Various Deals and Armies
Picture: a Monk by Reaper. This was one of my much, much earlier models and I was always pleased about how he turned out.
I’m still booking projects for November. Now’s a great time to get that started.
Here’s a brief overview of various deals and things I have going on:
- Ork army (about 1500 points of various figures- get a good deal on cost of models; uh, I’m not even sure what’s in there right now)
- Studio Imperial Guard army (over 3000 points, normally $2600, now $1800) see below for details in a video
- Talos Nids studio army (1000 points of L2 Tyranids for $289) see below for details in video
- Dragons of Moloch studio army (2200 pts of Chaos Space Marines for $950) see some pics here. Some.
- Trollbloods (half off on materials if you commission them– see below for details)
- Lizardmen (40 skinks, 1 Salamander/handlers, 4 skink heroes from my personal stash in yellow and turquoise, L3 for $199)
- Horde of Goblins (80 various goblins from my personal stash, L2.5 for $329 that’s $4 each)
- Emperors Hawgs (at least 2000 points of fast attack marines, in a leeegal list, super deal on cost of models if you commission them– White scars most likely)
Trollbloods are as follows:
1x box champions
5x longriders
1x Earthborn Dire Troll
2x Thumpers
1x Winter Troll
Cost for materials: $125 (this is the reduced price)
Cost for Assembly $110
Choose one for painting:
Cost for painting at L4: $360
Cost for painting at L3: $260
Cost for painting at L4 with Artistic License: $320
Cost for painting at L3 with Artistic License: $230
They need a Warlock of course, and maybe some fleshing out.
Check this out, Brigh made this for an oddball piece, but I thought this sort of thing would make awesome Wraiths for an Vampire Counts army. We’re doing up a few just for kicks (use in D&D game).
Fire, Hate, and Darkness
Picture: a model NOT painted by BTP, but by “snotling”. See the rest of the army here.
I found this great Chaos Dwarf site and came away completely inspired. This post is to pitch the idea of making a commissioned chaos dwarf army.
I’ve always been a fan of Chaos Dwarfs, a warhammer fantasy army that is little-seen and insanely hard to create.
The original pewter models are discontinued. You can’t even get them via bitz order. They are gone, gone. Even very rare to see them on eBay. But there are a few devout who will create them from scratch, sculpting and base plastics. This is the way I would do them. I’ve got a few guys on staff that are perfectly capable of doing the needed sculpting.
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I am supremely confident that we can do work of the calibre you see on the above-mentioned site (with our own techniques and twists, of course). For example, the Bull Centaurs are a tricky proposition, but I feel confident we could get them out of these “Longriders” by privateer press.
This is a start. This project is not likely to be less than $2000-3000 for everything included. What I’m talking about here is to make a masterwork army. If you’d like to make some inroads here, just email me at bluetablepainting@gmail.com with your army composition and ideas and we’ll get something unique created.
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Serious inquiries only!
Sunday October 5 2008 General Conference
Today was general conference, which I like because we get to stay at home. We record it an watch at our leisure throughout the day.
It has been raining on and off the last few days and today the clouds broke and the sun made pools of water glitter. On the near and looming mountains, the rainclouds tenuously clung with their cotton-like fingers, then let loose to flee into the distant west.
I took two walks with the boys last night, in the rain, with our hoods drawn tight, Jonah poking around in the flowing gutter for worms, and Griffin on my shoulders with the flashlight beam dancing about our path.
And I took another walk this morning, inhaling deeply rain-cleansed morning air.
During the course of general conference the various things plaguing my mind were completely laid to rest. I feel a deep and abiding sense of peace. I know now what I should do.
As many of you know, I am sort of in a “rage against the machine mode”, but now I think I am seeing more clearly: I should calmly go about my business and make sure my own life is right. Win the war, so to speak.
For any that care to look them up, the most meaningful talks (for me) were by Boyd K. Packer and Thomas S. Monson (see link above).
Saturday October 4 2008 Dark Pact
Picture: a Nurglified tank.
Now booking projects for November. Contact me at bluetablepainting@gmail.com for a quote, questions or ideas!
What people most want to know is how much does it cost? You can get a la carte pricing here.
However, you can get a ballpark really easy: an army costs between $0.50 and $1.00 per point. Quality, army type and a ton of other factors can make it go higher or lower. So, a 1,000 point army usually costs $500-1000. That is for everything included.
If you provide your models it’s about $0.40 to $0.70 per point. So, $400-700 to assemble and paint a 1000 point army.
If you provide your models assembled, it’s about $0.25 to $050 per point just for painting. So, $250 to $500 usually to paint a 1000 point army. This is usually the amount of money your army cost to begin with.
This is only meant as a guide to get a ballpark estimate. It doesn’t work for smaller armies than 1000 points. Email me for an exact quote.
You can get the price down to the lower end by a multitude of specials that I have going:
- Save $0.50 per model (about 7%) on painting by a run of identical models 50+
- Tank factory (discount on 10+ runs of tanks)
- Artistic License (give us control over your basing and color scheme is 10% off on painting)
- Level 2 (basic paint job is 30% off on painting cost)
- Combine AL and L2 (35% off on painting)
- Let me pick your army! (extra 5% off on cost of materials)
- Trade in models to bring the cost down (Warning! I don’t offer much!)
Basically, if you aren’t too picky you can get your army pretty inexpensively.
On the other hand, you can get the price up by:
- Having us do the models at a higher level (50% more on painting cost to increase all Levels by ONE)
- Do loads of conversions and sculpting
- Make a display board
- Magnetize loads of options
In short, Blue Table is extremely flexible. I really want to help you get your army painted and on the table.
The white horde from Primer Mountain. If you know someone with two armies that he hasn’t painted for years, there’s no reason he couldn’t have had us whip them out at L2. It’s easy as pie to get a commission set up.
Last idea: a lot of times you can get an army reallly cheap on eBay that is already assembled. You can send it to the studio, allow us to do a little refurbishment and paint it up. This can be a very, very inexpensive alternative.
Like this Tyranid Army. We could paint that up for $800 (you pick everything, painted wargamer standard L3), $600 (L3 but we pick color scheme), or $490 (L2 and we pick color scheme). And I might add that’s one huge tyranid army, probably pushing at least 2500 pts.
Or this Insanely Huge Tau Army. What makes these such good deals is that they are already assembled.
Another day is passed…
I woke first in the household this morning. It was raining. So, I put on my hooded black coat and went out for a walk. I grew up in Oregon. I love the rain. My mind is clear when the clouds are overhead, but today my mind was distracted with money and business. It’s a constant burden. I wish I had peace. But now the only choice is to find peace and strength while the shells are whizzing overhead.
It’s general conference this weekend, and we have it on all the radios and recording it on TV.
We finished up our climactic D&D session today. Raining outside, chinese food, good background music and good friends for some D&D is really a bit of paradise. It was the climactic battle at the end of the horned hold against a drow priestess. It was pretty swell. Only one casualty, though. We have a great dedicated group, all workers at BTP. We have sort of a dream D&D game: always tons and tons of new miniatures (all my personal stash) and great terrain. And each player is an accomplished modeller and miniatures painter, so every character has a fabulous painted figure.
Mike’s Warlock, Damakos, died hidously, swarmed by two Nephilim demons. I’m going to start dumping my home brew D&D stuff on the website in case anyone is interested.
Once home I cradled the lovely faces of my children for a moment, to look at how beautiful they are and we ate the rest of the chinese food (dumplings and sweet/sour chicken). Then the afternoon session of General Conference (link below).
Insight: I need to get a planner. I used to plan out my day a lot better, especially as a missionary. Now, I just sort of take things as they come and try to get my Inbox clear at the end of the day. It’s worked pretty well so far, but I think that I could make the business and my family life a lot better through planning.
Wednesday October 1 2008 Electrons
Picture: Epic Goreshade by Privateer Press. This is from a game called War Machine, which I highly recommend. There are four basic factions in the game, and each of them costs $50 or so. With that one box and the rulebook you can have a lot of fun with it. Each model is like a whole unit in a game like 40K, with a ton of ability and cool stuff it can do.
The major news item today is that it is the first day of October and October is completely booked. I am extremely grateful to our clients and everyone who responded. I know full well that we live by the good graces of our clients (and fans!)
I am now starting the dash to fill up November, which is completely open. I am still running the following specials:
- Tank Factory (painting on ten tanks for $400, twenty for $700).
- Level Two (about $4.50 for basic painting on an infantry model, 30% off essentially)
- Artistic License (10% off on painting if we get to pick color scheme/basing; can be combined with Level Two for 35% off)
- Hungry Evil and Dead (25% off painting with Artistic License for undead, tyranids, and necrons)
I’ve also got a couple of armies on hand and ready to paint, each about 2000-3000 points: Orks and Biker Marines. You get a great deal on materials.
The following projects are under the brush for this cycle and should be done in 6-12 days. If you don’t see your project and would like to know what is going on you can contact me and you’ll get a prompt response:
Orks 01 BC (huge project, should be a couple of weeks)
Vampire Counts 03 DW
Orks 01 DV (huge project, should be a couple of weeks)
Deathwing 01 CG
Gnarloc 01 CW
Blood Bowl Undead 02 FC
Dark Elves 01 JM
Fantasy Figures 01 NH orc war.
Steel Legion 02 ES
Daemonhunters 01 FS display
Daemonhunters 01 FL display
Imperial Guard 02 JL tanks
Deathguard 01 HT tanks
RPG Heroes 01 CS
Tau 01 ML
RPG Figures 01 AJ
I have been sleeping extremely well this last few weeks, waking naturally and without alarm around 6:30am. On my mission I got to a point where I would wake up at 6:29am sharp, just before the alarm went off. And I go to sleep easily at night, tired from a full day of activity.
I got the kids ready for school. Their mother has done a great job training them to take care of their own stuff. Kenna gets up on her own, with her own alarm, and makes her bed without coercion. I usually get up after she does nowadays.
I got to the studio to find Sarah already wrapping up some paperwork, getting time cards organized and recorded. As most of you know we’re doing a Morning Show a few times a week, and that is a load of fun. She’s working on a Daemonhunters display board this week (for those gold daemonhunters which I just love).
Remember the Wyches of Thoth? Well, that project came to fruition in a big way. It turned out even better than I imagined. I wish I could have one! We’ve been doing some re-working on it, making the discs more creature-like as follows:
We had an unusual conjunction of artists with miscellaneous projects down at the studio. I spent about a half hour in the break room sitting on the couch and listening to Joseph along with Mike and Angela. Joseph is an extremely articulate and insightful person; he talked for about twenty minutes about Life, the Universe and Everything. It was a magic moment. Renn walked in partway through to delivery my Player’s Guide to the Realms (D&D) book. That was seventh heaven.
For that one glorious frame I was caught up on my work, and everything was in order.
OK, so a few unanswered emails in there. But mostly caught up…
I arrived home to find my gorgeous and gloriously pregnant wife making seasoned roast potatoes and mushrooms. The heady smell of it filled our home.
As the sun slid down underneath the distant lakes, en-pinkening lazy chalk lines of clouds, I headed out on a walk with Griffin. He is able to pilot his little red trike smoothly. He stops for flowers, small dogs, and dead bugs. There is an open field nearby where he ran around and rolled down grassy hills.
Renn is selling off his Dark Angels army. About 2000 points, everything sharp and respectably painted. It’s $400 worth of model, with a steal of a deal on assembly, conversions and painting, weighing in at $750. More might be coming on that.
1x Azrael
1x Dreadnought
2x Dreadnought alternate arms (just the arms)
1x Whirlwind (alternate magnetize missiles)
1x Razorback turret (turret only, converts whirlwind into razorback)
5x Tacticals (power fist and plasma rifle)
5x Tacticals (power fist and meltagun)
1x Predator (autocannon and lascannon magnetized)
1x Rhino
3x Bikers (power sword and two plasmaguns)
3x Bikers (power fist and two meltaguns)
1x Land Raider Crusader
5x Command models (flame thrower, standard, apothecary, power sword/plasma pistol, power sword/bolt pistol)
5x Assault Marines (power fist)
1x Chaplain (jump pack)
1x Ravenwing Land Speeder (heavy bolter and assault cannon)
1x Attack Bike (multi-melta)
4x Masters of the Chapter
5x Veterans (thunder hammer, chainswordsx2, power sword)
Magnetize a Carnifex
I stumbled on this amazing article on how to
This article was not written by me or anyone at BTP. I’m just providing the link. And one last helpful tip: keep a “master magnet” glued to a piece of board or what-not. This is your polarity for all host points and will assure that everything you do, for any army, for any model, has consistent polarity on the magnets.