Still Hunting the Escaped Muse...

...but in the meantime, I actually play some games.

I played Sam's Legion warband with my new Circle force.  Unfortunately, things went a bit downhill after this picture, but I'm learning!

This a week ago this past Saturday, I met a dude named Spencer, a recent transplant to my North Texas next of the woods - from a much cooler city.  Anyway, I invited him to the local store, Galaxy Books and Comics, for a game.  I brought Footdar, mostly because it's a painted army.

The Dreadknight deep strikes from behind...

...while the Terminators advance.

I won't go into the game too much - I didn't take enough pictures for that - but it was a good game, with the advantage seemingly locked up for the Grey Knights with the arrival of the Storm Talon and Paladins.

I really should have taken more damage than I did during Spencer's shooting.  He wasn't that familiar with the Eldar, so spend maybe a bit too much shooting at Elle-drag's Seers, who naturally had Fortune.

And so the game ends dramatically, with the last two Paladins fighting it out with the Avatar and Elle-drag.

Fun to be had by all!

...but my muse is still missing.  More on that to come.

Oh, But Where the Muse has Flown!

I was actually surprised when Little Barrera mentioned it's been over a month since I've posted here.  Seriously - I would have said maybe three weeks.

So what's up with that?

Life.  Work.  The holidays.  My annual relaxation from the weekly BoLS schedule.  But it's more than that...

...frankly, I've been bored!

Sadly, my muse has flown.  So I went looking for him.

I couldn't find my muse anywhere.  In fact, it got worse - I tore open the rest of my room, just making a  mess of things!

...er... tilt your head to the left?

Then I looked on Call of Duty Black Ops... for quite a few weeks...

Maybe in here?

Hell ya!  It's time from a change for a bit!

I'm not quite done, but I had to relearn some basics again for this one.  Stupid airbrush - once you get used to it, what happens when it's down?

Okay, I got this figured out...

TO BE CONTINUED

Grey Knight Librarian: Quickie Post

I've been a bit under the weather this week, but I did get some painting done.  I finished up this Grey Knight Librarian for the Tim That Can, which is an addition to his Grey Knights army I did for him as commission work.

I did the same model for the Card Pimp in Question some time back...

...so my goal was to paint a model that was different but would still fit in the army.  I chose to do a more 'working psyker' approach, thus the leather tabard and muted colors.

Ah well - enough typing.

Chaos Daemon Prince of Nurgle: Quickie Post

I finished the Nurgle Daemon Prince for Tim That Can's commission.  This bad boy is a whopping WS  9... take that, Marines!  I'll admit, I fought the impulse to snap this dude's sword off and replace it with a Black Mace.

For No Apparent Reason: The Video Edition

Call of Duty, Back in Black

I've been hard-pressed to wanna do much besides play Call of Duty Black Ops II.  If you don't know, the Call of Duty series is by far the best online competitive shooter experience, and so far this version tops Modern Warfare II as my favorite version.

Why?  The Pick 10 system is simply too much fun.

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You know, I'm inspired to write about this game but I'm not sure how many of you are interested.  Let me know, or hit me up online.  I'm playing this version on the XBox.

Scrapbookin'

The Changeling: Quickie Post

One of the character models from a commission I'm working on for the Little Tim That Could Can.

Somebody Else's Daemons, Again

Back into the painting schedule, and currently working on multiple elements of the Little Tim That Could's Daemons army.

Maybe he should be 'That Can' - his constant practice is paying off in wins.

We played on Saturday, with me breaking out my old CSM army to see how well it stands up in 5th.

Somebody Else's Daemons

Feast of Blades Retrospective, Part 1 of ?

The ?  until I finish or get tired of talking about it or get worn out by work or move on to other projects.

You know.  Let's have some pictures!

 I took the RustyCrons, heavy on troops and tricks.  Frankly, it's not a great tournament list, but it has teeth and I know how to use it.  Ultimately, that's why I took it.  I toyed with borrowing the Grey Knights I painted for the Little Tim That Could - but that would have been a mistake.

In one sense, experience, anyway!  There were more Daemon armies than you cold shake a stick at!

Vargard Obyron.  I painted this in the hour before the flight, and it shows... but this is one bad dude.  I would have been better served dropping the Stormlord - 'cause frankly, that trick is tired - and sticking with this beatstick.

Some pics of the Fabricator General's beautiful CronAir army.

Funny, I recognized this style the moment I saw it.  Bigger Barrera has a very distinctive look of washes and layers over grey.

Another shot at the RustyCrons.  The Quad-Crystal was useless - did you know it can't shoot by itself? It's not an emplaced weapon, a la the Bastion.  Since I believe you win in the movement phase (with this type of army, anyway) I hardly shot that damn thing.

We're still all shaking out the minutia of 6th.

A few pics of my last game against Kenny of Next Level Painting and his unreal-beautiful Daemons army.

He hit his preferred - which was a stacked drop - hit his drops - not so hard, nowadays - and played his game to the hilt.

Against an army geared around Fateweaver, the only good strategy is taking the Flying Chicken out.  I never came close.

I'll go over the game in more detail in the future.  Vacation is over - off to work!