Thistle & Shrub Studios

Another Adepticon is done.  A great time was had by all.  No big recap this year, just some links:

• Adepticon 2012 Tournament Results (link is to the 40K Team Tournament results)
• Crystal Brush Winners
• My pictures from the convention under Gallery > Events

For those wondering what to do while waiting for 6th edition of 40K, I will suggest Battle Fleet Gothic.  If you are in the area, I'm doing a learning/demo games on June 10 at Capital City Games in Springfield, IL.

Another Adepticon is coming up and that means it is time to get into nitty gritty time of team tournament preparation (at least if you are hoping to do well).

It is always a grand time thinking up a new army builds and hanging out with friends play testing.  It is always fun starting to assemble models and coming up with display base ideas and shirt designs.

Then the work of painting comes.  The task itself is fun.  But time frames exist and tasks need done by certain points to be able to be ready for the tournament and be able to enjoy the convention.  That leads me to my current painting schedule.  My 1000 points of models are to be done by the end of December.  That sounds like a lot of time.

When I project what that actually means, it changes to 2 models a week.  Not the end of the world, but after the first 2 models, each one is taking about 6-7 hours and the bases are already done.  So based upon this information, I will be painting for at least 2 hours every day until Thanksgiving.  Hopefully, I figure out how to speed up the painting, but I'm not holding out hope.

So here's to another Adepticon. Let your paint flow well.

The skateboard of Tony Ork

On the way back from Adepticon 2010, Thistle challenged me with entering my ork warboss into the Rogue Daemon 2011 contest at Adepticon 2011.  The challenge was to get me to work on my extreme ork army which had completely stopped due to boredom.  The intended goal failed but I did finish the model in time to enter it.

 

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This is a commission piece done for my good friend's son.  It is Fulumbar Ironhammer the Dwarf from Reaper's Warlord series.

Long time no post, I know, I know. Studio is still closed for commissions but I have new model done. The first of a about 6 Ork Trukks for my Extreme Ork army that I started this year, hope to finish in 2010 sometime.

 

A set of 3 harlequin models done up for a commission.

 

Ultramarine Librarian Commission

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A piece done for fun after staring at me from the painting desk for over 2 years. An overall en-joyful piece to paint from Rackham Studios

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Done as a commission piece. This piece goes along with the Ultramarine Commander. Overall how the recipient expected but there were a couple of issues upon receival. Read on for more information.

 

This is an Inquisitor used on Checkmate Hobbies' Mechanized Imperial Guard army.

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Done as a commission piece, this Space Marine Commander turned out how its recipient expected.