Long time no hobby!

Hello all.

So, its been quite a while since I did anything worth posting about. I realised that I really don't enjoy painting or assembling whole armies. It really sucks the joy out of the hobby.

Over the last couple of months I've been working slowly on a hobby project just for fun and to better my skills. It isn't an army or even a unit for an army. Just something I thought would be really cool.

I have finished assembling, greenstuffing and priming the models and am starting to paint them now.

Over the past week I have been learning how to paint faces and then applying what I've learnt to the 5 faces I am using for this project. I haven't figured out eyes yet, and screwed every face where I attempted the eyes and am not 100 percent happy with a couple of them but hey, its a work in progress.

So enough jibber jabber here is a pic of the 5 faces.

To be continued.......

2015 - Hobby Plans.

Last year my hobby plans failed pretty hard. I got some painting done..albit speed painted Ravenwing. However I did not get my one game in per month.

This year I would like to focus on some similar goals and actually complete them.

1 - At least one game a month.

This would be nice but this involves pulling my fellow bloggers into some games. Distance, marriage, and laziness hold me back on those things currently. However now my kids are a little older I have a bit more freedom in movement (so to speak) and I also plan to revisit my home set up some gaming here is once again possible.

Further to this I would like to try to incorporate some sort of escalation campaign to encourage gaming within my group. 

2 - Mastering at least one army.

In this case the Orks that I want to finish off and build it to a point at which I have an army with options so I can try different things each game. I already have 2 nauts, 2 flyers and a stompa on the way to round off what I currently have.

 I also want to play a bit more fantasy (Josh!!)! with an aim to fun game not power lists (Josh!!!).

I am considering mixing WOC and Daemons (Legion of Chaos) together in one list. Hopefully this will provide fun and not cheese.

3 - Gaming space / table

I also want to tidy up my gaming space (garage), invest in a battlemat, and sort out all my terrain. I have already tried to order a battlemat from the Frontline aussie webstore but it seems to be broken. I have a bunch of large bases for terrain so once I decide on a battlemat colour I can there work on the terrain.

4 - Painting

I would like to keep some sort of focus ( my big weakness). Finish off my mostly complete ork force would be a good starting point as well as rebasing and tidying up the current orks as they were painted fast for a 1k doubles tourny a few years ago.

What about you guys?

Ahzek Ahriman says Happy Birthday Aaron!

So, my good friend Dan surprised me with a commissioned paint job of my Ahzek Ahriman figurine for my Thousand Sons Army, and today I have just received pictures of the final product and I am totally blown away.

Sweet baby jesus, he is a thing of beauty.  I cannot wait to field him as the proper center piece of my army.

Thank you very much Dan B, for the gift and Dan W, @ ValhallaGames for the truly awe inspiring paint job.  I thoroughly recommend people use Dan's services.  Top job and a top guy to deal with.

Psychic Scream, to, the face.

Night Lords Land Raider

99% Finished

Night Lords - slowly getting there

Death Guard test scheme WIP

WIP

Here is what I am currently messing around with. For each pic I am still working out a paint scheme for said army. 

Unsure about most of them so far. The red is comming up well on the DE.

 Pre Heresy DG is a bit of a bug bear for me but I think I am closing in on a method I like. The green seems too bright for my liking and whilst I originally wanted a clean looking DG, I now think battle damage / rust suits them well...so I need to figure out how to add that.

Thoughts?

DKOK Platoon Command.

 

Cabal of the Violent Rose

 

Pre Heresy Death Guard