Overpriced miniatures

Nicely run tournament this weekend at Grandiosity in Norton Shores. I particularly liked the bit where each round one extra unit from a different force org slot was made a scoring unit. Lessons learned from dusting off my green and silver Tau: Commander Longstrike is even nastier with an ion cannon than with a rail gun. I wish I could have 4 of him! The skyray markerlights are pretty underwhelming without Fast. I can park it in cover somewhere, but if it's just a seeker missile carrier I can get those elsewhere. Sniper drones have a lesser version of the skyray's problem. You have these nice jetpack gun platforms, but they have to stay in unit coherency with their heavy-weapon infantry spotters, meaning you have to put them in the right place at deployment. I almost wish there was a reliable way to kill off the spotter and pass the drones to a drone-controller commander! And yes, it IS possible to have too many markerlights! The commander-blob is very effective, but t

After painting my Winter Argus from Privateer Press's Hordes game and being surprised at how well it turned out, I decided to duplicate the scheme on two more models, but document it this time. The models in question are Laris, the companion of Kaya the Moonhunter (Epic Kaya), and the pewter  white-metal version of the Pureblood Warpwolf. The Pureblood is now available as part of a resin kit that can make any of the Warpwolves, but it's nowhere near as distinctive as the older sculpt. For the record, this is the only known case where I prefer a metal model to a plastic or resin one! Had I realized that they are supposed to be white, I might have chosen a different primer than black, but with a lot of patience it can be done. The first step after the priming was to paint everything but the deepest shadows in Testors Model Master Gunship Gray, as shown here. According to my notes, the next thing I did was to paint white over the gray, but I don't believe them. I think