Well, cricket on, rain expected, washing brought in. Painting required.
May have left it a little later than I would like, but the deadline is finally working it's magic and forcing me to paint an army.
Pictures will follow. Highlighting the armour on the first lot of five Marines. Long way to go yet.
Will keep updating.
Bloodthirster
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
A Real Deadline!
SO, quite a while since I posted anything. In this time I have built a Command Squad and Chimera for the Cadian 141st, the unit the Tallarn 117th are attached to at the moment. New Guard codex has been out. Read another two Horus Heresy books. Entered a tournament.
The reason I post today is linked with the final point.
I like to think I can set myself deadlines to work to. Goals to achieve, but I am rubbish at doing so. I need to have a deadline that has been set in stone by someone else that I cannot miss. Two years ago I entered a Conflict tournament in London with a mate of mine. Doubles, 500 points each. This really focused my army building and painting. I managed to get an army painted up ready to use and it looked good. (I will post pictures later).
When I was asked if I wanted to enter another doubles tournament I jumped at the chance. Spending a whole day at Warhammer World, playing 40K with a good mate. What could be better?
We had a discussion and decided that we enjoyed using Space Marines last time. In addition, we both had a large supply of bits and models to use. When the Marine codex came out we both worked out cool Salamander armies. I even went as far as collating some models to build it with. That was last September. Nothing happened since. However, with the deadline set, 24th August, and a goal set, 600 points painted well, I'm off.
The mighty Sons of Vulkan are going to be the theme for the army. Lots of melta/flamer goodness. We needed a balanced list and some cool models, so I have actually been quite busy with modelling and painting recently and later today I will show you the fruits of my labour.
For now, back to work.
20 days to go
22 models to paint
Bloodthirster
The reason I post today is linked with the final point.
I like to think I can set myself deadlines to work to. Goals to achieve, but I am rubbish at doing so. I need to have a deadline that has been set in stone by someone else that I cannot miss. Two years ago I entered a Conflict tournament in London with a mate of mine. Doubles, 500 points each. This really focused my army building and painting. I managed to get an army painted up ready to use and it looked good. (I will post pictures later).
When I was asked if I wanted to enter another doubles tournament I jumped at the chance. Spending a whole day at Warhammer World, playing 40K with a good mate. What could be better?
We had a discussion and decided that we enjoyed using Space Marines last time. In addition, we both had a large supply of bits and models to use. When the Marine codex came out we both worked out cool Salamander armies. I even went as far as collating some models to build it with. That was last September. Nothing happened since. However, with the deadline set, 24th August, and a goal set, 600 points painted well, I'm off.
The mighty Sons of Vulkan are going to be the theme for the army. Lots of melta/flamer goodness. We needed a balanced list and some cool models, so I have actually been quite busy with modelling and painting recently and later today I will show you the fruits of my labour.
For now, back to work.
20 days to go
22 models to paint
Bloodthirster
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