Hey folks! So, my dream of painting up a Space Marine force was kinda short lived (I know, that's so unlike me) and I've put Pedro Kantor up for sale on the for sale page. I will likely sell some of the other items when I have time to photograph them properly etc. Right now I find myself a bit swept up in Monsterpocalypse, but I hope to get back to painting soonish

This weekend I picked up some of the nice new Chaos models - a box of 5 mounted knights and the single mounted Chaos Lord (kinda looks like Frazetta's Death Dealer - in a good way).  Today I went back to buy the army book......but the poor guy couldn't ring it into the cash register. That was really bizarre. It wouldn't scan and he couldn't seem to look it up (nobody was really helping him out with that either). Bummer - I'm pretty patient but after about 7 or 8 minutes I threw in the towel.  Looks like a nice book though :

So hopefully I'll try painting these guys up if I can tear myself away from Fallout 3.

If you are interested in AT-43, I have a few auctions up on ebay tonight around 7:15 PST.

Finally, I've decided to list some of the models I have assembled/based/primed (or some mixture of the three) since I have so many that I wont' get around to. I've done a partial list on the For Sale page - mostly Warmachine and Hordes stuff. I've discounted them a fair bit. They are either ready to paint or you could strip them.  If there's interest in these I may post some of the other ones I have.

Well, darnit

This looks *really* cool in the new White Dwarf and I was already trying to convince myself it would be worth the 250 Canadian (I love that it includes a carrying case). 4 of the board sections would be great for Warmachine too. And the idea of themed-pack replacement boards is awesome! I was thinking this was one hell of a product.

Now it's around 315.00 Canadian, and similarly expensive in the UK and USA. What a bummer - at that price it sounds (if you can believe the online reactions) like it won't be selling as well as it could have, to justify releasing said theme-packs etc.

Bummed.

Prices of a number of items on the For Sale page have been lowered.

MAN. It's a tough time to be a gamer (especially an "almost every kind of game" gamer).

- the new Chaos stuff is fabulous. I barely escaped GW store without buying the Spearhead but it was a bit more than I wanted to spend. But when they are released I'm really eager to paint the Death Dealer guy

- Monsterpocalypse. Yes, it's pre-painted and I know a lot of you hate that (and collectible too!) but I'm really pumped to try it out simply because it looks like a fun game. I dropped a wad of cash on it today.  By the way, my faction is Terrasaurs so if anyone else is buying into the game and wants to trade, send me an email to see if I have anything you want.

- Space Marines - I still want a lot of stuff to add to my Crimson Fists which I am still painting. Right now I have Sternguard and a Thunderfire in WIP.

- Video Games!� Dead Space (phenomenal!), Fable 2 (bought it today), Fallout 3....Gears of War 2.... Left 4 Dead....ACK!!

- Orks - I think I'm parking my Ork painting right now, but mainly because I've seen preview photos of the new plastics over on Warseer and want to wait for those to continue growing my force.

Hey everyone - hope you all had a great Thanksgiving (Canadians that is). I missed Onslaught although I was previously planning to go. I had not realized it was over Thanksgiving weekend and I was in Calgary.  Bummer.

As mentioned, Im parking the Orks for now - partly because I know they are due for some new plastic kits in the new year, so I'd like to wait for those to do my next ~ 750 points.

So now I'm working on the Crimson Fist marines. I have a few models painted (crappy photos below). I'm working on Terminators (from AoBR), a Thunderfire Cannon, and Sternguard Vets (since they are scoring units with Kantor!).  The photos are crappy and making the reds look really flat and garrish - much worse thna they look in person.  I'm doing both fists red on my tactical marines even though I know most of the time they only should have one red fist.

So now that I have 1000 pts of Orks playable, my eye of course wanders to - no surprise here - the new Marine stuff!

I picked up the Codex today and a Pedro Kantor from my friend (same one who I played the first game against). I'm planning to do a Crimson Fists force. Turns out I have a rhino half painted with Forgeworld fist doors from like 5 years ago - so that's a nice kickstart  

I don't like the really-really dark blue they use in the official scheme (or in the tale of 4 gamers series in WD) so I'm looking for a slightly lighter blue with some lighter edge highlites as well. I want to be able to see some definition in the models. I find the official ones lack contrast - both in terms of the blue alone and also the blue vs the reds. My test color is actually using P3 paints - base Exile Blue, Highlite Cygnar Blue Base, edges using Vallejo GC Magic Blue. I'll put up a test model soon(ish) to see what you guys think.

Well, after years of painting GW products I officially had my first learner game of 40k today with a friend at work. He was teaching me to play - he was Ultras and I of course had my orks. 

It was very fun - we did run out of time (had just over an hour to play) at 1000 points but it was certainly going his way

Things I learned:

- needs LOTs of dice

- Marines are tough as nails to hurt!

- Ork shooting is not to be underestimated. Lootas in particular are totally awesome.

- Battlewagon = very good

- Trukk was disappointing (immobilized by a dreadnought before it even moved)

I managed to blow away his dreadnought and kill a few guys in CC. Meanwhile, he wiped out my shoota boyz and lootas.  What was cool was my Battlewagon survived 2 missiles and 2 lascannon shots (most missed I think).

Of course, I'm needing more games to really get the hang of it, but I'm already thinking "what are my next 500-750 points?"

Hey folks!

The release of Warhammer Online slowed my painting down a bit, but not a lot - I'm still cranking stuff out.  The Orks continue to grow and I'm very close to having my 1000 points done (have to be because I'm supposed to play my first game possibly this week).  The battlewagon turned out disappointingly to look like a Leman Russ with stuff stuck on it. Photo below is around 90% done. Oh well.  The Warboss from AoBR turned out nice (in this photo he's not dullcoated yet.

One thing slowing down Ork progress is I'm also painting up Warmachine stuff with the release of Legends. For example, just cranked out Cankerworm for my Cryx. My "quick and dirty" Cryx paintscheme allows me to paint them up fast for gaming which is nice. So as usual I'm buying stuff faster than I can paint it. I'm also grossly tempted by all the sweet new Space Marine models coming out....

PS - it seems weird that these totally ad-hoc, holding the camera in my shaky hands photos are nearly as nice as the ones I try to take in my light tent with 4 lights and a tripod lol.

 

Wow - been a long time since we've heard from Jason on his site, but this update shows some amazing stuff.

He's working on orks. Suddenly, after seeing some of the stuff he just posted, i'm officially embarassed by my decidedly 'out of the box' orks :

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