Circle Army Stolen

Hi all,

This is an appeal for readers of this blog (and mainly friends from the club) to keep their eyes open for my Circle Orboros army which I had stolen from my house in Hull, East Yorkshire during a burglary on monday night (7th May 2012). It was taken along with a laptop, wallets and my car.

It is most likely that the burglars will throw the models away as it is likely they didn't know what was in the case but if they should surface in any of the second hand model shops or a fellow druid sees these available to buy second hand - Id be so grateful if you could contact me. Id love the chance to recover or buy this army back as I have sunk 100s of hours into painting it and it has been my passion for the last year since I got into WM/H.

The details of what are stolen are below along with some pictures of some of the models.

Brand new KR Multicase KR Transport Bag (Black)
-  Containing 2 Cardboard KR Multicases with Blue Foam Trays

KR Multicase Accessory Case (Black)
- Containing
Circle Orboros Faction Dice, Measuring Sticks, Printed out tokens etc.
Custom made 'Hull Warmachine' Dice

Circle Orboros Deck
Hordes Rulebook Softback

[b]Warlocks[/b]
Kromac the Ravenous - both forms
Kaya the Wildborne
Krueger the Stormlord
Baldur the Stonesoul
Baldur the Stonecleaver
Morvahna the Autumnblade

[b]Warbeasts[/b]
Gnarlhorne Satyr
Warpwolf Stalker
Warpwold Stalker
Wold Guardian
Megalith
Classic Pureblood Warpwolf
Woldwyrd (converted to be swimming)
Woldwyrd
Argus
Argus

[b]Units[/b]
Druids x 6
Tharn Ravagers x 4
Tharn Ravagers x 4
Tharn Ravager Cheiftain
Tharn Ravager White Mane
10 x Tharn Blood Trackers
Nuala the Huntress
6 Stoneward & Wold Stalkers
6 Stoneward & Wold Stalkers
4 Sentry Stone & Mannikins
Lord of the Feast
War Wolf
Black Clad Wayfarer
Druid Overseer

Painting pKrueger

Over the last couple of weeks I haven't got in as much painting as I would have liked but I was pleased to add pKrueger to my list of painted circle models. I have liked the look of his rules for a long time. I have never been completely sold on the model - I love all of the pieces individually - the flowing robe, the levitating legs, the billowing cloak and the force lightening style hands but something about the way it all sits together always makes me think something isn't quite right.

That all said it was an absolute JOY to paint and I am very pleased with the result.

As usual I struggle to photograph the greens properly but hopefully I will be using him down at the club in weeks to come.

Bolton Portcullis Tournament

I had a good time yesterday at the monthly Bolton Portcullis Tournament. After reading on Dave blog of the last trip across from the Hull guys I was keen to attend and as Hull City's match had been postponed I was able to go without missing out on using my season ticket.

I had 4 good games with local lads who played; eCaine, eLylth, eSkarre and pHexeris. I took a pKaya list and a pKrueger list and managed to get one win to three losses.

I was also very pleased and honoured to be voted the 'best painted' and win some store credit. This is the first painting award I have won and I am encouraged that my painting is getting better and it gives me new enthusiasm to try and improve further and get some more serious painting time in.

I have taken a quick snap of the list that won the best painted award below (even though you have probably seen most of the models already in the previous blog posts).

PS I should point out the whitemane (far left) wasn't painted by me (thanks Jim!) but the rest of the models are entirely my own work.

Stonekeeper UA and Shifting Stones

I am pleased to be able to bring you some pictures of my unit of shifting stones which I completed last week. I have been using the stones for a couple of months but have finally added the Stone Keeper UA to the unit. My common/garden shifting stones are notorious at the club for being an example of my tightfistedness not to buys some model stones and have confused my none gamer friends - "Why would you paint stones to look more like stones when they are already stones?".

Hopefully the UA along with his own garden stone are enough to persuade doubters that I will splash out occasionally!

More Painting

Just another quick update with the latest models I have painted for my Circle Orboros army.


My terrible habbit of painting more casters than infantry continued in early January and I was able to very quickly paint up Baldur the Stonecleaver. He is not my best work but was enjoyable to and quick to paint.

After a giving myself a stern talking to regarding my lack of painted infantry I decided to paint up the unit of druids. I feel that the good use of these guys may be very important to playing circle orboros and it is about time I tried to work them into some lists. They are a bit more complicated to use with each model having a choice of defensive, offensive and healing abilities to use each turn.

I was pleased with the way they came out - I am enjoying painting the green robes on models at the moment and wanted to continue to work on improving my 'faces and bases'.