Tournament Recap: Alamo Paint contest

  One of my favorite parts of being a TO is getting to add events that I want to see on the Grand Tournament scene. The first one I've been able to add has been individual painting contests. For the past three years at the Alamo, Mierce Miniatures has sent me prize support that we use to run a paint contest. We run three categories: Best Unit (5+ models, any size), Best Small Model (any model on a 50x50mm base or smaller), and Best Large Model (any model on larger than a 50x50mm base or with the Large Target rule). In addition, we award a Best in Show to the best entry among the three categories.

  In addition, Alamo is restrictive about awards and tries to spread the love around; if a player submits a model from his army and that army wins a Best Painted award, his model is excluded from these awards. Judging this paint contest is one of the best parts of my job as TO.

All the entries, after the jump!

Model showcase: Blood-Maw

In this post, I display one of my favorite models of all time, Blood-Maw for the Norse kindred, by Mierce Miniatures. 

Every Mierce Kickstarter Model Ever

AS OF 8/21/15, THIS POST IS NO LONGER BEING KEPT UP TO DATE!

 I have relocated this information to a Page, rather than a blog post, because it's a lot easier to maintain. 

CLICK HERE FOR THE MOST CURRENT UPDATE!

  Someone on one of the Mierce Kickstarter comment pages requested that someone make a single page that has all the sculpts that have been funded in Kickstarter. Since I did something similar for Darklands: First Edition, and have been keeping track of a lot of this data anyway, I figured I'd take a shot at it!

  This post contains (to the best of my knowledge) all the miniatures that Mierce has funded through their Kickstarters. It contains information on more than 500 models (as of May 2015), everything they've funded through Kickstarter since they switched to the Kickstart business model. Since there is just a staggering amount of data on here; please be understanding in the next few weeks as I propogate images and data into it, and let me know if I've missed anything.

  This post was last changed on August 21st, reflecting the August 21st updates.

Angedern and Daarkan - Demon Prince/Giant and Chaos Lord

Two posts in consecutive days? This is getting out of hand! Below the cut, I paint Angedern, the Prifdyndraig from Mierce Miniatures, and throw in an infantry model just for good measure.

Mag Ap Mag, counts-as Chaos Spawn

Howdy! Here's a WIP thread of another Mierce model I worked on a few months ago: Mag Ap Mag, a dynwocor of the Brythoniaid faction. It was a fun sculpt to paint, and I enjoyed knocking it out!

Alamo Terrain

Why have I been quiet so much lately? Part of it has been exhaustion - I've been doing a lot, and haven't taken the time required to update this blog. Part has been frustration and stress. As a case in point, when I took over TO responsibilities at the Alamo, I decided two things needed to be done: I needed a piece of mysterious terrain to go on every table, and I needed a building to go on every table for one scenario. The Alamo has 38 tables. From the end of Bayou battles until the Alamo, I designed, built, and painted 76 pieces of terrain. Some of them got documented, so I'll share them here!

Quake City Rumble 2014 - Armies on Parade

Sorry for the delay in posting; real life has intruded harshly and I have a huge backlog to get through! First, paint contest entries and armies seen at Quake City Rumble, in San Francisco mid-summer 2014

Bob Felix's Orc BSB

Joe Rogers's Dark Elf Lokhir Fellheart

The "Hentai Monster"

Mike Adkins's Arch-Lector of Ulric

Joel Boccio's Exalter Hero of Tzeentch on a Daemon mount

Larry D's Brettonnian damsel

Mark Cox's Wizard Hat Skaven Warlord on Palanquin

Casey Clements's Empire BSB

Tony Pacheco's Chaos BSB

Casey Clements's Empire Halberdiers

Bob Felix's Rat Ogres

Joe Rogers's Chaos Hounds

Mike Adkins's Knights of the White Wolf

Tony Pacheco's Dwarfs (with Minotaur hired swords)

Ryan Smith's Warriors of Tzeentch

Ryan Smith's Dragon Ogre Shaggoth

Edward Oh's Greater Daemon

Bob Felix's giant thing

Casey Clements's steam tank

Scott Silvestra's hellpit abomination

Joe Frith's giant

Mike Sanders's trolls (I think)

Bob Felix's river trolls

Mike Adkins's demigryphs

Zach Lopez's Nurgle BSB on daemonic mount

Joe Frith's Thundertusk

Ryan Smith's skull crushers of Khorne

On to armies!

Ed Phillips's daemons

Rex Olivieri's Kislev Brettonians

Texas War Games Con 2014: Armies on Parade

A selection of Warhammer Fantasy, and Warhammer 40k armies that were set up Sunday morning at Texas War Games Con. Very limited commentary, as I was focusing more on taking pictures and less on taking notes.

  

Mierce Waelwulfas: Unboxing/Assembly

I had a little brown box come in the post last night. I wonder whatever could be inside...