[AToFG 2014] January painting Eldar Guardians unit

Here is my January work for the Tale of Four Gamers Painting challenge:

-Squad of 10 Eldar Guardians with Heavy weapon

[AToFG 2014] Test model

Here is the test model (2nd attempt). I like the flashy colors but painting yellow is rough. It is going to be a long year...

Working on the Eldar Revenant Titan

The big beast first got a nice warm bath with soapy water :

After a LOT of pinning, glueing, dry testing and great stuffing gaps, the model is ready to be undercoated white :

 I used magnets at the elbow joints and  in the canons for ease of painting and transportation:

A Tale of Four Gamers New Season : Eldar with Dark Eldar Allies 40K (Eldar Revenant Titan included!)

With this new year, I am starting a new Tale of Four Gamer challenge.

This time I will be painting an Eldar army with Dark Eldar allies. I purchased the models for this challenge between 2004 and 2013 and it is time they get some paint.

Here are the different sets for this challenge:

-set 1 : Squad of 10 guardians with heavy weapon
-set 2 : Squad of 10 dire avengers with exarch
-set 3 : Wave Serpent
-set 4 : Squad of 10 wyches with hekatrix (Dark eldar allies)
-set 5 : Hemlock wraith fighter
-set 6 : Wraightknight
-set 7 : Forge World Avatar with spear
-set 8 : Characters : 1 Spirit, 1 Ilic NightSpear, 1 special character Ranger, 1 Dark Eldar Dreadlord
-set 9 : 1 Eldar Warwalker
-set 10 : Forge World Eldar Revenant Titan

It is going to be a rough year!

AToFG: Circle Orboros Final Family Portraits

And after almost a full year of the Tale of Four Gamers Painting Challenge, I finally completed the final and 10th set this month. Here are a couple of family portraits of effectively 11 months of painting Hordes Circle Orboros:

AToFG: November Painting Circle Orboros Woldwrath Gargantuan

And here is the final set, set#5, for the Tale of Four Gamers Painting Challenge which was started in October but I couldn't finish it in time due to a heavy workload and business travel. I finished the model in November and used one of my two joker cards for October.

Here is the Woldwrath Gargantuan in winter theme:

'You' talkin' to me'?:

This model was a lot of work to paint and took a lot of patience. I am happy with the end result but it was one of the hardest models I worked on, especially in terms of modelling (pinning and stuff) and painting (there was no end in sight for a while...).

Warhammer Fantasy Gaming: Triumph and Treachery Expansion

Last Friday, we tried a multi-player Warhammer Fantasy game using the news Triumph and Treachery Expansion. We were 5 players, each with 1500 pts. We didn't use the Mercenary rules for this game.

My Dark Elf Army was roughly: 

-Dreadlord on Cold One (with Sword of Anti-Heroes, very useful against the Bretonnians)
-Sorceress Level 1 on foot (lore of Death, got the Purple Sun)
-7 Cold-One Knights with full command
-15 Black Guards
-20 Dreadspears with full command
-10 Darkshards
-1 War Hydra with fiery spit upgrade

My opponents had Bretonnians with 2 lances of Knights errants and Knights of the realm, pegasus knights archers and a trebuchet ; Ogre Knigdom with the iron blaster, lead belchers, and other ogre units ; Tomb Kings with many chariots, screaming skull catapult and other skeleton units ; Orcs and goblins with a giant, black orks, chariots, night goblins and other orcs units.

The game was lots of fun and I will definitely be getting this expansion. The treachery and interfering with other players which comes from the added cards was very fun. Added bonus, I won with 1100 gold at the end.

Here are some pictures of the game:
The table after set-up:

 The Tomb Kings:

 My Dark Elfs: 

 A charge that ended up going better than I thought: