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March Resolutions Update

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On 31st March 2020

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It’s that time of the month again so here is a hobby resolutions update!

Paint 867 Models – 42.45%

Really making progress with this one, but a bunch of supply crates and promethium barrels really helped me!

I am now at 368 models painted, well a few more because I have been hard at work on my Warcry/Age of Sigmar terrain, but I donMt record them until the whole set is complete.

Finish Painting The Blood Ravens I Own on 1st January – 38.46%

Making good progress with five captains painted your this month, but I still have all the units with multiple models to go yet!

Finish The Death Guard – 58.33%

Ok I actually went backwards on this cause I got two more Chaos Spawn, but they shouldn’t delay this too much!

Complete 2000 Points of Stormcast Eternals

I made a start on this, albeit very slowly by painting the Easy to Build Sequitors I got with Mortal Realms Issue 1, but I am not counting these until I have actually built the ones from Soul Wars to make it a full unit.

Other Resolutions

  • Complete 1750 Points of T’au
  • Complete 1750 Points of Orks
  • Rebase Blood Ravens
  • Rebase Orks

No progress on any of these, but I did manage to figure out what we have in terms of Orks and Megan and I plan to start on these very soon.

12 Weeks Lockdown

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On 28th March 2020

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I am considered by my doctors to be an extremely vulnerable person due to my crappy immune system and diabetes.

Whilst the government have not ordered me to shield for 12 weeks the doctors told me that I should do so by the Monday just gone, they were very firm about telling me that I needed to do this.

Of course it’s all moot now because Boris ordered a full lockdown of everyone for three week, to start.

I knew this was gonna happen after I saw idiots on Facebook boasting about their last night at the pubs, it’s a shame that idiots made this necessary.

We need to keep vulnerable people safe, people more vulnerable than me, the doctors say if I catch Covid-19 there is a good chance it will put me in hospital, they don’t think it would kill me, but they don’t want the risk.

But I have people I care about who are much more vulnerable, a mate with a pacemaker, a nearly 90 year old nana who chain smokes like there is no tomorrow, a father-in-law who had a heart transplant, a nephew who recovered from childhood cancer, etc.

We need to shield these people from the virus, so whilst I hate the Covid-19 bill and I detest the lockdown, I will comply, because at times like these we all need to pitch in and do our part, and for many of us, it’s to stay at home.

Others can help shop for vulnerable people, donate blood, do key jobs to keep things moving etc.

We can all of us do our part to get us through this, so let’s roll up our sleeves and get in with it.

What I Am Modelling

Given I am in lockdown I am gonna really crack in with some stuff!

I started with the Magnavent Walkway, I got this from the issues of Conquest I bought at Forbidden Planet, thinking I would need it for Company of Legends, of course I didn’t!

Then I painted the Thermic Plasma Conduits Andrew face new.

Chris gave me a few bits which I am adding to the Conquest scenery, a pair of Imperial Bunkers and a Plasma Obliterator, so I go these done on a Sunday.

Then I finished off the scenery with Andres mashup of Sector Fronteris and STC Ryza-Pattern Ruins.

I then painted up my Imperial Navy stuff for Aeronautica Imperialis.

And then I finished a trio of Easy to Build Stormcast Eternals Sequitors.

I have already painted these, but got a bunch with Mortal Reams issue 1, so figured why not have a set with the helmeted head for the Sequitor Prime.

I then finally finished up the Three Hunters by painting Gimili, don’t know why but I found him a lot more intimidating than Legolas or Aragorn.

And then I painted up five Captains for my Blood Ravens, two Primaris Captains, one with a Stalker Bolt Rifle, the other with Auto Bolt Rifle and Power Sword, one in Cataphractii Terminator Armour, two in Terminator Armour, one with a Storm Bolter and Power Sword, the other the store exclusive model from the Sunderland Warhammer refurbishment.

And finally I painted up a squad of Seekers for my Heresy Ultramarines, not my best paint job ever, but I am looking forward to playing with them.

Right now on my desk are a Death Korps of Krieg Quartermaster and Retinue, Death Riders Ridemaster and four of Grenadier special weapons men.

I also built and primed all of my Warcry/AoS terrain and will also be working on that at the same time.

I am gonna now be getting back to the painting plan, which currently looks like this.

  1. Death Korps of Krieg Quartermaster & Retinue, Special Weapons Grenadiers & Ride Master
  2. Warcry/Age of Sigmar Terrain
  3. Myrmourn Banshees x 12 & Tomb Banshee
  4. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Men x 10
  5. Blood Ravens Bikes x 3 & Attack Bike with Multi-Melta
  6. Chainrasp Horde x 40
  7. Canoness Veridyan
  8. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Men x 10
  9. Untamed Beasts
  10. Tech Priest Maniplius x 2

What I Am Reading

Honestly I have been too worried to read anything.

What I Am Playing

Sadly nowt this week, but Megan and I are going to play some small 40k stuff next week.

What I Am Backing

Not a sausage, but I did just fill in my backer survey for The Rival Networks.

What I Am Cooking

I cooked twice this week, a very basic pulled pork on Sunday for when Paul and Mary came over, and then I made BBQ shredded chicken for lunch on Wednesday.

What I Am Spending

I bought a copy of Mortal Realms Issue 11, want to have two of the old Garden of Morr, and it will look really good on my Age of Sigmar table, although I plan to wait for issue 15 before I build some of it.

I also subscribed to the Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy, because I have a feeling that will be brilliant.

A New Normal

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On 20th March 2020

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The virus, well it’s become a huge problem these past two weeks.

I mean I knew it was a thing, I kept an eye on it, but I never thought it would be like this.

The whole thing we are living through right now feels like a nightmare, getting food is so difficult, in Asda the other night, 80% of the selves were bare. Funnily enough they had loads of Pot Noodles, so I guess they don’t sell well in the apocalypse.

I am diabetic with a bad immune system, so when the government tells vulnerable people to stay at home for 12 weeks on lockdown, I am expecting to be one of those people, I am not looking forward to it.

I worry about my vulnerable relatives, Megan’s dad had a heart transplant so is very vulnerable, and her mums nursery are refusing to close despite being asked to by the government, so I am scared he will be exposed.

My nana is not in the best of health and refuses to stop smoking, I don’t think she would survive it.

All in all, it’s very worrying and scary, and I just wish right now they would announce a start of the lockdown because the not knowing is making me way more anxious.

Of course it does mean that EGX Rezzed and the U.K. Games Expo are no longer happening and all my upcoming work is cancelled, so money will be tight.

Life is changing, and I have seen the very best and very worst of humanity these past couple of weeks.

I just hope all my friends and family come out this safe and well.

What I Am Modellimg

With Company of Legends having been imminent, I focused my painting efforts into scenery, not that it matters now.

The first thing painted was a Basicila Administratium from the old Cities of a Death range, this was given to me by Chris.

This was followed by a Manufactorum, again from the same range, also from Chris.

And then a pair of Sanctum Imperialis buildings, one from Chris, and the other from Phil.

At the same time I finished up the ruins from the Sector Imperialis Killzone from the Kill Team Starter Set.

Then I moved on to some of Andres terrain, starting with a bunch of scatter terrain from his Killzone Sector Munitorium.

At the same time I finished up some random pieces that I had been given by Chris, a lone piece of Promethium Relay Pipe, and a lone Aegis Defence Line part.

Then I painted Andrews Thermic Plasma Regulators, and judging from the colour of the plastic, I think these came from Conquest.

And finally a Haemotrope Reactor for Andrew.

I also built all of my Age of Sigmar terrain, this was basically three of the Warcry Ravaged Lands, a Defiled Ruins, Shattered Stormvault and the terrain in the original starter set.

Plan is to get the painted up during my forthcoming isolation period.

So my current painting plan has been abandoned and will be reworked.

Right now my priority is to complete Andrews terrain so he has some to play on, the finish a few things I had on my desk followed by Nikis remaining Death Korps of Krieg.

Then I plan to hit the Warcry terrain hard, along with the Untamed Beasts.

What I Am Reading

I have read the first two stories from Tales from the Crucible but I have been so preoccupied with news about the virus, it’s been hard to concentrate.

I have however been listening to The First Wall on Audible.

What I Am Playing

Life is just way too crazy right now to even get a moment to play, but I am going to fix that.

What I Am Backing

Still just Broken!

What I Am Cooking

We have been struggling to get food, so I haven’t really been able to plan anything to cook.

What I Am Spending

My last Black Library Celebration/Store Birthday order arrived.

This consisted of the Beastgrave Gift Pack, the Warcy Shattered Stormvault, The Wurmspat a box of Battle Sisters, and Corpse Grinder Cult Card’s and dice.

I have also stocked up on paints to a degree, most of these I already had spare from Conquest, but I have added a few to the overflow tin this week in preparation for the lockdown.

I also bought myself a few things from Battle Bunker because I want Jus to still be there after the crisis is over, so I bought a squad of Retributors, a Stormhawk Interceptor and Hrothgorn’s Mantrappers.

From Forbidden Planet I bought myself the last two copies of Conquest, I know they will come through the post, but at the time we were still running Company of Legends and I figured the terrain would be handy now.

  • Mood:- Worried
  • Caffeinated Beverages Consumed:- 8
  • In My Ears:- Best of You by The Foo Fighters
  • Book Last Read:- Tales From The Crucible by Various
  • Movie/TV Show Last Watched:- BBC News
  • Current State of Projects:- Galvanic Magnavent supports completed, Easy to Build Sequitors 35% done.

Meet Bonnie

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On 10th March 2020

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Since we lost Sweep and Cookie last year, the house has felt a little empty and when we found out we weren’t going to have to move, we decided that it was time to get another cat.

So we started looking around and after a few leads that didn’t pan out, Paul and Mary introduced us to Yarm Cat Rescue, and we saw a few cats in the group, two of which really caught our attention.

We asked which had been searching for a home the longest and we were told that this was Bonnie.

So we adopted her, she is a sweet girl, just 19 months old and is very loving and gentle.

She is taking a little time to settle in with Misty and Jenny, but that’s to be expected, but she loves to curl up next to you on the sofa and just get strokes.

I do love cats and they always make me feel happy, and I am very glad that we have been able to give a home to Bonnie.

What I Am Modelling

Company of Legends is fast approaching and I need to get this new table finished for it as well as a couple of additions to another table.

So I started the week with two thirds of the Honoured Imperium set. The broken Aquila was missing the centre piece so I filled it in with some texture paint, assuming the gold that made it up had been whisked away somewhere to form a part of some nefarious ritual!

I then painted up the second Galvanic Servohauler frame from Conquest, although this one I had gotten from Forbidden Planet as I was sick of waiting for Hachette to send it.

And then I worked with Megan to paint some Sector Imperialis Ruins, some from a box of them, some from Kill Team.

And finally I painted a set of Sector Sanctoris Ruins to use as scatter terrain.

I am now working on the bigger building in this box and they hopefully will get done this week.

As I said before my current painting plan is suspended until after Company of Legends and even then it will be suspended until I get back from EGX Rezzed, but here it is anyway.

  1. Death Korps of Krieg Quartermaster and Retinue with Death Riders Ridemaster
  2. Easy To Build Stormcast Eternals Sequitors
  3. Blood Ravens Captains x 5
  4. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Special Wrapons Men x 12
  5. Warcry Terrain
  6. Myrmourn Banshees
  7. Blood Ravens Bikes x 3 and Attack Bike armed with Multi-Melta
  8. Chainrasp Horde x 40
  9. Canoness Veridyan
  10. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Special Wrapons Men x 12

What I Am Reading

I finished The First Wall and I enjoyed it, it was really good, I know others have given it mixed reviews but I really got into the story of the Imperial Guard and their conclusion really felt like a stab to the guts.

I absolutely would recommend it, and I am going to listen to it on audiobook as soon as I can.

I have now moved on to Tales From The Crucible which I will be reviewing on the blog

What I Am Playing

I went to Meeple Perk, my local board game cafe on Friday night with Megan, Lindsay and our friend Jo, and we played a few games.

We started off with a game of Just One, in which we scored 11 points which we were really happy with.

And then we played three games of Codenames Disney, we all lost the first one when Lindsays first clue lead Jo right to the assassin and me and Megan won the last game together.

Then on Sunday we went to Paul and Mary’s house where we played three rounds of Telestrations, which was very very funny, and then two rounds of Just One, before we headed out to tea and returned home for a game of

What Am I Backing

Still just Broken!

What Am I Cooking

I helped to makes some breakfast sandwiches on Sunday.

They had in them, BBQ shredded chicken, in my Kansas City BBQ sauce, topped with some streaky bacon and a cheese slice and a fried egg.

What Am I Spending

The next two lots of my Black Library Celebration/Store blowout arrived! The first was a Nemisis Warbring Titan for Adeptus Titanicus and Traitor Command and The Deaded Ambull for Blackstone Fortress.

And the next batch was the Adeptus Titanicus Command Terminals, two sets of Custodes Dice, Valerian and Aleya, Larissa Shadowstalker, Sgt Jovan, a backpack, art prints, plasma gun ammo tin and a couple of paints.

I still have one more delivery to come which was dispatched today so I expect it either tomorrow or Wednesday.

A Big Ball

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On 3rd March 2020

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The past couple of weeks I have found my motivation has taken a real nose dive, as I put it my ball is big.

I visualise my mind as a box with a depression button in it, and there is a ball bouncing around the box, when it hits the button, I feel crappy.

Sometimes the ball is small, which means that the button is less frequently hit, but lately the ball is pretty big and it’s constantly hitting the button.

I am waiting for a decision to come through the post, I know what it will be, but the anxiety of waiting for it is kinda dragging me down a lot as it’s going to mean some big changes have to be made. I will fight it, but it doesn’t stop it hurting in the meantime.

So yeah, my motivation is utterly gone and I can barely read, paint or game and most of my time is sat in a bit of a mope. right now I want to paint, but the ball is hitting off the button like crazy and the office is a bit chaotic at the minute with very little room for me to be at my desk.

What I Am Modelling

So it’s been a fortnight since my last post, but I haven’t painted a lot.

I started with a 40 strong Chainrasp Horde, which was a lot of fun to paint, its very simple, not exactly painted up to the best standard, but these are horde troops and I did them in a way that delivers a decent result fast for a lot of models.

Having gotten sick of waiting for my next issues of Conquest I purchased a couple of issues from Forbidden Planet, and worked on those, the first being a set of Chaos Spawn, which unpainted mostly in Contrast which I think worked really well.

I need to get the next table for Company if Legends done so my painting plan is on hold whilst I do that, it’s a table of mixed city ruins and I am wanting to go a bit further with it and weather it a bit more.

I started with the oldest kit in the box, some old school Gothic Ruins, the scheme is dark and meant to represent some basic rockcrete. I added some posters taken from The Regimental Standard and some blood splatter, I tried to add some scorch marks but it’s doesn’t show up too well on the dark stone.

And I also did a couple little pieces of scatter terrain for my Conquest scenery box from the first Galvanic Servohauler sprue.

I do also paint three models, but these are for a secret project I am not ready to reveal just as yet!

I still have a painting plan, it’s just suspended until I get the terrain done.

  1. Death Korps of Krieg Quartermaster and Retinue with Death Riders Ridemaster
  2. Easy to Build Stormcast Eternals Sequitors
  3. Blood Ravens Captains x 5
  4. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Special Wrapons 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. Canniness Veridyan
  10. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Special Wrapons Men x 12

What I Am Reading

As I said my motivation is dead, but I did read Will of the Legion which I enjoyed, I am gonna hit up The First Wall next, then I have a couple of books from Aconyte to review for the blog.

What I am Playing

I played in the Sunday of the Durham Raiders Age of Sigmar retreat, I took my Khorne and lost both games, first was to Legions of Nagash and I lasted the game but lost on points.

Second game was against Ogor Mawtribes and I was tabled in two turns!

Part of this is down to my playing style, when playing Khorne I prefer to just charge at the enemy for brutal slaughter, because that’s how the fluff works!

This past Sunday, Megan’s parents came round with her sister for a birthday celebration for Megan, we played a couple of games of Just One, not doing very well in either game.

Unfortunately I had to go have a nap and missed the rest of the games.

And yesterday Paul came round so we played two games of Codenames, we both lost the first game as Lindsay had Megan uncover the assassin with her first guess, but me and Paul came back from behind to win the second game!

What I Am Backing

Nowt apart from Broken, which makes me giggle with every update!

What I Am Cooking

With Megan’s help, I managed to make Kansas City Pulled Pork with my BBQ sauce for dinner on Sunday, and it was delicious!

What I Am Spending

I save up money every year for the Newcastle Warhammer store birthday, apart from last year where is coincided with Company of Legends so I spent that money at the Sunderland reopening instead.

This year I went Conkers deep into Blackstone Fortress and bought the base game, three expansions and the annual.

I also bought the Aeronautica Imperialis starter set, a few Warcry card packs, some paint, Imperial Navy dice, Legion Pin Badges and the Stormcast Eternals Knight Questor for Lindsay.

A few other things were ordered and are being delivered hopefully this week!

February Resolutions Update

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On 29th February 2020

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It’s the end of the month so figured I should do a resolutions update.

I will have a more full blog post coming soon.

Paint 867 Models – 24.45% Complete

Making very steady progress on this one, mostly due to a Chainrasp Horde of 40 models!

Can’t believe I am already almost a quarter of the way there!

Finish the Blood Ravens that I own on 1st January – 25.64% Complete

I got some Bikes and an Attack Bike done this month along with a squad of Reivers and a Phobos Captain, so I feel like this is nicely plodding along.

Finish the Death Guard – 63.64% Complete

This looks as if it’s made a lot less progress but that’s because this month I added stuff to the list, specifically the Chaos Spawn and Tallyman I mentioned last month, oh and I also bought Mortarion!

I did this month paint the old Forge World Plague Marine upgrade kit, and the Chaos Spawn.

Paint Mortarion for Everchosen

As I said above, I have purchased Mortarion so it’s gonna happen!

Complete 2000 Points of Stormcast Eternals

The past few weeks have seen me hit a bit of a painting slump, but I am working on three easy to build Sequitors, so something is happening here!

Other Resolutions

  • Complete 1750 Points of T’au
  • Complete 1750 Points of Orks
  • Rebase Blood Ravens Tactical Marines
  • Rebase Orks

None of these have been touched yet, but I am making plans to start rebasing the Blood Ravens this month.

Feeling Rough

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On 15th February 2020

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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.

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.

A Trip For Graham’s Birthday

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On 8th February 2020

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Last weekend I took a trip to Nottingham to help Graham celebrate his 50th birthday in style!

We tented a house to base ourselves at for the weekend and myself and Graham travelled down on Friday, meeting up with his Chris and their other brother Dave and on Saturday we were joined by our mate Rob.

We had hoped that Richie and Gareth would be able to join us, but the stars did not align for that.

We had planned to do Warhammer World all weekend, but we didn’t realise the weekend was the 40k GT, and thus we couldn’t book a table for Saturday, only Sunday.

So on Saturday we went to Boards and Swords in Derby and we played a 9000 point game, me and Graham with my Word Bearers and how World Eaters and Solar Auxilia against Dave, Chris and Rob who had a force of Space Wolves, Blood Angels, Dark Angels and Custodes between them.

I took the Mastodon, which to form, did not last past turn 2 and most of the Terminators it carried were killed, and Lorgar came along to summon Deamons.

But me and Graham had our arses handed to us as my dice rolling was atrocious, I just kept on rolling 1s like John Dermondy!

At one point when I rolled a pair of 1s then rerolled them to get the same result again when I needed just a single 2+, Graham just looked at me and said:-

Why do I fucking bother

He was right, my game was horrific, but somehow we managed to draw!

That night we had curry did some recording and I attempted to play Blackstone Fortress but I was knackered and couldn’t concentrate to I gave up and went to bed.

The next day we went to Warhammer world and played a 5000 points a side game, it went mostly the same way, but this time the loyalists knew our strengths better and hit them hard.

Lorgar was taken with Divination instead of Deamonology, and turned out to be pretty darn good, and almost killed Sanguinius, but alas he fell.

Interestingly we had a good time figuring out if Lorgar could take Deamonology, turns out the rule that says he can is in the generic Librarian rules and not in his rules!

It’s gonna be just over six weeks until I see all the guys again, apart from Dave who I won’t see until September. I like these guys, they are my closest friends and spending time with them is a real treat.

Thanks Graham for an amazing weekend of fun!

What I Am Modelling

The hands have been an issue this week so painting hasn’t been happening as much as would have liked, so I have been content to model instead.

I have this week built a Predator, Mourngal, 40 Chainrasps, 12 Myrmourn Banshees, 10 Ultramarines Seekers, 10 Death Guard Heavy Support Marines and some Easy to Build Sequitors.

I managed to get all of those primed and ready to hit the table along with some nurglings.

I spent the week slowly painting up the squad of Blood Ravens Reivers, and as many of you will know I really dislike painting Reivers and Phobos Amour in general, and to get all of the Phobos Armour out of the way, I also painted my Captain in Phobos Armour too.

I managed to get those finished on Friday afternoon.

I also did a bit of a speed painting job on some Nurglings, painted the all with Contrast and I am pretty happy with how these turned out.

And then I started work on The Three Hunters and finished off Legolas and Aragorn, but my photo of Aragorn is at a terrible angle so I will share his photo next week.

Just have Gimli to go of those now.

My painting plan is in a little disarray at the minute due to the hands, so I have rejigged it a little, I may have to delay some of the Death a Korps as I need paint and I am out of money to buy any just now.

  1. Death Korps of Krieg Centaur Crew x 2
  2. Death Guard Heavy Support Squad with Autocannons x 10
  3. Blood Ravens Bikes x 3 and Attack Bike with Heavy Bolter
  4. Death Korps of Krieg Quartermaster and Retinue and Ridemaster
  5. Forge World Plague Marines x 10
  6. Chainrasp Horde x 40
  7. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Men with Special Weapons
  8. Blood Ravens Captains x 5
  9. Warcry Terrain
  10. Myrmourn Banshees x 12

I have decided to do the Chainrasps in batches of 40, I have a scheme is think will work quite well for them and help get them done fast.

I really want to keep in top of the Nighthaunt as they arrive with Mortal Realms.

What I Am Reading

I read a little of Celestine The Living Saint but haven’t picked it up since Saturday night 🙁

I have been listening to a number of audio dramas however, making my way through most of the 1 hour and less ones put out in recent years that I haven’t listened to. This week I have listened to :-

So quite a bit got listened to!

What I Am Playing

I played the two games of Horus Heresy with Graham and the lads, but we also played a game of Cards Against Humanity, it’s not my favourite game, but it can be fun with the right crowd.

What I Am Backing

We have backed The Rival Networks, we are big fans of the original game and backing this was a no brainier for us.

I am also still backing Justice Blocks, but that isn’t going to fund.

And the Rising Sun soundtrack arrived last night, but I haven’t listened to it yet.

What I Am Cooking

Made a pot noodle!

What I Am Spending

I spent a bit more than I wanted to this week. I bought a Predator for my Heresy Death Guard and Mortarion for my 40k Death Guard.

I also bought a new Army Painter drybrush, a can of Grey Seer and a few paints that I needed.

Hobby Resolutions – January Update

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On 31st January 2020

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Today is the end of January and I am away so won’t be painting anything else so it’s time to give you an update on where I am at in regards to my hobby resolutions.

Paint 867 Models – 12.47% Complete

This one is coming along really nicely, I have thus far painted 108 models so I am well ahead of schedule.

Finish the Blood Ravens that I own on 1st January – 15.79% Complete

For this one, I have painted this month the Supressors and Infiltrators from Shadowspear, that means I have done 6 of the 38 units I have to paint this year, so I am currently on schedule for this, although 4 of the units were only single models.

Finish the Death Guard – 62.5% Complete

As of now I am well ahead on this one, this month I painted a Plagueburst Crawler, two Rhinos, Plague Marines from the multipart kit and a Plague Marine Champion.

However I can’t rest on my laurels for this one because Conquest will be adding Chaos Spawn and a Tallyman so I expect the numbers to change next month, but that will be all I plan to collect for the Death Guard for now, ideally I want this one complete by end of March so I can crack on with other stuff.

Other Resolutions

  • Paint Mortarion for Everchosen
  • Complete 1750 Points of T’au Empire
  • Complete 1750 Points of Orks
  • Complete 2000 Points of Stormcast Eternals
  • Rebase Blood Ravens Tacticals
  • Rebase Orks

None of these have been touched yet, but once I have cleared the Death Guard I can concentrate on other stuff, probably gonna focus on the Stormcast Eternals after that to be honest.

So here is a reminder of my current painting plan that’s changed a little bit since my last post but only because I need to stock up on a couple of paints!

  1. Blood Ravens Primaris Reivers x 10
  2. Death Korps of Krieg Centaur Crew and Grenidiers Soecial Weapons Men
  3. The Three Hunters
  4. Death Guard Heavy Support Squad with Autocannons x 10
  5. Death a Korps of Krieg Quartermaster and Retinue
  6. Blood Ravens Bikes x 3 and Attack Bike with Heavy Bolter
  7. Plague Marines x 10
  8. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Soecial Weapons Men x 10
  9. Chainrasp Horde x 20
  10. Blood Ravens Captain x 6

My Feelings On The Alleged Saudi Takeover of NUFC

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On 29th January 2020

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Simply put, I don’t believe it, this kind of news comes along every time seasons tickets need to be sold or the transfer window is open.

It’s silly and I don’t know why people fall for it every time. Don’t get me wrong, I would love the Toon to be taken over by a billionaire owner with limitless funds to invest, but I can’t see it happening.

I am a realistic fan, my personal wish is for a decent cup run and to challenge for a place in the Europa League, anything else is a bonus, but Mike Ashley isn’t investing in the club to allow that to be even a possibility.

Don’t get me wrong, I am happy the club is run on a sound financial footing, if Ashley were to jack it in tomorrow, we aren’t going to go tits belly up, but the club does need investment and if we are to ever be anything more than a bottom half club.

We have a great fan base and an amazing stadium, but we need an owner who will give the club the investment it so badly needs.

But I don’t think these Saudi folks will be them, to be honest, I have my doubts if they even know who Newcastle United are.

And if by some miracle it does go through, well I will do a dance in my wife’s bikini in wellies, I feel confident it won’t come to that.

What I Am Modelling

I was determined to get more done this week so I hit the ground running and picked up the next project which was a squad of Tempestus Scions and thier Taurox Prime transport.

I love the Tempestus Scions and I am working hard to getting my army of them up and running, I know it’s hampering myself by sticking to just these guys, but the plan is that they would work with allies, specifically Imperial Knights and Sisters of Battle.

At the same time I worked on a Haemotrope Reactor that I got with Warhammer 40,000 Conquest, this was done to match the one I already have from Conquest and has slipped nicely into the box of scenery from the magazine. But I am gonna need a bigger box once we get the final few bits of scenery for the collection.

I then painted up the remaining Plague Marines from the multipart kit, and the Plague Marine Champion I got from Conquest.

And then I started work on the Blood Ravens Librarians, of which I am doing four at once, one in MK VII Power Armour, one in Terminator Armour, a Primaris one and a Phobos Armoured one.

The officers I am painting all together because it allows me to get consistency across them, I have a few to add to the army as it only had a Captain, a Captain in Gravis Armour and a Primaris Lieutenant with Auto Bolt Rifle.

I still have 6 Captains and 5 Chaplains to do.

So how does that leave my painting plan for the next few weeks.

  1. Death Korps of Krieg Centaur Crew x 2
  2. Blood Ravens Reivers x 10
  3. Death Korps of Krieg Quatermaster and Retinue and Death Riders Ride Master
  4. The Three Hunters
  5. Death Guard Heavy Support Squad with Autocannons
  6. Blood Ravens Bikes x 3 and Attack Bike with Heavy Bolter
  7. Plague Marines made with Forge World Upgrade Kit x 10
  8. Death Korps of Krieg Command Squad Special Weapons Men x 10
  9. Chainrasp Horde x 20
  10. Blood Ravens Captains x 6

Niki is now doing the Centaurs himself and I am doing the crew so they match the other models, must admit I am a bit sad about that, but they are his models, just gives me an excuse to do some Death Korps of Krieg myself.

As you can also see the first Chainrasp Horde has made its way into the plan, I have 120 of these to do, so doing them in batches of 20, was tempted to do the full 40 for a unit all at once, still might do that, see how I am feeling.

Right now four of the units are primed, a further three are built awaiting priming and a further one is being built.

Tomorrow I am going to be priming the Death Korps of Krieg Centaur Crew, the Quartermaster and Retinue, the Plague Marines and I will hopefully finish building and prime the Autocannon Squad, if I can I will also build and prime the Chainrasps.

What I Am Reading

I haven’t read very much this week at all so still working on Celestine The Living Saint.

On the audiobook side I have listened to quite a bit, I finished Soul Wars, which was a lot of fun, I kinda wished a certain character hadn’t been killed off as I would have liked him to become an ongoing villain in the series which would have been interesting.

Then I listened to a few audio dramas rather than picking up a full book, I listened to The Embrace of Pain, Vox Tenebris, At Slaughters End, Holder of the Keys, Eye of Vengence, The Glorious Tomb, The Art of Provocation and The Shape of the Hunt, all of which I throughly enjoyed.

What I Am Playing

Not a sausage, haven’t even played a video game because the pain levels in my hands have been too bad

What I Am Backing

Still backing Justice Blocks even though it isn’t going to fund, but what can I say, I like the idea.

I really want to back Star Realms, but I simply cannot afford it, I had a copy of the original game, but Sweep peed on it and ruined it, Lindsay said she would replace it, but that never happened.

The Rival Networks will probably get backed, I just need Megan and Lindsay to agree to it.

And I must sort out BackerKit for Fiasco!

What I Am Cooking

I don’t think a Rustlers burger counts!

I was gonna make a stir fry for lunch, but Megan and Lindsay brought back McDonalds!

What I Am Spending

I haven’t bought a thing all week!

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