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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 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...

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 spent the past couple of weeks coming to grips with the new Warriors of Chaos army book, I’ll admit it’s definitely taken away from my time working on actual models. I’ve gone through roughly 10-15 different iterations of my main list, but I’ve narrowed things down to a point where I feel pretty confident in my army. Meanwhile, I’ve gotten a little work done on my Ogres, and I’ve just about got everything I want/need for my Warriors and Vampires, with such low model counts in the Ogre and Chaos armies I suspect I’ll be working on the Vampires before too terribly long.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to get my office back in order...

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

THIS WEEK

It’s time for something completely different, well mostly different. As I said last week, I’ve got a lot planned this year, and to start I want to get my Ogre army off the ground. This week, I spent a lot of time cleaning pieces and assembling units for my 2500pt list. Getting to grips with these has raised a few questions though, and I’m in the process of resolving the issues that have arisen (Mournfangs and Sabretusks in particular). But first, let’s take a second look at the list itself…

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THE LIST

This is an MSU style list, there are 11 drops so deployment will actually be in my favor most of the time...

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

THIS WEEK

On Saturday GW released the new Warriors of Chaos Army Book along with a bevy of models from the frozen North. I made a trip to my local gaming shop to pick up the essentials: the new Army Book, a pack of Lore Cards, the newest White Dwarf, and a Chimera kit. I spent the weekend pouring over the book, there are plenty of beautiful pictures throughout the book (some new, some old). And of course, it’s all full color in a hard back binding. With Shiloh behind me and a year worth of other tournaments to look forward to, it’s time to start plotting my year.

THE QUE

There’s actually four separate army lists I’m hoping to finish this year, starting with the O...

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

THIS WEEK

To say life has been interesting in recent weeks would be a massive understatement, my son was born as I mentioned last week. Both he and my wife are both still at the hospital, he was a month early so an extended stay wasn’t exactly a surprise. Eventually, things settled into a routine and it was apparent that my wife would be staying and that I was going to go back home. I’d like to mention also, my son is doing quite well. They’ve taken him off of the IV, he’s eating well and improving daily. He’s off of phototherapy and digesting fine on his own, he’s shaping up to come home before long, and I’ll be happy to have him and his mom here finally.

While ...

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

THIS WEEK

There’s a lot going on lately, first and foremost there’s the baby. That’s probably the biggest factor these days for me, as anyone who’s had a child I’m sure can relate to. In addition to this, school is almost over. I’m looking for a job now, frankly subbing really isn’t going to cut it next year. I’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 – and I’ve been rethinking my army strategy as a result.

Over the weekend, I attended a small tournament at T Shirt Explosion. I didn’t quite have all of the stuff I wanted to take, it was a 3000 point game...