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So I decided* I needed to tidy up my 'Hobby Room' as it had become more like a nest.
*By 'Decided' I mean 'was ordered to by my Girlfriend'
The upside was that I managed to clear some shelf space and get a decent overview of what I actually had. The following picture would be more impressive if I'd thought to take a 'before' picture and had taken pictures of the 2 shelves either side...But I didn't.
Though I apparently have a lot of sprues that need to remove the last few bits from and put them away in some appropriate containers. That however is a job for another day.
Of Course It isn't all good...
The downside to this is that it brought into sharp focus my inability to actually finish projects.
I did once paint one and used him about 3 times. Once he survived all the way until turn 3...
I also apparently reuse the same vehicles in every Marine army I do as I seem to have a large amount of unpainted vehicles. I also have 6 Land Raiders which is somewhat ironic as I think I've only ever used Land Raiders in a game of 40K once.
The Khorne Berzerkers I'd converted into Jump Pack Marines to use as my 'Counts As' Blood Angels army have been removed from the plastic bag that was apparently their home and have got a shelf of their own. If I keep seeing them then I might get the urge to actually finish them...
Same goes for my Bike army.
The Tyranids desperately need painting if I'm going to take them to tournaments and the Swarmlord could probably do with some arms.
The Imperial Guard 'Foot' list has performed adequately in it's few test games but unfortunately is unable to recover from bad shooting phases and it's not particularly mobile. It usually has 2 turns to de-mech an opposing army or it gets rolled over if the enemy still has viable transports after that.
The Assault Marines were part of my 'Renegade' Battle Company. The Daemon Princes need putting on more impressive bases at some point in the future but other than that they're more than adequately painted. Though, I'm not sure why I have Thousand Sons models as I've always thought they sucked.
This (pictured below) was my attempt to build a modular vehicle that could 'Count As' pretty much anything. All the guns are magnetised so can be changed at any point.
I had a lot of ideas for the Warhound all of which were abandoned...
When I bought this...
The Greater Brass Scorpion really deserves a good paint job but he's unlikely to be getting one any time soon.
So I have my usual mix of half (or less) finished projects none of which will be looked at till at least next week as I have some stuff to do for an Apocalypse game on Saturday.
I once laboured under the strange idea that Defilers could be made to work in a Chaos army. Later I came to the same daft conclusion about Soulgrinders in a Daemon army. Now the only conclusion about them I have is that their unfortunate shape makes them difficult to stack neatly...
I did once paint one and used him about 3 times. Once he survived all the way until turn 3...He'll now wait till the new Chaos Codex** makes him Armour 13 and WS 5 at the very least.
**Whenever the hell that is.
I also apparently reuse the same vehicles in every Marine army I do as I seem to have a large amount of unpainted vehicles. I also have 6 Land Raiders which is somewhat ironic as I think I've only ever used Land Raiders in a game of 40K once.
The Khorne Berzerkers I'd converted into Jump Pack Marines to use as my 'Counts As' Blood Angels army have been removed from the plastic bag that was apparently their home and have got a shelf of their own. If I keep seeing them then I might get the urge to actually finish them...
Same goes for my Bike army.
The Tyranids desperately need painting if I'm going to take them to tournaments and the Swarmlord could probably do with some arms.
The Imperial Guard 'Foot' list has performed adequately in it's few test games but unfortunately is unable to recover from bad shooting phases and it's not particularly mobile. It usually has 2 turns to de-mech an opposing army or it gets rolled over if the enemy still has viable transports after that.These will most likely stay as a 'fun' list till 6th Edition 40K flips the metagame completely towards infantry and gives them all a 4+ Cover save and changes the vehicle damage table to 1-2 wrecked, 3-4 explodes, 5-6 explodes killing everyone inside and all other vehicles on the table explode in sympathy...Your laughing now...but just you wait ;-)
The Assault Marines were part of my 'Renegade' Battle Company. The Daemon Princes need putting on more impressive bases at some point in the future but other than that they're more than adequately painted. Though, I'm not sure why I have Thousand Sons models as I've always thought they sucked.
This (pictured below) was my attempt to build a modular vehicle that could 'Count As' pretty much anything. All the guns are magnetised so can be changed at any point.The pile of Defilers pictured earlier may turn into a couple more of these if I can dismantle them fairly intact.
I had a lot of ideas for the Warhound all of which were abandoned...
When I bought this...
The Greater Brass Scorpion really deserves a good paint job but he's unlikely to be getting one any time soon.And finally for every-bodies amusement I found the first model I ever painted...
So I have my usual mix of half (or less) finished projects none of which will be looked at till at least next week as I have some stuff to do for an Apocalypse game on Saturday.Thoughts, Comments and Inspiring tales of apathy are (as usual) most welcome.
I've just done something very similar (although in my case it was less an order and more a 'shit, we can't see the floor in here!'), and it's been a bit of an eye-opener. The Nids take up a lot of space, and it's doubtful that I'll be able to fit many more Skorne in; the planned expansion to my Cryx is going to have to wait until I've decided whether or not to ditch some stuff; and at least there's room for more Dark Elves on their shelf. The hope of maybe doing some mutie-grobbly Dark Wolves down the line has become a fool's hope.
ReplyDeleteDon't talk to me of Defilers, either. I remember the days of 13/13/11 and being able to ignore or repair anything but a 'Destroyed' roll on the damage charts. Defilers were hot shit back then, much like any hot new kit that's the flagship of a particular re-release...
Have you tried three of them and three lightly-armed 'safe' Dreadnoughts? Six similar targets might be enough to force some choices, especially if you have more mid-ranged vehicles in the Troops slots.
When I started reading this post I thought you were using pictures of my hobby room!
ReplyDeleteGW marketing must be something else the way I have a thousand part completed projects hanging around and yet still find my newly grown desire for a Dark Eldar army clamouring for attention...
Mind you, I have heard that veteran gamers die when they paint the last model in their painting queue...
Wow... lots of Rhinos. And even more bare plastic.
ReplyDelete@ GDMNW - I sure hope that isn't true lolz
Messanger
Looking at your boxes of sprues. It appears you have alot of half empty sprues. I've found it saves alot of space if you remove the empty areas... or sometimes even cutting those last few bitz off.
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You have too much money GMort! :)
ReplyDelete@ Von - yes I've tried the CSM MC style 3 Defilers, 3 Dreadnought lists but I haven't had much luck with them.
ReplyDelete@ GDMNW - If the thing about painting your last model is true then I'm effectively immortal ;-)
@ Messanger of Death - I have containers to put the sprue parts in I just haven't got around to cutting all the bitz off yet.
@ Mercer - Most of that stuff was bought during a time when I had a lot more spare cash. Now I have a family instead, which turned out to be much more expensive...