Hobby Update: Things happening again!

I now have a regular gaming day scheduled in every two weeks at my place with Nick from work. This has given me an incentive to actually get stuff done. Nick's a former Eldar player, who I have snagged back into the hobby and he's now in the process of rebuilding his Eldar from scratch.

So now I've finally picked up my brushes again and started finishing off the stuff that was marooned on my painting desk, quietly whispering "paint us, paint us.." each time I walked past them.

"So what's on the painting table", I hear you ask. Well, currently there's the following:

Random Update: Old Website Spotted...

Look what I found:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~bek/

I cannot believe that this is still live. I've not been with the ISP since before 2001 when I moved out of my parent's house!

A true relic of a pre-broadband dial-up internet age, as you can tell from the design, page counter, "Site last updated on", and the mirror site link!

I still have copies of all this stuff on my hard drive.

Random Update: Hobby Hiatus

All quiet on the Western Front...

Not done much in the way of hobby output for 3 months. I find I always seem to slow down over the Winter period with it's dark nights and bad weather (not good for spray painting in!).

Starting to get the urge to pick up a brush and crack on with cranking out the last of the Marines, Tau and Tyranids now though, so watch this space... maybe in a month or so I'll start putting more stuff up.

Nova Storm Units: Elite Choices 3

The five Space Marine Assault Terminators are finished!

Featuring 4 Space Marine Terminators with dual Lightning Claws and a Sergeant with a Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield.

Used for shock assault on hard-to-kill targets. Ideal for killing low Initiative Necrons as they're all equipped with power weapons to negate We'll Be Back rolls.

Tau Units: HQ Choice 2

While technically this is the second HQ choice, it's the first one to get painted as it's a relatively easy model to put together and paint.

This the first model that I've tried a blending technique on, and although it's not exactly 'Eavy Metal standard for my first attempt I'm quite please with it. The majority of the blending work is on the cloth folds on the front and back and on the skin of the hand and face. I left the metal silver and washed it with blue to get a nice clean feel but I'm not sure if I'm 100% happy with it yet.

I intend to place him in among the front lines as any Tau units with line of sight to him can re-roll failed LD checks. I'l probably play around with joining him to one of the Fire Warrior Teams for now. Should he be assaulted he not too shabby in close combat, with three Strength 5 attacks. He's accompanied by a shield drone because he has no Armour Save at all, and a Gun Drone which provides his only shooting ability, and provides another ablative wound. Neither of the drones are pictured, as I was too lazy to get the out of the case for the photo, sorry.

Random Update - Pre-visit check-list going well

So, remember I said I had a few things to do before my friend came visiting for the week?

So far it's going well. I've finished repairing and repainting the broken Necron Lord, I've finished the three partially completed Necron Immortals, who have now been joined by the fourth which I've built and painted up.

I've completed two Assault Terminators with Lightning Claws and have almost finished the next two, then I've just got the sergeant left to paint.

The second Tau Broadside is almost completed as well, with a shield drone. Just the Team Leader to paint next and they're all done as well.

We also sorted out the hobby/guest room at the weekend to make room for our guest.

However, I haven't sorted the Realm of Battle board or painted any more Tyranids.

Tau Units: Elite Choice 1

Here's the first of the two XV8 Crisis Suit teams in my Tau Hunter Cadre at the moment.

Consisting of two Suits; a Team Leader with twin-linked Missile Pods a Plasma Rifle and a Shield Drone (not pictured), and a second suit with a Missile Pod and Plasma Rifle with Shield Generator.

Capable of deploying via Deepstrike, moving 6" in the Movement Phase, shooting all weapons (at different target units), then moving another 6" in the Assault Phase, they are a highly mobile team which I envision using for anti-heavy infantry and light vehicle hunting.

The Plasma Rifles can always Rapid Fire or be fired at full range regardless of whether or not the Suits moved as they both have the Relentless rule thanks to being Jet Pack Jump Infantry. At Strength 6 and AP 2 they are good against such heavy infantry targets as Space Marine Terminators as they negate the normal 2+ Armour Save.

The Missile Pods have a range of up to 36" and are Assault 2 weapons; allowing 2 shots per Shooting Phase with Strength 7 and AP 4, allowing some additional fire-power to be landed on hard targets and giving them some bite against lighter vehicles.

They have a 3+ Armour Save and a 4+ Invulnerable Save from the Shield Generator (and Shield Drone), but although they have 2 Wounds each, they will die instantly if they fail a Save against a Strength 8 or higher weapon.