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Gluing 3mm plasticard strips into a trench tile.

Painting a Stompa, with a bit of luck.

Assembling some Wolf Scouts for a friend.

Still working on my cultists. There are just so many of them...

 djphranq wrote:
Applying a mix of Caliban Green and Warpstone Glow to my Dark Angels stuff... just got done with a coat of a (I wanna say) 3:1 mix of Caliban Green/Warpstone Glow... debating on applying a 3:2 mix tonight... 20 Tac Marines, 10 Assault Marines, 5 Scouts, 2 Company Masters, 2 Dreadnoughts, 2 Drop Pods, and 6 Rhino chassis in a little over 2 hours is kind of tiring... may save the 3:2 mix for tomorrow... but then I'll have to guesstimate the paint again... or maybe I'll just go straight to an application of some Warpstone Glow by itself.

3:2 Coat applied... whew... I just realized I need a better seating arrangement

Painted both of my Air Elemental Rooks, one Ice Rook and one Earth Rook from LOKA. Also played a game of Arabian Nights and LOKA at the game store. The more I play, the more I enjoy LOKA. Highly recommend it if you have three buddies and you're looking for a new game.

Hopefully my last 3 Haqqislam models. Then sealing and basing the lot of em.

Finished painting the armour plating on my Stompa.

Good grief that thing takes a while to paint..

Now onto weapons and spikes..

Got my regiment tray done, working on getting my skeletons onto nails for spraying and painting. Also want to tackle that sorak, should be a pretty easy scheme. Depending on when it comes in, I may do a quick unbox of Sedition wars retail unbox over on the blog.

Today I will do some more work on the hated Conscripts and get ready to play a game of Pulp Alley for the first time

I'm going to buy some more primer and /maybe/ do some initial work to the freshly primed ships of last night. Additionally I'm going to take some pics of the FSA ships in comparison to my bfg Imp ships for some friends of mine who were asking about it

Made a gentleman's agreement to never use unpainted anything in our games of 40k from here on out, effectively nullifying 80-90% of my collections. Cleared the field, though. It no longer matters what you have, it's what you've painted. Starting with 500 pts skirmishes and our own homebrew restrictions (no flyers until 1500 etc..).As of a week an a half ago, I have 5 Death Guard Terminators @ 90% and 10 Plague Marines @ 90%. On deck is the Forgeworld Nurgle sorceror and 10-15 cultists. 500 pts FAAC! (fun at all cost). I have until Feb. 15th to get it painted or incur a penalty (buy my opponent a $20 model. Do those even exist anymore?)

That agreement should be a great motivator, EOT. I made a decision last year to limit myself to one unpainted unit per game max (preferably none) and it's made me a) get a move on and b) enjoy my games a lot more. If you've got the rest of your group in too, It should be a good thing for all of you.

Today I got half a dozen more enforcers painted in a new scheme, far cleaner than my last one. The DZ-specific enforcers are great models, especially the sniper. I've not got all the plague done, and can easily do painted forces for the Rebs and Enforcers. The Marauders have yet to even see a paintbrush, but I might start them once I get bored of Enforcers.

With GW sales hit Im looking at other table top games to get into... just in case.

 Eisensapper wrote:
With GW sales hit Im looking at other table top games to get into... just in case.

Which ones catch your eye? And I say do pick up another game, even if GW does not go under.

 EYEofTERROR wrote:
Made a gentleman's agreement to never use unpainted anything in our games of 40k from here on out, effectively nullifying 80-90% of my collections. Cleared the field, though. It no longer matters what you have, it's what you've painted. Starting with 500 pts skirmishes and our own homebrew restrictions (no flyers until 1500 etc..).As of a week an a half ago, I have 5 Death Guard Terminators @ 90% and 10 Plague Marines @ 90%. On deck is the Forgeworld Nurgle sorceror and 10-15 cultists. 500 pts FAAC! (fun at all cost). I have until Feb. 15th to get it painted or incur a penalty (buy my opponent a $20 model. Do those even exist anymore?)

Trying to do this myself, as an incentive to paint.

My daemons it's not an issue, as they are almost all painted.

My DE can manage tiny 500-800 Pt all-coven skirmishes, so i have serious painting to do.

I can field 2-3000 pts of fully painted orks, but the unit selections are a bit random, as i paint what inspires me at the time.

Working on a stompa some more tonight...

 Tanakosyke22 wrote:

 Eisensapper wrote:
With GW sales hit Im looking at other table top games to get into... just in case.

Which ones catch your eye? And I say do pick up another game, even if GW does not go under.

I have a friend who is into Warmachine, Im going to borrow the rule book tomorrow. The prices for the starter kits seem right.

 Eisensapper wrote:

 Tanakosyke22 wrote:

 Eisensapper wrote:
With GW sales hit Im looking at other table top games to get into... just in case.

Which ones catch your eye? And I say do pick up another game, even if GW does not go under.

I have a friend who is into Warmachine, Im going to borrow the rule book tomorrow. The prices for the starter kits seem right.

Warmachine, and its sister game (which you can both play together) Hordes is a relatively good game. It is the Igougo format, but what it has over 40k is a tightly written ruleset and great balance between the armies. Also, if you get the Starter set, it is in Plastic, but it is a much different plastic than what you are used to with GW so you need to use super glue to put it together since Plastic cement will not work.

What are the play styles of the factions?

I like the painted or else clause. So much more fun with painted minis.

Yay mail, I definitely get to unbox sedition wars tonight. Reading it over there seems definite possibility of fun. I'll have to look up the FAQ thats supposed to fix some kind of imbalance, but for now I'm gonna take pictures and sort out some forces to play the smaller end of the game. See what I can get done before deadzone shows up.

 Eisensapper wrote:
What are the play styles of the factions?

Khador - slow, powerful weapons (but a bit inaccurate), heavy armour. Nasty in close combat.

Cygnar - fast, big on repeating shots, accurate, low armour, tendency towards many smaller jacks rather than a couple of big ones

Cryx - Mechanical nids. In your grille, then they melt it off before carving you like a sunday roast.

Menoth - Defensive/heavy armour minded, with a flame and torture motif.

Don't know much about the scyrah and the new faction. Just thinking about starting Hordes too, so clueless there.

Played my first game of WHFB in over two months now.

I am happy with my choice to move to Dystopian Wars as my main game.

 Ascalam wrote:

 Eisensapper wrote:
What are the play styles of the factions?

Khador - slow, powerful weapons (but a bit inaccurate), heavy armour. Nasty in close combat.

Cygnar - fast, big on repeating shots, accurate, low armour, tendency towards many smaller jacks rather than a couple of big ones

Cryx - Mechanical nids. In your grille, then they melt it off before carving you like a sunday roast.

Menoth - Defensive/heavy armour minded, with a flame and torture motif.

Don't know much about the scyrah and the new faction. Just thinking about starting Hordes too, so clueless there.

Convergence is basically all about synergy, support and using what you have to its full potential (through combos, special moves, etc.)

Also, Mercenaries cover a lot of play styles, depending on who your Caster is and what you take.

I've got my initial Sedition wars stuff lined up, 5 vanguard and 8 strain at the plate. Going to clean them, and see about getting them primed. Gotta think of some colors though. Maybe I'll just carbon copy the studio scheme, but I'm thinking I want to do simple game-piece quality, so I may make some changes and or tone it down.

 jonolikespie wrote:
Played my first game of WHFB in over two months now.

I am happy with my choice to move to Dystopian Wars as my main game.

We have been playing quite a bit of Dystopian Wars in my gaming group lately. I like the back and forth turn sequence quite a bit. My only gripe is that games seem to take forever to play.

Continuing work on my Dark Angels... working on the 'metal' parts now (weapons... parts on vehicles... stuff...)...

My plan for today to work on (and hopefully finish) my Arcane Tempest Gun Mages for my highborn army.

trying to work up motivation to complete the last 5 rebs i have left

Still making metal pyrovores. One built, 2 needing legs and tails installed. Wow, these ones are taking a long time...

I cut the first few Exocrine bitz off the sprue.

Letting parts of my Helldrake dry as I type this. Hoping to have it finished tonight so I can play with it tomorrow.