Summer Events

So for those of you who are not tracking all the events going on here in Texas this summer allow me to let you know.
Well this month there is obviously WarGames Con. I am sure that many of you will be in attendance and that many of you will have a blast!
But I would like to shed some light on the lesser known Events going on this summer. First I would like to let everyone know about Dallas hosting their Event called Coal and Claw ( http://dfwwarmachine.blogspot.com/ )
I am really looking forward to this one. Its going to be a weekend of just straight gaming. The guys up in Dallas have been working super hard on getting this event together so I highly recommend if you have the means that you make it out it looks to be a blast, plus the Diplomacy Machine looks interesting. 
In September there is going to be a large Warmachine/Hordes Event going on at the Alamo GT in San Antonio. I am not sure that there is a website for it up yet, but I will be sure to post a link as soon as I am made aware of one.  
I know it doesn't fall in the Summer time frame but I would be remiss if I didn't mention Clash for the Cure this upcoming October ( http://www.clashforacure.org/ ).
Anyhow there will be much more to come on these events and what Army I will be using for each. Plus I am thinking I will be adding some more posts related to all things Warmachine and Hordes.
Till next time!

Lock and Load what a Rush!

Hey all,
Its been forever yes, but having recently returned from Lock and Load I have been a bit pooped. It was a wild ride and a lot of fun. I got to play against a couple of the Guys from  Hand Cannon Online. I must say they are a decent bunch of guys. My Hat's off to you Ghool for Master Craftsman and Best Painted. Though I will admit I found it funny that you and ThorkaThor (the guys who were competing for gold were in the elevator right next to one another and didn't even know it.
Anyhow, my score card wasn't the greatest I admit, but hey McBain killed Xerxes which means that somewhere there  is a new rip in the fabric of space and time.  I recommend that anyone who wanted to go this year needs to plan for next year and get things  rolling. I am already planning for next year.
Some of the great things that came out of Lock and Load were the Colossal of course. People where standing in line for quite a while waiting for the store to open to get those things. It really didn't take  long for the people who bought them to assemble them and use them, in some cases that very same day!
Some of the other great things were a lot of people got their hands on Vlad3 which I must admit is beyond ridiculous. The Sons of Bragg for the Trolls where another welcome surprise in my opinion.
All in all it was a great weekend and a lot of fun. Hopefully I will see many of the same faces next year. I still have a couple of people who owe me a re-match!

McBain falls to pSorcha

Okay so last night my good friend Jim aka Count Domar, came over for a little dinner and some jack smashing action. Its was a 35 pts game. McBain vs pSorcha. Well by the 3rd turn I thought I had this game in the bag. Well Slick Jim pulled one out of no where, well I have and idea where but hey kids could be reading this thing. Anyhow he ended up seizing the day and killing McBain. Here are a few shots from the game enjoy.

This last one is a little Victory shot for Jim, savor it, McBain will have his revenge!

Work Thus Far

Well we are now full swing into 2012. My New Years resolution was to get at least one of my armies painted before the Apocalypse. Actually it is to get one painted prior to Lock and Load and WarGames Con. This year I am going to be hitting Lock and Load its going to be my big con of the year. I get one a year. No all my Wargames Con peeps, I am not saying yall's is little. But it does not require the same amount financially that Lock and Load does. Anyhow. So I was discussing with my good friend Steve on what Lists they had last year and what the over all feel of Hardcore was. Steve, if you are unfamiliar with him crack open NQ 38 pg. 65 under Hardcore II that's my friend Steve, has been coaching me and helping me get ready. Well I have come up with a list that I am wanting to take to L&L. Its an unusual list, one that has a lot of bugs to work out but I am convinced it will work.  I will reveal more on this list later, but for now here is one of the jacks from the Caster's battlegroup the paint scheme should give you an over all feel for the army. As always comments are welcome.

A Start, no where near finished.

Hello yall,
Well I have McBain, his two Nomads, and his two Mules just about done. My focus as soon as I got home was to get his battle group finished. Now, I know his Mules are not finished. This is primarily due to my little one who likes to take up a lot of daddy's time. But hey I don't mind. So the work is a little slow going to say the least. You will however get a good idea of the paint scheme and the over all feeling I am going for with this battle group. Yes his plethora of steel heads are going to quickly follow, just as soon as I get my Tournament list painted. Now that I have all the necessary models for it. That will be yet another post for you all to read. Anyhow here is a pic of McBain and his battle group as they stand now. Oh and by the way, if you haven't started converting over your metal P3 paints to the new black label P3, you need to seriously. They go on a hell of a lot smoother and you have significantly less coats to do on the model using them.

I'm Back!

Greetings all,
Well I am back stateside, that's right folks no more sand and desert for this guy. Not for a while, anyhow. But the ol' Jack Factory has not been idle. In the next couple of days I will start back up with my freshly painted Drake McBain battle group for you all to look upon and criticize the hell out of. Promptly followed by my two player battle box I picked up. So keep your eyes peeled over the next few weeks to see my progress and the final out come of these items. Who knows I just might throw in some more random stuff.

The Workshop

Okay so I emailed the loving wife and asked her to take some photos of the workshop. I figured I would post the pics up on here so you all can get a good look at what I have at my disposal (well for when I get back), and maybe you all can help me to decide what factions are gonna be what. Now keep in mind that my two primary armies are my Menoth and Khador. But I have such a plethora of all the factions (Cygnar excluded they are the wife's but she included pics of them as well.) I figured I can get your take on things. Which armies should be my Foodmachine and which should be my new spanky Breast Cancer Brawl army? so without further a due. Here are my minis to date. Now in the time leading up to my return to the states I will make various comments on ideas and army compositions I am toying with after it is decided which army becomes what.

 The Workbench as you can see it has all sorts of various models in various stages of construction.

 This is a close up of the workbench and some of my future projects hanging on the wall there.

  These are my poor poor Iron Kingdoms Minis and my Lot of Privateers, they don't see much love since well I mainly got them out of a need to collect not really to play them all that much. and in the back corner is my very fledgling Trollbloods. I have big plans for those, well additions I am going to make to them.

 Here we have the yet another shelf space of minis that adorn the room. Cygnar, some menoth, mercs, cryx, and some of my skorne.

 A close up of about half of my Menoth and Khador for some reason Kate(the wife) didnt take a pic of the game table that has the rest of these armies on it. (it was the last game I got to play before I deployed.)

 All that is the very small amount of Cryx that I have, I plan on expanding them, I just have no clue as to what direction to take them. maybe you all can help me out on that one?

Last but not least, a close up of a quarter of Kate's cygnar, the rest of them are in their Battlefoam bags getting ready to head out a pick up game at the LGS.

Well there you have it Folks a portion of what I have but I think you are all getting the idea. So how are you all my avid readers going to help me out? well lets help me decide what to do with which army? That's the HARD part. There are a lot more minis, with more pics to come as I convince the wife to pull stuff out of our bags and set them up on the table for display and take some pics. Now as you can see the larger part of my collection is unpainted, there is a reason for that. After it is decided (and I get back) the painting begins.