Oh yeah I almost forgot to mention these came yesterday as well!
On the 11th of this month 6 of us are getting together to have the first Epic Empires Rogue Trader Tournament. It’s really just a practice session for one of our players that likes to do the RTTs at local cons. But I figured I would make a show of it.
I was really impressed with the stein quality – heck even the Tshirts from cafepress seem to have gotten better.
Tuttle out!
I completed my Hive Tyrant this morning. Overall I think he looks pretty good. For the centerpiece of my army though… I’m a little disappointed in the Venom Canon on his right arm. I just couldn’t come up with a better way to paint his ranged weapon. If you have any suggestions let me know.
Overall though – I am really pleased with the way the entire army is coming out. Once completed it will definately be fun to place on the table!
UPS guy just dropped off the rest of Chelles Eldar Warhost!
I have a feeling there is a lot of assembly coming our way now!
1 ELDAR CODEX
6 ELDAR JET BIKE BOX
1 ELDAR FALCON GRAV TANK BOX
2 ELDAR DIRE AVENGERS BOX SET
3 ELDAR WAVE SERPENT
2 ELDAR HOWLING BANSHEES
1 ELDAR FARSEER
Tuttle(s) out!
So in one of my earlier posts I mentioned that my Chaos Army would be the last army I bought for 40k. That was before my wife decided to get involved…
Thus I bring you The Eldar. These are the first pictures of her army. We are waiting for the rest of it to arrive on Wednesday of next week (We are anxiously tracking the package through UPS from The Warstore).
With luck I ran into a guy at the local gamestore who knew a guy (who knew a guy) that was selling a bunch of Eldar cheaply. We met with him today and… well let’s say we spent some cash…
Most of these forces pictured below are a result of that exchange. Simple Green did a wonderful job of removing the crappy paint from the Wraithguard here. Left out of the pictures is the Avatar that is still soaking in Simple Green overnight.
We are both very excited to start playing some games… maybe even by next weekend at this rate.
Tuttle Clan Out!
The painting of the endless hordes of gaunts finishes its first fifteen models. It took a little longer than I anticpated but it still wasnt bad. Next I am going to be taking a break from Gaunts for a bit and spice it up with some Tyranid Warriors.
Probably not this weekend though… but you never know. In a few hours my wife and I are meeting a guy selling a bunch of Eldar stuff. So if she can start painting soon, I will probably be right there with her doing painting of my own!
So here are all the models done so far – oh yeah the third Carnifex is finally done as well. Keep in mind this is a 2500 point list so there is still a lot to go…
I am really pleased with the way this whole thing is looking. It makes me excited to get them on the field and put them up against a few opponents. Now I just need to learn to play Nids a little better….
Tuttle out!
Here we go again. However this time I have decided to knock out a few troops. Working on my first 15 Hormagaunts here and I just have the base black applied to the carapaces. They will end up looking much like the Carnifexes in the posts below.
In addition we got the first of Chelles Eldar in today. Swooping Hawks and Fire Dragons! The rest of the shipment is due to arrive on Wed the 1st of July!
Tuttle out!
So the other day when my friend Kentaro came over and played his Sisters of Battle Army against my Tyranid Army, my wife walks in and says “So where are my Sisters of Battle figures?”
Turns out she wasn’t joking.
So after some discussion (and a look at GW prices on metal figures) she decided that Sisters of Battle, though they have a really nice background, are probably not the way to go for a beginning Warhammer 40k player.
Enter the Eldar.
The next day we placed an order for quite a few Eldar. Now I am not one to force my wife into taking part in any of my nerdy activities, but she is usually willing to try them. Additionally, she is really interested in painting and creative stuff. Since I have been doing a bunch of this lately, I think it sparked her interest.
This took the cake though: I came home the next evening to find she had read several White Dwarf magazine articles specifically about the Eldar as well as the Codex, and was starting to work her way through the actual rules in the 5th edition 40k book.
So tonight she asked if we could play a small Tyranid vs. Space Marine game so she can actually try out some of the rules! Not being an idiot I accepted immediately. So with two 650 point forces I made we had at it.
Now the fact that I LOST is NOT the point here. It was all about learning the rules damnit! Either way we both had a lot of fun! Here are a couple pictures my daughter took as we were explaining rules and playing:
Awesome fun! She (and I) cannot wait for the Eldar to arrive from The Warstore!
Tuttle out!
I now have 2 out of my 3 Carnifexes painted. Overall I am really liking the color scheme. The third Carnifex is about 80% done but not pictured here.
I played a game today against my buddy Kentaro. He runs a Sisters of Battle Army and I have a couple pictures I’ll put up a bit later. Off to go see a movie for now!
Game on!