Driller Metallics

I mentioned earlier in the blog that I had blown a load of money on some new paints. Well the paints came from Foundry (http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/main.asp), I've not used them before but am very impressed. Particularly with the Burnished Copper set, excellent. The Foundry Paint System give you a pot of your base colour and a pot each of premixed shade and highlight. Its a little more expensive but worth the investment. Below is the Driller with all the metallics finished.

Driller and the Metallics

For the silvers I used Metal 35B as a base, inked with Black wash 47B, the spiral of the drill was given a futher coat of Chainmail 35A, then heavily dry brushed with Metal 35B, then a final lighter dry brush with Spearpoint 35C. The Copper parts were based in Burnished Copper 43B, shaded with Burnished Copper shade 43A, highlighted with Burnished Copper light 43C then washed with Copper Wash 47A.

Undercoating

Gorten and the Driller see some paint at last.

Gorten Undercoated

Driller Undercoated

Gun Bunnies

Next comes the Gun Bunnies, the battle box has 3 Grundback Gunners all of which I plan to field in my list. As before, I've cleaned the metal parts and the resin base in detergent. Below are the bits required for a single Gunner.

Gun Bunny Bits

Grundback Gunner

The Driller

The Driller parts all got washed and scrubbed with washing up liquid and a tooth brush, flash was cleaned and the pin vice came out.

The Driller Bits

I am shamelessly stealing a pose I found on the PP forums for the Driller (http://www.privateerpressforums.com/index.php?showtopic=160006&hl=searforge), as it looks suitably Dynamic rather that the somewhat static pose that is customary with the Driller. The pose requires the left arm to be rebuilt in order to postition the Grabber correctly, below is a picture of the new joint.

The Driller's Left Arm Joint

Here is the finished Driller mounted on it's scenic base.

The Driller

Searforge Resumes

So with all the Toy Soldier excitment out of the way, I return to the construction of my Searforge list. As this is a bit of a painting project I decided to invest in some nice scenic bases. First to get a base was Gorten, being the only figure built thus far.

Gorten with Scenic Base

Here is the 35 point list I am currently thinking about :

Gorten Grundback
- Ghordson Driller
- Grundback Gunner
- Grundback Gunner
- Grundback Gunner
Ogrun Bokur
Ogrun Bokur
Thor Steinhammer
- Wroughthammer Rockram
Lord Rockbottom (although a 3rd Ogrun also appeals)
Forge Guard (10)
Total 34pts

Toy Soldier '09

Well my frantic painting paid off as I had my 750pts Cryx list ready for the Toy Soldier event. A great weekend event organised by JT of my Gaming Club. 8 Games over 2 days:

350pts vs Mercs (Shae) Pitch Battle. The Coven won the day but I missed the Caster kill.

350pts vs Circle (Baulder) Mosh pit. I took the Coven and although I took out both Wold Wordens I lost the scenario, my pDenny list would have been the better choice here.

500pts vs Khador (Scorsha). The Coven got the Caster kill.

500pts vs Khador (Butcher) Loot. My pDenny list lost out to the Butcher, 2 counter vs his 3 counters.

750pts vs Circle (Kaya) Mosh Pit. The Iron Lich performed very well. Lost Deathjack early in the game, but a counter charge by my trusty McThralls did plenty of damage to the Pure Blood and Warp Wolf. Routed the reeves with a Hellfire from Wrathe and a well placed Arc-node allowed me to unload Hellfire after Hellfire into Kaya for the Caster Kill. Came down to Time and there was no circle models with a CMD in the Mosh pit, so I took the game.

350pts vs Trollbloods (Grim) Pitch Battle. pDenny and the Cankerworm unloaded in to Grim spending 6 focus between them to bring him down.....he was dead already but kept making his tough roll......

500pts vs Trollbloods (Grissel) No Mans Land. pDenny did well and I got the caster kill but did not have enough VPs in the end as I lost Denny. Made a mistake when casting Ghost Walk on Denny to ignore free strikes...forgot that Denny did that already, if the focus had only been used to kill off the remaining Trollbloods Champions things might have been different.

750pts vs Khador (Butcher) Contested Ground. The Iron Lich performs very well, but really the Game was won when the Butcher and a Spriggan charged, but failed to take out Deathjack. It was a bold move and when if failed Deathjack jumped on Butcher's head. The remainder of the games was spend clearing up the field. One particularly pesky Manhunter refused to have the good grace to die, but eventually I managed it to take the game.

After all that I managed to come in at 4th place, happy days.

Coven 750pts Completed

Well, with the aid of the new painting table I've managed to complete my Cryx 750pts painting challenge in time for Toy Soldier '09 at the end of the week. My primary list for the Whoremachine Tournament is as follows:-

Army: Coven 750pts

Faction: Cryx

Army Points: 741/750

Victory Points: 23

Witch Coven of Garlghast

- Deathjack

- Slayer

- Deathripper

- Deathripper

- Nightwretch

- Nightwretch

- Skarlock

Pistol Wraith

Pistol Wraith

Bile Thralls (10)

Mechanithralls (10)

- Brute Thrall

Coven Battle Group

Infantry