Adepticon 2012 Crazy 40K Display boards

Some crazy display boards seen at the 40K team tourney at Adepticon 2012

In this Space Wolf display, the base actually turned:

Humhum, no comments:

Adepticon 2012 Hordes Display Base

A really cool Warma-Hordes display base from Adepticon 2012

Adepticon 2012 - Cool looking WH Fantasy Armies

Here are some cool armies seen during the various Fantasy tournaments at Adepticon (sorry for the blurry pics):

This was a stunning Ogre army:

Unboxing: Cool Mini or Not, Elf Sorceress on Owl

Here is another Unboxing post of a mini from Cool Mini or Not: the Elf Sorceress on Owl.

The model was pretty expensive (I got it from the CMoN website) and I expected a lot from it. To be honest I was pretty disappointed with the quality of it and would not recommend it.

First off, the packaging is pretty unappealing: 

Packing peanuts to protect the mini, seriously? : 

 The sorceress in itself. She looks well detailed but the staff looks really weak:

Beautiful base, nicely detailed:

Nice looking head too, I would not want to be a Skaven right now: 

Check out this enormous mold line running through the feathers, that is bad: 

Body of the Owl, looks ok: 

The wings were really bad, as you can see from the next 4 pics: 

Hard to see but there is a big blob of melted resin right in the middle of this wing, covering all the details and stuff. I was really unhappy with this. I am not even sure how to get rid of this: 

The wings are paper thin, there are even holes in them at several locations: 

So, maybe I was unlucky with this particular cast but I feel like CMoN could do a lot better than this. Also when you charge that much for a mini, I expect higher quality. 

Adepticon 2012 Finished Dwarf Army

Finally back on the blogging business, here are the pictures of my finished Dwarf army for Adepticon 2012 LotR Championships and Team Tournament.

Close-up of the Khazad Guard:

Close-up of the Iron Guard

Dwarf Champions:

Durin, the King of my army:

Dwarf banner bearers:

The Road to Adepticon 2012: Display base for LotR Championship Done!

Here are some pictures of the painting steps and the finished Display base for the LotR Khazad Dum army for the LotR Championship at Adepticon 2012.

The board basecoated:

 After first layer of dark grey then first dry-brush of codex grey:

 Board finished (drybrush of white, weathering, painting of door and tiles, matte varnish on board, glossy varnish on edges):

 Another view of the finished board:

Elven Terrain: Concept Art and first steps

So here is the concept art for a few terrain pieces I will be making for a friend High Elf player (nobody's perfect).
Crystal forest and Elven Waystone:

 Elven Tower (that is going to be a real challenge I think):

 I started cutting pieces for the Crystal Forest out of insulation foam:

The next step is to smooth down the 'crystals' and coat them with some sort of protective layer.