sometime pics are better than words.

But ill add a few words. the following pictures represent the last two weeks of cranking out hi quality killing machines.

Get in the Game Painting Presents: Blood Angel Terminators Part 2

Okay so here is the finished squad. My 1st fully painted unit in 15 years of playing. Sad. So Sad. But this was all done following my Part 1 quick tutorial. So it isnt that hard to get a decent table top look with quick results. Yes there are some areas I need to fix, Hindsight being that you see it once it is done. But all and All a good unit for the table.

Building a better hobby space

So, about a year ago I bought my first home. Also around this time I started working as a staff accountant at Lorain County Community College. Between moving, renovating, settling into a new job, and continuing my education, building and painting my 40K army got pushed to the side. The few times during the last year that I have been able to spend time on the hobby, I've done my work on the dining room table. Taking things out and cleaning up was killing about an hour of my time. Also, having models and paints strewn across the dining room table was starting to get on my woman's nerves. To her credit, Lexi has never complained and always been supportive of the hobby, but I could tell it bothered her.

August 15th marked one year in the house and exactly one model finished in that time, a single rhino APC. I needed to make a change. The house is small and all of the ground floor is being utilized currently. I do however, have a large walk out basement that until now has been a catchall storage area and a place to do laundry. Most of the space is unused. This will be my hobby cave! Right now it's dirty, full of cobwebs, and smells, well, like a basement. There will be quite a bit of work to do cleaning, building walls, painting, and so on. My goal is to have a comfortable space that is dedicated to a hobby bench, a small display area, and a full size game table. Over the next few months I'll be posting pictures with a blurb about how things are coming along. I'm really excited about having someplace in the house that I can go to, listen to music, and just work on my armies. I think Lexi is excited to have all the 40K stuff out of her hair too! I'll get a pic up of the current state of the spot soon.

Get in the Game Painting Presents: Blood Angel Terminators

Ok all here is my latest work. I have worked 2 hour 15 minutes each night (while I listen to the movie TRON Legacy). The base is a "swamp" base. I have 6 colours and 2 inks on the base itself. Still need to add static grass to whole squad. Model primed in "Matte" Black from Pat Catan's. Still to me is "satiny" and next coat does not apply very well, and the next colour being red, very hard to control properly (so as you will see in the next photos had to do some interesting cover-ups)


 

So what has Jonsey been up to?

Im really confused, as you may know, i have about 4k points in blood angels(90% fully painted), 5 k points in primed tyranids(primed only 0% painted) i shelfed after i put them together, and about 4k in sisters(about 3% painted 100% primed and based) that i picked up new in the box from an estate sale.

The 6th edition has made me even more undecisive, in what playstyle i like best and the allies has allowed me to sample and see more different types of armies on the field.

So whats happened? I really like the boost the eldar have given my blood angels. the eldar (40% painted 100% primed) are so unique and small errors in decisions end up going really bad. But my gosh i love the look of the models. I know have about 3k points in eldar. WTF right?

So then i think where do i go? To me it is equally fun to paint the model as it is to play. So i will continue to collect pieces of different armies with the ally rule to try them out, before i settle on a main army to follow.