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Hey Everyone!

Since I have started getting numerous requests to see some of my armies I have decided to start a blog and share some of my adventure.

If you are unaware I have, over the last 2 years, come out of a hiatus I took from painting and modelling. This was mostly due to tyrant of an x-wife (yup mistakes happen lol) who looked at my *man dolls* as nothing but a waste of time and resources.

That however has never stopped me from collecting models, keeping current with the rules and playing the odd game here and there.
These days I try to have at minimum 1 game a week and when I have time as many as possible!

When I came out of my hiatus I realized something a little offputting. Looking at my armies I noticed that I had painted the majority of them when I was between the ages of 14 and 16 . Since then my painting skills have improved massively! I have done a few characters here and there but have never had the time to complete them.

That left me with 2 things. 1: a massive pile of mostly pewter sub parly painted mini's and 2: lots of unfinished business!

I have spent the last year stripping, assembling, fixing broken models and digging through piles of bits for creative inspiration! Well, that and buying more models for my collection!.

Here are a few pics of the current state of affairs to get everyone started!

My game cave



SOme of my brothers Ork's that live at my house







My Aurora Chapter



Aurora CHapter sharing a shelf with Tau



More Tau



The Nids





And Finally some of my Chaos

Some of my Terminators



Some of my tanks and bigger models (in case you are wondering the unpainted tanks are assembled so that the tops come off to paint the interior before final gluing)





The Cult Troops and Lesser Daemons



Some of my tropps



And now into the WIP's ... lot's of them

My pile of half assebled/stripped stuff



The Dip... the never ending bucket of Simple Green. It may not look it but there are probably 40 models in there



Some model that I assembled at work that got damaged in transit ( I live at work for 2 weeks out of the month, fly in fly out)



One of my bitz binz



Some models organized into bitz to assemble. Can you see all 3 greater demons in this box?? lol. SOme of these are also waiting parts form the dip



Here are a few of the models I have painted over the years that I decided no to strip. Sorry about the crap lighting in the pictures, It's something I need to work on for next time!

Scout Sniper



A chaos lord (I just recently ripped him off of an old oversize scenic base)





Kharn





One of my new painting projects, Abbadon and a scenic base I painted up / added bitz to





My airbrush... the godsend of all base coating devices big and small! It's only a middle of the road one but I couldn't get by without it!





A few of my conversion projects

A chaos Lord in terminator armour, he may not look like much but he is massivly greenstuffed and except for his LC arm is solid pewter lol



(sry bout the blurry pic)


A daemon prince built from an inquisitor model. Works out perfectly in scale! lots of work left here!





Well, that's about it for now guys and gals!

As you can see I really have my work cut out for me! Here is my plan so far:

1: finish stripping all the models that need it
2: assemble everything I have to a high standard
3: base coat and paint the base of all of the models I have
4: squad by squad bring them up to a good table top standard
5: do nicer paint work on characters and squad leaders
6: squad by squad bring the painting standard of my army up


Why does it make me tired and wired at the same time thinking about it! All I know is it will be an adventure! and I will have to squeeze a few games in in the middle of it!

Thanks for looking!

Good luck painting all of those models up, thats going to be a lot of man hours.

Looking forward to your progress. which army are you going to start on or are you going to jump between them so your not always painting the same type of models.

Good luck, I feel like you're going to need it with all of the work you've got set out

But it looks good, and I can't wait for progress.

GiraffeX wrote:Good luck painting all of those models up, thats going to be a lot of man hours.

Looking forward to your progress. which army are you going to start on or are you going to jump between them so your not always painting the same type of models.

My main focus will be My Chaos oarmy but I usually jump over to one of the otehrs when I feel I need a change of pace!

I also have a pile of old scenery that i've been sorting through and remaking. Scavenging good parts like buildings/trees/barrels/tank traps etc and making them into real terrain again!

I think that's the toughest part of this whole project. I have so many models and terrain pieces that I thought were a great Idea when I was 15 and now they at a very minimum need an overhaul

I should be uploading a few more pics tonight, not much in the way of update but something

I have done a lot of work since these pics but am not able to take new ones until next week when I get home! Can't wait to share my progress lol!

geza55- thanks! i'm going to need the luck


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Got a few more pics uploaded! I'm on a satellite connection in the middle of nowhere so it's about as fast as dial up

The back of the Sniper form the previous post:




My land speeder








One of my Hive Tyrants






When I saw this the other day I was blown away lol.... I have been playing this game a long time



The difference in scale blows me away



Soooooo First order of business.... Take better pictures! I wil have to make a light box or something! the lighting in my game cave is way too cave like!

When I get back to civilization I will be uploading some pics of my new projects!

I have 10 noise marine terminators and 2 squads of 5 thousand sons terminators on the go! some fun conversions for sure!

Just a quick post today, in response to quite afew poeple asking to see my entire chaos force on one table!

.. I have so much work ahead of me!

I have been busy in the last couple weeks working away at things but sadly do not have a lot of pics

I picked this little gem of a sculpt up on ebay a couple weeks back and wanted to share it:









I was super impressed with the quality of resin work on this model! completely bubble free and amazingly detailed! I only wish I knew who sculpted it
Regardless, it's goign to look great beside my Kabuki Primarchs. Too bad they are all very low on the list of painting priorities >.<

I also wanted to share some pictures of a fun 4 player game I played the last time I was at home.
1850pts, chaos vs grey knights vs orks vs vanilla marines (aurora chapter)
The scenario we played had a primary and a secondary objective. 1 Hold the building in the centre of the table. If the building was contested it went tocontrol of table quarters determined by higest # of scoring units in each table quarter.

Super fun scenario and perfect for a free for all!

Turn 1:


Turn 2: Orks charge CSM, Aurora chapter goes after GN


Turn 3: Orks wipe defilers, CSM Sorcerors control the table centre, everyone charges the middle


Yes, this did actually happen... the die sat like this until we picked it up lol


Turn 4: Vehicles down all over and troops flooding the table. A rush for the centre is made!


End of turn 4: After a mass of shooting and brutal combat in the centre all that remains is 20 CSM's They shot Drago to death, wiped an 8 man terminator assault squad and a mob of 12 boys without a wound . Truly the stars of the game in a late "Hail Mary" Push for the win!





Hopefully I can get soem shots of some of the work I have been doing. I kit bashed (with all sorts of old metal bitz) 2 winged soreceror lords of slannesh and filled out/ base coated 3 full squads of plague marines. Also base coated 20 Plague bearers, 3 nurgle rhino's and a whack of other stuff.

I have a few things on the go this week.

I bought myself a warhound titan as a birthday present a couple weeks back and am I the process of cleaning and assembling it. Pics to follow when I get home from work!

I am also working on some Ork conversions, Painting Abbadon and as always assembling more of my fresh from the dip chaos models!

I hope to give everyone a proper update soon and hopefully one of these days someone will respond so I can stop talking to myself lol

Sorry for not updating in a million bazillion years everyone!

I haven't had much time to dedicate to the hobby due to too many hours at work >.<... I will have a few updates later today and then some more extensive ones in 2 weeks!
I should have some warhound build pics up soon too

God I'm a slacker

So I've got a few things on the go these days.

Firstly I've finally decided what I will be running at the 2500 Pt level which means I have some good direction as to what to start painting first!

Here is where I am so far:



Painting this army will be on the top of my painting priority for the next while. Having some direction should help me move forward a little faster


I've also gone and picked up 2 Warhound Titans So far I have trimmed and washed one of the two and this is how far I've made it on assembly so far.



I really need to stop working so much and start playing a little more!

This is a very interesting blog, your Chaos marines look very cool indeed and I love the Retro Tyrant.

My whole tyranid army minus the new releases is of that vintage
They are all from the first time I got into this game in the mid 90's
Come to think of it probably 70% of my entire collection is from that era

Woohoo Aurora Chapter!

That was my first army, way back when. Finally got them all sold to feed the growing chaos army.

Keep it green man, good luck!

That is a nice sized Chaos army my friend, and a great looking game cave if I may add. I was supposed to have a game cave too...but my mother moved into it. -_-

P.S. Nice leg.

Spellbound wrote:Woohoo Aurora Chapter!

That was my first army, way back when. Finally got them all sold to feed the growing chaos army.

Keep it green man, good luck!

Haha! yeah I started painting them about 15 years ago and then they sat in a box for a long long time!
I need to update the pics here aswell! I have bought a few new units to expand this to an army capable of fielding 2500pts.

That is my new goal with all of my armies. Get a playable force @ the 2500pt level and start by painting that. Chaos first, aurora chapter second and then either Tau or Nids.. haven't decided yet...
I need smaller goals or more time at home or little helper monkies


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bunnygurl wrote:That is a nice sized Chaos army my friend, and a great looking game cave if I may add. I was supposed to have a game cave too...but my mother moved into it. -_-

P.S. Nice leg.

Thanks! I love the chaotic spikey buggers

It took me years to carve out a decent spot I need to take some more pics too I've rearranged it quite a bit! ohhhh parents and invading useful game space! If you were a little closer I would say drop by and borrow mine

It is quite the sexy leg isn't it... now where did I put it's friend....s....

I can't wait to be home in 6 days so I can host and post some of my progress!

Me too. Anything with a stabby bit is good in my books.

When I bought my house it had the perfect area for a game cave, just need some paint and flooring, but...sigh. Pay for my plane ticket and I'll gladly come by.

Wish my legs looked that good.

Aww common you don't wanna do the 20+ hour drive for a game or two!

I have no idea what your legs look like so I have no point of camparison I'll have to believe ya

Whoop! Should be able to do some updating either tonight or tomorrow finally!

Thats an awesome army colection, i am looking forward to seeing the painting come along.

I love the painting on your Hive Tyrant.

and let there be Light (box) in your cave

M0rdain wrote:Thats an awesome army colection, i am looking forward to seeing the painting come along.

I love the painting on your Hive Tyrant.

and let there be Light (box) in your cave

Haha! Thanks!

Yeah a light box is a must! I'm going to be setting up a permanent painting station sometime soon and it will def include a light box!
Even I'm getting tired of the odd shadows and weird saturation in my pics

Sooooo It looks like I finally get a few minutes to do a few updates here!

Here's what I've been up to in the last couple months when I haven't been working

I started building a Flasgitz for the Waaaagh Dakka:

Some basic Kit Bashing





Now getting a little more into it







I've gotten a little further than this but for the time being this project is on pause. One of these days I will spend the last couple hours it will need to assemble!
I have a number of parts fit up, shaped and built for it but it's going to be a jigsaw puzzle so I'll need to spend some time at it


I spent some time on one of my two warhounds:

The raw deal


After a couple hours of watching some season of something on dvd. The bag on the left is the scraps >.<.. In hindsight I'm sad I didn't keep more of them as they would have made excellent terrain!



Then on to several hours of fine trimming, removing mould lines and then washing is a warm water and dish soap solution



Fitting up the upper seciton to see where I have to trim (looks like I hadn't trimmed all of the hull yet)





Where the first warhound is sitting until I get enough other junk sorted out to start work on it again :(



Soon mr. warhound soon!

I've also been doing a lot of reorganizing, cleaning, assembling and in general getting my poop in a group:

I reorganized my chaos shelves after putting the whole enchalada out on the table, here is one of the fun shelves with a few more models than were on the table before



I spent some time organizing my Aurora Chapter aswell:



here are some of the new space marine additions (as if I need more crap lol)

Land speeder, I have 3 more to assemble after this



I picked up this funky RT Librarian in Power Armour because I didn't really like any of the currently available models



Also got a few of these bad boys but they are far from complete... I wish they were plastic or finecast >.< (the new school is spooiling me)



Also grabbed one of these for my term assault squad



It may seem a little random but I settled on a 2500pt list and had to fill in a few gaps. No more space marines for me to buy, hopefully ever (yeah right )

I also picked up a few additions to finish off my 2500pt Tyranid list:



I actually assembled all of these yesterday but don't have a camera with me to show everyone

Now the only outstanding army I have to deal with is the Tau... and I don't think they are going to see a huge amount of love until they get a better codex
I have however decided on a coulour scheme and will take a few pics of some test models the next time I have a chance!

Some more of my brothers Ork's have moved in aswell:



My titan competiton,.. well without his arms connected as we have been trying a few diferrent ways to magnetize them. There is a second one on the way but I don't have a pic of it



(wow I really do need to do this in better light)

I also moved a bunch of my bitz and medelling supplies into a cupboard that previously housed boxes of books



This made life alot simpler!

Now onto the Chaos:

I started basing my 2500pt list







I couldn't resist picking 2 of these up when I saw them... My first finecast!



Compared to the pewter the detail and ease of assembly is amazing. On the other side of that coin I still don't know how I feel about the air bubbles >.< (not many but filling them is going to be annoying)





This kit also came with 2 torso's and 2 heads... I'm going to have to find something to do with them in the future! (only 1 shown here)





Bing, Bang, Boom togeather in no time flat







and off he goes to join the Bloodthirter Family! I almost have enough to field a Bloodthirster Bloodbath unit!



That's all for now

Thanks for looking everyone! Hopefully I have some more time to dedicate to modelling in the next month or two so I have a few more cool things to post!

Quick update,

I have been assembling random miniatures I have sitting in a box post *dip* as well as a few other newer things.

Here is what I have done whiel at work over the last couple days:
4x metal chaos terminator
2x finecast Broodlord
1x chaos lord with jump pack and lightning claws
1x chaplain /w jump pack
1x RT nurgle lord on palenquin (such a cool model)
and I think a few other things that aren't coming to me here.

I also have several havocs and a few space marines and a greater demon to assemble while I'm out here

It was a sad day today... I ran out of super glue at work with 7 days to go and only 1/2 the models I brought with assembled !

It turns out 3 of the 4 tubes of glue I brought out had been opened and were less than full to say the least!

Someone air mail me some super glue! I'm now working overtime and will be at work an additional 3 days.....
I guess that means more mini's for me! >.<

Yup.. this is all I got done before I ran out of glue
I would give my left leg for some glue or paint right now!

I finished reading my last book and broke a guitar string and have no spares lol! I't going to be a long 5 more days



This box should be empty of parts by now!



I'll survive... Only 5 more days of blogging to myself

Soooo I'm finally back home.

I picked up my copy of Dreadfleet and assembled everything with my brother a couple days back and had a few games yesterday and have to say that it's pretty smooth overall!

I will post up some pics once I take it back out of the box

For the time being here is some work that I did on Abbadon in the last little while. A few more hours and he should be complete.

















Soon my army will have a leader again Wish I had some before I stripped him pics lol

Tyrant of an X-wfe - sounds like how I came back to playing games too. Fun times indeed. Keep up the work - I missed the game a lot when I left and recognized how much it covered all my bases as a hobbyist - Painting, modeling, playing, and even drawing and creating.

Wow! And I thought my to-do-list was long! Good luck with all that! Look forward to future updates!

Abbadon is looking excellent so far, keep up the good work

Emperors_Champion wrote:Wow! And I thought my to-do-list was long! Good luck with all that! Look forward to future updates!

Haha! I follow your thread off and on and know you feel my pain I figure all I need to do is do something every day no matter how small and it will get done



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GiraffeX wrote:Abbadon is looking excellent so far, keep up the good work

Thanks! I can't wait to have him fully painted again! I may even have to use him in a game or two for fun!


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GoatboyBBMA wrote:Tyrant of an X-wfe - sounds like how I came back to playing games too. Fun times indeed. Keep up the work - I missed the game a lot when I left and recognized how much it covered all my bases as a hobbyist - Painting, modeling, playing, and even drawing and creating.

Yeah! It's definitly a great outlet that I didn't realize how much I missed!


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Just a few quick posts in the middle of my day here.

I started working on my Titan again. I want to get it to a point where I can base coat it before the week is out!



The guys that will be getting base coated when my warhound is ready for paint:



A quick snap of some of my bro's RT Orks that were on the table:



Makes me remember how badly I need a real place to take pics

and just 2 quick iPhone pics of dreadfleet:



This move won me my very first game



Thanks for looking

Sooooo I got to do a little more work on my Warhound again today.

I got the legs 100% together ready for base coat:







I also got the upper torso assembled to the point where it can be base coated. Here it is fit togeather:



It's really in a few pieces still so I can detail the interior before final assembly:



and It actually fits together so well that I was able to get a preview of the future!






I'm so stoked right now! I can't wait to put some paint on this bad boy tomorrow!


Did I mention I still have a second one in a box? >.@!