Making Cake

My first attempt at making a cake formy sisters 9th birthday. I still need alot more practice.

Acursed icing dripped off the tower and into the small moat which ruinned the effect. That and one of the vines broke. Still, not bad for my first attempt.

Of Monsters and Magic

So the battle day on Saturday has been and gone and only now have I had the time to put up the results.

So, it was a multi-way battle with each starting player having one wizard, one fulcrum and two monsters. As the game progressed two other wizards joined the battle but they didn't last long.

Vordicon on his terrorifying Fulcrum, along with Shaggoth (the stores) and Slannesh spawn (one of my classinc miniatures).

My Brother Kris' force of High Elf Archmage (Lore of Fire) along with his Dragon (which we counted as an Emperor Dragon) and a Necrosphinx (stores) and his girlfriend Veronica's (forgive me if I spelt your name wrong) with her Bretonnia Prophetess (Lore of Life) with her Chimera and Thundertusk (stores).

So magic was a blast, with constant miscasts (thanks to Vordican sucessfully casting Pandimonium, it that what it's called?). There where plenty of Fulcrum hopping and wizards turning into frogs.
The Necrosphinx killed the Chimera with it's Heroic Killing Blow.
Thundertusk killed the Treeman Ancient.
Arachnarok killed the Thundertusk.
High Elf Archmage is sucked into the Realm of Chaos.
Emperor Dragon duels a Exaulted Greater Daemon of Khorne and wins.
Vordicon rolls a 11 for strength for Invisible Fire of Tzeentch, sucking the Dragon into the Realm of Chaos.
Shaggoth is killed by Comet.
Celestial Wizard miscasts and is sucked into the Realm of Chaos.
Spawn is killed by entering Amythist Wizard, who later miscasts and is sucked into the Realm of Chaos.

Vordicon blasts Hydra to ashes with Infernal Gateway.
Arachnarok killed Necrosphinx.
Vordican torches Arachnarok (I hate spiders) with Flickering Fire of Tzeentch.

By the end of the game only three wizards remained.
-Vordican (me)
-Bretonnian Prophetess (Veronica)
-Wood Elf Mage

We did a grand magic duel of which I won. Both enemy wizards took a Strength 10 hit but both save. We then thought of blasting each other with spells but I was the only one with real damage, so instead we just rolled off. Vordican and the Wood Elf rolled a 1 and the Prophetess rolled 2.

Bretonnia Win.

Although, with the Realm of Chaos claiming three wizards and an Emperor Dragon, I say Chaos is the real winner. Atleast those guys got to go party with Tzeentch. Responses to my Fulcrum were great with it being refered to as 'Discusting' and me being 'Disturbed' for creating it, which is exactly what I was hoping for.

Arcane Fulcrums

Below are links to Arcane Fulcrum Projects:

Chaos Arcane Fulcrum:
The Challenge
WiP 1
WiP 2
WiP 3
Final

Chaos Arcane Fulcrum Final

This is it, it's finally finished (and not a moment too soon, it's bloody 10pm and I'm tired). Sure it could have been better if I had spent more time on it, but given the recent events of the past week I believe it's as good as it'll get. So here we go - the Chaos Arcane Fulcrum.

I tried to have a chaos star on the top, but it didn't go well during sculpting. That said, I think the fiery paint scheme helps it still stand out without clashing with the flesh.

You can really tell the difference between No Camera Flash and with Camera Flash.

So there we have it. I wonder if Tzeentch would approve of such madness?

Empire Army Challenge Update Again

Finally acquired the Witch Hunter model to finish the 750pt Army Challenge. My only complaint is that every finecast model I purchase always has holes in them, which really makes me pine for the old metals. So with the last model obtained and the rest to be painted, there doesn't seem much point continuing collecting them.....or is there.

After much thought and some of the feedback I'm getting from the models that have been completed, I have decided to enter this army in Armies on Parade 2013. This gives me not only plenty of time to design and paint a proper display board (unlike the disaster that was the Skaven one of 2011), but also to add more miniatures to the army. Things like Archers/Huntsman, Pistoliers and even a Helstorm Rocket Battery all appeal to me and I really think I can pull this one off, although if I did win I can't be sure I'd make it to Games Day, but I would certainly try.

Pony Shirt Arrives

I ordered this one from Welovefine shortly after the contest winners were announced. I did vote for this one, though the other one I voted big for (A spike one based on 'Secret of my Excess' with a King Kong style theme) didn't win, pity as I liked it. Still, I'm happy at least one of the ones I liked made it.

Chaos Fulcrum Update 3

So bloody close and yet the blasted paint just doesn't dry fast enough. Oh well, base coated black, followed by flesh and stone base coats. The flesh (well, most of it anyway) was washed with red wash.

With the final pic you'll noticed to wash was a little too much and leaked down over the stone. After a short cursing I realized that this is an even better effect. Since a pillar of flesh has burst from the ground, this 'overflow' gives the effect that the pillar is actually bleeding all over the place. With only half a day to finish this Fulcrum, here's hoping tomorrow has more luck.