The order is finally here!

I haven't posted much in the last few days as I haven't had much to paint!

This is the problem when you mail order or place your trust in online companies. I've been waiting for my War walkers for 16 days, they finally got here today.

I have a lot to day in 10 days! Here's hoping I can do it....

Update for the end of January

So I finished my work. Just gotta hope I do well in the interview now!!

So I thought I would start off with the army list that I'm aiming to work towards. This is the 1500 points.

There may be some tweaking by the end.

HQ 

Farseer - Singing Speer

Troops

Dire Avengers (5)

Wave Serpent - Scatter Lasers

Dire Avengers (5)

Wave Serpent - Scatter Lasers

Dire Avengers (5)

Wave Serpent - Scatter Lasers

Dire Avengers (5)

Wave Serpent - Scatter Lasers

Dire Avengers (5)

Wave Serpent - Scatter Lasers

Dire Avengers (5)

Falcon

Fire Prism - Holo-Fields

Fire Prism - Holo-Fields

This is 1500 points on the nose. 

From the Eldar book and the research I've done on the new 'dex I think this will be fairly competitive. I'm looking forward to using this.

As for the 400 point games that will be played shortly.

I have this floating around,

Dire Avengers (5)

Swooping Hawks (6)

War Walker Squadron

3 x Walkers with Starcannons and Scatterlasers 

Now this is what I've been working on this month.

I am aware that I haven't added the weapons on the walker yet, that's because I have lots of partially finished ones ><

They will be done soon. I also need to think of something over then red paint for the base on the WW. 

Real life as always gets in the way though. But then again with a new job I have more monies to buy plastic models with. So swings in roundabouts.

That's all from me at the moment. I hope to have an update for February soon!

Quick Update

So we have reached the beginning of February ...

Just to let you all know that I have finished my 200 points for the month I won't be posting pictures or details just yet as I do have some rather important deadlines for a very important interview in a week and then the second one in another week.

I shall be back as soon as I finish my paperwork!!

All WIP pics

I decided to take a load of pics so that you can see what everything looks like at the moment. 

This now the bottom of the war walker. This is almost done just need to do the top half, highlight and base it. 

This is the falcon so far. All I need to do to this is finish the turret and the gunner. Speaking of guns....

This is now magnetised and glued. I think the scatter laser will be the weapon of choice because why wouldn't you want a twin linked pulse laser? 

Finally this is the magnets on the war walkers weapons. This is a little messy as I still don't have 2mm drill bits. But it works, I'm sure the next one I do will look better. 

Magnet heaven!

So with me playing catch up this month with the others I've been working on everything today. I've finally managed to get my magnets sorted on my falcon at least. 

These are 2x1mm magnets. These are a perfect size as all I did was cut the protruding part that goes though the gun and into the shield. Glue one magnet there. Then 3 magnets though the gun means I didn't have to worry about modifying that at all. Then more last magnet to sit in the shield part of the assembly. This now means I have the ability to swap and change :) 

This was the first time I have attempted something like this. I am rather pleased with how it's come out. 

WIP went missing.

So I meant to publish my last post weeks ago and forgot. Then I had to work for 2 weeks straight and didn't really have the energy to be painting. But I am now on a week off and have recovered so time to pick up the brushes once more. 

One thing that has always bugged me about the war walkers is they always seem so static. For a model that has scout I would have thought they would be slightly more dynamic in the posture. With that in mind here's the wip on my first one. 

The closet leg has been pinned in place to try and make it look like it's running. That's all from me so far. I've got a few more days to catch up on the dire avengers who are currently drying from a base coat. 

The ball is really rolling now!!

This is crazy times!! In the space of just 3 days 3 out the 4 of us have now got blogs!! I know crazy right. So for those of you that are reading this and want to keep an eye on what the others are doing here is Ian's blog all about his crazy crazy Orks. 

http://amaelofthepainter.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-war-factory-has-produced-its-first.html

I have always liked Ian's painting, I'm really looking forward see how he pulls off this. His plan is to paint his Orks as the locust from Gears of War. So there is so much inspiration to work from. 

As I write this I am sitting on a train and I was to distracted last night by my new shiny TV (which got a very disapproving look from my better half :p) to take pics of the war walker. But when I get home I will aim to put a few pics of the wip up. 

A friends blog

This is coming to you from the newly downloaded blogger app from the iTunes App Store and an iPad mini. So bear with me on the layout. 

One of the people I mentioned before and the main reason I am doing both this project and this blog recently restarted his own blog. Now there hasn't been any activity there for a long time so let's see if he can keep it going now. 

http://waaaaaaagh.blogspot.co.uk/ 

This is where you can find his articles. I think he has some really good ideas for his conversions so will be interesting to see what happens with these White Scars. 

I also thought I would share what January's aim for me is. Like I mentioned before we have at least 200 points a month to do. Now I'm not going to list the equipment as he did mainly as I aim to magnetise a lot of my tanks and War Walkers. 

So far I have to do:

5 Dire Avengers

1 War Walker

1 Falcon

As most of you will know I can't take the falcon in 400pts combat patrol as it's just to killy! (There is Ork blood in me) but I couldn't resist getting one. So that's my 200ish points for this month. Hopefully I should have an update with a semi-painted War Walker and dire avenger soon. 

WIP tank

After all the research I did it seems tanks will rule. This is a cheeky little WIP picture of what will turn into a Falcon tank. I can't wait till I field this guy.

I have a plan to field around 7 grav tanks all in. Can't wait to see the faces of people when I start placing those!

EDIT: I'll give EP points to the first person that can tell me what Craftworld I based this on. I'll give you a hint, I changed the red from orange.

Army lists

I mentioned in my last post that I was concerned about the army lists. That to a degree has been sorted. my main concern now is the 400 point games that will be played at the end of February.

I do know that I will be wanting these ...

Hmmm twin linked

As I will be facing Orks, IG and SM armies my first thought was to have 3 of these all with 2 Scatterlasers. I mean who doesn't want 24 S6 shots coming at them. But and this is a big but, I think I might be swaying towards a scatterlaser and a starcannon. I lose 6 shots doing that but gain twin linked starcannons to take out those pesky marines. 

As for Orks and IG I have something slightly differant and hopefully interesting for them!

A new year and a new challenge

So it finally happened... a friend has got me back into the hobby of Warhammer 40,000.

Whilst this game has always been one of my main hobbies since I grew up, got a girlfriend and moved out with her, my miniatures have taken a backseat in the list of priorities. However with Christmas out the way, Jonny asked me to start a new challenge.

200 points a month for a year of an army we have never done before. Now at first I must admit I did turn this down but being more settled in everything now I decided it was time to pick up the paintbrushes again and crack on. When I said OK to this 3 armies had already been taken. We have Orks being done by Ian, Imperial Guard by Dan and the brand new Space Marines being done by Jonny.

The new 'nids codex did tempt me but the though of painting lots of little spiky aliens did not. I have settled with the dying race. Eldar. After having not played for so long I was slightly concerned that when we got round to playing games my army would be blown away as I have yet to play any real games with the new rules. So I turned to the internet. After countless videos and articles online I feel I have armed myself with enough knowledge about the new book to have a serious fighting chance.

I wanted to do this blog because this is going to give me some incentive to keep things going, and who knows if people that don't play the hobby see it maybe they can see how easy it is to start an army. All you really need is a pushy friend :)