Some you win, some you sell.

Having gotten rid of most of my Dwarf army and half of my Imperial Guard, I am now in the process of putting up my Dark Angels for sale. Doing this is making me feel a little sad as I’m infinitely more attached to most of my Space Marines. I have already listed 34 lots so far and there is already a bit of interest, so there’s no turning back on those. But I’m having some trouble with some of the characters, especially a Terminator Chaplain. It’s one of two models (the other being The Deceiver) that I have sat properly sat down in front of and painted to a satisfactory level for me (I still have the painting age of a five year old though). I just put that model to one side and will probably list it last. Will I have the same trouble with the likes of Azrael or Asmodai? To be fair, I haven’t painted them in the same manner, they are not even finished, so will likely have no problem getting rid of these.

Yet another slippery slope.

Thanks to Grand Master Vish (and the Fury-ous Five?!? (sorry about that)), I am now going to start a Skorne force for Hordes. I have said in previous posts that I was probably going to do this towards the end of the year as the Forces of Hordes: Skorne will be available. I was going to divert my Menoth's Might budget that month and get the battle box and begin from there. But due to special circumstances, Vish left to go up north and got everyone a little surprise, my plans have been accelerated. Vish kindly left me a Razorworm to kick things off. I do love the look and the idea of her (I’ve decided she’s going to be called Mildred), but I’m just afraid that my paint job will ruin her somehow. One of the reasons I was a bit afraid of starting a Hordes force with loads of beasts was that my lack of patience in the painting department. No patience leads to rushed job. Rushed job leads to thick paint. Thick paint leads to crap looking models. I have never been able to blend colours or highlight properly, and I’m probably not going to start anytime soon. The only time where I have spent hours on one model was The Deceiver and that was with only two colours. I started him of with Red Gore and slowly added more and more Burnished Gold with each layer. I think he looks alright and fairly god-like.


But still, I’ll sit down tonight (as long as the wife hasn’t planned anything) and look through the play test rules for Skorne and see how it goes from there.



Thanks again Vish.