My week in 40k

So this last week or so have been rather eventful. I got a game in and assembled and painted some minis. Lets start with some modeling!

I have had an Land Speeder on sprue next to my desk for awhile now... about 9 months. And I had a little inspiration to get it build and to finish the other one I have already built and painted. So I built the new Speeder on Thanksgiving and magnetized it along with the Typhoon Missile Launchers from the older Speeder. Then on Black Friday I got to painting!

 Missing Pilots... o well!

Aerial Assault!: First Impressions

So I picked up the latest White Dwarf, something I have not done in the last 5+ years, in order to get a look at the new "Fast, Skimmer"s / future flyers. My initial thoughts on the Stormtalon have not been that great. As I have already filled up my Fast Attack slots with Land Speeders/Storm, and a squad of Assault/Vanguard Marines I am hesitant to invest any more $$ in to the slot. Points wise it seems a bit steep when compared to the Vendettas I normally run in my IG list and the cheaper Land Speeders I have been using in my Space Marine army.

Taken from http://www.ninjabread.co.uk/

Throwing Paint on Plastic.

Well I broke out the paints a bit this last week to finally work on the back drop for the display board I posted about earlier. I think it came out alright. I need to do some touch up here and there but as it is a background piece I am not to worried about it.

I also set about building one of the Land Speeders I picked up from the Game Empire Tournament I attended last month. I went ahead and magnetized it for a Multi-Melta and Heavy Flamer and figured that while I was at it I might as well do the same to a free Land Speeder I was given (it is in some really bad shape, that's why it was free). I also figured that since I had the paint out already that I might as well throw some paint on the Land Speeder to at least get them started looking like the fit in the army.

Game wise I have gotten in a few games with the Tyranids (getting ties against SM and CSM) and have been trying to help some of the guys with practices games for the 1,000 point random team tournament I am running this weekend. I also got in a couple games with the Space Marines. One was a 1500 1v1 vs Blood Angels where I tabled my opponent, the other was a 3-way game (Space Marines, Necrons, Eldar) using the "Broken Alliance" mission in the back of the BRB that ended in a 3-way tie with everyone only holding their home objective. I used the newly painted Mortis Contemptors in both games and they worked wonders.

Till next time, Happy Wargaming!