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.

Space Hulk Libby, Belial, Promise of future knights!

I've kind of been neglecting most of my posting duties around the net as I work on ebay to clean my house up. However, due to that I've purchased a MUCH better camera. I've managed to paint up a few models over the past months and I'll be posting pictures of them when I get time. In the mean time here is the last of the un-Blood Angel-ed space hulk termi, and my very old Lysander-to-Belial conversion. Pictures after the break!

35th Post - Update

Ok so I'm sorry I've let this languish for so long. I'm graduating at the end of this semester and I've been breaking my back trying to study. I've also managed to finish a few more commissions such as 275 Flames of War 15mm Russians for Bob, 80 15mm Germans for Mac and I'm working on 80 more 15mm Germans for Mac.

Bob and Mac are good friends of mine and they've just restarted their Flames of War hobby... well game I guess since I'm doing the hobby.

Next up I've been working on the Damoclese rhino, it's almost done with decals applied. Next step is to gloss and flatten the decals then weather the whole tank. I'm not going to be doing much weathering because I like my marines battle ready.

Dad and I have also been working on the warhounds. We've got lights installed, sound boards ready to be wired and even put some paint down on them! Well it's just the reactors.

I've also been selling some of my unused models. I've now sold off nearly all of my Fantasy stuff, leaving only the pile of 2nd hand Empire models left. I've also started selling my Warmachine models. I've come to realize that with the monetary and time investments I've been sinking into the 40k universe I really don't have much left for other game systems. Don't get me wrong I've started branching off into Battle Fleet Gothic (played my first game) and Epic 40k (Started buying companies of tanks), Aeronautica Imperialis (purchased 4 planes), but I think my table top gaming is going to be in just the 41st millennium.

33rd Post - It's been a while

Hi guys!

I'm afraid I've been a bit busy doing some stuff since my last post. First up I finished the Blood Angels commission

Here's the Golden boys from the commission

21st Post - Ultramarines History part 1 - Starting the army

Well here we are another history post, this time it’s for my Ultramarines.
You may want to get something to drink while this loads.

As y’all have read I originally started 40k with Tyranids. However due to the lack of a codex I decided to start Space Marines. After I read the 3rd Edition Space Marine codex I found I really liked the Ultramarines fluff and special characters, so I started painting my models in the original blue and yellow scheme.

Sixteenth Post - 4 bases 2 hydras 2 mystics and a callidus

Well I've been away for a bit with work and what not so it's time I get back to work on my army!
I've got 2 weathered hydras now and now I've got 2 more to go.


I also finished the 2 mystics I needed.

I also started the Callidus


Next I glued the canopies to the Vendettas. I also glued the resin Vendetta together.
Finally I painted (and sanded) 4 galeforce 9 lazy trays... err movement trays.

So now I've got to:
Weather 2 Hydra upper 1/2s
Weather Vendettas
Decide if I like the new base ring color
Decal new guardsmen
Touch up old models

All this by the 28th.

Eleventh Post - Death Company Done, valk progress, more guard stuff.

It's been a while, I totally forgot to update the blog in the flurry of BoLS prep I've been doing.
I got the death company finished and delivered as well as the characters I was working on with them.
Pictures below (more pics in my photobucket)




Overall the figs came out good and Bob was happy thus I got paid.

Considering that was nearly 2 weeks ago I've got more news.

Next up was the Manticore for my guard. I converted it so I could magnetize on the kit's 3 missiles or put on a deathstrike missile (to be built later).


I also decaled up the valkyries. The forgeworld decals are a bit horrible and could have been put on as 1 large piece but they didn't include enough space in between for the panels. Instead you're expected to disassemble to decals and the put them down. If they would have added some spacing on the decal sheet this would be fine but there's barely any room to get a pair of scissors in there! They turned out ok, I've got some touchups to do with paint but them's the breaks.




Next up I started work on my Hydras. I've decided NOT to just stick something on my chimeras as that'd look goofy. Instead I'm going for a leman russ chassis (it's higher ;) ) with a special add on... take a look.



I've got some more work to do before I'm happy with them. Right now they keep falling over because they're so blasted top heavy.
So that's it from me.
BTW blame Bradford for my lack of posts. He recommended Fallout 3 to me and after picking it up I can't stop playing it.

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!