Morning folks.
Apologies for not chipping in on last weeks weekender. Work’s been kicking my ass and then I just needed to disconnect from stuff. but enough self-pity –
@elessar2590 fair shout for taking over the reins for this weekend. It’s really heartening to see folks jumping in to keep the thread running (and save @mage from burnout) 🙂
Questions:
1) As should be readily apparent from my various Astartes, I LOVE a multi-pose kit that offers plenty of options. Gives you a real chance to play around with combinations and create something unique (or The LEGO Effect). I’ll admit that the Primaris kits outside of the easy to build kits worried me as the torsos and legs are more fixed but if you have the Intercessor and Hellblaster kits you have a huge range of options available, as well as spares for conversions (in fact the biggest limitation is their in-game loadouts). by the same token though I can full appreciate sets that are either mono-pose (great for mass-battles), or have more fixed poses. For example I adore Infinity, but whilst you can convert stuff up the fact they are metal makes it a bit trickier, but by the same token Corvus Belli make a real effort to ensure that each mini looks unique, even a line-trooper. Or there’s the LOTR kits where the troop boxes give you 12 individual sculpts per sprue, which will then repeat, but they are “grunts”….
2) I don’t have easy access to them at the moment so can;t take any pictures, but the last Empire army I attempted for WFB had some conversions and paint jobs for the characters that I remain incredibly proud of. But then these were painted before I took my break from painting and there are things I do now that if I had done then would have improved the overall effect. I am rather proud of my Ragnar Blackmane conversion, even if he’s not exactly unique amongst the community 😀
3) I’m a bit of a Hobby Butterfly? I’ve come back to 40k, and Infinity has become my main “Other” range (and my LOTR Rohan army is calling to me), but I do enjoy browsing news, Kickstarter and Ebay for ranges that might just make fun projects or something to give me a change of pace. As a rule I try to limit anything like this to skirmish games where you might only need a dozen or so models for a faction to be done.
So, still no painting this weekend, but over the last week I’ve built another 5 Blood Claws as I realized none of my existing packs went up to the 15-man limit
Given I had picked up a couple of extra copies of 40k: Conquest and had some spare bits built a 5-man rifle team of Intercessors (think they’ll go in the box for once the Wolves, Deathwatch & Crimson Fists are done…)
and as I had some parts spare used some of the extra intercessors to knock together 2 more Hellblasters for my Deathwatch to field a 5-man squad, purely so it gives me a HS choice to unlock the Relic Leviathan Dreadnought 😀
And finally for hobby I got my copy of Operation: Coldfront through for Infinity and got the Tartara Army Korps minis built. Gorgeous models.
Otherwise Got through The Punisher and Luke Cage S2 on Netflix, which were both excellent, and have Iron Fist S2 up next. Also I realised that I had set myself a rather ambitious goal on Goodreads of reading 104 books for the year, so 2 a week. Managed to get it to the point that I am now at 64 books down, 40 to go….
