Still painting slowly

The less said about last year the better (12 figures painted in the year) and so far it seems I'm still on the one-a-month level... I'm a bit scared to start a new countdown to this year's BOYL, or set any kind of target for that matter, but I'm hoping the output improves somewhat.

I got this chap as part of a lot and he had gone straight into my spares box, but given the time pressure (he had to be ready for last week's game) I couldn't turn down the saving of having a standard ready-built rather than my previous conversion plan.

On the plus side I think I'm getting towards a basing scheme for my chaos types, inspired by Whiskey Priest's orks and the cover of the first Citadel Compendium. It still needs some work but given that I've been all over the place on bases up to now it's nice to have a firm plan in mind.

I'm not so pleased with how the banner turned out - the design is taken from the detail of an Ian Miller drawing, but whereas his looks like some mad alien thing mine's more like an angry bloke with big hair. Ah well, a problem for another day - I'm calling him done!

Balance? Ha, ha ha ha (etc.)

You have Warhammer and 40K and Realm of Chaos and Warhammer Siege and some rules from a White Dwarf for a new model that someone just created. You have dwarves and squats and orcs and chaos and 40K chaos and marines and an inquisitor and a gyrocopter and a speeding rhino and level 3 battle magic and a renegade who's practically a deamon.

Balance? Ha! Ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha...

I have no idea what that is but it's big and blue and fast and loud

You'd better have a GM because, however many rulebooks there are, a good chunk of what happens won't be covered, and without a GM you'd not have a scenario and objectives and hidden deployments but just a big mosh in the middle.

Except there is a strange sort of balance because of all the different bits of un-balance, and besides the dice make sure that things never quite work out as you'd expect at first glance.

But I'd not march out in front of it unless I was pretty sure I could do something like that to it

But mostly there's fun and a wierd sense of rightness. And not remembering to take all the photos that you should have.