Which one of you bastards stole my Meltagun?

Rant time! I have been scratching my head and feeling my face grow red with anger over Games Workshop's concept of supplying parts.

If you have been following my blog, you would know that I have been currently putting together Chaos Terminators and Plague marines. Now, the dilemma with this is I want to have Lightning Claws on the Terminators and 2 Meltagun's on my Marines. Are there either of these in the boxes? NO!

My choices now involve 2 things. Try and source the Bitz or chuck the shits. While chucking the shits will make me feel happy for a short amount of time, it won't fix my problem.

Sourcing the bitz involves paying Games Workshop $17AU (Australian) for 5 Meltaguns and $37 friggin dollars (!!!) for 5 sets of Lightning Claws. After shelling out $50 for each set, they can get fucked if they think they're going to get another $55 for crap they should've supplied in the box!

Anyways, I really have no choice when it comes to Meltaguns. So it's off to Games Workshop for these. But I will be buying some Space Marine variant of the Lightning Claws from any of the decent bitz stores.

The point I'm making here is if you are just starting out in the wonderful world of Warhammer, be ready to be screwed over and ultimately let down by Games Workshop. If you are an established Warhammer player/modeler then you will feel my pain :)

Sticky Fingers

I've been putting together some of the models that I had gotten for my birthday. This includes a squad of Plague Marines, Daemon Prince and Chaos Terminators.

While the Prince and Terminators are relatively simple affairs, the Plague Marines are a royal turd. The reason for this is because they are metal. Gluing metal to plastic is not too much of an issue, gluing metal to metal, that's another story!

Some things you can do to alleviate the pain, frustration and obscene language involved in gluing metal parts is to (what I call) checker the joins before gluing.

I will get my trusty blade and slice a checker board style pattern on the joins before gluing. This will give the glue a pitted surface to adhere to. You could also go over the joins with emery cloth or a file.

If this doesn't work, then you can try pinning. I haven't done this yet, so will have to post my results in the future.

Mousling progress

Hey all,
Well I've been making slow progress on the Mouslings for the wife. I have gotten the Rogue and Knight done, which were quite simple, but am having a harder time with the little swashbuckling Errol Flynn one.

I really would like to post pictures, but my camera sucks. Or is it a case of my camera using skills suck? Anyway, the camera is around 3 years old now, so I will have to buy a new one after Christmas.

In the meantime I'll keep on trying to take pictures with the hope of getting some decent ones.

Where Have You Been? (Pt 2)

well, what can I say? Laziness, boredom and and laziness (yes I'm an extremely lazy person) has gotten in the way of both my painting and blogging as of late.

Anyways, time is ticking and I thought shit, I have to get these Mouslings done! Which is precisely what I am doing. I got the little Rogue (posted last month) done and have to say that these models seem to be a cinch versus the Games Workshop stuff.

Whilst it's no 'Eavy Metal, I'm happy with the results and hope my wife will be too. I won't be able to post the results anytime soon, but it may pique my interest in getting some of my other model done.

Where Have You Been?

Bloody great whats happened with my first attempt blogging hey. For anyone that might possibly come and check on this teeny bit of the internet, please be assured that I have not forgotten about it, just had a fair few things happen as of late.

Not only did I have problems with viruses, my Son was also hospitalized with pneumonia due to the last one. Everything is good now, he's out of hospital and on the road to recovery.

Other than that, it was my birthday a few days ago! WOOT! I got a box of Plague Marines, an Obliterator and a Rhino. I'm happy, but now I have yet more bloody models to add to my collection of must paint items.


For the wife I have chosen to test out my painting skillz, I will be painting up Reaper's new Mousling series for her, for Christmas.
I'll of course have to post up my progress, and hope like hell she doesn't look at the blog :P

Chaos Space Marine Tactica

Ok,
Time for some tactics. To be honest, I'd never really taken much time looking at tactics, which meant my army consisted of 3 Obliterators, 2 squads of Berzerkers (with a Rhino and Landraider), Predator and 2 Dreadnought's.

While this may not sound too bad, if I went up against an Imperial Guard army I was generally shot to total shit before I got out of the starting gates. I won't deny I have actually won a couple of matches with this, but not many.

After doing some searching around, and posting on one of Australia's dedicated wargaming forums Wargamerau. I was informed it is wise for me to drop one of the Dreadnought's, Lord (I have a Khorne Lord and Kharn) and Predator for a squad of CSM in a Rhino and a Defiler. I'll be trying this new setup next time I play and see how it goes.

Told You I was Sick! (Again!)

Another month, another illness. Just when I thought it could get even worse, 2/3 of the house has come down with a nasty flu virus. Vomiting, fever, aches, pains... You get the gist.

Anyways, before I got sick I managed to do a little bit of painting. This resulted in getting 1 more model completed and around half way through another. I tried to take some pictures (as I promised I would) though they all looked terrible. Time to buy a new camera, which means adding it to my list of must buy items (which currently sits at OVER 9000!)

One thing I want to do is put out some plugs.

Privateer Press have a very nice brush called Formula P3 Fine Studio Brush. I just find myself constantly using this brush while doing all my normal and higher detail painting. At $12US it's also very well priced.

Also I would like to send out a plug for Escoda Brushes. While being generally unheard of behind big names like W&N. these brushes are bloody fantastic! I bought a 2/0 and a 2 of the Escoda Kolinsky-Tajmyr Sable Point and was amazed. They have a Super fine point that always stays pointed with absolutely no stray hairs. The only downside is the 2 is practically as fine as the 2/0, just larger and more un-wieldy. If you want to a good brush for fine, to super fine detail, you just can not beat the Escoda brushes.