Hey Guys! It's time for a blogger special event! The DreadTober!  While we were at Nova, a group of us bloggers discussed how wonderful it was to see everyones different paint styles, and how it might be fun to have us all paint something similar, and see what each comes up with.  Not so much a true competition, but just for fun.  So we came up with DreadTober!

The rules are simple.  Create a dreadnought in your paint style for the month of october.  Try to restrain yourself to dreadnought scale (contemptor and smaller, scratchbuild fine), but since this isn't really a competition, nobody is going to get angry if you go nuts and lets say, build an imperial knight pyramid in the shape of a giant jackolatern or something. (*Glances at John*).

Updates will be posted on this blog, and other blogs, and we'll have a finished page of everyone's entries, linking back to their blogs on FYN (I think or someones website).  Just a fun little event to get everyone motivated and to share in the painting excitement!
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​The main point of this exercise, is just to enjoy each others painting style and see what everyone comes up with.  Whether it's John's controlled clean weathering, Todd's careful blends, Greggles and his spilling powders all over his model and calling it done, Mikes colorful compositions etc etc.  I just realized I haven't seen Nils do a vehicle outside of bolt action so now I'm super excited.   Look for #dreadtober on twitter, or any dreadtober tags on facebook/blogs to follow along.  You can also visit the main dreadtober site by clicking the main image, or the button below.  I will try to update this three times a week.

Hey Guys! Welcome back.  I hope you've been enjoying my stream of bat reps and photos from Nova Open.  Today's post is my final Nova post, and deals with my entry into Capital Palette, discussions with other artists, classes I took, dreadtober, and the photos of the lootas I forgot to put up previously :).

As some of you might remember, I was pretty excited about how my dakkajet came out.  The chipping paint had worked beautifully on it, and my experiments had resulted in a really good looking piece.

This is the bat rep you all have been waiting for.  The mighty steel legion faces down the ork walkers for battle supremacy in the campaign to keep the dirty humans back in their own space.  With a whopping fourteen tanks lining up to end the orks day, it was going to be a brutal slugfest of drinking, yelling, and balling so hard.

This battle would swing back and forth from turn to turn, with every tea light marker being used, and the orks taking massive losses.  This battle was also vs Dan, and was one of my all time most enjoyable 40k games I've ever played.  How much fun was it?  Lets just say our secondary points were "Drinking, Yelling, and Having fun".  

Welcome back loyal rust friends!  Today is the battle royale between Colin's awesome Daemon army, and the Trust in Rust Walkers!  I'd met Colin at the previous Nova Open, and at Adepticon, but had yet to play a game with him! Was definitely looking forward to this.  (We also played Jason and Brett [his teammates] in an earlier matchup!) 

Colin had a number of wicked things in his list, including a void shield relay network, which rendered all my shooting pretty much mute!  This was going to be an absolute slug fest back and forth

Welcome friends to the battle arena, where the walkers fast a series of dangerous and brutal opponents.  Though I played in six games, I'm only going to cover the 2k point games, as that is when I played the walkers.  The other games I was forced to put away the walkers and play with things I'm not used to which made me feel all icky.  I need my steel and iron!

The first game I'm covering is vs Sebastian, the son of Steve (my opponent at the LVO).  Steve wasn't just content to krump me himself, he sent his minions to crush my spirit! Seb would be bringing the Dark Angels "Gets Hot" list.  I would be bringing walkers...lots and lots of walkers!

Hey Guys! Hope you are liking the photos!  
Going for speed here more for nice careful selection of photos.  Because I was participating in two events, (and taking classes), the photos are not as separated as I'd like them to be!  I'd also like to apologize to the narrative players.  I had !@)$(&)!@&$!)( fun up the wazzoo, and was a bit drunk most of the time, so only really got photos of my stuff!

The website was getting a bit overloaded with all the photos in one post, so I had to split them up.  So you get two posts in one day!  Will work on the others for Tuesday and Wednesday! Hope you guys enjoy them!

Hey Guys! Back from Nova Open, and what an absolutely amazing time I had.  I played in Trios, narrative, entered the capital palette competition, and made a ton of new friends, while reconnecting with old ones.  Today I'm going to share all the GT photos I took, tomorrow we'll hit up the narrative, invitational, and trios.  I hope you guys love army photos, because here they all come!

Choosing the cover image is always a hard one...but boy did I love these guys!

Note: Some of the photos are duplicates.  When you are trying to take photos of an entire GT, sometimes you forget which armies you took a photo of already...also I had a camera setting wrong for a bit, and ended up having to retake a bunch of shots!  See video at end for shenanigans.

It's been a long journey, but I'm finally here guys! I painted right up to the last minute, and had to start making cutting room floor decisions.  As anyone who has painted orks before knows, even a small model can have endless levels of details!

This update will be a bit shorter, as I only brought half my files with me, but I promise to make it up to you guys with endless Nova photos!  Thought I'd try something new and show you the end product first, then talk about everything :)