Last night, I finished up on a little terrain project I started Monday. A couple months ago, I picked up some broken webway portal terrain pieces on EBay from this Australian company. I based them a few weeks ago along with a bunch of old 3rd Ed. ruins and craters I had picked up. I've just gotten around to painting them and here they are. I thought about adding a little grass to make them look much older and overgrown but I decided not to. I like the bare simplicity of technology (organic or not) on the ground as the proverbial "lone and level sands stretch far away". I layered several browns on the portal sections before a good drybrushing with bleached bone and a little white over. for the broken jewels, I drybrushed them heavily with white, less heavily with Space Wolf grey and then a little more white to give them a dead cloudy look. I like the outcome but the pictures aren't all that great. Maybe I should work on photographing minis. If you're going to show them, they might as well look good in print.
This is actually a bit of a departure from my previous project. A while ago I was going through some of that old stuff I hadn't painted and found that I had amassed five Dreadnoughts that I hadn't assembled or painted. Well, something had to be done about that! A couple of weeks ago, my wife and our daughter went to her home town to visit her parents for the weekend. We had been the previous weekend and I didn't want to travel two weekends in a row so I stayed home and declared a "Dreadnought Saturday". I assembled and base coated these bad boys and over the course of the following week, I finished them off, bring me up to eight total. The one in the middle, however is special. About 6 years ago, I got a Dred with the intention of making it into a special, hammer wielding model. Back then there were no special rules for that (except the VDR) so it would have just looked cool. Now, with Ironclads, it's actually got an in game function. or it could be a Venerable. And yes, that is a Chaos Dred hammer with the points cut and filed off. I ended up cutting off the multimelta from a Black Reach Dred arm and green stuffing everything else in place. A little epoxy just to be sure and that arm is going nowhere. The funny thing is that I need one more Dred. I've got two each with assault cannons and lascannon/missile launcher and three multimelta. When I got the one I converted to the hammer arm, the previous owner had constructed a twin-linked auto cannon arm for it. Now I need to have a Dred body for that!Lastly, a few days ago, I was looking at an Australian 40K site and it pointed to a clube webpage where they were hosting a Marine point generator based off an Excel spreadsheet. Basically, you put the number of points you're building on the first page, then you go through the Org Chart pages describing how many of each unit you're fielding and how many of each weapon they're armed with and it calculates everything. Cute, but I prefer to total it up by hand because I'm a curmudgeon that way. What I realized this is really good for is counting up the total cost of my entire painted army. I started doing that last night. I figured I have around 10,000 points. I must have quite a bit more than that because I'm up to 9,500 and I haven't counted all my Fasts, HQs or any of my vehicles. I may be closer to 12K or 13K. It's making me think that I may want to start working on my unfinished Termies. Once they're done, I bet I could do 15K easy... Anyway, I forgot where the site is hosting the calculator/spreadsheet, but I'll see if I can find it again and post a link.
UPDATE: found the link! Check this out! http://www.alice40k.tripod.com/
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