to be a father. We&#8217;re both very happy, we&#8217;re just glad the news didn&#8217;t come over the weekend when we both would&#8217;ve been a little suspicious. As for the rest, well it looks like the baby is due around November (my wife&#8217;s birthday is the 2nd and mine the 11th of November) so, I&#8217;m guessing the baby will drop somewhere in the middle. We traditionally celebrate both our birthdays together around then actually, so I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised. The funny thing is, if the baby does come in November, that will make something like 13 November birthdays in my family. We seem to like the winter months apparently, as you can imagine Tuesday was spent making the round of the doctors office, calling friends and family, and snuggling with my mom to be. It should go without saying at this point, that making my weekly post kinda fell to the wayside. Rest assured, I&#8217;ve got the skeleton of a post that I started this week, and I&#8217;ll have it along with new stuff for next week, barring anymore bizarre real world upheavals. Thanks for reading guys. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program&#8230; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Blasphemous Rumors: Winds of Change v1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khaas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Blasphemous Rumors, where I discuss the latest rumors to come from the gaming circle&#8230; READ ME FIRST I’ve been reading a lot of different sites lately picking up bits and pieces of rumor from places like Warseer, Chamber of the Everchosen, and various blogs. I tend to think that most of what I’m posting in this rumor list is pretty reliable, however as is always the case with these types of rumors I suggest you take it with the requisite grain of salt. I’ve spent the past couple of weeks rounding up what I considered to be the most reasonable of the rumors, and have sorted through, editing it to make it a bit more palatable. I have left out some very obviously ridiculous rumors, I’ve also tried to avoid adding my own speculation and guesswork based on these, tempting though it may be. For now, I just wanted to present an easy to read summary of the most popular (and likely) rumors I’ve found. If anything, I hope it will make for interesting reading while we wait for the new Empire book and for more solid details on the Chaos changes. Enjoy! ——————————————————- LORDS &#038; HEROES Chaos Lord Price reduced by 15%, same state line. 100 points of war gear, 50 points of Gifts. Same mount options. MoT makes him a Sorcerer up to level 2. Has a couple of new as yet un named abilities. Stat wise remains the same. Other Marks are suggested to be different for Lords as well, Slaanesh giving ASF instead of +1 Init for example. Also, the Lord comes with two as yet unnamed Specials. First Ability: Re-roll all Panic, Fear, Terror tests for any friendly in LOS. Second Ability: Must declare and accept challenges if able, may never flee as a charge reaction. Daemon Princes Still no equipment, and 100 points of Chaos Gifts to choose from. There have been some stat changes however, most notably they have a 4+ Armor Save and a 5+ Ward base. Rumors suggest a properly configured Khorne DP is curb checking Vampire Lords without breaking a sweat, they also suggest you’re not likely to see a DP in sub 2K games as the cost is prohibitive. Sorcerer Lord Still the only option for a level 4 Sorcerer. Also, TZ mark is cheaper on Sorc Lord with a different effect. ——————————————————- CORE Chaos Warriors Expect a 3 point price drop per model but be prepared for a drop in a stat (supposedly lower initiative). Have to purchase Chaos Armor again at 2 points per model. Chaos Marauders Price per model has gone up, and no longer able to receive Marks. I expect to see less Marauders and more Warriors in the future. ——————————————————- SPECIAL Chosen Price dropped to that of Warriors +1 ppm and have the same statline, but of course with special abilities. Forsaken Same points cost, d3+2 attacks, base Str 5, Ld 5. Now they follow Skirmisher and Scout rules. Chaos Chariot Remain...]]></description>
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		<title>IDLE HANDS: SHRINERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khaas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game… THIS WEEK Hi again everybody, I have a confession to make: I got less accomplished this week than I&#8217;d like. I know, horrible &#8211; I know. Really, it&#8217;s not quite so bad as it sounds. Mainly I&#8217;ve been bogged down with the pre Spring Break busies at school. That, and my own extra curricular activities. The short of it is that I really only finished one thing. But damn, what a thing it is&#8230; WET PAINT Last week I introduced you to my Warshrines, the first being pulled by Juggernauts. This week I finish off the Warshrines of Khorne with another example being pulled by Bloodletters. At any rate, I&#8217;m pleased with the way these two turned out, and they should be an unholy terror on the battlefield. Painting these wasn&#8217;t as hard as I&#8217;d expected, though picking out nails/rivets is always a pain. For that reason the first shrine proved to be the bigger challenge in terms of painting. When it came time to glue everything together though, the second shrine was actually kinda a pain in the ass. Two of the four Bloodletters just did not want to cooperate, unfortunately they we&#8217;re both on the same side so they had to work if it was going to look right. In the end patience and more than a little ingenuity prevailed&#8230; And a final note on the shrines, I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to receive my first commission for two Warshrines of Khorne! I was surprised and very excited by the prospect, hopefully I&#8217;ll end up doing some more commissions in the future, I&#8217;m going to be putting some things together and putting them on eBay soon as well, so be ready for that! A Positive Note on Indecisiveness: Initially, my wife wanted to play Daemons but changed her mind, after I&#8217;d dropped a bill on minis. Her loss was my gain though really, since it offered me quite a few bits and outright models to use for conversions in my Warriors of Chaos armies. UNHOLY CONVERSIONS Despite appearances, I actually did get some stuff done this week. For starters, I got my remaining Khorne Warriors started on their base colors, they shouldn&#8217;t take more than two or three days to finish once I get the time. The Marauders are a hair from being halfway finished. Which will technically complete the army, but I&#8217;m beginning to give the Tzeentch part of the army a rethink, for starters I&#8217;m strongly considering repainting the Warriors of Tzeentch. Likewise, I&#8217;m giving my Sorcerers a rethink as well (did I mention I juggled a few things and decided on not one, but 2 Sorcerers on Disks?) But let&#8217;s forget about Khorne for a second, let&#8217;s consider Thunderdome&#8230; With the Khorne contingent nearing completion I&#8217;ve started giving some serious thought to my Nurgle force. It&#8217;s an odd one for me, because frankly I&#8217;ve never been...]]></description>
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		<title>Idle Hands: No Rest For the Wicked</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khaas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game… PLANS It&#8217;s been pretty busy here, and with the Khorne force getting closer to completion it&#8217;s time I started giving some serious thought to the other three gods. Now, my entire Chaos army is going to be Khorne themed in terms of paint. But, I&#8217;ve decided to make the non Khorne units have silver (Chain Mail) accents and for Nurgle in particular I&#8217;ll be using a Bronze in place of the gold (Tin Bitz). I&#8217;ll also be doing different colored standards and cloaks, the traditional sickly green for Nurgle, blue for Tzeentch, and Purple for Slaanesh. My goal is to make the units recognizably different while maintaining the overall cohesion in terms of color scheme. I&#8217;m going to be doing some really wild conversions soon, especially for the Nurgle division of my Army. I&#8217;ve got a couple of Hellcannon&#8217;s planned that should be pretty gruesomely impressive. Similarly, I&#8217;ve got my 50 block of Warriors to consider. I&#8217;ll definitely be doing some filler for this unit, and I&#8217;ll be using some models from Avatars of War to varry things up, likewise I&#8217;ll be using some models from these guys elsewhere in the army (my Chosen unit for example). So keep your eyes peeled, and if you have any suggestions please let me know. WET PAINT So, I know I didn&#8217;t post anything last week. And you&#8217;re probably thinking I&#8217;ve been sitting on my ass doing nothing, but I&#8217;ve been sick and things have actually picked up at work. Even so, I have managed to get quite a bit done, in fact I&#8217;m way ahead of schedule and the Host of Skulls is almost ready for play. First, my Knight unit was completed. May I present, the Silver Skulls of Khorne&#8230; The more observant may notice the embroidered Khorne symbol on the standard, this was achieved by adding a hand painted Khorne symbol in several layers before going over the entire standard in black, then dry brushing in Fortress Grey, and washing with Badab Black. Here&#8217;s a couple of closer shots of the Champion, I think he turned out pretty good honestly. I could even see using him as an Exalted Hero on mount at some point. And just today I finished my unit of Ogres, that&#8217;s a total of 24 Str 4 attacks from these guys, you do not want to be on the business end of this unit. The Ogres were created using Beastman Minotaur bodies and Ogre heads. I actually received some Ogre bits with the abortive giant order on ebay, the back rank are Mournfang heads while those from the front came from Ogre bulls. The Mutant is of course decked out with armor scavenged from the Daemon Prince model. But now, for the part I&#8217;m really proud of&#8230; My Warshrines of Khorne&#8230; Since this pic I&#8217;ve finished some touch ups on the model, adding some yellow highlights to...]]></description>
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