Rumor of new plastic kits.

So with the new battlehosts supplement coming in may it looks like GW will have some new models outside the current metals.
Rumor is that there will be plastic swan knights as well as plastic morgul knights. Is it true? Sounds like a good idea but we will have to wait.

New Rohan and Dunland SBG rules in brief

Here they are thanks to Grashnar again.
I was thinking of starting dunland a little while ago because no one plays them and I just started some rohan. Looks like Thrydan and Grimbold will be in m y mailbox soon :).

Priming with Gesso and some stripping

So, I linked to an article earlier that talked about using acrylic gesso to prime miniatures.
Most of the article spoke about using black acrylic gesso(liquitex brand) to prime. I have been trying to find a way to use the white gesso(also liquitex) in the same manner. The white does not share the shrink to fit property of the black gesso. To account for that I have tried diluting the white gesso with water about 1:2 water:gesso. So far this has produced some good results. The following pictures are of a dwarf warrior that was stripped using 50/50 pine-sol:water. The first pic is pre gesso, the next is right after application and the final pic is after drying (with a king done earlier). The drying is done fairly quickly but I usually wait overnight before painting. It takes very little of this mixture to coat the miniature. While not as fast as spray priming, doing this allows easy priming anytime anywhere, is non-toxic, water soluble and can be removed by pine-sol stripping. It looks like a reverse wash, it makes the deeper recess look white instead of dark. The details are still there as you can see. The only issue is this: it is easy to put on too much. Just dip the very end of a medium flat brush into the gesso and you will be able to cover about 50% of a typical 25mm model. Getting excess off is easy, just wipe it off or take a brush that is dry and soak it up. Any big bubbles have always popped, while small bubbles go away by blowing on them, yes blowing.


























So I took some pics of pine sol stripped vs simple green stripped mini's some of finished models. Head on over to Stoney point refugees for a post on simple green. The model on the far left is pine-sol, next simple green, then new, then primed with black gesso, then white gesso. Next pic is finished product.

WotR: Forging of Fates

Forging of Fates is a 2000 points WorR tournament judged on wins alone (rather than the more nebulous painting and sportsmanship scores included in Grand Tournaments). It consist of preliminary games on February 6. Winners will advance to semifinals on March 6 with the finals in Chicago March 6. It appears our closet location for the preliminary is at Atlantis Comics (Virginia Beach at 757-479-5400 or Norfolk at 757-502-8954).

More info:
Tournament Rules.
Tournament Flyer.

BFG 2010.01.28

some thought s about last night's game

1. hope everyone enjoyed the game enough for a future repeat
2. though imperials won, we fielded about 1300 pts to chaos/necron 1100 pts. i would say we tied.
3. all special orders should have been declared in the beginning of the movement phase
4. brace for impact should be declared before any dice are rolled (attacking or defending as in turrets)
5. necron lightning arc uses the gunnery table to determine the # of dice to roll to hit (all targets are closing)
6. necron gauss particle weapons are lances (4+ to hit) with a roll of 6 ignoring shields
7. for each strength of portals a necron ship has, an additional teleport attack can be made. Each scythes can thus make 3 attacks per turn.
8. imperial lunar cruisers can exchange prow torpedoes for prow nova cannons for +20 pts per ship


BFG Scenario Rules.

Stony Point Refugees

I got this email from Casey Christopher the other night.

Hi there. My name is Casey Christopher, and I am sending this to you representing a gaming club called Stony Point Refugees. Most of you had put your email address in a list at Games Workshop, that they had assembled when they knew they were leaving. It was called the Stony Point Community Contact List... Some of you I just had in my email contacts also.

Basically, we are a gaming club, formed out of the ashes of what was once Games Workshop, at Stony Point. Our mission is to simply provide a friendly club, where others who wish to game or hobby in the Richmond greater area, and even those far away, can participate in helping, teaching, providing places to play, discussing hobby related issues, and more.

We do this through our forums, which can be found at the link, stonypointrefugees.com

We are an ever growing community, with over a hundred members now, that all have one thing in common, gaming/hobbying. If you have a desire to play, hobby, trade, sell, talk, or just hang out, we welcome you and hope that you find us helpful and hopeful for the future of gaming in our area.

If you are indeed interested, please take a moment when you login to our forums, and introduce yourself in the "new members" subforum. Its quite possible you will reconnect with some of your old friends. =)

We keep the site clean, friendly, and just ask for people to show respect and be civil with each other. Think PG 13...

We hope you find us helpful, and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask either myself, a council member, or a moderator any questions, and we will leap to the opportunity to assist you.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely, Casey Christopher

He also suggested that we set up LotR gaming demos. Thoughts?

Wet Palettes and Custom Inks

I do not know how many, if any of you use this, but I have found that the more highlighting I do the more I like to use a wet palette. Here is an easy to follow article about building your own. I actually do not use the wax baking paper, I purchased actual wet palette paper, but I may use a few sheets of it between my paper and the sponge. Otherwise I did exactly what is done in the article.
Using a wet palette has really helped me with my crude highlighting and limited time. I can make my highlight shade, do one model, then come back later( usually the next day ) and begin another model and still get the same shade.
As far as inks go, I have come to really like the GW brown( which they no longer make) and tried many different things over the past year without much success. Now comes this. If only this was written a year ago. I tried this recipe, using liquitex inks, and have been pleased with the results. Now I have a big bottle of black ink and a big bottle of sepia ink. I wonder how long it will take me to get through them? FWIW you can buy liquid ink in smaller sizes but they do not come with droppers.