Project List 2014

OK, time to refresh the project lists.  Partly to let you wonderful folks know what to expect, mostly to clarify for myself what I should be working on.  As always, subject to change as passions wane and new shiny things come into view.

• Space Sharks
• Modify bike commander.  Currently has lightning claw, will end up with either a big sword (Burning Blade) or big chainsword (Teeth of Terra).  
• Supplemental units?  Maybe some extra things to bring points up, like a kitbashed Thunderfire Cannon, or some scouts, or some more bikers.  At some point probably all of the above.
• Nurgle CSM
• Daemon Prince - not in the list itself, but in case a champion gets lucky I'd like to have him painted.
• IG "Gravedigger" allies - some infantry, maybe a few tanks using spare Steel Legion figs.

• Reaper/Bones - piles of various figs, likely fit in between other projects.
• Robotech - at some point the figures from the Kickstarter will arrive, and I'll get them ready for some Battletech action.
• Terrain
• Foamcore GW sets - I've had these for a long time, and want to get around to actually painting them up at some point.  
• Plastic terrain - I have a big ebay batch with two more bastions and most of a Fortress of Redemption (all except the central tower parts), I want to turn those into something.

• Orks
• Shokk Attack Gun - needs to be painted.
• Lootas, Stormboys?  Some extra options.
• Stompa?  Don't have one yet, but someday...

• Imperial Guard
• Chimeras.  Some rides to help the Merkans get midfield would be good.
• Vendetta?
• Baneblade?

• Scythiak
• Paint second rough rider squad.
• Counts-as Chimeras.
• More tanks?
• Steel Legion platoon.

• Endless Ones
• Raptors
• Bikers
• Daemon Prince(s)
• Sons of Taurus squads
• SoT Maulerfiend

• Void Phantoms
• Finish up guys already partly done.
• Plane, wraithlord, Dire Avengers, Swooping Hawks, extra scorpion, bike warlock.

• Fantasy Chaos
• Maybe have something playable done in time for the next edition.

We'll see how far along this gets this coming year.  First off will be working on the Void Phantoms, my Eldar/Dark Eldar Corsairs.  I had set them aside partly when the local league put in heavy ally restrictions and I had to turn back to the Space Sharks, partly when I remembered how annoying plastic guardians are to assemble, but looked at them the other night and saw there wasn't too much left to do to.  So back to the front of the queue! 

Here they are, both the mostly completed and the still to be started.

 

 

Characters (Farseer, Warlock, Autarch, Duke Sliscus) in front of the Rangers.

Warwalkers, D-cannons, bikers.

Scorpions (decided to add in a sixth when reworked points), Swooping Hawks, nice one-piece Dire Avengers who are taking the place of the Guardians.  They work better as more elite pirates anyways I imagine.

So stay tuned in the near future for more Void Phantoms, and after that for some of the other stuff!

Project List update Oct 2012

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It's been six months since my last project list update, at least as far as I can tell.  With the Space Sharks done for now and my starting to ramp up back into Chaos Marines, it seems like a good time to update things.

Project List update

 I laid out my hobby plans for the foreseeable future back in December.  I've made some progress since then, so here's an update.

• Space Sharks! - some progress has been made, more to come!
• Two armored sentinels for the Merkans.
• Manticore for either Merkans or Scythiak.  Maybe I'll even be ambitious and magnetize some iconography panels so it can either be Imperial or recently captured.
• 2-3 Chimeras for Merkans.
• Multiple counts-as Chimeras for the Scythiak.
• Blob platoon for Scythiak using spare Steel Legion figures.
• Finish painting second rough rider squad for Scythiak.
• Killer Kans and Dreadnought for Orks.
• Burnas, Tankbustas, Lootas for Orks, plus potentially extra looted/battle wagons.
• Eldar Corsairs - more figures have been obtained, but actual work is probably quite some time away.
• New and refurbished Chaos Marines for the Endless Ones and associated forces like Sons of Taurus, Tears of Sanguinius, Abbysal Reavers and Heralds of Oblivion.  Probably at least enough to fill out a full FOC.
• Cheap terminator Deathwing. - DONE!  Completed as part of the Space Sharks, the Deathfin army is complete, at least for now!
• Zulus for Mogambian army in RPG campaign.
• Misc Reaper, etc. RPG figs.
• Ork barricades. Done!
• Redo city table.
• Other terrain. Battlescape done, more plans made.
• Fantasy Warriors of Chaos.

I'm going to try to keep slogging through the Space Sharks and get them done, after which I expect to knock out some smaller side projects before diving back into power armor with Chaos Marines.  I hope to get some time in with my airbrush and get the Sentinels and Ork walkers done as part of the interlude.

Big Plans - 2012...2013...

Like the late Mr. Carr, aka "the Fox" to the left, I have a lot of unfinished business to attend to with my model collections.  New armies, adding to existing ones, misc. projects.

We'll see how much of this mess I get through in 2012.  Hopefully referring back to this list will help me to avoid purchasing too much new stuff.  Unless the new Chaos kits look good.  On to the list!

Project List

I've made mention several times about my project list, things getting bumped down or up on the list, but I don't think I've actually laid out my long-term goals here yet.

So here we go!

First, a reminder of what I currently have, then a list of projects and add-ons I'd like to do.


I currently have armies for:

• Space Marines (Silver Skulls Drop Pod)
• Orks (Blood Axes)
• Tau (Shadowsun ambush force, no Crisis suits or vehicles)
• Chaos Space Marines (Sons of Horus and Word Bearers)
• Imperial Guard (Merkan 76th)

I previously had, but have since sold:

• Tau (lots of crisis suits and vehicles)
• Space Marines (DIY Praetorians chapter)
• Eldar (Biel-tan Swordwind)
• World Eaters CSM
• Fantasy Goblins

I'm currently in the middle of building and painting the Scythiak Usurpation (Chaos Guard).

I have plans to build:

• Fantasy Warriors of Chaos, with some old stuff leftover from previous army, leftover figs from making the Scythiak, and a large infusion from Papa JJ. Will probably be Tzeentchian and/or Undivided.
• The Sons of Taurus, my eponymous renegade SM, long-waiting and long-suffering in limbo.  I did a few test figs for them back when I returned to 40K in 3rd ed, but wasn't happy with the results and ended up painting up simple black Sons of Horus instead.  Will either be built with Space Wolves or CSM rules, currently leaning towards SW as I have several CSM armies already, and Bull Centaur "Thunderwolves" sounds cool to me.
• Space Sharks!  When I was choosing my loyalist SM when I returned to 40K, it came down to Silver Skulls and Space Sharks.  Silver Skulls narrowly won out at the time, but I've had a soft spot in my heart for the Space Sharks from the early days seeing them in the Badab War section of the 40K Compendium.  I have been toying with the idea of finally doing them, perhaps with the Blood Angels book (Seth seems like he'd be a good Space Shark commander).  I had even considered commissioning some custom bits, but now Forge World announced that they were releasing Badab War books, including stuff for the Space Sharks.  My, my, my. 
• Servants of Decay/Death Guard - combo army, regular Nurgle CSM plus the Nurgle Guard renegades from Vraks III (IA 7).
• Fantasy Bretonnians  - I have a bunch of these guys, but they keep being pushed back.  If I get heavy into 8th ed fantasy, I may try again to do these guys justice.

One or more of my current armies may have to go to make room/funds for the new projects.  If I start to get a lot more games in I may persuade myself to try harder to hang on to everything, but it's possible that the Tau may go (again) and I may sell parts of the Silver Skulls depending on how high prices for RTB01 guys go, or just re-model/paint them as part of the Space Sharks, depending.  The Brets may wind up going too.

Other non-full army projects on the list:

• Chop up my city board to make it more easily rearranged/stored/transported, and add pieces to it.  I've gotten a lot of good use out of the board as-is, but it's pretty inconvenient in its current form.  
• Add some more terrain pieces for my desert and jungle themes.
• Orks: Build/paint Killer Kans.  Possibly do some buggies and Nobs.  Maybe some Lootas, Burnas, and Tankbustas, along with another Battlewagon or Looted Wagon.
• IG: Build/paint sentinels (armored, with plasma cannons) for the Merkan 76th, to allow them to go to 2000pts or just as an additional option for smaller lists.
• Scythiak: add other unit options, like Stormtroopers, more tanks, beastmen/penal legion, more squads, perhaps a Valkyrie.
• Refurbish the Sons of Horus, or even potentially turn them into something else.  

Plus tons of misc. Reaper/Ral Partha/etc. figures.  I'll often do a few of these in between big army projects for a little variety, but the unpainted pile keeps growing faster than the painted pile.

I think that's it as far as things that may actually someday get done.  There's also some pie-in-the-sky ideas, like the Pulp serial "Dark Eldar" army, full of dashing heroes with rayguns in rocketships, Tomb Kings, Iron Warriors, White Scars, Deathwing, etc...but these are mostly "wouldn't it be neat" ideas, not things I have actual plans for or have started to collect figures for...at least, not yet!