Plans For a 2nd Chaos Army, already

Okay so appointment booked with the Interrigator Chaplin, I also picked up the Chaos Marine Codex off of ebay at the same time as I got the Tau Codex, and that arrived at the weekend. One of the first things I did with it was to run up a list for a Fallen Angel and his duped PDF minions. Chaos Lord and a Dark Apostle as a Captain and a "Lutheran" Chaplin (might just be going to hell for that on in more way than one). For Elites I went with 3 Mutilators and was thinking of making them from Ogres I have been checking out the Blood Bowl Ogre team, Star Player and Ninja Man Eater for conversion potenial, a Chosen squad that I'm going to make robed and some Terminators, possibly the next Forge World version to come out I think. For Troops I'm planning on going with 6 Cultist Squads, 4 Squads with Autoguns and 2 Squads with pistols and ccw. These will be PDF Troopers duped into service of the Fallen Angel. Strating off with 10 man sqauds but will expand that at some later date. Fast Attack was 2 bike squads with a Warp Talon Squad, to fit in with the lost in the Warp thing, after talking to my mates about this I'm dropping the Warp Talons and am taking a flyer that I'll use as a counts as Helldrake was thinking of getting one of the Forge World Avengers for this. And for Heavy Support was thing thinking of 3 Oblitartors again made from Ogres, an Autocannon squad and a Defiler that I'm planning to make out of a Contemptor Dreadnought. A lot of this army will be from Forge World and it won't be started any time soon as I want to get my Chaos Android/Cylon Army started after my Eldar and all those are on hold till I get the house done anyway. Input is as always welcome.

Current WIP

Yes well I've long talked about having to do this and now I've made a start on it, walls and celling filled and sanded, wood work cleaned now just need to find a new light fixture I like and then I'm good to go with this room. And as this is meant ot be a 40K blog and not changing rooms.

This is what I'm reading when I'm done, just waiting for the new Tau Codex to land so I can have a nosey at that as well.

Did get a game in the other day and there was an interesting point that came up, I was playing my Dark Angels Successor and was fighting along side Tau who had Dark Angel allies. We where arguing that as I was DA and the Tau where allied with DA could we not have his Terminators home in on my bikes Teleport homers and say that they are my Terminator Support. Whats your point of view on this one.

Sad News For Me

I'm a massive fan of Iain (M) Banks books, both the Sci-Fi and the fiction and the news this week that he has late stage cancer and is unlikely to see Hogmany this year has left me feeling a little down. I've had a couple of my books signed by TMH over the years and I've always found him to be an overall nice guy when he's been working a room, and the one time, pictured below, while at Eastercon in Glasgow a group of us fan men (not a chance of calling us boys really) actually met TMH he sat with us and chatted away for an hour, bought us all a pint, in his words "the least I can after you've all bought my books", and we had a fight over who got to keep the order he took to the bar. In the photo, from the front, is TMH Iain M Banks, myself, Paul Graham Raven, David Dave H Haddock, and Reg Holbein, our other member present ducked out of site when this was taken and I can't remember his name now, sadly. I always wanted to complete my collection of authors that I really like, and it looks like I'll be getting the chance now, but not in the way I'd of wanted. From the BBC web site

3 April 2013 Last updated at 12:31 Iain Banks statement in full Continue reading the main story Related Stories * Author Banks has terminal cancer Scottish author Iain Banks has revealed that he is dying of gall bladder cancer. Here is the full statement which has has been posted on his website. "I am officially Very Poorly. After a couple of surgical procedures, I am gradually recovering from jaundice caused by a blocked bile duct, but that - it turns out - is the least of my problems. "I first thought something might be wrong when I developed a sore back in late January, but put this down to the fact I'd started writing at the beginning of the month and so was crouched over a keyboard all day. When it hadn't gone away by mid-February, I went to my GP, who spotted that I had jaundice. Blood tests, an ultrasound scan and then a CT scan revealed the full extent of the grisly truth by the start of March. "I have cancer. It started in my gall bladder, has infected both lobes of my liver and probably also my pancreas and some lymph nodes, plus one tumour is massed around a group of major blood vessels in the same volume, effectively ruling out any chance of surgery to remove the tumours either in the short or long term. "The bottom line, now, I'm afraid, is that as a late stage gall bladder cancer patient, I'm expected to live for 'several months' and it's extremely unlikely I'll live beyond a year. So it looks like my latest novel, The Quarry, will be my last. "As a result, I've withdrawn from all planned public engagements and I've asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow (sorry - but we find ghoulish humour helps). By the time this goes out we'll be married and on a short honeymoon. We intend to spend however much quality time I have left seeing friends and relations and visiting places that have meant a lot to us. Meanwhile my heroic publishers are doing all they can to bring the publication date of my new novel forward by as much as four months, to give me a better chance of being around when it hits the shelves. "There is a possibility that it might be worth undergoing a course of chemotherapy to extend the amount of time available. However that is still something we're balancing the pros and cons of, and anyway it is out of the question until my jaundice has further and significantly, reduced. "Lastly, I'd like to add that from my GP onwards, the professionalism of the medics involved - and the speed with which the resources of the NHS in Scotland have been deployed - has been exemplary, and the standard of care deeply impressive. We're all just sorry the outcome hasn't been more cheerful. "A website is being set up where friends, family and fans can leave messages for me and check on my progress. It should be up and running during this week and a link to it will be here on my official website as soon as it's ready." Iain Banks

With Terry Prattchet ill and Banks not expected to last the year out I'd just like to say I'm a massive fan of Dan Brown, Stephine Mayer and the one who got the monkeys trained to knock out 50 Shades of Grey.

Current WIP's

So yesterday was my first day off in 7 days, with 3 sleeps, with 2 of those back to back. And what did I get up to during this session hobbywise? Not a lot; I touched up my 8th Company Command Squad and a couple of las cannon astartes, I did get some good ebay deals in as well. I now have 9 Dark Eldar Jet Bikes, 4 at mine, 5 more on the way, I won an Eldar Battle Force as well so have a Falcon, Vyper and 3 Eldar Jet Bikes as well as some more Guardians to possibly start a core of an Exodite army or Craftworld army and a nice Farseer model that's missing a hand weapon. Also yesterday, when I got back from the supermarket, I found a letter from the tax man giving me nearly 600 pounds! Plans for that money are; new phone, i picked up an AT-ST on ebay yesterday and Index Astartes vol2, thus completing my collection of all 4 volumes and i bought a new camera and ruck sack.

Just about sums it up.

March and April are a bit of a bad month for me hobby wise as I end up doing shed loads of hours and not being able to get much time in on the hobbies

This was a sample photo of the Terminators that I've finished over the past week, this is the DV box set Terminators along side a Tartarus Pattern. The reason for this photo was that I'd run out of GW's old biege, I mean Bleached Bone and so went out and bought some Ushabti Bone to try that one, when I'd finished both squads they looked to yellow compared to the other Terminators, so I dropped into the local Worthy games and picked up a pot of Screaming Skull and gave them another dry brush with that shade of beige

(Come on guys, the misses pulls out a paint chart and I can't spot the difference between apple white and blueberry white but I can tell you that there's a difference between 2 shadesof GW biege?)

And lastly the first of the Jet bikes for my Corsair Eldar

Need A Bigger Table

My whole collection on my coffee table, I think I'm going to need a bigger coffee table

And these 2 show the Lions Blades 3rd Battle Company, 8th Assault Company, Command structre and the Lions Blades 1st Company with 50 Terminators so far, 45 shooty and 5 with Lightning Claws

This will form the coreof my Chaos force, the old Necrons will be Chaos Androids. The Guard will be Skittarii Legion and won't be to Chaosie as I'll want to use them as allies for both sides

And finally my next project the Corsair Eldar.

Dreads, Tanks, Supers a Flyer, Codex Marines and Dredd

I was asked over the weekend how many Dreadnoughts I've actually got, so on Tuesday I got them out and put them down on the coffee table, along with everything else mechanised, at the back you can just make out the Codex Marines lined up. And as I have a sense of humor here's yet another Dredd