Mustering the Steel Phalanx

A little work in progress shot of the first ALEPH model for Infinity. Meet Lieutenant Helena of the Steel Phalanx.

The original idea for this colourscheme came from the PC game Tribes Ascend and it's Diamond Sword faction, which my brother and I play quite excessively.

Speaking of brothers and Vidogames, we managed to snag this little achievement in World of Tanks twice in a row.
I think we took out half the enemy team in a close-ranged knifefight in the first one. Can't really remember the second one.

What never ceases to amaze me how people can stand the long grinds in World of Tanks. My KV-1S tank was a bloody useless piece of scrap metal waiting to be turned into a smoking heap of broken steel at the enemies earliest convenience.
Then I got the longbarreled 122mm gun and suddenly I can get into a scrap with a tank above my weight and punch their faces in. (if only rarely) But anything in my class better beware when the 122mm shells come flying.
Oh, and at least 80% percent of the players are utter, mouthbreathing morons with the IQ of slightly stale gouda cheese.

Holy crap, I'm turning into Totalbiscuit
Fenris

Big Draconic Gribblies

The promised Scythean to accompany Vayl got finished today. I like big eyeless beasties, they are easy to paint.

Rawr!

Blight-bred by Everblight (say that out loud) during the days, when he made his lair under the Iosan city of Issyrah, they are the perfect killers, needing no light to see int he tunnels and caverns.
I am unsure how you swing giant scythe-claws in a tunnel, but then I am not a dragon beastie and that is what lore says.

Ingame it brings two POW 17 attacks to bear, fueled by Legions excellent Fury management. (You can push you beasties as much as you want, but sometimes they need a hug to not flip out and Legion is best at hugging.)

It also brings a Chain attack to the table. If it hits with both initial attacks, it can do a swipe at everything unlucky enough to stand before it. I doubt that this will remove lots of models, because who will cluster his Infantry around something big enough to take two hits from a Scythean?

*generic Dragon noise*

Then again smacking something big with a third, free attack is always welcome.

Also it looks bloody awesome! All evil, spiky dragonmantis!


This has been my first plastic Everblight kit. It was much easier to assemble and feels quite light. Nothing like the solid block of pewter my Carnivean is. I tried to magnetise it, but finally was too lazy, so I now have a bunch of additional arms and heads lying around. Those should come in handy for an eventual Typhon conversion or to upgrade the Carnivean from the two player box.









Finally a groupshot of my painted Legion stuff.

Cheers
Fenris

Can't sleep, post minis

If you are a regular reader of my blog (hah, yeah, right!) you might have noticed the background of my blog has changed some time ago. I picked that because I was painting Freebooter's Fate miniatures. (and it looks cool.)
So have some Pirates:

Gunpowder Mary and Spitfire

Bringing up some heavy Firepower are these two girls. Some players may tell you the Imperial Armada has the ranged advantage. I tell you, I'm bringing a goddamn cannon! And a six-barreled musket to back it up, too.

Matelot aka "That Black guy that dies first"

A cheap Pirate grunt. Got shot by an Arquebus in the first turn of the game, today. And he even managed to survive. Which could not be said about the Arquebusier after Mary's retaliation.

Finally something for my Legion of Everblight. You can't see her awesome ice-base, because she is wearing such a big mantle. Apparently she is the essence of Legion play. I have no idea about that, but her spells and model looked cool. She is soon to be joined by a Scythean warbeast.

The better my Paintjobs get, the worse my photos seem to turn out.
Fenris

Tried Diablo 3 again, got fed up in 10 seconds flat

I tried to play Diablo 3 again. I quite enjoyed my first playthrough, but the always online thingy annoyed me.
So I try to log in and what happens: Error 3 Login Information incorrect.
After 2 1/2 hours later I had set up another admin account for my PC, had changed my password, deleted my cache multiple times, even trawled Blizzards annoying ticket system. (No, if I write "Problem with login" i do not mean "I can't take part in a promotion")
I decided to do post on the forums. Could not log in. Then I tried to detach my Authenticator. Didn't work via the account. Finally I managed to do it via phone.

And suddenly I could log into the game! I chose my Barbarian Korgar, ran into some sewers and shreddered my way through a bunch of snakemen. As I lept into a group of enemies, axes swinging wildly, the old Diablo feeling was establishing itself. I dropped to 30% health and Revenge popped up. I pressed the hotkey to use it and heal my self up and mighty Korgar ... stood there. Just stood there, while nothing happened for a second.
Then another one.
Then he keeled over and died, slain by lag. Tadadada!

Let's have a hurray for forced online play!
Hip, hip, fuck you, Blizzard!


At that point I shrugged quit the game, loaded up the next episode of Doctor Who and started painting my next Freebooter Amazon.

Be aware, be safe. Don't let a pile of cruiseships fall on you.
Fenris

Werewolves are better than Vampires

I wrote a little article on Kaya the Moonhunter for Lost Hemisphere. Have a look at it here.

More Infinity and a Spider

Found this little guy hanging around my balcony. May he destroy any gnat that dares trespass on my property!









And now more Infinity:

Line Kazaks

Hassassin Muyibs

Tankhunters

Tankhunters Back

Cheers
Fenris

Photodump: Clouds, Black Ivan WIP and a first foray into Infinity

Bought a tripod for my Camera. Turns out that it can hold it much more steady than I can. And then some clouds came along.

Believe it or not, this is Bonn, not rural Germany. In fact this is the view from my window.
Also, I'm getting into Infinity, so here is a Scotsman of the Ariadna faction...

God, Infinity miniatures are tiny. But awesome sculpts!

and a Jannissary of the Haqqislam faction.

Damn Camera stole the accents from the blade and gun.

And finally something Warmachine:

WIP Black Ivan commands me to paint for the Empress and the Motherland!

By the way studiying for semester finals sucks when it's so hot andhumid that you start sweating from reading. I'm contemplating moving to Khador and becoming a Greylord, just so I can cast Blizzard on myself. (Bonus: Fuzzy hat!)

Cheers
Fenris

PS: Tartans are a bloody horrible lass of a dog to paint. Excuse my poor attempt at Scottish.