"Great Merciful Crap"

Simply Amazing...

I guess I finally have to make my first Forgeworld order. I have avoided the ork warbike "issue" for a while now. Not really that into them. Until... until I saw this guy. It looks like I will be another one of those "Nobz on bikes" guys now...

15 Deffkoptas backed up by a warboss on bike, his nob buddies, and maybe some boys hanging out in trucks... Or I could just field him as Wasdakka and make my bikers into troops... sigh... there goes the wallet again...

Only 39K to go...

Just a quick nonsense post to say that somehow I broke 1000 on my Sitemeter. Now for the two of you that visit my blog... That means each of you has logged 500 visits.... Woot!

State of the Waaaaagh!

Ladies and Gents...

My meager ork horde is well on its way. Yesterday I ordered 12 more Deffkoptas from The Warstore. I also picked up a Battlewagon and a box of the new Nobz from my local store, The Hobbit. It would have been cheaper to get from The Warstore, but I like to support locally too.

My first impression of the new kit... I love it. The Battlewagon just simply rocks, or at least it does for me. My favorite bit from the sprue... This little grot in a gun mount hatch. The little guy is so cool. I am thinking about hitting ebay and looking for more of the grots in turret bits. All of the turret guns and hatches are the same size too so it is modular. You can move all the guns around to suit your orky vision. There are a few extra bits, but not that much. I need to pick up some Trukks and some bikes now just so I can mix bits.

I hope to have it all painted up in a few days and will post a pic when complete. I am not rushing or anything, just want to get it in a game.

The Wallet Bellows in TERROR!

I have a sickness that occurs every so often. I tend to get obsessed with the hobbies that I enjoy. I can remember when the plastic sentinel kit came out for the Imperial Guard waaaay back when. You were able to field 3 as part of your HQ. You were able to field 3 as a single Fast Attack... So... What did I do? I bought 12 of course and worked out that I could fit all of them in a 1500 point game. Did I do it all the time? No. I did field it for fun though.

I get these ideas in my head and just want to see how it would work out. I just want to have fun with the hobby of mine, that some call a GAME. I enjoy winning, to be sure, but I enjoy the course of the game even more. I have had great times losing horribly because things happen that are just absurd.

The Wallet Bellows in TERROR!

What does this mean? Well orks have struck me as something that would be highly entertaining to play. I have 3 Deffkoptas... Why should I not have 15? Why indeed... Did you know that a man could field 180 Grots as troops, plus quite a lot more for Heavy support Krew? I know this. What would it be like to field 180 ork boyz? How about 9 Killa Kanz? I need more money or at least a wallet that does not bellow like a little girl every time I get an idea....

I have longed for an eldar force for many a years. I want lots of options for them too... The fact is I want too much... far too much. I want another Imperial Guard Army... I want my Tau back... Bah... Christmas just passed too...

Need more stuff

Goal complete!

I managed to paint the following :

20 Slugga Boyz
15 Dwarf Warriors
24 Goblin Spearman
16 Goblin Archers
2 Deffkoptas
1 Castle Terrain

My son managed to paint :

3 Chaos Knights
10 Chaos Hounds
1 Chaos Lord on Juggernaught
1 Goblin Spearman

All in all a very productive weekend. I have nothing left to paint now. I have some more terrain that I would like to put together and my son has lots more to paint. I think I will be picking up a couple of Ork Wartrukks and a Battlewagon this week. That will give me some more junk to paint.

I have to get around to taking some more photos too. I will have to create a section for my son's models as well.

On a non-related note... Serenity / Firefly is back... Now if only Farscape would return I would be truly happy...

A Proud Dad

Well based upon my last post I am making good progress for my "to do" list for my time off. I am not painting my son's Chaos models. I started painted the Chaos Lord on Juggernaught and quit. I am not painting it or any others. He is. Now my son is only 9. He has never painted before. He has only watched me paint. He has 1000 points of Chaos, fresh from Christmas. I struggled with letting him paint or even encouraging him. He never asked, he just assumed that I would do it and he would watch.

I am a proud dad for one reason. I asked him if he would like to paint his own, no matter what they looked like. He accepted the offer. I was reluctant at first because I was worried that he would "mess them up." I had to put that idea to rest. That was the wrong attitude if I was ever going to get my son really into gaming. I have to allow him to mess up. I have to allow him to fail. Most importantly, I have to encourage and guide him while he does it.

I have to admit, they are not up to my standard. Does that matter? Should it matter? No. No. No. They are his models. They are his to play. His to enjoy. His to mess up. His to paint. His to be proud of. His to change and grow with. I am proud of my son for enjoying what he does. He is much better than me when I started. Much better. When we take his models to play at our local store, The Hobbit, he can be proud too because...

1. They are painted.
2. More than likely his opponent can not say the same.
3. He did it himself

Busy Bee

Today is like Friday for me... I have a nice long 5 day weekend starting at COB (Close of Business), and it feels nice. I have some goals that I intend to meet and they are as follows:

1. Finish painting my remaining 16 dwarves
2. Paint my son's Chaos Lord on Juggernaught
3. Paint my son's 10 Chaos hounds
4. Create a "stonehenge" terrain piece
5. Clean up my "birdhouse" castle and paint it up

That does not seem like an insurmountable list. I think that I can accomplish this and still get in the appropriate amount of family time, eat, sleep, and still game. I also need to think about ways to "show off" what I paint and create. Not that what I do is anything great, but that was one of the goals for redesigning my blog. I wanted to be able to show people I know what I do and maybe inspire them to join in.

I live in a military town and we have a nice local gaming store called the Hobbit. Lots of room for gaming, and never any shortage of people to play with talk to, but not much in the way of painters / modelers. Any given saturday you can walk in and see games of 40K, Fantasy, Flames of War, D&D, Warmachine/Hordes, or various board games spread out on the tables. (As a side note the Hobbit bought/rented/leased out the bingo hall next door... so plenty of room.)The down side is that when it comes to 40K or Fantasy the bulk of the gamers do not mind rocking grey plastic, black/white primer or even unfinished/unassembled models.

I do not mean to sound like a gaming snob, but I put a lot of time/effort into my models. I am no pro. I am no Golden Demon winner. I can put out a product that looks decent on the table though, and that is all that matters. If you are just starting that is cool, bring what you have and lets play. However, I have seen a lot of these guys there a lot, they did not just start. They have had the time to at least start painting. I realize that there is a large portion of the gaming community that just wants to play, and that is fine, I just want more of them to pain too...

All of this to say... Here I want to be able to show case what I have, what I have done, and what I need to do in the hopes that perhaps one of my gaming peers will be inspired or motivated to pick up a brush. It does not take much talent to put out a decent product (just look at some of my models in the links for proof.) Which brings me back to the issue at hand... I need to find a better way to display my product. I used to own my own web site and I had my images displayed. Here I just have links to my .mac. Anybody have any thoughts? I guess I will keep looking...