RANT: Forgefiend Assembly

Well the good news is that I am still making progress on the Chaos Marine army, the bad news is that thanks to GW I am facing an absolute mess when it comes to assembling my Forgefiend. You see in their instructions they co ahead and tell you to assemble the ball jointed feet on the miniature to the legs and then attach them to the body, the problem becomes that the feet end up in the wrong locations and you end up with this splay legged Forgefiend, I am not impressed…In the least!

I have one leg that right now I can’t do anything about given it has already been painted highlighted and shaded, the other three I am soaking in Simple Green with the hope of being able to break the bonds on the glue so I can reposition them, needless to say I am annoyed and its really delaying the completion of the piece.

What bothers me the most about this is that GW surely must have QA and one would think that they would have tested the instructions first before releasing them, I generally have a very favorable opinion of GW but this time I am down right angry, its costing me a lot of time and effort to get what is supposed to be a centerpiece of my army up and painted, and hopefully not damaging the paint work already done.

I’ll update the blog as soon as I have found a solution, but right now its just trying what I can and see where that takes me.  

Actual Progress!

Well folks, other than the picture not being great there is the first real progress on my army in some time, I am working on getting my forgefiend done. I am hoping to have it completed this weekend, at which time I will take some photos with my better camera and really get the detail out, but so far I am very very happy with how its turning out, its a pain in the neck kit to work on but I am liking the result. 

Anyways, just a short update, back to painting!

Let the Galaxy Burn...

Ok so things here haven't been going so well on a personal life side, I have been away from work for 12 weeks on a medical leave and I am just getting back, everything took a back burner including painting...However with the release of the new Chaos Codex I have finally gotten my butt in gear and started getting some project work done.

So far the list of what I have purchased and gotten prepped for the army is as follows.

1 Terminator Lord

1 Terminator Sorceror Lord

6 Chosen

20 Cultists

20 Chaos Marines

5 Chaos Terminators

5 Raptors

1 Aspiring Champion [Plastic Kit]

1 Forge Fiend

1 Hell Drake

Thats the starting point for the list, right now there isn't a lot to report when it comes to modelling, I am working on a lava theme for the bases for these guys and have started doing those up, I am planning on a base tutorial for them for later in the week so be looking for that.

I am also trying to perfect the design for the blasted brass armor using the current GW range of paints, since some of the colors have chaged that has ended up being a little tricker than I was planning, but I am pretty confident that I will have something figured out shortly. I will try to have the progress pictures up later this week for the Forge Fiend and the first squad of Marines.

Until then, keep painting and having fun!

We Are Legion! And We Are Unpainted!

Ummm...Wow...That's really all I can say at this point, so as I posted last week I  was planning to get through cleaning my painting area and getting to a couple of my backlogged GW kits, I posted a list of what I THOUGHT I had on hand, after going through everything I had I found the list was a little longer than I thought...

Currently I have the following on hand new on sprue:

Chaos

1 Posessed

1 Chaos Space Marine Squad

2 Chaos Space Marine Terminators

1 Chaos Land Raider

1 Chaos Rhino

Space Marines

1 Space Marine Commander

1 Space Marine Terminators

1 Sanguinary Guard

1 Full Assault on Blackreach set

Eldar

1 Wraithlord

1 Vyper

Grey Knights

2 Terminators

Dark Eldar

1 Scourges

Orks

1 Full Assault on Blackreach set

So yeah, a lot more than I realized, which means that I am going to be rethinking what project to target first, stay tuned as later today I should have made the decision as to what I am going to start with kit wise.