Current projects: Orks and Tau!

Hello all Gord here.
Just a quick update on some of my current projects.


I'm changing up some things in my Ork list and trying some new things in preparation for the next tournament, the Wet Coast GT.

So I'm building more Zapp guns and adding some big bombs for my deff koptas.

I found my deff koptas were tricky to fit into the carrying case so I ripped all the rotors off and started magnetizing them. I'm also magnetizing the new big bombs.

Also here's a little sneak peak of a commission I'm working on. Still haven't done the base or or any weathering powders.

Until next time.

Orks Update: Trumpeter Salute 40k Tournament

Hey guys Gord here again with an update of my favorite boyz. The Orks.
This last weekend I took them to a local tournament. The Trumpeter Salute 40k tournament. It was good times with lots of good people. The event was TOed by Lee Baxter. Thanks Lee for putting on a fun event.
Not super competitive. But that didn't stop me from losing two of my three games. :P Anyways I didn't come home empty handed as I won one of the raffle prizes. One of the GW 40k Trench Lines Terrain boxes.
I also won the best painted trophy. Yay me!

So I was up until 1:00ish the night before trying to get my objectives and Defense Line finished up. Here's a couple shots of my army.

As you can see in the front I used the Citadel Urban Barricades and Walls as a defense line. If you chop two of them in half then it all comes out to the same size as the Aegis Defense Line. Four long pieces and four short pieces.

Here's a close up on the defense line and you can sort of see the Objective markers in the back. I used the little markers you get in the Munitorum dice set only I chopped the Servo Skulls of the top and built some totems from plasticard and random Orky bits I had laying around.

So now I'm adding to the army and changing some things around that I find didn't work so well in preparation for a larger tournament in a couple months. I've also got a possible commission coming up so I'll post up progress shots and finished shots of those. Until then.

'Daily' Miniatures Update

So first off, sorry for the delay in updates and pictures for those projects THEY ARE COMING.

I handed off Captain Kara Sloan to the client this weekend and he was very happy, and looks like I might have some similar projects from him in the future, specifically a rather epic conversion project that I'd really like to include in my portfolio and some miniatures I've really wanted to paint.

This weekend I finally dragged all my armies out of storage to find them all in pieces, I really have been playing with my Dark Eldar far too much. In my free time soon coming, what with project delays, I will be doing a massive painting push. I will be attempting to paint a full 50 point Protectorate of Menoth list and and my 1750 point Tyranid lists repaired, customized, and repainted by the end of april. Also hoping to have My Cryx list finished by the end of May.

So this weekend I stripped down my entire menoth list, re-assembled and reprimed everything start to finish. I also finished assmebling my Cryx List(1 new Jack and a Unit of Bane Thralls) I re-assembled 40 genesteelers, 1 zoanthrope, 3 ravagers, a carnixfex, 30 Hoormagants, and prepped up my Hive tyrant for the final stages of his conversion- custom wings, restructured scything talons as legs, etc.)

Any comments on the lists welcome... They're meant to be fun lists that are very different from my other lists.

My tier 4 Menoth list: "Suicide tarpit"
E Kroess
Hierarch
Reckoner
Vanquisher
Fire of Salvation
Visgoth Juviah Roven & Honour Gaurd
3 x Knight Examplar Seneschels (1 free)
4 x Knights Examplar

At tier four, thats a 2' deployment extension and Knights have advanced move - so early contact tarpit, with very angry knights and seneschals - complete suicide list, should be fun.

Tyranid List: "Renderer"
Winged Hive Tyrant
3x Hive Gaurd
3x Lictor
2x Zoanthrope
4x 10 Genesteeler Squads w/ Scything talons and rending claws
30x Hormagant
1 Mawloc
1 Trygon Prime

Complete swarm list, nothing fancy going for board coverage.

Pictures of projects will be out over the week, hoping to have the tyranids basecoated by end of the weekend.

Studio Photoshoot Flop

Technical Issues, oh JOY!

So we did our first sample model photo-shoot this weekend in prep for the website launch, and bombed spectacularly. Looking at the diversity of models everything looked good, looking at the quality of the shots things just didn't pan out.

Lighting issues, focus, zoom-in. I realize that for an effective product display a good representation of skill and quality is key. Looking at the minis we were shooting, we WERE trying to convey various levels of quality the client might be looking for, so some were meant to look table-top quality. However the shots of the award winning figures came out looking pretty much the same as the 'tabletop' models...take a look.

Here's an example of tabletop quality....

...and here's an example of an award winning figure:

You can't even see the green that those transitions go up to or the subtle highlights in the shadow side.

All being said and done we did get some good shots, like Gord's ork that recently won 1st place at GW's Paintapalooza:

Or one of the models from his army that won "best painted" at this year's gottacon 40K tournament:

So stay tuned everyone, there will be a post coming soon with a variety of sample shots with close-ups after the weekend. We're also in the process of writing copy for the website. The key hold ups on the website are copy and images, the framework is already built, domains and hosting acquired as well, so all going well we're looking at a full-scale launch of Beautiful Warfare by Monday, week after next.