Will the real Kara Sloan please stand up?!

Kara Sloan is back!!! And not just back…but back with a vengeance!  I had a friend of mine do a conversion on her to make her look more like the Artwork, which in my highly opinionated but honest opinion is how she should have been sculpted in the first place…with her gun down in the firing position.  Thank you Erik V. for the awesome conversion!!!! 

I got in a game with her last Thursday night down at Matrix Games against Scotty who had a very speedy Amon Ad-Raza list.  Man...all that adrenaline pumping goodness I get from playing her came back in a rush.  I had the model advantage this time around, amazingly enough since Scotty played pretty ‘Jack heavy list. But I still felt the overwhelming pressure of how to overcome the speed in his list.  

Captain Kara Sloan

* Defender 
* Hunter 

Arcane Tempest Gun Mages
* Gun Mage Officer
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team
Harlan Versh, Illuminated One 
Lady Aiyana & Master Holt 
6 Precursor Knights 
* Precursor Knight Officer & Standard 
Reinholdt, Gobber Speculator 

Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord

Vs.

High Allegiant Amon Ad-Raza
* Castigator
* Devout
* Vigilant

2x Allegiant of the Order of the Fist
Exemplar Errant Seneschal
10 Exemplar Errants

* Exemplar Errant Officer and Standard
High Paladin Dartan Vilmon
Knights Exemplar Seneschal
2x Paladin of the Wall 

The first round was everyone moving forward to getting into position with little actual action happening.  Scotty ran all his forces forward which put them in prime range for the Kara’s Feat on the second turn.  The poor Knights Errant just got riddled with bullets something bad.  The unit basically disappeared in a haze of bullets.  Kara Sloan missed a shot due to being out of range and then did a whole bunch of lack luster damage to one of Scotty’s heavies.  The return round saw all but two of my Precursors wiped off the table and I lost a few ATGM as well.  My Hunter got hurt pretty bad and basically became a I-hope-I-hit-something ranged Jack.

The third turn was the break turn for me.  The way I look at it with Kara if I can’t win it by the end of turn 3, then I am dead…and when the pressure was on, Kara did not disappoint.  In the previous turns I had put a random smattering of damage into Scotty’s Castigator but not enough to really remove it from the board or cripple it in any form.  Ad-Raza was hiding behind the Castigator well within his charge range…so I had to kill him this turn or I was toast.  I popped a combined ranged shot Ad-Raza with the ATGM which the Vigilant opted to eat.   Then I activated Kara Sloan…

One shot into the Castigator, Hit, Boosted the damage and rolled Pow 12 + 4D6 for a 6,6,6,5 . . . for 35 total points of Damage.  I can just imagine as the 50cal Magically-enchanced Sabol Round just ripped that Castigator into pieces and then Ad-Raza’s eyes got as big as saucers as all of a sudden he was starting down the barrel of a Sniper Rifle with a very calm and composed Kara Sloan ready to pull the trigger. 

Tick, tick, tick…time slows down

Kara slowly pulls the trigger on her sniper rifle

BOOM!!!!!!

Roll to hit, boosted just to make sure.  Hit!

Roll for Damage, boosted, of course

The dice hit down on the table…6,6,6,4

34 points of damage

Ad-Raza’s head evaporates into a cloud of red mist.

The retort of the rifle is heard across the battlefield…

Holy Shitballs!! Both Scotty and I are looking at each other across the table in stunned disbelief at the damage rolls that just happened. 

SHE’S BACK BABY!!!!!!

P.S. I passed my Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam...now I can get back to painting...starting March 1st =)  HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Pics to follow soon!! Man I love Kara Sloan!

Quick Blurb

Sorry for the lack of posts lately.  I am studying for my Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE for those who care) and so I haven't had a ton of free time for the blog.  I finished up the Menoth Hierophant for the painting competition. Probably be a pretty skimpy month for posts.  I take my exam at the end of Feb.



Wish me luck!

What?! Menoth?! WTF!!!

Well I have made a New Year’s Resolution…23 days late, but still a Resolution. 

In 2012, I am going to try my damnedest to finish one army. 

Now seeing as how I am working on my Lamenters Space Marines for Aaron’s Badab Wars Campaign and I am also trying to save up money to go down to Arizona to participate in a convention hosted by the folks at Battlefoam…I am thinking I should be pouring my efforts into 40k.  In anticipation of the convention in September, I have worked out a 2000pt list that builds on what I already have and requires me to order a Land Raider and an Assault Terminator Squad.  I won an auction on ebay for a Terminator Librarian (NIB) and I have a Terminator Chaplin already.  If I keep all of my HQ Models at around the 175pt mark, they can be interchanged with no issues…so now I need to kit bash together a Terminator Captain with a burly ass power axe, eerily similar to the one my Malakim Phoros model uses…hmmmmmm

Of course I have already been sidelined once by a painting competition for a Warmachine/Hordes Tourney that is happening on the 18^th of February.  CURSE YOU SCOTTY!!! CURSE YOU!!!!  It is an interesting idea and I am glad I am taking part in it.  I’ll probably end up giving the model away when the competition is over.  For the competition, you have to paint up a Warcaster/Warlock attachment that has been purchased at one of the FLGS.  Aight.  Well damn it, I am not buying another Squire for my Cygnar army and the Searforge Commission doesn’t have a caster attachment…neither do the Blindwater Congregation, so I am left with only one option.  That’s right kids; buy another model from a different faction!

So I settled on the Hierophant from the Protectorate of Menoth.  I will admit it is a pretty neat looking model.  Very Holier-than-thou-art look to it; I kind of like it.  In grand Grant Fashion (and plain good sense) I pinned the Staff to the main body and also pinned the little scroll case on its back in place as well, about 20 extra minutes to do all that but I really don’t want this little guy falling apart.  I primed the model black since I am going with an alternate paint scheme from the Menoth White and went to town painting up the robes.  First thing I did was make a black wash by thinning out some Chaos Black and painting in all the cracks and recess that got missed by the primer and then the fun began!

Mecharite Red was the basecoat and then I just built up layer after layer of red starting with Scab Red, followed by Red Gore, then I mixed in some Blood Red with the Red Gore, and finally I added a small dab of Bleach Bone to the Red Gore/Blood Red mix for the final little touches.  I tried leaving the previous shade of red showing through on the layering but not really sure how successful I was.  Just one more step on the way to blending.  Over all, I am pretty happy with the look and feel of the red. 

For the Vest, I am going to keep it black and highlight the areas with Shadowed Grey.  For the parts of the model that have the Menofix on it, I am going to do a Bleached Bone/White background with a black Menofix. I am also planning on doing up all the metals in gold and also painting the trim on the Hierophant’s vest gold as well. As far as the scroll cases go, I am not really sure if I am going to give them a metallic look or try for an aged wooden look.  I suppose I’ll paint whatever suits my fancy when the time comes.