Tournament preparations continue this week. How have I been doing on my to-do list?

• Finish Deathrains. Detail work is completed, and I started painting the bases last night. They should be finished up this evening.
• Finish Piranhas. I’m on the detail stage now. Lenses and edge highlighting are complete, and now I’m on painting the cockpit and pilots. I’m hoping to have these finished up Wednesday night.
• Assemble Devilfishes. Mission accomplished. Sadly, the weather was far too damp to allow priming – we’ve had dense fog for the past several days – so I’ll have to run bare plastic on these.
• Get in practice games. I managed to get in one game against my friend Dennis’s Eldar tournament list. The list performed pretty much as I hoped it would. My Piranhas harried his armor, my Crisis Suits and Hammerheads worked on picking off infantry, and my Fire Warriors came in later to sweep up objectives. I managed to keep his assault unit (Howling Banshees led by Jain Zar) ineffective by denying it any targets. I’ve got a feel now for how the army plays, and I like it.
• Make any final changes to the list. My earlier list tweaks have been tested and found successful. I think this list is as ready as I’m going to get it.

Tonight and Wednesday are my last painting nights this week, so it’s a bit of crunch time here. Fortunately, it’s just detail work for the most part, which goes very quickly. I think I should have no problem finishing up my work before Saturday afternoon.