Army Overviews - models to paint

Hey Gang,

Today I just wanted to show you a few pictures of my assembled and painted armies. I have finally got round to finish my unpacking after the house move and its always nice when I have all my minis out rather than half packed in boxes for games. I also just wanted to run through what I currently own that is left to paint for each of these armies as I was cataloguing that as I unpacked just for my own info so I can tick them off!

Mechanicum

So you've obviously seen a lot of these recently so I'll get them out of the way quickly! 

To-do:

2 x Krios Venators - these kits have arrived and they are LOVELY! Very excited to prep and undercoat these guys.

3 x Domitar Battle-Automata - You may have recalled I only ordered 2 of these and that is because due to an error in my order I got 3! Huzzah! These kits are also lovely and I am very keen to put some cool conversion ideas into practise with these. 

Death Company

These guys have been around longer than any of my current armies and I am so close to the end!!

To-do:

6 x Death Company - These guys are almost finished in their base coating and the end is nigh!

Sell 1 x Baal Predator - I'm just not quite happy this one came out so I am selling it for extra hobby cash!

The Red Angels

A much smaller contingent by far than the Death Company but they should be nicely bolstered by what I have left to do with them.

To-do:

5 x Vanguard Veterans - These will be alternatives in a CAD or I can run them in the Archangel Strike Force fromation.

10 x Scouts - These are leftovers from my Black Templar army that I have decided to give over to the Blood Angels as minimal tax troop choices.

5 x Sanguinary Guard - These were converted many moons ago now but I am still keen to get them painted up and on the table. Difficult to run without a CAD which as the motivation for the scouts really!

1 x Drop Pod - This bastard is needed to make the furiouso dreadnought viable and I am loathing finishing this. But hey ho it'll look good I hope!

1 x Chaplain - Again a model that has been converted for a long time and even has some base coat on it... I just haven't had the motivation, but it will be done!

1 x Librarian in terminator armour - The librarian specific to the blood angels, also part base coated, same as the chaplain it will be done!

The Dark Angels

My goodness I put a lot together very quickly and then just fell off them! But rest assured they have not been forgotten and I am lining models up to do in small batches of 2-3 for these guys. Though first up I have to clear a couple of big things...

To-do:

1 x Dark Talon - This guy has been 1/4 done for some time but I keep thinking its a bigger job than its actual is. I want to get the Ravenwing painted up first to give me the option as taking them as Ravenwing strike force. 

1 x Sammael - Already undercoated but also put off as a big job that probably isn't going to be that much work. An excellent multiplier for the Ravenwing and a near must take too. 

3 x Ravenwing bikers - These are the three bikers from the Dark Vengeance set so no complicated modelling to undertake!

5 x Deathwing Terminators - Again just the 5 that come with the Dark Vengeance set, I think I can whizz these out fair quick once I get the paint layers down in my mind. 

15 x Tactical Marines - This is just a duplication of the Tac marines that I have already painted so that I can run dual Death Company. 

5 x Lascannon Devastators - Same as the other Devastators they will have sternguard torso/legs and they will look boss for it!

3 x Company Command/Veteran Squads - I have a couple of boxes of Dark Angel Veteran boxes and want to make Command Squads out of them, as well as make a veteran squad out of left over bits. 

1 x Contemptor Dreadnought with dial Kheres Cannons - This is making use of the Contemptor from the Betrayal at Calth box that I don't fancy for my Alpha Legion. 

1 x Interrogator Chaplain - Seraphicus from the limited run Dark Vengeance that is very close to being done but just fallen by the side!

2 x Company Master - Both are from Dark Vengeance and I haven't had a chance to have a play around with them yet.

1 x Librarian - Another Dark Vengeance push fit model that I want to try and convert for some extra identity. 

1 x Drop pod - this is in bits but needs to be put together and finished off for a squad to ride into.

Things to buy:

This is the only army on my list that has a too buy section as I really want to boost the vehicles of the army. Mainly this is too add to the manoeuvrability of the army but also to take advantage of the full company free transports formation.

4 x Razorbacks - I want these with a variety of options so that I can have the extra fire power but also for objective grabbing with 5 man tac squads or Company command squads as they will have objective secured in the demi-companies. 

2 x Dreadnoughts - I want these just for the chance to model them as I feel they really fit the Dark Angels very much.

Overview and other things

So that's the run of my armies that are currently under way already. Obviously I still have the Alpha Legion lurking in the back ground but they will be dealt of in a separate post. In other news I also got my standing from the tournament I attended the other weekend, despite only playing 4/5 games due to illness I managed to rank 27/60 which is my best showing ever and also is a TO-DONE as one of my other 40k addict challenges was to place in the top half of a tournament! So that tournament has really fulfilled a lot of long term goals for me :)

Thats all from me today! I hope you have enjoyed a little flit through my collection today!

Peace out,

Rob

More Death Company and To-do list update

Hi Readers,

Another quick fire post from me today. I've had a productive adult day tidying the house and cleaning after a fairly imbibed weekend. But I found time to sit down and file and clean the front and backs for 10 jump packs and 20 shoulder pads for my next batch of death company, who have no been built! I also re-jigged my working space so that it was less haphazardly piled and had at least a slight cohesive sense of what I was doing next (With a few options available if I am bored of that!).

So here is a some pictures of the 10 new Death Company that are drying from black primer as I type:

I'm very happy with how they look even with the older metal sculpts. I'm particularly pleased there is a showing from a couple of good old beaky helms!

And I sat down this evening with one figure to get it going. This was the Librarian from the Dark Vengeance box which came with my Dark Angel horde recently. Here is a deliberately far away sneak peek picture for you of him just after basecoating. More pictures to follow later in the week (Well, I've got to keep you keen haven't I!).

And finally, for all those interested here are some pictures of my work shop bedroom!

To-do Pile

So in my current to do pile I have, hopefully in the order they will get done:

1 Dark Angel Librarian

5 Death Company that have already been started

10 Death Company that have been primed

5 Dark Angels Veterans (waiting on their shoulder pads to get started on painting)

Build 10 more Death Company

5 Sanguinary Guards (looking forward to painting these)

Paint the last 10 Death Company (Then they will all be done!!!)

Paint a Blood Angel Drop pod in red scheme for furioso dreadnought.

That is supposed to take me up to Christmas pretty much.

I'll re-evaluate what I want to get done and how successful this was after christmas presents! But till then I hope this excites you all for what I will be getting done. I will also be attending Blog Wars X in November which promises to be fantastic and is also a good motivator for getting stuff done!

Till next time,

Peace out,

Rob

Joining the 40K Addict - To Do List 2015/2016

Hi Readers,

As the big bold stamp above and the title of this post indicate, I am going to be joining 40K Addict, Dave Weston in his vowed To-Do list for the 2015-2016 season (I presume it runs from this sort of time either due to the British school calendar or possibly the British football season....). You can find details of this over at the amazing Confessions of a 40k addict Blog where Dave is currently constructing an immensely cool man cave in his garden. He is also on my blog roll so if you scout down there you should find his ramblings along with his incredible painting skills (Check out his tyranids!).

Essentially this is a vow in order to spur on productivity and also to shape the direction of my endeavours rather than just incessantly getting off track and doing random bits of projects such so that nothing actually gets finished (I've actually been pretty good with this since I started the blog thanks to my Narrative campaign with Stuart.)

So below is my to-do list for the year ahead!!!


Goals Before Blog Wars in November

1. Build 20 more Jump Death Company

2. Paint 35 Jump Death Company and 1 Death Company Drop pod


Goals Before the end of January 2016

1. Paint the remaining 20 neophytes for my Black Templars

2. Paint the 5 vanguard veterans for my Black Templars

3. Paint Grimaldus and his servitors


General Goals to complete at any time

1. Pick a new army to start that has synergy with my Blood Angels (probably space marine)

2. Buy and start painting said army (probably a mix of ebay rescue bids and new purchases)

3. Start converting mechanicum or Tau models out of all the bizarre models I have picked up with this in mind (includes evangelion figures and some warzone resurrection miniatures).

4. Attend 3 tournaments as opposed to the 2 I attend this year (would have been 3 if Fluffageddon had gone ahead!)


The last section of goals is obviously very open ended in many ways but I will expand upon them as I get to them with additional units added individually as they come, but quite hard to do when I haven't picked the army yet!!

Anyway, that's what I'm aiming for this season and some of it has already been started and I hope to share some with you in the coming week! I will apologise now, there will be a lot of Death Company pictures coming up (A LOT!).

For now, keep on hobbying.

Peace out,

Rob