Memento In Utero - Adepticon 2014 Army

And now for the second half - the 40k army!  Excited to be done and to be packing it up.  If you are going to Adepticon feel free to stop and say hi.  I will not be playing the army, a friend will, but I will be around.

Ride of the Worm King - Adepticon 2014 Army

Hey everyone!

Here it is, all finished and the images all up for your viewing pleasure!  I will be uploading the 40k army display momentarily.  For those that might be new:

Every year I do a large scale project for Adepticon, a convention in early April in Chicago IL.  This year I did two!  This is the Fantasy display. If you are interested in any of the WIP images, I have them all on Facebook and in this blog.

The display is based on a large. real wooden throne.  I bought the throne and skeleton from a local "antique" store.  It is about 6.5 feet tall from floor to dragon wings.

The theme of the army is a nightmare fairy tale.  Something a child in the Warhammer world might dream is coming to his town to attack.  The Worm King is a legend of a twisted king who would attack with his dragons and "knights" in the middle of the night and take children away in sacks and on their carts to be eaten for dinner by his pet dragons.  Luckily for the children of Bretonnia, it is simply a tale told by parents when their kids are mean. Or is it?

Adepticon 2014 Blog Part 12 - Finished, Photography Underway!

Hey all!

I can finally say, the armies and displays are complete, and I have been taking pictures!  Timing the angle of the sun was tricky and has taken most of the night.  Now on to individual model photos, and nighttime egg shots!

Adepticon 2014 Blog Part 11 - Egg Finished!

Hey all - this is it!  Both displays down.  Now just to do the marines that go in the egg.  Let's wrap this up so I can get back to painting!

Adepticon 2014 Blog Part 10 - Finishing the Throne

Hey all!

Time passes, things get done - or something more appropriately poetic.  I have focused a lot more on the throne the past few days so I will go over all of the progress, which is now done enough to at least call it complete.

Adepticon 2014 Blog Part 9 - Starting to Look Like Something

Hey everyone!

Sorry for the lack of updates.  Working on so many projects right now basically as the weather sees fit and as things dry, so lots of progress spread over many means there isnt going to be much to show until they all fall into place at the same time down the road.  Right now I have going:

- The throne

- The Fantasy army for the throne

- The egg chair 

- The Kuksi guts of the chair

- The Marine army for the egg chair

- A customer's 2000 point admech army

- 4 RoB city tiles for that army, one being a custom city with LEDs and a tablet for a billboard

- A 25 model demo set of Wrath of Kings for CMoN

Phew!  This is definitely the most I have bit off right before Adepticon, so let's save as much time as possible and run down the egg progress!

Flashback Friday - Nurgle Titan

 Hey everyone!

Welcome to Flashback Friday, where I revisit old armies I have painted from the past.  I have painted thousands of models and who knows how many huge armies on commission, and each one holds a special place in my heart. I enjoy looking back every once in a while at the photos and remembering the joys and struggles, the hard work and the pure enjoyment of making someone's vision a reality. But enough of that emotional stuff, let's get on with it!

Adepticon 2014 Blog Part 8 - Finishing the Egg

Hey everyone.

Sorry for the lack of updates.  The past two days have been the only decent ones for outside work, so there hasn't been much work on the displays until yesterday.  Work inside is all over the place so lots of progress, but not much completely finished to show.  However before we get to the egg, I did get the houses done, and have a few pictures to share.

Flashback Friday - Titan Trio

 Hey everyone!

Welcome to Flashback Friday, where I revisit old armies I have painted from the past.  I have painted thousands of models and who knows how many huge armies on commission, and each one holds a special place in my heart. I enjoy looking back every once in a while at the photos and remembering the joys and struggles, the hard work and the pure enjoyment of making someone's vision a reality. But enough of that emotional stuff, let's get on with it!

Adepticon 2014 Part 7 - Painting the Derelict

Hey guys!  I have finished the ship to about 75%, so I thought I would go ahead and post the results. :)  Let's get on with it!