Archive for November 4th, 2009

Well, my computer is back in working condition (after a major mistake by Dell almost sunk the whole process) and despite some business around the house, I was able to make some progress in the interim. I have my 1000 point Khorne army assembled, based, and primed – save for one Rhino, which for some reason was missing a side door. A new door bit has been ordered, and I should have it completed and primed by the weekend. I solved my Raptor pistol conundrum with some good old-fashioned conversions (cut off one gun, replace with a spare bit), and I figured out a solution for my icon bearer problem. A little brass rod, a pin vise, and a bit of drilling, and I had a Khorne icon added to a pole on his jump pack. It looks a little unwieldy, but not too much more than GW’s Chaos Lord with Jump Pack does. I also managed to squeeze in a unit of Terminators into my priming window (which continues to shrink as the winds pick up and the days get shorter and colder). A Khorne Terminator Lord, one Heavy Flamer, two Combi-flamers, and an Aspiring Champion with Lightning Claws are ready to be painted. Now I just need to get my Land Raider assembled to cart them all around, and I should be able to bump my army up to 1500 points, or close to it. I’d probably need to get a third unit of Berzerkers ready, though, along with a Rhino for transport.

Meanwhile, I still have many Tau vehicles to paint. I love painting, but it’s the hardest part of the hobby (possibly besides playtime itself) to fit into a schedule with an 8-to-5 job and a two-year-old. Assembly, I can mostly do in spare time – it doesn’t take long to snip parts, file off flash/sprue nubs, and glue them together. Painting, though, has more set-up and clean-up time involved, and requires some concentration. I need to set aside some stretches of time as “Daddy’s Official Painting Time”, but that will have to wait until we can get the last few home projects finished. In the meantime, my Hammerheads are still basecoated and ready for the next step. If anyone has some tips or secrets to getting painting done in a tight time schedule, I’d love to hear them!