The Riders of Twilight, Host of the Storm Warder - Army Showcase

I have finally managed to finish the Bretonnians and so I present to you the finished 2800 point army that I will be bringing with me to OFCC Fantasy 2013.

Full Army Pictures:

Full Army Close Ups:

Individual Units:

The Trebuchet's - Breachmaker and Old Faithful

Lord Grayson Maddox, Lady Ravenna and Sir Gareth Dragonsbane

The Knights of the White Hart and the Order of the Wyrm

The Lady's Aegis

The Storm Riders

The Oath of Galisteel, Reliquae of Sir Bautch

The Deer Hunters and Lady Ravenna's Bowmen

The Sylvan Flame and Sir Lloric the Sylvan Knight

And there we have the full 2800 points of my Bretonnian army.  The actual list is located here.

Thanks and have fun!

Now on to Dark Eldar!

Operation #Steakbet - The approaching the end. - Grail Reliquae

In addition to getting a ton of building of non-Bretonnian models built in the past week, I have had 2 hours a night to work on my Grail Reliquae and finish it up.

I dropped the Questing Knights from my list a few weeks ago after their less than appreciable performance in a few games and replaced it with a full Grail Reliquae.  I think this is the best looking unit in my entire army and I wish I had taken the time to paint the rest of the army like this rather than blow through it to accomplish the #steakbet.

Here is the Oath of Galisteel, Reliquae of Sir Bautch.

Once I have finished painting the last unit which is my Grail Knights, I will take the time to properly build a movement tray for this unit and consider this army DONE!

Til next time!

Operation #steakbet - Success!

So on Friday, January 18th - I completed the #steakbet where I was to have a 2400 point Bretonnian army painted with movement trays (a stipulation that I still call bullshit on fyi but whatever) before the Black Sheep Brawl on Feb. 19th.  I completed the task and shall be enjoying my steak dinner soon.  I ended with 2,436 points painted and still have 2 full units to paint before the Fantasy OFCC in June 2013.  I have already assembled the two units but have vowed not to pick up a paint brush until February at the earliest.

That said, I have actually enjoyed painting this army.  It was daunting at first since I desperately wanted to have a higher quality looking paint job and spent many, many hours working on a new technique.  I am happy to say that I have now finally mastered that technique and I am hopeful that future armies will benefit from it more so than this one did (which still looks pretty damn good fyi).  

Anyway, enough jibber jabbering - you good readers want to see pictures.  Someday, I will actually take time to get a nice camera AND a lighting studio set up.  Perhaps I'll bother my friends about it...

Anyway here is #steakbet!

I'll start off with the Lord on a Hippogryph WIP's then the full army shots!

 Behold the #steakbet completed in all it's glory!

Also, never again am I engaging in such a stupid bet.  Next time I'll just say "Eat a bowl of dicks" and move on.

Thanks!

Bretonnian Battle Standard Bearer/Green Knight completed - #steakbet

Last night I went from start to finish on my Bretonnian Battle Standard Bearer/Green Knight model in roughly  six hours.  This is the 2nd to last model I needed to complete for the #steakbet to be a success.  I'll post all the pictures I took of this really kick ass model. I'm tempted to buy a few more of this model for future painting.  Anyway, here are the pictures - with my new phone I should be able to do a "once over" when I have finished the army and provide excellent pictures for each unit.

My battle standard bearer:
Sir Lloric the Sylvan Knight, Herald of the Storm Warder

Here is the box it came in which I used as its primary guide for the freehand you see later.

The sprue was well done, I had only one small imperfection I had to put a dab of glue in to fix other than that it was awesome.

Here is the model assembled - note the amount of flash I had to trim off it.

I've basecoated the black skin on the horse with Thalmar Black, the metal sections with leadbelcher and the "gold" parts with Screaming bell.  

I then used Zandri Dust to basecoat the "green" cloth areas.

 I then used Menoth White Highlight followed by Morrow White to bring up the cloth to a nice white with some highlights being designated by the Morrow White.

 I then used watered down and sadly a paint pot on its last legs - Dark Angel Green to do the freehand filigree all over the horse and riders cloth.

I added Goblin Green for the plumes, highlighted the skin and hooves with Greatcoat Grey and painted the shield with Teclis Blue, Deathworld Forest, Waagh Green, and Goblin Green.  Once those were done, I washed the entire model with varying layers of Thraka Green and then painted the Screaming Bell sections with Gehenna Gold.  Really fun model to paint!

Enjoy -

The Storm Riders of Parravon - Pegasus Knights Competed - #steakbet

Here's some images of the Storm Riders of Parravon, my Pegasus Knights and Hero completed for the Bretonnian army.  This only reinforces that I need to take the time to build a photolab =).

Anyway here are the finalized pictures - better ones to come later.