His child-like wonder and enthusiasm

My friend just wrote this about me in a quiz thing.
Seems quite cool.

→What is the funniest thing you've ever heard/seen 14 do?
Too many things to list. His child-like wonder and enthusiasm is hard to beat though, and should be an inspiration to avoid the grown-up in all of us.

Army Progression Checklist September 2009

Hi all,

I'm going to post up my current army progression checklist and every six months update it so I can keep track of my progress (or lack there of). Ill try and keep it all the same format for easy updating and ease of reading:

Warhammer 40K
Ultramarines - 4th Company
Built - roughly 800pts built and based with two tactical squads almost built
Painted - test model almost finished, assault squad base colour and wash applied
Painting Scheme - decided: based on Captain Sicarius Masterclass article
Basing Scheme - decided: slate with fine sand (then grass flock or snow)

Imperial Guard - Tandarian
Built - three squads built with heavy weapons, Converted Leman Russ and Chimera almost complete
Painted - None
Painting Scheme - urban colour scheme: not yet decided upon possibly similar to urban tau scheme from eastern empire or dave taylors 144th cadian diorama
Basing Scheme - urban basing scheme: not yet decided upon

Warhammer Fantasy
Empire - Von Schleickenhammer's Vampire Hunters (including Sylvanian and Stirland Forces)
Built - 15 hand gunners, warrior priest
Painted - Just about to start test models

Painting Scheme - Sylvanian colours as seen in heraldry book and WD articles and units of renoun such as the Essen Death Heads
Painting Scheme - Stirland, and Stir River Patrol
Basing Scheme - soil, undead and grasses

Army Progression Checklist September 2009

Future Armies
Vostroyans - 17th Fighting Dogs, 9th Combat Engineers and 025th Armoured Corps
Built - one squad built
Painting Scheme - decided: one half as standard (bryan cook style) and one half as combat engineers as seen in the tandaris campaign
Basing Scheme - decided: city fight rubble, mostly industrial and city rubble

Salamanders
Built - test model and chaplain
Painted - test model begun
Painting Scheme - in progress
Basing Scheme - orange/brown soil and yellow/burnt tall grass

Space Wolves - awaiting new releases!
Painting Scheme - newer codex grey based scheme
Basing Scheme - winter themed bases

Grey Knights
Painting Scheme - based on minivault scheme with a touch of purple to tie together Inq forces
Basing Scheme - plasticard tiling (Very time consuming) with small amounts of dirt and rubble (possibly with some snow)

Sisters of Battle
Painting Scheme - based on order of the bloody rose but purple tips rather than blue
Basing Scheme - plasticard tiling

Inquisitorial Stormtroopers
Painting Scheme - based on minivault scheme
Basing Scheme - plasticard tiling

Inquisitorial Space Marines - Chapter 616
Painting Scheme - combination of sisters of battle and black templar
Basing Scheme - colour scheme to match other Inq forces but otherwise undecided. possibly rubble.

Blood Pact
Orks
Tau

Future Armies
Middenheim
Painting Scheme - Middenland and Middenheim
Basing Scheme - Winter themes bases from the storm of chaos campaign

Wood Elves
Painting Scheme - Undecided
Basing Scheme - forest floor

Ogres
Painting Scheme - Flesh mix created, clothes codex grey and graveyard earth, purple tattoos
Basing Scheme - general plains and long grasses

Skaven - awaiting new releases!
Lizardmen - Mazdamundi's army

Other
Human Blood Bowl Team - The Cougar-Wolves
Space Hulk - awaiting new releases!

Battle Companies of Rohan and Gondor
Urak-hai of Isenguard

Skaven Clanrat

A pretty good likeness I think...

Band of Brothers Army Building Challenge

A nice surprise

Look what GW just emailed to me...

New Skaven

Awesome. Images of new Skaven are emerging....

I really like these sculpts! Much more like how I image the Skaven as compared to the current models. The background and artwork of the Skaven to me really make them sound like a dark and mysterious race that most of the world doesn't even believe exists.

These guys are really going to make me get my Skaven hobby on!

Band of Brothers Army Building Challenge

Under Construction

Frodo and Sam's Adventures in the Shire

It was just Alec and I instore today when the "mystery box" arrived.
We opened the plain looking box labelled "Frodo and Sam's Adventures in the Shire" and low and behold it was clearly a trick!! It was Space Hulk! (apparently Hurstville got "Squat Army Deal")

So Alec and I spent the afternoon building them all and let me say I'm impressed!!
There is one termie who has just ripped the skull and spine off of a genestealer and is dead hard!!
Some of them are missing the glass in the eye as it has been slashed.
There is an INSANE amount of detail on these model. Seriously. Wow.

Of course the first model I built was Mr Pointy.... !!
I knew I had to after talking with you guys....

Any questions, ask away.

ps... i pre ordered three.

Mystery No More

Sgt: "Kill those bugs!! Take down the broodlord!!"
Marine: "Where Sgt?"
Sgt: "There beyond the machinery! Quickly they are closing distance fast!!!"
Marine: "Sorry Sgt but i still cant see them!!?"
Sgt: "Specialist!"
Pointy: "There."
Marine: "Targeters locked! Enemies vanquished! Good save there pointy!"
Sgt: "Truly you are the emperors finest!"
Pointy: *Embarrassed* "Thanks guys... all i did was point at them"