Heroscape Slaad Spawn and Shadow Hulk Stats

Slaad Spawn
Utgar
Slaad
Common Squad (4)
Minions
Wild
Life 1
Move 4
Range 1
Attack 2
Defense 5
Points TBD
Special Powers:
Teleportation- Instead of moving a Slaad Spawn normally, you may choose any empty space that is on the same level and within 3 spaces of a Slaad Spawn. Place the Slaad Spawn on the chosen space. When a Slaad Spawn starts to teleport, if hit is engaged it will not take any leaving engagement attacks.

Chaos to the End- When a Slaad Spawn is destroyed, roll 4 attack dice. Roll defense for all figures adjacent to the space previously occupied by the Slaad Spawn.

Shadow Hulk
Utgar
Hulk
Uncommon Hero
Abberation
Ferocious
Huge 12
Life 8
Move 5
Range 3
Attack 5
Defense 6
Points Tbd 200
Special Powers:
Clouded Mind Defense- Confused figures cannot attack a Shadow Hulk.

Confusing Gaze- Instead of taking a turn with a Shadow Hulk, you may
roll the 20-sided die. If the figure is a squad figure and you roll a
7 or higher place a blue Confused Marker on that figure's base. If the
figure is a hero figure and you roll a 16 or higher, place a Confused
Marker on that figure's base. Figures with confused markers on their
base roll two less defense dice. At the end of a round, remove all
Confused Markers.

I'm also working on some stats for Necrons in Heroscape. So if anyone reading this happens to play a Necron army in 40K, stay tuned.

Fantastic Abyssal Terrain on TerraGenesis

Abyssal Audience Hall

This was made very simply, except for the thrown, but looks simply fantastic. He uses a hard type of compact styrofoam, but you could probably use 3/4" polystyrene or foam board or whatever you call it. A genius technique he used to make a vein effect was he trailed hot glue over it and painted it. I will incorporate this technique into my next terrain project if possible.

In other news, my digital camera needs batteries so I probably won't have pics for a few days.

Balor Heroscape Stats

Balor
Utgar
Demon
Unique Hero
Greater Demon
Terrifying
Large 8
Life- 7
Move- 7
Range- 3
Attack- 5
Defense- 6
Points- TBD
Special Powers:
Flaming Whip Special Attack- Range 3. Attack 4. If Balor's Flaming Whip Special Attack causes a wound, place the wounded figure one space closer to Balor.

Flying
Immolation- At the end of each round, roll one attack die for each figure adjacent to Balor. If you roll a skull, that figure takes a wound. Figures with the Lava Resistant Special Power are not affected by Immolation.

I'm finally getting around to my to-do list over the holidays, stay tuned for more updates including some playtest results!

Gaming stuff I got for Xmas

I got a lot of game related stuff for Christmas. Here's a list:
D&D 4E Dungeon Master's Guide
D&D 4E Monster Manual II
A Dremel tool
Dungeons of Dread DDM Starter Set
Craftsman toolbox
A vice (pictured below with my war troll basecoated)
24 2 oz. acrylic paints
a brush set

With gift cards, I got:
preorder for Heroscape Master Set 3: Battle for the Underdark
27 DDM minis, which I forgot which ones I got so I'll tell you what they are when they get here.
8 3 inch Grecian wedding cake pillars
wooden nickels
more paint

Lava Base Tutorial

I finished my lava base for Brunak, here's a pic:

Step one: Glue sand to your base using PVA glue. I use Elmer's. Sorry no pic.
Step two: Basecoat the sand yellow.
Step three: Wetbrush orange onto sand. Wetbrushing is the same as drybrushing, only you use more paint, that way it does get into some of the cracks but not all. Sorry, no pic again.

Step four: Drybrush black onto your base. I actually used FolkArt Wrought Iron, but I'm sure black is fine. Make sure you can still see quite a bit of orange on your base.

When done it should look like the image at the top. I probably should add a little more black because as is it looks not very solid.

Oops! Have some updates

Sorry I didn't post for half a month, posting a blog no one reads is harder than you think. OK, I do have an advantage being the type of person that talks to themself but... Anyways, I have been painting even if I haven't been posting.

This is a basecoat of yellow for my new lava base. Its hard to tell in the pic but the base has sand on it. I will post a tutorial later for making lava bases.

Also undercoated some figures, 22 to be exact, with black. You can see 4 gnome knights, 4 goblins, a ninja, a dog agent thing, 6 elf archers, 3 anubian wolves, 3 warriors of ashra. I also base coated my D&D War Troll.

Some other thing I accomplished: Rebased a bunch of figures, started make a crater, started making a iron mesh fence.