Scott's Painting Year in Review

I don't want gloat too much, but yes I won the painting race between Nick and myself.

However, as Nick so kindly pointed out in his post, I didn't beat the person I was really trying to beat. Namely, myself. In 2009, I painted 32 miniatures. In 2010, I painted 32 miniatures. Exactly.

Now, granted, the mix is a bit different. This year I painted a monstrous creature and two HQ choices. Seen here:



So, had I scored 2009 painting the way I scored 2010, I would have only earned 33 points. So in a round-about, convoluted way, I did beat my total from 2009.

Sort of.

Anyway, here are more close ups...




I also very nearly finished the second half of the CSM unit pictured above. Those will be done soon as I can tear myself away from assembling skaven.

And Thanks again to Nick for spilling the beans, but we have decided to start (or in Nick's case, revive) WHFB armies.

More on CSMs and Skaven coming soon.

Some Day My (Daemon) Prince Will Come....

Actually, he's here. Here are pictures to prove it.



This is a standard plastic Daemon prince with a couple small conversions. I liked the left hand, but thought it looked like it should be holding something. I created the fireball out of a large spawn eye, dryad limbs, and green stuff.



I also used a small spawn eye to make this third eye. This prince will be dedicated to Tzeentch and I thought the third "mystical" eye was a good way to show that.

I also painted the armor in Thousand Sons colors. However, my Sons are undercoated in black and the prince is undercoated in white. As a consequence, the armor is a lot lighter than my other Thousand Sons. No biggie, I guess.



Here is a rear shot.


Here is a shot of the base before I mounted the mini. As you can see, it has a Rhino door from everyone favorite Dark Angels successor chapter, the Angels of Absolution (Thanks for the painting tutorial, Nick)



Finally, here is a close up of the daemon face on the right arm.

Enjoy.

Derg Corra Amnon: Chaos Sorcerer

My chaos sorcerer is finally done. It's on a 40mm base, so technically, I should only get 2 points for the painting race. However, Nick said he thinks this miniature deserves more.

Therefore, I earn 3 points and Nick and I are tied.

Here are some more pictures.



I haven't seal it yet, so it looks very shiny. Also, there are some touch-ups I'd like to do (particularly the halberd), but don't want to get too bogged down in one miniature. I'll do the touch-ups soon, but I need a break for a couple days from this mini.



Also, there are in-progress shots along with more detailed pictures of the base on my personal blog.

Introduction and Update

Hello all, This is Scott. You may know me from my blog, Citizen Nick Hobby center (not to be confused with xNICKBARANx, who also posts here).

For those of you who don't know me, I started blogging back in 2006 when I started my Thousand Sons Project. In 2007, I switched to my Blog at Citizen Nick Hobby center. Here is a sample of my Thousand Sons:




My progress on my Thousand Sons has been slow, but in now way purposeful (yes, I went there). Over the last three years I've been distracted by a lot of projects, including my 'vanilla' Chaos Space marines and my Daemons.

This year I decided to narrow my focus as much as possible and work on only one project at a time. Since I have so many partly completed projects, this has been working out quite well for me. I also decided to concentrate only on my daemons for this whole year.

In fact, I just finished this unit of Bloodletters this weekend (not all of them are pictured):




I'm definitely more of a painter than a player. I've been trying to slowly improve. Since I started playing my daemons, I've gone from mostly losses to mostly draws, so I guess that's an improvement.

Next on the painting queue are my Tzeentch flamers. Below is the test model I did nearly a year ago. I have ten of these in a partially painted stage, but I decided to paint only five at a time. I feel that I get a lot more done if I take it in smaller chunks.