The Storm Wardens Collaborative Army Build Drawing!

This is it folks!  The Storm Wardens finish line is near. The drawing will be held THIS SUNDAY at 2pm EST live on Jawaballs Live! and you get to watch it.  Join us for a special presentation of Jawaballs Live! at 2pm Eastern Standard Time.  Jawaballs Live! is a weekly show that is broadcast live every Wednesday at 6pm EST.

But we are not just giving away an army. There is a list of loot to be given away as well! 

A customized deck of cards and patch donated by Bolter and Chainsword

An Airbrush
A Forge World Eldar Vampire kit
Deamon Prince & codex
Secret Weapon $50 credit
2 games day tickets
and more!

The final loot list will be posted before the show, but at any rate, you don't want to miss this!  Simply come to Ustream.tv by CLICKING HERE and join the fun. I suggest you register for the site and create a screen name.  You do not need to attend the live show to win the prizes.  But why not be there!  The show sould take about half an hour. Members of the Storm Wardens build team will be in the live chat as well to answer questions about the project.  Check back here for any final updates, I will edit this post as the end approaches.

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Storm Wardens Army last call! Help a great charity.

This is your last chance to get in on the Storm Wardens collaborative army build.  The time to make donations ends this Sunday!  If you have not yet gotten your donation in by now, what are you waiting for??  But I just wanted to take a moment to talk about the bigger picture.  Sure, the army is fantastic. This is a true first and I only wish I was eligible to win.

But really, this is not about toys at all. It is about being part of something bigger than yourself.  Every one of us who donated or worked on this project is stepping up and joining a cause that universally offers aid, no matter who or where you are.  That is the essence of community and compassion, and that is the defining quality that makes our little gaming family so special. If only more people in this world did the same! It does not matter how much you donated, it just matters that you did. You should be proud to know that your dollar will go towards helping those who need it.  You can find out more about Doctors Without Borders for yourself. They won a Nobel Peace Prize! As the end of the drive approaches, dig deep into those pockets and give what you can. If you already did, thank you. We know times are tight. Know that you are part of something great.

Be sure to check out the Storm Wardens blog for pics of the loot!

Jawaballs

Storm Wardens Collaborative Army Build Update!

This is it! I am coming down the home stretch. I have to say I would have been done a while ago, and have done more, but the Jawababy waits for no man, movement or model.  I know next time I will be able to contribute a whole lot more.  My champion from the Company Command squad is done, as is the rhino. Today I am finishing up the 10 tactical marines.  I sent the Jawababy off to day care! :)  '

There is still time to enter the drawing to win the complete army! You can find more details by clicking HERE.

In case you just got back from Mars or escaped from Michael Jacksons secret hyperbolic chamber, a group of talented bloggers, and myself, got together to paint up an army!  We hit up a ton of business for more contribution, plus got a boat load of stuff for free from other guys that just wanted to help. All of this stuff is being given out to YOU! You only need contribute to the fund by purchasing a ticket, or ten.  Just check out the official press release and join the fun! The final drawing is July 25th. Hurry because I believe the time to contribute ends soon.

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Storm Wardens Army Giveaway Project: Jawaballs Rhino WIP

Here are some more WIP pics of my Storm Wardens rhino for the Collaborative army painting give away!

Be sure to check out THIS LINK for instructions on how to contribute and qualify for the drawing.  As most of you know, I have been painting a tactical squad, rhino and company champion as my contribution to this massive event.  These pictures are of my rhino almost complete!  One is pretty washed out because of the flash... 

I have been doing some light weathering and chipping, and fading from Regal blue up to Ultramarine blue. The hand painting is almost complete as well. I will be doing some hand painting on the sides.  I feel it is coming along nicely!  

The final drawing will be taking place live on a special edition of Jawaballs Live! on July 25th. So if you have not entered your contribution yet, Git Er Done!  

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This week on Jawaballs Live!

This week on Jawaballs Live! Join Jawaballs as he presents part two of "Hand Painting a Storm Wardens Rhino". I will be doing the lettering on the hand painted scrolls on the top of the tank.  Also, be looking for the next mini giveaway! You must be a contributer to qualify for the giveaway. Jawaballs will dip into his loot pile once again for another prize.  Oh, and last weeks winners will go into the mail today. Sorry it has taken me so long! It is a busy time of the year for me at work and I cant always play with interwebs business!

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This week on Jawaballs Live! Jawaballs does a Hand Painting demonstration on Storm Warden Rhino

Hey all, Jawaballs here. You do not want to miss this week's show!  Tune in to Jawaballs Live! at 6pm EST. You can find the show by clicking on the picture of me with the giant space marine on the right of my blog.

First of all, I will be demonstrating some hand painting techniques on this rhino here.  You will get to see my process, from image design to implementation, including my pre-sketch work. But also, John, from Santa Cruz Warhammer  will be in attendance. We will be doing the next Storm Wardens mini giveaway live.  The way this works is that every one who has donated is eligible for a mini giveaway from the Storm Wardens project. The winner will simply be picked from random from all of the donation entries and announced live on my show.  Yes, if you have donated 100.00, your name has been entered 100 times and you have a greater chance of winning something then a guy who donated 10 dollars. You need not be actually viewing the broadcast to win.  Tonight's prize will be 50.00 of store credit from MY STORE. Plus John may have something more to offer up from the Storm Wardens prize pool.  Yes, we will ship prizes WORLD WIDE!

But also, I will be offering yet more giveaways taken from my own personal loot stash, available ONLY to guys who are actually watching the broadcast and who made a donation.  In order to be eligible for one of the mini Jawa-giveaways, you need to also have made a donation to the Storm Wardens army giveaway. The link to do so is on the top right of my blog. So go search the floor of your car and come up with some change and make that donation!  I will be picking a few items from my tournament loot shelf and donating them to the cause! Winning mini giveaways will NOT affect your chances to win the grand prize in July. These are bonus prizes just for having thrown your name into the hat.  Get your donations in early! The sooner you have made your donations, the more prizes you can win. You have to be in it to win it.

Finally in the spirit of giving, I still have some Army Dice from Custom Game Dice. I will be giving out the rest of the Yellow Fist dice and Chaos dice that were donated by Scott.  You need not have donated to get these. Just be watching the show!

It will be an hour show packed full of great painting tips and loot giveaways. You do NOT want to miss it!  Also, Fritz may just make another appearance and you guys will be able to pick his brain as well.  Lots of great stuff.

See you tomorrow night!

Jawaballs

Dark Angels banner and Storm Wardens WIP updates!

Here is my finished Full Sized Dark Angels chapter banner!  The dimensions on this bad boy are 3 feet by 6 feet, plus the triangles on the bottom.  If you are looking for a hand painted full sized banner for your man room, let me know!

Moving on to my Storm Wardens project, here are some WIP pics.

Storm Wardens favor Meltaguns and Heavy Bolters. So I am starting with those. This meltagun is from the Black Templars upgrade sprue, I just shaved off the cross from the side of the gun.

The heavy bolter marine poses unique problem because the gun is so huge that the model cannot be painted while it is assembled. You have to paint the entire model, then paint the gun completely before attaching it because if you mess up and get some paint on your model, it is too hard to fix the problem.

After getting some feedback on my live show about this model, I decided to reposition his arm to where it is now. I originally cut it to swivel around a bit, and the blade was pointing in a different direction, back behind his head. It was a very dynamic pose and looked good if you were looking down the barrel of the gun straight towards his face. This pose is a little more stiff looking, but looks better on a whole from all angles.

A most pleasant surprise came when I started painting the blue rhino. Most of my painting experience has been in red. I think that I have done very well with that, coaxing some beautiful work out of a very difficult color to paint with. I was delighted when I tried to use blue in the same way, and it almost magically smoothed out and blended. Now I understand when people say how hard red is to work with! It is not that red is hard, but that blue is so easy! With a little water in the bristles, the enchanted blue just swirled into place on the edges, fading down to Regal blue. It was fantastic! The same result in red would have required an hour of back and forth painting with Blood Red and Red Gore, forcing the paint into submission.

These images are still very much work in progress, but are the result of just a few minutes of painting that I did during my live broadcast. You can catch a recording of that by the way by clicking on the picture to the right of me with the giant Space Marine.

I am very pleased with my models for this collaborative effort so far and am excited to see what the other guys are doing too.  One thing I can say is that if you have not gotten yourself into this drawing yet, you MUST do so! We are getting more prizes every day and believe me, you want to be part of it. The Storm Wardens army alone makes me wish I was not part of the group so that I could enter the drawing and try to win.

Thats it for now!

More to come...

Jawaballs

Storm Wardens! Tonight on Jawabals Live.

Storm Wardens!  Tonight on Jawaballs Live.

 Join me tonight at 6pm EST as I work on my Storm Warden Tactical Squad for the collaborative army build charity drawing.  I will be demonstrating how I paint them by working on a tactical marine, and rhino, as well as sharing a little bit of exclusive and as yet unreleased fluff straight from the designers of the chapter.  Click on the picture of me with the giant space marine to the right for the link.

See you there!  Jawaballs

Jawaballs joins something special. Come win an army!

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Well here it is, "The Great Storm Wardens Project"

We have gotten so much out of this hobby and our blogs that we decided to give back a bit and work together on something awesome, and give money to charity.

The end result will be an incredible painted army going to one of you, the WINNER of this drawing.

The Army.

The Storm Wardens are a new Space Marine chapter from the yet to be released Death Watch RPG. Together with Games Workshop, Fantasy Flight Games (Horus Heresy, Wings of War) has been developing the game which will be released this summer.

We approached the folks designing the Death Watch game while planning this project, and told them we were thinking of building a Storm Wardens army, and they loved the idea. They have been working with us in getting the look of the army just right and giving us some great unreleased fluff and imagery.

We are going to build a complete Storm Wardens Space Marine army with a decked out HQ, Marines, Veterans, Scouts, Terminators, and a bunch of vehicles, a massive army that any commander would be proud to field.

You will be able to see the army units come together and follow the army build progress through links to all the builders blogs on our "Storm Wardens" mini blog roll.

Who will be working on the army?

Dave Taylor

Thomas Wynn ( Wynn Studios)

Jawaballs

Ron Saikowski (From the Warp)

Mister Justin (Secret Weapon Miniatures)

Mik (Miks Minis, Barter Bucket)

and us, Mike & John (Santa Cruz Warhammer)

Along with the blogger build team, we are going after some related hobby retailers to give up some loot to add to the army prize. Secret Weapon Miniatures is donating all the custom bases, and Chessex has already sent us the custom dice.

What can you do?

Well, you can give money to the cause. You can give to the fund at the top right of this page or any of the other participating bloggers, using PayPal or a credit card. Each dollar will also enter you in the free army grand prize drawing, the more you give, the better your chance of winning, and more money we can give to charity.

We will draw the winner in mid July.

What if I don't have any money, but I still want to help?

Dig around under the couch cushions or under the seat of your car, put on some dark sunglasses and sell pencils out of a cup on the street corner, or even sell some extra Warhammer minis on Ebay, then use that cash for a donation.

You can also help by linking to this project in your blog, telling your friends and other gamers, mention it at your gaming club or even posting about it in your favorite forums, this will help us get the most exposure we can, so we can raise more money for charity.

If you have a small business (or know someone who does) that might have a product to donate that would be great to add to this army, contact us about a feature during the build.

Why should I help out?

If you have ever read something on our blogs that you thought was cool, gave you a good idea, showed you how to do something better, downloaded a free drop pod template, used the Barter Bucket, or perhaps you even got something from us for free and you are feeling a bit guilty about it.... well, now is your chance to give something back, pay it forward, return a good turn.... well you know.

Oh yeah, and you could end up with an entire finished army, by giving $1 to the Storm Wardens Project.

Where does the money go?

The money will be a gift from us to Doctors Without Borders, and actually help people. We chose Doctors without Borders because their cause is a global pursuit to help people in need, where ever help is needed most, and they have a good track record with getting the $ where it does the most good.

So there you have it. I hope you are all as exited about this as we are, its been tough keeping it a secret.

So.......who wants a new army?

John & Mike

That was the official announcement post from John and Mike at Santa Cruz Warhammer who have been planning this whole thing.  When I got the email inviting me to join this all star team of blogger painters, it took me all of .2 seconds to send my reply. Absolutely! After some of the details were banged out in the group emails, I finally figured out my role in this thing. 

I will be painting a 10 man tactical squad with a Rhino, and The Company Champion from the Honor Guard! Here is a picture of the Sergeant from the Tactical squad Work in Progress:

With all of these talented guys, I know I will be hard pressed to produce work worthy of the honor bestowed to me, but I think will hold my own! I am definitely packing my A game. 

Just to clarify some details. I have created a donation button at the top right of my blog. Click the button and use paypal to donate as much as you want. For every dollar you donate, you will get one entry into the drawing. There is no limit to the number of entries you can make. Donate 100 dollars, and your name will be entered 100 times. Easy! The army will be a well balanced Space Marine force of around 1850 points. 


If you are going to donate more then one dollar, please do it all at once. Paypal takes a good amount of every transaction. Donating one dollar will only bank us about .65c. But the fee does not go up with the total of the transaction. So donating 20.00 will get us 19.65.  Got it?

Check the other participants out to see what they are working on and to see Work in Progress pics. Also check back here for more!


I will update this post as more information becomes clear.

More to come...

Jawaballs