I pulled out my Bretonians this morning, or rather that mangled pile of plastic that was my Bretonians...
Two units of peasants, a unit of archers, a unit of knights, a unit of pegasus knights, a pair of sorceresses, and a pair of paladins. LOTS of broken models. Im even missing a pair of the knights, though their horses are present and accounted for. Im thinking Ill be attempting to glue them back together when I get home. I also have two unopened boxes of yet more knights, but Im gonna hold off on opening them.
Im not exactly sure why Im bothering with them, as we are getting keys sometime this weekend, and the next two weeks will be us trying to move into the new place as quickly as we can. I cant wait to have a back yard to do my spraying in, even if winter is coming up...
Oh, and the title? You ever taken a good look at the peasant musician's drum sticks? :)
Friday, November 13, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Twinkies and the House of Doom
What does that title have to do with anything? Not a damn thing. But it amused me, and in the end, thats what this blog is for, to keep myself amused. :)
Ive been neglecting to work on this lately, I think it was 3-4 posts in the past month, when I was up to 3-4 posts a week before. Pretty sad, huh?
So, Ive been assembling High Elves recently. My Sea Guard just need their heads glued on, and then I get to decide if Im going to glue the shields on before or after painting them. Right now I am leaning towards after. I put together a list of the stuff Ive got, and its looking like around 1200 points (Battalion set, mage, noble, 5 Swordmasters).
Im still in a bit of a funk as far as 40k is concerned. Lots of stuff to work on, none of which is particularly appealing at the moment. I do have ideas. Prolly more then is healthy for me... Ive been paying a lot of attention to Space Marines lately, both Imperial and Chaos, and Im starting to get tugged a bit towards the Xenos side of the table. No real ideas right now though.
When the Wife and I went to look at the house we are moving into, we decided that the small room with the best sunlight was going to be my painting room. Well, Ive been rethinking, and I think I convinced her to let me use the larger room (that gets crappy sunlight) as the hobby room/man cave, as there will be more room for my gaming table, painting table, and shelves for the books and what-not I need for my mini-crack. The best part of this situation, however, is that my hobby stuff and computer will be in seperate rooms. This means that when I sit down to paint, I wont be tempted to "quickly check my email (for 4 hours)" without getting up and going into the other room. Of course, when I do get to my computer, my painting stuff wont be right there to guilt me into working on it.
So, good news on the job front, I will be going back to 8 hour days after I come back from my Turkey Day vacation... still 10pm-6am. Wont be getting the extra hours, but Ill have time to actually do stuff, and wont have to rush so much with the Top Ten anymore.
It figures that they would open a GW less then two miles from my apartment just before I move, though the closest GW once I have moved will be the Glen Burnie Bunker (ignoring the one at the Arundel Mills mall, I hate going to the mall!). Hopefully Ill be able to force myself out for games more often, with it being that much closer.
Ive been neglecting to work on this lately, I think it was 3-4 posts in the past month, when I was up to 3-4 posts a week before. Pretty sad, huh?
So, Ive been assembling High Elves recently. My Sea Guard just need their heads glued on, and then I get to decide if Im going to glue the shields on before or after painting them. Right now I am leaning towards after. I put together a list of the stuff Ive got, and its looking like around 1200 points (Battalion set, mage, noble, 5 Swordmasters).
Im still in a bit of a funk as far as 40k is concerned. Lots of stuff to work on, none of which is particularly appealing at the moment. I do have ideas. Prolly more then is healthy for me... Ive been paying a lot of attention to Space Marines lately, both Imperial and Chaos, and Im starting to get tugged a bit towards the Xenos side of the table. No real ideas right now though.
When the Wife and I went to look at the house we are moving into, we decided that the small room with the best sunlight was going to be my painting room. Well, Ive been rethinking, and I think I convinced her to let me use the larger room (that gets crappy sunlight) as the hobby room/man cave, as there will be more room for my gaming table, painting table, and shelves for the books and what-not I need for my mini-crack. The best part of this situation, however, is that my hobby stuff and computer will be in seperate rooms. This means that when I sit down to paint, I wont be tempted to "quickly check my email (for 4 hours)" without getting up and going into the other room. Of course, when I do get to my computer, my painting stuff wont be right there to guilt me into working on it.
So, good news on the job front, I will be going back to 8 hour days after I come back from my Turkey Day vacation... still 10pm-6am. Wont be getting the extra hours, but Ill have time to actually do stuff, and wont have to rush so much with the Top Ten anymore.
It figures that they would open a GW less then two miles from my apartment just before I move, though the closest GW once I have moved will be the Glen Burnie Bunker (ignoring the one at the Arundel Mills mall, I hate going to the mall!). Hopefully Ill be able to force myself out for games more often, with it being that much closer.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Playing catch up...
So, Im kinda in a gaming funk right now. I know what I should be working on, and I even have a system to make it easier... I should be working on all my various Space Marines, and Im trying to work on 5 at a time, a combat squad from a different chapter each time. Ive got some Imperial Fists on the table right now, and they are giving me the "when are you gonna finish us" look.
I pulled out that High Elf Battalion thats been in my closet since it was released, discovered that the Silver Helms were assembled and had the metal done on them (I didnt remember doing that), and I partially assembled some Sea Guard. I had been hoping to finish the entire box over the weekend. I am going to aim at finishing that unit this week... Ive gotta clean up their off hand and glue it on, then prep and add bows and heads, then work up the command.
Ive been looking at the Warmachine stuff lately, kinda thinking about dusting them off again and trying to find where I stashed my copy of the MK2 rules, maybe challenging DT to a game once I actually read them. Then again, I might just keep them boxed until after I move and after the new stuff is on the shelves.
I had a wacky idea earlier about starting a new Top Ten, this time for WM/Hordes blogs. Of course Id need to do an online walkabout, try to find a larger chunk of blogs dedicated to that game. Im not going to start it yet, at the earliest it would be when Im back on a sane 8 hour shift, instead of the crazy 10-12s Im doing now. Slight possibility of waiting until the 40k one hits the 1 year mark. Maybe.
Something has been gaining in popularity lately thats annoying me. I use a reader to read all the posts that go on during the day. I almost always save them to read during work, with the exception of Tuesday mornings. Well, people have been setting their feeds to truncate messages. I understand why people do it, you actually want people to visit your site, and people who visit are far more likely to leave a reply... Well, Ive got a lot of stuff that I like to read (over 800 just from this weekend, not all 40k related obviously), and the blocker on my work line is pretty strict about anything it considers Gaming... Add in that the browser I use hates to allow me to reply anyways, and I see no reason to visit the site instead of the reader. Now, lets look forward to Tuesday morning, Ive got well over 500 40k related posts to look at, and Ive got to do this and somehow to sneak sleep, food, showers, and spending time with my wife into 11 hours. First thing that gets cut? You got it, posts that are truncated, unless they have a kickass title or first couple sentences. I hate to look at it that way, but at least until Im working a regular schedule again, thats that.
Deo has picked up the new Skaven book, Im hoping to get my copy after next pay day. I like the new models, but I havnt gotten the new army bug on them yet, which really surprises me. Might be because Ive not been paying as much attention to the rumors and models yet. It will prolly go into overdrive once the book is in hand...
Oh, I finally got rid of all my dwarf models. Getting a nice chunk of change from a buddy of Deo. A large part of the funds will be going in bills, but Im saving a nice chunk of it to restock my model collection. Not entirely sure what with yet, though.
I pulled out that High Elf Battalion thats been in my closet since it was released, discovered that the Silver Helms were assembled and had the metal done on them (I didnt remember doing that), and I partially assembled some Sea Guard. I had been hoping to finish the entire box over the weekend. I am going to aim at finishing that unit this week... Ive gotta clean up their off hand and glue it on, then prep and add bows and heads, then work up the command.
Ive been looking at the Warmachine stuff lately, kinda thinking about dusting them off again and trying to find where I stashed my copy of the MK2 rules, maybe challenging DT to a game once I actually read them. Then again, I might just keep them boxed until after I move and after the new stuff is on the shelves.
I had a wacky idea earlier about starting a new Top Ten, this time for WM/Hordes blogs. Of course Id need to do an online walkabout, try to find a larger chunk of blogs dedicated to that game. Im not going to start it yet, at the earliest it would be when Im back on a sane 8 hour shift, instead of the crazy 10-12s Im doing now. Slight possibility of waiting until the 40k one hits the 1 year mark. Maybe.
Something has been gaining in popularity lately thats annoying me. I use a reader to read all the posts that go on during the day. I almost always save them to read during work, with the exception of Tuesday mornings. Well, people have been setting their feeds to truncate messages. I understand why people do it, you actually want people to visit your site, and people who visit are far more likely to leave a reply... Well, Ive got a lot of stuff that I like to read (over 800 just from this weekend, not all 40k related obviously), and the blocker on my work line is pretty strict about anything it considers Gaming... Add in that the browser I use hates to allow me to reply anyways, and I see no reason to visit the site instead of the reader. Now, lets look forward to Tuesday morning, Ive got well over 500 40k related posts to look at, and Ive got to do this and somehow to sneak sleep, food, showers, and spending time with my wife into 11 hours. First thing that gets cut? You got it, posts that are truncated, unless they have a kickass title or first couple sentences. I hate to look at it that way, but at least until Im working a regular schedule again, thats that.
Deo has picked up the new Skaven book, Im hoping to get my copy after next pay day. I like the new models, but I havnt gotten the new army bug on them yet, which really surprises me. Might be because Ive not been paying as much attention to the rumors and models yet. It will prolly go into overdrive once the book is in hand...
Oh, I finally got rid of all my dwarf models. Getting a nice chunk of change from a buddy of Deo. A large part of the funds will be going in bills, but Im saving a nice chunk of it to restock my model collection. Not entirely sure what with yet, though.
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