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A Most Generous Gift

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On 9th February 2021

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So on stream last week I mentioned I was saving for a new capture card for my PC, and one of my viewers, was so amazing and went and bought me it.

I am utterly overwhelmed with this amazing generosity, I actually cried, it did come with a message asking me to keep on streaming, so I will keep that promise.

He has asked me to not publicly name him, which I won’t, but an EoE t-shirt has been sent to him!

He got me the incredible Elgato 4K60 Pro, which is a super cool piece of kit, and now has pride of place in my PC.

He sent it along with a pair of 5m braided HDMI cables to plug it in, and oh they are also very nice too.

I got it installed in my PC pretty much straight away after it arrived and took it for a spin, although it didn’t work with the HDMI Switch I had installed and I had to replace that with a HDMI Extractor that I used to use. But that wasn’t a bad thing as I had planned to do that anyway as I wanted to take the audio from the HDMI feeds anyway.

It now allows me to capture games at 60hz and passthrough to the monitor at 120hz which is a massive improvement for my gameplay and streaming!

I tested out the capture card with a stream today and you can watch it on YouTube now, but this is what the card is capable of doing!

I am so absolutely and utterly grateful to him for sending me this, and as of March I will be streaming video games again on Twitch.

But the addition of two 5m quite thick HDMI cables meant that I had to sort out all of the wires under the desk, which I did on Saturday with Megan’s help.

We got all the wires all organised and sorted out, although it still does look a bit like spaghetti junction. We have mounted an extension strip on the wall, along with the Phillips Hue Hub, a USB Hub and the Network Switch. And some Command Strips have been ordered to let me atttach a couple of power bricks to the wall as well and keep them out of the mess.

I did have to order a new 3.5mm extension lead to take the audio from the monitor to the speaker system, but because I removed so much superfluous stuff, I freed up some USB extension cables so that I could plug the Zigbee strips into a USB hub that’s plugged into a mains adaptor.

All the other wires have been routed together and tied together with cable ties, it still looks bad in many ways, and I think I need to get some shorter cables, and some trunking to hide them a bit more.

I do need to think about a better over all solution to that overall.

What I Am Modelling

I started the week by doing some airbrushing. I use the airbrush to get down base colours and with black spray paint out of stock everywhere I am now priming with the airbrush.

I got the Scourge done with their colourshift paints, and primed and got base colours into the T’au stuff.

The Scourge starter fleet was painted up on Tuesday morning, and I love the finish I got on these.

I then turned my attention to the XV109 Y’vahra and a pair of Technical Drones which got finished on Tuesday night.

I then started on the Escher Gang using Duncan’s Warhammer TV video, but also worked on the Inperial Knight Gallant on the side as I couldn’t watch the video whilst playing an RPG.

The Knight was finished in stream on Thursday night and looks fantastic.

I also put in the transfers for a Tactical Squad for the podcasts Sons of Horus army.

I the. Put all my efforts into the Escher Gang and got them finished this afternoon.

So what’s on the painting queue as we enter a new week?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Morkgoks Krushas & Morgwaeth’s Blade-Coven
  3. T’au XV95 Ghostkeel x 2
  4. T’au AX39 Sunshark Bomber
  5. Custodian Guard x 6
  6. Reikenor the Grimhailer
  7. Adeptus Mechanicus Sicaran Ruststalkers x 5
  8. Blades of Khorne Skulltaker & Bloodmaster
  9. T’au XV104 Riptide x 3
  10. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10

What I Am Reading

Still reading The Sword of Surtur by CL Werner and I am aiming to finish it tonight.

I have also been listening to the audiobook of Nexus and Other Stories, although I am only listening to the main novella by Thomas Parrott.

What I Am Playing

I did upload that video of The Witcher 3, after a lengthy delay.

On Wednesday I played a little bit of Star Wars: Squadrons, which is such a fun game.

But I desperately need to play a bit more multiplayer to Git Good!

Also on Wednesday night, myself, Graham, Dave and Megan played finished our current Star Trek Adventures episode and that was a lot of fun, we even got ourselves a new ship!

On Friday I actually played some BioShock 2 and I only went and finished the game, you can watch the whole thing here as a YouTube playlist!

On Sunday I played Star Wars: Squadrons with Graham, Chris and Dave and the video for that is in the first section of this blog post.

This evening I also played a game of Roll for the Galaxy with Lindsay and Megan and of course Megan won, but I was only 9 points behind her, which I didn’t think was too bad considering it was my first play.

What I Am Backing

We are still backing CoraQuest, and really loving all the reporting about it, it looks like so much fun!

I also did get myself a lovely nice bunch of digital rewards from Steve Jackson Games for Car Wars 6th Edition.

And also from Steve Jackson Games, I got the survey for Pyramid Scheme, but that’s been filled out and returned already.

What I Am Cooking

This morning I made our breakfast, which was really simple, just some chicken sausages with cheese on muffins.

But it was bloody delicious!

Lord Barrington Update

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On 8th February 2021

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The wonderful Lord Barrington has been with us about two months now and he is slowly but surely coming around to us, the girls more than than me.

Not long after he arrived we noticed the eye on which he had his operation, was weeping, well it turned out he had an ulcer in his eye, and it was a nasty one.

So for four weeks, he has had to have eye drops four times a day, which he absolutely hated with a passion. Eventually he allowed just one of us to administer them, but very grumpily.

He has now been off them since Friday as his eye is fully healed, with just a small amount of scarring.

He is now starting to warm up to us again, but the eyedrops have set the relationship back a bit. He hides a lot when we enter the room, and often sleeps under the bed, but there are lots of instances where he is showing signs of trusting us.

The other night he briefly slept on the bed whilst Megan was in the bed, and he loves to play, if his favourite toy is anywhere near him, he goes mental for it.

He is however scared witless of Bonnie, she terrifies him a lot, he is very intimidated around her, if she is at the top of the stairs, he won’t come down for foods.

It’s hard work, but I am sure in time we will have a brilliant relationship.

What I Am Modelling

I started the week by finishing of my Plague Drones of Nurgle. These will serve in my Maggotkin of Nurgle for Age of Sigmar, Chais Daemons for 40k and Darmons of the Ruinstorm in Heresy.

I then started work on some Stormcast Eternals, the Vanguard-Palladors, Knight-Azyros and just because I was working on that style, Ironsouls Condemnors.

I got the Knight-Azyros finished first.

I then finished Ironsouls Condemnors from Champions of the Dreadfane.

Deciding to basically eliminate one entry from the painting queue, I hit up Lady Harrows Mournflight, also from Champions of the Dreadfane.

This left me working on the Vanguard-Palladors for the Stormcast Eternals, which were painted quite slowly, but they are very enjoyable.

But this completes my Stormcast Eternals for now, and I will only be adding to them from Mortal Realms right now, although I do want a Lord Ordinator.

Let’s take a look at what’s coming up for me?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Escher Gang x 10
  3. T’au Y’vahra & Technical Drones x 2
  4. Morgok’s Krushas and Morgwaeth’s Blade-Coven
  5. T’au Ghostkeel x 2
  6. Imperial Knight Gallant
  7. T’au Sunshark Bomber
  8. Custodian Guard x 6
  9. Reikenor the Grimhailer
  10. Sicaran Rustsalkers x 5

What I Am Reading

I finished The Night Parade of 1000 Demons by Marine Brennan and posted a review here.

I also earlier this week posted a review of Head of Mimir.

I have now started on The Sword of Surtur by CL Werner, and I am gonna give a good shot at getting it finished tonight.

I have also started on the audio book of Nexus by Thomas Parrott.

What I Am Playing

I played a couple of hours of The Witcher III earlier in the week which will uploaded in the morning.

On Wednesday I played a bit of Star Trek Adventures with Graham, Chris and Dave which was a lot of fun as we prepared the ship for a forthcoming battle.

On Saturday we played a quick game of Pandemic: Hot Zone North America, which we lost in brutal fashion as outbreaks in San Francisco and Seattle caused us to run out of red cubes!

And on Sunday myself, Graham, Chris and Dave played a few games on Star Wars: Squadrons.

What I Am Backing

We have backed CoraQuest on Kickstarter, this looks like a lot of fun, and the video just makes you fall in love with the idea of it!

What I Am Cooking

I cooked Dirty Rice on Saturday, it’s a bit of a staple of mine and it’s bloody delicious and filled with veg.

Resolutions Update – January

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On 2nd February 2021

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Well this month has been pretty good but I haven’t made that much progress in my resolutions so far, but let’s take a quickest of quick looks!

I have so far this year painted 111 models.

Paint 2000 points of Necrons for Warhammer 40,000 – 8.75% Complete

I painted a single unit of warriors and their Scarab Swarms this month.

The next unit of Warriors is built and primed and on the list to paint

Paint 1000 points of Early War Germans for Bolt Action – 0% Complete

It says 0% but I did get the first Heer Infantry unit for this built and primed, and should get them painted in February.

Paint The Scourge for Dropfleet Commander – 0%

I have started by stripping the paint from my original starter fleet, and this will be repainted this month in a colour shift scheme.

Other Resolutions

These haven’t really had any progress made for them, but I have arranged to get a few more Flesh Eater Courts models to help bring us towards the goal of 2000 points!

  • 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 what’s coming up on the painting queue as I head into February?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Escher Gang x 10
  3. Stormcast Eternals Vanguard-Palkadors x 6 & Knight-Azyros
  4. T’au Y’vahra & Technical Drones x 2
  5. Morgoks Krushas & Morgwaeth’s Blade-Coven
  6. T’au Ghostkeel x 2
  7. Imperial Knight Gallant
  8. Plague Drones of Nurgle x 6
  9. T’au Sunshark Bomber
  10. Ironsoul’s Condemnors & Lady Harrows Mournflight

My First Battle Report

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On 1st February 2021

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For a while now I have been mulling over the idea of showing some battle reports based on the White Dwarf way of doing things.

And well we finally took the plunge and did it, me and Megan played a very bad Combat Patrol Game of 40K with her Orks taking in my Blood Ravens.

We have had some great feedback about it and we would love to hear what you guys think.

What I Am Modelling

The first thing I did was finish the basing on a set of 36 Boyz and 10 Nobz for my Orks.

The move from 25mm bases to 32mm bases is so much nicer, they just look so much better on the bigger bases.

The rest of the week was mostly building, getting my next twenty project ready to paint.

I did randomly pick up a unit of Necron Warriors and start painting them, which was quite enjoyable.

I then painted up the Fallen Sigmar Statue I got with Mortal Realms, which is painted in the style as the one I did for Warcry.

And for another easy win, I painted the Endless Spell and Liekoron the Executioner for the Nighthaunt.

I am now currently working on the Plague Drone of Nurgle, and I am trying to make the wings iridescent, and I think this has worked out ok.

Should hopefully finish them tomorrow.

So what on my painting queue going into next week?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Escher Gang x 10
  3. Stormcast Eternals Vanguard-Palkadors x 6 & Knight-Azyros
  4. T’au Y’vahra & Technical Drones x 2
  5. Morgoks Krushas & Morgwaeth’s Blade-Coven
  6. T’au Ghostkeel x 2
  7. Imperial Knight Gallant
  8. Plague Drones of Nurgle x 6
  9. T’au Sunshark Bomber
  10. Ironsoul’s Condemnors & Lady Harrows Mournflight

What I Am Reading

I have started on The Night Parade of 1000 Demons by Marine Brennan and I aim to get that finished in the next couple of days.

What I Am Playing

This week, not a sausage 🙁

What I Am Backing

Pyramid Scheme funded which was nice.

I also got my reward for Wyrd Science delivered, and the Dealers Choice ePub from Lords of Vegas arrived in my inbox as well.

What I Am Cooking

I made the wings for our regular wing night, this week they were Indian Spiced Wings.

Making Stream Improvements

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On 24th January 2021

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So now I am a Twitch Affiliate I feel like I really need to make the site a lot more professional, and so I have done some self teaching of After Effects to make myself a Going Live Gif and a Stinger Transition.

Hopefully these will add to the look of the streams and make them seem a touch less amateurish.

I still have a lot more to do, but the hope is that I can keep in adding away and making it look the best it can be.

The next things I am doing is changing my Be Right Back screen to include a slideshow of recently painted projects.

Barrington Update

Barrington is doing much better, his eye has really cleared up.

He hates the drops and does his best to avoid them, but he is still coming on leaps and bounds.

Everyday he gets braver and braver and he is starting to treat the house as his home now.

What I Am Modelling

I started the week y cracking in with the Sector Mechanicum Columns for my Zone Mortalis Board.

I also did the stairs and the lift at the same time.

I then painted some of the 3D printed stuff that Nikki did fort me, three chemical vats and a couple of air vents.

I was then working on a Destroyer Squad for the podcasts Sons of Horus army, these were nice to work on because I really love the Sons of Horus Green colour scheme.

I am now currently rebasing 36 Ork Boyz and 10 Nobz, but they are most of the way done now.

So what’s on my planting queue right now?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Escher Gang x 10
  3. Stormcast Eternals Vanguard Palladors x 6 & Knight-Azyros
  4. T’au Y’vahra and Technical Drones x 2
  5. Morgoks’s Krushas & Morgwaeth’s Blade-Coven
  6. Nighthaunt Endless Spells & Liekoron the Executioner
  7. T’au Ghostkeel x 2
  8. Imperial Knight Gallant
  9. Plague Drones of Nurgle x 6
  10. T’au Sunshark Bomber

What I Am Reading

I finished reading The Head of Mimir by Richard Lee Bryers, and a review will be coming your way soon!

What I Am Playing

Video game wise I played four hours of The Witcher, which was a lot of fun.

I did also play two hours of BioShock 2 but I have yet to upload that video to YouTube.

Tabletop wise on Saturday we played a game of Ticket to Ride New York, which I surprisingly won!

And today we played a game of Ticket to Ride Amsterdam which I also won, I loved that game, but Megan wasn’t so keen.

And tomorrow so long as Barrington doesn’t need an eye operation, me and Megan will be playing a game of 9th Edition Warhammer 40,000.

I got the table all set out for it tonight.

What I Am Backing

I used to love GURPS as a kid and I really want to try playing it again, so I am backing Steve Jackson Games GURPS Pyramid Scheme which aims to bring to market a fourth volume of the venerable Pyramid magazine.

What I Am Cooking

Nowt I am afraid 🙁

A Quiet Week

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On 17th January 2021

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Well this week has mostly been quiet, the only bit of real stuff that happened is that Lord Barrington had to go to the vets, he has an ulcer in his eyes, and I became an affiliate on Twitch.

We watched WandaVision on Friday and it was amazing, if a bit sinister. We were so happy it was good, we needed something to fill our Friday night TV slot given that there is no more Star Trek for the first time since October.

But it’s really been a quiet week overall, I have been doing some work on my streaming setup, and hopefully will be able to show off the final product on tomorrow nights stream.

So I am just sat here watching DS9 with the girls and Bonnie sitting between my legs.

What I Am Modelling

I started out by finishing up the Primaris Outriders for the Blood Ravens, these were an interesting until to paint. A lot more dynamic than the standard Space Marine bikes but a touch more difficult to build and paint.

I then moved on to the last remaining piece of the Blood Ravens I had out standing, the Assault Intercessors, I had the 10 from Indomitus and a single one from Getting Started with Warhammer 40,000.

I then got the columns for my Zone Mortalis painted, there were a lot of these to do but they have been sitting under my desk for nearly two months!

They are currently at the washing stage.

So what does my painting queue looking like heading into next week.

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Escher Gang x 10
  3. Stormcast Eternals Vanguard-Palladors x 6 & Knight-Azyros
  4. Sons of Horus Destroyers x 10
  5. T’au Y’vahra & Trchnical Drones x 2
  6. Morgoks Krushas & Morgwaeth’s Blade-Coven
  7. Nighthaunt Endless Spells x 3 & Liekoron the Executioner
  8. T’au Ghostkeel x 2
  9. Imperial Knight Gallant
  10. Plague Drones of Nurgle x 6

What I Am Reading

I read The Head of Mimir by Richard Lee Bryers, not made much progress this week but I am half way though.

What I Am Playing

Played a little bit of Star Wars Squadrons which is very entertaining on the Xbox Series S.

On Tuesday I returned to video game streaming by playing four hours of The Witcher III.

And whilst trying a few things out on my stream I played a couple of games of Star Wars Squadrons. Just technical tests to try out a few things.

And finally on Friday I played two hours of BioShock 2.

What I Am Backing

Not backing anything, but I did get and return the survey for Wyrd Science Magazine.

What I Am Cooking

On Saturday night, me and Megan made tea. We made Honey Buffalo Wings, me and Megan made the wings together and Megan made the sides.

She made baked potatoes, which were then stuffed with broccoli and a cheese sauce made only from cannelloni beans and cheese, and some honey and garlic glazed carrots.

And this morning, I made breakfast, an American classic of southern fried chicken and waffles. Although the waffles were store bought, I didn’t want to put pressure on Megan to make any fresh.

Affiliate Status Achieved

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On 16th January 2021

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As the title says, I just gained affiliate status on Twitch!

It’s taken some work to get there, but I have found my niche, and it’s streaming painting, so for the time being, video games are moving to YouTube, but not being streamed live.

It’s taken a few painting streams but they have been hitting their stride and were able to bring my average up nicely, the video game streams were pulling it down.

So until March, I am no longer streaming video games on Twitch and will focus solely on hobby.

So this means the schedule is likely to change going forward, because I think squeezing in another painting session would be good, but I am gonna chat to Megan and Lindsay about that this weekend.

In the meantime my schedule going forward at least until the end of January is Monday and Thursday nights 2000 – 0000.

And I am probably gonna initiate a raid from 2330 or so.

The Odd Change Here Or There

So I ended up moving my streaming software from Streamlabs OBS to OBS Studio, simply because many of the features I was looking for only worked in OBS Studio.

For example I have now got a thing set up do that when I get a subscriber, my window goes crazy with rainbow colours and anime speed lines!

And because I managed to trigger someone Echo in the middle of a stream, I have built some webhooks in IFTTT to control a few things in the studio, so for example, I can now hit a button to boil the kettle ready for my break.

I am also thinking of doing something with a spare webcam I have, it’s been suggested I place it elsewhere in the studio to provide a sort of behind the scenes view of the stream, so I might try that tomorrow.

Anyway I need to get some sleep, but I have had my first subscription and I am happy as Larry with that!

2021, Come At Me

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On 10th January 2021

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Going forward I have decided to move my blog post from roughly Monday to Sunday.

Hence the missed week, but let’s take a look at what on earth has been happening!

What A Year It’s Been, Oh It’s Only January 10th!!!

So what a start to the year, we actually saw an attempt to overthrow the government of the United States, which was frankly mental.

And Twitter and other social media platforms have banned Donald Trump, so let’s take a look at that.

I think the decision to ban him at this time was right, he went way too far. Until now I think there was a good public interest reason to allow him to tweet, he is the president of the United States after all.

And people have had a right to listen to what he says, because on a political level we have needed to know what he was saying/thinking, even if it was utterly ridiculous.

But Twitter and other platforms have had a good business reason to not ban him until now, whilst he has been in charge, he has had the power to change the law to make things more difficult for them. So yeah, on a purely business reason, they had to be careful to not get into issues with the government.

But let’s be clear, he went over the edge, his rhetoric resulted in the death of four of his followers, and the brutal murder of a policeman.

So now the time has come to silence him, he can still talk his nonsense, but no company has an obligation to let them use his platform to spout hate. Instead he can bugger off to Parler, and the echo chamber there.

But I do think that the social media networks should have acted earlier by starting to attach fact checks and warnings to his ramblings long ago.

The situation we found ourselves in this past week was largely down to his being allowed to spout his nonsense without being challenged adequately.

We can only hope that never again is a demagogue like him allowed to rise to power.

What I Am Modelling

I finished Hrothgorn’s Mantrappers, loved these models and really happy that they are painted at last.

I then painted the Blood Raven Intercessors Squad with Assault Bolt Rifles and got them finished on New Years Eve whilst watching Matilda.

I then decided to get the desk clear and start work on the Escher Gang, but I really wasn’t feeling them.

So instead I started work on the Skaven Blood Bowl Team, setting up a big production line for them.

I got these finished and I have to say, I am rather proud of them!

I then decided to actually clear the remaining Blood Ravens, and thus I picked up the Bladeguard Veterans, Bladeguard Ancient, Liutenenat and Captain, all from Indomitus, and get those painted.

And overnight on Friday I painted up the Chaplain and Judicator from Indomitus along with Chaplain Tarentus and Lexicanum Barus.

And on Saturday daytime I painted up the Eradicators from Indomitus.

So what in my painting queue then for this week.

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Escher Gang x 10
  3. Stormcast Eternals Vanguard-Paladors x 6 and Knight-Azyros
  4. Sons of Horus Destroyers x 10
  5. T’au Y’vahra & Technical Drones x 2
  6. Morgok’s Krushas & Morgwaeth’s Blade-Coven
  7. Nighthaunt Endless Spells
  8. T’au Ghostkeel x 2
  9. Imperial Knight Gallant
  10. Nurgle Plague Drones

What I Am Reafing

I finished The Rose in Anger by Danie Ware which was very very good, I hope Danie does a full novel for these girls!

I listened to Flight of the Kharadron by Tom Huddleston which was a lot of fun, can’t wait to hear what happens to the gang next.

I have now finally started on The Head of Mimir by Richard Lee Byers.

What I Am Playing

Has a brief game of Star Wars: Squadrons, but that was about it for video games.

On Sunday we did have a fun game of Tsuro: Phoenix Rising but which Lindsay won!

What I Am Backing

Nowt right now!

What I Am Cooking

On Saturday me and Megan made a meal of Cajun chicken wings, I cooked the wings and Megan made the sides of herby pasta and roasted garlic and parmesan broccoli and cauliflower.

Resolutions Final Update and New Ones For 2021

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On 31st December 2020

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So how did we get on in the end, well let’s take a look.

In the end we got 1413 models painted this year, which was absolutely incredible!

The featured photo you can is the first set of models I painted this year, and the last set, the first was a squad of Death Korps of Krieg Guardsmen and the last is a squad of Blood Ravens Intercessors with Assault Bolt Rifles.

If you want to take a look at what I painted, you can download the list here.

Paint 2000 Points of T’au – Complete

I finished painting the KV128 Stormsurge, which completed a 2000 point T’au army for 2020!

Complete 2000 Points of Orks – 27.65% Complete

I completed a Megatrakk Scrapjet, Mekboy Workshop and Meganobz this month, which gets me a bit over a quarter of the target.

But this was clearly not to be!

Rebase the Orks – 0% Complete

Yeah the box with them in is at the bottom of a big pile in what is now Lindsay office 🙁

Completed Resolutions

So this year I did the following!

  • Paint 867 Models
  • Finish the Blood Ravens I Owned on 1st January
  • Finish the Death Guard
  • Painted Mortarion
  • Completed 2000 Points of T’au Empire
  • Completed 2000 Points of Stormcast Eternals
  • Rebased the Blood Ravens

Resolutions for 2020

Seeing as the Hobby resolutions for 2020 went so well and I only failed two, I thought I would continue it this year.

But I will be more restrained in my aims, because the Orks were more than I could hand in 2020.

I will be following along with Paint Slam, the new name for Jessica’s Painthammer, you can find the Discord server for this group here.

So let’s take a look at the plan, I decided to be a bit more select and do it per system.

  1. Paint 2000 points of Necrons for Warhammer 40,000
  2. Paint 1000 points of Early War Germans for Bolt Action
  3. Paint 2000 Points of Flesh Eater Courts for Warhammer Age of Sigmar
  4. Paint The Scourge for Dropfleet Commander
  5. Paint Blackstone Fortress and it’s Expansions
  6. Bring my Mechanicum to 3000 points for Horus Heresy, including the Warhound Titan

I am also including a couple of would be nice to achieve things in here, but these aren’t hard and fast.

  • Rebase the Space Wolves for Warhammer 40,000
  • Finish the Orks with Megan’s Help
  • Finish the Blood Angels with Megan’s Help

I think these are achievable, and if I work hard I will get them done.

As with this year there will be a monthly progress round up.

So what’s my painting queue looking like right now?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Escher Gang x 10
  3. Stormcast Eternals Vanguard-Palladors x 6 & Knight-Azyros
  4. Blood Ravens Bladeguard Veterans, Bladeguard Ancient, Lieutenant & Captain
  5. Sons of Horus Destroyers x 10
  6. T’au Y’vahra & Technical Drones
  7. Morgok’s Krushas & Morgwaeth’s Blade-Coven
  8. Blood Ravens Primaris Chaplain, Terminator Chaplain and Judicator
  9. Skaven Blood Bowl Team
  10. T’au Ghostkeel x 2

Starting Orruk Warclans with Mortal Realms

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On 29th December 2020

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Many of you in the next few days will be getting your premium kit with the Orruk Warclans for Mortal Realms and as such, may be thinking, can I start an army of these.

So just like with the last two packs for Flesh Eater Courts and Sylvaneth I will take a look at how to expand this pack into 1000pts and 2000pts as cost effectively as possible.

So let’s start by looking at what you get in the pack.

  • Megaboss
  • Weirdnob Shaman
  • Brutes

Now plugging that into Battlescribe, that gives you a total points of 390, so the lowest number of points in these packs so far!

Now for this I am going to do my best to keep you to the Ironjawz, which does limit the available units quite a bit.

So where to start with these to get them to 1000 points, well I would look at the Battletome first which identifies that from what we have and I think we are going to aim for an Ironfist, for which we need 3-5 Brutes, Ardboys or Gore-Gruntas. So we need to make a purchase, and the first one I would make is, Start Collecting Ironjawz, which gives you 10 Ardboys, 3 Gore-Gruntas and a Warchanter.

This will bring you to 910 points, not including the Warchanter, so I would then purchase a single Command Point and leave it at that.

So one purchase, gets you right up to 1000 points, and gives you the below list, ignore the weapon choices and go with what you prefer.

+ Leader +

Orruk Megaboss

Orruk Weirdnob Shaman

+ Battalion +

Battalion: Ironfist
. Orruk Ardboys: 2x 5 Ardboys, Standard Bearer (Orruk), Waaagh! Drummer
. Orruk Brutes: 5 Brutes, Boss Choppa, Pair of Brute Choppas
. Orruk Gore-Gruntas: 3 Gore-Gruntas, Pig-iron Choppa

+ Command Points +

Purchased Command Points: 1 Command Point

Now to get you to 2000 points, I think this is a nice opportunity to purchase one of the nicest kits in the whole Age of Sigmar range, the Megaboss on Maw-Krusha!

Now I am gonna suggest another Warscroll Battalion, the Weirdfist, so we are gonna buy some other stuff too. Now lets add a unit of Brutes to the Ironfist, and move the Ardboys to the Weirdfist along with the Weirdnob Shaman.

To complete this, we need to buy a box of Ardboys and another box of Brutes and this brings you to 1970 points.

Giving us this list, again ignore the weapon choices and go with what you prefer.

+ Leader +

Megaboss on Maw-krusha: Boss Choppa and Rip-toof Fist

Orruk Megaboss

+ Battalion +

Battalion: Ironfist
. Orruk Brutes: 5 Brutes, Boss Choppa, Pair of Brute Choppas
. Orruk Brutes: 5 Brutes, Boss Klaw and Brute Smasha, Pair of Brute Choppas
. Orruk Gore-Gruntas: 3 Gore-Gruntas, Pig-iron Choppa

Battalion: Weirdfist
. Orruk Ardboys: 2x 5 Ardboys, Standard Bearer (Orruk), Waaagh! Drummer
. Orruk Ardboys: 2x 5 Ardboys, Standard Bearer (Orruk), Waaagh! Drummer
. Orruk Brutes: 5 Brutes, Boss Klaw and Brute Smasha, Pair of Brute Choppas
. Orruk Weirdnob Shaman

I am not gonna pretend I am a tactical genius here, this list is probably very sub-optimal, but it’s what I would do personally because I think this is a nice route to 2000 points. And if purchased from Element Games, this will cost you a grand total of £191.51.

You are also left with a Warchanter, and 5 Ardboys to do something else with should you wish.

In terms of painting, I would point you towards the tutorial on YouTube by Duncan Rhodes when he was at Warhammer TV for Ironskulls Boyz and the more recent video by Nick for Mogrok’s Krushas

So let me know what you think of my ideas, and if you are gonna give them a try out, let me know how it goes!

Just a quick note, if you do follow the links to Element Games and buy something from them, a little bit of a commission is made for Edge of Empire which helps keep the podcast running.

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