Happy happy, joy joy

My OOP paints arrived.  This is a huge relief.

mmmmm paint.

Chosen WIP

I am not resting after completion of the Heldrake.  Straight into my modified Chosen models.
They are a fantastic sculpt, just a shame they have a set weapon configuration, more so that in the Codex they can be kitted out with the most diverse arrangement of gear.

Here are the three I am doing, obviously a WIP.

Dude, what does mine say?

By the pricking of my thumbs. Something wicked this way comes.

Very nearly at the end of the Heldrake road.  At this point it is still WIP, but unless I change anything I will be sealing it this week, glossing up his tongue, and getting a professional photo shoot in the weekend.

Left the cheese out did you humans!

I think I left something burning.

Looks like a crab from up here.

Statue bro?

Warp Talons, now with 5% extra lightning

Added lightning effects on the armor and claws.  I repainted them from kantor Blue to Necron Abyss and darkend them further with Asurmen Blue.

Winging It

Bar the top wash, I have finished the left wing of Mr Hell Turkey.

If anyone else ever buys one of these things, paint it all before assembly...I beg of you.

I both love and hate the model designer!

Stupid heads!

WOW. Bad move deciding I wanted a lot of bare heads in the army. Pretty much wasted two days trying to get six heads right. Tried about nine different methods and colour combos. In the end the sixth got binned and a replacement helmeted head was painted up. Anyway here are the finished heads. They look pretty damn good at a bit of distance as seen in the group shot. Figured I would also take closeups so you can see what they really look like lol. Oh and I never bother with the eyes, just end up screwing it up.

Hobby Resolutions

This is something I discussed with Paul, however it wasn't his cup of tea.

My thought was to mentally collect some hobby goals together and fine tune them down to say 3 goals for the year.

Over the last week I have been doing just this trying to decide what I want to achieve this year from my gaming. Considering the amount of gaming I do and the amount of models I have I knew these needed to factor in my goals.

Goal One: Gaming

Currently our gaming time in zero. I consider this to be a gaming and modelling hobby and as such I want to get more games in this year. Knowing how busy I will be and how hard it is to find time I want to aim for a simply one game a month. So by the end of year I will have played 11 games of 40k / Fantasy.

Not a lofty goal but one that is important

Goal Two: Paint an Army

I have a number of armies on the go. Simply put I want to complete an army for 40k or Fantasy (1850/2400) by the end of the year

Goal Three: Paint More Models

I also have many models for many armies. I aim to paint a total of 3000 points of models by the end of the year. This goal differs from Goal Two as an army will include wargear / magic items , unit upgrades etc. These points are for base model points alone as written in armybooks. For example I could not paint a wizard and "decide" to upgrade him to level 4 to gobble up some points.


These goals should be met pending on my workload throughout the year, however I know how hard it is to find time with two kids and now a new job so I think these goals are reasonable for someone in my position