Le Zharregular Progress 5

The Bretonnian Connection

Bienvenue mes chers, c’est Vanvlak avec l’edition numero 5 de Zharregular Progress and the first English-French edition (wait until I get a craze for dogs of war!). The progress of my poor Nains de Chaos has been stopped by the wrong and businessy end of a lance. After years of futile searching (well, an hour or so) I dug up an online forum for Maltese Warhammer players, and found a few old friends there. I also spent the odd quarter of an hour trying to discover which of my Warhammer army books (it’s a very warhammery club) is still up to date: the only three are Wood Elves, Bretonnians and Khemri.  So it seems I’ll be building a Bretonnian army.

New Themes Announced

Thank you all for voting on the painting challenge theme suggestions.

The results are as follows, in reverse order:

• Sleep – 2%
• Left to die – 5 %
• Water, water everywhere – 5%
• Rest and repair – 7%
• Run away – 12%
• Weird science – 14%

And the top 3:

Vote for future challenge themes

We have the painting challenge themes for Feb and March sorted, but after that – well it’s up to you!

After asking for suggestions on the group wall on Facebook, we have a great selection for you to vote on.

It’s a simple poll – pick your favourite 3 themes, and the 3 with the most votes at the end of the polling period will be set as the themes for April, May and June, which means you get plenty of time to plan your challenge entries (but not start painting them – that would break the rules!)

Zharregular Progress 4

A troll named Douglas

Hi all, Vanvlak calling.  Today I will try to conclude the list of tasks I started last report: this was the to-do list leading up to the start of work on the models themselves. This is slightly anachronistic, as I have already started work on a couple of the small ones with big hats, but real army-painting production scale work has not yet started.

Results for Silent Night

The winner of this month’s Merit Award will now be revealed…

The scoring works like this: voters mark each entry (except their own) out of 10 for theme  (Silent Night) and style. These scores are added together and divided by the number of voters to create a total, average score. The highest score wins the Merit Award trophy, sponsored by Jonathan Shaw of BMF painting.

Feedback for Silent Night

The polls have closed and the votes are being counted.

Big thanks to everyone who took the time to vote and comment – a great turn out for the voting once again. There were a few of you who forgot to confirm your vote by writing on the FB event wall, or commenting on this site – and I’m afraid your votes will not be counted.

The theme for the December painting challenge was: Silent Night and despite there not being many entries this time around, there was a lot of creativity in the submissions, and with montage photos from all the entrants it’s been good to see the minis from multiple angles.

Vote for the December challenge winner

The entries are in, and it looks like some must have got caught in the snow – because we only have 3 finished and submitted on time!

Still, 3 is enough for a vote, so the photos are uploaded and the form has been created. You know the drill by now, and if not – you need to read this first!

Without further ado, here are the entries for: Silent Night

Issue 3 / Winter ‘10

It’s been a very busy week for the Irregular Magazine team – the new issue is out now.

At 106 pages, it’s the biggest issue to date – and that includes a free campaign supplement, ‘The Living Dead” by Taylor Holloway at the back.

Zharregular Progress 3

A Grand Hegemony with Pyramids and a Berserker

Hi all, Vanvlak here again with instalment no. 3 of my quest for a Chaos Dwarf army. It is now high time to take stock of the models I have available, and start working on army selection. With this aim in mind I should:

1. decide which army list from the three available (see Zharregulars #2) to use
2. check which models I have available and which to buy
3. select a theme
4. compile an army list
5. start painting

In practice, this will not work out, and I will pedantically (go on, make a coffee and take a seat) explain why, point by point.

Chaos Bighat Dwarf no.1.

Getting to the bottom of it: Brilliant bases

A good base finishes off a model properly, and consistent bases tie a squad or unit together.

Black Templars by Jonathan Shaw

Too many people forget about bases, not even thinking about them till the minis are painted – and then resort to something simple like sand or flock. There’s nothing wrong with this, at least the minis are based – but a little creativity will make your minis stand out on the gaming table. Applying the same thought, care and attention to detail that you do with painting, to the base will take your minis to a new level.