MIA

So i've recently realised i can't make it to BoLSCON this year.

Booo.

I'm wokring late the day before, have to be in early on the monday, its a 300 mile round trip and i've got a local tournement to help at that weekend anyway.

So unfortunatly i can't make it.

I will endeavour to get my army finished though!

I am a Dragon. Hear me Roar

Roar

Mighty Dragon. He make flames. Burn Puny marines out of cover and generally Eff stuff up.

Nearly finished this months total. Just need to finish my Apostle (which will hopefully be tonight, wife permitting). TBH he is finished above table top and over 3 colours. But i'm not quite finished with him yet.

The next week and a half I'm aiming to get the Maulerfiend  (which is in my To4G list) done as well as 4 Spawn (which aren't) for a doubles tournement soon.

Pics when I get them! The dark poor weather is making getting good ones a bit hard these days

First Post in November

So i'm still hanging on to my job for now, but things have got worse, but people are taking it better than I expected. So continuing on!

November was never going to be great for me. Crazy busy at work, and Halo 4. So managing to get a lot of stuff done already

I have finished the other 5 marines in the squad (no picture yet though) and have largely finished my dragon. Just need to detail him. Hes magnetised in 3 pieces to make it easier to paint and transport.

I have also started base coating my Rhino

So I November I have finished the marine squad (60points) and my dragon (175pts). The Rhino is in progress (35pts) - bringing me to 270 points. So 30 to make up (under my current list -the marine squad could change in cost). That 30 points could either be my Dark Apostle or some cultists.

Have a doubles comp in Dec that i'm taking Chaos to. So might need to be what i need for that!

October - DONE

So the month of October has a week left, but I have achieved my points quota painted for the month!

Cultists - 12 Guys, 2 Guns, 1 Flamer - 65pts

Forgefiend - 175pts

Chaos Space Marines - 110pts (75 for 5, Plus 10 points VotLW, 25 point Banner)

Total -350pts.

And theres still a week to go! Started on the Aspiring Champion model for this squad, and started building the HellDrake. With a bit of free time this weekend I may also start building the Rhino

Forgefiend

Winter is a difficult time to paint in the UK. Sure you spend less time outside than usual, but the poor light and crap weather means that its hard to spray, hard to paint and hard to get good photos of my progress.

So with that in mind, we enter the season of crap photos.

I also posted some fluff yesterday for our battle and my chapter and stuff. But it was crap so deleted it quickly. Will try to tidy it up and re post it eventually

Doc Oct Mid Report

So got another week or so left in October.

Have my 3-400 points for the month drawn up;

10 Cultists - 50pts.
Forgefiend - 175pts.
5 CSM - 75pts
Total of 300 points
So i'm only just making quota this month but its been a busy and crazy month with little time to paint.

Of these 3 things, all are now built and are in various stages of painting

The Cultists for the month - Finished!

The Forgefiend - In progress!

And the CSM - All built, 2 started painting to work out colour scheme.

 So hopefully with some time over this weekend (assuming I can stay away from XCOM long enough) some more should be finished, and all done by the end of the month

In November I aim to paint my Warlord (Apostle - 105pts), the rest of the chaos marines (95pts) and my dragon (170pts) giving me my 370 points for the month. And since November is going to be dominated by Halo4 for me, keeping the model count down will help me reach the goal

In December I aim to do the Rhino (35pts), the rest of the CCW cultists (82pts), defence line and gun (100pts) and the Slaughterfiend (125pts). Giving me 342 in December. (I have lots of time off in December thanks to work).

In January i aim to buy a Battleforce box. Gving me my other squad of CSM (170pts), a unit of Bikers (100pts) and more cultists (???)

This leaves me in February to do the Obliterators, any remaingin cultists and whatever the leftover points go on.

This is only a rough plan, so may change. But hopefully its a good guide for what I intend on doing

*Insert Witty and Interesting Title Here*

So i got some free time by myself yesterday, for the first time in nearly 3 weeks

Got some photos!

My first 12 cultists (10 with CCW, 2 with guns)

My HQ's (the Apostle has since been sprayed, as has the Champion)

Some of what i've got to look forward to. Yay

I have also sprayed all my cultists and my first squad of CSM. I've also broken ground on the first of them and started his paintjob, as I want to see how it looks first.

Got my first game with the army list tomorrow night, so looking forward to seeing how well they do!

Then a tournement with my Eldar this weekend to get me into a deep 40k mood and hopefully lots of painting next week.

Until next time

Progress!

So we've got a book now. Hooray!

I haven't managed to get any pictures of my finished cultists yet, so have been doing other things.

I have finished building and basing my first CSM squad, complete with the new aspiring champion and the GW Shoulder Pads.

I also built this guy last night!

Guy and base are finished. His feet are stuck to the base, but not to him. Means he's easier to paint, particularly underneath. Same problem occurs though, and I don't know when i'm going to spray him

I also bought my Warpsmith and Apostle. Will check them out soon hopefully!

Codex!

So the chaos codex has leaked. And yes i'm weak and have found it.

I'm not touching the fluff, that can wait till I have the paper in my hand. What i've done is had a quick flick through rules. And have updated my army list!

HQ;
Warpsmith, Veteran of Long War  - 115pts
Dark Apostle, Veteran of Long War, -105pts

Troops;
30 Cultists, CCW and Pistol, 3 Flamers - 145pts
30 Cultists, Autoguns, 3 Hvy Stubbers, Shotgun -173pts
10 Chaos Space Marines, Melta Gun x2, Vets Long War, Icon of Vengeance, Mark of Khorne, Chain axe (Champ) - 223pts
Chaos Rhino - Dirge Caster - 40pts
10 Chaos Space Marines, VotLW, Lascannon, Gift of Mutation - 170pts

Fast Attack
Dragonboy - Bale Flamer - 170pts

Heavy
3 Obliterators, Mark of Nurgle, VotLW - 234pts
Forgefiend - 2 Hades Autocannon - 175pts
Forgefiend - 3 Ectoplasma Cannon  200pts

Defence Line with Quad Gun - 100pts

Totals out at 1850 exactly. Yes 1850. Cos thats what we play around here most often. So it'll need to lose 100 points for this competition. Lose the gift of mutation, chain axe, Mark of Khorne, Icon of Vengeance, Dirge Caster and you're at nearly 68 points taken off. And then I might tweak the cultist units a bit more, saving a few more...

So i have 2 big blobs squads at home, being kept solid by the Ld of the Apostle. They're protected by the wall, and the Apostle can probably use his BS on the gun. The Marines with the Lascannon sit close, to shoot enemy vehicles early, then move in one close home objectives later in the game. The other rhino carries the squad deep into the enemy half as fast as possible. With the melta guns, a CC mark and Champion and fearless they should stick around for a while.

All the while being backed up by the firebases of both Forgefiends and the Oblits, themselves kept company by the Warpsmith for repair duty.

The defence line and Dragon should help keep the skies clear, and when not smashing up aircraft the flier can toast anything short of a Terminator out of cover

Thats the plan at least. I will need to proxy and buy some stuff and give it a go at the club soon

Busy Weekend and the WEATHER

So was a busy weekend just gone. Kinda got married. So didn't really do much towards my army

But the important thing is its now the 1st October! I've got a month to get my first 350 points built and painted to the To4G challenge.

Unfortunatly I live in a wonderful country called England. Its October. It never stops pissing raining. So opportunities to spray models are few and far between. Luckily, the weather has given me a brief reprieve this afternoon and i've managed to get 35 Cultists outside and sprayed.

Rough army list....week and a half before the codex is even out!

So I'm going to double post, but i've got excited about this and have started planning already

So I've worked out a rough list, using a mixture of rumours and the WD battle report army list.

HQ;
Warpsmith - 110pts
Dark Apostle -105pts

Troops;
30 Cultists, CCW and Pistol, 3 Flamers - 150pts
30 Cultists, Autoguns, 3 Hvy Stubbers -182pts
10 Chaos Space Marines - 130pts
10 Chaos Space Marines - 130pts

Fast Attack
Dragonboy - Dakkagun - 170pts (is the cost for one with a flamer according to WD)

Heavy
3 Obliterators
Forgefiend - Dakkaguns 175?
Forgefiend - 3 Ectoguns 200pts

Defence Line with Quad Gun - 100pts

Leaves 88 points (assuming rumours and maths is true). This would get spread around on wargear, squad leaders, maybe a rhino for one of the squads, marks etc. Without even seeing the codex it looks pretty decent to me

Here we go...

Figured I'd take the plunge and be the first to post something on the front page. My progress so far, as the last post says is 4 cultists painted (its now actually 5!)

Just need to wait for the codex to come out so I can start planning a real army!