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'.

Christmas Update

As per usual I have fallen behind with posts and I wanted to bring you up to date with some of my recent painting projects. I feel I am getting better (especially if I look at the models I painted at the end of 2011 which I am NOT going to post) and am enjoying painting the circle bits and pieces. I am beginning to develop a phobia of painting full units but am throwing myself into painting single miniatures in the snatches of time I get to paint.

Kaya the Wildborn (painted late December)

Lord of the Feast (Painted (very quickly) in December)

eKrueger - looks a bit better in the flesh - I struggle to photograph my greens

Pureblood Warpwolf

Morvahna the Autumnblade (updated)

I am attending the Golden Troll 35point open in Chorley next weekend, I am taking my circle who I have been playing most of my games with over recent months and in order to adhere to the two list requirement I have had to select a second caster.

I have been planning for some months to try out Morvahna the Autumnblade as a caster as her fluff is strongly themed around Tharn heavy armies - which is largely what I have constructed with Kromac.
I am hoping that her more attrition based style will provide a nice counter point to Kromac who is often seen as an assassination caster and that by using her I will get the most out of the unit of blood trackers I have also been painting over the last month or so.

I have yet to use her very much, only having had a few games but I will need to user her at least once next weekend so we will see how she fares.

Please excuse the terrible photography - I don't seem to be able to find much time to photograph models during the day at the moment.

EDIT:  New improved pictures included below:

Warpwolf Stalker

I managed to get my Warpwolf Stalker painted in time for the York Inter Club Challenge this weekend (more on that topic later).

I think he's looking pretty good and I got to use some of the larger basing clumps on his base as there was plenty of room. Im trying to be a little less subtle with my shading as I am finding that when I take the models down to the club and out of the natural light that I paint in that it can be hard to spot that I have done any shading at all.

The skin is painted with the Reaper Dark Elf Skin Triad and the golds are a mixture of  Reaper Antique gold, New Gold and Devlun Mood. The sword I painted using darker shades of the Reaper Metalics range which I found helped me to create contrast between both halves of the blade. In the past I have used the brighter metals and found them too close to each other.

I also marked the bases with white lines for now but I intend to do something a bit more interesting on these when I have more time.

All feedback welcome.