A 40K Winter

Right cancel all previous plans, it looks like if we go away to Wales next year the theme of the week will be 40K. Its a mixture of good news and bad news. The good news is its going to an awesome week with themed boards and a campaign to match. The bad news is I have around 6 months to paint up a 1500 – 2000pts Blood Angels army.
This wasn’t planned until a couple of weeks ago which means ill be painting a mass of figures and terrain over the following months. Ive started this month by completing a 10 man Tatical Squad and a dreadnought from the Black Reach box set and a Warlock for my Skorne, although that little project is on hold until further notice. A good start and I like how they have come out but there is plenty more to do, so next month ill be painting up the rest of the contents from the Black Reach box set.
Ill also be picking up the new Space Marine Codex next month so ill be able to decide what else ill be painting once I get my grubby hands on it.
Until next month later dude.

Motivation is the name of the game

Hi all, after a few gentle reminders from Kahuna its time for an update. I joined the blog about a month ago and have since gone through several changes of mind about army and colour selection.

I finally settled on Tau as a). I almost have an army’s worth of figs without having to buy much and b). I have 2 squads of Kroot painted.

Choosing the army wasnt too hard but choosing the colour scheme? Effing hell its been tough! I have used online interactive painting software to try out different colour schemes and I even invested in the Dawn of War Anthology. This lets you choose the colour of your armies before they are rendered and brought to life. Great stuff.

I have now settled on the colours used in a pic of the Tau on pg 114 of the new 40k rulebook – white armour and deep red fabric and trim.

I aim to have a squad done this week and have just taken delivery of a forge world crisis suit. Loverly stuff. Pics to follow.

Thanks, Jabba.