Painting: Random/Fun learning models.

Hi, so today I'm talking about random models that you have in your collection, maybe a spare black reach model or that conversion that you never used. What I do with these is to, from time to time I take one. Build it (maybe not fully) and paint it with no regard for it looking cohesive or fitting in with the fluff. I try to try new techniques for instance on the model below I experimented with wet blending on some of the purple and orange, face paint, an odd stippling effect for green armour and weird layering/washing/brush stroking technique on the hair as well as a couple of others. The model as a whole looks really odd but I learned a lot from painting it.

So, do you use this idea or are you going to try it? Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

P.S. I should be back to posting every day next week as I am back at school.

Thoughts: Is cheating within the rules cheating?

So, I was thinking, people are always saying how broken things are and how the latest combos will affect the game. Now some of these things were meant to be and GW just got points values a little wrong etc. But sometimes these are picking hairs at GW's rules.

I mean sometimes it is obvious what GW means but they have not FAQ'd it and have not made the rule exactly precise. this is when people start to not just use they vagueness to their advantage but tear these loose ends apart. this is what I call cheating within the rules and whilst it is legal, would they game not be better. Now it wouldn't solve the fact that some armies are just better than others but it would help to rule out some cases where no (or little) tactical accumen is required. I personally think the anwer is yea and I think that you will agree.

So, assuming that is correct would you call someone a 'cheater' for trying to pull loose ends and bend rules? You decide.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Thoughts: Updates because your bad? Somebody elses philosophy.

So, today i went to the Preston GW and played a couple of games of 40k with my wolves, it was great fun to play 40k again after playing fantasy alone for a while. But, when I was talking with some of the guys there one of them was half joking half talking seriouly talking about how Necrons really needed an upgrade and that it was unfair that marines got a new one virtualy every week (egsageration I know) then another guy said in the same way that was because Marines lose so GW feels they need updates whereas necrons can win when played right. We then got into a discussion about the fact that nubes always go for marines.

Now, that philosophy about marines being well, FAIL! is interesting to me, I don't belive in that, do you nplease tell me. Now the other thing is that marines are poster boys and that's whay they always get picked, so I was thinking that we could put together some posts on how to do some articles on different armies and starting builds etc at different points values (1000-2000 pts) then how they are easy and hard to play with, now these don't have to be collected together but just have a think about you favorite army and whether you could put a post up on your blog doing what I described above.

So, tell us what you think, thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Thoughts: New Years Resolutions

Yea yea I know everyone is doing this but I am going to go ahead and pot up mine:

1. Finish army finishing project.
2. Build up some proper tactics with an army that I like and is effective (ie Space wolves and warriors of chaos).
3. Keep this blog updated with interesting content.
4. To do the random bits that pop up in the year like buying new stuff and to have them done with and not just left around.

So, not to big a list but then again the army finishing project is a big thing. I hope you had a gret christmas and a happy New Year. Thankks for reading,

Jacob.

Thoughts: your perfect game?

So, I was wondering, what would define a perfect game of 40K. Would it be to smash your opponent and lose no models, to win like a master tactician. Or would it be better for a game where you just lost but is was tight all the way and every decision counted. You tell me, I personaly love the super tight games, you may not. Tell us!

Thanks for reading,

Jacob

Army Lists: Does everyone take a top build. In my area the answer is NO!

Is it just me or does it seem that on the web everyone thinks that there is a lack of players that just play for fun and don't always take the max build. I mean fantasy in particular because I know that touney scene better from podcasts. I mean Dark Elves are supposed to be the end all on the tourney scene but a lot of players think they are very weak and that the hydra is too expensive in lower points! What a difference is that.

Lash is still a bigish deal and people think it's neat in my area but we just stick in rhinos or blast away at the princes. There is also a lack of double tyrand and double prince lists.

What I'm trying to say is that not everyone takes a tourney build some people just take something competative but not OTT.

So, what do you take. How is your local area in comparion to the tourney scene. Tell me please!

Rambles: Stop dancing around and fight (40K light hearted ramble).

(If you didn't get it then I must tell you this is not serious).

Why, of why do we run around skipping and singing in our RHINOS that are meant to charge. You may as well call them Gypsy vans for all the rhino charging they do. Wave serpents and falcons are not much better. The falcon is a deadly predator but it must be pregnant and lazy for all the killing it does.

With the advent of 5th ed and full mechanisation in a lot of armies we have seen a lot less killing with men. Yes you still shoot with your lascannons and auto cannon teams but the majority of your force scoots about for the duration of the game then makes one little assault or grabs one objective. COME ON, take a leaf out of the khorne berzerkers book and CHARGE!!!

I mean I know it's a valid tactic if you want to win a tourney or something but in pick up games you need action to have fun. Come on people. Add 10 man assault marine units and some assault termies then back it up with deverstators. Overwhelm you opponents with the rapid fire of 30-40 marines.

Go with the fluff. If you go with the fluff that says you can sit back and fire then take objectives at the last moment then damn you, I hope you go to hell, have fun and CHAAAARRRRRGGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yea that felt good. Come on. I know you want to win some times but agree with opponent to have a fighty game and attack them.

Because I think that there is A) not enough variety in our missions and B) a lack of scenarios at the moment. I am going to come up with some scenarios and additional missions so we can have some more variety. So, go from this:

To this:



Thanks for reading everyone, please tell us what you think. Remember this was light hearted banter and I did not mean to offend anyone. Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Painting: Quite a lot of small updates (with decent pics)

Ok, so I have been working on taking pics and have addjusted the white ballance on my camera.

So here is a big load of updates.

A couple of WIP Sallies.

The back of my last WIP Sterngaurd

The weapons.

The front.

Sorry about the slight bluur. This is the side of my newly finoshed ''dirty,'' Sterngaurd.

other side.

Front

First finished Sallie.

and again

and again.



My new paint station (beats a cardboard box and newspaper).

The plastic that I paint/mix on.

Now for the news: I keep a note book by my bed which I plan my evil schemes in, this has made up data sheets, fluff and all sorts of other rubbish.

I will be starting work on Vang very soon in answear to the poll that has now ended.

I will be playing my friend this Friday.

I would really appriciate any thoughts or critisisms or anything else you have. Oh and I have an idea, if everyone took a picture of their whole (1) army or a legal part of it, then E-mailed me via the address up in the right corner of my blog, then I could put all the photos on my blog and put up a poll to ask the public who's they like the most. This is only an idea and you will have to tell me what you think.

Thoughts: Simplicity.

Now I ahve been thinking lately, does it make a differance if things are mor simple, my answer was yes.

Now that I had established that I got onto thinking how: if you have to type in your display name, e-mail, avatar link and a password every time you want to comment on something you are less likely to comment, am I right. Now if everything you write is long winded and you take forever to get to the point less people are going to read your posts.

I had lots of other thoughts but these are just a few. Also battle reports are interesting but if you have no pics then they take forever to red and you have to picture the battle in your head.

If your blog is comlecated like how I ahve described then I understand that you may have your reasons, these are just my ramblings.

My Army: Salamanders.

Ok guys, I went to GW and had a thought, why not paint some of my WIP marines as Salamanders, I alredy have the colours and it would be cool. I think in about 5000 points 2 chapters might be working together.

Thoughts: Vangaurd in 4th.

I have been thinking lately. How could you make Vangaurd in 4th, then it hit me, why not use the old vets and give them honours, jump packs and the sergeant a power sword. It's an elite instead of a fast attack but that leaves room for more speeders and assault squads. You get a free ability in exchange for heroic intervention. It costs about 200 more points but the point is it's possible. I wonder if anybody did this in 4th.

Thoughts: Back to the basics

I have been thinking lately (wow thats a nice change) that with all the marine new shiney stuff that people will forget about the basics like, special weapons can kill tanks, Rhinos do a different job to drop pods and should be your default choice unless you are playing a special scenario, Terminators are at least equal to vets (of all variety).
What do you think I am open to comments and thoughts.