Minted!

Well no not really. I managed to make about €220 on old figures I'm never going to paint, but now with all that disposable cash in my paypal account, I am trying really hard not to buy more figures. And failing. I bought 3 Catachan mortar teams as I really love the old metal figures. What I'm really after is one of those hot wire cutters that attach to the mains as I had a battery one that was quite simply crap.
I actually finished a few figures last week, a Black Tree Design beastman conversion with autogun, a horse headed mutant and a Redemptionist leader for my Westboro Baptist Church Affiliate gang. I'll photo them and put them on my next blog. I have been converting a lot lately and I have another half dozen miniatures chopped up to shit and made into freaky deaky muties, again pics to follow.
So hopefully my next entry will be hobby related!

My Del Boy Attempt.

Well I have a love/hate relationship with ebay and at the moment its more love than hate. I love to buy rare and unusual miniatures for ridiculously low prices (but generally pay too much) and also to sell stuff for way over their worth. Sadly neither really come true, more a watered down version of both. So far this year I have sold 12 figures and bought 36. Admittedly the figures I have bought were mainly grunts for my ever increasing collection of badly led troops.
What I've done this week is mainly due to ebays free listing weekend is put 48 seperate auctions on there. All were old minatures that I bought nearly 20 years ago which now are very rare (I always put rare or OOP in my listings, whether it makes a difference I don't know) and now sadly unwanted. I say sadly as I go through phases of selling stuff with the intention of streamlining my figure collection, and sadly because I nearly always buy more stuff to replace it with.
But this time is differant! I have a plan, when I make €75+ on ebay I will buy myself some proper polystyrene sculpting tools so I can build the scenery of my dreams. Mainly interesting rock formations, an underground fighting pit, and even some terrain boards. So hopefully this time next week I'll be a millionaire!

Progressive thoughts and consequent brain shutdown.

Well I played a game of 40k 2 weeks ago and as is customary for me, once I play a game I want to paint a few new items for the next game to jazz things up a little. I'm sure lots of people do, but unfortunately this leads to my common failing with my hobby. My overactive (and quite unrealistic) painting schedule. I played chaos cult vs IG and that was fun. So then I think to myself, I had better paint a few more 'culty' figures for the next battle to make it bigger and better. Then I also think to myself I had better paint some IG to even it up, even though Boy wants me to paint up some Space Marines. Then my ever ambitious brain thinks it would love the idea of the Eldar make an appearance in the game ( jetbikes to be precise) as I love the whole Chaos VS Eldar Eternal Battle sort of thing.
 So after a bit of pinning and basing and spraying I have put on my soon-to-be-painted painting table the following;
5 Attillan Roughriders
5 Marine Scouts
a 10 man Space Marine squad
5 Necromundan Pit Slaves (simply because I would love to make some rules up for mining weapons against tanks)
Fabius Bile
and various human fighters that aren't really IG but can be used as Brood Brothers, Pirates, Adventurers, Cultists or even a retinue of a Rogue Trader.
And of course now I really want to put my jetbikes together and convert my Dark Elf Cold One Riders into Exodite Knights!
Is it any wonder I can never finish any project?

Chaos Attack on Gamultum Tertious

Well I had a small 40K skirmish game with Boy, my 11 year old son with about 400 points a side. He used Imperial Guard, and I took a Chaos Cult army . It seems my camera is AWOL at the moment so no pictures.



We played 2nd edition 40K as I prefer the close combat system as well as all the different ranges of weapons, the hard as fuck characters and break tests lite.

As it has been an absolute age since my last game of 40K it turned out to be a bit of a debacle for all concerned. Demagogue Fenzor Crutt and his motley array of foamy-mouthed cultists sort of stuttered across the table where they should have galloped. Captain Igsamel Procratitor hid in a plascrete building for the entire battle while his guardsmen stood in line formation shooting at the writhing freaks as they desperately tried to violate enemy lines. The only thing that saved them was the pathetic martial ability of the aforementioned writhers and the fact that two units of cowardly asbo's broke when they got close. The last two turns had some desultory fire and lacklustre close combat ending in a marginal win for the forces of the Imperium. Neither army fulfilled their primary objective (the killing of the enemy general), so it came to casualties. Two units of broken cat torturers verses a squad of Cadians reduced to half strength.

So as far as the campaign goes, Fenzor Crutt has to make a bold decisive attack on an Imperial outpost so he can gain followers to his cause. Procratitor on the other hand has beaten off a small force of raiders who seemed ineptly led so other than getting his command back up to strength he has little to worry about.

Boy expressed an interest in Space Marines so as I have a squad of Blood Angels half done I will finish them for the next battle. I on the other hand will just paint up a few more cultists and give them a couple of renegade IG squads, maybe a Valhallan and an Attillan to be going on with. Mind you I was looking at my Swooping Hawks to paint so maybe there could be an appearance of the Eldar in the not too distant future, about 38,000 years or so..............

The Dirty Bastads

Well as I'm seriously into my gaming fad at the momment I went up into my loft and got my entire painted figure collection and put it on a large bookcase for me to look at, to tell the truth I had them in so many different containers, figure cases and jars that I really had no idea what I had. When I did look I was pleasantly surprised to see figures I just hadn't seen in years, plus a few I'd even forgotten I've painted!
Then I found out that the recent cold spell (it had gotten to -17C during December) had chilled the varnish on some of my figures. Whole areas of varnish had gone white. So that has pissed me off immensely and put me in a big sulk, on what should have been a beautiful unveiling ceremony! Looks like the bunting and flags will have to be put back into storage for another while.
I was just looking at the GW website and now they seem to be making stuff out of resign and calling it citadel finecast. Still very fucking pricey though, but then thats because I've been collecting since the late 80's and they used to be £2.99 for 5 (yes five) miniatures. So €22 for a single figure seems pretty fucked up to me. But then my whole anti GW rant is a whole new (and lengthy, venom filled wail about corporate retailing).
I see there is a button just below my blog that if you click I can become megafamous.
Go on, click it now!

A wee bit of paint.

Well the purpose of this entry is to put a couple of pictures on here to prove that I do paint and I'm not some weirdo pretending to (I'm sure there are some about). As I'm not completely au fait with blogger I hope I don't just cock it up with the pictures.

Here is my Genestealer Hybrid whom is waiting for the rest of his brood to arrive so he can start destroying the imperium asap.

Next is my Warzone demon with chains wrapped around him, a nice figure, one of those impulse buys that have potential but rarely get that much battlfield action. I was hoping to use him as an ultra arch nemesis baddy in Warhammer Quest, but thats a whole differant topic.

Finally for now is Gilberon the chaos cultist. I loved (not in the Slaanesh way) the figures when they came out (also not the Slaanesh way), but never got enough to make a unit, let alone an entire army. Still, I like his pink laspistol skin that he got from his local Nokia shop (in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war).

So thats my third entry into the world of blogger (I blogged like hell on myspace, but thats deader than Nagash). So next time I hope to put some more pretty pictures up.

why the big pause?

Well those couple of of years have flown by haven't they? Just to update my blog as it was crap, I've just started messing around with my little toy soldiers again and in particular I'm doing a lot of converting and such so hopefully I'll put some pictures up for the craic.