Space Sharks - Assault Marines and revision

Here's the rest of the Space Sharks assault squad.  To refresh your memory, the first three can be found...well shucks, from a quick look through old posts I guess I forgot to post some of the earlier ones!  I did post the first one here back in July (egad, has it really been that long?), but apparently forgot the others.  I'll rectify that below.

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.

Revised Lists

by Peter Thorpe

As some may have already noticed, I've revised the blog rolls on the right side.  The main Outer Reaches roll with close to 500 sites was getting pretty cumbersome to update.

It has been split up into a number of different sections alphabetically now (those starting with numbers or symbols are first, those starting with "the" are alpha by "the", and there are quite a few of those!), smaller and easier to maintain, at least until the next time they get bloated again.

So if you look at the rolls, keep scrolling down.  The old way had the most recent 25, the new setup has the most recent 10 from each of six lists, so even more recent stuff should be visible.  Go check some out!

Space Sharks extra tactical marines

Rounding out the first tactical squad for the Space Sharks, here's the extra bolter carriers, with their various stabby/choppy bits. 

Man the Barricades!

This weekend I got some work done on a couple of terrain projects, finishing up my long-neglected Ork barricades and my recently-acquired "Battlescape", both from GW.

Miniatures and Chocolate! Eggs for the Egg God!

from http://www.gettingpersonal.co.uk/fun-gifts/robocup-egg-cup.htm

Chris over at Sippin' On Paint Water (you're already following him, right?) is having a little contest for Easter.  See the details below!

Battle Report: Word Bearers vs. Dark Eldar Kabal of the Thousand Paper Cuts

I took some me time this afternoon and took the Hell Hounds over to Hobbytown to see folks and try to get a game in.  Did a little chatting and got a game in with jbowen's Dark Eldar, the same guys (with a different build) that I fought a while back with the Deathfin.

We did 1500pts and rolled up Annihilation/Dawn of War.  I won the roll-off but let him go first, figuring that with Acute Senses he would benefit more if more of my stuff was on the table turn one.

Warboss has a home

At long last, the prize Warboss has a home.  Between months of irregular visits to the local game store and local Ork players not showing up, I had a hard time unloading the fella.  Yesterday I compromised when Impcommander mentioned he had brought his WHFB Orcs for a fantasy game later.  I figured that warp travel can work in strange ways, so the boss found himself among a bunch of primitives.  The shoota-skorcha can be the justification for some manner of magic item, or maybe by now he's out of ammo and just uses it to konk boyz about the head with.


 


Here he is alongside a primitive warbuggy.

Yeah, he's on the wrong shaped base, but *I'm* not going to try to tell him that.






Maybe he'll inspire his new owner to start a 40K Ork army, who knows?

It was also fairly warm out today, so I snuck out to spray seal the Deathfin.  The extra clear parts of the decals are standing out, so I think I may have to go back over them carefully with some black (or whatever color is on the part with the decal) to cover the untrimmed parts up.  Oh well.