Lucky-Sixes Painting Update #2

Hallo there!

I managed to get another few painting sessions under my belt in the last week and so have completed some more of my long list of unfinished models. Not sure whether I'm making good progress or not, but I feel like I'm taking down the list quite well - at least quicker than I have done before.

Anyway, last time we spoke I had finished the Phoenix & Elder Dragon Centaur, and started on the cavalry models of the Knights of Ryma & Wraiths / Spectral Hunters. This is where we were at:

I have now indeed finished these cavalry units, meaning I have an extra 10 of each to play with in my future battles. So without further-a-do, let's go through the new models in my collection...

Lucky-Sixes' Proxy Painting Challenge

Hallo there!

Lucky-Sixes here, hoping you are all enjoying our blog so far...

The boys keep telling me I am a quick painter, so I wanted to set up a challenge to see if I could live up to this reputation. In the 2 weeks leading up to our first visits to Warhammer World I painted a Vampire Character, Necromancer Character, 10x Skellies and 3x Vampire Spawn - as well as putting 21x Zombies together (although as they weren't painted they don't count!). I was quite happy with this and I'm in the mood for more!

So, as of now I have the following units that I want painted before 2018 starts:

1x Necromancer (Vampire Covenant) - Formerly Henrich Kemmler Model
1x Mage/Archmage (Highborn Elves)
2x Commander/High Prince (Highborn Elves) - One of which formerly Annointed of Asuryan
17x Sea Guard (Highborn Elves)
41x Zombies (Vampire Covenant)
5x Elein Reavers (Highborn Elves)
5x Barrow Knights (Vampire Covenant)
5x Wasteland Knights (Warriors of the Dark Gods)
10x Knights of Ryma (Highborn Elves)
10x Wraiths / Spectral Hunters (Vampire Covenant)
1x Frost Phoenix + Rider (Highborn Elves)
1x Elder Dragon Centaur (Warriors of the Dark Gods)

                                     All the models I have left unfinished - a mountain of Warhammer!

That's 100 models (if you count the rider for the Phoenix lol) in less than 6 weeks!

More than 2 models per day! Having said that, as you can tell from the photo, these are not all from scratch. Most of the models are already assembled and some are half painted.

Looking ahead at painting these, I'm most worried about the cavalry models - I feel they can be a bit of a pain sometimes - especially those Knights of Ryma, which you can see I've already started, got angry because they're very 'pinickity', and then left them to paint something else!

I always enjoy doing characters and monsters, so can't see them taking me too much time, and infantry can be fun - although you sometimes feel like you're on a production line. I will try to post after every session I have, so you can all stay up-to-date with my progress. My honest prediction is that I won't do this, but I'm gonna give it a real good go! So stay posted PTG fans, for this epic adventure we are going on together!

Thanks for your support and hope you enjoy!
Lucky-Sixes

Lucky-Sixes Painting Update #1

Hallo there!
Quick update for the painting challenge...

From the first post I had a HUGE amount of models to paint and it was quite daunting if I'm honest.

So I've had about 3 sessions now for painting, mainly revolved around getting the Knights of Ryma up to a suitable standard (which has taken me FOREVER!) but for the most part I've made some quick progress.

To update you today, I have now completed the Elder Dragon Centaur and the Phoenix. Couldn't help myself with these as they were such good looking models I went straight for the centrepieces!
In the long run this may prove a hindrance as they would've been good to finish on, but ah well what can you do!

So here's the Elder Dragon Centaur in all its glory...

Like I said I really enjoyed painting him, and didn't realise the model's details before getting stuck in!
For example the little creatures on his head are brilliant - good fun, and fantastically moulded to be intertwined with his hair...
It didn't take me too long either, just a couple of coats for the lighter colours, and a single coat for the darker, followed by dry brushing the metal parts and hair then finishing off with some wash.
Pretty happy with how it came out so yeah, all in all a nice model to have!

The Phoenix up next...

An absolutely gorgeous model. I must admit, some of the Games Workshop stuff that's out there is fantastic. Again, another model that took a relatively short time to complete. 3 different blues on the feathers, followed by 2 lots of dry brushing (with a light blue, and a white) finishing off with a blue wash. Lovely! And a very useful tool on the battlefield...
I have not yet tackled the rider, but I may leave that to when I'm doing the characters all together.

Since these pictures, I have actually based up the Centaur and done little bits to my Phoenix base - although I'm still not 100% sure I like it - it feels a little plain. If you guys have any ideas on what I can do then let me know via comments below...

Finally, I have now got my 10x Knights of Ryma up to about 70% finished, and started to assemble my 10x Wraiths / Spectral Hunters so it's all go! They will probably be my next models, then I'll see what tickles my fancy.

Anyway, there we have it, my first update and two of the models down with hopefully my next post getting another 20 or so models finished! We'll see.
So the remaining items to finish before 2018 stands as:

1x Necromancer (Vampire Covenant) - Formerly Henrich Kemmler Model
1x Mage/Archmage (Highborn Elves)
1x Phoenix Rider (Highborn Elves)
2x Commander/High Prince (Highborn Elves) - One of which was formerly Annointed of Asuryan

17x Sea Guard (Highborn Elves)
41x Zombies (Vampire Covenant)

5x Elein Reavers (Highborn Elves)
5x Barrow Knights (Vampire Covenant)
5x Wasteland Knights (Warriors of the Dark Gods)
10x Knights of Ryma (Highborn Elves)
10x Wraiths / Spectral Hunters (Vampire Covenant)

Right that's all for now, so thanks for your support and hope you enjoyed! :)
Lucky-Sixes

The 9th Age

So we've established that my posting on here for the 9th Age has been pretty rubbish and, despite writing this one post many months ago, I'm only now getting around to finish it!

At least I managed to catch up with the 3 practice battles that we had in May / June 2016 - and of course, I lost all of them!

Since then of course quite a few months have gone by and as a group PTG has now managed a total of 40 battles since those practice games.

The chances of me recounting all of those is less than zero so instead for the record I'll just post the vital statistics!

11-06 - Pestilence Daemons (Stat-Rat) beat Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes)
11-06 - Highborn Elves (Stat-Rat & Lucky-Sixes) beat Saurian Ancients (Hyper-G)
02-07 - Vampire Covenant (Lucky-Sixes) beat Saurian Ancients (Hyper-G)
15-07 - Wrath Daemons (Stat-Rat) beat Saurian Ancients (Hyper-G)
15-07 - Lust Daemons (Stat-Rat) beat Vampire Covenant (Lucky-Sixes & Hyper-G)
16-07 - Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes) beat Change Daemons (Stat-Rat & Hyper-G)
23-07 - Saurian Ancients (Hyper-G) beat Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes & Stat-Rat)
05-08 - Lust Daemons (Stat-Rat) beat Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes)
10-09 - Empire Of Sonnstahl (Stat-Rat) beat Highborn Elves (Lucky Sixes)
17-09 - Saurian Ancients (Hyper-G) beat Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes)
30-09 - Saurian Ancients (Hyper-G) drew with Warriors Of The Dark Gods (Lucky-Sixes)
20-10 - Saurian Ancients (Hyper-G) beat Vampire Covenant (Lucky-Sixes)
05-11 - Empire Of Sonnstahl (Stat-Rat) beat Saurian Ancients (Hyper-G)
26-11 - Saurian Ancients (Hyper-G) beat Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes)
26-11 - Vampire Covenant (Lucky-Sixes) beat Empire Of Sonnstahl (Stat-Rat)
27-12 - Orcs & Goblins (Hyper-G) beat Warriors Of The Dark Gods (Lucky-Sixes)
30-12 - Empire Of Sonnstahl (Stat-Rat) beat Vampire Covenant (Lucky-Sixes)
14-01 - Vampire Covenant (Lucky-Sixes) beat Orcs & Goblins (Hyper-G)
30-01 - Orcs & Goblins (Hyper-G) beat Empire Of Sonnstahl (Stat-Rat)
13-02 - Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes) beat The Vermin Swarm (Stat-Rat)
27-02 - The Vermin Swarm (Stat-Rat) beat Orcs & Goblins (Hyper-G & Lucky-Sixes)
11-03 - The Vermin Swarm (Stat-Rat) beat Orcs & Goblins (Hyper-G)
03-04 - Warriors Of The Dark Gods (Lucky-Sixes & Stat-Rat) beat Orcs & Goblins (Hyper-G)
17-04 - The Vermin Swarm (Stat-Rat) beat Kingdoms Of Equitaine (Lucky-Sixes & Hyper-G)
21-04 - Kingdoms Of Equitaine (Lucky-Sixes) beat Orcs & Goblins (Hyper-G)
01-05 - The Vermin Swarm (Stat-Rat) beat Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes)
06-05 - Vampire Covenant (Lucky-Sixes & Hyper-G) drew with Infernal Dwarfs (Stat-Rat)
20-05 - Dread Elves (Hyper-G) beat Kingdoms Of Equitaine (Lucky-Sixes)
12-06 - Dread Elves (Hyper-G) beat Infernal Dwarfs (Stat-Rat)
19-06 - Infernal Dwarfs (Stat-Rat) beat Dread Elves (Hyper-G)
20-06 - Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes) beat Ogre Khans (Hyper-G)
02-07 - Vampire Covenant (Lucky-Sixes) beat Infernal Dwarfs (Stat-Rat)
06-07 - Empire Of Sonnstahl (Hyper-G) beat Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes)
06-07 - Saurian Ancients (Lucky-Sixes) beat Daemon Legions (Hyper-G)
07-07 - The Vermin Swarm (Lucky-Sixes) beat Kingdoms Of Equitaine (Hyper-G)
19-07 - Nurgle Daemons (Stat-Rat) beat Warriors Of The Dark Gods (Lucky-Sixes)
17-07 - Infernal Dwarfs (Stat-Rat) beat Ogre Khans (Hyper-G)
04-08 - The Vermin Swarm (Stat-Rat) beat Vampire Covenant (Lucky-Sixes)
27-09 - Empire Of Sonnstahl (Stat-Rat) beat Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes)
18-10 - Highborn Elves (Lucky-Sixes) beat Ogre Khans (Hyper-G)


The eagle-eyed (or those still awake) will notice that it took me until 23rd of July 2016 to get my first win in 9th Age!  It also took until 16th July 2016 for Stat-Rat to suffer his first loss, and that could be argued was only because he teamed up with me!

Stat-Rat has the best record of the 3 of us clocking in an impressive 70.83% win rate.  Lucky-Sixes is down on 46.15% but still comfortably ahead of my lowly 30.51%

I can't even say that having 3 losses to begin with is the reason for this poor win rate as it's not really as though my fortunes (or ability!) have improved much!

Opinions on whether or not Stat-Rat has been lucky with how his armies have shaped up in 9th Age will possibly have to wait for another day but I'll stop here with this droning of an update on our battling and promise (once again) for more regular updates in future!