I am feeling a bit rough, had a horrid few weeks waiting for something that happened this week finally.

Got to wait for the outcome but just hoping I can get myself sorted and back to normal as it’s left me struggling to sleep.

What I Am Modelling

The hands have been better this week so it’s back to painting.

First up, here is the Aragorn I finished last week, I managed to get a better photo of him.

I then finished up my Mourngul for the Nighthaunt, my very first unit for this army and I love it. Decided to go with a spectral colour scheme to fit in with the rest of the army.

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When Mortal Realms was first trialed, I knew I wanted the Nighthaunt from it. I deeply regretted selling that half of Soul Wars, but this is my way into that army. Anyway before I even had @_lindsaybee drive me to Middlesbrough to pick up a copy, I ordered this model the wonderfully glorious Mourngul, a model I have always wanted but never had a reason to own. Anyway here is my one painted and finished as the first unit for my Nighthaunt army, gone with the spectral green for it to tie it in with the rest of the Nighthaunt I plan to do. #PaintingWarhammer2020 #Warmongers #PaintingWarhammer #PaintingForgeWorld #AoS #AgeOfSigmar #WarhammerAoS #WarhammerAgeOfSigmar #Death #GrandAllianceDeath #Nighthaunt #Malignant #Mourngul #Painthammer2020 @jewelknightjess

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The I turned my attention to a Death Guard Heavy Support Squad armed with Autocannons.

I got the bodies from Phil, I just bought some arms from eBay and the Autocannons from Forge World and raided my bitz box for heads.

And then I painted up some Space Marine Bikes and an Attack Bike for the Blood Ravens, these came from Conquest and I have another batch of these to come still.

Once they were done, I turned my attention to some Death Guard Plague Marines built from the old Chaos Space Marines kit and the now out of print Plague Marine upgrade kit from Forge World, along with a few bits from the multipart Plague Marines kit.

This gave me a Champion armed with Plasma Pistol and Plague Sword, an Icon Bearer and 8 Bolter armed Plague Marines.

At the same time I was working in the crew for Niki’s Centaurs and got them finished shortly afterwards.


So this is how my painting plan looks now, I have got the Chainrasp Horde primed and the Death Korps of Krieg stuff is on the painting handles.

  1. Death Korps of Krieg Quartermaster and Retinue and Ride Master
  2. Chainrasp Horde x 40
  3. Blood Ravens Captains x 5
  4. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Special Weapons Men x 12
  5. Warcry Terrain
  6. Myrmourn Banshees x 12
  7. Blood Ravens Bikes x 3 and Attack Bike with Multi-Melta
  8. Chainrasp Horde x 40
  9. Canoness Veridyan
  10. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Special Weapons Men x 12

What I Am Reading

I finally finished reading Celestine The Living Saint last night, and I really enjoyed it, ended up staying up until 3am to finish it, just need to pick something my else to read, might read Mark of Faith next.

I also listened to The Geld, which was really good before moving on to The Solar War, because weirdly I hadn’t listened to that yet, and I got through that pretty quickly and am now onto The Lost and the Damned.

What I Am Playing

On Sunday night we played Melee for the first time, and I got my bottom kicked by Megan who captured my castle very easily!

And on Tuesday three years after I got it for Megan for her birthday, we finally played Codenames with Megan’s mum, I teamed up with her and we won one game, and lost one game against Lindsay and Megan.

What I Am Backing

The Rival Networks has successfully funded and I am very happy with that, love the main game and I am sure I will love a two player version of it.

Justice Blocks has 11 hours left at time of writing and its only at 15%, I know it won’t fund but I love the idea of it.

And finally I am backing Broken because it’s hilarious!

What I Am Cooking

I need to cook something again, it’s just so much effort these days given the brain injury and hand pain.

What I Am Spending

I stocked up on paint, grabbed a couple of 40k Chibis one of which was the Sister I’d Battle which is fantastic, and I also bought the Legio Ignatium transfer sheet, two of them, but they went out of stock so I am super happy I bought them on pre-order day!

I also bought the dice for the two new Beastgrave warbands.