It has been a really long time.

I've decided to try and catalog all of my Armies. I'm going to do that here. This was the place for my Tyranids but they will have to share some and let everything else in. Besides, it makes it easier to eat them...

I know that there really isn't anyone out there that reads my little speck on the web, so this is mostly for me.

But if there is anyone, you're welcome to check out my speck and see how an average Joe plays with his toys.

It's picture day

I decided that I'd take the painted stuff and the mostly put together stuff downstairs and get a few pictures. Here is all of the painted Nids at the moment.

Planetstrike between painting sessions

I'm getting closer to the finish line. I was on a posting spree last month and then went a little quiet. I have been buckling down to get the Golden throne done. I did get in good games of Planetstrike on last Friday and the Friday before that. Thomas and I bumped the point total up to 1750 and each took a turn as the attacker. I don't know if he needs a new Necron codex or I'm getting better with Tyranids but I won both games. I'm pretty sure it's a new Necron codex though.

Trygon and Tervigon conversions

I noticed as I was sifting thru the blogsphere that I’m more apt to click down when the subject is appealing. I’m going to try and be a little more descriptive in my subjects from now on. Not that it matters, I’m the only one that reads this thing anywho.

So here is my teaser. My goal is to get close to the look of a ravener.

I'm no Picasso

But hopefully this is better than finger paints. I sat down this morning and decided to try and get the warriors I started done. They are basically the test figures for the army and I wanted to see how the washes and different techniques looked when done with my hands, instead of someone on the internet.

Stroke of genius

In my last post I talked about the Tervigon and how I'm trying to get it to look like the picture in the codex. I've been thinking and thinking about how to get the Tervigon done and I think my hobbyist ADD finally paid off.

I was sitting at my work desk this morning and looking at the two mostly painted warriors that I'm testing paint schemes on, the three Raveners that need bases made for them, the Tervigon, and the box with the Trygon in it. So instead of finishing anything I broke open the Trygon and started putting it together.

Credit

Giving credit where it's due. I've been spending the last few days head down on getting the models together for the Golden Throne prize. I do want to take a moment to say that I've picked up a couple of things to make this process a little faster or a little better for myself and mention those that I saw using them.

Bases again

The three that I had primed have been gone over and I think they're done for now. I don't want to get to fancy with these since I need to get moving on the rest of the bases and models. Here is the picture of the three now.

I had a question about what color to make the pipe, I was thinking that I would paint it an orange to keep them in line with the colors I'm using on th models. The problem is that I don't want to distract from the models too much. I think that if the colors on the base are too bright they might do just that. I finally decided to keep to something a little closer to the colors on the base. I think the green looks pretty good. It blends well with the gray on the base. Now to move onto the Warriors to go on them.


Until Next time.

Tim.

Bases

I've started work on my bases that I'll be using for the army. I want to keep the space hulk theme so when I was looking around the web for how to do it I found plenty of resin bases that I could buy. I know that I'm going to need a buch of bases and even at a buck a base it would be pretty expensive, so I'm building my own.
I used a great tutorial from Tim over at Vanus Temple as inspiration for design and colors. I'll be posting them as I get them done. Here is a picture of the bases I have so far.

I'll be doing the colors a little different but they should be pretty similar.

Until next time.

Tim.

Paint contest For the Win

I've always been a pretty big believer in Karma. Just one of those things you know, but it's just a word. With that in mind I had to kill an hour and a half or so while my youngest was at ballet rehearsal, so I swung by the Tukwila GW to see what was going on. Figured that I would pick up my Feb. White Dwarf while I was there. I'm not a fantasy player so this month is kind of Meh for me, oh well. I had forgotten about the Tyranid eat the store event so I was met with plenty of people putting Nids on the tables. Pretty cool to see what people would bring to an Apoc game.

Great Friday

I got in a couple of games at the house yesterday with Thomas. We decided that the chance to sit down, eat snacks, and swill Mt. Dew was worth more than full sized tables and fancy terrain; so we played at my place instead of the local GW store. Thomas brought over his Necrons, Orks, and some Tyranids so that I could borrow bugs instead of always proxying. I'm still trying to figure out what type of list that I want to get good with. The bigger TMC's are the ones that I'm leery of buying when I don't know if they are going to work out. I picked up a Trygon with the GW gift card and then bits ordered a Carnifex and some warriors. I have a few lists that I'm trying out and the games against Thomas are a great chance to test things out in a more stable environment then a standard pick up game at the store.

First real game

Had a chance today to hit the Local GW and get in some game time with Thomas. We started off with a couple of games of Space Hulk then after lunch we moved to a 1500 point game of 40K. I wasn't really ready to move up to this level using only the models that I had, but the great store manager and staff let me use the Mawloc from the cabnet and the Warpstone winner let me use his winner as well. Armed with both of these and a few proxies I had a great swing into a full list.

First post of course

[edit] In an effort to make my posting here more feature rich and entertaining I'm going to include a tag called edits. This will be information that I go back and update posts with. In each post that I edit I'll put in an "edit" tag to show where I've edited. This way I don't have posts that are out of context. It also gives everyone a reason to go back to older posts. Like a trasure hunt. I'm not sure how I'll like it but, Meh.

By the way. I know the colors that I've chosen for the page are a little "girly" but once everyone has a chance to see the splinter fleet they'll understand why I chose the colors I did. [/edit]

Kickng around the idea of moving here to help make my game blog more useable. Still unsure about this... Oh well, we'll see.

For an archeive of my other posts see my Journal at

http://tims40k.spaces.live.com/

Well, this post was very long ago. I have decided to jump on the (gestalt) Hive Mind band wagon. More to come. I've cleaned out the other posts to start fresh. There will be changes a plenty.

Tim