This ones for Adz...

1st June - where did the year go. My mate Adz has just pointed out I haven't blogged in a while. I've been lurking on blogs in my roll, commenting on the occasional post, but my own blog has languished.

Causes - a mix of apathy and loss of appetite for the hobby following GW's recent decisions and product offerings; and preferring to spend my free time with my family and the dog (he ate his kennel - such a stupid dog).

It's mainly the GW issues though. My personal view is they have royally shafted us here in Oz (and the rest of the non-European world) and the Finecast thing is a bit of a fizzer.

I openly admit I am a user of both Maelstrom and Waylands. My disposable income needs to be spread across a number of interests and I like to maximise my spending dollar - I'm not silly enough to knowingly pay twice what I need to for the same item.

That said, I like to support my local GW as I don't want to see it close - where else can I go and hang out and talk to my hobby peeps. I buy the odd kit full price (Oz Retail) , particularly when I want something now rather than in 2 weeks, and buy all my paints and hobby supplies locally, but the bulk of army purchases are from old blighty - Maelstrom built me my Empire army and Waylands my Guard.

Now though, following the inital announcement and the official response to fan outrage (of which I took part - venting my inner nerd on the internet is preferable to listening to it in stereo according to the missus) I'm on the boycott band wagon. GW chose to restrict my choice of purchase point - and then raised prices locally following the Finecast launch - not a company I wish to support.

My missus pointed out that I have a sufficient pile of minis to see me through the next decade without needing to buy more. I did make use of Waylands free shipping offer to pick up the last little pieces I've always wanted but never bought before the cut off and now that's it - No more GW purchases for me unless it comes from eBay, FW (unless they suddenly go all region based pricing structure on me) or Waylands really figure out how to get around the embargo.

Now onto some actual hobby content. Since my last post I have based and primed my Warhound Titan and busted out the airbrush to lay down the base metal colours - Boltgun and Tin Bitz. The pictures are pretty average. Being the tight arse that I am I have yet to replace my camera but tax time is coming up soon and I should be in a refund position so maybe a replacement isn't that far off.


I have used cork sheeting on the base to add some height and a step which you can just about make out if you close one eye and squint at the pictures.

My airbrush skills are non existant - I aim and spray and wave the gun around some until the desired area is covered

I really should crack on and finish of the interior so I can join the two halves together. There's not been much action since these pictures were taken but that was always going to be the case. My Baneblade took me six months of on and off work to finish.

On the Badab front, I have built, primed and base coated a command squad and then painted the weapon casings, pads and helmets, as well as the weapons on my first Tactical Squad. I've also applied a verdigris to each unit.


I was stuck on what colour to paint the eye lenses and tested yellow, red and green. I've settled on green as on my Veterans they will be having red helmets and the yellow lenses look pants and the red ones don't show up - I didn't want a mix and match.

I may have been a bit liberal with the verdigris

I've finished up one Tactical Marine - one. The rest languish on my paint table although I have every intention of finishing them by Friday. I have Friday off to take the dog to be de-sexed (poor little bugger), and once that is done and I have tidied off some external storm water issues I have the day for painting.

That's enough rambling for today. Hopefully I can get my hobby mojo going again and get some movement towards finishing some of this army off and posting more regularly again.

My non-gamer mate Jay is keen for another game soon - he wants an apocalypse battle to test the Titan in - so that should be good as games with Jay are always a laugh.

Happy hobby all.

Cheers,

Pom