'nids part 190 - Termagants - baker's dozen - getting it done

For some reason as I think about what I'm going to say in this post all that comes to mind is Baldrick's War Poem:

Boom, boom, boom, boom

Boom, boom, boom

 Boom, boom, boom, boom

 Boom, boom, boom

Goodness know why? I mean if they were Imperial Guard artillery that'd make sense but it's just I cracked on with the gaunts over a few nights and they sit now with just varnish and any details, like gloss varnish and yellow flock to add. They are looking pretty sweet though :)

And while I was edging their bases I decided to refresh 12 of my earliest Genestealer bases too. The Mechrite Red had become a bit faded and worn in places so this made them look a little tidier. I may consider adding some brighter red fleshy bits further down the line but this was just maintenance.

The only other thing to consider is tidying up the edges on quite a few other models, my first brood of 30 plain gaunts but part of me thinks I need to get back to other jobs following this detour.

Throne of Skull Army List - A matter of 170 points

You know when I asked for help with my ToS army lists? Well it always annoys me when someone asks for advice and the promptly ignores what was said. Now I'm not sure if that's what I've done here, so, bad Dave! But I think in all of my appeals across forums and such there seemed to be response that if didn't fit with what I normally take the underpinning theories of choices were equivalent. That said it help and I've got three army lists to choose from, that I'll reveal for opinions after I;ve resolved a 170 point hole in one of those lists. Now these are the options I want folk to think about for those 170pts but given the way I've laid it out Option 1 is really looking strongest [that Hive Guard 'con' for the 2 hits is the average so they can be ineffective, hence why the 3 hit average when I take 3 of them is more a 'pro'].

Anyway, if I could have your opinions but a sneak peak into the other lists... well it'd be rude not to
Free Radical Collective Genestealer Cultists

Given the rules I can take these as 1st and 2nd gen hybrids, 85pts for 12, take a Magus for the Telepathy shenanigans and 2 Purestarin Genestealers just to sneak around and just be annoying.

40k Terrain Competition Update - The competition begins!

As you can see from the totaliser we have nearly reached our target. This last month you added £14.10, in particular February 22nd was a good day as I had six clicks on an advert worth 46p a click! So with roughly £57 in the account and it's set to pay out at £60 I'm pretty confident that March will see me go over that threshold. Of course everything beyond the £60 that's generated will go into the pot and I'll be adding my own money to ensure the cost of the Imperial Knight is met and hopefully add a £10 voucher for a second place winner, should we have more than one entry that is.

So that leads us to the competition, I really need your support on this moving forward and to confirm everyone is happy with the rules I've sketched out. Firstly:

Competition judging will begin at the end of March and take place over April with the final decision being made then.

Is this enough time? Is one month sufficient for you to start and finish a project and photograph it ready for April 1st, if not speak now or forever hold your peace. Bearing in mind I have a weeks holiday booked in May so if it rolls over a month to allow more time to enter I may not be able to oversee any unforeseen issues during that period.

Secondly:

I'll be setting up a poll, similar to this test , I know it was possible to break it and you could artificially inflate scores but I'm hoping there will have to be a level of honesty involved.

 Is this OK, or do you think it's open to abuse? In which case there are alternative options:

1. Poll for first and second prize
2. I choose first and second prize
3. Randomly choose first prize, second prize is decided by me
4. I choose first prize, second prize is random

Or any combination, suggestion you can think of. Lastly, I need to know how folk would like to have their entry recorded? I think emailing me with your picture will be the best bet, potentially adding any other supporting pics if you felt necessary.

Old Stuff Day 2016

It's old stuff day 2016. A few years ago now warhammer39999 wanted to join a movement to rediscover lost gems from the world of hobby blogs. To choose one of your own blogposts that your most proud of, or may not have got the attention it deserved or any thing that may warrant some necromantic blogpost bothering. On top of that you were to share blogposts from other bloggers which you thought deserved the same spotlight of attention before they were returned to their dark nightmare infested slumbers.

Over the last few years I’ve formalised this a little more by picking a buried gem of a post from each successive year but this year I’m going to do something slightly different that harkens back to the original premise – 1 post and a few more that  reaffirms my own interpretation, but with a twist.

So the one post I want to showcase is my FREE STC page. I only do this because it forms part of the AdSense competition and reminding folk where the templates are that need to be used, abused or confused to form your entry into winning an Imperial Knight [or equivalent] as and when the AdSense monies mature. Anyway, you knew all this and the page explains all about the templates so go look at it: http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/terrain-is-everything-standard-template.html

Now to my annual look backs and the twist is simple, here are all my Old Stuff Day posts for the last four years [2013 was the year my Dad died so I never got round to taking part]. This wealth of Old Stuff gives you all a massive amount of my own ‘greatest hits’ and some of the hobby-verse’s best hobby goodness. That should keep you SOOOOO busy catching up it’s just not funny.

2015 - http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/old-stuff-day-2015.html
2014 - http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/old-stuff-day-2014.html
2012 - http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/old-stuff-day-2012.html
2011 - http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/joining-blogging-movement-old-stuff-day.html

 

Now if somehow all that wasn't enough I've been keeping a record of any exciting web-page I've stumbled upon over the last year and these deifinitely deserve your attention. So I give you these awesome old blogposts from other bloggers you should check out, I won't explain why, it should become evident when you get there:

• http://www.brokenpaintbrush.com/2015/03/pegasus-gothic-buildings-for-40k-terrain/
• http://dawnofmankind.blogspot.de/2015/03/40k-servitude-imperpituis.html
• http://robhawkinshobby.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/blast-from-past.html
• http://robhawkinshobby.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/kicking-off-new-year-with-new-hobby.html
• http://thebrushbrothers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/how-to-make-base-in-style-of-old.html
• https://davidneat.wordpress.com/methods/making-realistic-models/creating-surfaces/
• http://gmmstudios.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-deadpool-army-themed-imperial-guard.html
• http://minipapermodels.blogspot.co.uk/
• http://doogsmodels.com/2015/09/19/the-problem-with-panel-line-shading/
• Alun Heseltine's battle mat https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/YFfex 

And from the man who started it all:

• https://warhammer39999.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/stained-glass-windows/ 

And the gone but not forgotten and always awesome:

• http://fromthewarp.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/devlan-mud-and-badab-black-wash.html

'nids part 189 - Termagants - baker's dozen - bonewhite

Steady progress once again, there's not much to show really but the Bonewhite is a biggy and it's quite time consuming. These six were the stragglers, the remainder that just had some quick elements, like the tail and and arm here and there highlighted.

These are the seven I painted through to completion of this stage. I also did the wraithbone chips, I'd say to speed thing up down the line but doing it now or later will take the same amount of time. But it's all about the mind games and getting them done now feels like I have one less thing do making the process near completion

So the remaining six to do and then it's second highlights. I'm pretty confident these will be completed in time for Throne of Skulls even if their purpose is no longer relevant. I still can't decide what to take, I am however mulling over the inclusion of my Genestealer Cultists for a number of reasons - the first and second gen rules gives me 12 relatively cheap obsec units and I get to field them and they're cool - all the big kids are talking about Genecult.

I can run my Spawn of Cryptus as a Patriarch, he's quite expensive but could be really interesting in play. Additionally I can throw in a couple of broods of purestrains as those twins might be handy just knocking about to counter attack, hold the line, or score objectives - although as they're Elites that's not as effective as they could be. I'd have taken the Broodkin Formation just for giggles but as I don't have the third and fourth gen models [though the plain cultists might have sufficed, though I don't have enough], abberants or familiars it wasn't possible.

Either way it;s quite stressful not having this list done...

Terrain is everything - Hail the Omnissiah new FREE Print & Play building template

As per usual on my birthday it's time to give a present away to the readers and what better than the next installment of my Generatorium design for my Print & Play building. It's also timely in that this could form part of your Google AdSense competition entry. Still not quite pinned down the deadline date, I'll have a better clue at the beggining of March based on the earnings in Feb but please start thinking about your entries as it'd be a bit of a damp squib if there were hardly any entries. obviously not for the winner, but y'know.

To access the full STC please point your Cogitators here, be fair warned it is 4MB in size [I make no apologies for this, I could probably render it as a .jpg or spend hours trying to reduce the file size, I tweaked it a little bit and got it down so hopefully it's less of an issue now.]:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B97Rk-BalgZbZXQ2RTdMZ20wWlk

Meanwhile all the other Print & Play and standard terrain templates are available here:
http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/terrain-is-everything-hail-omnissiah.html    

P.S. let me know if there are any problems with the download, it's a bit difficult for me to check

'nids part 188 - Termagants - baker's half dozen - the other half

A quick one, following up on the first half of the baker's dozen I completed the second half, still to do:

• Bonewhite highlight 1
• Bonewhite highlight 2
• Claws and hooves
• Adrenal glands
• Tweak any fleshy bits [ie red bits and tongues]
• Eyes and teeth 
• Eyes on the Fleshborers too!
• Bonewhite chips on base
• Edge base
• Varnish
• Glossy FXs and any blood
• Yellow flock

I think that's everything with a deadline of 10th March

While I was at it I finished off the arms and torso on these five Stealers, just one brood of five left to basecoat with Bonewhite. On the plus side I've shaved off a day/session for each brood  - a 33% time saving. Of course I didn't allocate time to some things and I've doubts on my estimates for others but we'll see how it goes.

I know this is more like a production line,  that it's quantity over quality but progress has been so slow on all my other projects [or at least seems that way] it's great to switch it up a bit and crank these out. Hopefully I'll return to the Dark Angels with renewed vigour upon their completion.