Another Year Another Resolution

So here we are, 1/1/12 and I'm sure you're wondering where I've been.
First off I got a job in April and its been requiring a TON of my time. The last few months I've been working 7 days a week and turning the lights on and off.
So what have I painted this year?

Space Marines:
Built and painted 3rd Company Tactical and assault marines
Built and painted 3rd Company Chaplain and Librarian
Built and painted Damocles Rhino
Built and painted 10 Space Marine Veterans
Built and painted 4 Dreadnoughts
Basecoated 9 Landspeeders
Built and painted 3 Apothecaries
Built 24 Death Company
Built 17 Marines
Built 6 Chaplains
Built 4 Librarians
Converted 2 Librarians
Built 7 Commanders
Built 4 Apothecaries
Built 10 Tech marines
Built 3 Standard bearers
Built 8 Command Squad models
Converted 2 Company Champions
Built 5 Terminators
Built 9 Servitors

Grey Knights:
Built and painted Grand Master Test Model
Basecoated Land Raider Redeemer
Built and painted 2 Librarians
Built and painted 2 Heavily Converted Dread Knights
Built and Painted Giant Display base
Built and painted 48 Servo Skulls
Built and painted 4 Familiars
Built and painted Castellan Crowe
Built and painted Tech Marine
Converted and Basecoated Lelith to Callidus
Built and painted 4 Crusaders
Converted and Painted Megan Fox figure to Callidus
Built and painted 3 Vindicare assassins
Converted and painted Vindicare assassin
Built and painted Culexus assassin
Built and painted Imperial Assassin
Built and painted 3 Witch Hunters
Built and painted Nearly 150 Purifiers
Built and painted 1 Fallout mini
Built and painted 3 Inquisitor Rex bodyguards
Built and painted Dark eldar to Callidus Conversion
Built and painted Culexus Conversion
Converted 34 Crusaders
Converted 9 Tech marines
Built 60 Terminators

Imperial Guard:
Stripped Fixed and painted Stormblade
Stripped Fixed and painted Baneblade
Built and painted 20 Sentinels
Built and painted 14 Commissars
Basecoated 90 Stormtroopers
Basecoated nearly 200 Guardsmen
Built and painted 16 Enginseers
Built and painted 10 Adepts and Servitors
Built 1 Commissar

Terrain:
Painted 6 feet of Aegis Defence Lines
Built and painted 10 Sentry Guns
Converted enlarged Punisher cannon

Commission:
Built and painted 4 Servitors
Built and painted Enginseer
Built and painted Genesis Chapter Assault Squad
Built and painted Vulkan Hestan
Built and painted Dreadnought
Built and painted Full Ultramarines command squad
Built and painted Ultramarines Tac squad
Built and painted Crimson Fist2 Tactical Squads
Built and painted 2 Crimson Fist Dreadnoughts
Built and painted 1 Birthday Present Cygnar model

Played:
15k Apoc-a-strike with no super heavies
Wargames Con
25k Apocalypse Game
1k Tournament GW Frisco (2nd)
2k Feast of Blades Tournament (4th)
2k Sideboard tournament (2nd)
AMPS modeling contest Silver Medal
Hobby Town Dallas Super Heavy Painting contest (1st Place)

So my hope is to try and do at least 1 update a week.

34th Post - 3 Sanguinary Priests

Well I've been doing a lot of sanding on the titans lately so no pretty pictures of them, however I was able to finish some quick Sanguinary Priests for Bob. These 3 guys were done in about 2 hours total.

Ninth Post - Death Company and Psykers

So I finally received the parts I needed for my psykers and I started building them. They're coming along rather nicely I think:


I really need to get off my ass and start painting these guys but I'm hoping whenever the forgeworld decals get in I'll start working on them again.

I also picked up another commission from Bob in the form of 30 Death Company, 20 Sanguinary guard, and every Blood Angel Special character.
Here's the Death Company, Astorath, Mephiston and his "stand in" Lemartes.

I'm hoping on finishing the Death Company and hopefully a couple of the characters by this weekend.

Also I recently reformatted my OS. I thought I had a problem when I installed new updates for XP but it turns out one of my SATA cables went bad.

Eighth post - Commission break and Straken

I finished the last of Mac's minis. This time they're Tallaran Models, everyone of them had a conversion of some king. The lasguns had been converted to look more like carbines, others had simple weapon swaps.

Sarge, melta, and lasguns

Some guardsmen vox, 2 snipers and more lasguns


Heavy Weapon team


My favorite pose, it has a lot of story to it


Lately I've been trying out my BOLS list and I've decided to try out Straken. However I have no model for Straken so I needed to convert one, as the current and old straken models don't fit my army's look. So I came up with the following.


I had tried the scout biker shot-gun on the hip pose, but it didn't look very good so I went with the giant glaive.

I also ordered 3 foam trays for my vendettas, my first carrying case order of the year. It only took 6 months for me to start on my resolution.

Sixth Post - 275 finished Cadians, a GT, and PBS

Well it's been a while.
First off I had to finish this semester and that was a little crazy, with 2 major projects during finals week.
I finally finished all of Bob's 275 Cadians you can see them here
Here's a pick of all of them together:

Before that I went to a GT in San Antonio Texas the Alamo 40k GT. The first of it's kind. I ended up coming in 21st out of 46 so a little above the 1/2 way mark (my goal). Results can be found here.

While there I took some photos of some of the neat armies (and X boards) and a few of the sights. Those photos are here.

While waiting for some of those cadians to dry I built the start of 3 squads of Psyker Battle Squads. Here are the front of the overseers for the units.

And the back. The one pointing the pistol doesn't have his finger on the trigger. I plan on putting some text on the book like "How to tell if your charge is possessed:".

I figure this is the 3 steps of battle psykers. Step 1 wait till the enemy is about to be shot by the army and break them (guy with binoculars). Step 2 drop the LD debuff (guy with sword). Step 3 fail psychic check and kill off some guys (guy with book).
And here is one of the 12 battle psykers I built. I'm trying to round up more of those stockade arms from the flagellant sets so if anyone has any let me know.


Hopefully I can do some more updates as I paint these 3 squads, 3 vendettas (which need tons of work), and build (and paint) 6 hydras all before the end of July!

Fifth Post - Eversor Predators painted

A few weeks ago I purchased the Horror Clix Predator boxed set. Inside were 6x 25mm predator figures. I decided that the skin was a little too yellow so I painted over it with tallarn flesh and gave the whole figure a mud wash. Just these 2 little changes made them look amazing and I've included some photos of them in my little inquisition case below.








These figs will make great Eversor assassins in the next apoc game.