Berserker Showcase

The final batch of models that I finished in 2016 were a mighty squad of beserkers for my legion of preference, the Iron Warriors. This also included an interpretation of Kharn the Betrayer himself. I built these before the heady days of the Traitors Hate book, so i was kind of lucky that at apush the 20 dudes can count as that Murderhorde formation or whatever it is called.
Anyway, here are a few picys...

This was a white dwarf freebie many moons ago

Kahn

Some family photos to end up with...

Thanks for reading!

#Squaduary 2017 - The Pledge

Hey hey. I decided ti get involved in this years #squaduary event. I kind of shadowed last years #dreadtocber and thought that I would make solid bash at this one. But what to do? I'm trying to build up enough Iron Warriors to form one of those warband detachments and I'm still missing a few things from there. So a squad of Iron Warrior Raptors it is then.

But anyway, here is a pile of raptor bits that have been recently removed from the sprue...

Thanks for reading and happy #Squaduary to those taking part!

2017 Targets

So I've taken the list of stuff that I had to do and then added more things! Fun!

I'll probably try to keep this list updates through the year as things progress.

Iron Warriors

• Paint Chosen
• Paint Havocs
• Paint Terminators
• Prime more Terminators
• Prime Bikers
• Build, prime and paint the raptors
• Build, prime and paint more helbrutes
• Build, prime and paint some warsmiths
• Paint Terminator Lord
• Paint Land Raider

Imperial Guard

• Paint the Stormhammer
• Paint two Valkyries

Inquisition Stuff

• Build up some more inquisitor stuff and warbands

Deathwatch

• Build and paint the marines in the deathwatch box
• Build and paint the tyranids in the deathwatch box

Orks

• Paint 3 Big Gunz
• Paint Stompa
• Paint 10 Meganobz
• Repaint 2nd ed dread
• Repaint all my 2nd ed Goffs and Grots (dear god why do I want to do that)
• Finish off 2 battlewagons
• Finish off loads of buggies
• Paint bunch of deffcoptas
• See what needs to be done with the bunch of orks I got off ebay:

Dystopian Wars

• Finish British Fleet
• Finish Japanese Fleet
• Finish Merchant ships
• Finish 3 oil rigs
• Finish 2 lighthouses
• Finish 2 islands

Hobby Stuff

• PLAY SOME GAMES
• This is really important. Want to do this so much.
• Come up with some way of displaying some stuff
• Pain the Wall of Martyrs Stuff
• Aquila Strongpoint
• Vengeance Weapon Battery
• Imperial Bunker
• Imperial Defence Network
• Imperial Defence Line
• Firestorm Redoubt

Wowser that is a lot of stuff that needs doing! But then again its better than having boxes of stuff stashed away everywhere.

Thanks for reading

2016: A Year in Review

Happy new year all. Onto some reviewing of my 2016. In short pretty good. Started off pretty crappily, with warhammer stuff taking a slide for some other commitments. I got the walking club web site spruced up by early summer, by which time my hobby mojo was returning.

By the end of the year I was getting some solid hobby achievements that I am fairly proud of. By the numbers I think I managed to paint 105 figures, which sounds pretty good to me. I made some serious headway with my Iron Warriors which was a major headache from earlier years.

The Blog

The blogger stats stuff don't seem that great. but here is my top post stuff 

Well since I only posted 6 blog things in 2016 it isn't that surprising that the stats are dominated by that post from 2014. I think I linked this one to some discussion on a thread on reddit so i'm not surprised that this is still the most popular post. Something to think about anyway.

The Hobby

The Good

• Got stuck into my Iron Warriors. Two full squads, some characters and a Helbrute.
• Finished my Grysyns. Proper happy with them.
• Pretty happy I kept my spending under control.

The Bad

• Not enough games. Only played a couple

The Ugly

• Still not played Dystopian Wars. Will do one day.

The List

Here is a list I made the other year. Time to update it! Since I didn't do a review last year, this includes stuff from 2015 too. Bit of a cheat like.

Iron Warriors

• Paint Berserkers
• Paint Plague Marines
• Paint Chosen
• Paint Possessed
• Paint Havocs
• Paint Khan
• Paint Terminators
• Paint Terminator Lord
• Paint Spawn
• Paint Obliterators
• Paint Hellbrute
• Paint Land Raider

Imperial Guard

• Paint 5 Ratling Snipers
• Paint 4 Assassins
• Paint 3 Psykers
• Paint Special Weapons Squad
• Paint Heavy Weapons Dudes
• Paint Hostile Environment Squad
• Paint two standard bearers
• Paint two sergeants and medicmedic
• Paint 2 Commissars
• Paint Creed
• Paint tech priest and 2 servitors
• Paint Wyvern
• Paint Leman Russ
• Paint Chimera
• Paint Colossus

Orks

• Paint 3 Big Gunz
• Paint Stompa
• Paint 10 Meganobz
• Repaint 2nd ed dread
• Repaint all my 2nd ed Goffs and Grots (dear god why do I want to do that)
• Finish off 2 battlewagons
• Finish off loads of buggies
• Paint bunch of deffcoptas

Dystopian Wars

• Finish British Fleet
• Finish Japanese Fleet
• Finish Merchant ships
• Finish 3 oil rigs
• Finish 2 lighthouses
• Finish 2 islands

Overall 2016 was great. But then again I'm not a celebratory. Thanks for reading and here's to a good 2017.