I remember in my first blog saying as a 'joke' that this would be a record of my progress or lack there off. So on that high, the last 3 months have just flown by. Its funny how hobbies have to take a back seat to reality. Unfortunately my hobby and most other areas of my life had to take a back seat whilst I complete placement (for my university degree), my university degree and working so I can afford to eat (or buy more plastic crack as it seems but I will get to that later). However after my hiatus I have gotten back into the hobby (again) and I thought I'd share some progress and also some lessons I have picked up along the way.
So as much as I try to throw myself back into Warhammer Fantasy, I keep getting distracted by the lure of 40K. So to placate myself I recently dropped some cash (a bit) on getting myself set up in the 40K realm. With the new 40K rulebook, IG codex (Sorry Astra Militarum) and Militarum Tempestus resource books now purchased (Ok, a fair bit of cash) I have well and truly developed the 40K bug. For anyone who knew me, I used to love playing an Witch Hunters Storm Trooper army, so the idea of running a storm trooper army really appealed to me.
I also picked up over the last month some Tempestus Scions and also the new plastic commissar (Fine, it was a lot of cash). Firstly looking over the boxes I am in love with the scale GW has been able to recreate with their plastics. I have been far too used to the more chunky assembly however these guys actually look size appropriate. Considering this is my first jump back into the hobby full scale, I really don't wanna do things by halves. So I also took a look at a webstore called Back to Base-ix to purchase some really neato bases (neato is really an understatement check them out for yourselves) for my troopers. I decided on the ruins/rubble combo as I want this army to have a strong city fight theme.
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| You get a base, and you get a base, and yooooooooou get a base - Oprah |
With the arrival of my new bases I set about getting some models put together. I started off with the plastic Commissar. I am not kidding, the size of this guy is impressive for a fully plastic kit. He was so small that to get him assembled I found him very fiddly (especially considering I needed to pin him to his new base) however I have managed to get him together with only minimal cursing and green stuff usage.
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| Because of the size of his foot/calf I ended up using a pin to 'pin' him in place. |
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| I like the sense of movement this base gives the model. |
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| The finished product. |
So with my first assembled model of the year (Only took me 9 months) I look forward to moving onto the Scions. Painting maybe a completely different matter (HA!). Till next time (hopefully not in 3 months time) Catch ya,
Brodie
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| finished model with some of my old storm troopers. I am really looking forward to this army. |
P.S. I cannot believe the green stuff I bought 3 years ago had not dried up. I should add context, it survived 3 Australian summers. Well played GW.
Love the position of the Commisar on the base! He looks really dynamic, as if he's just spotted an enemy and is climbing down into a structure bolt pistol blazing to put them down :)
ReplyDeleteThanks man. I love the model too. And it works well with the awkward base well. Haha
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