Monday 29 December 2014

Chocolate, alcohol and Warhammer. Best Christmas.

Merry (Belated) Christmas!

Hopefully you have had a good Christmas, eaten far too much and drank more than a fish, or perhaps I am just describing my adventures, but I digress. One of the main inspirations to start up this blog was to keep me motivated with painting my armies, and after just getting a massive haul of Warhammer, what better time to start!

Tyranids to add to my swarm.
Tomb kings to start my venture into the fantasy world.
So where to start! That was indeed the question. In the end I decided to crack open the Tomb king battalion and start things off with that. It took me the best part of two days to clean, assemble, base and prime all the models contained in the box, as a side note, I now strongly dislike skeletal horses, mold lines everywhere! But without further ado, the assembled battalion;

Assembled and ready to prime!
I am sure perhaps some of the tomb king players who are reading this blog of mine are probably thinking now "Spears?! Why the heck has he used spears?", quite simply, because I think they look far better than the one handed weapons, I don't play super competitive, so even though the other one handed weapons are better in terms of game play, I have equipped them with spears as they are more aesthetically pleasing to me, plus anyone who I play against will allow me to field them as if they were equipped with other one handed variants.

Next will be the painting! Woo, they will be coming to life... Again?..

See you next time!

Onwards champions!

This post marks the first of many posts in my Warhammer blog.

I have been a collector of miniatures ever since I was in my early teens, starting off with Lord of the Rings, progressing into the 40k universe and then expanding into the fantasy world as well, however as of now I only really focus on 40k and fantasy, with Lord of the Rings being just a fond memory.



Boromir - Painted 2003~
Orc - Painted 2003~













In the 40k universe, I fell in love with the looks of the XV9 battlesuits of the Tau, and thus the start of my first 40k army, which is now sitting at roughly around 2500 points, probably more if upgraded to the maximum. So after amassing a sizable force of Tau to decimate foes with volleys of ion weaponry, I turned my attention to the two most iconic armies in the 40k universe; The Tyranids and Space marines.


Classic Ultramarine


      
Leviathan Tyranids













T'au Sept


At this point, any sane person would be content, one army ready to play with, and two in progress to be built and painted, but I? No no, I decided that "Ooo, Fantasy looks pretty awesome", and so I suddenly added another army to my  'to do' list, Tomb Kings to be precise. So what can be expected to be found among the litter of my random thoughts strewn across this blog, will hopefully be the progress of the three armies stated above (perhaps more if something catches my eye).

Next up will be what Santa was kind enough to give me for Christmas!

See you then!