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Finally got the good camera out (but not the good lighting) and took some decent pictures. Work continues on the Shrine to End All Shrines! Rawr! Not entirely sure I'm happy with the drybrushed bonework. The normal-painted teeth (same colors, but different technique) turned out better. I did get enough done on the bones and the shoulder-shields that I could put the model together, though. Here you can see how the open wounds turned out. Pretty great! The fur is done too; it's pretty close in color to the darkest skin tone, so it'll transition pretty well I think when I start working up the skin tones to my usual. The leather will also start standing out a lot more when I start layering on it. SO BIG. Set up most of the pieces to demo how it looks. I'm debating getting rid of the rock he's standing on, just to bring the height down, but I really don't want to run into issues with his horns clearing other models near him. The pillar/ring is even taller, as it's leaning over (and backwards) right now... Side view. I think the supports worked out pretty good! More progress soon! I'm almost done with halloween costumes (currently making a "Honey, Where Are My Pants?" lego-guy costume from the Lego Movie for my son), so I'll have some more time. Gonna need it - the shrine is dense with detail.

STOMP FACE! Did you end up painting the captured empire guy for the stonehorn? Trying to figure out how I want to paint mine...maybe a black/yellow Averland (yellow is my tertiary color).

Along with a continuous loop of Chariots of Fire.

The calendar is open, so I hopefully will be there! Blog.

Week 5: 1250 points Chaos Sorcerer, Mark of Slaanesh, Level 2 (Shadow), Talisman of Preservation Exalted, Mark of Slaanesh, BSB, Enchanted Shield, Talisman of Endurance 5 Forsaken, Mark of Slaanesh 5 Forsaken, Mark of Slaanesh Chariot, Mark of Slaanesh 8 Chosen, Mark of Slaanesh, shields, full command, Standard of Discipline Chaos Warshrine, Mark of Slaanesh 5 Hellstriders, Musician 5 Hellstriders, Musician A few points left over to give someone a magic weapon.

A double-post! Weird.

Thanks! It'll be brightened up similar to the dragon. I put the blood effects on - it looks great! I also drybrushed the fur (beasty brown followed by the reddish parasite brown on the tips). I need to work on the shields and do the skulls hanging below the head and chest, and I'll be able to attach the head and put the whole shebang on the base.

Pictures of the Shrinebeast! Looking pretty rough right now. Pre- and post-wash (aka 'instant talent'). A long way to go to brighten it way back up. The areas where the skin is broken are painted as stone in the original Ogre Stonehorn; MexicanNinja decided to paint them bone, and I decided to make them open wounds with muscle showing >:-) The pink looks a bit odd now with just a red wash. I'm going to go over it with some Blood for the Blood God and it should look epicly nasty. Next up: lots of drybrushing fur! You can see Hrothgar No-More-Demonaxe back there, with his new headchopper. Also, one of his skulls-on-a-spike fell off :( time for some delicate pinning.

I've seen your painting table. There's a LOT of parts on top of it

Possible Rampage list: I need to check the points, and I'm a few short if I'm right on. Certainly an elite force... Chaos Sorcerer Lord (Lore of Shadow), level 4, Mark of Slaanesh, Talisman of Preservation, Chaos Familiar 7 Forsaken, Mark of Slaanesh 7 Forsaken, Mark of Slaanesh 10 Chaos Warriors, shields, Mark of Slaanesh, Aspiring Champion, standard bearer, musician 10 Chaos Warriors, shields, Mark of Slaanesh, Aspiring Champion, standard bearer, musician 5 Hellstriders, musician Chaos Warshrine, Mark of Slaanesh 9 Chosen, Mark of Slaanesh, halberds, shields, full command

Looks like the models and book just went up on the GW site. End Times: Glottkin. Sigh, if only it wasn't Nurgle-centric!

The SHRINEBEAST is basically done. I used the Stonehorn backpiece, the Thundertusk shoulder-plates, a trimmed-down front saddle to support the front of the shrine platform, and modified the Stonehorn trophy rack to hold up the rear - now mounted, instead of off of the saddle, at the lower shoulders. It worked pretty darn good. The Stonehorn back piece has some rings to put hangy stuff on in the original kit; I'm going to use some jewelry chain to run between that and the ends of the trophy rack jawbones for more 'support'. I also trimmed and installed one of the trophy rack stings'o'skulls so it faces backwards across the jawbones. Just need to add some hanging chains, traps, skulls, and the captured Empire soldier off of the shrine platform. You know, some homey touches that will really bring the whole room together I couldn't find a good way to magentize the shrine platform to the beast. It's supported by the crossbar and the back of the 'demon face' against the saddle in the front, and by the ends of the trophy-rack jawbones between the skull-pit and the outside panels at the rear. If I want easier storage, I will probably just have to make the shrine's statue/ring/pillar thing removeable. It still might be too tall for the containers I use; if so, I think I'll just glue it all together solidly and just deal with it. For painting, it's in a few pieces: the Shrinebeast's body, the head, the main platform, the Keeper, the pillar, and the altar (which I'm not sure I'll use). Also, there are the 4 magnetized Chaos God symbols and the blank shield for the unmarked shrine. I'm hoping to finish the chain on the monster tonight and prime. Pictures soon. REALLY! In other news, I should nail down what I'm thinking of running for the Rampage. Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it'll involve a Warshrine ;)

Nice! Do you have pictures?

We'll see! It's been a long couple of weeks. Bloggity blog!

Week 4: 1200 points The teleporting tower prioritizes mobility, but needs more fighting power than the last scenario. I put together a pretty mobile list (except the warshrine, of course, but I gotta have the warshrine ). Chaos Sorcerer, Mark of Slaanesh, Level 2 (Slaanesh), Enchanted Shield, Barded Chaos Steed 5 Marauder Horsemen, flails, Mark of Slaanesh, musician, champion 5 Forsaken, Mark of Slaanesh 5 Forsaken, Mark of Slaanesh Chaos Chariot, Mark of Slaanesh 5 Chaos Knights, Mark of Slaanesh, full command, ensorcelled weapons Chaos Warshrine, Mark of Slaanesh 5 Hellstriders, Musician 5 Hellstriders, Musician Crash the Forsaken and chariot into larger units, hit them with Slaanesh magic, smash with knights. Use the marauder horse and hellstriders to pick off smaller things or bait stuff I don't want to face.

Sorry I missed this one; it sounds like a ridiculous and different scenario. I blogged about it anyway! Not sure if it would be the most obnoxious, annoying thing possible, or a complete failure. I guess we'll never know... Hope to see this scenario (or one like it) in the future.

Week 3: 1150 points This one's all about movement - getting your units through and stopping your opponents. With that in mind, I tried to make the most obnoxiously annoying list I could with the models I have. I may have succeeded, but I'll never know, as I couldn't make it this week. Do you like random movement (1d6)? Chaos Sorcerer Lord (Lore of Slaanesh), Mark of Slaanesh, Steed of Slaanesh, Enchanted Shield Exalted Hero, Battle Standard Bearer, Enchanted Shield, Mark of Slaanesh, Steed of Slaanesh 5 Marauder Horsemen, Mark of Slaanesh, musician 5 Marauder Horsemen, Mark of Slaanesh, musician 5 Marauder Horsemen, Mark of Slaanesh, flails, musician 5 Chaos Warhounds 3 Dragon Ogres, great weapons 5 Hellstriders, Musician 5 Hellstriders, Musician

I got a paying gig to run Dungeons & Dragons for a bachelor party, of all things, and they paid me in cash and Guardian Games gifts certs. Hellooooo centerpiece warshrine model! I have the platform of the warshrine assembled. The pillar/statue is separate for painting, as is the altar (which I don't think I'll end up putting on there. The kit goes together well! For all of the 'new' kits with good piece-fit, I've been using Plastruct Bondene, a thin plastic solvent that pretty much permanently attaches things. I haven't put the big horns on the front of the platform yet; we'll see if they look out of place once mounted on the stonehorn. I did, using some marauder shields, make the various chaos god symbols magnetic, as well as a generic shield for an unmarked shrine. I'm using my Hrothgar Daemonaxe games day model as the shrine keeper; he's appropriate and epic. He's not going to be Daemonaxe anymore though; the axe is a bit ridiculous, so I trimmed it off, drilled, pinned, and ready to replace it with the headtaker axe from the shrine. I feel like I should magnetize him to the model so I can replace him with something else, or use him on another base, but his feet are not huge and it may be pretty challenging. Good variety of magnets in the free samples we've got the past few years at OFCC though, so I'm considering it. Speaking of the stonehorn, I started working on that last night. I have the headless body mostly assembled (lots of pieces, but it goes together well) and have confirmed that it will fit fine on a 50x100 base. The horns will be very wide, but so far above the heads of most models that it won't much matter. I'm planning on using the Thundertusk pieces too as needed, including the tailpiece (stubby, basically non-existent), the front shoulder-shields, and maybe the backpiece, depending on how the platform fits on top. I'll probably use the stonehorn trophy rack that usually sits behind the rider much further back, to support the rear of the platform. Speaking of the platform, I'm debating on magnetizing the platform to the top of the stonehorn, not only for storage (the stonehorn is tall, the platform/pillar is tall, and both together are ridiculous), but also because I could theoretically use the monster alone as a Slaughterbrute, if I ever felt like using a terrible monster ;) Pictures soon!

PEW PEW PEW. We're playing on PC, sadly (for you). Athena and Claptrap. "It looks like you accidentally selected Claptrap as your character. Are you sure?"