Batrep & a rainbow

So tonight Tim and I (anthony) played our first real match, it was 2 objectives, my nids against his marines.

And now for the rainbow story. So it was raining and sunny out, it was an all around shitty day. Anyway, I go to the window and look towards Center City like I always do, and BAM!!!! HUGE ASS RAINBOW!!!

"Holy shit!," I said, "This is probably the gayest thing I've ever said, but that is one amazing ass rainbow, you guys gotta come see this thing!"
They came quickly and it was a good thing they did, the rainbow began to fade ever so slighty. I ran to get my camera and got it just as it was fading. Seriously, best rainbow ever.



Oh, and here are pics from earlier in the storm system when it was hailing outside pretty badly. The hail only lasted maybe 2 minutes, but that was a loud 2 minutes (even through 1" thick windows).






Battle Report

Well, access to funds has started

And with the access to funds, money is being spent. So Justin ordered the battle for skull pass, I have night goblins, 84 +3 to paint (minus 1 as of posting, since I'm posting to show the first NG fanatic I painted). Anyway, it took a little over an hour and a half, but I have one night goblin painted.



Glued!


Gesso'd! Because it was 83 degrees out at 2 in the morning with 80% humidity, I had to gesso rather than prime.


Finish Painting! Now I just have to read how to highlight, practice once, and highlight this little guy. Oh, and I want to paint his wristbands black, I painted them brown accidentally (because I didn't know any better).

Just putting together a few more assualt troops

With the rule changes coming and rumors they're changing the minis, I wanted to make sure I had at least 1 full squad of assault troops that looked the same. Drilling out plasmas tho has given me some questions, so tell me what you think of the wide bore please?







Oh, and I enjoyed some nice golfing yesterday, I'd like to title the first pic "ooooo sexy".

spring jam day

So yesterday, friday, I came home at 1:30pm, because I dropped the class I had at 2pm, I failed a midterm in, so I withdrew from it. Anyway, my girlfriend had work from 5-10 yesterday, so I decided, hey, my dad is home, lets go buy some death squad guys, and build them. So I go to the games workshop dealer in woodbridge mall, they have none. So I stand there, "how much do I want to spend, ooo this is nice." So I walked out of there 81.50$ poorer, but well stocked on glue, green stuff, those clippers that GW makes cause I really needed a pair and couldn't find a good equivalent anywhere else, and an attack bike squadron. Super fun happy time! (started drinking about half hour ago, finishing this now, mmm Navan cognac).

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Anyway, point of this is, posting pics from ben folds and pics of my latest bikes, 1 ready for paint so far.

School is the biggest Hoover© I know...

So yeah, school (6 classes worth of college) is sucking the time right out of my day. I should be doing some Process Modeling right about now, but since I instead wanted to search for jobs last night (another very important thing that will make me either happy or sad in the future) I am not even done with my History readings yet.

Anyway, last night I did find time to glue my LeMartes to his base, and filed him down a little more. I figure I'll get the main body done by the end of May (along with several other tac marines, maybe even my assualt vet sgt) and then figure out what I want to do with adding some "Death Mask" features to him, along with his left shoulder pad, which I'm probably going to steal the design from someone on the Bolter and the Chainsword Blood Angels forum.

Anyway, time to go read history, lay out what I need for process modeling, and enjoy the rest of my day!

Oh, and good news, I finally finished that one assualt troop u see below, he looks pretty damn good.

One week later

So I started class again, so that means less time for painting... OR DOES IT!!!

No, it does, so I finally finished that assault troop, took forever, cause I didn't know what exactly I wanted. Anyway here are the pics

3 hours laters (production time)

Well, this bitch took 4 hours to paint, but i tried some new tricks, here are the results

Some 1hr at a time pics

Figured I'd show pics of how I get paint onto the guys.

1 hour

Progress

Well here are some of my guys finally with the right color paint on them, progress is slow, but it's all coming together now that I'm at home and not working. Hopefully I have 3 more guys completed before I leave for school tomorrow.

Also, what do we think about this pose?

9pm - 3 months ago

First let me welcome whoever may stumble upon this blog for its purpose will be two-fold. First, I have created this to showcase my artwork (and my groups), in this case Warhammer 40,000 models. (Yes, I'll be trying to do this wiki style by default, detailing and referencing anything I can). Secondly, I will be using this as the main communication tool for all FSBS related activities I will be hosting in the coming years at Drexel.

Currently my group is 8 people, more importantly let me explain how this group came to be. 3 months ago my RA told me about fsbs, for students by students, a learning community program Drexel University was starting, and there would be free pizza, so I went! Then I found out we could apply for funding, not through safac (Drexel's money-hander-outters to groups), but through RLO, making getting money a lot easier since I wouldn't have to plan a year in advance. Also housing was first-come first-served this year, so halfway through the meeting, I ran upstairs and applied and told all my friends to apply and join my group.
It was at that moment I signed up that me and a few of my friends decided to try to get money to play Warhammer, later we'd pick 40k, since one of the guys was familiar with it and had pieces.
So one 4-page proposal and 2 weeks from now we'll see if I get the 1600$ I asked for.

Anyway, four of the 8 guys in my group for next year want to play 40k, and I know other people around campus play, so one day I'll be hosting tournaments in North Hall, which has a few nice big rooms with lots of tables. I'll post information for those tourneys here. Also, I'll be posting pictures of my army as it's being built, like later when I continue working on my space marine attack bike.