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!

Chaos Marines Pt 1: Reaching To The Past

Of all the figures I have painted the one above is my favorite, it has won competitions and gotten some great acclaim, but honestly none of that compares to the fact it was just fun to paint! There is something that has always drawn me to the Chaos Marines, something about the baroque detailing, and story of 10,000 years of anger and rage that has built up that just draws me to the miniatures.

So this is where I am going to start project wise, I am sure I am going to be hopping around a ton on different projectts, but this is the first out of the gate.

Color scheme is going to be pretty similar to the marine above, I want that dark baroque feeling, the concept of the living nightmare, that sort of thing.

Hopefully I will be able to show off some progress later this week!

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.

Chaplain Says: You Fail!!!

Ok, so this blog definately stalled out, not going to make a bunch of excuses, its been a busy few months at work and I haven't had a lot of time to get much done, but due to the prodding of a fellow coworker about painting I am working to get more done starting this month.

So what are my goals? First I need to get my painting area cleaned up and sorted, I haven't done an inventory in months of my paints and I need to know what I have currently. I want to get at least two kits completed this month, that's going to be a challenge for me given my usual leisurely pace, but I am hoping that the blog will be a good motivator to getting both kits done.

Right now I am trying to decide between the following:

Dark Eldar Scourges
Blood Angels Sanguinary Guard
Grey Knight Terminators
Eldar Vyper
Eldar Wraithlord

I am leaning towards the Vyper and Wraithlord, but let me know in the comments if there is something you would like to see done out of the list.

Anyways time to run, lots of organizing to get done!

Minature of the Week

One of the features that I want to run here is a Miniature of the Week, the idea being that if you want your figure showcased you send me an E-mail at thisispriority1@gmail.com with a picture and a brief description of your figure and techniques that you used, then if its chosen you will get a front page feature on the site for all to see!

The plan eventually is maybe to be able to offer a small prize to the miniature of the month as voted on by the readers, but that is a ways off yet, until then send me your pictures and descriptions, and remember to put Miniature of the Week in the subject line so it gets filtered to the correct place!