So what else have I done in the past three months? Well The
End Times has kicked in full swing in the Warhammer world and for some reason
the idea of a Chaos Legions army really sounded like a good idea, finding a
decent deal on Wargaming Trading page on Facebook I found myself with quite a
rather large collection of unmade current edition Chaos and Beastmen figures!
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| Just some of the Chaos that I Got! |
I don’t have a clue what came over me, most of the models
are still unbuilt, I did make an attempt of a Beastmen BSB and Beastlord and the unit of Chaos Warriors I built and started to
paint as Khorne Warriors I’ve been a little underwhelmed with. I know Chaos Warrior
armies can be low numbers and really competitive but I’m honestly not sure
whether I can see myself to build, paint and play another Fantasy army at the
moment. I’ve got so many Beastmen models to build it’s a daunting task, I’ve
gone from one horde army of the Vampire Counts to another Horde army of
Beastmen. I think realistically thinking I’ll probably resell all of this and
hopefully someone else will have more luck than I did!
One of my resolutions for 2015 is not to impulse buy, last
year I had a rather bad habit of jumping from army to army, something which I
think a lot of wargamers do, but I’d buy enough for way over the normal points
limit and then struggle to complete it and sell it on. This year I want to make
a concentrated effort on the armies I own and get them finished and fully
painted/based.
The armies are as followed;
Warhammer Fantasy
Ogre Kingdoms – Finish painting my first Fantasy army when I
got back into the army. I’d say I’m about 75% of the way through this army but
still need to paint a few of the bigger things. I do have an unbuilt
Thundertusk which needs building at some point too.
Vampire Counts – As mentioned I’ve made a good start but
still have a lot to do for these. Obviously being a horde-style army each unit
is 40 strong so it’s a big task for each unit. Though if they’re as simple as
the Zombies to paint, I feel I could get through the army quite quickly.
Empire - I’m not too sure what to do with my Empire. I’ve
got a pretty big force built and mainly primed but whenever I pick them up I
cannot for the life of me get motivated to paint them up. It also doesn’t help
whenever I play them on the table they’re boring to play. It may well be the
case that I sell these rather than trying to paint them up.
Bolt Action
German Waffen SS – This was a Christmas present and spent
the Christmas week building it all. Now with the weather being it’s normal
British weather I’m finding it pretty hard to get anything primed. I unfortunately
don’t have a garage or anything so have to go outside in the shed so I really
need a decent mild temperature. As mentioned in Part 1 this is more of a
modelling and painting project so I’m not too fussed if this takes me longer to
get these painted and sorted.
Warhammer 40K
Necrons – I’ve got about 90% of everything painted. I’ve got
one unit primed and halfway painted and then a couple of units still to build.
I’ve not really played much 40K recently so it’s not a major rush to get these
finished but with the new Necron Codex coming out I’d like to get these
finished so I can properly learn 40K in the near-distant future.
Space Marines – This was actually meant to be my winter
project and wanted to get everything built and primed over the Christmas
period. That obviously didn’t happen with so many other things happening! I
really want to make a effort to get these done as they’re going to be pretty simple
to paint and build. I know I’ve got a weekend in March where the fiancé is
going away with work friends all weekend so I might very well just spend the
whole weekend building and priming it all.
Infinity
PanO – Everything is primed and I just need to paint the
Military Orders up. Unfortunately not many people are playing the game at the
club and that’s after the Version 3 rules which came out recently. These shouldn’t
take too long to get done so I might just need a weekend or two to focus and
get them done.
Morats – Again these are all primed and half painted but
need finishing off. I think my motivation for them have really died down now no
one plays at the club but I think I need to make a focused pledge soon to get
them done and relearn Infinity. But it’s not a major rush to get them done at
the moment.
So yeah quite a few projects, and I’ve also got one bigger
one that I’ll be mentioning in a blog post this week. Something that I’m
looking forward to being a part of and it’s for a brand new system that I’ve
not learnt yet. It’ll probably get me visiting a couple of different North East
clubs to play the game but I’m already really looking forward to jumping into
this and learning to play it.
