Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Finding like-minded gamers

As I travel deeper into the Warhammer hobby, it seems that there are less friends with me.

The store I usually play at does not have a competitive player base. On the other hand, I'm developing a killer instinct.

The people I play with on a regular basis (except 1) don't paint. The one guy that does paint doesn't get to paint very often. On the other hand, I've been trying to take my painting to higher levels.

My wallet (and wife) weeps at my love for Forgeworld stuff. I'm a Space Marine fanboy and the new armor kits have made me a little crazy. I did get my Mk IV armor in the mail yesterday! On the other hand, my playgroup says it's too expensive for what it is.

I really wanna go to a convention like Adepticon, but noone else does.

I'm married and I have a full time job. I'm not made of money, but I could come up with money for a trip. My wife doesn't mind my hobbying. She's the best.

I guess the next move is to try to meet like-minded people on the internets. Now, I guess I've gotta go find em. I've also gotta figure out a way to get those other Forgeworld space marines.... and a Warhound Titan. Ha!

Sunday, August 15, 2010

More Wolves

I'm doing single Space Wolves at a time. Yesterday my non-mech Wolves force annihilated a Tyranid army. Pretty awesome. I decided to do the Mark of the Wolfen space wolves in the Pre-Heresy codex grey color scheme with the wolf helmets. I had some Chaos shoulder pads so I wanted to try them out too. I think it came out pretty good. So, here's a power weapon Space Wolf, a Mark of the Wolfen marine and a Terminator.




Friday, August 6, 2010

Plasma Gunner Wolves!

I decided to keep on my Space Wolf kick today. So, based on the list I wrote, I've been breaking down my list and planning to do just a couple at a time. Today I painted 2 plasma gunners. Check em out!




Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Urge to paint a Space Wolf

So, I got home from work and felt the need to paint a Space Wolf. I had one primed tactical marine, so I painted him up in Space Wolf blue/grey. I messed around with chipped armor and weathering powder just to see what came out. I'm getting back in the wolfy state of mind. I have a list that has 40 Grey Hunters, 10 Terminators and 6 Long Fangs. I think I'm gonna build to it. :) Here's my result.




Thursday, July 22, 2010

Salamanders Standard Bearer!

I'm at home working on my Salamanders command squad today. My standard bearer when from grey plastic to almost fully done. I freehanded the standard. I hope you like em!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

A modeling update!

I've decided to put the Wolves on the back burner so that I can finish my Salamanders Battle company. I just finished my 6th Tactical Squad. Here are a couple of models. They haven't been based and I haven't put on the decals yet:



In addition to that, I entered a captain for my battle company in a local painting competition:





I started to dabble in Warhammer Fantasy Battles. I think I'm going to play High Elves when the new 2 player set comes out. I painted a horse yesterday for my Noble.

Monday, June 21, 2010

To Wolf or Not to Wolf?

Well, I finished the Space Wolves that I wanted for the Apocalypse game that was back in March, then I got a new spark to paint more Salamander marines. I've been doing that since. So, I am only a couple squads away from a full Space Marine battle company. I also got a Forgeworld Thunderhawk for my birthday. I decided that when the battle company is done that I'm moving on to the Thunderhawk. The Salamanders have also finally gotten a Captain for the 2nd company. I'm working on him for a painting contest at my local store. He's just about done. I'm going to post up some pics of my company and my captain later on when I get home.
Thanks for readin!