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Trying to get rid of my Space Marines, so I can get the finances to finish my Sisters of Battle.

Purchased some Karist Troopers, and *nearly* recruited a guy into Maelstrom's Edge.

Planning the logistics of reducing my 40k stockpile.

Using nearly every mantic redbrick battlezone tile I have to make a large 2x2' factory to be the center (or off-center) piece for a post apocalypse board for TNT. Going well, lot of work and the clips can be frustrating but I'm getting places.

Did some light painting. Finished a sergeant, plasma gunner, and Contemptor for my 30K stuff.

Picked up my profits from the Campaign MK bring & buy (and took home the Tomorrow's War rulebook/cards again - can't seem to shift it).

Then finished these two off. The gyroplane was clearly made using the wrong resin mix and was quite rubbery so the supplied rotors were unusable. 2 bikes and a trike left before the core box is done.

Started putting some Rorke's Drift British line infantry together, knocked pot of liquid polly over, spent the rest of the day with the doors and windows all wide open and hovering about the ceiling

This last week or so, I've been on a mission to finish up hobby victims of my, at times, epic procrastination...or hobby ADD...I can never figure out which! Over the weekend, hobby time was spent finishing up a unit of Empire Greatswords, Ogre Kingdoms Iron Blaster and a Mordheim Witch Hunter Warband. Yeah, I know, all over the place...

Yesterday, I finished putting decals onto my two newest Imperial Knights...

Now I'm looking at 4 different Ogre Maneaters, 2 of which are primed and have a touch of color here and there, and 2 which need priming.

Working on my second Bloodthirster. Bought some "mud" texture paint from GW, tried on a Bloodletter base and loved it. Stuff works very well.

Painted my first Sister of Battle today. I've had them for a couple years now (a lot of them were from ebay and had paint from their previous owners).

Was easier than I'd been fearing! Looking forward to maybe getting the rest done at some point (but I really should finish my Romans for Hail Caesar. I think a league is starting soon...)

Finished my grav Cannons. Sometimes I regret painting as school. But some of my bets models have been done here so IDK.
Sometimes I wish I didnt choose white scares as my first army. Seemed simple right? Just spray them white, do the details, and boom. your good. but as I progress in my painting I realize how wrong I was.

3 days in a row not a single post :O

Finished painting details on Knight interior and sprayed it with varnish, but the bloody thing doesn't seem to want to dry even under hair dryer

Spending tonight cutting out 25x50 and 20x20mm bases from 3mm plywood for my Kings of War project. 15mm scale figures, with a basic Troop being 3 figures wide on a base, like Mighty Empires or Hordes of the Things, so that you can rank them up to make Regiments and Hordes. Individuals on foot go on 20mm's.

Laser-cut would be awesome, but didn't want to wait the 2 weeks for Litko to cut them for me, so I bought enough plywood for all the bases I will ever need at Hobby Lobby for 5.99 and a couple night's efforts (a 3-pack of sheets, with each sheet making about 50 25x50mm bases).

Today I finally finished putting together my last unassembled Tyranid model: a third mawloc. I bought way too many models at the same time, but I got sucked into some great deals on amazon, and I bought four deathstorm boxes from GW when they first came out. So no regrets there. Also, I made a ton of conversions, that I will be posting on here when I get a chance. I'm actually very proud of them. I've always been a big fan of kitbashing and converting.

Now it's time to get started painting. That's what I will be doing for the next 6 to 14 months.

Between work and school (about a year away from finishing my bachelor's in computer science), time is definitely not on my side. I haven't played a game in 4 or 5 months, and I am starting a new job in a couple of weeks, which will be even more demanding on my time (but a heck of a lot more money, and dramatically better benefits than I am getting now, so no complaints).

As much as I miss playing, I still enjoy the hobby aspects. I find building and painting very relaxing. A wonderful escape. But I would be lying if I said I wasn't going through withdraws from not getting a game or two in a week, or at least a month.

I'm looking forward to getting my 'Nids painted up. I just hope I have enough discipline to not buy another army until this one is complete.

Yeah right!

The good news is that I got two more bikes for my Hauls Angels faction completed. The bad (?) news is that the rest of the KS shipment arrived today so I have an entire new faction to start work on now.

I'm getting ready for a 1500 point tournament tomorrow. Gonna switch out the Tau from my army bag for Dark Angels after 3 months playing Tau. That's the nice thing about having 3 armies; I can switch it up now and then! I'll probably post a quick summary or batrep (depending on how good/bad it goes) either on this thread, my blog, or in the 40k Battle Reports section.

Picked up a 10-man Cadian squad to convert as Tempestus Scions for Deathwatch Overkill. Have half of them built and will try to finish building and at least basecoating them this weekend.

Played the Dark Souls boss fight demo again at the Guild Ball tourney at Element Games. Nearly didn't get horribly killed.

I'm making Excel spreadsheets to fully inventory all miniatures, tools, paints, and anything else related to my hobby.

 RivenSkull wrote:
I'm making Excel spreadsheets to fully inventory all miniatures, tools, paints, and anything else related to my hobby.

This is something that I've often thought of doing...then I take a nap and forget about it.

Think I'm going to finish a box of Sisters of Slaughter (wife is starting Dark Elves) and in between frustrating lithe elf bodies I'm going to work on getting my Stormcast together.

Might prime some stuff too.

Putting together my first ever Karist Trooper for MEdge.

A Dwarf army that was never intended to be a Dwarf Army (originally gotten, consisting mostly of 6th ed multi part plastics to be a Chaos Squat army, the rest were tossed aside for either trade or future ideas. I disliked 6th ed 40k so the army went into a box, then I got the idea to use them as zombies, but the idea took too much work, as I didn't have the parts to convert them and greenstuffing would have taken too long, in my mind, so I assembled them as Dwarves and got to painting).

Sculpting dollies with Kev White.

I suck.

Lost steam playing WMH, since a new ruleset is on the horizon.
Watched two games today. Frostgrave and Boltaction.

I've had a busy day today.

Oooh saw that on facebook. Nice stuff My big old factory board is eating up most of the cool bits but I may have to make a few small buildings of my own.

Today I moved a large rug and some carpet remnants into my game room and now its quite cozy

Planning a purchase...trying to get my empire army built up.
Also I think I'll pick up some stormfiends for my Skaven army probably one of the few units I don't already have for skaven!

Finding it hard to get the empire knights tho...trying to go heavy cavalry but hard to find haha

Working on a DA tac marine, and trying to finish some cultists, and spilling a pot of Nuln Oil.

 privateer4hire wrote:
Picked up a 10-man Cadian squad to convert as Tempestus Scions for Deathwatch Overkill. Have half of them built and will try to finish building and at least basecoating them this weekend.

...and other than painting a second coat on the base rim, this squad is done.
Bringing me back to zero models to build or paint.

WHQ: Silver Tower has got me awfully tempted but need to sell off some of my unused toys.

Sorting and cleaning my miniatures after significant break from the modeling hobby. Some of my ork boyz and meks didn't take the move and storage to well . I got some repairs and repaints to do. I still have Chaos and Eldar to check on as well. My khador warjacks did just fine.

I am still excited to get back into the hobby. Waaaggghhh on ya gits!