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Quiet Easter

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On 6th April 2021

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It’s been a quiet week, I have a few things waiting to come to fruition so I am gonna keep this short and sweet.

I hope you guys had a good Easter.

I published a couple of videos this week, one which was an unboxing and review of the Daylight Conpany Lumi Tasklamp, and a review of Instar Soap+

What I Am Modelling

It’s been a slow and hard week.

I started out by painting the first of my Flesh-Eater Courts, an Abhorant Arch-Regent.

I then picked up the Herlads of Nurgle, but stuff going on in my head really kept me from any painting.

I did build stuff to ensure my next twenty of so projects are ready to paint, and apart from a squad of Peltasts for my Mechanicum, they are all built and primed.

I decided I needed an easy win to get back my mojo, so I painted this Knight of Shrouds for my Nighthaunt.

And then I managed to finish off the Sloppity Bilepiper, Poxbringer and Spoipox Scrrivener for my Nurgle Daemons.

So what’s coming up next for me?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Adeptus Mechanicum Onagar Dunecrawler
  3. Horticulous Slimux
  4. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10,Lieutenant & Riflemen x 2
  5. Necron Crypteks x 4, Cryptothralls x 2, Flayed Ones x 5 & Canoptek Reanimator
  6. Kill Team Arena & Pariah Nexus Terrain
  7. Blood Ravens Heavy Intercessors x 5 & Captain with Master-Crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle
  8. Mechanicum Termite
  9. Battlezone Objectives
  10. Flesh-Eater Courts Crypt Ghouls x 20

What I Am Reading

I finished The Qubit Zirconium by M. Darusha Wehm and a review of that should be up tomorrow.

I have now started Blood of the Emperor and am a decent way though that now.

What I Am Playing

Played a bit of Star Wars Squadrons which was a lot of fun.

On Easter Monday, me and the girls played a couple of board games, we started with Pandemic: Hot Zone North America which was a lot of fun and we managed to beat the game nice and convincingly.

Then we played Ticket To London and Megan absolutely whooped mine and Lindsay’s arse!

What I Am Backing

I am still backing Gloomier, the profits I made from crypto mining is paying for that.

And I have also backed the Wowstick drill, I love the screwdriver so the drill should be good for hobby work.

  • Mood:- Hot
  • Caffeinated Beverages Consumed:- 4
  • In My Ears:-
  • Tabletop Game Last Played:- Ticket to Ride London
  • Video Game Last Played:- Star Wars: Squadrons
  • Book Last Read:- Blood of the Emperor – Various Authors
  • Movie/TV Show Last Viewed:- Deep Space Nine
  • Current State of Projects:- Horticulous Slimux 60% done, mostly Mulch left to do

Unboxing and Review of the Lumi Tasklamp from the Daylight Company

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On 1st April 2021

In Blog, Videos

Resolutions Update – March 2021

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On 31st March 2021

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I had a slow start to the month but I have managed to get 324 models painted to date this year.

My T’au got a big boost with two Ghostkeels, three Riptides and a Stormsurge joining their ranks this month.

An in general I am happy with how everything else is going.

Paint 2000 points of Necrons for Warhammer 40,000 – 29% Complete

For the Necrons this month I added a squad of Warriors, some Scarabs, two Royal Wardens and two Overlords to the done pile.

I decided to share the list I am aiming to build this year and it’s as follows:-

+ No Force Org Slot [3 PL, 55pts] +

Bound Creation [2 PL, 40pts]
. Cryptothralls [2 PL, 40pts]
. . 2x Cryptothrall: 2x Scouring Eye, 2x Scythed Limbs

Viral Construct [1 PL, 15pts]: Canoptek Plasmacyte [1 PL, 15pts]

+ HQ [17 PL, 310pts] +

Chronomancer [4 PL, 80pts]: Aeonstave

Overlord [6 PL, 100pts]: Warlord, Warlord Trait (Sautekh): Hyperlogical Strategist
. Tachyon Arrow and Hyperphase Glaive [5pts]: Tachyon Arrow [5pts]

Skorpekh Lord [7 PL, 130pts]

+ Troops [34 PL, 750pts] +

Immortals [8 PL, 190pts]: 10x Immortal [170pts], Tesla Carbine [20pts]

Immortals [8 PL, 170pts]: Gauss Blaster, 10x Immortal [170pts]

Necron Warriors [6 PL, 130pts]
. 10x Necron Warrior (Gauss Flayer) [130pts]: 10x Gauss Flayer

Necron Warriors [6 PL, 130pts]
. 10x Necron Warrior (Gauss Flayer) [130pts]: 10x Gauss Flayer

Necron Warriors [6 PL, 130pts]
. 10x Necron Warrior (Gauss Reaper) [130pts]: 10x Gauss Reaper

+ Elites [19 PL, 390pts] +

Canoptek Reanimator [4 PL, 80pts]

Flayed Ones [3 PL, 65pts]
. 5x Flayed One [65pts]: 5x Flayer Claws

Lychguard [7 PL, 140pts]: 5x Lychguard [140pts], Warscythe

Skorpekh Destroyers [5 PL, 105pts]: Skorpekh Destroyer (Reap-Blade) [35pts]
. 2x Skorpekh Destroyer (Thresher) [70pts]: 2x Hyperphase Threshers

+ Fast Attack [15 PL, 335pts] +

Canoptek Scarab Swarms [4 PL, 90pts]
. 6x Canoptek Scarab Swarm [90pts]: 6x Feeder Mandibles

Canoptek Wraiths [5 PL, 120pts]
. 3x Canoptek Wraith (Claws/Particle Caster) [120pts]: 3x Particle Caster [15pts], 3x Vicious Claws

Triarch Praetorians [6 PL, 125pts]: Rod of Covenant, 5x Triarch Praetorian [125pts]

+ Flyer [8 PL, 145pts] +

Night Scythe [8 PL, 145pts]

All I need to buy for this list is a Night Scythe.

Paint 1000 points of Early War Germans for Bolt Action – 40.6% Complete

I painted the Mortar Team and Infantry Support gun this month, along with a second Heer Infantry Squad and a Sniper team.

Paint The Scourge for Dropfleet Commander – Complete

In a surprise move, I crushed this resolution this month.

It’s been made easy using the airbrush and the colourshift paint, and I am super happy to have completed this resolution.

Paint 2000 Points of Flesh Eater Courts for Warhammer Age of Sigmar – 12% Complete

At the very end of the month I managed to start on this by painting the Abhorant Archregent!

Other Resolutions

  • Paint Blackstone Fortress and it’s Expansions
  • Bring my Mechanicum to 3000 points for Horus Heresy, including the Warhound Titan

Completed Resolutions

  • Paint The Scourge For Dropfleet Commander

So what’s on the list going into next month?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Adeptus Mechanicus Onagar Dunecrawler
  3. Heralds of Nurgle x 3 & Horticulous Slimux
  4. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10, Lieutenant & Riflemen x 2
  5. Necron Cryptexs x 4, Cryptothralls & Flayed Ones x 5
  6. Kill Team Arena & Pariah Nexus Terrain
  7. Blood Ravens Heavy Intercessors x 5 & Captain with Master-Crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle
  8. Mechanicum Termite
  9. Battlezone Objectives x 6
  10. Flesh-Eater Courts Crypt Ghouls x 20

Stop Paying Scalper Prices!!!

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On 30th March 2021

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I am currently in the process of building a PC for Megan, she wants to play The Sims again and misses having a desktop. Most of what’s going in her PC is essentially my cast offs.

She is getting my old case, a bunch of my old fans, a salvaged PSU, and my old 3400G as her CPU. I have bought for her a monitor, motherboard and SSD, but still need to get her some RAM, a mouse and a keyboard, once they are in, she will have a working PC.

The one missing thing is a GPU, I have intended for her to have my 1660 Ti, when I replace it with a 3060 Ti or a 3070, but alas the GPU market is absolutely crazy right now.

Thanks to a combination of an actual shortage of silicon, social distancing reducing production capacity, a logistics nightmare (now made worse thanks to a silly boat), a drought in Tiwan, demand through the roof thanks to lockdown, a cryptoboom, bots/scalpers, and the biggest generational leap in GPU performance in many generations, we are seeing prices of GPUs being sky high and availability at practically zero.

But what annoys me is that people are paying the prices being demanded by scalpers, for example I am seeing RTX 3070s being sold for over £1000, that’s a card that should be selling at £500 for the Founders Edition.

Because people are paying those prices, its keeping the price for everyone else artificially high, and I really think the only way to combat this is to basically tell people no, we will not pay those prices.

I have basically accepted I won’t be getting a new GPU this year, and I have a suspicion that my PC will probably miss the 3000 series GPUs and end up getting a 4000 series one, if this keeps going on the way it is.

So what I am imploring you guys, stop giving scalpers the money, refuse to buy cards above RRP, the supply situation isn’t going to resolve itself, but the more we keep making it easy for scalpers to make money, the longer the high prices will last!

We can only beat this if we all work together!

What I Am Modelling

I started the week by working on a squad of Sagittarium Guard for my Custodes.

A bit useless in game but they look really nice.

I also painted the 81mm Medium Mortar Team and 7.5cm LeiG Light Artillery for my Bolt Action Germans alongside these.

These will make up some nice support for my infantry.

And then I moved onto the Royal Wardens and Overlords for my Necrons, these were painted to be a lot more, all together there, and in better condition than the warriors.

For #MarchForMacragge I decided to face down the Primarch himself, Roboute Gulliman.

This model has say intimidating me for the longest time, and now I am not sure exactly what it is that I had to fear, he was a joy to paint.

That then lead me onto a German Heer Infantry and a Sniper Team for Bolt Action.

And avoiding the Dunecrawler, I started work on a set of leaders for my Custodes, two generic Shield Captains, one armed with a Sentinel Blade and Shield, another with the Castellan Axe, plus the characters Ixion Hale, Trajann Valoris, Valarian and Aleya.

I have now started on the Flesh-Eater Courts Abhorant Archregent.

What’s coming up next week on the painting queue?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Adeptus Mechanicus Onagar Dunecrawler
  3. Flesh-Eater Courts Abhorrent Archregent
  4. Heralds of Nurgle x 3 & Horticulous Slimux
  5. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10, Lieutenant & Riflemen x 2
  6. Necron Crypteks x 4, Cryptothralls x 2 & Flayed Ones x 5
  7. Kill Team Arena & Pariah Nexus Terrain
  8. Blood Ravens Heavy Intercessors & Captain with Master-Crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle
  9. Mechanicum Termite
  10. Battlezone Objectives

What I Am Reading

I published my review for The Deacon of Wounds, which you can see here.

And I started on the next KeyForge book, The Qubit Zirconium, which I agreed to review for Aconyte, so far its really good and I hope to have a review up for you later this week.

What I Am Playing

No video games played this week 🙁

But I did play a game of Aeronautica Imperialis with Megan, and I am planning on doing a battle report for this later in the week.

What I Am Backing

Currently just backing Gloomier, but I need to talk to the girls about how we are funding it, Lindsays birthday has left me broke!

What I Am Cooking

Nowt cooked this week 🙁

Why Do You Defend Trans People?

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On 24th March 2021

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So I am gonna write a serious post here, not a long one but serious.

I was relentlessly bombarded a few months back by a friend of a friend who as it so happens, is a major TERF.

She was unhappy that I pointed out that JK Rowling is not a very nice person in regards to her attitude towards transgender women.

The tile of this post is a cleaned up version of the questions she initially put to me, trust me it was a very nasty way of saying it.

And one of her final tirades before I blocked her, was that the only reason I wasn’t transgender was because I would make a fuck ugly woman.

And let’s be clear here, I would absolutely be a fuck ugly woman, but still, that comment got right under my skin.

I spent a good couple of months questioning what it meant to be a man, if I even was a man. I hate that a TERF and a troll actually got under my skin like that.

Anyway, basically I came to the conclusion that I am a man, and to me being a man isn’t about how hairy my chest is, or how strong I am, how many birds I pull, how much I can bench etc.

But rather it was up to me to define how what being a man means to me. To me, being a man means sticking up for the under trodden, it means standing up to bullies, it means setting an example of how to be a good person for my nephews and nieces, and it means just enjoying my life and helping others to live their truth.

So why am I telling you this, well at the end of the day the whole argument came down to me, defending my trans friends, and I have, a rather large number of them.

I don’t care that they are trans, they tell me they were born in the wrong body, then fine, I will absolutely accept their true identify, refuse to deadname them and make sure I work my arse off the get their pronouns correct.

Trans people aren’t out to get special privileges, they aren’t trying to get into spaces reserved for the opposite gender, they just want to live their lives in peace and happiness.

Of all the trans people I know, most of them given the chance would have chosen not to be trans, to face the discrimination, abuse and bigotry is not something I think anyone would willingly choose.

No, they were born that way, and as a cisgendered person, it’s my responsibility to be welcoming to accept them and to be ready to stand up and defend them when others won’t.

I am not writing this expecting any brownie points, I know I have my blind spots, especially with my non-binary friends. The concept of non-binary is something I have trouble understanding, but just because I do my get it, doesn’t make it any less real. And I will make sure I do my best to get the right pronouns and address them by their preferred forms of address.

This song by Sunday Comes Afterwards helps to summarise how I work to figure it out.

In the long run, I was very wrong about my ideas of gender as a young man, I thought the way to be a man was very different to how I feel now, I was so caught up in the idea that I had to be hyper masculine like my dad, that I forgot to access what I could bring to the table of manliness.

What I bring is less masculinity and more compassion and what would probably be described as girly feminine traits, and there is nowt wrong with that, because us men could use those things I think.

Takes all sorts of people to make this crazy world we live in, and when it comes to gender, I realise from my own questioning, that it’s not exactly a binary thing, and sometimes, you aren’t put in the right end of the spectrum.

So guys, when someone asks me again, why do you white knight for trans folk, I do so because it’s the right thing to do, and I would do the same for any of my friends.

And really, don’t we just want people to be happy in themselves, and trust me, even with all the negatives (mostly caused by bigoted cis folk), trans people are happier when they are allowed to be who they are supposed to be.

And let’s face it, if the ayatollahs of Iran can recognise the validity of transgender people, then I think the rest of us can as well.

Not A Great Weekend

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On 22nd March 2021

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I am a day late with this blog update, I will be honest my weekend didn’t go the way I planned it at all.

I had to go out on Saturday and stuff just was crazy all round, and honestly I am exhausted and very tired.

My body is still giving me issues, the whole being unable to climb stairs properly is really getting to me.

I am gonna maybe start having a mid week post, but I am going to experiment with that this week.

Hopefully this week will be a touch better.

What I Am Modelling

I started the week by doing a big bunch of priming and airbrushing, which lead. To actually painting the entirety of my Scourge for Dropfleet Commander!

This also meant I got the Timeworn Ruins from Mortal Realms painted, two sets in fact, one from my Subscription and one from Forbidden Planet.

I then turned my attention to a squad of 10 Necron Warriors and their accompanying Scarabs.

I also worked on some Munitorium Armoured Containers for my Zone Mortalis board, these were painted with Death Guard Green as the base colour and then made to look nasty and a bit rusty.

I then started putting my last T’au Empire model for a little while on the table, a KV128 Stormsurge which is armed with a Pulse Blastcannon.

I am now working on the Mortar Team and the LeiG for the German Heer, and the Sagittarum Guard for the Custodes.

So what’s coming up for me this next week in terms of painting projects?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. German Heer 81mm Medium Mortar Team & 7.5cm LeiG Light Artillery
  3. Custodes Sagittarum Guard x 5
  4. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10 & Sniper Team
  5. Necron Royal Warden x 2 & Overlord x 2
  6. Adeptus Mechanicus Onagar Dunewalker
  7. Custodes Shield Captain x 2, Ixion Hale, Trajaan Valiris, Valerian & Aleya
  8. Flesh-Eater Courts Abhorrent Archregent
  9. Heralds of Nurgle x 3 & Horticulous Slimux
  10. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10, Liueteneant & Riflemen x 2

What I Am Reading

I finished First Team by Robbie MacNiven, and you can read my review here.

I also devoured the Litany of Dreams by Ari Marmell and the review for that is here.

I then read Deacon of Wounds, which is my first official review for Black Library!

My review for that will be published tomorrow!

What I Am Playing

Just a bit of Star Wars Squadrons during the week and a couple of hours on Sunday.

What I Am Backing

The Dungeon Masters Little Black Book successfully funded and I am really looking forward to this!

I have also decided to back Gloomier: A Night At Hemlock Hall because I absolutely love Gloom, I just gotta talk to the girls about what level we should stick at!

What I Am Cooking

Sadly nowt this week 🙁

I Am Not A House Painter

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On 14th March 2021

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Lindsay was off so there was a fair bit of just hanging out, but one of the things she wanted to achieve this week was to paint a couple of walls in the kitchen, which she and Megan did on Thurdsay.

And it looks really nice, and we moved the bins to beside the door and the coffee station to where the bins were.

I am not very good at painting walls, so I supported by making cups of tea and cooking our tea for the night.

On Saturday we did a little tour of County Durham as we delivered things to friends, stuff that we still had a hold of for them, books, models etc. And we were able to swing by Megan’s mum on the way and pick up a clock from her, which formally lived at her nannies until she recently went to live in a retirement home.

So Saturday evening, me and Megan hung it on the newly painted wall in the kitchen, althouh we do now need to touch the wall up a little as it was scratched in a couple of spots when mounting it.

But overall the kitchen looks really nice now.

We also dropped two podcast episodes this week, the first is a Hobby Studio in which we talk The Walking Dead: All Out War, Star Wars: Legion and building a list for Age of Sigmar.

And Edge of Empire episode 3 of year 5 dropped as well!

What I Am Modelling

First thing I did was to finish off some Sentinel Guard for both 40K and Heresy, which were actually a lot of fun to paint.

I then moved on to a trio of Riptides, these have been intimidating me a bit but I focused on getting the main armour colour on, then working on them one by one.

The first one was finished on Wednesday, and is the oldest one I own, and I am so glad it’s fully painted now.

I finished the second one on Thursday night whilst on stream.

And the third and final one was finished on Friday.

This allowed me to move on a Sanguinary Priest and Primaris Apothecary for the Blood Angels.

So what’s on my painting queue going into next week then?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. T’au KV128 Stormsurge
  3. German 81mm Medium Mortar Team & 7.5cm LeiG 18 Light Artillary
  4. Necron Warriors x 10 & Scarabs x 3
  5. Custodes Sagittarum Guard x 5
  6. Scourge Cruisers x 8 & Battlecrusiers x 2
  7. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10 & Sniper Team
  8. Necron Royal Warden x 2 & Overlord x 2
  9. Onager Dunecrawler
  10. Custodes Shield Captains x 2, Ixion Hale, Trajaan Valiris, Valarian & Aleya

What I Am Reading

I am reading First Team by Robbie MacNiven and that should be finished by tonight

What I Am Playing

No tabletop games, but I did play a couple of hours of Star Wars: Squadrons today which I was awful at!

Planning the Assassins Creed playthrough, which is gonna start in April, and now I own all of the games on the Xbox and they are ready to play after I picked up the Ultimate Edition of Assassins Creed Valhalla in a sale.

What I Am Backing

I have backed the Dungeon Master’s Little Black Book, which looks like it might be a very nice addition to the DMs toolbox, and at £2 for a PDF isn’t bad at all.

I really want to back Stellaris, but the VAT and Customs Duties are going to be too high, so sadly I have to say no, thanks Brexit!!!

I am pretty sure as a household we are going to back Gloomier, we are big fans of Gloom, so this looks pretty good to us.

What I Am Cooking

On Monday I made my Italian Winter Soup for tea, which is really nice, filled with vegetables, lentils and orzo.

On Tuesday I cooked again and I made Slow Cooked Chinese Style Beef. I love Chinese flavours and we don’t really eat them much in our house, but I am trying to change that a little bit.

This was base on a BBC recipe but we added more veg, specifically some carrots and Savoy cabbage.

And on Thursday whilst the girls decorated, I made tea again, this time a slow cooked Sriracha Chilli Chicken.

And this morning I made some quiches for breakfast, they were very nice, but Lindsay was not that big a fan!

Bit of an Upgrade

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On 7th March 2021

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So the PC has had a bit of an upgrade, I basically had to buy a new case to accommodate the AIO.

The new case is a Corsair 4000X, and this is the first time I have had a higher end case since the early 2000s every case since then has cost not a lot and usually come with a PSU!

Anyway, the new case arrived, along with a cheeky CPU upgrade to a 5600X.

Myself and Megan decided to accelerate the program by which she ends up with a new PC, and I managed to score a decent second hand motherboard for her, so now all she needs is memory, a PSU, monitor and keyboard.

Hopefully in the next couple of months we can sort that out for her.

Anyway so I transplanted the computer into the new case, I took out the three included SP120 fans and replaced them with my ML120 fans, relocated one of the SP120s to the rear of the PC and reserved the remaining two SP120s for Megan’s future PC.

The motherboard then slipped in along with the new CPU and I fitted the AIO, then in went the memory, GPU and Capture Card, plus an internal USB hub I picked up as well.

Alas it did not go all that smoothly, although I was diligent and kept my BIOS up to date with the latest firmware, to get it to accept a Ryzen 5000 was to put back in the 3400G and run a special firmware update because when updating from a Picasso CPU to the latest firmware using instant flash, it doesn’t add in the instructions to run Vermeer CPUs, which is annoying.

But oh no a single update wasn’t enough, it required a further two firmware updates in a precise order for it to be able to boot into Windows!

I also decided to give it a clean install of Windows whilst I was at it, but it’s all up and running now, more effective than ever!

My mouse that I had ordered last year, and has been on back order finally came along with its mouse mat.

It’s a Corsair Dark Core Pro RGB and a Polaris with hard surface, I guess you could say I am a Corsair fanboy.

Achievement Unlocked:- Vaccinated!!!

I got my first dose of the Covid vaccine last night. I went to the Centre of Life mass vaccination centre with Lindsay, where we bumped into her sister Jane.

I got the Astra-Zeneca vaccine and oh wow the side effects are nasty, headache, sore neck and feeling very groggy.

But it’s gonna be worth it in the end, and I urge everyone to get it when they are offered it.

What I Am Modelling

The beginning of the week was a bit off, without my PC I felt very lost and kinda unable to really paint.

But in Wednesday I did finish off the Bloodmaster and Skulltaker for my Blades of Khorne.

I then moved onto a pair of Ghostkeels for my T’au, which I had been kind of avoiding, but I decided to crack on and get them done.

So what’s on my list going forward then?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. T’au XV104 Riptide x 3
  3. Sentinel Guard x 5
  4. Blood Angels Primaris Apothecary & Sanguinary Priest
  5. T’au KV128 Stormsurge
  6. German 81mm Medium Mortar Team & 7.5cm LeiG 18 Light Artillery
  7. Necron Warriors x 10 & Scarabs x 3
  8. Sagittarum Guard x 5
  9. Scourge Cruisers x 8 & Battlecruisers x 2
  10. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10 & Sniper Team

What I Am Reading

I started on Fury of Magnus by Graham McNeil and got it finished, and wow, what a novella.

Really tied up some loose ends and brought Magnus to where he ends up at the end of the siege quite nicely. Ironic that he places himself firmly on the side of Chaos, by doing what is fundamentally the right thing.

I then started on First Team by Robbie MacNivan, just got the first chapter done, gonna have a read tonight.

What I Am Playing

Sadly I got nowt played this week 🙁

What I Am Backing

Alhambra Roll & Write arrived, although via Hermes which made us nervous!

What I Am Cooking

On Friday myself and Megan made Smokey Chipotle Chicken Wings with Colcannon Baked Potatoes and Coleslaw which was rather nice.

Resolutions Update – February 2021

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On 3rd March 2021

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I’d like to think this month has gone pretty well and to date I have painted 213 models.

I also got a new Lightbox which is really making a difference in my photos!

But how am I doing with the resolutions

Paint 2000 points of Necrons for Warhammer 40,000 – 17.5% Complete

For the Necrons this month I added a second unit of warriors, which doubles what I have done so far.

I have also built the next few batches of Necron models, the two Overlords, two Royal Wardens, Technomancer, Plasmancer, Crytothralls, Warriors and Scarabs.

Paint 1000 points of Early War Germans for Bolt Action – 12.3% Complete

I painted the first Heer Infantry squad, and I am extremely happy with how these turned out.

I also now have built the next few things to be painted, the Infantry Support Gun, Mortar Team, Sniper Team, Lieutenant and Riflemen and two Infantry Squads.

Paint The Scourge for Dropfleet Commander – 25%

I have completed the painting of the Starter Fleet.

This leaves me with the following to paint.

  • Frigates 16
  • Cruisers 8
  • Battlecruisers 2

I may still add to the fleet, I am keen to grab myself some Destroyers and Monitors and probably a Battleship.

These models have now all been built and await being painted.

Other Resolutions

On the other resolutions, well not much progress so far, but I have added the next lot of models for the Flesh Eater Courts, and I just need a few more to get me to what I want.

  • Paint 2000 Points of Flesh Eater Courts for Warhammer Age of Sigmar
  • Paint Blackstone Fortress and it’s Expansions
  • Bring my Mechanicum to 3000 points for Horus Heresy, including the Warhound Titan

So as we head into March, what’s on the painting queue?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrian
  2. T’au XV95 Ghostkeel x 2
  3. Blades of Khorne Skulltaker and Bloodmaster
  4. T’au XV104 Riptide x 3
  5. Custodes Sentinel Guard x 5
  6. Blood Angels Primaris Apothecary and Sanguinary Priest
  7. T’au KV128 Stormsurge
  8. German 81mm Medium Mortar Team & 7.5cm LeiG 18 Light Artillery
  9. Necron Warriors x 10 & Scarabs x 3
  10. Custodes Sagittarum Guard x 5

A Cooling Nightmare

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On 1st March 2021

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I have decided to take the plunge and make a big update to the cooling for my PC.

The current cooling is fine, but the GameMax air cooler doesn’t give me room to fit anymore RAM because it overhangs the slot and I just want that but more control.

So I have invested in a Corsair H100i Elite Capellix AIO and a three pack of ML120 fans.

And reading that apparently I will need theee hubs to control these, I grabbed an internal USB hub, although I am not entirely sure how successful that will be if I am honest.

However, when it came to the install, it went very wrong!

When removing the CPU cooler, it pulled the CPU along with it, the fans have all been straightened and it’s seems fine, but well it’s a bit of a nightmare.

And of course the bloody AIO doesn’t fit in the case.

So me and Megan decided on a couple of things, we have bought a new case, a Corsair 4000X and decided to get my CPU checked out for damage, and in the meantime replace it with a 5600X.

It all arrives tomorrow, but it’s not the weekend I wanted to have.

What I Am Modeling

I started the week by putting on the desk, a German Heer Infantry Squad for Bolt Action.

These models I have had since they were released and I will be honest, they have been a little intimidating. I struggle with these guys being, well pretty much the ultimate bad guys.

I used Duncan’s late war painting guide as a basis and then deviated from there to make them more early war, and I am really happy with how they turned out, especially the bases.

I then jumped another thing up the list, this time it was the Necron Warriors and Scarabs, but these are extremely simple to paint.

I also worked on a Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad to try and get my scheme nailed down for them.

I think I am very happy with this, although I do worry that perhaps I let my work on the German Heer influence some of the elements of these, which is the opposite of what I wanted to do.

I may end up stripping and repainting these, I dunno.

Once these were done I then picked up Reikenor the Grimhailer and started to put paint on him, he is the first named character I have for my Nighthaunt and he is a very very detailed model.

I then went on a building splurge to get my next twenty planned project ready.

That took up most of Thursday and Friday, but my next twenty projects are built and awaiting being primed.

And then I moved onto a set of Sicaran Ruststalkers I got when the Skitarii were first released, so yeah they have been waiting to get painted for a while!

I then moved on to Skulltaker and a Bloodmaster for the Blades of Khorne.

What’s on the painting queue coming up then?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. T’au XV95 Ghostkeel x 2
  3. Blades of Khorne Skulltaker & Bloodmaster
  4. T’au XV104 Riptide x 3
  5. Sentinel Guard Squad x 5
  6. Blood Angels Primaris Apothecary & Sanguinary Priest
  7. T’au KV128 Stormsurge
  8. German 81mm Medium Mortar Team & 7.5cm LeiG 18 Light Artillery
  9. Necron Warriors x 10 & Scarabs x 3
  10. Sagittarum Guard x 5

What I Am Reading

I finished reading Rogue Untouched by Alisa Kwitney, which was really good and you can see my review here.

I have now started on Fury of Magnus by Graham McNeil.

What I Am Playing

As promised last week here is the video of our Star Wars: Squadrons stream.

On Saturday for Megan’s birthday, we played some games, starting with Camel Up, or is that Camel Cup!!!

Weirdly, I won, which was a nice change.

We then played Say Anything, which Megan won by 3 points, and I can’t wait to okay this again with a group of people.

What I Am Backing

I got my hands on the stuff from Remembrancers of the Australis Ultima Sector and I am really happy with these, just need to find a frame for the picture.

What I Am Cooking

For breakfast on Sunday I made Cheesy Grits with Smoked Sausage, it looks horrid, but tastes really nice.

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