Retarded moulds!

I'm seriously annoyed, I tried to build my heavy weapon squad, but the new weapons don't fit with the old bodies. In going to need to order some of he new mark 2 armour this week. Also, one of my kheres assault cannons was missing a piece and one of the contenptors was missing the part to join the legs to the torsos. Luckily c the guy who my uncle bought them from still has the receipt and has sent it to me so that I can phone Forge World and try and replace the missing pieces.

In other news, my apothecaries arrived, but are in fact fake recasts. They're good recasts to be fair to them, and once painted no one will know the difference. I was also able to pick up 3 rhinos, with Forge World doors fairly cheaply on eBay, so they're waiting to be cleaned up and have a dozen blade attached to them.

Over all my army is coming on slowly., and even more so since I've got a 3000 word essay due in 2 weeks an I've take to completing assassins creeds 1,2, brotherhood and revelations before I start 3 which arrived today. So far I've completed 1 and 2 in the last week, and am roughly 10% through brotherhood from one play. Hopefully I can start painting some point next week once my essay is finished...

It's Speeder Time! Sorta

So the parcel with the 2nd ed land speeders arrived today, as you can see below. So the plan now is hunt down heavy bolters in my bits box to equip them, get bases for them and strip the paint. That last one i don't really want to do, simply because they are actually really nicely painted. But I don't think the VIIIth would be happy to have a Blood Angel and Ravenwing land speeder flying around with them, better two Night Lord ones. So it's off to get some nail varnish remover to give these guys a nice bath :-) Unless someone out there knows anything better.

 And as for this guy, I've had him a while now and I think he'll be joining the speeder and anything else I find that needs paint stripped in the bath. One legion librarian hopefully ready to go soon. I think the only bit that is 'safe' to strip is the marine, the rest will basically disintegrate unless I've misunderstood what nail remover does to plastic.

C+C welcome

Why do I bother with that, no one's out there. Only joking.

Damn you Forge World!! And an update

I can now categorically state that I hate Forge World. This is because the sole thing preventing me from buying most of my army was the lack of the updated armour sets which if you check FW, you will find have now been put up for order. I'm now stuck between ordering most of the army now, and being happy but having no money; or not ordering the kits, having to resist temptation for two weeks until I get paid (which will never work) but having money for AC3 and various family occasions.
It's basically a forgone conclusion that my resistance will cave in over the next few days, if not sooner so which that in mind, by the beginning of November or whenever FW ships the stuff i'll have everything in my 2000 list minus the chaplain, assault marines, rhino and predator. So that'll be a nice second order at some point. Hopefully my 2nd ed land speeders will arrive in the next few days so i can work on them, depending on what they require.

Anyway, the army so far, might as well put up a few images of the models for your view.

 Zso Sahaal. If you can't tell, he's crouching down like he's hunting something. An old piece of mine, he's probably about 5 or so years old minimum, all he needs now is his skull faced bolter, whenever i work out how to best do it. He spent most of our game yesterday in reserve with the assault squad before slicing apart a Tomb Stalker with some help in two rounds and then going after Trazyn and his lychguard. Had the game continued for another turn, who knows how Trazyn would have looked? It didn't look good for him...

 Legion Rapier. Yes, it is partially blu-tacked together but only the crew to the base etc. Once I order the next load of bases off of Secret Weapon, it will get a proper base in the same style as the rest of the army. And yes, it is on a 60mm base, all of them will be. I'm pretty pleased with this 55 point beauty after our game yesterday, it killed a Monolith in 2 turns by hull pointing it to death, not quite as good as i'd have hoped but for a first game, it's impressive none the less.

Atramentar squad. Pretty self-explanatory really loadout wise. Two games played with them, they butchered the orks in the first one, and died like bitches to the Necrons yesterday, but a C'tan will do that to you. One of two squads i'll have eventually, the other will be identical apart from a heavy flamer instead of the autocannon.

Atramentar sergeant and the army test model, kinda. If you're bothered, it's a Kantor Blue base, Nuln Oil wash and then Kantor Blue again. No doubt there'll be more done to the blue and the lightning bolts whenever I continue painting him. Also, he's a Terran hence the more 'warm' skin tone, the Nostramon legion members will be a very pale bunch, just as they should be.

And finally, the first half of a legion tactical squad. They've got all the upgrades, sergeant at the front (helm crest marking him as a Terran) with a legion vexillia to his left and a nuncio-vox at the back. I plan to follow the same as i did with the 40k marines, being that every man will have pouches, grenades, combat blades, pistols, etc or a mixture of them. It just make them more realistic in my book.

In case any of you wonder "Where are all the skulls?", all I will say is they're coming... The point I have set the army at, most of the legion hasn't begun the decent into madness, only those closest to Curze and his 'sanity'.

C+C always welcome.

Seriously, someone comment on something, just so we know people are actually reading any of this.

I've started to paint!

On Tuesday I started painting my Heresy Salamanders! Was very exciting and nerve racking at the same time. I started by looking in hobby stores for a spray paint to use as a base colour and found a perfect one in Homebase. With this sprayed on all the models I started to drybrush them with Death World Forest. This gave me the perfect platform to apply a wash of Ogryn Flesh, which has left the green of the Salamanders with a perfect muddy effect without taking anything away from the green. As of now that's all I've done, but I've started to pick out the shoulder guards with black, which will eventually have GW transfers applied t give the army a unified look.

VIIIth Legion List: Mark 1

I said i would give you a proper list after work, well here it is.

HQ

Zso Sahaal-207
Legion Chaplain-105

Elites
Dreadnought-175
5 Cataphract Terminators-215
1 Rapier Destroyer-55

Troops
10 Tactical Marines-200
10 Tactical Marines-205
10 Assault Marines-280
5 Support Marines-102
5 Support Marines-162
Rhino-55

Fast Attack
2 land speeders-100

Heavy Support
Predator-135

So, 1996 points of the VIIIth Legion, this is pretty much what i'll be making over the next few months.
Though probably with more rapiers and fewer land speeders, and a lot more Elites and Heavy Support.
And HQs and Troops and Fast Attack.


And Lords of War. Then allies.....

Welcome to my world ;-) My armies never end, only take breaks before coming back with a vengeance. So depending on what gets released, anything could appear on here.
From Revolutionary War America to the dark days of the 41st Millennium, via the Old World, it all can make an appearance.

Hello, I'm Konrad Curze and Welcome to Jackass

Hopefully, this has worked and you are all reading the beginning of my log.
So yes... er er, damn I got nothing.

Right I'm Daniel and I'm a Warhammeroholic. I've spent the last 12 years buying, painting and playing with my various armies. I wonder what my life would have been like without it... But that's not a discussion for here.
So Paul's already been talking about his Salamanders, who despite all looking near enough identical, poses  not counting, are still rather impressive in their mass numbers but that's what happens when you have access to a parent's credit card, git. So while Paul could pretty much build his army at Games Day, mine is still non-existant really. Or they've been here all along, watching, waiting... Though now I actually have a paid job, I can afford to properly start the army in the next few weeks. This will be fun :-)
Anyway, I am doing the VIIIth Legion, also known as the Night Lords. That's me on the right up top, hi. Paul, you know already I imagine while Harry is the jetbike (or Rapetrains as i'm sure he will insist on calling them in his own log) riding Thousand Son at the back. The image is also Harry's work, and if interested to see more, search Vangar Shriek into Deviant Art. There Harry, I've promoted you in my own log, you better be grateful.
As it currently stands, I have a Legion Praetor in the form of Zso Sahaal (look him up), 5 tacticals,  5 cataphratctii terminators, a rapier and a few assorted additional bits like vehicle crews. So not much really.
Though hopefully, i'll have a lot more this time next month. I think the army will be something like this;

Zso Sahaal
Dreadnought
5 Cataphracts
1 Rapier Destroyer
10 Tacticals
10 Tacticals
10 Assaults
5 Support Marines
5 Support Marines
And no doubt, a few tanks. This plus a few additional characters and units is what i would 'ideally' like to have by the end of the year, not sure of the points of all of it, i'll work it out later today after work.

So yes, C+C welcome not that there's really anything to say at the moment.

Starting Point

My most recent venture into my painting hobby has been fairly minimal to be quite frank. I\'ve been to busy building the first 30 Salamanders Space Marines from the Horus Heresy era. The army is fairly small as it stands, but it will still be a lengthy process to actually get the painting process correct on test models before starting on the beautiful (and very expensive) Forge World Mark II Crusade Armour models. I have an idea as of how I want to paint them, but haven\\\'t been able to find the time as I\\\'ve just spent my first residential week away for my Diploma, and on arriving home last night I\\\'ve indulged myself in building a Legion Praetor with a Power Fist and Plasma Pistol and Legion Heavy Support Squad with Missile Launchers over the course of today.

At the moment my army consists of two Legion Tactical Squads of 10, and Legion Support Squad with Flamers and Combi-Flamer and a second Legion Support Squad armed with four meltaguns and and a Close Combat weapon and Bolt Pistol. I also have a Land Raider Achilles to add into the army if the points allow me to. With the addition of the Legion Praetor and Heavy Support Squad, the army ranges around the 1200 points mark, which for a start isn\\\'t too shabby as everyone I play with have little to none of a Heresy Army at the moment.

Before I went away for my residential week I was able to find on eBay, from Russia, a set of three Forge World Apothecaries for no more than £26! Not to mention this is cheaper than buying two from Forge World directly, and this group are all wearing Mark II Armour, rather than the Mark II and IV that I\\\'d receive from Forge World. I couldn\\\'t miss the opportunity to add a unit of Apothecaries to my army, just because it brings more of a Heresy feel to the army.

Lastly but not least, I received an email from my Uncle on Friday, saying that he had a friend at work who had three Contemptor Pattern Dreadnaughts that they were looking to sell of fairly quickly. To my luck they were all unassembled and he\\\'d bought the combination of weapons that I would in most likelihood have bought myself if I\\\'d ever bought them at the full price. I sent an email back straight away asking my uncle how much is friend wanted for the models. I had an email back during the afternoon, saying that he\\\'d be happy to have £70 for them, and I said that was more than a fair price, as it is half of the current value of all the components. My uncle then very kindly offered to buy them for my as a present to say congratulations for getting onto my Diploma course after a tough year working out what my next move was. The even better news was that my uncle was coming up to London today for a business trip so he could drop them around earlier this evening. As I write this, all the different parts are soaking in soapy water so I can try and build them before I next meet with a group of friends for a game or two next week.

There will be a selection of photos uploaded in the next couple of days of the models before priming and some mid construction. I will also throw in some of test models if I find time to start the painting between work and essay writing.