Once again, illness has caught me in its sticky, snotty web and basically wrecked my week. Fortunately, it wasn’t the H1N1 swine flu (or as my wife likes to call it, “hamthrax”), so I seem to have bounced back.

In the meantime, I’ve been working on a couple of assembly projects when I haven’t been blowing my brains out through my nostrils.

1. My first Chaos Defiler, which is roughly one-third of the way done. The legs and arms are built, as is the abdomen. Last night, I started getting the torso/cannon assembly together. After that, it’s a matter of assembling two CCWs  (this is a Khornite Defiler), and then I’ll just put it all together. Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow. The sooner  the better, though – I want to try out my 1000-point CSM list, although I still need to get the Raptors assembled as well.
2. Four Crisis suits to pad out my latest Tau list. So far, I just have the torsos put together, and that alone has been an exercise in shaving, filing, and filling with green stuff. The torsos themselves fit together well, but the jetpack assemblies were not so kind. It took a fair amount of trimming down some miscast curves in otherwise-flat surfaces to get them to fit even remotely flush, and even with that there were still gaps that needed filling. Thanks to this, I’m also down one hobby knife blade – one of mine snapped mid-shave, ricocheted off my forehead, and landed on my wife’s desk. Fortunately, no one (besides the knife blade) was hurt in this incident. The green stuff has cured and has been sanded down, though, so I’m ready to move on to limbs and weapons.

My painting schedule should resume in November, so I’m planning on getting my Hammerhead done then. Hopefully, I can get some priming done before it gets too cold to do it outside.