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Yesterday I finished my zoanthrope and turned it in for the technical paint contest at my local store. I also started painting my imperial knight after the priming frenzy I went through last weekend.

Today I slapped some more green stuff on deathleaper, filled in couple of bubbles and made sure the tail modification I made would stick.

I got my first game in with the new rules, which was interesting. Just 2 zoanthropes got me a surprising number of dice for my warp pool....

Tested out a kill team for the upcoming league, against a vehicle team, which I wanted to do with the new changes to vehicle damage and I needed to learn how the new psychic phase worked.

I haven't played a full on game yet, which should be interesting...I had to wait for a new paycheck to get my hands on all the cards, some of which are out of stock, so bleh.

Spent some more time painting the legs of my imperial knight.

Getting another couple of these to use as Heralds of Tzeentch

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Warriors-of-Chaos-Tzeentch-Sorcerer-Lord

Getting started on a Land Raider Crusader. Primed it last night... going to put on a basecoat/layer of green on the puppy... Straken green I think it's called.

Not wargaming related, but putting together a Tamiya plastic kit - a Suzuki RGV500 (99 season, Kenny Roberts Jr) Just priming the sprues and putting the first bits of the suspension assembly together.

I'm just heading out to the Birmingham Games Expo.

I probably won't get there until lunchtime, unfortunately. But at least I'll get a look around.

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And, to avoid double posting, I'm editting...

Oh and, I'm back now. Truth be told, I think I was relatively well behaved today.



Well, by Expo / Convention standards in any case.

Fixing to file and assemble a metal Archon model.

Started work on my scratchbuilt gorkanaught using random gubbins from my bitz box.

No idea if i will ever actually finish it, or even if i have enough odds and sods to make it look decent, but i was bored.

I shudder to think of what gencon is going to do to my wallet... at least I'll be unable to shop for 8 hours of dz/kow/infinity campaign/games. Still leaves a lot of time to acquire a similar haul...

Received the 6 Dr Who minis I ordered from Heresy, for being so overwhelmed with the dragons, he got these out quick. Nice sculpts and just a bit of flash with almost invisible mold lines. Need to get them trimmed up so can get cracking on the diorama.

if I get enough sleep I plan to paint with the misses. She wants to paint some of the mantic angel models.

Trying to finish up my Catacomb Command Barge. And regretting that I glued too much of it together before painting. Grrrr.....

Ooh sounds like a plan Carlos, getting the spouse involved.

Trying to take it easy today but I want to get my Heresy Who minis cleaned up at least and it wouldn't take a lot of effort to finish another modest battle zone building.

Possibly assemble my first Stormraven today.

Getting my first game of 7th in today. Pretty excited about it.

Working on the Python code for my VP counter. https://github.com/miproductions/auspex

Hey now there's a use for the raspberry pi I can get behind . I wanna get one of those but there's no reason for me, sounds like you found a decent use though.

What the hell is a raspberry pi?

Finished my metal archon and ALSO finished my first metal Lelith, after successfully surgically transplanting a new army on to her. Gotta decide whether I want to do Incubi now or my Beastmasters.

 Jimsolo wrote:
What the hell is a raspberry pi?

I believe it's a programmable computer base, kind of a DIY computer that you can use for all sorts of stuff.

I actually managed to get a game of 40k in today, Dark and Blood Angels (the Angels of Death, I like to call it) versus Orks with a Nob-star, 2 big Kopta squads and a couple of Boyz and a Loota mob. Mission was Kill points.

My DA Librarian perilled on the first roll of the game going for Prescience, and it was up hill from there. DS termies wiped the Lootas in a single volley, the Assault Marines with Captain and Sang Priest in a Raider took out the Nob Star and half the Koptas, and the game concluded with some very confused Ard Boys being assaulted off the board by the most violent Dark Angel Tactical Squad in history. In all, it was a 6-0 victory for the Imperium.

I've finished my unit of 5 Chaos Terminators.

I'm also starting on writing some fluff for my Chaos Space Marine army.

It's basically the smallest most pared down computer you can get. Last time I checked they cost something like 25-35 dollars and the board was about the same size as a credit card. They've got to have everything added, sound display input, and so on. They've also got an output for coax cable for older TVs, the initial idea is something like affordable computers everywhere. Runs some form of linux by default, kind of meant to get kids programming in poorer countries. There are lots of fun applications, anywhere you could use a processor from your car to whatever. People often use tiny screens like from a GPS or similar. I almost got one to make my own netflix/amazon video/etc box but some of those don't play well with linux.

Today I am planing finishing the last of my DA sucsessor chapter, when that is done I will have four complete Sm armies of various flavours, after that I am pondering about cleaning up my painting desk

I ordered a Rasberry pi on release but I have never got around to using it.

See I figured that's what would happen to me so I held back. Itsrreally neat in terms of potential, I'm just more interested in toy soldiers atm.

Understandable.

Building up some defences for a D-Day game next weekend, just needing static grass now to complete



Also working on a few 40k models



Don't get much time during the week but will get the fortifications finished this week, far too many projects on the go at once, as always, wouldn't have it any other way.

I'm doing a training run myself to work out how the CR-90 actually plays... It's helpful having a memory of a goldfish - as I don't end up remembering what the other sides manoeuvre dials are set at.

I accidentally discovered a 'tactic' for combatting the CR-90.

This TIE Fighter is on its last hull point and has just completed its move. The pilot appears to have graduated from the Zapp Brannigan school of warfare.




The really scary thing? It just might work out...



That TIE Fighter is probably dead anyway, the Corvette won't get its chance to regenerate shields before it takes the ramming hit...



What Happened



Thoughts

So, practice session over. Things I've worked out:

Definitely give Turbolasers a miss for the moment, go for a second set of quad cannons and Flechette torpedoes for some friendlies for now. Admittedly, that just the only other anti epic ship thing in this list being the primary cannons, and potentially my B-Wings heavy laser cannon.

Also, I do like the Dutyfree / Slicer CR-90 combo, however I think I need to deploy them very close together - Around Range 2. from each other. Although in that case, I do see crashes occurring in the near future.

I do think having a B-Wing with Heavy Laser Cannon defending the rear of the huge ships is a pretty neat thing. Trying the same with a Y-Wing with Ion Turret didn't work out well. As the huge ships were so huge, even an ionned enemy would still be able to shoot at something - Anyone got any thoughts on that?

Wes with Veteran Instincts paired with Wedge Antilles was devastating. - Probably too many points to have in a game with 2 Huge Ships but they did really great!

Put the finishing touches on my custom converted Baron Sathonyx.

Reading everything I can from Joseph Morschauser, one of the pioneers of miniature wargaming who originated some common conventions used to this day in miniature wargaming. For example, he's the first person documented playing games with multiple figures mounted on a single base like in Flames of War, Warmaster/BlackPowder/HailCaesar, DBx, etc.,.


Notice the multiple figures per base. Picture from Table Top Talk newsletter, 1963

Painting my Infinity figures. Nomades.

The Baron is looking pretty sinister Jim!

@MWHistorian, which Nomads? Will there be pictures somewhere? Can't get enough of those plucky separatists!

For my own hobbying, rather than be a good little hobbyist last night, I gave in again to my "alt-itis" and started work in a different direction. But hey, I did at least get one of my battlezone buildings (a watchtower) down to little details like blood spatter, warning/propaganda signs, and so forth.

I wasn't fussed on the nomads before but the more I see of them the more I like the . Please share they when they are done.