Well folks, I
seem to remember making some pledges to complete certain hobby projects about
10 weeks back. Now it seems the time has come to name and shame my shortcomings,
but also to highlight the success stories. It's been a busy few months outside
the hobby working on a new rotation in a very hectic Medical Admissions unit
and getting my NHS Portfolio up to scratch to progress to the next year of my
training (which I'm happy to say I did), but there's always time to squeeze in
a bit of hobby somewhere. I can happily say that while I did indeed fall short
on a few things I delivered on most and even threw in a few wildcards to boot.
Here's a rundown:
The Good:
Orks:
Got em done, and they worked out beautifully. Lots of fun conversions in
there. Now just to add paint (!). Sadly, one project I really did want to get
finished didn't and that's the custom Morkanaut, who will join the list for
early next quarter.
Eldar:
Ok so I couldn't resist a little bit of Eldar love and so painted up the
Wraithknight in base colours for a game and have started to basecoat some
striking scorpion as well as adding the beautiful new Autarch model to my army
and re-jigging my 3 Autarch models as a result.
Heroes of Badab:
Objective very much secured. All these chaps got basecoated and have
finished scenic bases in 32mm no less. Vehicles are aaaallmost there, won't take long to add the final layers to get them tabletop ready. But their tale doesn't end here - my
plan for them is to have them fully painted by Christmas one squad at a time.
First game coming up soon too with the new Codex.
Skitarii:
Well I managed to get my small but lovable Admech force assembled and
sprayed (they even got a Magos buddy) up so they're now well on the way to
becoming a proper army. Really keen to expand upon them, just waiting for some
time, money and an Imperial armour book!
Tyranids:
I actually achieved more than I thought I would on these guys and have basecoated
most of the models that were added save for a few. Between them and rebasing
some older models onto 50mm there isn't really anything outstanding for this
army at present which is great news.
Horus:
Assembled and primed, the arch-traitor is sitting there on a shelf
taunting me. He and the Avatar next to him are top priority painting projects
for the next quarter.
Odds and ends:
Well the stormtrooper squad and Templar Honour Guard are still sat in a
box but the Deredeo dreadnought for the smurfs and Captain/standard for the
Imperial Fists got mostly assembled.
The Bad:
Necrons:
Well, safe to say I didn't even make a start on these chaps. It became
clear halfway through something would have to give and they were it. I decided
instead to push them to the top of the list for the next quarter instead.
Blood Angels:
Low on the priority list but I had hoped to start upgrading them to 32mm
bases - a can of Mournfang brown spray has already done the hard work, but the
main barrier at the moment is getting them all basecoated in a couple of layers
of mephiston red before doing that. It'll take a while but will be worth it in
the end.
The Unexpected:
The past 10 weeks have thrown up some interesting surprises which have
thrown my schedule off from time to time. Execution force not only gave me some
worthy additions to my Chaos horde (not long now my pretties) but 4 amazing new
Assassin models. It also inspired me to finally finish my original assassins, who are almost there.
The new Marine Codex brought with it new purchases also which I've been
integrating over the past few weeks. If you saw the picture I posted a few
weeks back (below) then you'll know I have more than a few Marine armies. While
I haven't drastically altered any of my armies despite many of them being
incompatible with the new Gladius, I did adjust a few numbers here and there
and added in two of the new devastator kits and an assault squad. Overall, most
of the armies needed a little something doing to them, be it base-coating a few
models or magnetising here and there and so while this process is well
underway, I anticipate it going on into next quarter also. It's always good fun
and rewarding to see things come to fruition so I look forward to it. Dark Angels will be getting a third tactical squad to bring them up to demi-company strength. Another
sore point is trying to gradually update everyone to 32mm bases, meaning
rebasing the power armour in many marine armies and getting edge expanders for
those on scenic bases.
Well, with
Fantasy right around the corner it will actually be quite nice to take a
breather for a month or so and get on track with things. I'm pretty pleased
with how I've done over the past 10 weeks as when time pressures from elsewhere
squeeze your hobby time to lower priority I think it's important to set goals
and targets to stop things from getting totally neglected. Plans for the rest of
the year are, as well as keeping up with any exciting releases, to get those
darn Necrons assembled and sprayed, give some love to my Luna Wolves and
Imperial Guard (who will then effectively be the only 2 non-fully assembled
armies) and start to build up a decent Mechanicus contingent. Great time to be
in the hobby. That's all folks - I'm off for a much-needed 2 week holiday in
the sun. Cheers.
That's a lot of work Jimbo! I especially love that morkanaut, but I'm biased :).
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