Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Merry Christmas!

Howdy folks, Rayuzaki has returned and with a truck load of Christmas cheer, so hold on to your little elf hats and read on.

I'd like to start by thanking everyone I know, and to everyone I don't who actually take the time out of their lives to actually read this, I understand it's probably not that riveting or exciting, but I enjoy making these blogs and reporting on what I'm up to, even If I've not actually done a lot in the last while it's nice to vent this stuff, makes it seem like it's actually interesting anyways.

So the festive season is upon us, I've actually done all my shopping, wrapped my presents, watched Muppet's Christmas Carol, and tomorrow is my last day at work and then I'm on vacation. That means some srs Hobby tiems lek! I'll maybe even try and squeeze in an apocalypse game in over the festive season. So Chilly, one of my mates has arrived home and Bremy another who lives away from us here in the cold Chaos Wastes, arrives tomorrow too so we'll all get to hang out and enjoy the festivities. The next 2 weeks will see me, partying, enjoying and relaxing a lot with my friends and family, as I'm sure everyone does, so while it's pretty standard and doesn't seem that major, it's a big deal to me. I may not always seem like the cheeriest bugger, but dammit I love the festive season, everyone comes home, has fun, forgets all the troubles and ills that are floating around and revert to their happier selves. Not only that but it gives us all a much needed break and reminds us of just how lucky we are, and of how lucky I am. So guys and my family, I wish you the Merriest Christmas and Happiest New Year I can. And to all you readers, I wish you the same fond wishes and festive cheer.

Anyways, you thought I'd escaped without doing any work again didn't you? Well you'd almost be right, but alas, I have done some work. I've upgraded my Possessed squad from 5 to 10 and built them, I've built all my Bikes and Obliterators, and I've even started work on my Dark Apostle to lead the host. I'm also looking into potential models to act as my First Acolyte, Icon Bearer and Coryphaus (Although my Termie Lord may suffice there.)



My Dark Apostle will use the Space Marine Terminator Chaplain as a base and with some minor modification should come out looking quite nifty, for my First Acolyte I intend to use the Chaos Space Marine Lord model (shown below) as it, also my First Acolyte will suffice as a standard lord in smaller points games. My Icon Bearer will probably be left until I make a Chosen squad as I like the idea of him leading it.


Finally I'm starting to try and track down models for an undivided Daemon Prince but to no success yet, if anyone has any reccomendations for this besides the GW ones please post or E-Mail me.

Anyways I sort of drifted off track there, so remember, I hope that big jolly red fella, Saint Nick, brings you whatever you want or need this christmas and that you share and recieve with equal gratitude and good will, also Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and have a wonderful time off and remember 'to honor christmas in your heart, and to keep it all year.'

Suprising that I'm good with Word's eh? Now Spread it.

Sunday, 13 December 2009

The Metal!

Howdy folks, back from the brink once again to bring you exciting news and painting updates...... oh wait. Nope.

So the last 2 weeks I've been back on 12 hour shifts.... which means lack of painting, but thatnkfully before that slog of work began I was able to go down with some mates for the weekend to see Sabaton and Dragonforce in the Iron Works in Inverness.

Truly an awesome gig and a much better way of spending my weekend I must admit..... painting your army... pfft I say.


So the gig was awesome, I met a very nice man we dubbed 'Gandalf the Metal and Thor' this guy (Shown above) is epic enough to deserve both those titles. Also I got to meet one or two of the members of Sabaton in a bar called Hootenanny in Inverness, much awesomeness insued.


So once again I've dodged some painting and not really informed you of much but my almost interesting life. Thats not strictly true, next Febuary is one of my close friends 50th Birthday and one of the people responsible for my true love of Warhammer in general, so in his honor we intend to do a large scale fantasy game. This wouldn't be a problem if I hadn't given my sizeable dwarf army away to a friend, leaving me with no army, I decided then to buy a massive amount of Orc's and Gobbo's and use those a few months ago, and now that we draw close and for the game everything must be painted, I'm now s***ting myself that I won't get it done, but now that I'm not going to be in Glorius Scotland during January/Febuary I probably won't manage to take part anyways, Although I've painted 10 Spider Riders which I might post on another date.

So for now once I get off shift that is, I'll be back to work on my Chaos Vindicator asap as per the painting poll. Also I've built my bikes but I've not managed to build.... you guessed it.... my All Metal Obliterators.

Metal Models are the bane of my GW related exsistance and will forever haunt my destiny.... oh also another thing which has annoyed me and consumed my time is Magna Carta 2, if any game gets you into a mood to ragequit it will be that one. Thank god for CoD or I'd probably have killed.... again.

Peace out, 'Hey again Alana!!!' and remember to spread the word, also the butter or your toast will taste awful.