Returning from Campaign
All in all, I’m happy with my results. It was a brilliant weekend, I met several awesome people and even bumped into a couple of guys I met at Doubles the last time Mike and I attended.
Cry, ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the rats of war..!
Sooo, I’m off to Nottingham this Spring. Originally I intended to bring my newly painted tree-based Wood Elf army, but good sense, a dream of winning, and a freshly painted Screaming Bell convinced me otherwise.
It picks the best of times to go wrong
I’m working from home this week, got kicked out of the office because I was sneezing on everyone.
I haven’t actually had occasion to boot into Ubuntu for a couple of months on my home PC, because it’s mostly used for ease when dealing with GIT version control and accessing office servers (public key authentication, handy!).
Clanrat #200…
No more Clanrats, none, not a single one, EVER.
Since my last post, I’ve painted my remaining 50 Clanrats, finished the 6 Rat Ogres, Painted the bit of my Plague Claw Catapult conversion that needed painting, and started on my 40 Eternal Guard for the Wood elf army.
I’ve already packed away the Clanrats, I’ll try and do pictures of my whole Skaven collection (well, the painted parts of it!) in the not-too-distant future. It’s getting quite large!
Trees! Argh!
I’ve literally just finished basing my new Treekin models – and re-basing two ‘Durthu the Treeman’ models – the current GW Treeman is awful in my opinion, and I’m none too happy with the Treekin either.
Which is why I’ve used the 90′s metal dryads, two to a base – they’re roughly the same size, and a joy to paint. They also make my Treekin unit a bit unique, and a huge amount cheaper – as I paid only £20 for all 24 metal dryads (On eBay, admittedly!)
Unfortunately, it’s much easier to store unassembled models than it is assembled models – especially when most of the model cases are filled with Skaven. Got to work out where to store them! Probably see about putting in a new shelf above my PC for displaying my better (and larger) efforts.
I’ve got 6 Rat Ogres lined up for my next painting job – get all the Monsterous Infantry out of the way in one go!
Paint scheme for the Tree* after the ‘more’…
Clanrats…
I’ve finished another block of 50 Skaven Clanrats, that makes a total of 150 of the little blighters painted so far, and only 50 of them to go (and other misc skaven of course!)
I’m also half way through finishing my 12 ‘counts-as’ Treekin, based the first six this morning.
Once those are done and based, I’m probably going to paint the Warriors of Chaos Hero model I bought the other day – I want to try out some Slaanesh-ish colour schemes on him – if it looks good enough, that might be my next adventure once painting up, erm, everything else I have here! Lore of Death and WoC Lore of Slaanesh magic looks like it could be amusing (here, take this hellshriek-induced panic test on a -4 LD penalty (Doom & Darkness + Doomtotem…)
Anyway, back to the treekin now, and Transformers (original series, season 2) which is playing away on DVD at the moment!
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Right. Away with Drupal, too much faff for what I was(n’t) using it for! Moving on to WordPress, and upgrading gallery2 to gallery3 while I’m at it. I’ve also decided to not renew my other hosting account (ater-lumen.com) as it’s that time of year again, and redirected the url to aim at this server.
I’m going to make a concerted effort to update this more than once a year… we’ll see how that goes, I don’t hold out masses of hope in the long run, but it’s worth a try!