Can anyone recommend a FLGS in New York (the island bit!)

Im currently doing alittle bit of travelling in america and im in new york soon, thing is i have no idea what the gaming stores are like? Can anyone throw me any recommendations on places to go, comic book stores as well????


Cheers

Max

Dull Coat Vs Army Painter Matt Varnish

So today, i thought i do alittle comparison, the dull coat vs army matt antishine varnish. Ive used both know quite abit and i thought id pass on some knowledge to those that are interested in using.


Dull Coat -


So now they have reformulated it, still smells like crap and has a lovely warning from the state of calforina stating there is stuff in it that may give you cancer. Lovely. It comes in quite a small can and is roughly the same price or abit cheaper than a can of GW spray depending on where you get it. When spraying i advise using a mask and some gloves due to the nasty nature of the stuff and always make sure you are up wind of it. Ive been using it to take down the shine on my flesh tearers which were gloss varnished in the GW ardcoat stuff from the pots. The varnish needs two thin coats to properly get into all the bits and cracks of a model and provides a nice matt finish that makes it looks like you just freshly painted it. My orginal worries was that it would effect the look of the GW matt washes, but i can safely say it does not. If anything it helps improve them! I was most impressed! If you want photos of these just look at my last post and you can see for yourself.





Army Painter Anti Shine Varnish -


So i have previously used this on some dipped items when i was doing an imperial guard army last year. It was my first real foray into varnishing models as i had never previously done anything. Id heard some interesting things about the cans and had watched the video about shaking them for about 2 minutes and making sure the cans became nice and warm. The anti shine varnish certainly did take the shine out but i find the quality not great and i was getting tiny white flecks from the spray. It also gives a interesting matt finish, not quite a true finish bringing back the orginal colours in the same way the dull coat does. A can is again about the same price as a GW spray can but you get a whole load more spray in the can. Here are some before and after photos so you can make you own mind up


Before (a dipped model)



After (After army painter varnish)





Overall Judgement -

Overall despite the dull coats nasty smell and rather toxic appearance, it for me is the better product mainly because it gives a nice truer matt finish than the army painter varnish. The downsides are certainly the smaller can and nasty smell but for the finish you can beat it. The army painter cans have been plagued by problems and the flecks of white are a common occurance no matter how much you shake or warm. Ive dull coated while it was damp outside (i live in a rain forest!) and ive had no problems!

Both are good products and do the job but as a choice id take the dullcoat anyday!

More Flesh Tearers

Ive been abit quite, here is a unit ready for varnishing ans basing! Im just waiting on some models ive sent to a commission painter and some armour plates sent to america to be cast.






Let me know what you think?

A New Army and New look to the Blog

So i saw a cool looking blog from another blog and have shameless stolen the template in order to vamp up my blog along with my army of flesh tearers, so please bare with me while i get everything running. Ive got to remember how to code stuff again, i havent been near coding since uni!

Painting a Marine a day will keep the doctor away!

So Ive not been the most active of bloggers mainly due to my inactivity of not painting. Id built my flesh tearers army about 2 months ago but have been been in two minds if i should of got a commission painter to do it rather than myself (review on some commission painters to come!). I finally decided to do it all myself bar two models (two sang priests, lazy i know)and the reason i decided against it was that i think personally i am quite capable of painting an army to a good table top standard. I think anyone is! My next army shall be dipped and maybe sqaure based.


So then here in lies the next question, whats good enough for table top? Now for those who listen to Heelanhammer (if not check it out) and have heard the sounds of dan 'the porridge eater' heelan and wayne 'the game' you would know these guys are always at painting armies or at least wayne is. Both the guys have alot of talent and some very pretty armies. But even these guys have said that as a painter you never really happy with your painting as you painted it and know all the little short comings that annoy you but wouldnt be apparent to others.

I find this very true and the guys on the latest podcast have said that this could even prevent you doing your hobby. I totally agree and i think ive had abit of hobby fear with painting, which has stopped me from painting. Im a gamer at heart and my problem with painting is that my painting ideas never really come out how ive wanted with other armies. This is down to a lack of painting progression on my part because of my hobby fear.

My other problem is that i find painting infantry in large amounts (well 30 is large enough for me), soul destroying, so in away to get this army done by jan and overcome my hobby fear. Ive decided to paint one marine a day. So then this should take 30 days in order to finish the 20 assault marines and 10 normal marines for my army.

So hear is my challenge to you! Paint a marine aday!

More progress pictures to come!

Flesh Tearers Army

So ive been fairly quite for the last month or so, busy working and travelling still, anyway ive finally managed to sit down and do some painting. Im doing my 1750 points worth of tourney army ready for the 2011 tournament season in the uk, opening with the Caledonian Uprising singles tourney at maelstorm games. Im hoping of doing enough tourneys etc to try and get on an ETC team, if not ill have fun doing it.

So far im working my way through the troops. Here is my colour scheme, nice and dark and easy, perfect for tabletop quality -

Finished Sarg - Just need to do the eyes, but have run out of green paint!



Some WIP




My lists consist of the following for 1750

HQ

Libby with jump pack

Elites

2 x Sang Priests with jump packs and power weapons

Troops

2 x 10 Man assault squads with power fists and 2 meltas per squad

2 x 5 Man Assault squads with lascannon razorbacks

Fast Attack

2 x Baal Predators (heavy bolters and assault cannons)


Heavy Support

1 x Vindicator

2 x Predator with autocannon and lascannon sponsors


More Progress to come, ive also got a couple of reviews coming up!

Super Blog Give Away! Winner!

So we had a winner howard from http://howardvauxworkshop.blogspot.com/
and a nids codex and dragon forge base are flying over to him now! Howards is now running his own blog give away, so i thought id show abit of support and link him! Go visit and take part and you could win some nice new 40k cities of death terrain!

Go Look!!!!