Two things - dow2 and I need money

Been playing Dawn of War 2 far too much lately, it's just such a suberb rts. Anyway, my fave race from the offerings is Eldar, and now I badly want an Eldar army. With white armour and pink hats!!

This is what I will eventually, someday plan to start with:


In case it's not crystal clear we have from top left
Wraithlord with bright lance and wraithsword, Falcon w/scatter lasser
Guardians with shuriken cannon and Warlock, Howling Banshees w/exarch
Farseer with council, Rangers

Ofc this list has glaring problems, lack of av is one. Comes to around 1000pts I think after buying powers and stuff. But Eldar with pink hats!! MUST HAVE!

Pre Heresy Marines

Forgeworld have put up a selection of the old power armor variants. Have to say a pre heresy colour scheme World Eaters army is looking mighty tempting. That clean white and blue look is funky.

First time it's made me feel sick

I don't think it's any secret that Citadels Foundation paint smells a but funky. I always thought Mechrite Red was potent, but just cracked open gretchin green, and now I feel physcially sick.
The stuff is god awful.

It does seem to be a good base for the pale green robes I want my Clan Moulder skaven to have though, thankfully packmasters are few and far between so exposure to this smell will be minimum.

New Fantasy starter box set

So having seen the pics floating about on forums everywhere, desperatly need this box. And then ebay for one or two duplicates, maybe weapon teams and the chieftan.

Chieftan looks great, though banner pole looks a tad too big. Rat Ogres are amazing. Nice to see a mortar model. The WFT looks really small to me. Engineer is a little meh. Clanrats look exactly the same as current ones, but with shields as part of the body so prob a little loss of detail there.

Elves look damn good. Still want an HE or DE army, but for some reason all the current GW elf models do nothing for me style wise.

As an aside gw have updated all the FAQ's, and the line saying how Strength in Numbers is used with Steadfast has been deleted. Their are arguments all over the place for and against it now, and I'm so not eager to play an army when a major part of that army has a huge question mark over it. If they felt it was too powerful, they should of just changed it to a flat no, rather than deleting it altogether. Gw really are idiots.

screw this weather

Can't do any painting. Can water down paint until it's almost water, and it still dries before the brush gets to the model even. Tried to some ink washing, and the ink wouldn't spread. Somewhat need to some drastic fixing on my psyker squad. The whole "wash with brown on their robes thing" has gone drastically wrong.

Bring back the snow!!

Thanquol

Not entirely finished, and unbased but here be my treacherous little skaven grey seer,



He is in desperate need of varnish. I wash all my metal/resin minis to help the undercoat stay on, but it's made no difference to this one. Just flakes off whenever it's touched.

it's called progress

Several weeks of on/off painting has resulted in...

One plague monk. Just a test really to see if dirty white worked, and it does. Not got any more spray to undercoat his 29 mates though


One plague priest.


One infantry squad. Puts me up to 4 whole platoon squads, omg.


One Astropath. Easiest model to paint ever. Seriously.


One skaven clanrat unit. Looks ok I guess. They are supposed to have shields, which I also painted, but no glue - so no shields for them. I'm hoping that when they get the shields it improves them in some way. They look odd to me. Too much space between them.


Anyway, now out of undercoat spray, glue and worst of all bestial brown (does fur and is used for basing") and boltgun metal. Guess thats the end of this particular pastime.

Rassnik, Warlock Engineer

Very happy with him, a very productive Saturday evening.

And now some fluff.

"Like all Skaven, Rassnik considers himself the most powerful being in existence, and it is his divine right to lead clan Skyre and all Skaven to victory over the surface dwellers. If, of course, it wasn't for Skritlik. Skritlik has been a constant thorn in the Rassniks side. Born in the same litter Skritlik has managed to just about beat Rassnik in everything. His devices are always just that little bit more special, alittle bit more deadly. Rassnik constantly dreams of the day he can best Skritlik and claim his destiny.
Rassnik and Skritlik have both been sent by Skyre at the behest of the Grey Seer Morquol to lend support to Clan Maqueek. The Skyre weaponry has been a great asset to the warlord."

so another loss

Yup.

The ap of system of 40k is bullshit and needs to be scrapped. Survivability is one thing, outright nigh-invulnerabilty is another.
People complained about 2nd editon being hero-hammer, but is nothing compared to what 40k is nowdays.
Becoming ever more disillisoned with it all.

Jezzails!!

Finished them!! The sum of the past three days.

Shields look damn awesome. shame about the rest of them >_> Still, only part the enemy should see :D


Cloth also is extremely good looking, dunno what the pic has done the face of the one the left. It's really doesn't look that bad >_<


It's progress!

Commander [INSERT SUBJECT NAME HERE] from [INSERT SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE]

Best quality photo I'm ever going to get. This is my incompetent leader and a couple members of his command. Sniper rifles have done ok, and are somewhat lethal when combined with psyker battle squads. Good luck passing your pinning test on ld 2.
Master of ordance is yet to register a kill, but he stays mostly because hes painted and the squad is essentialy immobile. Biggest problem is you have to target something with the blast, and it always scatters. Be better if you could put wherever you like, you could at least gamble on the direction and maybe actually hit something. Also bendy sword ftl :(

Yes he has no name, as does the entire army, woo.

Painting

Been painting jezzails this morning. About 60% done on all 8 of them. Just got shields, gun and the details to do + basing. iphone well needs a flash, or I need a lamp. I have photos of virtually nothing. White background is nicely visible though :D

But newest toy...


Wet palette!!
Best invention ever. The bestial brown in there is from 7 hours ago, and it's still wet! What it means is that I get to concetrate more on painting rather than having to keep the paint from drying out.

A game

Played my second campaign game last night. Did enjoy it, even though I lost. Eldar have way too many s6 shots. Got my armor saves v everything, and passed a hell of a lot of them, but somehow always managed to only fail exactly the right amount to lose the entire squad. Stupid crappy flak armour.
Was surprised when I found my psykers taking tests on 3d6, would normally be 15 points wasted against guard, but there you go.
A bad deployment leaving all my scoring units on a flank by themselves was bad bad move. But the risk you take when you deploy first I guess. keeping it all in reserve would of been better, being in chimeras would of made the slight loss of turns on table slightly less, and they maybe would of of been ripped to shreds as much. Should of definitely gone with my first plan of using Al'Rahem but meh, no vaguely good model to use.
Didn't really make use of my valkyrie as I should. After the veterans dropped of and suffered a deep strike mishap which resulted in them being left in front of scorpions, avengers and some jetbikes, bad day for them, I ended up using it as a poor gunship. Should of used it to extract my poor troops from their death trap, could of got 1 unit out at least.
Marbo was mostly useless due to how spread the Eldar were. Killed a wave serpent, then stayed in ruins for the rest of the game. No targets in range and no cover to advance behind without getting shot, lots.

What went right? Finally got some good rolls later on and killed troops, lots of them. One invulnerable wave serpent left me unable to get to one of the last two scoring units. Which won the game.

Hindsights a wonderful a thing

What really erked me though was how slow I was. My second turn really dragged. It's really hard to see why it's so. Only realised how bad I was after 3 hours and was only turn 4. Maybe just need to play more games? Dawned on me that I've only played ~10 games since 5th was released.

This isn't the update you are looking for.

I've run out of green paint >_>

First!!

Yes, expect stuff some time, etc. Would help if I had some setup to take pics, something to ponder.