With these two fine ladies my AdeptiCon Warmachine/Hordes ‘Who’s The Boss’ list is now complete. Just like with yesterday’s Unit, these ladies were meant to just be painted quickly. We are also on the last day of February so tomorrow starts off a new month and month to have some fun with some models. All my models are ready for AdeptiCon so I can take a little time on work on some Trollbloods and maybe through in a Guild Ball Blacksmith model every now and then.
Kayazy Eliminators 2
Kayazy Eliminators 2
Painting Points: 2
“Git-R-Done” was about all I was thinking when I started working on my 2 Units of ‘Kayazy Eliminators’ this past Sunday. For one I did not even realize I owned these Units until I decided to dig through my gaming bag, and two, AdeptiCon is not that far away and I wanted them done for the ‘Who’s The Boss’ Tournament. I am OK with them, I am not one who goes out and wins or wants to win painting awards, I just prefer to play with painted models (anything is better than bare metal, plastic or just plain primer).
With only 3 days left till the end of February, we are coming to 2 completed month’s in 2018 and the end of Week #8. This is the time of year that it is crunch time to finish models for our AdeptiCon list’s and I am no different. Going into the week I still needed to complete my Khador 
I have been putting off getting these models completed the last few weeks, but Friday night and yesterday I sat my but down in the painting chair and got them completed. Nothing too fancy with these guys (just a speed paint) to have them completed and table top quality. As I mentioned yesterday, painting Units are boring for me. I did do a quick compare of my ‘Winter Guard Infantry’ I painted many years ago, and these ‘Winter Guard Rifle Corps’ actually do not look too bad compared to them. They will fit right in with my ‘dirty’, ‘war-torn’ look I have with my Khador army.
After finally just sitting on my painting table assembled and primed for days, I finally made some progress on my Khador ‘Winter Guard Rifle Corps’. For some reason I have not had the passion to complete this Unit. I am not much into painting Units anymore and prefer painting the Warjacks/Warbeasts, Warcaster/Warlocks and Solos. That is probably why I also like to paint Guidl Ball so much, each model is unique. Well it can definitely show on these guys and will look good on the table top from 10’ away.
To complete the FA3 allowance, I have today ‘Gatorman Husk 3’. Pretty much identical to 1 and 2, but as I mentioned it a few posts ago, I no longer care about having duplicate models/units for my Warmachine/Hordes armies (unless it is a spam list where after I buy all the models Privateer Press will then nerf them.). Usually this hapens on the FA U models (U = unlimited).
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The FA for Gatorman Husk’s is 3, when I looked at the model and the card I thought it would be cool to run all 3 in a list, so while my friend was picking up my pre-releases at LVO, I had him snatch up 3 of these for me. I think the abilities that he has on the back of his card are really cool and unique and would be fun to play with. They’ll make my opponent think twice before killing them (when they are disabled you center a 5” AOE on it and models suffer a POW 12 corrosion damage roll). I can see myself running these guys into groups of Units and if left alone they can capture a Flag or contest a Zone.
Now back to a few Minion models for the week and we start it all off with the final models (Unit) needed for my half of the 2018 AdeptiCon Warmachine/Hordes Team Tournament with ‘Boil Master & Spirit Cauldron’.
Week #7 is now completed for 2018 and things are rolling pretty good on the hobby side of things. My game count for the year is only at 5, but that is ok, more of my enjoyment comes from building and painting the models (though I am not the greatest painter), it is the feeling I get when I see the model completely finished.
It has been 2 years since I painted my last Trollbloods Solo and 2-1/2 years since my last Warbeast. I have always like the models of the Trollbloods, but painting the blue for me was very time consuming and I could not get it quite the way I liked it. I only like to play with painted models so most of my work is aimed at ‘table top quality’, I do spend some extra time on characters, but if it looks good to me then I am happy.
‘Barnabas, Lord of Blood’ or ‘Barnabas 2’ for short was just released on January 19th and I was able to pick him up the following weekend at my LGS. I have been waiting for the Minions to get a caster like ‘Barnabas 2’. I am very comfortable with my Khador playstyle of running ‘Butcher 1’ that whenever I played my Minions I did not have the same feeling. Now with ‘Barnabas 2’, he is a get up in your face and kill everything type of caster. I am really looking forward to giving him a try.
The Minions ‘Gatorman Soul Slave’ is another new model released from Privateer Press three weeks ago on Janyary 26th. I had drove down to South Bend the next day to my local game store in order to purchase him, but they did not receive any (the trip was not wasted as I did pick up other models at that time). So I had to drive back home and start looking online. Privateer Press showed them as out of stock right away on their site, but I did manage to find an online retailer that showed they had some in stock, so I was happy.
Today we have the second Bone Shrine to complete the matching set. They are FA2 (meaning you are allowed to field 2 of them in a list) so I figured I’d better have both of them. As I mentioned a little while back, I used to not care to have multiples of the same models, but recently that has changed for some reason. Maybe part of the reason is I want to play Hordes more and get better at it and I’ll need lists that are somewhat competitive, plus recently the resin models coming from Privateer Press (especually these Minions) have been looking really good.
Back to hitting my painting queue for the week. Continuing with some of the early model releases at Las Vegas Open, I am now working on the two Bone Shrines that I purchased. These models can be deployed 12” beyond your Deployement Zone and you can channel spells through them. They do not move in the game, but can be great to also hold a Flag. I think these are the most candles I have ever painted. I usually do my candles in a off-white color, but wanted to do something different with them on this model to stand out from all the skulls, so I elected to try red.
The past couple of days I have been going back and forth about what list should I play in the AdeptiCon 2018 Warmachine/Hordes Team Tournament. Each player is allowed 35 Points and I could not decide between my Khador ‘Butcher 1’ list, my Minions ‘Maelok’ list or my Minions ‘Barnabas 2’ list. This morning I finally made my decision and I am going with the Minions ‘Barnabas 2’ list. After further looking into the list I saw that it could also really benefit my partners (son) list who will be playing ‘Kromac 2’. So we are going to be playing with two Warlocks who can really put down the beating.
Last week was week #6 for 2018 and I stayed on par with completing 4 more models, plus started on another 3. I have also been slowly working on ‘Barnabas 2’ and he is coming along nicely, hopefully in another week or so he should be completed. Once I get my Khador ‘Winter Guard Rifle Corps’ ready for the table I know that will probably slow me down a bit.. Being a Unit of 10 men, they may take me a little longer to finish.
Sundays are usually my day to prep models for the upcoming week, no different today. Since I am still undecided what my plans are for AdeptiCon 2018, I need to get myself prepared and start building my Khador ‘Winterguard Rifle Corps’, and these guys were not fun to build at all. I spoiled myself lately with the new resin models and metal models that I forgot about all the little pieces that need to be glued on plastic models.
AdeptiCon 2018 is just under 40 days away and I am still deciding on what lists to play for my events (and actually what events...I have been changing my mind lately on what to play Friday and need to decide quickly).
