My Crazy New Side Project!

So after I posted yesterday, I kept thinking about other projects I could do.  I went through a rather exhaustive list, and bugged Wallshammer about it, but finally came to a decision!

In a lot of ways, this project is taking me back to my roots as 'Green Feevah'.  But I wanted to take things in a whole new direction.  Something fresh, something I'd always wanted to do, but something that would be easier on both my time, patience and wrecked neck to accomplish.

What is it, you ask?  Find out after the break (plus tasty pictures!)

It's Too Quiet in Here...

Just a quick update:

This picture will make more sense as you read.

I haven't gotten much done in the last 2 days, thanks mostly to the screaming pain in my neck (and no, I don't mean my wife; just kidding babe, I love you... don't kill me)

I did get admonished by the head guy of the Tales of Terrain Painters thread for putting out too much stuff.  While I do see his point that it is a little demoralizing to the people who aren't getting as much done, way to stamp out my enthusiasm.

More after the break:

One Thing A Week Gets A Lot Done

I mapped out everything I've gotten done since I joined the Privateer Press Forums' 'One Thing A Week Challenge'.  Here's a hint: It's a lot.

I STRONGLY encourage you to try to just get a couple of models a week painted, and in no time you'll have   a fully-painted army.

Mythacon Fantasy: Game 2 vs Warriors of Chaos/Dark Elves

You know, I had all sorts of mean grumpy things to say about this game, but I won't.  A lot of it was me/us not being prepared as much as we should have.  I just take it for granted that my opponent knows all their rules from their army book and relevant rules for their modelset.  Sometimes your wrong and you pay the price.  Welcome to game 2.  :)

Progress!

So I am just tearing through my terrain.  I'm really wondering why I hadn't done this before?  I'm having a lot of fun painting the models, I'm getting a lot done, and it's allowing me to have more variable terrain for my games.

It used to be that I played with the same 3 tree bases, the Chapel, Tower and Mansion (none of the buildings are finished...) and the Temple ruins.  Every single game.

But now I have another tree stand:

The trees look a little glossy, but that's because the wash is still drying.  I got them done and went straight to photos, because I knew I wouldn't have time to do it later.

So I think I'll finish a building next.  What do you guys think?  Chapel, Tower or Mansion?

The Nerve of Some People

So I'm very happy to say that our Blog is seeing more attention.  I'm very unhappy to say that it's because someone on Dakka Dakka is slagging Wallshammer.

First he takes pictures from our site, and doesn't properly acredit them.  That's fine, let's just assume he made a mistake.  But then he goes on to tell everyone at Dakka that Walls said some 'very mean things about him'.  Quoted from Wallshammer's article:

" I personally CANNOT stand this guy.  He goes to school in my city and is renowned in the scene as a douche."

Here's the thing:  I've dealt with this guy before as well.  And he said way more 'mean' and inflammatory things to both me and Wallshammer than anything above.  But he posts on Dakka Dakka to make himself look like the victim AFTER he steals our picture and mis-credits us for it.  And glazes over the fact that Walls complimented him on his painting (and does so again on Dakka).  My previous dealings with this guy can be summed up in one sentence, paraphrased from him to me: "You're wrong and you're stupid because my way is the only way to do things".  Which is the nicest way I can frame it.

We here at HAAC are all about painting and having fun.  I don't even do tournaments any more, exactly because of this back-stabbing, mud-slinging BS.  All I personally want to do is to paint, because it relaxes me, and play friendly, casual games with people I enjoy playing with.  And not only that, but we created this blog to share our joy of the hobby side of the game with others on the internet.  And now, thanks to this troll, people will turn away from our blog because Wallshammer is being set-up to look like the villain in all this.

I really hope that if you are coming from Dakka Dakka, that you look at more than just the article where Dakka poster Fafnir is called out on his poor behaviour (I'll also point out that Wallshammer never used his name, so until he went all 'pity me' on Dakka, no one would have even known.  AND if he'd bothered to take his own pictures instead of stealing ours, no one would have cared).  Look at our posts.  We just want to have fun painting and making cool stuff.  We don't spend our time slagging people for the sake of slagging people.  We're way too busy painting.

I'm hoping this is all I'll ever need to say about this.  I don't want to deal with this crap.

Late Night Update

I decided to give my brushes the full 48 hours, in hopes that it will make a big difference.  So I decided to keep working on terrain.  And since I happened to have my last tree stand downstairs, having just primed it, I started working on that.

As opposed to my other three tree bases, I decided to do a fall theme for this one.  The trees themselves are about 50% done.  Should have them done by late Monday night, assuming I work on the High Elves tomorrow.  If not, I might have it done by tomorrow night.

What do you think?