Slight Fail

Iszy needs my anglepoise lamp for her college work.

Bum.

Well, at least I've started painting. This is more than I have ever managed before.

Nearly Painted Orks and Grotz

Batch painting went reasonably well... lack of iPod and caffiene didn't help. Nor did my body's tendancy to seize up if I sit down too long. Junkfood was kinda managed but I missed getting a McAdditives breakfast due to leaving the house late (though I did manage to pick up a nummy sausage bap from BHS) and the lunch I had with Iszy was spectacularly uninspiring (it stopped me being hungry and that was about it... if only she was allowed more than 30 minutes for lunch. Ironically I get a full hour for lunch, but am too far away from town and am ususally too busy to make it worth bothering with).

It seems that 50 models was a bit much for my fist attempt at batch painting, but jumping straight in the deep end was what I needed to convince me that it's not so bad after all... if I can get some basic stuff done on 50 models in a day, fully painting ten in an afternoon should be a doddle (though still a little alien... I'm so used to taking at least two days per model).

But yes, all metals painted. Skin basecoated and washed on both sets of models. Next is clothing. This will hopefully happen today after I've been to town to pick up the Dredd Casefiles #11 and the rest of Gutsville.

Undercoated Orks

I has undercoated my Shoota Boyz and Gretchin... all ready for batch painting on Friday.

50 models in one day? Ambitious, but I reckon as long as I have my iPod, caffiene and junkfood I'll manage.

Squeeeeeeeee!

Of course the stupid bloody thing eats up the side bar... oh well. Once I've got a few more posts here it won't be a problem.

Imperial Guard

Yeah.

I'm supposed to be doing Space Marines and Orks.

But I've also been re-reading the Gaunt's Ghosts novels having finally got my hands on copies of First and Only and Honour Guard that weren't part of collected editions.

And whenever I read Gaunt's Ghosts I want to do Imperial Guard.

I should probably finish my Orks first though.

A Small Change of Direction

This really isn't working as an army building blog; partly because I keep procrastinating and buying new shinies instead of working on the ones I already have, and party because my free time is often taken up by other things (far too often at the moment: crashing in front of the TV because w*rk has fried my brain yet again).

So I have expanded the purpose of this blog to include more general wargaming type stuff... rants, opinions, pictures of soon-to-be-released shinies... and maybe some of it will have nothing to do with Warhammer 40,000. Anyone who wishes to know more about my life outside wargaming should read The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. Dreadful, available from all good internet connections.

I Broke Again...

I bought Gretchin.

And Stormboyz.

Bad Doug, no cookie.

But luckily there's lots of time to get stuff painted before the Stompa comes out.

Batch Painting Ahoy!

Right, I am booked in for an all-day batch painting session with Jeff at my local GW on the 30th of this month.

I will paint an army dammit!

In other news the 2nd wave Orks are out, and I broke. I bought a Battlewagon, Kaptin Badrukk and 2 Nobz Mobz. I am bad, but at least I bought them with Christmas money.