Honored Imperium Part 2

Well, I finished the statue and the little ruin.  I decided to go with the painted look for the statue, but I also decided not to go all the way painted, either.  I can totally imagine the zealots of the Imperium painting every square inch to make sure it's as "realistic" looking as possible, but I'm not one of those zealots.  That and leaving some of it actually looking like statuary reminds one that it is, in fact, a statue.  It was also pretty easy.  Broad areas not any super crazy detail.  On the whole, I'm good with it.

The Land Raider has not yet arrived.  I don't expect it until after Christmas.  Bit of a bummer, but it's better than not getting it at all.

I'm considering the idea of playing a mini game of 40K against myself to bone up on the current ruleset.  Maybe 500 points of Marines vs I don't know...  I have a Templar force that I can use as an OPFOR and do Marines on Marines, possibly using two different builds to get a feel how different units feel.  That's probably not a bad idea since I'm probably most likely to play against Marines, Chaos Marines, or any number of MEQ armies.  I think I'll try to slip it in sometime in the next week so I can actually say that I played a 6th ED game this year.

I've got a good handful of Tac Squad Jobbers started but not done.  I think those are going to be the next thing I work on.  I should also finish my Fortress of Redemption and maybe even start on my Shrine of the Aquila.  Or my 30-something Terminators.  Or my unpainted Vindicators.  Or unpainted Predators.  I've got too much stuff undone.  So let's not get ahead of ourselves.  Let's just go one step at  a time and, you know, get some stuff done while I have the time.

Honored Imperium Part 1

Holy mother of crap!  You guys forgot I existed, right?  I guess there's a certain amount of irony that my third post of 2013 is almost at the end of 2013...  Now that life has opened up some more time, it's time to paint!

So last night, I based an Honored Imperium I had sitting around gathering dust.  Tonight, I painted the Broken Aquila.  I figured it gave me time to decide how I want to do the statue.  I've thought about good old fashioned gray stone, but I've also had another idea.  We know that most statues in antiquity weren't bare gray stone, but rather painted in bright colors to be eye catching.  I'm thinking about doing something similar: gray stone, but paint parts in bright colors to make it look as if it had been painted.  Maybe the shoulder pads and the shield and the blade?  The chest should definitely be gold.  I'll think about it.  I don't think I can get to it for a couple of days so I have time.

I do have one bit of awesome to report, though.  So I ended up in contact with a guy who plays Eldar, but somehow ended up with a MKI Land Raider.  So I'm trading him some Eldar stuff I've picked up (I'm working on an ally force, you know) that I don't want, namely some Dire Avengers (which I would like, but are worth trading) and a wraithlord (which I totally won't use!) and I'm going to throw in some Guardians, too.  What a bargain for me!  He's already posted it and I'll have his stuff off in a couple of days.  Doubleplus good!  I don't really field Land Raiders, but I can't not have one of those old beauties!

Get back to you in a couple of days...

Devastators and Black Lancers!

 Well, folks, I've been doing something!  Despite the lost computer (and by "lost", I mean down and usless)!

I started assembling heavy weapons earlier this week.  Finally used the crouching legs I'd been holding on to and learned that many heavy weapons really don't work well on Marines in crouching positions. I still managed to produce a heavy bolter, multimelta, and two lascannons, all on the crouching position.  Add to that some more standing heavy bolters, plasma cannons, lascannons, and pretty much every outstanding missile launcher I have and I managed to get 19 heavy weapons built!  Good for me!


So a window in our really crappy weather opened up a couple of days ago.  So I thought it was now or never (at least for a month or so).  So I got out there and whipped out the spray paint.  I ended up missing a couple of heavy bolters, so that brings me up to 17 heavy weapons primed.  And while it was on my mind, I whipped out a few old school tac squad jobbers and primed them, too.  I still need a couple more and a couple Sarges, but ultimately, it means this: my Seventh reserve company will soon have two full Devastator squads to help fill it out.  That means I'm two Tac Squads (which I have) and an Assault Squad (which I have the parts to assemble) away from a third full Company.  And the extra heavy weapons for other new Tac squads don't hurt either.  Maybe I'll just hold back four of them for the first Dev squad of my fourth Company.  Woot!

Lastly, I got around to painting my four Black Lancers.  I look at them and think that I could do a bit more here or there, but I'm pretty happy with them the way they are.  I still have to paint the Lancer Sarge, but at least he's already primed.  I may start on him once I'm done with those Dev squads.  Either way, these buys are pretty close to being a blip in my decade looking rear view mirror. 

I'm feeling pretty good.  Several things are getting done, slowly but surely.  Sometimes I get a little overwhelmed by how much I have to accomplish.  Sometimes I get a little down because I have no earthly idea when I'm ever going to get a chance to put them on a field.  But, in the end, I'm creating.  And that's what matters the most.

The Hopes of a New Year!

After all these years, I am still naive.  I actually seem to think that I can get anything done during the holidays.  I was woefully mistaken.  Well, that's not entirely true.  I did get some painting done on the bikes, but other wise, I got nothing accomplished.  Poopy.

BUT

It's a new year!  Hope springs eternal with the thought of 360+ days to get some painting done.  So, let's choose not to look at what didn't get done.  Let's instead look at what could be accomplished!

Happy 2013 to you all and here's to painting and building!