IA9 and the Red Scorpions have landed!

I placed a healthy Forge World order and it arrived on wednesday. I have decided that with my fanboy-ness of Space Marines I would have a regular Codex chapter (Salamanders), a Non-Codex chapter (Space Wolves) and an Imperial Armour Chapter (Red Scorpions).

So, I got my Forge World order and it was the start of my Red Scorpions army. I got Commander Culln, Magister Sevrin Loth, a kit of veterans with Sgt Haas, a bunch of tactical shoulder pads and some terminator pads. I've already got a FW Mk IV Dread that I'm going to use for this army. I also ordered some dreadnought autocannons. I want to have a line of 3 dreadnoughts with twin-linked autocannons. I think that'll just look so awesome on the table.

My first list is going to be 1000pts and it'll look like this:
High Commander Carab Culln
Tactical Squad with Apothecary
-Melta/Missile Launcher
Tactical Squad with Vet Sarge w/powerfist and Teleport Homer
-Plasma Gun/Multi-Melta
Rhino
Terminator Squad
-2x Chain Fist
-Assault Cannon
Dreadnought
-Assault Cannon

I've got a Space Wolf list to finish painting for a tournament in the next few weeks and then I'll begin on the Red Scorpions.

Yay, more Space Marines.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.