4 Corners of 30k - Week 10

Week 10 - Balance

What is the biggest complaint that you hear about most tabletop games?

You hear the words: "OP", "broken", "unbalanced" and more.

Games Workshop is one of the biggest culprits of being unbalanced; mainly do to it's release schedule for army updates.

I dare say that the Horus Heresy line offers something big to Warhammer 40k fans: balance.

Skaven WIP update: Plague Monks!!

Working on the skittering horde, I promise paint will be flowing next week on these guys. The last unit of plague monks are being assembled!

4 Corners of 30k - Week 9

Week 9 - Melting Point

Well, there has been a lot of building and priming going on at the Swonkob Bo stronghold but waiting for product from the UK; is like watching paint dry. For an impatient buyer like myself, it makes getting things from Forge World a lackluster experience. Three and a half weeks of waiting and the Royal Mail finally showed up at my house. Ok, it was lackluster for 3.5 weeks but I was pretty excited when I saw the box in the driveway!

Initial thought when I saw the box: "AWESOME!"

Second thought: "CRAP!"

Are those my models?

You see, it broke 100 degrees on my car's thermometer that day; all I could imagine was the box in the middle of the oven of asphalt and a puddle of resin at the bottom of the box!

After a DEEP breath, I examined the contents of the box and, not only was everything below the melting point, it was all accounted for!

After looking over each item; the "wow" moment for me was the shear size of the Cerberus Tank Destroyer bag! It is HUGE!

Here it is next to an Ironclad box!

The instructions were elaborate and covered the ins and outs of the 35+ pieces of resin. I'm looking forward to putting it all together! But I promised myself that I won't build it until my painting table is clean; so clean it will be!

After drooling over the Cerberus Tank Destroyer, my attention quickly jumped to the Alpha Legion dread body. Oh yeah!

This is how it looked when I opened the box (less the arms):

I proceeded to remove the chaos iconography with a razor....well, except for those amazing hydras on the chest!

Within an hour of its arrival from the land of tea and crumpets, the dread looked like this:

It'll be easier to see once there's paint but the points on the edging came off clean and the chaos arrows are all gone!

Next week: Recon Marines and....wait for it...my Praetor!

Time to clean house!

Swonkob Bo - OUT!

[Images acquired from http://warhammer40k.wikia.com and http://forgeworld.com; images were used for reference purpose only, not for monetary gain]

Episode 4 A New Hopelessness

Who wants to come here for vacation?

I thought I was living in New England, but it feels more like North Carolina. Seriously, this morning was 72 degrees F at 7am with a dew point at 70 degrees. I felt like I was back in Jacksonville, NC. It's been like this for days and it doesn't look like it's going to let up. I used the weather as a lame excuse for not painting last week and I'm going to use it again this week. However, I have set up a makeshift spraying box in my kitchen. I am going to prime the succubus it there, but with the humidity being what it is I'm not going to open any windows. I don't want to fumigate my house or get my daughter high with the fumes. I will have her primed today and maybe get some paint on her tonight when my daughter goes to sleep. 

So to fill the gap I'll walk you through my Nephilim Protector conversion. This one was much easier to do the the Soldier.

Episode 3 Revenge of the Nyss

New England . . . if you don't know is a collection of states in the northeast corner of the United States. If you don't know there are six of them. It is cold in the winter, warm in the spring and fall, and can be downright disgusting in the summer. Currently we are in what we consider a heatwave. The temperature has been 85+ for more than a week, which wouldn't be all that bad if the humidity didn't make the air feel like a wet sponge. These are not ideal conditions for spray priming or seal models. So painting has had to take a backseat to other endeavors. 

What does all this mean for today's episode? We get to take a look at the Nephilim that I have been converting. 

Mean Jean Mondays: Dark Elves!

I picked up Dark Elves for our Fantasy Endeavor. I chose them for their fantastic looking models and great fluff.

Below are my chariot, dread lord, and Hydra at the moment.



Side View

Episode 2 Attack of the Clippers

A long time ago (a really long time ago), I bought my first album. Yes, I said album. It was large, black vinyl disc by the band Kiss. Who is Kiss? Who is Kiss? Oh, let me educate you.

Who stole my pajamas?

This was also in the time before iTunes and the world of music was ruled by the all powerful Columbia House Music Club. look it up. Why do I bring up such an archaic band. The base player for the band (the pretty one on the far right) was a man named Gene Simmons. He had a habit of sticking out his tongue and dressing in leather with bat like wings under his arms. He is a very ugly man, rich, but butt ugly.

Which brings me to this weeks topic . . . the Legion of Everblight Succubus.

Skaven WIP 2

Still assembling the skittering horde.

I have the magnets in the screaming bell/plague furnace. 

I have 2 filler units assembled. 

A regiment base done. 

A custom plague monk, banner standard, and 2 assassins or gutter runners. 

Progress is going well. My next group will be the storm vermin and plague monks. 

That's the group shot, like the 3 headed rat?

Skaven WIP

Still assembling the skittering horde!!!

Check it out:

Hell Pit Abimination is all set, Sreaming Bell ready for magnets!!