Big Guns never tire

BOOM! 3 hours work and Dad has himself a em-placed Earthshaker canon. I find painting 28mm is a bit easier after spending 10 odd years painting 15mm same techniques just embiggened. Might have to paint more of this big stuff I just don't want to have to play or pay for it :)

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Making Money from your hobby

So you wanna make some money? There's this old saying "If you're good at something, don't do it for free."
Painting mini's as a hobby is fun but it's an expensive hobby but you can supplement this through painting for others.

As you may or may not know I am a commission painter I make a bit of money here and there and I consider myself an above average artist. Below are some hints and tips to help you get started.

This comes at a cost firstly those toys you painted and made look super awesome they're not yours and you have to let them go.

Next up is a deadline, fail to meet this and you will lose business.

Finally your tools and this is very important you're going to have to invest in quality brushes, paints and maybe even an airbrush so far I've broken 3 airbrushes including my Sotar 20/20 somehow :(

One piece of advice is not  to undersell yourself if you're charging $50 a tank and you think your work is worth $50 a tank stick to your guns maybe be flexible with a big job but don't devalue your work.

 Have credentials? Show it off! Previous work, awards or published work *cough*Hellfire & Back*cough*

Experiment, learn and use new an different techniques discovering AK Interactive washes is one of the best things I ever did.

Get a Paypal account it's essential if you do international work.

Finally don't let the work consume or overwhelm you, right now I have a whole gaggle of 40K stuff to paint but there's no rush on it (according to the owner) but that could change so project and time management may become essential.

Only paint for yourself if you've got the time, you may have to sacrifice a tourney or turn away work but get that job done and DON"T drop your standards I did this once and I felt dirty and to this day it's high quality or no dice.

If you have any helpful hints or tips let me know in the comments below. Also if you want a quote for anything let me know my email is kingdan82@gmail.com.

Happy Wargaming!

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Warzone Resurrection a series of unfortunate events

Holy cow it finally arrived after Prodo's suffered from Fraud, Flooding, F*cking couriers, Sickness, Machine breakdown and whatever else ruined their deadline. These are, however, the risks you take on with any Kickstarter but it is here now and I was one of the last to receive mine so let us review.

The rulebook is just under 300 pages long it's well constructed and looks to be rugged enough to dragged out often.

The first 25 pages are fluff the next section is the actual rules and so far seems easy to follow following on from this you've got the lists and special unit rules.

 One thing the book is missing is a painting guide but this is more than made up for with the awesome artwork both new and some from 20+ years ago.

Overall it flows well, looks good and seems durable.

The miniatures have come a long way from the 90's. If you remember the 90's you'll remember chunky mini's made of depleted uranium and hilarious paint jobs we've come along way since 20 odd years ago.

Although not ideal the mini's are made in a blue resin, I do believe they told the kickstarters they would get plastic toys, and are very well detailed. Below are some awesomely painted toys.

The future has another race/nationality/megacorp Imperial on the way and they do look very nice in renders so far. There's 7 forces available in Warzone Resurrection they are Capitol Corp, Bauhaus Corp, Mishima Corp, Cybertronic Corp, The Brotherhood, The Dark Legion and the upcoming Imperials.

What else? Hows about an RPG? It looks good from what I've heard made by the same folks who made Achtung Cthulhu here watch this video also there's like 4 days left so support it!

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Zero Dark Thirty

One of the reasons I go "dark" as it were for and extended amount of time is that I'm usually busy painting something. In this case I was painting 1000 point Undead Kings of War force and I tell after my first game I was hooked and by the looks of the Fantasy players next to us we may have made a few additional converts.

Results Were (and if I can remember armies)

Regan Winner with Elves
Jed 2nd with Orcs
Francis 3rd with Undead
Me 4th with Undead
Damian 5th and best sports with Ogres
And Last place but best painted Monkey with Abysmals Abyssals



Last weekend was the annual Battlecry convention and on the Sunday we had New Zealands first Kings of War tournament. Most of us already knew each other and are part of the same club. I came 4th with one win, 2 draws and 2 losses. My favorite part of the day was that there were 0 arguments about rules except where the Ogre player tried to explode his suicide cart in the wrong phase , Damian was a sad, sad panda.

Now if you're thinking about getting into a big battles fantasy game Kings Of War is the way to go. The rules are free on Mantics website you can build your army list here http://kow.easyarmy.com/ and because it's all on one big base you can use unit fillers like a boss!

Anyways a big thank you to Mighty Ape for sponsorship and David Grieg from Mighty Ape for the picture dump below ,I forgot my camera :(

  

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DanCon 2014

So I tried my hand at running a Flames of War Tourney and it went very well you can read more about it here http://scarybiscuitsstudios.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/dancon-2014.html overall I had fun running it and there was not issues with scoring or any other problems.

This tournament was, however, different to your normal everyday tournament. Players had 7 days to decide if they we coming and what list to bring and it was on a MONDAY (it's ok it was a public holiday).

I also managed sponsorship from Slave to Painting and Mighty Ape for which I am extremely grateful for.

This was a 3 round, 12 player hardman VP only tourney everything went down smoothly and I hope to run another next year.

The placings

1st Place: Rob Sadler 17 points

2nd Place: Steven MacLauchlan 14 points

3rd Place: Surf 13 points

4th Equal: Andrew Andrew Paul Haught & Steve Eyles 12 points

5th Place: Ryan Jeffares 11 points 

6th Place: Patrick 10 points

7th Place: Mike Haught 9 points

8th Place: Wayne Arthur Turner 8 points

9th Equal: Damian Reid , Greg Lockton and Blair Ramsdale 6 points 17 points

Anyways y'all came for the eye candy....

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