Well........

245th post.......

The Final Post? 

With the lack of traffic here it was an easy decision to move over to Bolter & Chainsword for my hobby Blog. I can get more traffic, it is easier for me to post so lack of updates means I'm busy with life and makes sure I'm logged in to Moderate my areas. My Blog can be found on the B&C Here.

Manic Monday # 86

 It's Monday, so a new year Manic Monday. Sixteen days into the new year, and lost a Friend/ Co Worker, worked OT for 3rd week in a row. Fun times

Hobby News:

Arks of Omen - Abaddon was released this week and well I was weak and purchased it. I bought for board actions.....but my group is investing 2 boards in it. 

In surprise announcement GW announced this 2 sets

For some reason this Boarding Action marine combat patrol perks my interest...…and I don't mean a little. Looking at the previous Combat Patrols (besides Genestealer cult ie Necromunda gang) I have yet to see a must buy until now.  But more on that later. Plus Khorne Bezerker Combat patrol was previewed also. 

Hobby time:

Well I sat down and started building 40k models again and well at the end of the weekend here was were I was at:

2 5 man terminator squads built. One with Swords and other with halberds both have Justicar with Daemon Hammers and Incinerator. 

 After building those and contemplating my Board action Marines, Raptors not feeling right as I want a unique force for Boarding Actions.... to go along with my Grey Knights, Inquisitorial forces which are getting buffed by the following models...along with the Star Striders models. 

Imperial Navy Breachers

Overpaid but needed a new one :(

 

I found these models unbuilt sitting around....

And well the Chaplain has been a slow paint progress but with 10 easy build Assaults' Intercessors and another 10 Multi piece Assault Intercessors in the boarding action box...Looks like 10 easy build are now going to be Death Company.

yup Blood Angels coming soon!

I ordered 2 sprues for the boarding action marines and codex from Amazon...because patience is a virtue I lack sometimes. 

Now why Blood Angels.......1 reason and 1 reason only.....

 I love Mephiston.....and he will be the centerpiece of the army.....

One of my favorite images

with the models I have, and between the Blood Angels Combat Patrol and Boarding Combat Patrol boxes I'll have a decent force. 

Well its 2023........

Well yeah 2023 is here.....by 10 days ago...Travelling through the Warp is hard as it is.

So long time no update. House has been a construction zone since September due to another water leak from Refrigerator line (again) no time line on completion due to lack of materials, work backed up etc. While working on the 5 Paladins I had an incident that pretty much ended me working on them.  I was painting in master bedroom with poor lighting, because my hobby area is a storage area for all the furniture in my house and one day during house keeping I was not paying attention and pushed the paint pots into the 5 paladins and even though they were magnetized, 3 of them popped of the metal tray and fell off the shelf and tray. Fortunately I was able to recover all the pieces and put them on the tray. Needless to say I was  mad at myself and shelved the project.

So I dropped off posting on Blog, on B&C, Work took over life and by Thanksgiving week I had to take a break from it all before I lost it.

I did accomplish a few things during break. I was able to finally get most of my old room at Parents cleaned up. Also found lots of EC, IF, and MK IV marines for HH. Which I promptly sold or traded to the guys in Metal Head Armory. 

I was able to play my First game of HH Age of Darkness Raven Guard vs Entropomancer's Iron Warriors. Love my Seekers......but overall lost game to bad leadership rolls....and I do mean bad. While on that topic my Raven Guard are at the I need to clear coat stage of paint so hopefully I'll get some pics.

Well the next "Season" for Warhammer was announced "Arks of Omen" and Chapter Approved with massive points changes, rule changes, and new force org charts.

Book 1 of 4 is in store Saturday 

The most important thing that is coming out of this to me is this

Freaking Boarding actions!

I was cleaning and looked at the Paladins and finally decided to fix them.....Boarding actions and Arks of Omen may have have something to do with this.  I then ordered 2 more boxes of GK Terminators with a 3rd being picked up as part of the trade for MK4 marines plus other stuff I received.  The plan is to build the 2 boxes as Squad 5 and Squad 6 of terminators (halberds and Incinerator, Swords and Incinerator).  3rd box is to build the non special Weapon model for Squad Armand De Pergord, Squad 5, and Squad 6.

So with Arks of Omen and Boarding actions coming out this weekend Ill be trying to get those models ready for so Space hulk style shenanigans against my friends.  
 
As a side note I finished painting 69 models in 2022, 31 of those were Grey Knight Terminator armor (out of the 52 I needed to paint- 59% completion). Not bad for me.