Monday 30 January 2017

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!

Friday 27 January 2017

#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!

Wednesday 11 January 2017

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

Sunday 1 January 2017

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.