And so life plods on as usual. It’s
again been a while between updates with the usual excuse of work and home being
busy. We’ve had the odyssey of the
Amazing Vomiting Boy which resulted in many a sleepless night of worry and
cleaning followed by the saga of Giving Up the Dummy (which is still ongoing).
But the reason for this update is to give myself a slap upside the head
and get my 40K Apocalypse painting in gear.
I have 5000pts of Imperial Guard and Titans to get painted and ready for
January next year and I don’t want to rush it all in the last month or
two. To that end, I have a Plan(TM).
I have the following list of stuff to paint (and in some cases,
assemble):
Infantry:
Lord
Castellan Creed (General)
Sergeant
Kell (Standard Bearer)
Master
of Ordnance (special officer)
Lord
Commissar
2x
Officers
6x
Commissars
6x
Sergeants
3x
Autocannon Teams (2 models per team)
9x
Comms Grunts
2x
Sniper Grunts
2x
Flamer Grunts
6x
Meltagun Grunts
42x
Grunts
Total Infantry: 85 (d’oh!)
Vehicles:
Deathstrike
Missile Launcher
2x Vendetta
Gunships
2x
Custom Hydra AA Tanks
Total Vehicles: 5 (only, thank the
gods)
Titans:
2x
Reaver Battle Titans (Sweet!)
Now most of the infantry are built and ready to be sprayed (I only have
three grunts to go before they’re all done).
Of the vehicles I only have the Missile Launcher done but the Hydra AA
Tanks won’t take too much (I basically have to build the AA turrets and they’re
ready for paint). The Vendettas are
waiting on parts before I build them.
What I am really waiting for are the Reaver Titans! My mate Ags is making them for me and I
really can’t wait to get my hands on them and paint them up. I have always, ALWAYS wanted a 40K-scale
Reaver Titan. Now I’m going to get
two! This is what I’m talking about:
They’re awesomely cool and I’m really looking forward to getting them.
This weekend I hope to get some colour onto the Infantry and get the
Hydra AA Tanks built. I plan on having
all the infantry done by the end of September with all of the tanks to be done
by the middle to end of November, leaving all of December and January free
for the Titans. It’s kind of ambitious
for me (as I rarely get more than a handful of minis painted in a year) but I
really want to stick with it and get them all done. There’ll be lots of spray painting and washes
to speed the process so I think I can do it.
Wish me luck! I hope to have
semi-regular updates here to keep me motivated.
