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A Summer Of Rebirth
or
Cleaning Out The Attic And Making Up Reasons To Keep My Old Stuff



Welcome everyone!!

I have been a part of this hobby for nearly 10 years now, but I have never owned a very large army. My forces are typically around 2000p max, and I can never stay on one project for long.
Now, this basically means I have a lot of armies, and most of them are sitting in storage.
So I thought to myself: "Ember, why don't you take this summer to dust off your old models and repaint them, before you inevitably purchase Dark Imperium in august?"
And so I decided to make another plog, where I'll hopefully get most of my models sitting in storage up to my current painting level and organise them for future projects. I would much rather start new armies, but this is satisfying in a way. I recently started a new Eldar army, the faction that brought me to 40k way back in the dark year of 2010, and I stripped a few of my old guardians to repaint (not my first ones, those have WAY to many layers of paint for anything but a flamethrower to strip...).

So what can you expect to be featured on this blog?

I have several "armies" I'll be reviving, and I have a rough idea of what they consist of. Everything with a * is unpainted, and everything with a # needs to be re-painted.

My (A)Elves: This is my largest and most used army, although it is a far way finished.
What it has:
Prince on Gryphon
Archmage*
Loremaster*
Spellweaver*
Glade Lord*
Glade Guard#
Eternal Guard
Swordmasters
Lothern Sea Guard*
6 Warhawks with riders*
5 Wardancers*
5 Elryian Reavers*

My Extra-Heretical Tau Marines: My first marine army, basically a mish-mash of the units I thought looked cool.
What I have:
Chapter Master in Termiantor Armour
3 Honour Guard
Librarian in Termiantor Armour
Techmarine*
5-man Tactical Squad
Sternguard Vets
Vanguard Vets
Devastators
Razorback

My Orks: Waage Bigbutt: My oldest "army", some nobs, grots and burnas that surprisingly turned out to be a legal list. Everything here probably needs to be stripped.
Warboss
8 Nobs
10 Grots
3 Meks
2 Burnaboys
2 Lootas (counts-as meks)

Tau: Mostly pathfinders, probably not legal. Again, everything probably has to be stripped...
Darkstrider
10 Pathfinders
Stealth Team
Hammerhead
Assorted drones


So that's most of the models I have in the attic (excluding a few Chaos Space Marines) plus my Aelves. That should be enough for the summer, along with the Sons and Eldar. And Chaos. And Raven Guard. And the new SAGA stuff...


One Very Tired Ember

Ok, I climbed the stairs to the attic this morning (the cat woke me up...) and took pics of my minis. Sorry for the bad quality...

Deh Muhreenz




The T'au


DAH ORKZ!!!



So that's my mini count, excluding the Aelves. Please comment on what army I should revive first.

Ember

The Tau look like a nice force to revive initially. It isn't too big a force, so you should be able to get it done quickly.