Something on the Horizon...

Just saw a new interesting game. WarCanto by Dwarf Tales. This stuff looks brand spanking new, as in just released. The art on the website looks amazing but the models are PHENOMENAL! I haven't been this excited about a new game since I first saw Confrontation come out. The rules are free (as a quick download) and there looks to be some interesting gameplay elements as well. But damn those models are fantastic!

Here are some Pics

Here are the two models that won me two of the Golden Goblins. More detailed pics of the models are going to go up on the other site soon...

please note that the formatting is a little skewed on this site; they are not that stretched...

Marauder Mayhem...

Just got back from a great tourney in Dayton Ohio. Army underperformed, but I still won TWO painting awards! One for best single fig and the other for Large Monster. Pics to come soon...

Web Site

Here is he address to the website: http://www.minipaintingservice.com/

Its up, its bare-bonesed, and it gonna have a lot more pics soon!

Website goes live today!

I am happy to announce that my 'real' website goes live today. I will still update my blog on a regular basis but the website will be the main source of hired gun miniatures.

On other news, my Vampire Counts army is almost ready to roll to the Marauders RTT next week. Let the meat wave roll... I will be surprised if this fluffy list wins a game. But i will let you all know how it goes and I will take pics, see them here...

What's New

Well, the new website is going painfully slow. Most of my time has been spent painting my current jobs and getting an army ready for a WFB tournament next weekend. The things that are interesting me right now are Flames of War and Infinity. I also had a great idea for doing space wolves: I like the fluff but I just don't like the models; namely the wolf cavalry. What an abomination of a figure (dude looks cool but that wolf is horrifying.) So I was thinking I just might use chaos space marine bits and guys on blood crushers as the models with those rules. I think it would look cool and be fun to play.

The other thing about this tournament. I thought it would be a fun friendly event and not something resembling a 'ard boyz tourney. I was wrong (from what I hear). But the list has already been submitted and now I just play for fun and it is a great opportunity to get exposure for Hired Gun painting service. But I can promise you at the next tourney I will bring the 'thunder'.

More updates to come...

Distractions....

Its that time of year again. Fall. My gaming time always seems to take a hit at this time of year and now that I am a professional painter, I find myself forcing me to the grindstone amidst many annual distractions. I live in Ohio and with fall coming so to does another school quarter. It's wierd being in college and on the quarter system, but thats life. Getting these jobs done now require a strict management of my time so I can pass my classes and still make money.

Football is here too. I am not originally from Ohio so I am not a diehard buckeye fan, but I do love my college ball. Its kind of easy though to paint with the tv on, but all too often I find my gaze lingering on the Tv and not my models...Pro Football I keep an eye on for my fantasy team (no not Bloodbowl..) but as I said being in Ohio the regular games are the Browns and Bungles, combine their annual effort and you might almost get a winning season... Also, the NNL pre-season has begun so I will follow my BlueJackets in no time...

Tv is not my only foe, the fall fishing season is almost upon us which will regularly force me out of the studio and into the burning sun and insect infested shores to try to catch something other than frustration and dissapointment...

Add a family to the mix and there goes even more time, but this is one that I would gladly pay. (The local pumpkin patches are almost open, yay!) But it does force me to choose what I do in those few moments that are not occupied with previous commitments. Most of the time when I can game I really have to pick between what I play: Will it be 40k or shall I play Malefaux? Shall I finish painting Blood Angels or Eldar or even Flames of War? Should I look at Infinity or Warlord 2.0? Decisions, decisions, decisions....

It wouldn't be so much of a problem but I am just so damned distracted these days. Oh, look at that....